The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. The condition,, of Irish party is not a little curious at this moment. That great mass (the Catholic body, of which the majority are poor and ignorant) who have been excluded from the constitution, and persecuted by the laws, appeal with confidence to those laws, and that constitution for redress ; while the Orange faction; caMposed . of gentry, fOr whom, and . by WhOM, the laws ex cluding .the Catholics have': been enacted—who have , made legislation perform in their own favour, all the functions,of revengeful violence, an d have, perverted the Irish !:monarchy. into a monopOlY of pywer and plunderyr-these Orange noblemen and gentlemen will no longer trust the, machinery of which they have hitherto been. themselves the framers and the movers. They are no longer satisfied, that the defence of tyranny should be conducted under the forms of law ; and instead of imitating the Catholic's, who enter into resolutions and compose petitions to Parlia ment for a relief from injustice, the noble and honourable Brunswickers do neither ; they raise recruits,--they purchase arms,--,-they appoint drill serjeants,—and appeal directly to the sword. And for what.? For, protection.?—for re dress ?—for an en/urge/nerd of their privileges By no means : they who have all, can look for no increase to their possessions. They con spire to maintain, by force of. arms, that,systern of iniquitous aggression and spoliation, which they fear will be sacrificed by the spirit of a more en lightened age ; and thus many of the affluent vnel educated classes who are most powerfully in- tetested (did their prejudices suffer them to see their interest) in the peace and good order of the state, change..characters with the reckless multitude, and would plunge society into con fusion. The letter of our Irish correspondent, neither whose integrity nor good information has ever failed us, presents a dismal ;picture of the north of Ireland, so far As the,,Brunswick ClUbi are concerned„ ElevenGovernora oflrish coun ties—all officers _of the Crown,' ,and removable at pleasure—are it seems, among the Vice Presi dents of this fighting association. Fifty justices of the peace, sworn to do equal justice between Protestant and Catholic, are among these sworn exterminators . of the latter sect. Colonels of Militia, likewise officers of the Crown,--and by the constant practice oldie Government remov able for acts of political insubordination,—are among them. " Most of the.stiperidiarY'rnagis tra.tes and constables of .police,:: administrators (like the unpaid) of " equal and impartial justice ;" last of all, and worst, some Protestant clergy, like Reinault-Horner,-preach up the " appeal to the sword," and the refusal of" even Connaught as a refuge" to the flying Catholics ! Now we do not think it is going too far to say, that unless the Government mean to hold itself forth as being or the Orange party, it ought to visit with:some grave mark of displeasure those of its own functionaries who have made themselves eonspi. CUOUS in the Orange ranks. The Orange, or Cumberland Club, is nothing short of an inven• lion for the excitement - of civil war throughout the United Kingdom, that one-third of his Ma jesty's subjects may continue for ever to be trampled under foot by their fellows. The pa. pers and private letters talk a great deal about the conduct of Mr. Steele, a Protestant but line ral orator, at Limerick, for some active--proba bly intemperate interference with the proceed ings of a Cumberland Club. As we do not much trouble ourselves with, - inciiterits which are n ot either illustrative of sont tiiinciple, or . likely to he followed by some extensive ef fect, we leave Mr. Steele and the Mayor of Limerick to settle this matter between them. Here, the system of Cumberland Club-making, has been taken up in a truly business-like man ner. A case at Bow-street, which we report at some length, will show thoSe'generous and en lightened personages, viz., his'' Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, hi 4 Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and his .Wisdom LOrd Chandos, who have placed' themselves at the head Of the club Concern, what a descriptioi of follOwers they have enlisted. '1 noble name of Earl an d t h e a ppropriate one of LeeCh , (or something like it) have been turned to good account with poor Francis Sparrow and his colleagues in cre dulity.—Times. It is perhaps right to notice, that the paper which has for some years appeared under a title similar to our own; 'has at last assumed an honester appellation, and is now' and from hence forth to be called the " Morning' Journal, instead of the New Times. The motives that led one journal to assume and continue a: title and type like that of another journal previously established and long flourishing, were j ustly appre ciated by men of integrity.. It is late and almost needless to reprobate them at - present. If the first author of the fraud has been thereby enabled to lift himself up'into a situation under Govern ment, we have only to hope, as we do most sin cerely, that he has changed,fils morality with his s tation, and that he i s administering the office w hich he holds by honestei: maxims than those Which he adop ted for the attainnient of it. A different system lass now, theretbre, be en intro diced at the office which he n. ' quitted,,,a where his principles have but too s long previnid Under his less criminal successors. We hail the c h ange with plealure; and can hereafter only view the likiningiournal- as an honourable rival, w hi ch will succeed to the degree that it possesses talents and industry, and that it acts upon motives equally upright with thoSe which have induced it to relinquish a title fabricate - din imitation of ours. —lbid. • We have extracted from the Brighton Guar dian an account of a numerous and most re spectable Meeting for the furtherance of the edu cation of the people, held.at:Brighton on Thurs day l a st, at which Lord John Russell presided. The sentiments uttered by many of the speakers ' do high honour to them, and the promulgation of them is peculiarly seasonable at this time, ' time, when Magistrates and Clergymen are . la bouring-, both openly and covertly, to discourage the education of the lower orders. It