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of the middle and lower orders of the nation. But though the class of gentlemen, properly so called, possess more generally now than at any former period a power over the common-places of language, and the animalfrom which Fielding drew his 'Squire ffrestern is as much extinct as the wolf, yet, notwithstanding this general smoothness, this power of inditing a fashionable Novel or Tour, we question if there be any thing like the amount of talent in the higher ranks which they possessed before the Revolu tion. During the civil w?.rs, men were under the necessity of inquirng into all subjecti ; and the novelty of toe scenes in which they were forced to a part, and in which the past afforded:t . hem no safe guide, made it necessary for them to exercise their judgments, and to think for themselves. Hence the number of in genious publications by gentlemen of that day, in morals and politics, many of which, though little known now, and seldom named, abound with evidence of talent of a very high order. The Revolution, by placing the Crown and the Democracy completely under the Aristocracy, freed the latter from the necessity of exertion ; and hence the history of the last century is little more _ than a history of the imbecility of the higher ranks. What little talent they possessed :seems to _have been of that description which enables a man to appear to advantage in idle society. Mi serable debates in the two Houses about the Lord knows what was undertaken for no intelligible object, the advisers .having no principles of any kind by which they could tell whether the ob ject would be advantageous or disadvantageous, the laws and domestic institutions of the coun try remaining all the time in the most chaotic state—such is the History of the English Aris tocracy since the Revolution. The Memoirs and Letters of Horace Walpole, Bubb Dod dington, and others ; the Parliamentary History, Pamphlets, and periodical writings of the day, all lead to one conclusion—that it would be dif ficult to point out a period in the history of mankind more conspicuous for imbecility in the ruling classes. Such imbecility is the natural fruit of the releasing the higher rrnks from all dependence on the opinion_ of the people. The share of popularsuffrage possessed by the nation perhaps only served to aggravate the evil. Even the nominally popular places returned not men whose abilities or character commended them to the people, but men whose purses enabled them to stand a contest. Down even to our owe times, the family of Northumberland and one or two other families were supposed to have the power of disposing of the B.epresen tation of the great City and Liberties of West minster. When the character of a Representation is generally aristocratical, the few popular places •form little exceptions to the general character ; because the nation becomes accustomed to the standard of wealth, and there seems even a sort of impropriety in a man of small fortune consenting to impair his means in order to obtain admission into an assembly, the determinations of which he cannot hope to influence. This state of things will, however, last till some train of cir cumstances'produce a convulsion in the country. The questions respecting Parliamentary Reform are idle, as far as any result is expected under the present state of things. The higher ranks have the power completely in their hands ; and there is no instance of any body of men, from the beginning of the world to the present day, consenting voluntarily to abandon power. Many of thoSe men - Who. now vote for Parliamentary Reform would not vote for it if they thought their vote might lead to its being Orried, just as we see the liberal Protestants of Ireland throw.' ing off the mask, and rallying round tile banner of intolerance, when. the system of awendaney begins to be seriously endangered. But the agitation of Parliamentary Reform is not the less useful, because it cannot be carried ex cept under circumstances which, from their • fearful nature, are not to be provoked with impunity. It forecharges men with the ar cana of Government, lays open to them the cause of the ignoranCe and insufficiOrcy of the higher orders, and prepares them for availing themselves with advantage of sueli favourable opportunitieS as .may present themselves for a tho rough improvement of the national institutions. The internal peace we have enjoyed has led to a wonderful improvement in all the arts of produc tion. But the legislative machine has not par taken of the improvements introduced into the machinery of the ,country. Hence the nation may be said to be without law or Courts for its administration. A sort of public opinion pro tects the poor front the power which, in the ab sence of justice, the rich have over them. A rich man that chooses to encounter that opinion may do exactly what he pleases. The case of De Tastet and others shows. that there is JlothiDg which, in the present state of the law, a man may not do if he chooses. If there bad been any ta lent in the higher ranks, beyond that of uttering an occasional witticism, or declaiming a common place with a good accent and in good English, wo uld all that men expect from a legislature have been left in this tnisatiSfactan y state so long ? The much calumniated Parliaments of the time • of the civil. war applied themselves seriou s ly t o the improvement of the Institutions of the coun try. There was an honest desire in- many men of that day to grapple with the evil. The con fessions in the late Police Reports of the im provement which has taken place in the ecien ee of preying :on the public, while- the science of grappling with it has not experienced a corres ponding improvement, and the dread indicated throughout the examinations of Magistrates of the gr c Owing intelligence of the lower orders, are favourable symptoms. The people caitnot be brutified at the will of Magistrates ; and though we see little chance of obtaining from such a body as the House Of Lords (children of idle ness and frivolity) imprOvements adequate to the evil, yet something will surely come of the chan ges now going on.