The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. The day of the far-famed Kent Meeting is at length arrived. The question. for the assem bled inhabitants of that county is a s imple one, so far as relates to themselves. It is whether they are to be honoured by their countrymen, as enlightened members of a free and just com munity, or as the tools and bloodhounds of a faction, which assumes the cloak of bigotry, to conceal its innate selfishness, despotism, and corruption. The q uestion to be resolved, so far as concerns the British empire generally, is, whe ther the Constitution of England shall be " a partial e vil," or " a universal good." It is not true, whatever may be pretended, that eman cipation will be a benefit to our Catholic fellow subjects alone. If a profligate Government were disposed to undermine the liberties of a brave people, the whole world could not furnish an in strument so mischievously adapted to that un holy purpose, as would be found in a large por tion of the same people cut off from the political rights and privileges which were en joyed by the majority of the nation. A slave is ever the deadliest weapon wherewith a freeman can he tortured or destroyed. If the Pro testants of England, by unjust persecution of the Irish, convince that susceptible and not unwarlike race that it is not an infatuated Government, but an unfeeling people who op press them, the Government may, on some fa vourable occasion, barter British liberty for Irish aid_ In any serious quarrel between the Crown and the people of England, the Irish, so long as they felt themselves repulsed from the hearts of the British nation, would eagerly wreak their vengeance on us, by lending their succour to the schemes of the most arbitrary Go vernment. No man's liberty can he secure against the outrages of despotism, or the plots of corruption, when he has but few partners in his privileges. The most dangerous course for freedom, therefore, is 'to confine it ; 'the best guarantee for that of every individual in the kingdom, is, that all should have an interest in maintaining it. When Ireland was scourged by a local Parliament, and a provincial Government, through which the Minister of this country ruled, by setting one party in the island against the other, Mr. Grattan saw _that division of interests was the ruin of both.• He told his coun trymen that until their civil rights were equalized, and their feuds composed, the reign of Ministerial prodigality and of un constitutional influence never would be ended, that for the people to be powerful against the Court, they must be united amongst each other, —that the cause of the Catholic was that of the Protestant likewise. " Never," said that illus trious patriot, " never will the Irish Protestant be free, until the Catholic ceases to be a slave," So we tell the freemen of England, and the free holders of Kent, who meet this morning, that the sister nations never will be so strong against the public enemy, abroad or at home, as when they are bound by feelings of affection towards each other. Beware, then, of listening to those serpents, who, under pretence of guarding the Church of England from a danger which has no existence, would expose Church and State to a common overthrow,—the fatal fruit of increased political depravity, of conflicting factions, of ine vitable convulsions, of civil wars—all aggravated by foreign vengeance. The proposition to be made by the authors of the meeting will be the signal, if passed, of revolutionary measures in Ireland, to be applied to the dissolution of the British Empire ; the first moment of which (and it will not be a distant moment), a league with certain foreign Powers, the standing enemies orthe British name, can be organized. The best way of defeating such a proposition, would be by a flat rejection. If that should not meet the sense, or accord with the previous understanding of the friends of religious liberty and of the public peace, we would earnestly pray them to take care that the amendment shall be one to which all the various classes of dissentients from the Cum berland-bloodhound-plot may be able to yield a conscientious and unanimous concurrence.. Let any subdivision or frittering away of the liberal majority (for we trust it is the majority) be avoided, as a death-blow to the cause. Let no perverse or conceited eagerness to force this man or that man's phrase upon the meeting, inter fere with the one grand object of unanimity in the action of those who are agreed in principle. Above all things, let the honestly scrupulous with regard to dangers from the Catholic priest hood recollect, that when the numerical majority of the English nation, as well as of the Irish, were their adherents, the reformation and the church of England were established on their ruins—that the prominence which now seems to appertain to them in Ireland, is given to them by the laity, as a temporarary means of assisting that laity in its effort for a redress of grievances exclu sively civil ; and that a power which has flowed from no source but wrong, will be best subdued byi est ice.