The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-16 00:00:00

.._ ~.:. SPIRIT OF TUE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Lord Lansdowne last night, on the third read ing of his Bill for the consolidation of offences, omitted from its contents the clause which gave up the bodies of that most horrible class of cri minals, murderers, for dissection, on the prin ciple that it threw a stigma on the act of dissect. ing, which rendered it more difficult to obtain bodies. This was, we think, a somewhat fantas tical notion ; and the restoration of the clause was therefore very properly moved and carried by the interference of t h e more Masculine un derstanding of Earl Grey. To the bodies of those who murder others, we should wish to add those of persons, whatever be their motive, their rank, or their age, who murder themselves. it is said that such is the dread of dissection in this country, that our h os pit a l s wou ld n o t ob tain patientsif those who died therein were not religiously restored to their friends. Let us avail ourselves of this salutary fear, not to keep our suffering or distracted fellow-creatures out of hospitals, but out of suicide. Let the law run, that whoever died propriii manu, should be I transmitted by the Coroner's warrant to the county or some metropolitan hospital ; and we are certain, Ist, that suicides would be less fre quent ; 2dly, that the proportion of femalei would be particularly diminished ; and 3dly, sl,at surgical science would be benefitted by the acquisition of the bodies of the few who should still destroy themselves, for of all subjects for dissection, none are so useful as those who die in bodily health. And the cause of insanity, which is generally ascribed to suicides, is, of all indisposing causes, least known, and might be most fully investigated. in the persons of those on whom a jury decides that they destroyed themselves in a fit of derangement. But more particularly we have a strong conviction that a law to the effect we have mentioned' vould have a powerful moral effect on that inJ - : ; ? py class of beings who are almost placed 'beyond the reach of moral control. Suicides would diminished. Persecution, like every thing else, must suit itself to the times ; and it requires some tact to be able to know the precise point at which to stop. Lord Eldon is not without this tact, as hafs been shown on many occasions. In the pre sent day, for instance, the liberties which used to be taken with the soles of the feet, or with other parts of the bodies of persons entertaining schismatical opinions, would not be tolerated. Nay, we question whether Mr. Cobbett, who ;tells us it used to be an amusement of his youth to pelt Dissenting 'Ministers with addled eggs, would, if he were privileged with a second youth, find it altogether safe to occupy himself in so edifyin g a way. All this Lord Eldon knows fle knows that by straining at too much all may be lost. In the time of Queen Mary his Lordship would, perhaps, have presided over an a uto cia ,fe in Smithfield, with the good ; a mour and amenity which seldom abandon him. But in the reign of George the Fourth his Lordship is aware that persecution is confined to a very limited range, and that for the sake of the very existence of persecution, great care is - ,.iecessary that the annoyance of the objects of it should never exceed the measure of their patience. His Lordship, with his usual sagacity and consi deration, discovered that the Unitarians and other Dissenters,who dislike the marriage service of the Church of England, as it makes them participa tor-1 in what they deem• blasphemy, will submit to the persecution nevertheless, as the conscience most be very tender whidi would stick at a piece cf impiety when the desire of i:Aying a wife was in ,atlestion•—" In my opinion," said his Lord- Ai r ; j a ..st night, ." by the Unitarian Marriage Bill a relief Ls ;3'sked, which it is not necessary, proTer objection to the mar as there can be riage ceremony, for t ornament to grant. his Lordship males his creeaz and his religious feel ings the test of propriety, win',(4l he applies to the Unitarians. And he knows thii.* the Uni tarians (as most other persons would) w . 1 9 1. in sdch a case, sacrifice their scruples of . conscience to their inclinations. He has, therefore, all the satisfaction—and a great satisfaction it must he to all persecutors—of knowing, that he can dis turb the conscience of the man who presumes to differ from hint in religious matters with perfect .afetv—that lie can compel him to do violence to Ins principles. The art of ingeniously tor menting is a valuable art ; and his Lordship cannot better employ his leisure than in devising means for preserving, for the gratification and enjoyment of himself and those who share his views, the fragments of the power which perse eution has been suffered to retain. It were a Pity that rancoiarous and uncharitable feelings should ever become extinct. Annoy, therefore, ?. he Trinitarians, because they will allow you to annoy them. To abandon voluntarily any means of persecution which will be siiUtnitted, would h e bad policy. We trust his Lordship will, therefore, be consistent to the last, that he may y i e ld hit latest breath with the satisfaction, that if illiberality and the disposition to persecute are fast disappearing, he had no band in bringing about such a result.—Morning ei o • cm id e. Earl Grey l as t night moved, as an Aizend ment to the Bill for consolidating the Law re lative to offences against the person, that the Clause ordering the bodies of murderers to he given up for dissection should be teatored. His ng in favour of the Amend ment was o reasoning 4' He believed that if ait not very consistent. dividual had tirade tip his mind to complete so horriblc crim e as e urder, that no additional -a a ald deter him from carrying fear or disgrace a- - • his opinion, • his design into executi on ; .aerated the giving the body to b e dissecteu, effectually by spreading a salutary terror throup the community, and kept up that horror at com mitting the crime of m urder, for which the people of England had always been distinguished in the opinion of those who had paid most atten tion to the subject." At the same tune he doubted if the theory, " that the stigma thus east on dissect ion, by condemning the murderer to be dissected, prevented others from allowing their bodies to he dissected after death, and pre vented the relations and friend: of the dead from giving them up for this purpose, were founded in trut h.