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that etc speak of Cranmer." The Reviewer, then,' pmcec , :la to discuss the merits of this one Saint of the Iteformet:en, and sums up his character by ob sesreing, that if "a inert yr be a man who c hooses to die rather 'ran to renounce his opinions, Cranmer was no more a martyr than Dr. Dodd. lie died sole:) , because he could mot help it. lie never re erected his recantation till he found he had made it in e. lin. The Queen was fully resolved that, C a . thol.; or Protestant, he should burn. Then he eke out, as people ge nerally speak out when) ep they are at the point of death, and have nothing to hope or to fear on earth. If Mary had suffered him to lire, we s uspect that he would have heard mass, and received absolution like a good Catholic till the accession of Elizabeth; and that he tae old then have purchased, by another apostacy, the p o wer of burning man better and braver than himself. We do not mean, however, to repre aent him as a monster of wickedness. Ile was not wantonly cruel or treacherous. He was merely a eepple, timid, interested courtier, in times of frequent and violent changes." To the corrupt source in which the Refornied Church of England had its origin, the Reviewer deems it indebted for some of eta best qualities. "Iu many respects, indeed (he says) it has been well for her that in an age of exu berant seal her principal founders were mere politi cians. To this circumstance she owes her moderate Articles, her decent ceremonies, her noble and pa thetic Liturgy. Her worship is not disfigured by mummery. Yet she has preserved, in a far greater degree than any of her Protestant sisters, that art of striking the senses, and filling the imagination ; in which the Catholic Church so eminently eXcels.— But, en the other hand, she continued to be for more than a hundred and nfty years, the servile handmaid of Monarchy, the steady enemy of public liberty. The Divine Right of Kings, and the duty fsf passively obeying all their commands, were her farottrite tenets. She held them firmly through rinses of oppression, persecution, ,and licentiousness; while law was trampled down ; while judgment was perverted; while the people were eaten as though - .hey were bread: Once, and but. once—for a mo ment, and but for a moment—whets her own dignity arid property were touched, she forgot to practise the submission which "sh e h a d t aug ht." A German writer, in a recent masterly volume on Pre• testantisrn, has views respecting the two Re formed Churches in this Island, which have oeme points of coincidences with those of thts Reviewer. Speaking of the Presbyterian Chutes, he essys, " With its unchristian dis tinction between clergy and laity, and its equally un christian assertion of a divine origin of all the pri cileges of the former, more nearly related to Popery than to Protestantism, it was the Republic, as the ' ether was the Monarchy of the Priesthood. And, as in Republics, those to whom the powers of go vernment belong are animated by a very different ;real than that which mere service can inspire, and ere usually much more vigilant in maintaining their cioneequenee then the office-bearers of a Prince, so is Presbyterianism, the arrogance of the priesthood formed a richer varnishmtnt than in the Clerical Monarchs. Apparently more moderate than ha the , latter, it was in reality the more dangerous, Es, by its condese-..o.icn in admitting the laity to a share of the advantages of the clergy, it laid for itself a broader futter;aticiti, and had contrived to blind and corrupt the oppressed to their own destruction ; more dartgartius, as a popular representation de graded to an instrument of the wiles of despotism, is more dangerous than arbitrary power in all its naked brutality. If Presbyterianism did not effect all the mischief which was tube apprehended from it, and even teas productive of benefits which were by no roans necessarily connected with its character, this was because the most of those who professed it were more estimable in their intention , than in their prin ciples ; it was chiefly because it was driven to take refuge among the people from hatred to a Court f vourahle to Lpisropaey, which threatened to sepa re.: it from the divine right which it asserted; and the love of ftevdom, which its popular rela t,-na forcibly communicated to it, di-armed the spi rituel eespotism which was inherent in its Conatitu den. The Republic of Priests was furred to enter *n a conflict, such as Gregory the Vlltit, the Priest Monarch, had fought; and it fought it in pulpit. and not in Courts, and its triumphs created laws and npt Inquisitions, for it it was forced to be more disinte rested than he was. Soong enough to conquer, it was never .fficiently strong to reap alone the fruits of this victory. But woe to humanity, were it to exert powers in the service of politics, instead of the enure, in the maintaining of which consists its '„,eculiar merit. The monarchy of the Pope would be preferable to it ; as Despotism is always more supportatrie than the thousand-headed monster of Feudalism ; as it is better to suffer death at once from the sword than to die by a repetition of petty inflictions. • • • • • • • Of the setae date with the Presbyterian, and similar to it in some unessential respects, the Hierarchy diepleyed only eubstantive power in its combat with the older Church. In every other respect the strength of her protectors was the measure of her trength, and when left to herself she always sue eembed to the Presbyterians, who, though neither itch nor dignified like her, and with a theocratical system unqueetiontably less firm and compact, had nothing to oppore to her but better intentions. She could let loose the passions; she never gained conviction —ehe could let loose at times the wild beast, the multi tude; she never understood how to controul and govern it. " A torrent of popular fury (says Neale) oppressed the Presbyterians in the beginning of the reign of Charles th e Second. The same torrent e rerpowered at anothe r time the Hierarchy in France. The same torrent overpowers now in Spain all that is better than the populace or their masters. Thus selfishness and brutality remain, ass object and means, is an eternal union ; and