was ob served by a Mornin g Contemporary of yesterday, that "too many persons in the humblest condi tions of life are made to aspire beyond what na ture designed them for, by a flippant smattering of education, which, with a great portion of mankind, passes f or educatio n , This produces I vanity, a love o f show, finery in dress, and, as a necessary consequence, extravagance ,and vice ; hence it is; that with persons whose poverty ex • poses them to many temptations, and whose abilities nature has a da p ted to their, sta tion, the unsophisticated simplicity of,igno rance is better than a superficial and spurious instruction, which makes them restless and con ceited, without adding in the least to their stock of morality or real intelligence. Thus new de sires are created, new passions stimulated, and a foolish ambition begotten, which there are not abilities to realize without overstepping the boun daries 91 order ari4 91 low, Hence a pat in . crease of frauds, forgeries, and other crimes, which show eq u a l ' e xpertness of .ctinning . and levity of morals." There is much confusion of ideas here. it Vanity, a love M show, finery in dress," are part and parcel of human nature, and to be found in all states of society, and in all ranks and conditions. To the love of finery we are indebted tor the industry of the people and the means of employing it ; and the boundaries be yond which the gratification of the passion is• extravagant and vicious, are passed by people in the superior and middle ranks of life as much as by the lowest. The circumnavigator in every voyage of discovery carries with him large assortments of beads, feathers, and trinkets of all sorts, to captivate the dandies.. and belles' of , the Savage Tribes, there never having yet been discovered a human being Who,‘ when the bodily appetites were satisfied, was -not' anxious to adorn his or her person, by blacking nails, sticking bones through noses* in the most facinating manner, suspending weights to ears, colouring eye-lids, &c. &c. The late Mr. Harriot, of the Thames Police, tells us, " a few trinkets he took with him gained the hearts of several young squaws ; and the infidelity of the young ladies'and murderous jealousy of the discarded lovers, 'were as effectually produced by a cock's feather, as in the vicinity of St. James's kindred results might Ilave been produced by the distribution of costly .diamonds. The Phy sician, the Lawyer, the Divine, and the Shop keeper, find it as difficult to keep their wives and daughters . within the limits in point of finery, prescribed, by prudence; as the lower orders find tt ; and hence frandsalent bankruptcies, dishonest artifices, debts contracted without means of pay-' ;Tient,- and the ether phenomena of constant oc currence in society,; for the inclinations and pas sions of men are always with difficulty subjected to the restraints of reason. Where reason fails, its place is sometimes beneficially supplied by passion. Thus, for instance,.the love of finery and anxiety for appearance, often rescue people from gross mid disgusting sensuality. When theta is no anxiety for personal appearance, it Will ,generally be found that the individuals have become hog . - gish. In one of Dr. Franklin's Essays a cen sorious gentleman is introduced, complaining of the extravagance of the young women, and fond ness fir finery unknown to their mothers and grandmothers ; who is reminded by another, that the young women, in order to procure that finery, had taken to making certain articles, which . had laid the foundation of a thriving branch of industry. The unsophisticated sim plicity of ignorance is no where to' be found. The worst that can be said of education is; that in so far as it sharpens the faculties, it gives in creased facilities for the evil-disposed to prey on others. Where education is common, the pos ' session of it can no more fill a man with con ceit, than his having two legs like his neighbours, but the want of it may he severely felt. A Highlander may feel elated when he first puts on a pair of breeches, and an Irishman when he first becomes master of a shirt ; but neither of these articles, if not better than usual, would elste an Englishman, though the want of them might be felt as a'grievous evil.' But the aver sion of the higher ranks to the diffusion of edu cation among the people has more than one cause. In the first place, we are all more or less under the influence of envy, when what used to be a distinction to ourselves is no longer a dis tinction, for, equality is • only desired by those, .who wish to draw down others, or to reach them, and by no means by those who are already-upper most. Men are not 'fond of owning, even to themselves, the motives which frequently actuate them ; and hence many who were ashamed into an affected fondness for the diffusion of educa tion, gladly lay hold of the first pretext in any way plausible, which may serve as a justifi cation for their yielding to ' the less amiable .feeling. But there is another cause of aversion, and it' was pretty distinctly stated by .Soame JeAnings, more than eighty years ago : " Every flourishing 'nation," he observes, " endeavours to improve arts, and cultivate reason and good sense ; yet if these are extended too far, or too universally diffused, no national government or rational religion can long stand their ground ; for it is with old establishments as with old houses, their deformities are commonly their supports, and these can never be removed with out endangering the whole fabric. In short, no Government can be administered without in some degree deceiving the people, oppressing the mean, indulging the great, corrupting the venal, opposing factions to each other; and tem porising with parties. . If we look into the internal- constitutions of all these Governments, we shall find likewise, that they mifst be admi nistered by the sama violence and corruption to which they are indebted for their origin ; that is, by hiring one part of the society to force the other into subjection; and that none of them ever subsisted any longer than whilst the stronger part,. not always the most numerous, found it for their advantage to keep the weaker in obedience ; for it should be ever remembered as the fundamental rule of all politics, that men will never