- But if the addition of dissecting is ef fectual to the spreading a salutary terror through the commu ni ty, aud to keepin g up a horror of e ommitting the crime o f m urder, it must be effectual in preventing. persons from allowing their bodies to be dissected after death, an d i n preventing relation s and friends of the dead from giving them up to ht dissected. But th ere as a vagueness in the whole argument O f hi s Lordship. Dissection must either be an aw ful thing in itself or it is not. If it be not awful in itself, then it is the horror of murder which communicates the horror at dissection, from its being reserved for the murderer. In that case the dissection is superfluous, al. it has no horror but what it borrows from the murder. The horror of murder is, on this supposition , cciramunicated gratuitously to dissection, as, it. an object.to borrow part of the horror must be had, something else might be hit on, the select ing of which would not be injurious to medical science. But if the dissecting is horrible in it self, and communicates an additional horror to murder, then his Lordship, to be consistent, should follow up his principle, by adding a num ber of other horrors besides dissection to death for murder. He should return to the embowel ing system, or borrow a chapter from our ancient allies the Turks, and suggest e►npalement. His reasoning is a logical blunder of a very obvious kind. The horror of murder is the cause of the horror felt at the punishment reserved for mur der, and not the punishment the cause of the horror felt at murder. Punish any man with death and dissection for what, in public opinion, is a praiseworthy act, and see what will become of your horror. Again, his Lordship believed that if an individual had made up his mind to complete so horrible a crime, no additional fear or disgrace would deter him from carrying his design into execution ; but he wished, by giving the body up for dissection, to spread a salutary terror through the community. lie wishes to terrify those who are not likely to commit murder by means which will have no effect in terrifying those likely to commit murder. Precious principles of penal legislation ! and pre ciously supported ! We cannot stay the hand of the murderer, hut we can frighten other people; we can strike a salutary terror into them ! But why salutary ? The object of punishment is to deter from guilt, and not to terrify the innocent. But we have here again the self-same fallacy. It is the horror of the murder which produces the salutary impression on those who witness the punishment, and not the severity of the punish ment. The prostitution of severity of punish ment render: the people callous. When men were hanged in London for all manner of crimes, the scene of execution was a scene of gross in decent ribaldry. But when punishment is re served for crimes for which the people feel a horror, they view the punishment with the same feeling. As to what fell from Lord Tenterden, it was sheer twaddle. He must take the liberty of doubting, that the giving the body up to dis section east a stigma on dissection ; but he was unwilling to see an alteration which might di minish the terror at the punishment of murder, and thought that if the first idea of committing such a crime entered the mind, it might be checked and expelled by the additional disgrace of his body being liable to be exposed after death. There is no dealing with this.— Ibid. An opinion is entertained by sonic, that the marching of the Russians against the Turks is not inevitable, and probably will not take place. For our part, we have little doubt that the Em peror of Russia has by this time joined the army, and that they have already crossed the Pruth. That the Russians, therefore, will take possession of the Principalities we think is cer tain.; but whether they will retain possession, or whether they will cross the Danube and push their conquests towards Constantinople, is another question. We have all along been of opinion that they will at least offer to negotiate before they cross the Danube, and we have seen a let ter which we think may be relied upon, 2nd which is confirmatory of this opinion. Accord ing to this letter, .the Emperor of Russia will take forma! possession of the Principalities, and then repair to Warsaw, where, early in May (tile letter says the first of May), he will be crowned as King of Poland. Upon this occa sion he will be met by the Representatives of the different European Powers, and a Congress will be afterwards held for the settlement of the affairs of Turkey and Greece. That our Government is looking forward to some such proceeding as one here is alluded to is pretty evident, from the confident manner in which they appear to view the apparently alarming conduct of Russia. It is not to he supposed that the Government of the Duke of Wellington would suffer the Czar to conquer Turkey, or to prepare for its conquest without threatening war, or at least, remonstra ting. Yet neither of these steps, so far as we may judge of the appearances, have been taken. —The inference, therefore, is that a meeting of the Representatives of the European Powers is contemplated, in which an attempt will be made amicably to arrange the question. For our parts, we are inclined to think that no permanent ar rangement will be effected. The evil day may be put off by negotiation, and probably will— but, ere long, Turkey must fall under the sway of Russia, or Europe be involved in war in its support.