whoever wishes to consecrate pillage ootiverts all those who are as little able to respect property as to acquire it. But such a torrent, like the wild wave of a waterspout, soon finds its own bed, and as soon terminates its course. The triumph of the Episcopal Church was as passing as the p o _ pular rising to which it was indebted for it. . • Eulogists of political principle, which is h only dangerous when unexamiee d, and light, ee certain a physifal poisons, are unoperative in the the Prelatee thought they could stup if y the people, e,but their noise only served to waken them and ke h ep them awake ; and in the very place where t_ s divine right of arbitrary power %vas most t li - tinetly eleeated into articles of belief, tutee they mast decidedly &inbred and limited. For sno,t pert, :n. dangerous and always a feeble ally of temporal power, her clergy can only in favour- Able contingencies be available instruments, end power has evidently been confounded with 115 instrument', when she has been taken for more than that. Do you ask whether the Episcopal Hie tetchy can and still support the Throne ? Were histoey to be silent, the very stones would answer— tee wills of the palace, from the windows of which Charles I. strode to the scaffold; the walls of St. Ge rmain's, in which James 11. supported his disgrace ful existence on the alms of Louis XIV." A great Leal might be said on the subjects so forcibly alluded to by the Reviewer and the forei g n writer. The orruption in which th e Church h ad its origin, still, we far, leads her to avail herself of every moment far ourable for turning the ign oranc e and prejudice s of thcepeople to a had account. Witness the scenes now acting in Ireland--witness Penenden Heath...— Morning Clacmicie. It is tally gratifying to observe when persons i n high station keep pace Al ith the advanced spirit of the age. This is the more laudable in that profes sion which, begirt as it is by precedent, is hut too apt to deprive its members of that turn for improve ment which c,cropations not PO shackled open a more ready door foe. It is difficult, too, to persuade any men that there can be anything materially wrong in that which has, in his own case, led to fame and fortune. These observations have been excited by the pleasure with which we have perused the ob servations which the Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas took oecasion to make a short time ■iace, in refeiersce to abuse; and defects in the law.-e- The Learned Judge, with A candour end discern ment (to be expected, certainly, from the vigour of mind which he is so well known to possess) highly to lea honour, declared that "it could not be dis gu'.es, that, however excellent the law of this entry was in it: constitution, there were evils at tached to its operation, which not only the Bench, but also the Bar, were most desirous to Q ite reme died; and he hoped that some judicious arrange ment would he effected by the (7omrnisSion ap pointed to inquire into the state of the law." There may be those who may consider this avowal as coming too late from the Learned Judge to be of much value; and that there is no extraordinary merit in recognising the necessity of a reform which has become unavoidable. 'We arc by no means of that opinion. It is not for the gravity of the judi cial character to be hunting out abuses, and start ing reforms; it is sufficient if thrice who suffer by them do the one, and Parliament the other. But it is a great point gained, to see the existence of the one, and the necessity of the other, thus re cognised from that quarter where a contrary feeling would, in all probability, be fatal to any attempts, even of Parliament itself. Whether lawyers are the persons most likely to reform the law, any more than the Clergy the Church, is quite another ques tion, and one which we should not be inclined to answer very sanguinely in the affirmative. This we know, that no reform which does not strike at it as a tae gainful trade will be of any avail ; and we know, too, that profit is what people in all classes of life are most unwilling to cut down. Every thing in the law, as it is now administered, is looked to as a matter of charge ; and how much can be made of this or that cause or business is more frequently asked by those engaged in it, than how the matter can be best or most speedily ter minated on behalf of those most interested in it.— Nor is this confined, as some persons would have us believe, to disreputable practitioners. No ouch thing. Instances of this unprincipled selfishness are quite as rife in the higher as in the lower walks of the law ; and there are many, we have no doubt, who will read this, who could tell tales of " the most honourable and respectable" men, both at the Bsr and in the grade below it, which would leave what are called " pettifoggers" in better comi , my than those who do not know the facts imagine. In short, the error is in the system which permits such things : and though we hope, with Chief Justice Best, that the Commission he alludes to will effect much good, we repeat that, unless it saves the pocketa,of the clients,it will accomplish little or none. —Melting Herald. One of the artificet of those who contend for the subversion of the British Constitution by the admis sion of Papists to unlimited political power,is to re present this revolutionary and destructive measure as the natural and indispensible forerunner of any attempt to improve by other less objectionable meant the state of society in Ireland, Of the utter false hood of this representation we have a complete and unanawerable r proof in the signal success w hi c h h as attended the fithe Commutation Act, the most va lual-le boon which has ever been bestowed upon Ireland by the British Legislature. In alluding to this measure we should be guilty of injus tice towards all the parties concerned, if we failed to commemorate the facts, that it sprung from the seal, patriotism, benevolence, and ta lent of Mr. Peel, then, as now, Secretary for the Home Department, and of Mr. Goulburn, then Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant; that this excellent and salutary act was withstood at the time of its enactment, and has ever since been obstructed its its operation to the utmost by the