—Morning Chronicle. The Gaol Committee of the Court of Alder mow, meet this day to hear evidence, and con sider the charges brought against the Governor o f Whitecross-street Prison. If' only one half of the abuses that have been described as con nected with WhitecroSs-street. Prison be true, it will still be one of the worst regulated prisons in Great Britain. Why should ibis be', so ? It is under the eye of as active and jneell & ie nt a body of Magistrates as exist in the-' world, y et t h ey never look at it. If the-iGOvernor be.guilty, so are they. Abuses have been allowed ~to grow up ; and as it has.ss, SO beet every man's business - tb t a o t business to attend . it has been no man's them. Lord Bacon very justly .remarks. " measures without men are as dead images:" The Court of Aldermen has provided "mea sures," in the shape - of laws and regula tions for the gov ernmen t o f t hi s prison ; but not having provided men to see after the due enforcement of such laws and regula tions, the measures are merely dead images. 7 By a Parliamentary return, it appears that there ' are upwards of 12,000 persons, male and le male, locked within die walls of the King's Bench, the Fleet, and Whitecross-street Pri sons, every year. Taking one-third of these ; to be annually confined in the last mentioned place, the Court of Aldermen will have no fewer than' 4,000 human beings every - year, convicted of no crime, suffering, more or less, from the abuses which it has allowed to exist. If these abuses have existed five years, and some of them, we understand, claim an earlier commencement, '20,000 persons have been victims. Many of the abuses which have been described by our correspondent may he very easily investigated. There is the huddling together of all who are committed in one room, a. ward from whence there is. no egress to the open air for 24, or even 48 hours, until it is quite convenient to the surgeon of the prison to visit, examine, and report tiler». There is the treatment of the sick, including the annoyance of sending the worst and most disagreeable of the healthy prisoners to herd with them ; there is the confinement of all sorts of women, of all sorts of characters, in one room ; there is the process of " tatting," about which so much has been said ; there is the non-appropriation of such monies as the destitute prisoners, who are fi cemen of the city of London, are entitled to. These charges are severally susceptible of proof. The appointment of a new Governor is.a good time to propose a new system, and to take care that so long as the laws of arrest for debt are allowed to remain, they shall be carried into execution with as little injury to their victims as possible.—Morning Herald. The great evil of Ireland has at all times been the violence of the opposite factions by which she has been torn. These, whether Catholic cr Protestant, have for the most part been headed, as they apparently are to this day, by those who have had no other object but their own personal aggrandisement, through means of the excite ment which it has been their constant endeavour to keep up. If there be any duty more incum bent than another upon those who hold the reins of Government, it is to check and to discourage a feeling, on whichever side fomented, which so seriously impedes the public tranquillity and pro sperity. Accordingly this seems to have been from the first the object of Lord Anglesea's Go vernment, who, being fortunately of no faction himself, seems anxious, as far as in him lies, to prevent other; from being so. In furtherance of this object, it seems that his Excellency has determined to suppress the use of all party tokens among the agents of Government ; and his ad monition having been disregarded, he has deemed it right to show himself in earnest, by cashiering two of the constabulary who have thought proper to wear ensigns of political par tisanship in defiance of an injunction to the con trary. The following is the order issued upon the occasion : MUNSTER eoNsTABuLmtv—GENERAL ORDER. The Lord Lieutenant having received a report attested by affidavits, establishing the fact that Con stable Geoghegan and Sub-constable Williams, sta, tioned in Kerry, have infringed the regulations of the establishment, which prohibited the use of party emblems, the former by displaying a green leaf, and the latter an orange lily, has been pleased to direct that both individuals shall be dismissed from the con stabulary. His Excellency has further been pleased to ob serve that, as the display of party colours or badges is wholly inadmissible among the constabulary, those who transgress so salutary a: regulation must abide the consequences. _ The foregoing order is to be read to the constabu, Lary by the district officer throughout the province. W. MILLER, Inspector-General. Clontnel, Aug. 16. Now hat- just offence this can give to any reasonable man, or what there is in it that affixes any charge of partiality upon Lord Angle sea's Government, we are at a loss to perceive; yet it has been assailed as an act of the grossest political cowardice ; as an overt act of high trea son almost against the Orangemen of Ireland ; while, for want of better reasons, one of its main sins is—(guess, reader, if you can)—that it bears date on the anniversary of the birth-day of the late Duke of York !