submit to each other merely for the sake of public utility, too remote a benefit to make any impression on the dull senses of the multitude ; but must be always beat or bribed into obedience. Higher orders of beings may submit to each other on nobler motives, from their sense of' virtue or of universal benefit ; but , man can be governed by nothing but the fear of punishment or the hopes of reward ; that is, by self - interest ---the great principle that operates in the political world, in the same manner that at traction d oes i n t h e natura l , preserv i ng or d er an d restraining everyt hi ng in its proper course by . the continual endeavours of every individual to dr --the momentll power and prop er ty t o himself. . • or es t a bli s h e d, i ts pur i ty any religion becomes national to call alicitihLsaeeewh‘isot:illmust certainly bp lost, because it is then impossible to keep it in s mill men's interests ; and if con must inevitably be perverted by them. un connected with ' el l- lever temporal advantages are . annex edoavr e thel lo sak religion ,)fin a t t er a e l s i t : to any religious profession, theyNvill be sure e for the sake of sacrifice dim to their fashion, very • l e r of men, who are maintained to k ri fo l : i ol v s t e w them sole possession of all its support its interests, own ; and being promises, and all its terrors, and having the u • ten derness of ehildhood, the weakness of age, and the, ignOrance of the vulgar to these men, vested with all these p owers, yet.l fail to convert all th e being but men, will notwork upon , say mighty influence they m ust derv o from them, to the selfish ends.of their own avarice and am bition," &c. Whatever may be th ou g ht of the impossibility of governing men by any other means than by fraud and deception, there can be no doubt that the whole scheme of Govern ment hi this country is founded in fraud *and corruption. The great problem with the know ing °Hes, as they are called in this country, has always been to cover. profligacy so dexterowy with hypocrisy, that . the ignorant may not see distinctly the game . Of the knavei. But the dif fusion of knowledge, by rendering the game ob vious, throws a Government for its defence on the very extent of the demoralization, .which de fies combined opposition, by making each man afraid to place his safety in the power of another. But the very excess of the evil has a tendency to work its own cure in :the long run. It is imL. possible not to see that the constant spectacle of fraud and corruption in the governing classes has a tendency to sap the morality of the lower. Men Say to themselVes—why Shoal we be de nied the .liberty .that others take; but being aware that the. hangman„is not , on their side, they fall on shifts,.as the lawyers fall •on fictions, to .evade the, letter of the law. A sort of in stinctive Inowledge of these' consequences, has always rendered' the High:Church p ar ty hostile to education. They have, however, been drawn in to encourage it, whether they would or not, and they cannot help themselves.—Morning Chronicle. • When a new physician or surgeon is called in to repair the blunders, of a previous operator, the remedies which he adopts too often fail, owing to the extent of the 'previous mischief, which he is unable to repair. Such is, in some measure, it must be admitted, - the case with the new Foreign Secretary, Lord 'Aberdeen ; into whose hands the department over which he. pre sides has fallen with an inheritance of leavings, which Lord Aberdeen, or any other man, would, we should think, be most . happy 43 be without. The truth is, that Mr-Canning, and his foreign policy, have been the bane of the country. Let his admirers attempt to bolster up hiS official reputation how they will, and convert their pro posed marble statue into. one of bronze, we suspect that it will very soon require an unusual share of bras - s in any man to attempt to .hold him up as any thing short of the most injudicious Minister this country has ever had. Such being the case, and such the unfortunate legacy which has devolved upon his successors, of course a considerable degree of latitude and in dulgence must be shown towards the success sor of a Minister, who has, on the one hand, the national honour to maintain, and, on the other, to fulfil the indiscreet pledges in which his pre decessor has involved the country. Yet ,though this may be the case, to a certain degree, and hampered as the present Government must find itself by acts and engagements with which it had no concern, there is a limit to the extent to which this kind of involvement, as well as its conse quences, may be carried ; and we 'are much in clined to think that that limit has at length been reached, if not almost passed. The Greek Treaty, better known as the Triple Alliance, was one of the most unwise, if not insane Imo , sures, that any Minister ever involved a country in. But still we admit, that the public faith being pledged to it, we arc not entitled (though other countries would have done so) to turn round upon the other contracting par ties, and deny our engagement. An honest man is bound to fulfil his engagements, " though they be to hiS own hindrance ;" and the same rule applies to States. But, from the moment that the Emperor of Russia thought proper to, adopt an exclusive line-of his own, the cloven foot, and the deception which had been practised upon the Canning Ministry, became apparent ; and this country was virtually absolved from an engagement into which she ought never to have entered. Here has been the error of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry, that after he must have seen that Russia was merely playing a game of her own, and had entrapped Mr. Canning, and his " classical recollections," into the further ance of an object far different from that which was avowed, that his Grace seems to have con sidered the country bound to go On, and persist in fulfilling a fraudulent and deceitful compact, even after its fraud and deceit became notorious to all the world.—Morning Herald. It is again asserted in an Evening • Riper of yesterday, that the British Government has re monstrated against the blockade of the Darda nelles by Russia, as a gross breach of good faith, and in addition to the vessels which are now known to be preparing for sea with all ex pedition, has ordered two more to be got ready with the utmost secresy and .haste.