Popish Dema gogues and Priests, and all their advocates and abet tors, and that, notwithstandieg the lofty and virtuous source from which it proceeded, and the grovelling and fac:ious opposition it has had to encounter, partly on account of its source, and partly because of its tendency to tranquillize the country and to strengthen the Protestant Church, it i- , now in actual operatin,i in a very large majorit; si the parishes of Ireland. The benevolence which suggested this measure, Ind the enlightened wisdom to which its extra ordinary ald unexpected success bears the most emple and conclusive testimony, are not the themes merely of idle and barren panegyric. They furnish infereneek of the highest value and importance, which no candid mind, whether Protestant or Papist, can eject. They show us that the best friends of Ireland—those who have in practice wrought most wisely, ze dousle, and successfully for her welfare, are among the firm, uncompromising, and consistent opponents of the Popi-h Claims ; and that • a most rancorous and determined foes to her peace and pro sperity are precisely the men who make the ad var.:•.,qtlent of the Papists to great political f ees er the exclusive object of their lives. But they point to a conclusion still more im portant and satisfactory than this. Pey show to the real friends of Ireland that they need not despair of the success of any other measure of practical amelioration which may suggest itself to their wisdom and benevolence, notwithstanding the inveterate opposition any such measure is tier:ain to encounter on the part of her real enemies. The great practical preblem now remaining to be solved with respect to Ireland, is how her growing mass of pauperism may be placed under the protection and controul of her proprietors, %without too violent a dislocation of existing interests. Ihe poor laws, as they now exist in England, are obviously inapplicable to the condition of Ireland; but the original principle of those laws, with such guards and qualifications as the peculiar circumstances of the case require, might probably be applied with advantage. The problem is one which, we may be sure, will never even be consi dered by the demagogues of the Association, by their masters the Popish priests, or by those Mem bers of the Legislature who labour in their cause. The object of ull these persons is to spread terror and confusion throughout the !awl, and to prevent the adoption of any measure likely to conduce to har mony, good order, or prosperity. It is one which we earnestly recommend to the wise and benevolent authors of the Tithe Commutation Act. If it be said that all measures for the improvement of Ire land must be vain so long as the present agitation exists, we are but little disposed to question the truth of the assertion. Our reply is, let the agita tion be effectually, as we are persuaded it may easily, be put down, not by granting further political power to the Roman Catholics, a cause which always has encreased, and always will encrease the agitation of but by su pp ress i ng a ll meet i ngs, of the country, every kind, haring a tendency to promote agitation, and by conferring upon the Executive Government sue ls powers as Cannot fail to inspire the trading I,lagitatorsth w the e i x t hal e tisn,.ttlitoanry toefrrtohri e 4 1h o ' s. es f e ra a n c c t h s e togetherw.owould s s t u a s t e e e o p f t b e i a n g t e y r o n f e s t s h f e o i r a t h u e_ quickly placiien(liroeflaipideci:li,air erenceeep,tioofne, very rational m easure of improvement.-- Morning Posq • When NERO exhibited him se lf as a singer and flute-player on the stage at Naples, the nir ,,i c i a ;, of the province assembled to hear him ; and such was their prodigious number, that the Emperor,tvkos viers and follies were all nn a gigantic scale, selected no less than 3,000 among the best to be his household musician., and cloth“ 1 them in a rich and uniform habit. FRANKED LETTESS.---The privilege of let ters passing tree of postage to and front Members of Par liament W 3 claimed by the House of. Commons in 1660, when the first legal settletnent of the present Post-office was made; but afterwards dropped, upon a private assur ance from the Crown that this privilege should ba allowed the Members. Accordingly a warrant was constantly issued to the Postmaster-General, directing the allowance thereof to the extent of two ounces in weight ; till at length it was expressly continued by 4 Geo. 111. e. which added many regulstions, rendered necessary by the great abuses in franking, whereby the annual amount of franked letters had increased from 23,6001. in the year 1715, to 170,7001. in the year 1763. Other regulations after wards took place ; in particular, franks were required to be dated (the month written at length), and put into the office the same day ; notwithstanding which, the revenue still lost by its privilege is above 80,0001. ter annum. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. HE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Commission in the 2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey. Jearge Oakley Sanders, Gent. ; to be Einsigai Oct. 25, Ma. :Whitehall, Oct. 11, 1828• The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas 13Jrton the younger, of Battle, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. John Kirby and drapers. tYilliain Todd, Rugelq. Staffordshire, painter. Richard Brain, Great Tower-street, broker. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Llizabeth Batt Skelton, Mary Mabella Skelton, and Elizabeth Skelton, Louthampton, stationers._.. Thomas Henry Skelton, Southampton, statione. Lewis Morris, Bristol, tobacconist. George Augustus Baker, Blackman-street, Southwark, ebeesemonger. Henry Cooper, Snow-bill, I.ondon, stationer. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. Edward Whittaker Menzel!, College-Wharf, Belvedere road, Lambeth, coal-merchant, from Nov. 4 to Dec. 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Jeremiah Thompson, New York, United States, mer chant, from Nov. 4 to May 1, at twelve, at the Clarendon buildings, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Gillham, Christ Church, Surrey, baker, to sur render Nov. 14, at ten, El, at eleven, and Dec. 