—Morning Herald. A melancholy instance of that infatuation to which the love of prnbling, and the greedy de sire of amassing wealth by other means than those of fair and honourable business, necessarily lead, has occurred in the City within these two or three days, and has been the subject of much conversation. The particulars are now published, as will be seen from the Mansion House Police Report in another page of our Paper so that any delicacy towards the unhappy individual is no longer Called for. The gentleman in ques tion, Mr. Fehrinan, was confidential clerk to the highly respectable house of Ward, of which the worthy City Member of that 11m - fie, our readers are aware, is a partner. His salary, from his situation, ,;hick was one of great trust, was very considerable; he received, we have been told, with his wife, a young and amiable woman, the niece of Mr. Bolland, a fortune of fp'e thou sand pounds. Most unluckily for his charac ter, fee that of his family, and, we fear, for his life, he 1"134; tempted in an evil hour to dabble in time-bargains,a traffic in which a few cool-headed and lucky speculatpre have amassed Princely fortunes, and in which thousands have t, 01 . 1 ruined. He was unsuccessful, and for the purposr7 pf making good his differences ap pears to havle lead recourse to the last desperate resoerce—fe e e er y. I.'w!: , he may have been engaged in so itOardoug is not known. The transaction will,? 1 1 led to his apt prehension was a bill, pretended to be drawn by a house abroad on the wealthy firm of Roths child, and accepted by the latter. H a had dis counted it with a merchant, who, in the or,di nary course of business, handed it to his banker, whose clerk carried it as usual when due to the clearing house, to be exchanged against the bills i e n s c t l eLl n o g f on his house held by Mr. It othsehild's banker, t t l o ru t i h Mr. F. was aware of this t N ' a v c e t n , g h e o t t t l i s n e g aoillt(ti endeavoured Cletia'seot‘isr'aeyci to obtain possession of the forged bill. The a ttem p t in an y one was sufficient - ' to excite suspicion : but being made by a stranger in some mea sure (for only beaker s' clerks assemble at the clear in g house), it imme diately attracted notice, and the unfortunate man was apprehended. It has turne d out s ince, that the money with which he proposed t o release the bill in question had been raised by a forged ac ceptance of the Messrs. Baring. Some attempts were, we have heard, made to hush the matter up, which, however we may sympathise with the motive:of the parties., w e yet are clad did not , succeed. Forgery is a crime which strikes so directly at the foundation of all property—for, in fact, what has any man to vouch for his pos session of property, but a signature ?—that if capital punishment were to be abolished in all other cases, we do not see how, in a commercial state, it could be dispensed with in regard of a crime which is so easy of accomplishment, and to which the temptation is so over powering. Coining requires apparatus, so does forgery of bank-notes—hut forgery of private documents asks nothing but a criminal desire and the common implements of writing. Blood might be allowed to cry in vain for blood, for murder is revolting to human nature, and the feeling of human nature will ever make it a rare offence ; but take from forgery the highest punishment, and you take from a commercial nation the bond that unites merchant to mer chant and man to man. And God forbid that we should ever see the day when there shall be in Great Britain one measure of law for the rich and the friended, and another for the poor and the forsaken. If justice must have her vi c tim among the lowly, she must also have her victim among the proud. We say not these things to wound the friends or relatives of the unhappy aentleman—far from it—we deeply and cordially sympathise with them ; but the eternal principles of right, which are rigid and unbending to less dignified sufferers, must riot be swayed to favour them.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—James Fehrman, a person of highly respectable connections, and confidential clerk in the house of Messrs. W. and H. B. Ward, one of whom is Member ofParliament for the city of London, was brought be fore the LORD burst, charged with hacinf, committed a forgery to the amount of 5001., upon the house of N. M. Rothschild, Esq. The case excited the greatest interest amongst commer cial men, many of whom were present during the investi gation, which lasted a considerable time. The forgery was an acceptance for 5001., purporting to he drawn by Harriet Barnard on N. M. Rothschild, Esq., payable to the order of Messrs. St. Lurman and Son, dated Vienna, Dec. 26, IEQ7, at three months' sight, and also purporting to be accepted by N. M. Rothschild, January 9,182 S, payable at .Masterman and Co's, and to be endorsed by .1. St. Lur man and Son, Bremen, and was payable to the order of the prisoner. _ _ _ - Mr. Harmer attended on the part of the prisoner, who is nephew to one of the most respectable and popular gen tlemen at the bar. Mr. Gates called the following witnesses : Mr. Joseph Wright, of the Old Jewry, merchant, deposed that he had taken the bill for Zi 00/. from the prisoner, on the 15th of January last, in. discharge of the prisoner's dis honoured acceptance, held by the witness, and that he (wit ness) gave the pi ironer a cheque for the difference. The.. witness paid the acceptance into the house of Sir John Lubbock and Co., his bankers. Mr. Edmund Cleinson, a clerk to Messrs. Mastermaii, deposed that the acceptance was presented at the house of his employers by Messrs. Lubbock and Co., and that the prisoner on Saturday last applied at the clearing-house in Lombard -street, and wished to take up the bill ; but as it would he irregular to allow it to be taken up under such circumstances, the request was not complied with. Wit ness further stated, that Mr. N. M. Rothschild kept an account at Messrs. Masterman and Co.'s, and that the sig nature to the acceptance was a lot gory. Mr. Reuben Browning, a clerk in the house of Mt. N. M. Rothschild, deposed that the signature purporting to he that of Mr. Rothschild was a forgery. The concern had no correspondent at Vienna, of the name of the drawer of the bill, and no person of the name of Harriet Barnard had a right to draw the bill in question upon the house. Mr. Henry Despard, a clerk in the house of Messrs. W. and H. B. Ward, of New Broad-street, merchants, stated that the prisoner lived in the emplo) tent of that firm, and that he (the witness) knew the prisoner's hand writing. Witness stated that the special