— Times. The subject of the Meeting to take place this I d a y, on Penenden Heath, engages the atten tionthe public to the exclusion almost every Off o£ every other. There nev er , i n our opinion, was a question which presented so li tt l e diffi cu l ty as that called the Catholic. Whether we view it ' in the light of expediency or of justice, we can only arrive at one result. One-third o f the in habitants of the United Kingdom are Roman Catholics. They are determined never to cease the agitation of the question till they are placed on a level with the Protestants in point of civil rights. We know, too, that Ireland, in which the Protestant religion is established by L., w , while the Catholic is established in fact, will never be tranquil till this question is settled to the satisfaction of the Catholics. No result, therefore, is obtained by any decision to refuse concession, because the question will incessantly present itself; the battle must be constantly re newed, till the Catholics succeed in their object. The refusal is merely a procrastination. On the other hand, were the claims of the Catholics conceded, the question is, of necessity, settled for ever, because have the effrontery to demand that the nation s hould be throw n • into confusion by the subjec tion of the Catholics once more to their rule. I t is one thing to refu st.•% equality, and another to depart from it. Equality in point of civil rights, therefore, if once. gained, would settle the question for ever. But then, say the opponents of the Catholic claims, what security have we that the Catholics, who hitherto have never rested satisfied with what they have obtained, will be satisfied now ? They have hitherto re mained unsatisfied, because, however much they .. may have obtained, they have n o t obtaineda a n that they are entitled to. Protestants, Un d er a Catholic Government, which should have con. ceded to them one right after an other,would, in like manner, have remained unsatisfied so long as one right was withheld from them. When jus tice is done them, it is time for us to complain of their unreasonableness, should they demand lmore than their rights. At p re se n t th e Catho lics divide the Protest a nt s , o f w h om a ll t h e libe ral and disinterested are in their favour. Should the Catholics rest unsatisfied with justice, all ProteStants would of course unite in opposing them. A great deal of loose declamation is uttered about the granting of political power to the Catholics. They have political power ; and they have as much as, with the aid of the liberal Protestants, must obtain still more for them. But surely, if they were to urge further claims incompatible with the security of the Protestants, they could be opposed by the latter with much -more advantage, when their injustice would rouse all Protestants to unite against them, than at present, when a sense of justice enlists on their side all the honourable and enlightened and dis interested of the Protestants. Say that -the Ca tholics were to return all the Representatives of [rebind, and it were found that they abused their power to the detriment of their Protestant fel low-subjects, au. indignant sense of this injustice would unite the Protestants as one man to op pose them ; and if it should be necessary to fight knee-deep in blood, success would surely he' more likely to attend the efforts .of_ the Protes tants, united as one man, than the efforts at pre sent of a set of base knaves, enraged at being obliged to open their monopoly of good things to their Catholic Brethren, aided by the fools and fanatics whom they can succeed in deluding. If it ever should become necessary to resort 'to harsh measures for our security, the justice of our cause would strengthen us at horse, and 0b.... tain regard for us abroad. So much for expediency. But why, in God's name, should there be any civil distinctions between Protestants and Ca tholics ? Why should any man be debarred from the enjoyment of constitutional rights on account of his religion ? No man is answerable to another for his belief; it is an affair between himself and his Maker. The object of Govern ment is not to further this or that religion, but to afford to every individual as much freedOm of action as is consistent with the respect due to others. The -affairs of another world are only taken cognizance of by Government, in so far as they influence indirectly the affairs of this. A roan may have very ridiculous notions of the Deity ; his creed may be very absurd, and yet be a good subject. We are not called upon to decide as to the goodness of the creed, but to inquire whether there is any thing in it incom patible with the security of others. Of the five hundred religious sects in England, some, no. doubt, entertain more rational notions than others ; but we know of no one, with the ex ception