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Howard, Bouverie-street. George Moravia, Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square, Nov. 14, 21, and Dec. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Com rnisaionera. Holmes, Liverpool-street. . . Joseph Haynes, Ratcliffe-highway, linen-draper, Nov. 28, at one, Dec. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Jones, Size-lane, Edward Womersley, Little Guildford-street, Borough, h•it-manufacturer, Nov. 11, 23, and Dec. 19, at one, at the Court of Cominis-sionevs. Fitch, Union-street, South wark. William tunninghan► Boyce, St. Swiihin, Worcester, silk-mercer, Nov. 20, 21, and Dec. 19, at twelve, at the Hopmarket-inn, Worcester. Platt, New Boswell-court, Line°ln's-inn, or Welles and Dickens. Worcester. John Warr, Aylesbury, Buckingham, saddler, Nov. 11, Dec. 2, a: twklve, and 19. at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. Jones, Birchin-lane, London. John Chamberlain Tilney, Castle-street, Holborn, wine merchent, Nov. 11, at eleven, Dec. 2, and 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Constable and Kirk, Sy mind's Inn, Chancery-lane. Ann Gregory, Torquay, Devon, milliner, Nov. 19, 22, and Dec. 22, at eleven, at the New London Inn, Exeter. Brutton and Clipperton, New Broad-street, London ; and Brutton, Exeter. Richard Lambert, Preston, Lancashire, innkeeper, Dec. 3,4, and 19, at one, at the Office of Troughton and Sons, Preston. Hurd and Johmon, King's Banch-walk, Temple, London ; Troughton and Sons, Preston. Vdward Tanner, Tower-street, London, wine-merchant, NOT. 11, at twelve, 2S, at eleven, and Dee. 19, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Hewitt, Tokenhouse-yard, Bank. Isaac Hands, jun., Aston, Warwick-shire, brass-founder, Nov. 21, 22, and Dec. 19, at the Globe tavern, Upper Temple-street, Birmingham. Austen and Hobson, Ray mond- buildings, Gray's-Inn, London; Palmer, Birmingham Thomas Fridy, Boughton, Kent, grocer, Nov. 14, at one, 21, at twelve, and Dec. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioner. Ogden, St. Mildred's-court, Poultry. Thos. Hewlett, Weston-super-Mare, Sutsserset, grocer, Nuv. 20, 21, and Dec. 19, at two, at the White Lion, Bristol. Jenkins and Abbut, New Inn, London ; Clarke and Sons, Bristols. John Bruckehaw Ryle, Manchester, ironmonger, Nov. 24, 25. and Dec. 19, at nine, at White's Hotel, Mulches ter. Ehis, Walinsley, and Gorton, Chancery-lane, Lon don ; n. Manchester. John B 1 -; Banks, Gutter-lane, London, lace-dealer, Nov. 11, at ten, 2b, at eleven, and Dee. 19, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Leigh, George-street, Mansion CERTIFICATES—Nov. 28. William Remy , ',,rker, jun., and John Parker, /Jere ford, printers. Richa,d Hunt, Rochdale, Lancashire, money-scrivener. Herbert. Phillips, Stepney-bowie, York, merchant. Joseph Howard, Queen'4-Head-yard, Great Queen street, Lincol/,',...inn-fields, horKe-deeler, David Pinnington, (,teen-Head-yard, Great Queen street, Lineoht's lun•fields, horse-dealer. Thomas Harri.on, New Bond-street, ho'ier. George Lind, Brightheltustone, Sussex, merchant. Thomas Smith. Pennington, Lincchter, cotton-manu facturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Joseph Spiers, Joseph Spiers, jun., and Charles Spiers, Church•street, Sialtaliields,'silk manufacturers. Hannah Walker and Thomas Atkinson, North Shields, Northumberland, ship-oviners. Edward Hampton Noy, George Robinson Pinw•ari. Nichulas-lane, London], attornies. Ellen Ayrton and Hannah Walters, school-rnitresee6, Chester. Thomas Smith and Thomas Powell, Blackman-street, Southwark, auctionetrs. William Lyddon and Jamey Brown, Carey-street, Lin coln's-inn, attorneys. John Ashford, sen., and John Ashford, jun., Deptford, George Rickerby and John Blacklock, Birmingham, drapers. Joseph Sanger and Thomas Webster, Leicester-stre , ,t, Leicester-square, tailors. John Wheateroll and William Singleton, Sheffield, edge tool-makers. Francis Willesforil and William C. Haley, Tavistock, Devonshire, attorneys. Janke* Trix and Jones 111.trsh, Barnstaple, Devonshire, wine-merchants. Thomas Hunter end John Hunter, Maddox-street, Hanover-square, tallor.i. Thomas Slade and John Slade, Dorset, maltsters. .lohn Craggy and William Craggs, Pontefract. joiners. Johnson Masters andd Henry Hitchruan, Dunstable, stmt . -hat-manufacturers. Joseph Oldham and Samtiel Oldham, Ashton-under- Lyne, Lancashire, cotton-spinners. Thomas Everard Upton, John Upton, and Thomas Upton, jun, Leeds, solicitors. John Eason and Henry E. Robson, Liverpool, brokers. Isaac Balker and J. Rideing, Liverpool, seed-nierehants. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-It is !li lt-Inured in the fashionable circle•, that Lord AII7IICASTER will Nliortly lead to the hymeneal alter, the youngest daughter of SirJons RAMcDEN, Bart., of Byram, in this county.— Leeds Intelligencer. There is at present at Craigleith quarry, a s t on e of such dimensions and weight as to be without parallel in ancient or modern times. Its length is upwards of one hundred and thirty-six feet, and it is computed to weigh fifteen thousand tons.—Edinburgh Observer. A fine little girl, about five years of age, the daughter of Mr. Wyrite.tts, at Milton, near Wells, was burnt to death on Friday, in consequence of its clothes taking fire during the temporary absence of the mother.— Bath Chronicle. We cannot help calling attention to the stata of the Strand and of Fleet-street. The audacity with which loose women assail passengers at night in these great thoroughfares, is most disgusting and frightful. No capital in Europe exhibits such scenes of scandalous pLofli gacy as London. As to the persons who are carried otr by the wretched females to the brothels on each side of the streets above-mentioned, they do not know what awaits them : too frequently robbery and blows, and sometimes worLste oThen male associates of the unhappy 'restores who Pace the Strand and Fleet-street arc universally house breakers, pickpockets, and thieves of other descriptions.