—lbid. One of our Journals (the - New Times) de votes itself assiduously to the hopeless task of persuading the public that the extinction of the Small Note Circulation is likely to. be attended with great distress and calamity. The nation, however, obstinately refuses to take the alarm ; and we have therefore no other Motive for ad verting to the subject than to show how com pletely the question of Currency is settled, from the kind of arguments and of artifices _to which those who wish to open it afresh think it neces sary to resort. One of these artifices is to re present the country as already in a state not only of alarm but of actual distress, arising from the progressive diminution of one and two pound notes, preparatory to. their final and complete ex tinction. If the state of the country were such as it is described, no further inquiry would be necessary to produce a universal con viction of the impolicy of the existing law. But all persons who have provincial correspondents not interested in deceiving them, know that the assertion is utterly unfounded ; while the inhabi tants of the metropolis, who do not enjoy the same advantage, and for whose exclusive benefit we suppose the statement is intended, are at a loss to conceive how much distress and alarm can possibly exist in the provinces without some degree of sympathetic feeling being manifested here. Looking around them, and beholding only a scene of tranquil confidence and advancing Prosperity, they refuse their belief to a state ment which informs them in substance, .that Eng land realises at ,this moment the fable of Mezen- Hue, and that London is the dead body, having no feelings in common with the sentient and trembling, provinces to which it is attached.— Another artifice, which also fails to attract much attention to the gloomy statements and melan choly forebodings of our contemporary, is to in sinuate that the subject has led to , differenees of o pinion among his Majesty's Ministers. The Duke of Wellington and Mr. Secretary Peel are said to entertain irrecoucileable opinions upon the ques- • tion ; the former perceiving the necessity of aban doning the present course—the latter being fully convinced of the expediency of adhering to it firmly, and feeling that his political character i s irrevocably pledged to its completion. This we fear can scarcely be considered as among the ex cusable artifices by which it may be attempted to impart an adventitious interest to a dull or ex hausted subject. The story is equally devoid of plausibility and truth. Every body knows that the Duke of Wellington is as deeply pledged to the m a i n t enance o f the system of currency now established by law as Mr. Secretary Peel. It is scarcely t wo m on th s s i nce the illustrious Premier made a declaration in Parliament in its favour, as express, decided, and unequivo cal, as was ever made by the . Right Honour able Secretary. The latter, it is true,. brought in the Bill for the Resumption of Cash Payments many years ago, but on that occasion (not being one of his Majesty's Ministers) he of course acted, not as the organ of GoVernment, but as Chairman o f a Committee of the .House of Commons. How he can be considered indivi dually, more than any other of the King's Mi nisters, pledged •to the suppression of the small note circulation, merely because, as the Chairnian of a Committee, he introduced the Bill which bears his name, and of which the suppression of small notes was not the principal object, is utterly inconceivable. The arguments of our con temporary (the New Times) are not more sue cessfill than his manoeuvres. He gravely assumes that the country bankers will no longer afford adequate accommodation to their customers when they are forbidden to issue one and two pound notes, forgetting that before one or two pound notes were known, all necessary accom modation was afforded, and believing apparently that because since that time the aggregate of transactions and the demand for currency are in creased, the relation between the different parts .of the mechanism of commerce is therefore of necessity disturbed, and that the motives by which individuals were formerly actuated will operate no longer. Another assumption con nected with that of the indisposition of the country bankers . to render accommodation in their neighbourhood is, that the transactions of commerce will be impeded for want of an adequate circulating medium. The one assump tion is as erroneous as the other. - It is known that a sufficient supply of bullion exists in the country to fill up by a metallic currency the void gradually occasioned by the withdrawal bf the small paper circulation. It is a fact quay well I known, that this process has been going on already to a very considerable ex tent. We are entitled to say, therefore, that the whole expense and inconvenience, in a national point of view, has already been encountered, and we think it may be taken for granted, that in no part of the country will per sons, who have either value or sufficient security to give for currency, be at a loss to obtain it, after the extinction of small notes, any more than at present, even although the whole of the existing country banks throughout England should refuse to be the channels by which it is to be diffused. Perhaps the trade of a country banker may be less profitable than under the former system of currency ; but it will, on the other hand, be more agreeable and secure.— The effect upon the country can only be in pro portion to the quantity of gold it is necessary to import- to fill up the void in the circulation. If, as we believe, no more is required for this pur pose than the country already possesses, the whole amount of fictitious capital extinguished in the form of small notes, will be compensated by the real capital now dormant in the form of bullion, which will then be called into activity. It is a remarkable blunder of our contemporary ( The New,Times) to ascribe the number ofsmall bills of exchange in circulation in the county of Lancas ter to the absence of one and two pound notes, and to anticipate that when the small notes are generally suppressed, all England will be over run by this inferior description of currency. These small bills of exchange are very rarely, even in Lancashire, drawn for so low a stun as 51.; and how they can be considered in the light of a substitute for one and two pound notes is somewhat incomprehensible. The circumstance of a small currency of gold or of paper, it is ob vious, can have nothing whatever to do with the number of these bills. Lancashire and Middle sex would have at least as many of them as they have now, if there was no such thing as a so vereign in either county. And other counties, notwithstanding their small notes, would have as many of them as Middlesex and Lancashire, if their population were equally dense, and their petty traffic equally active.—Morning Post. FROM 3 ST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Wm- Office, Sept. 4,_1828. 