of the Quakers (who, were they nume rous in any country, might endanger the public ' safety), which entertains principles inconsistent with the general welfare. We will own that we dislike the hierarchy and discipline of the Ca tholic Church ; we prefer Protestantism, as being more favourable to liberty and mental emancipa tion. But we are not called on now to choose between the Catholic and Protestant religions, but, one-third of the empire being Catholics, to say whether there is any thing in the Catholic religion which makes its professors bad subjects. We boldly say, thatthere is nothing in Catholi cism of this noxious character. We have heard no argument against the Catholic religion which does not apply against other religions in this country. In a lengthy address to the free holders of the county of Kent, widely circulated , in that county, we are gravely told, that " All other communities of Christians are esta blished, like the Church of England, on principles of toleration. The assertion► of their own rights in fact necessarily involves a recognition of ours. It is true that Dissenters as well as Catholics have, till very lately, been subject to political restrictions by means of tests applied to their religious scruples.-- But these scruples were the test itself, and not the object sought to be discovered. That object, as in the case of the Catholics, was their allegiance. At the time these tests were imposed on them, Dissen ters were not contented and quiet communities, se ceding from their national Church on the ground of conscientious conviction on particular points of her doctrine or discipline ; they were considered as ini mical and dangerous rivals to our Church; and, con- sequently, unfit to take their share in the Adminis tration of the State, with which that Church is in dissolubly blended. Their political condition has been lately altered. But this alteration Can only consist - with the principles of our Constitution, on the presumption that Dissenters are no longer en vious rivals, but tolerant seceders from the Church of England. " Catholics then ,are excluded by our laws from cit'il trusts, not on account of their faith, but - be cause that faith necessarily cramps and fetters their allegiance to the State. They do not acknowledge the rights of her Church, nor the title of her King to its supremacy. They are members of nu ex clusive church, which asserts itself to be the only trae communion of Christ's worshippers. All Christian communities, which have been established without the pale of the Church of Rome, are con demned by it as heresies—as impious, profane, sacri legious usurpations of the one indivisible and only true church. " Papists, therefore, I repeat, do not, arid never can admit the rights of the Church of England, nor the King's Prerogative as its head. They are in conscience bound to consider the one as founded- on the crime of schism, and the other as a wicked usurpation." The writer of this was evidently not aware that the Presbyterians, who are established in the northern part of the island equally with the Ca tholics, refuse to acknowledge the King's supre macy in matters of religion. Their principle is, that " Christ is King and Head of the Church." The ground set up by this advocate of exclusion of Catholics on liberal principles is, that all who will not subscribe to the position that " the Kthglom of Christ is of this world," and that the Head of the State is not merely entitled to govern in the affairs of this world, but to regu late all that relates to the affairs of the next, are bad citizens. The Test and Corporation Acts are evidently regretted. ; and the Dissenters would be placed by him on the footing of Ca tholics, were it not th a t th ey are " no l onger dangerous rivals to the church." All Churches a re exclusive ; the Church of Rome is exclusive ; the Church of England i s exc l us i ve ; the Church of Scot l an d is exclusive. Intolerance is of the all of them ; t the increasing libe gicmi rality them of tl Churches there areat ' of modern times . has almost every where r e a s i s i e t ;ic t c )i. ie power to persecute. but in Ei the same those • time liberal members who condemn persecution. injustice e e i l l iberality of Our secuyity against persecution is the conviction wield of its impolicy and political power, and u any po litical Church. The Catholics can only .perse cute by the consent of the Protestant ma jor i ty ; and if they were so disposed, iit s not very lik e l y that they would be seconded b y Protestants.