-- Tunes. Saturday week a most atrocious attempt to produce consequences that might hare preyed fatal, occarr e d at Weatrnuir. Three rofifiens, 'barfly be fore(s,ti(o) nu setsh intention;n E ti d m ii w b " h ore gh i e t v r e c a r o c t a k u c a r h i n n ea g t m h the u the highway,hplaced with several r t t h tl e n m large te a l l y however, although th e Light wi as rather dark, the driver perceived the dangerou s trap that had bean laid for him, w an ag d lead u t i g m h t e t b o e foorfe pull d aitim:sagt besjelmahtnioiviseeis last n c O es n a . r e e k o fH, H t is tw o a e t nwdf f e ll ow '' s o se 7 o a . :s nfendeedratiensSaih.s2csonded, but have since paid the same damages to the Trustees to avoid prosecution.-- Glaagote Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Wednoiday Lieutenant-General Lord I.lsst• lard came to this office, and communicated to Plank (the chief officer) that a robbery of an elteusive nature had been committed at his Lordship's hOubr, No. 40, Grosvenor-place, during his Lordship's absence in Ireland, and that stßpectini a housemaid, who alone h r i ckargo of the house for some months past, to be in 4ome way acc-ssory to the robbery, he had dismissed her from his service. Plank told his Lordship that it would be extremely desirous by all means to have this woman in custody, and accord ingly directed Clements and Goddard to search ont her retreat, of which his Lordship was rot able to give an accurate clue; and so closely did these offi cers follow up the instructions, that yesterday the female grestion was placed before the Magistrate. Her real riame, she says, is Sarah Bell, although she has lived in Lord llartland's family in the name of Sarah Cockrell. It appeared that in the month of July last, Lord liartland went over to Ireland, leaving the prisoner, of whom he had received the highest character when he hired her, in the sole care of his house in Grosve nor-place, but having previously locked up every place that contained property, to which it was not neceie gory that the prisoner should have access during his Lordship's absence. On his return to London a few days ago, his Lordship found the house, to all ap pearance, precisely in the same secure state that he had left it, with every place of which he had posses sion of the keys locked, and not the slightest appear ance of any forcible or other means having been used to open them ; but when his Lordship examined the interior of those places, he discovered a vast dif ference, for from almost all some valuable property was missing. The wine-cellar was found to have been diminished in its contents by about ten dozen of beautiful wines of various kinds, besides nearly twenty dozen of empty bottles ; the plate-room, besides other articles, was robbed of a splendid silver tureen, having on the top the crest, a tiger with a shivered lance or spear; on the dexter side of the body a lion rampant, and the sinister quartered, a swan with spread wings, and on the handles a melon ornamented with flowers; this article of plate alone cost upwards of 100 guineas. From the glass cupbeards were carried off several diamond cut claret jugs, decanters, liqueur and claret glasses, wine coolers, &c., to a considerable amount of valuo; and the library was despoiled of a large collection of valuable and elegantly bound books, including " Corinne," in green morocco ; the whole of Shak speare's plays, richly hound; " Eugenie et Matilde," in green morocco ; Bacon's " Essays," Baskerville's edition of " Le Bruyere," with interlineary notes ; " Collins's Poems ;" ten volumes of " Metastasio," in vellum, lettered ; the works of Madame de Steel, in lilac binding; " Parole c Nonvelle," in vellum, with MS. sonnets inserted, and various other works of equal interest. The prisoner, in answer to questions from the Magistrate, denied all knowledge of the robbery, or by whom committed, but she admitted that since the absence of Lord Hartland's family from London, she had permitted her husband and one or two other persons, to sleep occasionally in the house. The MAGISTRATE said, that it was scarcely pos sible that so much property of various sorts could have been conveyed away from the house, and taken from places that were locked too, without the know ledge or connivance of the prisoner,and ordered her to be remanded for a future . examination, and di rected a close inquiry to be made after the parties whe were permitted by the prisoner to sleep some times in the house. The prisoner ie a woman of respectable appear ance, about forty years of age, and she - west into the service of Lord Hartland with the highest poi- Bible recommendation from Dr. Davis, one of the Canons of Windsor,itt whose establishment she had lived for 21 years. A well-dressed respectable-looking man, 'named William Robe, Is, was brought from the watch-house of St. Ann's, Soho, upon the following charge of riot and a,shult:— Henry Balls being sworn, stated that he is brother to Thomas Balls, a fishmonger, in West -street, Soho, and has at present the management of his brother's business, who was obliged to go into Hertfordshire upon some urgent business ; tha , on Wednesday - evening, about eight o'clock, the defendant, accomparied by a Mr Newman, an ironmonger, in Compton-street, Soho, came to his ( the complainant's) brother's shop, and dernar , i,.l to see Thomas Balls immediately about some b,:: nr other of Nrhich they spoke, but they were told that Thomas Balls was not in town, and that they could not see him. This, however, would not satisfy them, and tkey still insisted upon seeing Thomas halls ; and on his not appearing to their cell, they set about capering and prancieg through the shop in the most frantic manner, at the same time re !ring and bellowing like two mad bulls for Thomas Balls to come Lath, until they collected a mob of near a thousand per , ons in front of the house; and the street was so completely blocked up, that neither cart nor carriage could pass the way: nor did they content themselves with these proceed ings, bat both of them jumped right into the middle of a show of fish, and kicked and scattered it about in all direction,. A cod war seen eying in one di rection, while a haddock darted in another ; and her rings, sprats, and smelts, flew about in all ways, until not us much fish as would serve for a dinner was left behind. One of these intruders too, with one kick, sent a collar of brawn slap through a neighbour's. window, and seemed to deal with it just as if it were a foot-hall. Complainant, as soon as he