43d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. Ebenezer Jones, from the Royal Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice George Hoed, who retires upon half-pay Royal Staff Corps. Dated August 21, Ib2B. 134th Ditto.—Lieuttnant Patrick Plunkett, from the Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Westly, promoted. August 21. Ceylon Regiment—Lieutenant Robert Marsh Westina cott, from the Royal Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice Plunkett, appointet: to the 84th Foot. Aug. 21. UNATrA C En.—To be Ensigns, by purchase. George Anderson, Gent. Sept. 5. Vere Caldwell, Gent. Sept. 5. MEMORA Nll um.—The undermentioned Officers have been allowed to dispose of their half-pay : Ensign Gregory Boraston, half-pay 92d Foot. Sep tember 3. Cornet Richard Martin, half-pay 2:3d Light Dragoons. September 5. Whitehall, August 28. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Daft, of the town of Nottingham, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Conrail Manar, Gower-place, Euston-square, mer chant. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. George Jenne, James-street, Oxford-street, coach-iron monger, from Sept. 16 to Oct. 31. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James Barker, Gloucester Coffee-house, Oxford-street, coffee-house-keeper. BANKRUPT. Charles Henry Marshall, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, trader, to surrender Sept. 29, 30, and Oct. 17, at ele ven, at the Royal Hotel, Cheltenham. Wizard and Blower, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Pruen, Griffiths, and Pruen Cheltenham. DIVIDENDS. Hugh Leach and John Ambrose, Bristol, linen-mer chants, Sept. 26, at eleven, one, and three, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol—Solomon Johnson, Margate, coach-maker, Sept. 27, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Margate—Robert Holmes Marshall, Plymouth, draper, Sept. 26, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—John Browne, Whitebrook, Landogo, Monmouthshire, paper-maker, Sept. 29, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol—John Bogg, Tattershall, Lincolnshire, scrivener, Sept. 27, at three, at the George Inn, Horncastle, Lincolnshire—Timothy Law son, Manchester, cotton-spinner, Sept. 27, at two, at White's Hotel, Manchester--Ebenezer Birks, Shef field, grocer, Oct. 3, at two, at the Tontine Inn Sheffield—Thomas Flint, Burlington-area%le, bookseller, Sept. 26, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners— Ruth Hobhins, Cheltenham, innkeeper, Sept. 29, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Cheltenham—William Dinny, Lan caster, saddler, Oct. 6, at eleven, at Mr. Pritt's, King's Arms Inn, Lancaster—Samuel Parsons, - Chorley, Lanca shire, linen-draper, Oct. 1, at ten, at the office of Messrs. Topping and Mackenzie, solicitors, Chorley—William Bis six, Richaid Sloper, jun., and Charles Bissix, Bristol, vinegar-makers. Sept. 30, ut ten, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol—Mary Agard, Francis Stringer Agard, and Wm. Stringer Agard, Borrowash, Derbyshire, millers Sept. 23, at eleven, at the New Inn, Derby. CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 26. John Atkinson, Oxford-street, oilman—Richard Bahiall, Leek, Staffordshire, banker,—Edward Butt, Ledbury, Iferefordsbire, grocer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. John Warden, Willliani Walker, . jun. and Peter Hill, Glasgow—William Walls and Willoughby Marsden, Wrag by, Lincolnshire, surgeons—Thomas •S;ndys and William Falc,:ner Walker, Austin-friars, solicitors—James .Newshain and William Smith, Preston, corn-dealers--Andrew Ru therford and William Finlayson, Dunfermline, thread manufacturers—Thomas Barrow and John Griffiths, Man chester, cotton-n!anufacturera—Myer Nerwich, Dublin, and Abraham Nerwrch, Bi rm i ng h am, j ewellers—James Riding,sen. and James Riding, jun., Habergbara Eaves, and Burnley, Lancashire, innkeepers—Benj. TI. Dowson, Joseph W. DoWson, Edw. U. Dowson, and H. G. Dow son, Gclderston, Norfolk, corn merchants—Edward Utting Dowson and Henry Gibson Dowson, Gelderston, Norfolk, brewers—J. Buchanan and W. Moss, Ashton under-Lyne, Lancashire,. machine-Makers—D. Stephens and J. Stephens, Overbury, Worcestershire, millers— William Eaton and Robert Clarke, Fenchurch-stroet, car penters—R. Blyth, John Darken, and Thomas Theobal, Norwich, iron-founders—Bryan Thomas Balguy, Sinckler Porter, and John Barber, Derby, attorneys---Thomas Penn, Charles Williams, and Thomas Mitchell, Birmingham, coffin-furniture-manufacturers—John Tanner Trangmsr and James Trangtnar, Brighthelmstone, grocers—Joseph Atkinson, jun., Henry Atkinson, Frances Atkinson, and Thomas Atkinson, jun. Beadley Mill, Kirkheaton, York shire, fancy cloth manufacturers. SUMMER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER, SEPT. 4. Thomas Leather, aged 22, was indicted for rob bing Fryar Hayes on the highway, at Lyme, on the 25th of April. The Jury found a verdict of Not Guilty. Upon leaving the bar, the prisoner raised up both his hands, and, looking towards his Counsel (Mr. J. Jervis), exclaimed, " Well done, thou good and faithful servant, thou bast cleared me!" The Court was convulsed with laughter, and the Learned Gen tleman not a little embarrassed, at this unexpected approbation of his professional labours. SEDUCTION.