--... The idea is a pure chimera. There is nothing, we repeat, to justify the exclusion o f Catholics from any office in the State. —Morning chronicle. This is the day on which the o' Men of Kent," both Emancipists and Anti-catholics, ar e to put forth their strength on Penenden Heath, when the question of toleration, or no ' toleration, will be put to the vote, and when the ultra Tories, by carrying a few resolutions,. hope to spread the flame of intolerance through every city and county in England, and to say to the King, to the Parliament, and to the Country— " hitherto shall ye come and no further" —when numbers will be opposed to argument and rea son, and it will be seen whether a selfish and intolerant faction is to rule the country, or those whom it has invested with legitimate authority for managing its affairs. Never, on any similar occasion, was so much interest ex cited, or so much anxiety manifested by all parties, respecting the result. The eyes of the whole country are upon it, and there is no question that with many, though we hope not with all, the decision of the Meeting will have considerable influence. Were the question to be discussed at the Meeting, a question between the eligibility of preferring_ the Rom an C a . thous religion, and the Protestant faith of our venerable establishment, there would scarcely be a dissentient voice at the Meeting. Every hand would be held up against the former, and every voice uplifted in favour of the latter The Church, Whose advocates, whenever they have had uncontrouled dominion, have done their utmost to keep down the spirit of freedom—to check inquiry, and perpetuate the reign of dark ness 'and bigotry, would be scouted and scorned ; and the venerable establishment, whose origin is connected with the proudest recollections of Englishmen, and whose growth is coeval with their rights, receive the unanimous support of every one- present. The only question to be dis cussed in such a case would be freedom and in telligence, or oppression and ignorance ; for, however we may advocate the cause of the Ca tholics, we have no wish to conceal for a moment that the Catholia religion has been the greatest enemy of human improvement, and the best friend to despotism that the world ever saw. But the question this day is not a question of religion--it is a question of policy and expediency—and of policy and expediency only—whether in fact it is better to drain the country of its resources by maintaining a heavy load of taxation in order to keep down the people of Ireland, or to attempt to find out means whereby the country may be relieved from the burthen of maintaining a large standing army in Ireland, and its unfortunate people, instead of being enemies to our repose, be converted into powerfid and willing auxiliaries. This is the real question at issue between the parties who are this day to try their strength on Penenden Heath ; and if the one were not blinded by bi gotry, and an enemy to all improvement and in novation, _it would not bear a moment's hear ing. But the question, though thus plain and simple, will be obscured by religious fanati cism. It will be attempted to make the people believe that the admission of some eighty or 100 Irish gentlemen into the Houses of Lords and Commons will entail with it the subversion of the Constitution in Church and State—that the only question to he decided is a choice of religions, and that those who hold up their hands for Catholic emancipation are themselves Catholics at heart. We question much, how ever, whether the plot will succeed. The people begin to be aware, not only of the real merits of the question, but of the grounds of the extraor dinary zeal displayed by some parties in a mat ter which cannot affect them but in a very re mote degree ; and we think they will not be de luded to the injury of the country. Be the result, however, what it may, our readers may rest assured that sue shall furnish them with the earliest, the fullest, and the best account.— Morning Advertiser. - - -- - MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 23. This being Licensing Day, there was a numerous attendance of the Magistrates of the county. THE EYRE ARMS TAVERN, ST, JOHN'S WOOD. Mr. ALLEY applied on the part of Mr. Hinton, the proprietor of this tavern, for a license for music and dancing. The Learned Gentleman said, that the tavern was one of the greatest respectability— was very extensive, and had cost the proprietor 1400/. He was sure that no impediment would be thrown in the way of his application under such cir cumstances. The CHAIRMAN asked if any application had been made to a Magistrate by the proprietor, to inspect the premises, and report to the Bench. Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT said, that although he had not been spoken to by the proprietor to support his application, he yet had great pleasure in doing so. Mr. littouGteroN bore testimony to the character of the tavern. Mr. BALLANTINE considered the neighbourhood a bad one for the introduction of singing and dancing. Mr. BROUGHTON—The Eyre Tavern is one of the first in or about London ; the gentlemen of Mary lebone hold all their public dinners in it. Mr. BROUGHTON asked Mr. Alley the object of the application. Mr. ALLEY—Merely to enable the proprietor to have a band of music, should it he required by any company dining at the tavern.