endorsement of the bill, whereby it was made payable to the prisoner, and also that the words " In need with Messrs. Doxatt and Co." were in the handwriting of the prisoner. We understand that the prisoner was apprehended at Kentish-town, at his own house, by Mr. Cope, the city marshal, on Saturday afternoon, and that during the whole of Sunday and Monday the most determined efforts were made to prevent the prosecution from being followed up. It is known tha.. even Mr. and Mrs. Rothschild used every argument in their power in favour of the unfortunate prisoner, who has lived highly respected, and in the most distinguished society. Mr. Cope, however, upon search ing the prisoner's trunks, found a number of forged accep tances upon the house of Baring and (70., and other emi nent commercial houses in the city. This information was an effectual bar to the object of those who interfered. -Nothing can now prevent the bankers from proceeding in the case. Application was made to them to postpone the evidence in the case for one week, but the proposition would not be attended to, neither would that for a private examination be for a moment entertained. The prisoner was remanded for some (lays. It is im possible to describe the agony of the prisoner's wife, who is a most amiable and accomplished young lady, upon find ing that her husband was charged with forgery Thomas Styles, shopman to Messrs. Dobson, Glover, and Baker, was charged with having plundered his em ployers to a considerable extent.—Remanded. MA RLBOROUG 11-STREET. —Yesterday a soldier of the Foot Guards, named John Milkman, and two other men named Joseph Shipton, and Thomas Burns, were brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with the following robbery : It appeared that the three prisoners were lodgers at the Dolphin public-house, in Oxford-street, where they took an opportunity of forcing open with a screw .driver a box belonging to a man named Lockman, who also resided, in the house, the 'twhole contents of which, including two sovereigns, they carried off and absconded, but were traced oat by Westcott and Avis, the officers who apprehended them, and found upon their persons pawnbrokers' dupli cates for several articlss of the stolen property, wearing apparel, &c. which they bad pledged. They were fully committed for trial. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. Barnwell, a lodger in the house of Mrs. Woollet, who resides in Burton crescent, was brought before Mr. MINSHULL, charged by a young womah named Ann Strahan with pinching and assaulting her. The complainant, it appeared, was living as housemaid in the service of Mrs. Woollet when the alleged assault took place. On Saturday last, she said, she had a difference with her mistress, when the defendant, whom she kpew only as a lodger, interfered, pushing her rudely against the parlour-door, pinching her arms, and, finally, striking her in the face. Another gentleman, also a lodger, threatened to seed her to Bow-street ; and but for the interference of the cook, who prevented the defendant from ill-treating her any further, the complainant said that her life would have been in danger. In answer to the charge Mr. Barnwell spoke of his having been intolerably annoyed by the insolent behaviour pf both the complainant and the cook. On the occasion in question Mo. Woollet came tip stairs in great agitation, saying that the complainant waa condlicting herself in a manner so violent that she must be either drunk or mad, upon which, said the defendant, I went down stairs and found the complainant in the hall abusing her mistress and every one else in the house. I ordered her down stairs, but qhe refused to go, when I took her gently by the arms ems encie, - ,vonrzd rerpove her, " Do you mean to indict the defeuilant !" asked Mr. Mnietitlll. " I wish to he protected," said the girl, " but I have no desire to hurt the gentleman, although he has used me very shamefully." " Suppose," said Mr. Mtssuut.L, " you were to with draw, and endeavour to come to an amicable settlement. , The defendant was quite ready to adopt the Magietrate s suggestion.—The parties then retired. Five boys, whose ages varied from 12 to 10, wer e charged by a street keeper with having been engaged lass Sunday in playing at pitch-and-toss, in a public thorough fare. Four of the boys were proved to be constantly ,14 i'oniPaPy with thieves and prostitutes, and two of , the youngest, it was said, were continually smoking and drink ing in a public-house in Long Acre. A constable, %Ili° knew them well, observed that they kept a girl between them. One of the five had been twice at the bar of the Old Bailey. They were all committed for three months to the tread-mill. A few days ago some workmen employed in digging a foundation, on the premises of Mr. EPIVARD SANDERS, merchant, at Grimsby, discovered two human skeletons, lying near to each other. One of the 9kulls con tained a quantity of brain., in a state of apparent fresh ness:—Hull LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY—APRIL lb. /SLAKE V. SIIILEY. Mr. CAMPBELL—WiII your Lordship allow me to mention the case of a prisoner brought up in custody. It is in the case of " Blake v. Sibley." He is brought up alias pluries for contempt in not answering, and I am to move that he be recom mitted, but yesterday I understand he swore his answer*, therefore I cannot take the order pro confess°. He has not, however, paid the costs of his contempt, or tendered the costs of his contempt, and of course he must be remanded for not having paid the costs of his contempt. Mr. Sibley.—l put in my answer yesterday. Mr. CAMPEELL.—ProperIy, we ought to have had a certificate of the answer haying been filed, but do not wish to take any advantage from that. I therefore move that be he recommitted for the non payment of the costs. LORD CHANCELLOR.—Let him be recommitted. This, we are informed by a correspondent, he was enabled to do through the kind offices of the Hon. Master Eden and a fellow-prisoner. The Hon. Gentleman most humanely attending upon the defendant i❑ custody twice, and swearing him to his answer without a fee, and his fellow-prisoner preparing dm answer for him, as mentioned in a former report by you in this matter. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 15. WHEELER V. WEST. (Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.) Hollingworth Bramlev, y a stated, that at the plaintiff's request he had (in September last, he believed) made inquiries into the defendant's cir cumstances, and that he was informed that the de fendant was a very respectable young man. Cross-examinedl won't swear that this inquiry .was made later than the 13th of August last, (the day the defendant became of a . 7e.) The plaintiff is frequently at Newmarket and ' Doncaster. He has some considerable property at the former place, and keeps the White Hart there. Mr. BROUGHAM then commented on the plaintiff's evidence, and Sir J. SCARLETT replied to the whole case. Lord TENTERDEN would call the attention of th• Jury to the single point as to the minority of the defendant prior to the 13th of August last, because if they were satisfied that the bill in question was one of these which had been accepted by the de fendant before he became of age, there was at once an end to the case, as the bill was void in law. His Lordship then shortly recapitulated the evidence as applicable to the point alluded to, and put it to the Jury to say, whether it was likely that the defendant should have accepted a bill for 1,000/. subsequent to the 13th of August, 1827, he having in the April preceding endeavoured to get the whole of the four acceptances out of Captain Atkinson's hands. His Lordship was about to remark upon the other parts of the case, when Sir J. SCARLETT, after the observations made by his Lordship, did not think it right to press the case, and would, therefore, consent to be nonsuited. A nonsuit was then entered. SOWTER AND ANOTHER V. DUNSTAN AND ANOTHER. This was another of those numerous actions which have been brought within these last few months against the Directors of one of the defunct Joint Stock Companies formed by Mr. John Wilks, the late Member for Sudbury, called the :iEgis Fire and Life Insurance and Cambrian Dilapidation Company. It was to recover the amount of the plaintiffs' hill, amounting to upwards of 1,0001., for work done for the Company. These ,being no defence to the action, though Sir James Scarlett, who appeared for the defendants, cross-examined the plaintiffs' witnesses, a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs.— Damage, 1,0001. HATFIELD AND ANOTHER. V. GOLDSMIDT. This was an action by Messrs. Hatfield, plumbers, of Clapham, to recover the amount of their bill for work done for the late Mr. Abraham Goldsmidt at his house at Lark-hall-lane, Clapham. The defendant (Mr. Adolphus Goldsmidt) was sued in his charac ter of executor of his late father, Mr. A. Goldsmidt. The work done was that of making a well at the late Mr. Goldsmith's premises. A verdict was taken for the plainthrg, subject to a reference as to the amount of damages. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 1.5. George Foyle.; aged 36, was indicted for having married Ann Deary, his former wife being then living. The prisoner, it appeared, had been known and committed by the name of Ramscar. Henry Smith is the parish clerk of Chardle, in the county of Chester. He knew the prisoner personally before his marriage with Mary Hibbert, which took place at the church of the parish aforesaid, on the 16th of Marc, 1824. They were married accord ing to the formula of the Church of England; but whether the marriage was ..consummated he could not tell. COURT—Did they live together as man and wife ? —They appeared to do so, and a child was born in consequence. COURT.—WeII, that looks like an answer to the previous question. Prisoner—l am not the same man. A witness produced a copy of the " marriage lines." The certificate ran thus : " This is to certify, that George Eamscar and Mary Ilibbcrt were married in the church of Chardle, on the Itith day of March, 1824. " MATTHEW DUNN, Minister." Ann Deary, the prosecutrix, a person of respect able appearance, stated, that on the 19th of No vember, 1526, she was married to the prisoner, at the parish church of St. James, Westminster. She had known him eight or nine months previous. She was a widow with one child at that time, and had a house well furnished. The prisoner described him self as having respectable connexions at Stockport. She was obliged to • separate from him six weeks after the marriage, in consequence of ill treatment. Prisoner.—My Lord, she began to be jealous of another woman. Witness.—My Lord, the fact is, he lived with another woman close by. This, and a further detail of the prisoner's conduct towards her, appeared to excite considerable com misseration. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. .ergeant ARABIN would not impede the progress of business by passing sentence instanter, but the prisoner tight rest assured that at the end of the sessions he would be ordered to be transportk beyond the seas for the term of seven years. Mr. HALL, solicitor, of Saffron, Walden, a few days previous to his death, went to London, and, ac cording to hia usual custom, took up his abode at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house. From thence he went to walk in Kensington -gardens, where he was suddenly:seized with an apoplecti c fit, which deprived him of the use of his fa culties. in that state he was searched, but nothing was kind about his person which could give a clue to who or what he was. In his hat was written the name of THOMAS Haar, and the hat being made at CuarsTv's, in Gracechurch-street, it was thought probable by some humane persons on the spot, that by carrying him thither his connexions might be traced. He was accordingly sent in a hackney-coach, but no one there could identify him. A shopman, however, said they had an old and respectable customer at Saffron Walden, of the name of HALL, but that he did not know Ilia person, which could probably he recognised at Lord BnAvnrtooKes, who has a seat near Walden, as well as a house in town. To the latter Mr. HALL was carried, but none of the servants could recog nise him, and he was finally removed to the Middlesex Hospital. fly judicious treatment and good management, in two days he sufficiently recovered to resume his old quarters