-BAILEr V. KYLE. Mr. J. 11. LLOYD opened the pleadings. The damages were laid at 300/. Mr. J. JERVIS stated the case for the plaintiff, in a very florid speech, in which he described the plain tiff as bedutiful and accomplished, the child of humble but respectable parents, but now; by the conduct of the defendant, consigned to infamy and disgrace ; her prospects blasted, her spirits broken, and she herself plunged into the lowest abyss of mi sery and despair. The Learned Gentleman then called the following witnesses. William Bailey—l am a small farmer, residing about a mile from Cheadle. I am father to the plaintiff, Charlotte Bailey, who is now twenty-two years of age. Mr. Ryle, the defendant, is a sur geon, practising in Cheadle. He was twenty-five years of age in February last. I went to see the defendant in September, 1825 ; I found my daugh ter with him, I told her, angrily, to get along home. Defendant said, don't put yourself about so, but come and walk with us. I said, Mr. Ryle, I don't like this; I have had many misfortunes in my fa mily, and I don't want any more. He said, I know you have, but you shall have none through me. I said, she is your equal, Mr. Ryle, in person, but not in family. He said, I have property enough to keep her and me, and a family, if we should have one, even if I do no business; and I'll marry her if lam a man alive. He continued his attentions to her, as her suitor, afterwards. In May, 1827, my daughter, the plaintiff, was delivered of a child. I saw the defendant about two months afterwards. He said, the overseer wishes her to father it, but you don't need to say any more about it. I shall not let it - to come to that, for I'll marry her. I know that the defendant was married last March to a young lady named Vawdrey. The plaintiff has been in a very delicate state of health ever since. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant JONES — I oc cupy four Cheshire acres. That is the extent of my farm. My (laughter, the plaintiff; used to weave silk. She might earn about twelve shillings a week. The first time I knew about Mr. Ryle's acquaintance wills my daughter, was in September 1825 ; that was at Cheadle wake time. It was at the wakes. I went to speak to Mr. Ryle, because I did not want any more misfortunes in my family. I have seven daughters ; three of them have had misfortunes of this sort—not four. One of th e m had two at a birth. Martha went with Charlotte to Cheadle wakes. Martha is one of those who had fortunes. I don't know that the defendant used to come to my house of nights. I left my wife to make the doors fast every night. There was a bed in the loom down stairs. There was a window in the room. A person could tap at the window, so as to be heard by any one in the room. It was after Cheadle wakes that the bed was placed there. I brought it from Stockport. It was Charlotte that desired me to go to Swindell's for it. I did not pay for it. 1 don't know that she paid for it, nor who it was that paid for it. Before that the bed was brought, Charlotte used to sleep up stairs with Mahe. Phohe is one of the unfortunates. After the bed was brought, Charlotte slept down stairs in the parlour. She was pregnant then, but I cannot say hew long it was before her confinement. Martha am a (laughter of the last wit ness, and sister to the plaintiff. I have had a mis fortune myself. I remember Mr. Ryle coming to my father's house a week before the wakes. He asked if Charlotte was in ? I said she was at my brother's, at the next house. We went together to see her. I said, Mr. Ryle, I am afraid of your being with her; if you seduce her it will do you no good, nor her either. He said, if I can remain unmarried for two or three years, I can then marry without say ing a word to any one, and I will marry her. I fetched Charlotte to him, and left them together. He continued to visit my sister afterwards. He always came at the edge of dark, and about the time my father was gone to bed. My father did not see him on these occasions, until after my sister was confined. Cross-examined by Mr. COTTINGHAM—My sister is not so ill now but that she does a little work. She walks to Stockport sometitnes, which is nearly four miles off. After we got the bed from Stockport, Charlotte slept init in the room below stairs. There is a window in that room. I never saw any one ge in through it. A person might come in at the win dow. I never saw the defendant come in at that window. I never saw him in bed in that room with my sister, nor did I ever hand him brandy and water while in bed there. All this I swear. The de fendant always came at dark. I have a mother. I don't think she ever saw the defendant come. Mr. John Vawdrey—l am a surgeon tit Bradbury. The defendant married my daughter. I receive rents on his account, but there are incumbrances to be paid off before he can get any thing. The lease hold property is about 401. a-year, and the freehold about 1001. a-year. The incumbrances are 1,0001. to his sister Winifred, and about .500/. to Mr. Ryle's family. He keeps a gig. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant JONES—The defendant has no property at present, nor can he have any until these incumbrances are paid off. He had a few hundred pounds from his grandfather, but he spent it all. This was the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant JONES addressed the Jury in a hu morous speech for the defendant. He ridiculed the importance given to this action by the glare thrown over it by his Learned Friend. The respectable farmer turned out to be the occupier, of foar Cheshire acres, who sometimes.. amused himself with sitting on the roads breaking stones. Of the plaintiff'sl beauty and personal charms the Jury knew nothing, for they were not indulged with a sight of her. Her accomplishments, it appeared, were limited to weav ing silk at 12s. a week, and the laceration of her feelings might he well supposed under her present unfortunate circumstances, from the fact that she was one of three sisters who had been similarly un fortunate, and was living in the house with them and their illegitimate offspring. Mr. Justice JERVIS summed up the evidence ; and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages ten pounds. MORE PIRATICAL VESSELS.-ST. MI cHAEL's, AUG. 6.----Yesterday appeared off here a very fine schooner, under Spanish colours, and after procuring refreshments from the Vice-Consul, who was not per mitted to go on board, made sail; she would allow no communication with the shore, nor receive the Health officers, but reported to be from the Havannah with su gar, and for the Canaries, out 26 days ; had 18 guns and two stern chasers, and about 40 men. This morning another fine brig appeared off; they both seem to be pri vateers, who plunder with impunity every vessel near these islands. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.._-A person named Savage, a elicemaker, applied to the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, yesterday, for an order to Bartholomew's Hospital, for a lad named Richard Castles, aged 17, a cripple, whose head had been lacerated the previous evening by the lion at Mor gan's wild beast show, in Bartholomew-fair, and also for a summons against the keeper of the show for not securing the animal in a proper cage. He stated, that the lad was pressed forward by the crowd to the front of the cage, the bare of which were remark ably wide, and the lion immediately struck one of his fore paws out,—the claws piercing through the hat in several directions into the flesh upon the skull, and ac tually lifted him from the ground. The shrieks of those who witnessed the act, brought up the keeper just as the animal was putting out his whet paw to lacerate or se cure his victim, but by the smart application of a stick it was compelled to quit its hold, and the lad was borne away to the hospital, covered with blood, and in a state of insensibility. After a while he recovered, and the wounds having been dressed, lie was sent home in a coach ; but he was in such a deplorable state that Mr. Savage felt the hospital was the beet place for him. He had been up all night, bathing his head with cold water. The lion was the same that stripped the flesh off a man's arm at Camberwell fair a fortnight since, and that killed his keeper about two years ago. The ALDERMAN granted both the letter for the hospital and the summons. William dull, an apprentice with Mr. Sheen, the brass-worker, on Holborn-hill, was charged with grossly indecent conduct towards a female in the fair. Miss Perry, seemingly a respectable young woman, said she was going through the fair with a friend, (a young man) about nine o'clock, when the prisener suddenlysteoped down, raised her clothes behind, clasped his hands round her leg, and tried to lift her from the ground. She was exceedingly alarmed, as he wrenched her leg round, and otherwise ill-treated her, the effects of which she still felt. Girton deposed to seizing the prisoner while committing this indecent violence. The prisoner, in his defence, blubbered, and said he was set on by some ether lads. The ALDERMAN said he wenld take care lie should net repeat his pranks this fair, for he would remand him till Wednesday, and if he did not then produce a very good cha racter, he should send the case to the Sessions ; but he hoped he should be able to spare the young woman the pain of re peating her evidence in a public court. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Parkinson, of Greek street, Soho, and his wife, were again brought forward to be re-examined, touching their possession of some of the notes which were robbed from the Greenock bank. A shopman belonging to Messrs. Sewell and Cross, linen drapers, Compton-street, Soho, stated, that the note now produced, numbered 14,208, and dated the 27th of Nov. 1827, for 20/., was taken by him from the prisoners. They purchased some Irish linens and other at ticks, and 5 per cent. was allowed them for cash. According to the custom of the house 5 per cent. discount was deducted for changing " a foreign note." Mr. Harmer—Did the prisoners give their names cor rectly, and their residence? Witness—They gave a cor rect address. Mr. Harmer—Has not Mrs. Parkinson been in the habit of frequenting your shop? 'Witness—She' has for some time. Mr. HALLS asked the witness if he considered Sc( :At notes foreign. The witness replied that they were gene rally so termed. Mr. HALLS then remarke,l, that he should not part with the prisoners under the circumstances until futther in quiry, as the case was one of very great importance to the public. He could not but observe that the conduct of tradesmen in taking such► notes after the notoriety that tier robbery of the Bank had obtained, was, to say the least of it, a very great want of caution. After some further con versation, it was agreed that the prisoner Parkinson should be remanded for a week. His wife is out on bail. Rigan and George, the two young men who stood charg;O. with having entered the house of Lady Raffles with intent to commit a robbery, were discharged, the evidence against them not being sufficient. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.— George Bryant, a stone and marble cutter by trade, was yesterday brought before Mr.• CONA NT the sitting Magistrate, charged with stealing several valuable slabs of marble, the property ef Mr. Sims, an extensive builder, residing in Tottenham court-road. The prisoner said in his defence that he took the slabs of marble by mistake.—lle was fully cotrinitted for trial. Two little urchins, the eldest net more than 10 years of age, were placed at the bar charged with stealing their schoolmaster's silver spectacles. It appeared that the prisoners were two of the boys who attended the parish school of St. Ann's, Soho, and they generally bore there not the best character in the world for honesty; but it was never supposed that they would have had the daring, of all things that could be imagined, to steal the schoolmaster'‘ spectacles. One of them did, how ever, it appeared, manage to get hold of the spectacles, which the master had laid aside for a moment from his nose, and he gave them to the other, who carried them off straightway to a pawnbroker's shop, and there pledged them as belonging to his father, who, he said, had an other pair, and could spare those fur a little time, as he was in want of a small sum of muney.,iloth prisoners were committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN.—A person of the name of Geo. Alutch was yesterday brought up for final examination before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. LAING, on a chine of having obtained a sum of W. under false pretences, from a schoolmaster of the name of Peachy, residing in King's Langley, Nertfindshire. Mr. Mallett, cliief clerk, suggested to the Magistrate that he had no jurisdiction over the prisoner, as the offence was committed in Hertfordshire, Mr. LAING—If I had any jurisdiction over him, I should have no hesitation in committing him for fraud ; but having none, I now discharge him upon that ground, and you may take bim down to Hertfordshire if you please. The parties left the office; and we understand the pri soner was set at liberty on the ground that the prosecutor is immediately going to France. Two young men, named William Cox and Samuel Hill, were charged with stealing 1.5 diamond rings, of considerable value, from the shop window of a Mr. New comb, a jeweller, in Turnstile, Holborn, by cutting out the glass. They were fully identified, and the property has been recovered ; but they were ordered for further exa mination on Monday next. LAMBETH -STREET.