could re cover his senses, which, from the suddenness of the scene, were almost as much scattered as the fish, re monstrated with the-intruders, and endeavoured to stay the devastation they were committing : upon which he was violently assaulted by them, and it was not until a posse of constables was called in, and the shop shut up, that the riot could be subdued, and peace restored to the neighbourhood, which was in a complete uproar. The present defendant (Roberts) was then lodged in the watch-house; but Newman having, in the extravagance of his pranks, received a severe personal injury, was obliged to he carried home, put to bed, and a surgeon sent for to attend him. There were also, it appeared, several other persons, besides the present complainant, assaulted very grossly by the am' including two females (Mrs. Balls and a Mrs. Favel), the latter of whom was stated to be so ill in consequence, that she was unable to attend at the office. Mrs. Balls, however, did attend ; and as well as another brother (W. Balls), confirmed the , testement of the complainant. Roberts, in answer to all this, stated that the fact was, that Thomas Balls, who, it is pretended, has gone on business into Hertfordshire, but who, in truth, is keeping out of the way of his creditors, is largely indebted both to him (Roberts) and to Mr. Newman, owing the latter very nearly 1,0001. ; and that these sums, as well as other large amounts from other creditors, Balls obtained upon bills of exchange which he knew not to be worth a farthing; one in stance of which was, that he obtained from a neigh bour the money on the acceptance of a coal-mer chant who was in the Gazette as a bankrupt. In this way, Roberts said, had Balls taken in a vast number of persona, and now ha refused to come forward like a man, and meet his creditors, but kept otit of the way, and is never to be seen by any of them, leaving this brother of his in possession and management of the business carried on with their money. He, Roberts, admitted that Mr. Newman and himself— irritated and indignant at being treated in such a manlier, and plundered of their money, for it was, he said, the same as taking it out of their pockets, and having, moreover, drank rather too much wine—did conduct themselves in rather a noisy and violent manner when they called at Balls' shop to inquire after their debt or; b ut h e d en i e d that th e y commit ted any ass au l t , until they were struck by Balls and knocked down and jumped upon in a most shameful way, and it was only in their own defence that they retaliated; he, Roberts, lost his hat in the business, wad had the clothes - torn from his back. Sir OBORGE FARRANT, the Magistrate, said, that if Thomas tails owed money to flag pattiefi, there were legal and proper means of recovering it, but no creditor was J9stifed 'in going to a man's house because he owesl money, and cresting a riot and to mult of this kind. Mr. Gilbcr , , a solicitor, who attended for the complainant, said that it was; their determination to pro-ketitt this complaint to the ii; most, for that this; was the fourth or fifth time that Li.,:berts had been guilty of similar conduct at Mr. Balls's %.ou`t• Sir 'G. 1 7 '1.RANT said, that in that case it woulti be necessary to cull upcn Mr. Roberts to put in _hail to meet the case at the Sessions ; but, said the Ma gistrate to Mr. Gilbert, " as I suppose Mr. Roberts is a respectable man, perhaps yon will consider his own recognizance sufficient." Mr. Gilbert—Certainly, sir, if he be a respecta ble man. What business are you in, Mr. Roberts Roberts---I am a wine-merchant. . Mr. Gilbert--Where do yon live 2 Roberts—l reside in Soho-square. Mr. Gilbert—What number in Soho-square ? Roberts—No. 21. Mr. Gilbert—Ne. 21, why that is the White house! Roberti was silent. Mr. Gilbert—Do you keep the White-horse, then ? Roberts—l don't see what right you have , to ask me that question. Mr. Gilbert—Yee, I have, because I MU to judge of your respectability before I can agree to take your own recognisance for your appearance. Roberts—Whether I keep the White-house or not, I em a- respectable man, and as far as money goes I can command enough of it. Mr. Gilbert then submitted to the Magistrate that Roberts was not a person whose sole recognizance should be relied on for his appearance. Sir O. FARRAST agreed in this opinion, and ordered Roberts to procure two sureties in SO/. each, and to enter into his own recognizance besides in 1001. for his appearance at the Sessions. " Oh," 'said Roberts, " I have plenty of respect able housekeepers here to bail rue," turning round to a host of tradespeople of his neighbourhood, who had, it seems,accompanied him to the office; but he reckoned without his host, for on applying indivi dually to them all round, not one of them would bail him, but gave him a direct refusal. Roberts—This is very strange, your worship ; I thought I was surrounded by friends, hut they all, it seems, disown me when it comes to the pinch ; will it do if I deposit the amount of the bail in money, which I can do immediately ? Sir G. FARRANT said it would not, the bail must be givers in the regular way. Roberts was then locked up, but iu the course of the day an old man named Curle, a wheelwright, residing in Sntton-street, Soho, near the White house, came to the office, and entered into double recognizeneee for the prisoner, who was then dis charged. A7warrant was issued far the apprehension of Newman, the other aggressor, but a certificate was produced from a. surgeon, stating that Newman is seriously ill from a fall, which it appeared he received in an attempted exploit to clamber over some ele vated iron spikes, which gave way with him, and he was precipitated to the foot-pavement. MARI LEBONE. On Tiles* , Harriet Howell complained before Mr. GRIFFITH, that she had been assaulted by Mrs. Bufiek 1, mother to Lady Page Turner, with whom the complainant lives as cook, at No. 15, Upper Montagu-street, Montagm-square. " Mrs. Bayfield came down into the kitchen, your Worship," suid the cook, " at 11 o'clock last night, and stayed there abusing me till two in the morning." " Do you mean scolding yuu, woman ?I" asked the Magistrate. " Yes," replied the. cook, "and assault ing me too. She kicked me about like a stock-Ash, and