--, How gladly we would hail such a; display of spirit on the part of the British Go vernment, those who have perused our corn- . merits on the conduct of It ussia, need not to be told ; but, however glad we might be to witness it, we think—with all 'defer ence to our cotemporary—that more decided proofs of the remonstrance and energy of the Government will be required, before the pub lic can safely confide in it. Insolent and over bearing as the proceedings of Russia 'have lately been, it is scarcely to be . credited that she would have had the hardihood to 'refuse to give up the intended blockade of the Dardanelles, had the British Government deplored that the alternative was war—a war which in the course • Of a few days must have transferred her petty navy into the custody of the British fleets—reduced every fortress and city belonging to her, which could be attacked by sea, to a heap of ruins—utterly destroyed her commerce, and by these means have given such a decided superiority to Turkey in the prosecution of the way in which she is en, gaged, as to have rendered it very desirable for Russia to make peace with her on any ,terms.-- 7 - We say that looking at these consequences, which every one will readily allow must flow from any war that might ensue between this country and Russia, it is not to be believed for a moment that the Russian Ambassador would not have acceded to the terms dictated by the British Government, rather than have witnessed the adoption of measures whieh, he must have known, would terminate not only in the forcing of the blockade, but in the destruction of the blockading force itself ; and so far as thesegrounds, therefore, go, we are not inclined to place any belief in . our cotemporary's acconfit of the conduct of the British Government, There is also another circumstance which strengthens us in this opinion. Although Lord Aber ' deen notified the intention to blockade -the Dardanelles, he not only gave no intimation of any remonstrance haying been forwarded to the Emperor of Russia against the adoption of such a measure, or of any determination on the part of the British Government to resist it ; but from the opinion which he expressed that such vessels as had sailed previously to the notification a the blockade would not be molested, and that the blockade itself would only extend to provi sions and munitions of war, seemed to declare, in all but express terms, that no attempt would be made to disturb the Russians in the new posi tiolimwptetltiivey theyl_ had taken up. It was, besides, s the duty of the Earl of Aberdeen to have declared, in the most unequivocal terms, for the satisfaction of our merchants, that the blockade would not be acquiesced in, if suc h a resolution had been adopted by the British ~Government„ that until more satis factoryeVidetice has been adduced •of the fact, we shall not ta s k' his Lordship with such a gross b.reach:.pf it. There. is, in fact, only one cir curnstance-which could account for such 'daring conduct on the part of Russia ; and that is an assurance that_ France would Make common cause with her, or 'a hope, equal the'inind of the Emperor to an, assurance, that heWoilid suc ceed 'in inducing the Porte to dcgart war against France: fhe rePorts, which have been current for some tune of the anger displayed by ,the Sultan At the evacuation of. the .Muria,, by Ibrahim, and its intended oceuratiOn.:by.the French, give some probability to such a hope being 'realized tut .after' all, the evil day 4o Rtissia could not be . Very long delayed, and even Francewohld Ara, When too late,.. that war with this counAry was. by n,Q mean*, a, profitable . gaMe. The advantages, whiph.she has:hithetto enjoyed in the ..Levantr—her ships, her , commerce, and her: colonies, would all experience a change of .masters ; •while, were RuSsla even to succeed in establishing her power at.eonstaii tinople--a' dream too wild now to be entertained. by any sane persOn-Lmi advantage would accrue to 'her which would in the slightest degree in demnify ; her for such immense losses. In the present Government of .France we' have not cer tainly much confidence ; for it is evidently puffed. about in every direction by the wind of popu- . larity but it would be too much, possessing; as it does the power of avoiding a collision with this country, to imagine 'it so lost to all pru dential considerations as to expose the ioterests of France to such hazards—and we repeat it, until the most undoubted evidence has been . given of the Duke of Wellington ,having rerrion strated, under the.penalty of war, as the ;alter native against. the. blockade of the Dardanelles, and that penalty having been disregarded, we must beg to suspend our belielin it.---Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE; BOW-STREET.-.-The system at present pursued by ' certain parties•to obtain signatures to anti-Catholic peti • tions, and the discreditable and fraudulent means adopted to forward that object, was fully developed by the follow ing application which was yesterday made at this office to G. R. MINSBULL, Esq. the sitting Magistrate:— Just as the office was about to close, a respectable-look ing man, apparently from the country, presented himself to Mr. MtNsuuLl: to request his advice and assistance . under these circumstances :—" Towards the latter end of last July," said the applicant, " I saw an advertiseinent in a Morning Paper, stating that several active young men were wanted to engage in a certain business recently established, at a salary of 30s. a-week, on the condition that they were each to deposit: the sum of 301. in the hands of the advert tiser, as a security for the „monies which would pass through their hands, and also.for the due performance of their re spective duties, Application was desired to be made at No. 52, Aldermanbury, at a particular .hour of the day ; and thither," said the applicant, " I at once proceeded, being most desirous of obtaining some employment. On arriving at 52, Aldermanbury, I was shown up stairs to a respectable-looking room, where I saw two gen tlemen, who proved to be Mr. Earle and Mr. Leitch, his - clerk, and, as I believe, partner. As soon as I had made known my