at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house. Some of his friends, to whom his mysterious absence became known, had come to town to seek him, and their joy at finding him comparatively well nay he imagined. '1 hey prevailed on him to accompany them back to Walden, where in three days he was seize 4 with :mother attack, which terminated almost immediately his life. Mr. ',CALL was for many years an Alderman of Saffron Walden, and much respected by an extensive circle of acquaintances and friends, le.t. CORONER'S INQUESTS. Monday afternoon an Inquest was held in the Committee-room of the Middlesex Hospital, before Taos. STIRLING, Esq., Coroner, 011 the body of Mary Ann Harrison, a fine girl, aged five years. Elizabeth Truck, of Moruington-gardens, St. Pancras, stated, that on Thursday afternoon last, about half-past four o'clock, Lavinia Harrison, the deceased's sister, came to her house, and informed her that her sister was burning. She instantly pro ceeded to the residence of her parent, close by, where she found the deceased with her clothes burnt from her body. She carried her to St. Pan cras workhouse, where the porter at the gate re fused to admit them, although the child was crying at the time in the greatest agony. Lavinia Harrison, the sister of the deceased, stated, that on Thursday afternoon last, her mother went out on a visit, leaving her (witness) in the care of her sister, who went to the fire to take off a pan, when her clothes caught fire. Witness tried to put the flames out, and burnt herself dreadfully in the attempt. Finding it impossible to put them out, she ran to a Mrs. Camp, a neighbour, who a short time ago quarrelled with her father, and she told her that her sister was burning ; to which she replied, " that she might burn;—she could not cry as she was doing if she was burning." Mr. Joseph Franklin Rose, house-surgeon, stated that the deceased was brought to the hospital on Thursday night last, severely burnt all over the body, &c. Every assistance was afforded, but the deceased died of the injuries the following day. Mr. STIRLING observed, that the conduct of Mrs. Camp was brutal in the extreme, and deserved ex posure. It was impossible to drive humanity into same creatures. He a short time ago attended an inquest at Holloway, on the body of a master dyer, wl,O hung himself. He was found hanging in the kitchen by his own son (a boy), who ran up to his sister to inform her of the circumstance; on which she fainted away. On recovering herself, she told her brother to run to the next door neighbour (who was a master tailor) for assistance ; who, on being told that his father was hanging in the kitchen, re plied, " Let him hang and be cursed; the whole family may hang themselves if they like, and if they are fools enough." Tike poor boy ran away, and, after he plucked up resolution, he cut dos'vn his father himself, but he was quite dead. The Jury returned a verdict on Mary Ann Har rison, of " Accidentally burned to death." On Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, an inquest was held on the body of Joshua Paul Meredith, Esq. in the King's Bench prison, where he died on Sun day morning last. The Jury, as is the custom in all cases of inquest at this prison, consisted of twelve persons, all prisoners, one half residing in the rules, and the other half confined within the walls. The only witness examined was Mr. Liddell, a surgeon, who stated that he had known the de ceased gentleman for some years, and had attended him professionally for the four years last past: The deceased had for a considerable time laboured under hydrocele, but that disease did not affect his gene ral health, or constitution, to a degree that could have caused his death. Knowing the unfortunate habits of drinking in which the deceased was accus tomed to indulge to an excess of late, Mr. Liddell had no doubt but the immediate cause of Mr. Me redith's death arose from that intemperance. The .Tury, after a few minutes' consideration, re turned a verdict that the deceased died a natural death. Mr. Meredith was a very young man, being only in his 31st year when he - died. He had been about three years a prisoner for debt in the King's Bench ; and although his bona fide debts were of small con sideration, compared with a large landed estate which he possessed, he could never arrange his affairs so as to accomplish his liberation, mainly arising from an unfortunate association which he formed in that prison with a gang of knaves (of whom more by-and-by), who held him in a degree of intellectual and personal thraldom which is scarcely to be conceived, while they despoiled him alike of his property, his reputation. and his wealth. The deceased was the gentleman whose name and person were sported with, under the title of Captain Mere dith, at that disgraceful scene called "The Mock Election," in this prison some time ago, anti which Mr. Haydon, the artist, who was then a prisoner himself, has made the subject of a profitable exhibi tion picture. At the petty Sessions held at the Green Dra gon, Cheshunt Church-gate, on Monday, the SI st March, the accounts of the Overseers of the parish of Broxbourne were opposed by a parishioner, until two items were ab stracted, purporting to be the weekly allowance to the smo thers of two illegitimate children, who had been com pounded for (by the payment of 401. each), one of which 40/. bad been. accepted by the parish for an individual re siding therein ; the other, from an individual not residing in the parish, and who, from motives of delicacy or se crecy, was only known to a select few of the parishioners, and who had carried the money to the parish account, and would give no more information respecting it : upon which it was intimated by a parishioner at the audit of the ac counts, that he objected to the above two items, and would oppose their being passed before the Magistrates, unless they were either affiliated or the parish indemnified; and upon the case being heard before the Magistrates, they were ordered to be struck out : one of the gentlemen ob serving, it was impossible to pass the account, as the children had never been affiliated ; and passed a compli ment on the person for coming forward on such an occa sion. It therefore appears illegal to accept compromises in cases of bastardy, whether the child is affiliated or not ; and that no weekly allowance can legally be paid by the overseers until the child is affiliated.