struck me with the kitchen-poker, and it was not the first time she had done so." Mr. GRIFFITH said •he had heard of the lady's violence before, and he ordered an ausault-warrant to be made out against her. This was put into the hands .of Wall, the officer, to be executed ; but at one o'clock on Wednesday, the time first appointed for the hearing of the ease, Mrs. Bayfield rent word that she ova' tor) 'lime!! to I..ve hyr bed; and yew torday, at the same hour the cook brought. a note, showing that Lady Turner was willing to give her 3d. to firego all proceedings. •Mr. Gliffith asked her if 31. would satisfy her for her bruises? She said " yes ;" and he permitted the warrant to be discharged. L AM BETH-ST REET. Yesterday morning, at the opening of this office, a young man, who stated his name to be Greenhill, entered and gave an account of the following cruel and disgraceful outrage father, Mr. Greenhill, of 'West Hem, who is an extensive farmer and po- . tete-grower of that place, (a man much known and respected, and not unfrequently called " the poor man's benefactor"), was on the previous day super intending the raising of a large field of potatoes, and from 100 to 120 labourers, chiefly Irish, were ere in the direction of hi s h ouse n al e G t : P re a e s n t h fi ili v , e ;he w e h l e d n er t , h w e en m t, " nn h a7 l - left y d t e eh d de . fib ey . 1 1. d b a, n o u ),, r one, maws the field. On coming to the hedge, he heard a noise on the other side, and looking over he dis covered two men who were crouching beneath it. He asked their business, and without answering, one cowardly ruffian sprang upon him, with whom he closed, and although in his 73d year, the gallant old gentleman gained a temporary advantage over him. He was then knocked down by the other, and not withstanding his entreaties to spare his life, he was beaten about the head until the scalp hung over his eyes! Fortunately, he fell upon the bludgeon, which was thus lost to the miscreants, who, snatching Mr. Greenhill's gold watch, made off. In this state, Mr. Greenhill reached home. Two men wore yesterday morning brought to this office, by Gutteridge, a Bow-street patrol, and under weat a long examination before M. WYATT, Esq., and the Rev. D. MATTNIA-S. They were detained near the spot last night by the patrol. When stopped, they were, although tho night was cold, in a state of (Treat perspiration : they said they had run a race. r They were committed by Mr. Wyatt for further exa mination on Saturday. On tracing the foot-steps from the spot where the robbery was committed, across the fields, a lkbourer's jacket, saturated with blood, was found. This-was .produced in Court, together with the bludgeon. This latter appeared to hare been recently cut from a hedge, and was about 18 inches long; it was about the thickness of a man's wrist, and was covered from one end to the other with blood. This was pronounced a most formidable weapon ; and it is misted it may also prove formidable in the hands of justice to the miscreant who wielded it, since the destruction of that Absurd act which provided so amply for the prick of a needle or a sharp instre trent, but which permitted the brains of an English man to be knocked out with comparative impunity. More private information was received at the office, but for the ends of justice it is desirable that it should for the present be withheld. The case was placed in the hands of Mr. Miller, the chief con stable of this office; and therefore, all that intelli gence area activity can effect may be relied upon. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Mr. HONE and Sir WM. DE CAM - PIGNY, the sitting Magistrates, were occupied from eleven until six o'clock, in hearing informations pre ferred by one of the principal coal -meters, against persons belonging to the coal-trade, for alleged mal practices. The first information was against Mr. Humphries, a coal-merchant residing in the parish of Christ Church, Surrey, who was charged with giving one of the labouring coal-meters the sum of 125., by way of a fee, for yielding to certain irregularities that occurred in the measurement of coals. Alr. THEstranz, on the part of the defendant, took several technical objections to the wording of the in formation, and a lengthened argument was produced between the Learned Gentleman and Mr. Jemmett, who attended to support the allegations contained in the information. The objections, however, were over-ruled, and John Stevell, a labouring coal -reeler, wtr called to prove the Cage. Ile stated, thet he Monday, the 30th (.f Septarnberr, he wag e t t b o Jamaica Wharf, and saw the defend Nat there, t put 6d. into hii hand for yielding to clifi' l. t ei h ' e irregularities that had occurred at the wharf course of the week. • • Jay Sir W. DaCRE SPIGNIC---1t wa s net for Age I received the snm above-mentioned, heir e overlooking tho practices that occurred. k' t t o having received the money, the wituees carried I,,g t • Mr. Toorgnand, the principal meter, a nd 131 " - d t mentioned to him fur what purpose it was pr to to him by the defendant, he (witnees) gas' _ Tourqnand. d►t kgi . witness, in his cross-examination, state when t h,- defendant put site money into his han u c k " I give you this for Mr. Hale 's acv en mete lay, the 30th of September.. en, re, of in the information, to the AltnaNick, Mr. Thesiger discovere° the 20th instead of the 30th, as 91 . , rleVmitarneketestd;tete confident the money was i,_ givo f t: 00 , Monday was the The magistrates, omission was fatal. di? missed the information on the above ground. Vl R : e t r } :ereforo contended tN" ► the defendant with Another information WA* t co il n e s n ul r t ea ing d, to the 10th of October, under circ Vrngtane" Eitri those set forth in the foregoing in formation. be Starers stated, that on the 10t. It of Octoll' Ae ri g i v i ng s *avers a soverl i He saw the defendant at the Jamaica 'VI - bar f• tla t ! witness what ho came there for, and I, 't rep" ' c bio he came to look at the ship's certificate ; ' u ni,ser the defendant slipped a sovereign into hi. " e t n r oar " Take that, it's what I promised self." Witness had been previously employ Mt7hiechthecr?"o wharf in measurin g co als. Th e mon e y \ %or! given for metage, but as an inducement to \ to observe secrecy with respect to the irrogul that he had witnessed while stationed on the 1 , try Witness snbeequently gave the sovereign to the P eipal coal -meter, who had previously ' (riven hiol uim ' , . reetions to take whatever money was offered to m bo t In the witness's eros,s-examination he tested t , ho did not borrow the sovereign from the defetidl s t neither had he complained to that individual t • to his wife was il!, or that there was an execoti o i his house. Il e admitt e d that he was not on at the wharf on the day he rescued the esaYef e ' nOr had he for a week previously. 