business, Mr. Earle said that the object of the advertisement was to procure the assist ance of persons whose business it would be to obtain signa tures to an anti-Catholic petition which it was intended should be forwarded in the next session of Parliament to his Majesty in,Council. He said (continued the applicant) that liis, Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland was the head and prime mover of the business.; that the- Duke of Newcastle was to be the patron, Lord Kenyon,one of the committee, and that the Marquis of Cbandos bad consented to act as Treasurer' and Secketary. Fully believing that I was treating with men of Character and. honour, I at once agreed to the conditions proposed, which were, that I should deposit the sum of 30/. in the hands of the two gentlemen, for which I was to obtain a salary of 30s.' per week, my duty being to dispose of to the London booksellers as many copies as I could, of a printed petition to the King against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics. Here the applicant unfolded a large .roll of papers, and handed to Mr. Minshull one +of the petitions in question, a stupid performance published by, Horatio Phillips (son of Sir Richard 'PhillipS),:hookseller,• of Charing-cross. It bears very much the reieniblanee of a Christmas piece, being decorated with coloured wood-cuts, intended to caricature the Roman Catholic worship. Mr. Missnui.t. asked the applicant if the parties whom he had named had fulfilled their agreement with him. . • The applicant replied, , that' they had not, • and he firmly .believed that they were a pack of ewindlers. • " Did they obtain .your money ?" asked the Magistrate. " They certainly did," replied the applicant? and al-. though I have been seven weeks hawking these petitions through town, endeavouring to sell them to the trade, I have not received one .firrthing of salary, notwithstanding that it was agreed I should receive 30s. weekly." • " Have you applied to the parties?" asked Mr. MINSHULL. " There was no use in my applying," rejoined the appli can't, " for a very short time after had parted with my money, I went to 52, "AldermaOury, where I was told that Mr. Earle had gone to Ireland, and Mr. Leitch to Scotland ~for the purpose of-holding meetings to forward the anti-Catholic petition. I waited upon Mr: Phillips of Charing-cross, who publishes these petitions, hut he could afford me no redress, as he said he was merely the agent appointed to sell them. " Did you obtain any acknowledgement for your money ?" asked the Magistrate. " Yes, Sir," replied the applicant ; " when I paid over the money to the two gentlethen, Mr. Leitch and Mr. Earle, they handed me this receipt." Mr. MlNsii rm., having glanced cl;ier the chicument, de sired the clerk to read it aloud, which he accordingly did as follows : " London, August 18, 1828. " One month after ►late of a notice to be given to Mr. William Earle, and to be served on. Mr. Horatio Phillips, bookseller, of No. 3, Charing-cross ; by which Mr. Francis Sparrow agrees to surrender up his . agency to the petition. to the King, as against any further concessions to the Roman Catholics ; and also to surrender all books and. papers, and such monies as may at that time be in his hands; and upon a settlement of his account; we jointly and severally agree to pay to Mr. Francis Sparrow the sum of SO!., value re ceived, the same having been lodged - in the hands of Mr. William Leitch, at the day and date as above, 4ntl as se curity for such monies and accounts. . " VAL EARLE, ‘` VIAL LEITCH." . . . " Your name, then," said the Magistrate, " is Francis Sparrow ?" " It. is, your Worship," replied the applicant. " Now, let me understand you," said the Magistrate " you say that in consequence of an tulvertisement puhlished in a newspaper, you applied to the parties you'have nam e d to procure yon a situation. You paid 301. in consequence of the representations they made to you, and in considera tion that yoU were to receive a salary of BQs. per week so long as you continued in their service. Is that the case ?" " It is, Sir," replied Sparrow. , " And you note complain," continued the Magistrate, " that these parties have broken their engagement, inas much as you were to receive your pay weekly, and you have l.leen seven weeks employed by them withtint receiy ing a fatthing ?" " .just so, your Worship," said the ap swti o 11 9 plocant ; " an d I not on l y d es p a i r o f rece i v i n g the wages thhaveaucvte bowl are ee due me, butlit of I have 3 - 0 g0 . 0 !, d reason to fear that I " It certainly looks very like swindling," said Mr. MIN -51-IULL. Mr. MINSHULL then inquired of Mr. Woods, the clerk, whether he thought the parties complained against might not he indicted for a fraud ? Mr. Woods replied, he feared not. 'Air.. Mitisnuu. then inquired of the applicant, whether, during the seven weeks he had been employed as de scribed, he had received no money whatever or pccoppt of his salary. during The applicant r e pli e d, that all he had received during the above period was about 3/., which arose from the sale the p e ti t i ons . li e t h en a dded, that seyen persons bad been employed like himself to go about the country, with the double.cibject of selling the printed petitions and obtain ing signatures to the Anti-Catholic petition to the Icing. " How did- they manage," asked Mr. 111trtsnut.t., :‘was each of the m th e b earer o f a distinct petition_?" " They b roug h t 4 shin of parchment along with them," said the applicant, ".to which they procured.as many sig natures as possible. When the general petition was ready to he forwarded, these skins were intended to be added to it, The agents had directions to obtain the signature of as many clergymen as could be procured. Messrs. Leitch audiatificifint'tddifferehf:Pirts of 'the country to hold meetings for the purpose of procuring signatures. 'ln Har ,tvich. they had met with great succest,.but in Chelmsford they were very coolly received. Mr. MIk.JSMILL asked if the other agents had been paid their salaries. The applicant replied that there were seven of them, each of whom; like himself, had foolishly parted With his 301. but not' a sikpence had any . one of them received for hie time and trouble. What rendered it' most diAresSing teas,that tl4-tvere 'alMisst all 'Of them men who had fas oldies to support. Mr. Mwsnrri.t:then asked him if he had any `written agreement to .produce proving that he had been engaged, .by the.pertiea complained against, at &salary oil 30sl 'per week, ~,:§parraw, replied in the affirmative, and produCed a strangely-worded memprandum of agreement.. . Mr. Museum.