—Essex Herald. Immediately after the execution of IRONS, who some time ago murdered his fellow-servant, the body was given up to the surgeons of St. Thomas's Hospital for dissection. As soon as the body was stripped, the sur geons who surrounded it pronounced it to be the finest shaped one they ever iseheld, and it was determined that a cast should be taken of the whole frame, on account of the prodigious sinews and the exquisite symmetry of the limbs and chest. For the perpnse of rendering the cast more perfect by exhibiting the sinews in their utmost fulness, the surgeons resolved to take the skin off the body, and they soon accomplished the task. It was, we understand, sug gested to inject the blood-vessels and preserve the body, on account of the surpassing beauty of the frame; but the enormous expense deterred the operators from that process. The skin was buried the moment it was taken off, and the casts will be immediately taken and supplied to the various academies in which exhibitions of the kind are considered desirable. Dr. Sorra was, we were told, the principal operator. R E PRIEVE.—CLONMEL, APRIL 11.—An express has arrived in town to stay the execution of \Arm. GRACE, T. Manna, M. TRACY, M. LOOM-, J. DANIEL, and Tilos. KEGII, jun. - They were sent off for trans portation for life under an escort.—The Hon. Justice MOORE, accompanied by the lion. Mr. PLUNKETT, set oft' this morning from Clonmel. The learned and humane Judge has gone through a demoralized population—unac companied by the Scotch Greys—unaccompanied by the Police—as a plain country Gentleman—acting upon his own experience of the people, that this frantic and con federated spirit is only confined to a banditti, which is• now broken up ; but that the physical force of the pea santry are untainted by the lawless and infuriate mania, if they were only countenanced by their legitimate protectors —the great landed proprietary and gentry of the county.-- Wateybrd Chronicle. About six o'clock on Friday even ing a fire was discovered in the stable of Mr. LAMB, o f Newcastle , by the boy, who had done the horses all up t hat day with new straw, and had left them about half an hour : he had then used a candle, instead of the guarde d lamp kept for the purpose ; and it seems that somethi n g had fallen from it which had ignited the straw after Isis leaving the stable. The alarm being given, he opened the door of the stable, and his attention was directed to a ma re (Maria, b y North m: Star, dam by Guhanna, which was entered fur the great handicap gold cup at Liverpool, and for which a large price had been offered by that plunging ver very lays in a dreadful Yspo't):i' manner this, found her r enveloped in i t o he fl (o a l m o e r s, and closi ng upon him, prevent e d hi m f rom extricating her. He ran for assistance, but in the mean time she was literally roasted alive. Two hacks were also dreadfully scorched. By the prompt exertions of the neighbours, with buckets, &c., the fire, which was prin cipally confined to the mare's box, where it had originated, and the bedding of the true hacks, was quickly got under ; and by the time the engines got to work, all further den ger had disappeared, THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEVE_:, Wheat. Per Quarter. s. to s. Boston.. 49 58 Grantham 55 58 Grimsby.. 5/ 59 Horncastle--- 4S 54, Hull 46 55 Lincoln -- 52 58 Spilsby 4S 52 Starntord--- 50 61 Vork----- 48 58 Barley. 1 Oats. I BevO. s. to s. s. to S. s. to 1., 22 22 15 22 56 t 'E3 34 18 25 40 7 26 28 18 - 20 40 25 30 16 22 38 26 30 16 26 36 41 30 33 18 26 40 g, 28 30 18 22 36 ~, 31 20 30 40 7 ,, 2t; 32 16 24 C 6 CHESTER.—Wheat, per 751 b. 56. Od. to ss. 3d. Oats, 4.91 b. 3s, NANTIN Wneat, per '7511 ( i ns. ss. Od. to ss. 3d. ; Oats, 501 - 3d. to Bs. 6d. ; Barley, 399 1 ' Od. to as. 3d. • Bs. Od. to Ss. ed. ; Barley, 1. Os. Od. to as. Od. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS ANT) EXPORTS. This year. Bags, &c. Liverpool 1.59,157 London Ulasgow Total exported in 1828 IMPORTED. EXPORTED* pe- IPrcile g nod la ly thls year. year.„„ Bags, &c. ; Bags, &c. 186,069 I 259 10,945 ; 1,140 19,431 Bain 4 r c ' 4,1 0 t0,5',1 II - ~ 16,097. SCOTCH MARKETS. GLASGOW MARKETS, APRIL 12. Inwards the end of the week a cargo of 400 cask' ° , l Demerara Suca as, recently imported, was brought t o j i the market ; the whole were taken off by the Grocers 0 Refiners at full prices. A cargo of 460 casks Demer3rl and one of 460 casks Trinidads, are now landing, and $ l , ! be in the market next week. R e fin e d S ugars are 'w' scarce, and in good demand. No sellers of British AIOLASSES under 225. 6d. ; 1 pune. of Demerara Mola sses were so ld at 25e. from t' quay. The sales of COFFEE are confined to IG tierces of 104 middling Jamaica, which were taken by the Grocers at b . _ . Nothing done in PIMENTO or GINGER. About 45 puns of Jamaica RUM have been sold at 51 ' id. a 3s. 2d. for 16 0. P. No sales in Leewards, whi c4 are held at 2s. ld. for Proofs and Low 0. P.'s. The transactions in COTTON amount to 1,496 pack taken by the Trade at last week's quotations. Th e 10' culars are, 31 Sea Islands, 13d. a 15d. ; 5 i Stained ditr Gd. a 10d. ; 132 Boweds, 6D. a 6d. ; 313 Orleans. u , ": a ;21 Demerara, 9d. ; 896 Egyptians, id. a BF l ' t 46 Surats, 4.1 d. a 41d. of The sales of DYE-WOODS are confined to 11 tops Spanish Fustic at 8/. 10s. ; the small stock of jalllsiir Logwood at market is still held at six guineas. ASHES continue very flat, and the sales are trifling P a At . ' eels in retail 'Pot s 30 s . a 31 5 ., an d P ear l s 32 5 . Gd. a About 20 'thds. of Virginia TOBACCO have been PO' by the trade at sd. a sfd. for Leaf and Strips. TALLOW continues dull and going lower, trifling parc h ' are selling at 425. 6d. a 435. Although the demand for FISH OILS is very limited, / I I prices are getting higher, Whale 21/. 10 s . a 22/. ; 22/. ; and Pale Seal, 22/. a 22/. 