—Yesterday two young women, sisters, named Miss Ann Bateman and Ihref,„-}fary Bridgewater, were broujht before. Messrs. WYATT and HARDWICK, on a peace warrant, charging them with threatening the life of a Mrs. Mary Anne Mackuey. 'I he complainant, a pretty modest-looking little woman, with an infant in her arms, stated, that the defendants had seduced the affections of her husband, and were in the habit of harbouring him. She had a slight knowledge of them, and, on leer going to remonstrate with them on the evident impropriety of their encouraging Mr. Mackney's visits, they in the coarsest language abliSed her, and threat ened to deprive her of her life. Their conduct and menaces were so violent, that she certainly apprehended some per sonal injury, unless their Worships Interposed. Miss Bateman, who, while the above statement was making, was with some difficulty kept quiet; at. its close rushed towards the bench, and in a declamatory tone, and with a theatrical action, vociferated—" I and my sister, your worship, are the innocent sufferers : Mrs. Mackney has must improperly and unjustifiably calumniated our cha racters, and tarnished our fair fame. She has circulated the basest falsehoods, and has accused us of Cyprian immo rality." Mr. WYATT, struck by the vehemence of her delivery, said, " Pray, young woman, have you ever been on the Mies Bateman made no reply, but the Magistrate was not left in ignorance, for the complainant readily answered that she had, and entertained no mean opinion of her ow•n theatrical talents. Mr. Wrin-1 thought so. Pray, where does she ex hibit ? Mrs. Mackney—At Flowers's, in Spafieids; they there have a private theatre, in which my husband, who is a clerk in the City, occasionally performs. I fear it will be his ruin, for the greater part of his income is spent on these wretches. . __ ...,_....... Miss Bateman (with offended dignity, and surveyng the yeetable my stage pro- complainant in the most contemptneus manner)._ " Wretches, forsooth ! wretches, madam! if you consider us such, why do you seek our society? We are no more wretches, madam, than you are, mada m." Mrs. Maokney—lf you want an answer, I'll tell you : s it tr w u cal: because d y , o a u n d at e in r o t r b o r d o u u r g e l d i t to to nl in e y a s h o a u r s es e p b confessed to me what you really are. Miss Bateman—lf your husband were here, Madam, he would not have the effrontery to make such an assertion. Mr. WrAre—Was it at the private theatre that your husband's introduction to them took place ? Mrs. Mackney—No, Sir, he told me that the manner in which it occurred was accidental. The first time he saw the ladies was about three mouths since. They were then passing the office in which he is engaged, and one of them having pushed the ether• inside the Jeer, he lowed, anal romped with them. They were then ale: naked, and he has since clothed them, and taken thaw, Flowers's, where they perform in the same piece. Miss Bateman—Oh ! whit a story ! Mrs. Bridgewater--.oh ! dear me, what a falsity ! Mis. Mackney—lt's all true, your worships; my 1 ° band paid SOs. for his character. Mr. WI-Are—lf he keeps such company, his e harae will soon not be worth as many farthings. Do you kW' what line these young ladies-take in their performaac o Is it tragic or comic? Mrs. Mackney—Oh, comic, your Worship. Mr. WrATT-In which does your husband excel r . comic also, I suppose ? Mrs. hackney—Yes, Sir Mr. WYATT—If we might draw an inference from scene on these boards, he might play Macheath to the 11, 1 and sing with some reason, " H ow h app y cou ld I be 11:1 either." Mrs. Mackney—l am greatly afraid that he will lose] situation through these women. That one, pointing Miss Bateman, has gone repeatedly to his office and n" I a piece of work. Mrs. Bridgewater—Sir, she need fear nothing from we don't care about him. Mr. WYATT—Pray, what may your husband's int 4 be ? Mrs. Maskney-00/. a-year. Miss Bateman and Mra. Bridgewater in concert-01 it's 1801., I assure your Worship—just double. Mrs. Mackney—lle may have told you so, but it is more than what I say. I have the best right to kru' w ',. l hive been . his wif e f or th e last l years, and have harm', six children, which, through you, I fear will come to Mrs. Bridgewater---I have been as long a Wife 'fir e and have had as many children. Mrs. Mackney—Aye, that may be, but recollect that j 4 had one of them only two months after your marriage. Mrs. Bridgewater—What if I had, that has nothing' do with the business I was brought here on. The parties here were waxing warm, when Mr. `VI L A/ observing that the contention was becoming quite a man, an assault b e i n g est .l.,Usiaed again s t h er , t o find put an end t o th e i r v it o p, tat i ous b y ordering Miss Pa! and discharging Mrs. Bridgewater with a recommend o to dissolve her intimacy with the complainant's hnebttei QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Eliza Saunders rought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged by Thomas Whit„ a watchman of St. George's, with being drunk and e' orderly. The watchman stated, that the previous evening he ( Q., 11/ her in Grosven o r- s t ree t a t h er usual pranks, and saw every one at defiance. lie begged.of her to go away toll purpose, and h e th en go t ass i stance an d conveye d her.4°l l difficulty to the watch-house. I Derentlant—Y ou did, )ou murdering deg. Mr. GREGOIIIE-1 . think I recollect committing from this office before, wh e n y ou k noc k e d t h e wa tchnsf down in my presence. Watchman.