—You had • betteravait upon th e L or d Mayor, and in the mean time give me a call in the evening, when T Will skis': to . YOrr further upon the subject. 1 • " • The applicant then withdrew, and returned in,the even-' ing,'wy!en he had a private ctinference with the'Magietratesi the result of which was Mit made public. The applicant!, however, expressed his determination on leaving' the Office to wait upon the-Lord 'Mayor,. and state his case to him, with _a view of bringing the parties to justice by whom he has lasendefrarided. MARLBOROIIGH-STREET.:—This office was yes terday the scene. of one of the• most painful and -unnatural exhibitions that ever offended the eye •or ear of. justice in a public Court. It was) . the day . appointedfor the final investigation of an affair which it is difficult to deSignate, and which was first brought before the notice of the Magis trates at a late hour on Saturday evening last, wherein the Principal actors were a father, a mother, and a daughter, of the name of Goddard. The office was, on this occa sion,' exceedingly crowded, indeed to a great inconvenience, as the Other business of the Magistrates prevented this case. being called on until a very late hour of the day. - At an early hour Mrs. Goddard and Miss Mary God 7 lard, alias Mrs. .Keen, arrived at the office door in a coach, hut:as the case was not likely soon to be -called on,and their dress and general appearance were very. conSpicuaus, Plank, the , Chief-officer, rpcommended,,them, under the plea that they . „would be . ,inconvenieneed, .hy the Crowd,. rather to continue 'in the coach and drive about until they should be immediately wantr:th Goddard, a remark , • • • •• ably large looking woman ; apparently 'a ` Creole, and about 60 years of age, was dressed in a rich'biack silk dre.as, black 'lace veil, and a sky-blue large satin hat decorated with green - ribands; - and Miss Mary Goddard `(or t Mrs. Kean) wore also a black silk drew+, flounced deeply half-way up her person, puffed old , • -sleeVee and shoulders, and a spider: waist that- looked as if -a blest of :wind would divide her in two ; and she, too, wore a black lace veil hanging from a white . satin bonnet, trimmed out with ribands of all the colours of the rainbow, and round her neck and waist she was literally entwined in huge : massive. looking chains, having the appearance of gold, but Whi . ch clearly were nothing but a gilt material. Over her face and cheeks, there hung such a profusion of false hair in huge rolling pin curls, that very little of her face could be seen beyond the tip of her nose and chin; but neither this disguise, nor the artificial colouring'of her cheeks, could conceal that she was extremely plain, and to all appearance labouring under some illness. She' seemed to be about 20 years of ag e, but bathe self-pos session and forward assurance in her manner of more ad vanced age. ' Mr. Goddard, the husband and father of. these women, was also in attendance, aceoinpanied by Mr. Lnsh, his friend. The case was shaped into a charge of assault, or rather' of assaults, against Mr. Goddard. The first witness examined was a woman named James,' who keeps a brothel in Frith-street, Soho-square, who stated that about five o'clock on Saturday evening last, a knock was given at her door, and when she opened it; two men, whom she had never seen before, but whom she now knew to be Mr.. Goddard and Mr. Lush, rushed into the house, and Mr. Goddard ran into the parlour, calling out to the other, " Bar the dour, bar the street door. She was greatly alarmed at all this, and called upon the men to - say who they were, and what . they wanted, but they would give her no satisfaction ; and Mr, Goddard pushed and' shoved her about in all directions, saying that his wife and daughter were concealed there, . and he must find them. She asked him what sort of persons hie wife and daughter were whom he supposed to be there, and she would Jell him if she had each lodgers . ; but he at first only answered her by a blow on the nose, and another en ..the breast; at last; hoWever, he deseribed'his wife as a large, stout, son-burnt-looking,wornan, And. she witness) then guessed that it must be the women . in the drawing-room he meant, and she called them down to him ; but when they came down, he was ten times worse than he was before, for be raged and swore and stormed like a madman,—struck, and shoved, and pushed about both Mrs. Goddard and Mrs. Kean, and called aloud for a knife to cut their throats, saying that he would giye a sovereign to any one who would supply him with a knife; he Oid not exactly say, the witness added, that he would cut their 'throats, but she fully believed that was what he wanted with the knife. His conduct at last became so outrageous, that constables were obliged to be sent for ; but before their arrival, Mr. Goddard called out, " Oh, they have sent for the constables; let us be - off," and both himself and Mr. Lush endeavoured Ao escape by jumping out front one of the windows into the street ; but they could not get the sash sufficiently raised for that purpose before the con stables came, and they were then given into custody; or at least Mr. Goddard was. Miss Goddard or Mrs. Kean was next sworn, and said ' that when Mr. Goddard came on Saturday evening to the brothel in question, Frith-street, where-she is living, she was at that moment stretched upon a sofa, being Very unwell,' and her mother was-on a visit with' her; but the instant they heard Me. Goddard was below stairs, they went doWn, and asked him.what he wanted with them, upon which he abused them in - the most dreadful language, and with oaths, curses, and imprecations, shoved and pushed them about the place, and struck each of them repeatedly on the breast with his fiat ; be also called out aloud for some one to bring him a knife, and he swore that he would cut their throats, searching at the same time in his pocket, as she believed, for his pen-knife to do the deed with.; arid