10s. per tun, old measu r :i There has been a fair demand for all description , GRAIN this week, particularly for Wheat, which has 8 i vanced Gd. a Is. per boll; Barley also, in consequence" the limited supply, is 2s. per boll higher ; Oats steady quir l e;l ll l E .y ItvheAYlateToMl\*.VcEoAuTLTl:lteh•Trrichhdbanprkoepr,erwtyol,, produce of a long lif e o f h onest i n d ustry, an d str i ct ate, non to business : in this, perhaps, he had few equals. one occasion, when a gen tl eman , w h o h a d b een one of "ti. school-fellows, came to town, Mr. COUTTS invited hiol dinner ; and a large party was assembled to do him liotO c c ; The next day, the gentleman had some business to traos s ; at Mr. Courrs's banking house, when there was a peep in change due to Mr. Courrs. " Well," said the gesv e, ' man, " I shall not give you that." " I must have it," s tv ; Mr. COUTTS. " Why," said his astonished friend,, " ba l singular is this ! Yesterday you gave me a dinner vib ic , must have cost 1001. ; and to-day, you will not give 01e , c penny !" " True," replied Mr. Corms ; " and it 1 011 ) being rigidly correct with matters of business, that enat „ , 1 me to give you a dinner." fler late Majesty, Qu ° ,,,:e CHARLOTTE, why kept cash with Mr. COUTTS, sent o°- ' 4 , that she should withdraw it in three days. Mr. CO sent an answer, presenting his humbl e duty, and 00 11 her MAJESTY, " that to withdraw half a million of tte nP Y from the house of Titomas Couvra and Co., three NO, notice was all that was necessary." It is almo s t superso,' l " to add, her MAJEsrv, afte r thi s commun i cat i on from the principal, did not withdraw her confidence. THE DIAMOND.--The most ex t ra o r dirO fact respecti ng t h e di amon d i s, t h at i t i s com b ust ibl e : 11 4 f it is, in fact, so far as chemistry can discover, nothing b 1 pure charcoal in a state of chrystallization. It is scae l f l , less extraordinary, if any thing can be counted extraor"! nary relating to Sir ISAAC NEWTON, that he should ha'e, discovered, by conjecture, this combustible property Of 0 1 diamond, long before it was experimentally proved burning it. Ile had remarked that all substances are c°',; bustible which have a great power of refracting light, " t bending it out of its direction. Amber, for example, ttf' ; sulphur are combustible, and at the same time strosglY j C fractive. By generalising the r e ma r k, Islx‘rrox infer r " that both the diamond and wat er are c o m b us tibl e , a n i 9; ference now fully established in both instances. Before t; lustre and water of the diamond can be well understood J I P ' ( refraction of light must be thoroughly known. Every Ir d i knows the nursery experiment of putting a piece of n3or, in an empty basin, retiring till it disappears, and then d il l iag it to re-appear by water being poured over it .to reli the light. On the same principle a clear stream appears to t, of less depth than it really is, and this has allured man!, unwary youth to his destruction. A more wonderful c i te cumstance is, that this principle of refraction causes t o t' e es r . insteado of This sun and the rest of the heavenly bodies to appear, where they really are, but where they were some time ' A fore; and in the case of their rising and setting, we by means of the refractive power of the air, see them 1i ,4 4 e the hoist. diamond ‘ie(,switni re thegt m r oruaa.syssbp to a s e r : r : of i before they actually rise and after they actually set. 'te b tlih r gr i h l o l t i v a gt n hi c la y ti, , t,fa N ' v l'is li s ich no art can fully imitate. It is this, I tc ; # highly r efracti g v o e lans p si o t i , ' not any phosphorescent property, that causes it eve , 0 sparkle in the dark, of which so many fables are related the Arabian Tales. In the deepest darkness there are ° 0 ways some wandering rays—some stray pencils of light render the " darkness visible," and these, how fey/ small soever, the diamond collects to a point, and flag ( them back into the gloom. The property of sparldil; therefore, is one test by which a genuine diamond ma)" 0 1 knows from spurious imitations, or from the more aplend e sorts of rock chrystal, and other gems, which are set' r times passed off for diamonds.— Verulant. BIRTHS. On the Bth instant, at Thiekbrown Cottage, Staflo r r ' shire, the lady of John Shawe Manley, Esq., of a daught t still-born. On the 12th instant, at Brighton, the lady of Willie Ryves, Esq., of Ryves-castle, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 15th instant, at St. George's, by the very ft e 'y the Dean of Carlisle, John Wilson Patten, Esq., of 13 0 v Hall, Lancashire, to Anna Maria, youngest daughter of late Col. Patten Bold, of Bold, in the same county. tg At Oxgang, John Graham, Esq. of Ballagan, advocate , Mrs. Major Davidson , youngest daughter of the late s'. John Stirling, of Glorat and Renton, Bart. h t is '7sth year. DIED. Ond ' the 14th i i: sitrain at Upper Homerton, JO' O n the l sth insta n t, at hi s house i n Bedford-street, f or d -square, Charles Stabl e , E sq ., one o f t h e Sheriff" ° I , London and Middl esex ; h e was se i zed w i th apoplex y Friday morning j ust as h e was a b out to l eave h ome t o tend his duti es a t t h e Old Ba i ley. Mr. Stable was big.Pii in an ami a bl e di spos i tion, anll possessed of virtues „ endeared hi m i n pr i vate l i fe; long and severe will the gri e f o f hi s f am i ly an d f r i en d s. On th e 14 t h i nstan t, su dd en l y, t h e H on. Phili p POse'' aged 82. On the 4th instant, at Inv eres k, N or th B r it a i n , SK' Boone Inglis, Esq. G o teryllppo , ! On the 13th instant, at his house, Readincr,'Berks if his 58th year, Peter Guillemard, Esq., late ef ° llackneY' a i On the 29th of September last, at Keitah, in consolu,,,, i c-, of a fall from his horse, Lieut. Charles Erskine, of the P . .. gal Army, third son of David Erskine, Esq., of cardr ° ' ' North Britain. In November last, at Bombay, Lieutenant William win, 3d Regiment of Native Infantry, aged 22, third 7 ' o l of John Wright Unwin, Esq., Coroner for the county Middlesex. e On the 22d of Nov. l as t, a t K a i ra , i n th e E a st In ti 0 Mr. Henry Willis, Lieutenant in the Istßombay of Native Cavalry, aged 26, son of Richard Willis, of Dartford, Kent. A . 0,04 PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, I SUN OFFICE, Na. II? St: and. 1 ~ Extensive