—She has been fi ne d an d comm i t t e d aev eft times before. Defendant—Yes, you murd e r ers , y ou h ave b ro ught. f ; to this. Or'kr a ga ll ows ou t i n t h e yar d an d h an g me once; you watit to m ur d er me . B u t s t op a bit. 11 There appeared to be something ominous in the OS in which Mrs. Saunders said " Stop a bit," and F; ( 0 GREGORIE, in order to prevent a second knocking d°,l, in the office, cautioned the officers to be on their go' and sentenced the defendant to a month's imprisontnel No sooner had the sentence been uttered, when j, Saunders, who is an amazing powerful woman, agais7 o " Stop abit , we will h ave a f e w roun d s a b out i t befofa i ii part," put herself in a boxing attitude, and and inso o , exclaimed "now, you murderers, come on." The Ol e ic ) who bud made a retrograde movement on the caution 4 ,t was given them, endeavoured to close, which they er accomplished, after receiving some slashing hits from de, o f fondant before s h e was vanqu i s h e d. Wi t h t h e assistalw• four men she was eventually secured. WOASIIIP-STREET.— Thomas Ballard, the u,pfr of a cart, was yesterday brought before Mr. Twrinit charged under Mr. Martin's Act with cruelly beating horse. One of the two officers (who are employed by I , o e • ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty), stated that he ea l f.;he defendant strike the animal re p ea t e dl y on t h e sore c',l' neck (the horse having what i s t erme d th e w itherao o d consequence of which he and his b ro th er o ffi ce r folla t o the defendant from Long-lane until he ennie nea r o gi office, during which tim e l ie (th e d e f en d an t) did unt,..,s. to beat the poor animal on the parti cu l ar p ar t mentw. t hot So acute must the effect of the blows given have been the poor creature at l as t h ung his head between its hay" ao, The witness then took him into custody. The other officer who accompanied th e last w i tne ss r firmed his testimony. 'l4 l The defendant said the ho rse was so very slow he 02- 11 not get him on. we Mr. TIVYFORD-Yes, you argu e ver y we ll a b ou t not ec t, P tiny him on. B u t I d on ' t k now w h at to d o, i ts a 11. nice point to define. Defendant—The horse is at the door. Mr. Twvrorto said he would look a t the animal; I ll: left the office for that purpose. On his return her ° kit as his opinion that the animal ought to be killed; o igi from the appearance and ma nner o f th e d e f en d an t • t t, he was very sorry, and who promised never to do 1 0 he was fined 105. and costs, being a mitigated penel t Y, f ed Springay (whose wife was on Thursdar i coo from destruction, having attempted to drown berme!!! yesterday placed at the bar before Mr. TwvForto• The complainant having repeated her former stater ti eel respecting the brutal manner ia which her husbetr t he her, she was interrupted by the prisoner, who deeiv g i o ; chsrge against him as-to cruelty. He admitted .11 ! : l i e heat her, but not to the excess represented: His eei'" e bst said, bad l a t e ly t a k en to d r i n ki ng, and that i t • Wa'9_,4; caused them to quarre l. H e ( pr i soner ) himself wr,,,fit industrious man, and never left his shop t o d r ink; r ib - o se w 4 very hard for him to see his g oo d s sen t ou t of the u itlt to be pawned for the purpose of supplying his wife iquors. • the The complainant's danghters being in the o°,l 1, MAGISTRATE asked them if what their father bad sou • true ? toitb Two of them, very fine-looking young woruett tears in their eyes) stated that their mother was a verY . „ s- t iy mother, and to their father a good wife—but eeluc t `" a d admitted, that she had lately been in the habit of i' vl t ief then taking a drop, and were about t o say more , W E e n were interrupted by Mr. Twvroan, who, after severely admonishing o e ., e d soner, and cautioning him as to his future conduct, dienu the case.—Tlie parties then left the office. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. Til URSDA r, SE??. 4.—High water 28 min. past Wind E.—Arrived the Woodman, Woolfendale, fib John's, N.B.—Margaret, Duncan, fromW a terford- , -D,, 1 " Hastings, from Limerick—Avon, Thomas, from Tr y , Augusta Fredericka, Zaage, from Rostock—Albion,' from Griefswold. t for CLEARED OurwAnns.—The Wavertree, Sh 6 " r ! A O. Newfoundland—John and Margar e t, Lu c kl e y, for R 4 for Antge, De Vries, for Harlingen--Brunswick, Bron10:1;i, Riga—John Fiances, Miller, for Quebec—Countee nt " verpool, ---, St. Domingo. • BIRTHS. • At Dysart, N.B. ou the 30tk ult. Lady Loughbe' revgli' of a daughter, still. born. f Lord On the sth inst. at Copse-hill, Surr e y, the seat ' Durham, the Lady Durham, of a eon. On the 3d inst. in Henrietta-street, Cavendish-Ware' Lady Fitzherbert, of a daughter. MARRIED. T Ho t' On the let inst. at the H ague , by .the Bev. worthy, chaplain to the Embassy, Lieut. W. R. Gonspeetej of the Madras Native Infantry, to Elizabeth Harriet, sem% daughter of the late John Dumaresq, Esq. his Mi.ie it Y Attorney-General in the island of Jersey. 01 On the 4th inst. Mr. James Roberts, of Eastettesp. Sarah Cecilia, eldest daughter of John Burdett Hovrei! Esq. of West Ham, Essex. On the 2d i nst. at St. Pancras New Ch u rch, i f f; Joseph Webbe Cragg, late of the Honourable East loth Company' a serv i ce, to Ann, on l y d aughter of C h ar l e s We b bt Esq. of Clapham. On the 4th i ns t. a t C am b erwe ll Ch urc h, by the Rev. 1:. Feilde, William Hodgkinson, Esq. of Skinner-street , l', 6 * - t ; don, to Eli za b e th M ar y Ann e , e ld est d aug h ter of the William Feilde, Esq. of Camberwell. DIED. N ib On the 28th ult. in the 48th year a his age, Car John Williams, of the Royal Marines, deeply regrette d • his widow, numerous family; and a large circle o f 5- quaintance. 86 0 Ou the 3d inst. in Upper Maryl e bone-street, in the the year of his age, James William B ran don, 'eldest " II O. e late Mr. John Brandon, m an y y ears T r eagurer of Cd ven On the garheatre. 4th inst. at Walworth, aged 58, Sarah, toe „ .ife of Mr. James Nash, of th e B an k o f E ng l a nd. On the 3d inst. M rs . H arr i s , o f Brook-green"terrs tam thd PEINTED a➢d PUBLISHED by 111URDO YOUNG , a g Sot OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. a