64 10 Mr. Tansinuß ereiteeded that it wag neer*. 08 prove the witness had been actually on duty 0 ,0 wharf adieu he received the sovereign. N olll a i appeared that he had not superintended the 1 of eoala at that wh ar f s i ne° t h e 3d o f th e me l t e and that he went there on the 10th in ordi to i peruse the ship', certificate. The bribe, if sal 0 0 been given, the Learned Counsel sub m itted, g e not for inetage or inspection of coal, but ire ad s or h n t ieeph,sasynceeortet crept to certificate, in over uw r iere r h ef t e sh l : i e Thesiger urged that the idol' . apictniteeoeimr T :uru'lsc" h arta l .aucl l oteeehhsfen Mr . tt:::lWieEsgTthihsttßa sup por ted V tf:dt e e e c t fe that iits f trhm predecessor.information. a t v i a n lo fhe forth in the informations were proved, and fined defendant in the mitigated penalty of 101. and CO ' ' 7- The defendant's Counsel gate notice of appe* The next information was against Mr. John 1° labouring well, ec i o n a e l c o al-dealer, the ler, sumfe r goirvi2.3ng. 6d. ever 21111coauv,.t the usual allowance to persons in his situation. Wilcox stated that on the 4th of October be 8 11 0 stationed at Mr. Sernerville's wharf, at Vata° and in the course of that day inspected . a rootn ar ooals which was sold by the defendant to a en to man. After the work was done, the defendant 8 6 0 . witness half-e-erown, saying, " That is for makhia long tire." • The witness was desired to explain that tea the Court. The witness said that the meaning of W i t h five" was, the dealer-taking some sacks oat of even premises, and sending the rest to the purchitt The witness resumed his evidence. Th e e t ron was given to him by the defendant for yielding the trick of the " long eve." Upon receipt of 1 1 :3 bribe, the '•itnes transmitted it o_, .1 r to meter, from whom he had previous instructiom,, d sub.nit to any irregularity he might observe 87j, forward, and to take whatever money weal:4lo l w him by way of fee. Solicitor, cont:n t d v e h d o , et t t h e a n t dad the on wi t t h n e es be i ha oi l lg f h o t f th no a t 4 : oo fondant, A hare accepted the bribe; it was his duty, 14 ' 00 otfeied to him, to have rejected it, and then offence would have been committed. In this stance the witness induces a party to commi t offence, and then turns round upon hire. The NIAGISTRATES Were of opinion the wit' in . had acted perfectly right, and conformably to th e %erections of his superior. Frauds did exist °l vo , great extent in the coal trade, and this pia' •,,g very ingeniously a d opte d f or t h e purpose o f e xpl them, and p revent i ng t h e pu bli c f rom b e i n g Pl u dered. The Solicitor, finding his point untenable, gl a another attempt to quash the inforrnatien• he stated that he should be enabled to prove that o f money was given to the witness on the 4th, e., 4 not or, the Ist, as he alleged, and which was Jr forth in the information. Ile then called the _, 4 fendant's clerk, who stated that he saw his ernpl° 7- 0 ( giro the labouring coal-meter 2s. 6d. on the 4 4 b September. Mr. Jemrnett contended that this adnitisstion 0 7, blished another case against the defendant, for oo had given bribes to Wilcox both on the Ist and the 4th. Wilcox said that he received money on both c ' e caeions from the defendant. Mr. HONE—I believe in both eases the wil e received bribes from the defendant. It was at ia o suggestion of the principal meter the bribe was " 1 .". by his servant, in order to discover the impe o practised on the public. th e The Magistrate then said the endeavour 00 t y part of the defendant's solicitor to prove that, is money had not been given OR the day specific' the information, aggravated the case coilitiderablP Mr. Jemmett sought the full penalty of 201. The Magistrates fined the defendant 151. and 07 ig which was paid, the defendant remarking thst should not appeal against the conviction. Mr-. George Manning, another coal-dealer, plc" a against " - ~°,04 , " Guilty" to n information exhibited again for a similar cffenee, and was tined Si. and costs.,/,` BIRTHS. . On the Ist instant, at t!*e Spa, the lady of she Be l ' Jennyn Cooper, of a &tighter. At Eardiston-house, Gloucestershire, the lady of 5" S. Smith, of a daughter. MARRIED On the sth instant, at Great Stannaore, by t.he n , ' it. R. Chanvel, Rector of that parish, and Prebendary' Ltd Paul's, Captain Franklin, R.N., to Jane, *mond (1 14 of John Griffin, Esq. of Bedford-place. opt, On the 6th i ns t an t, S. L. D e Sy mons , E A q., t 0 relict of the late M. B. Lonsada, Esq. od On the 29th n 1 Dub' . F P- 9-44;re the - Jth nit., is Dublin, eranais 'oyntr, - ofic. Tralee, to Alicia Maria, seoond dangbter of the late a s' Shannon, Esq., Captain, Royal Limerick Mi1it 4 , 44 .4 grand-dangl,ter of the late Urias Sealy, Esq., ef *musty Kerry. Co' ,,er On the 4th instant, at St. John's church, Mr. James Addison Davies, to Miss Ann Davis, b e Coventry. DIED. On the 6th instant, at his house, Lavender-hills I X' a. worth, Corbyn Lloyd, Esq., of Lombard-street, bat:Lilts, On the Sd instant, at his father's house, of aoamtitopr Mr. Lane Aston, solicitor. On the 4th instant, in Sloane-street, at an all" age, Mrs. Bird. O f , On the 6th instant, at the house of her son.in-law t o, T. Watchard'e, in Piccadilly, Sarah, relict of the' labs Goodwin, of Pimlico, aged 67. O r ' On the 23,1 ult., Mrs. Smith, relict of the lobe Smith, solicitor, of Preston, aged 51. On the sth instant, at Manchester, Wm. Renshavio solicitor, aged 70, a man highly esteemed in his proi , rind by Panevsa rind PUBLZSAIRD MURDO YOUNOt trr" oyrtcr, 112: ST na D, L(h•DOV• ~~ ~`--~. S %Gil t 1 L an; t i l t t9h e ; ge It