she knew not what the consequence might not have been, had not the constables, just then been called in. • Mr. ROE—Have you lived lately with your father ? Miss Goddard—Never, Sir. I scarcely know him. I have not lived with him, or seen him, for years .before Saturday night, ' Mr. Rox- e . -Does he allow you anY'Meana'for your sup port that would'entitle him to exercise a control over you? Miss Goddard--=-None whatever,, Sir. I have-never had or asked a farthing froin him : neither my mama or' myself want any thing of him, only to leave us atone, and w e w ill support ourselves. Mrs. Goddard confirmed her daughter's testimony as to Mr. Goddard's alleged violence at the brothel ; and added, that Mr: Goddard hid on Saturday morning called where he discovered that she was lodging, at Mr. ()Wise, in Air- street, Piccadilly, and after giving Mr. Otto a most infamous character of her, he watched her to the house in Frith -street, where she went to visit her daughter, who is living there. Mr. Rox---Are you separated from Me. Goddard ? M r s. Goddard—Oh, dear, yes, Sir, for many years, Mr. Ros—By regular deed of separation, is it ? Mrs. Goddard—No, Sir, not exactly that; but he de tected 14e family many years ago, and 1 have never lived with him since; brit wkerever he diacovers that I am living, he pursues me there and persecutes me. Mr. Otto 'said, that when Mr. Goddard called at his house en Satsirday morning, he mid that he wanted to find out what mode of life his daughter was pursuing, as he feared she was not going on well ; but if lie found that she had been seduced, and was leadi ng th e lif e o f a pr o s tit u te, he would take away her life to a certainty, and also the He spoke of his wife, Mrs-Goddard, Wausau, and gave him (Mr. Otto) to al n is i f i e d ao eT f- st °h a se n tr d i'll t e h ida a Lmi t e: s rl i s e was the greatest strumpet that ever walked the streets of London. Mr. Goddard—And so she is, _ _ one of the constables of St. Ann's parish, said, that he .was called in to suppress a riot' at the brothel in question on Saturday evening, and there he found Mr., Mrs.,'and Miss Goddard, and a parcel of other women, all shoving and hustling each et4r about, anti screaming and helloing in such a manner that the whole scene beg gared description, and at last, not being able to understand who was right or who was wrong, he took the whole gang to the watch-house, and afterwards brought tb, uo to th i s office at night, Mr, Qoddard, who seemed to he still labouring under considerable excitement, although he said he was now quite cool about the matter, denied ,in the first place most posi tively that he ever.gave a blow on the occasion in question to either Mrs. Goddard, ,Miss goddard, or Mrs. James, the brothel-keeper; but 'that, in fact, he was the aggrieved person, inasmuch as' he 'vas !Cocked into a room by about a dozen prostitutes, including Mrs. and Miss Goddard, and . there pummelled by them, and the coat torn from his back, and it was then that he endeavoured to make his escape through the window. Lie certainly, be admitted, did 'call for a knife, and be would with pleasure have given it sovereign for one at the time, but then it was to cut his own throat that he wanted it, and not the throats of Mrs, or Miss Goddard for that, from whet 'he lied seen of them he did not think the throat of Had he had the6 . l4.aill-ihtii 'act destroying himself, he should undoubt his feelings Weieltidiicedlep'lo the hi,, , on "finding thet.'hicwetskfeirs;respiclii (for though illegitimate, she.waastllll this infamous house that he fearnd,,hgr: the, moment he. Saw. her he knew s ne . fro? ante and juOde:Of dr,Css that,sh'e *al, he Said, he remonstrated with her* • she " was lendine and pie4oo "her IV and quit her profligate earitei'io w . meet she was lending an'attentii* * * !evident sigris.of slime; aorreiv;' And tears and sighs, .until.her Mather,' .iustig.eiteo .himself— .... .. , ~.. ~.,, t . i :,.;'•,,,i:l'' iliti( ' 4eri at Mrs. Goddard and Mias Goddard, to the 0 1 1f i f . ..10, , Oh ! . dear, will . , you, a110w,..t/tai.. Sir:?..l. Al . l 4 u l ' i i cg t final e o i l know; .Sir, will get ! into. the,pewapapers,"', . 1 ,...,i; it ; Stt • • Mr. Goddard, in contineation”..,l say l instigitt la y. - YerY.tletrii , ,ititqlleto,4t * l 4 very tßAo44,(fnittgi cbild'a--that chill's (pointing to Mi5irq.)...440 4 0 1, S ERI repentance and virtue), to purpe j the.tiread,e 4 , l4 ke 1 1 11 s ing Under the guidance of her mirther:'', iii'lf .. ,, instantly (Mi'. Goddlirdaiid) have (initted :t1i(i1 10 ... 7 RORR E he been permitted.. hut he was locked intO ) the 4 1 0 0 " i 0 reeuwi kept there, and thumped' abont - 'l4 , a gairg i ofTOttle ° tOas on the arrival of the rairstableii . `Of 'Which he . ivrts e,,,..e r t ; !loro t 4t, As for Mrs. Goddard ; - heisaid. he did . not-go tu'l e ' - iii The} her, 110 r did he wish ever to see' her face; battt ci etbin, I, that watching her - movements . on that day was w" tliief c means he had of tracing, ont.lrere.his,poot child te g ' p asse . whom' he Ceitainly did fart great interest, but b ! . ta th e e i expected to find hes in a br o thel so soo4; althoug,r; the abandoned character of her xriOt6r 'he feared t'' -00 0 d, a would ultimately 'be her fate. Mrs. Goddard, h e dilly. D, was long and notoriously known upan'the.ituVr(tr tombar. years, and is as well-known about TOwer-hpl;. ~,,, e 4 Birth Ludgate-hill, and Fleet-stteet, as Any women tviw ' further Walked the Rua there..*ood, Mrs. Goddard andher daughter here-laughed 0 5 ,, ,, kr. mr, Mr. Lush, the friend of Mr. Goddard, who ac''" el. Oeorge nied hint to " the brotheinn IS.latutday,„ . nnid that 'LI) ••=-....____ nessed all that passed in the house, andhe did notrLo( VE Goddard strike. anyone ; but he saw*gt,'„,ooo4 ,4 ;o: fully used by ten or n'dOzeii.Woinen,. wh o got: him ids parlour and kept him there mail the conlitahleeol l fr 1 Mr. Ron, the Magistrate; Said, that as for the . * or the family disputes of .the parties,. he. had7.ao j t tion over them, nor did he wish to have; but 11. 0 bound to have the peace preserved, and as it was § that Mr . Goddard had eouirnitteciA breach of that ". he must find sureties to keep it in future-towards t? female* whom he was charged With aaaaultiNg. b Mr. Goddard procured forthWiTh the necessary " 1 he %as discharged. This Miss Goddard was brought up in the w e t-R . o; o p Marylebnnepatish, haVing been, it appeats,"tregl both parents, and she has a brother at Present in the house of St. Giles's parish, . . . - • Mrs. Goddard was originally th e wife of M r . SO ptc, eminent astronomical instrument-maker in Londo u t p, the publisher and proprietor of the Navy : List 0 f s: death, at which - he left his widow, who firsttlive°o and after Wards married this Mr. Goddard,, 40, 10,004 it is said, all of which has been igtiandere°,,i r l Mr. Goddard formerly lived as an assistant with . ' Phillips, the bookseller. • ' ' MARYLEBONE. —Edward Cooper, the i 4.. Lady Nepean's coachman, was charged with :felo . , : d i embezzling and secreting various sums of money hew" to her Ladyship. . . Mr. RA wrassox t o ld hi m hi s cr i me wa ., a ve ry ' , , one, and his ' situation very precarious, and he con" him to Newgate for triaL . ' DISTRESSING SUICIDE. Last evening, at three o'clock,,R., CARTER"; one of the Coroners, for. Surrey, and a re9lo, Jury, assembled at the George public-house, in v lane, Bermondsey, to make inquiry touchill i . death of Mrs. Elizabeth Currie,• a middle 4; male, who terminated her existence on last s ' ff morning, by taking a large portion of arsenic: i The first witness called was the husband n deceased, a decent-looking man, who seem have 'experienced better days. ' He'stated tr i i lived at No. 32, \Vest-street, in that n eig hood, and worked at a ham and tongue wa 'in the' city ; during' the last fifteen months hit had been - in a very dejected state. - Of mind, ! ill prinOpally to the embarrassed state of their c stances, and having a family of seven chilsiy; support. For the last eighteen months their sities compelled them to be in arrears of rent the landlord; this circumstance operated very l i on her spirits, and for fifteen months she Italy so much depressed, that she used to sit for r i days with one of the children in 'her arolsij never exchange a syllable to any of the r about her. Al CORONER.—Are you of opinion that your fl was the occasion of the deceased's despopideog o i Witness.—" Yes, Sir, I really am," On i 0 day the deceased appeared more low, spirit.' usual, and on Sunday morning she got up sool o o 'before him, and on his (witness's) goiog stairs about eight o'clock, he found her d in the act of retching. After a !pßtieoflsli c i fi nutes, she replied that she had tak e n poison # j d that she had taken the whole of the stuff plaf the shelf to destroy the black beetles. Mr: Way, a surgeon, on being called on O f day morning, went ni c3mpany with one ° e i dressers of Guy's Hospital, to th e h au i e of the ceased, when he found her labouring und er thee of mineral poison. He instantly applied the stfo pump, and other remedies, to prev e nt th e e the poison, . but without effect. Verdi " Suicide," committed while insane. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst. at Arundel, the lady o f Pre H Rev. Edward .1. Tumour, of a daughter, his )4tb, c t i On the Bth i ns t. i n Bedf or d row , M rs . Edward of a son. On the Bth inst. at hi s ho use , is Sioene•street, t he • of A. Hall, Esq. of a son, ' . 41 On the 7th inst. at Holbeck s , tearHadleight the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Raper; of the Hon. P 6 Company's service, of a son. .10J On the 7th inst. at Brafield House, BOcks, the Lieut.-Colonel Bourchier, of a daughter. r ho On the sth inst. in Fleet-street, the lady , of Haviland Burke, Esq. of a daughter. cb On the 6th int. Mrs. N. Mason, of Wood-strnif: side, of a son. MARRIED. Egt On the ith inst. at St. James's, Robert Talbot), ,N;gh t ~ SKI ' ll * ful threollu Chi Cll With, 410r4i Col 'g at Stone. bund Da . threni to . hours stok e , Yats Morn Aa Paint, 4 114 A Ex throe ah em , B tota shot Ea even 4161 Crew , GI B row Well, eaacl Hf After iit RotIC tiqok every Hi CAVe. kty; kirb 4, 7z,t1 K the Hon. Mrs. E. Bauverie On the 6th inst. at Alderley, in the county o f 701 by the Rev. Edward Stanley, Henry John Atkal l l , o % braham, Cambridgeshire, Esq. to Matilda Abigail''' . of Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart. the Thomas Lyster Exshaw, Esq. second son (Ili : . Alderman Exshaw, of the city of Dublin,' to Atoe'7,:od' daughter of George Watts, Esq. of Jockey Hall, (1) .;, j , Kildare, and. niece to the late Major-General Mac. 1 ,,,V,, At Lady's Island, county Wexford, John Derfer e ,.: " o f' to Mary,. second daughter of the late Michael Coa l ' A John's, Newfoundland, Esq. .• . In Dublin, Matthew Dodd By rne , E sq . of of r Medical Department, to Matilda,, second daughter late R. Goodin, Esq. Oa the snst. t Errol Cottage, Perthaltire, ,-- lesa Smatt, Esl It i . late of Demerara, to Isabella, y our daughter of Captain Lawson, R.N. " fr On the Sth i ns t. a t St. M ar y' s , I s li ng ton, 1 ";;,,f Fenton, to Jane, fourth daughter of the late Young, Esq. .1. rniti E ev.4( DIED. • On the 7th inst. in Walbrook, in the 20th Year/ age, Mrs. James Deans, eldest daughter of Mr, Bo Ridge, surgeon, Bridge-road, Lambeth. A le On the 6th inst. Mr. Robert Butler, late of Bisr street-within, aged 50. - • : On the Ist inst., at her _son's house, Oldhaig,f Manchester, Mrs. Faulkner, aged 80 years,, telivf late Mr. William Faulkner, merchant, of that toirof On the 20th of September, at Geneva, 44 2 el th© Hon, and Rev. Hugh Anthony R O HR. P .I At Dublin, W. Byrne, of Ballyspellan, couPti kenny, Esq. On the Sd inst. at Kensington, the Rev. Mar - ' Eellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. b ar •At Salford, near• Manchester, Sarah, third da" Mr. John Lyon, olthe Dog Tavern.. . At her son's house, Oldham street, M a nebeste 6 4 ol l '''' .Mrs. Faulkner, relict of the late Mr: Willis'" J: r merchant, of this town. as PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YO l4- 7' Srt.{ OFFicr, 112 ; STRAND; 4 tki 1 ;111 1 Ne v Coa, . '1 b kYge-18 )f either wartli w this imikagi (iii . „d i knis- lASI btedly have dad' ?Mts._ highest pitch of i ~.,Prasp, Ili hio l ild l y. i , perdu : riiel l;l li ) ing h ‘' g i* E ' : V" R h:: p;t lPal'g P : Sall ,, L-Lregset qa,rtiaed, gl z !..b, N : l i i, ,th i iOupy !I 0` acemitialift, , 10 , 14hciadiiii ) M 11 10Pil ear; Itstid: r 2;, w Lehi tit *iepi - fif 4 adan inatigiteiFt;l' l. " kve ' ~ a a