—The license was granted. THE HAYMARKET THEATRE. The license for this Theatre was renewed to Mr. Morris, the patentee. ADELPHI THEATRE. The license for the above Theatre WR3 renewed in the names of Charles Mathews and Frederick Yates, Esqrs. ROYAL STANDARD, VAUXHALL-ROAD. The license for this house was also renewed. WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE. The license of this tavern was also renewed. BAGNIGGE-WELLS TAVERN. The proprietor of this tavern was also succes in his application for a renewal of his licease,. THE CHERRY TREE, HADIPTO.N-COURT. The liccnse for this house was continued. SADLER'S•WELLS THEATRE. The license of this Theatre was renewed in the name of Richard Hughes. \ - THE EAGLE TAVERN; CITY-ROAD. Mr. ALLEY, upon the part of Mr. Rouse, the proprietor of this tavern, applied for a license. This was the first application of the kind made, and it came backed by the recommendation of the Clergy man, the Overseers, and a great number of the respectable inhabitants of the parish. The CHAIRMAN asked if music was not going on at the Eagle Tavern without a license ? Mr. BRounnToN said, that he believed such was the fact, but this was an error Mr. Raise was led into, and he was now anxious to have that by the sanction of the law, which he, through inadvertance, had previously done without it. The CHAIRMAN was opposed to the application. Mr. JEssoP was of opinion that the applicant ought to obtain what he sought for. General THORNTON was of opinion that such places of amusement were for the benefit of the public. The question for granting the License was put to the vote, and lost by a majority of five. THE JEWS' HARP, CAMDEN TOWN. A License was granted to the above T av ern. THE GUN TAVERN, PIMLICO. A License to this Tavern was refused, upon the samegrounds as those stated last year ;—n a rnely,its contiguity to the New Palace, and the likelihood of its being shortly taken down. THE PAVILION, WIIITECHAPEL. `Zr. ADOLPHUS, on the pert of the proprietors of this place of amusement, Messrs. \Vyattand Farrell, applied for a license. As regarded its amusement'., the petition was so framed, as to meet any objection upon that ground. They should be in perfect ac cordance with the Act. He had also to state, that an annuity of 1251. for forty years was to be granteil to Mrs. Maurice, the widow of the late unfortunate proprietor of the Brunswick Theatre, together with other advantages, should he be fortunate in his appli cation ; and concluded by praying the Court to grant the prayer of his petition. Mr. PRENDERGAST,. on the part of Mrs. Maurice, requested the Court to grant the license. Mr. BURNEI.L objected to the license being granted ; first, : from the situation of the Theatre, and the likelihood of the inhabitants of Bethnal green, Mile-end, lire., being injured in their morals by the establishment of such a place of amusement. Mr. JESSOP made some pertinent remarks upon the last speaker's opposit;on. The granting of the license was carrigd by a ma. jority of 18 to 5. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. TITHES AND PAROCHIAL DlSTRESS.—Yesterday, the LORD MAYOR was called upon to determine upon .52 charges, made by the parish-officers . of St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate, against inhabitants of that parish, for having refused to pay church-rates and poors'-rates. The scene is not likely to be for gotten by those who were lookers-on. It is a' remarkable fact, and well known to the authorities of Bishopsgate, that the very officer who had been engaged in serving summonses upon those defaulters, was employed the day before in going about begging subscriptions in aid of the new church now building in the parish. The Justice-room was'crowded with the poor in habitants, for whom, it was evident, the oflicers who appeared to enforce the claims of the rector (for the church-rates alone were peremptorily insisted upon) felt deep compassion. To the bitter complaints of injustice and oppression, and necessity, the church warden made no reply, except the humane comment of abating the greater part of the demand made upon each poor person. Wherever there appeared to be inability on the part of the defendants (and this ap peared almost in every case) to pay any thing, the parish immediately gave up the poor rates, but in every instance,—with, we believe, only one excep tion,—the church-rate was enforced without dimi nution. The LORD MAYOR, upon looking at the Act of Parliament relating to this particular parish, per ceived that especial care had been taken that the church-rates should be paid, by the introduction of a clause providing that in case of difficulty in collect ing the•rate for the payment of 2,5001. a year to the rector, and other monies for repairing the church, &c., from the poor inhabitants, a summary process should issue against the churchwardens and other inhabitants. This act was recommended to the pa rishioners by the present Lord Bishop of London, as a substitute for tithes, which his Lordship suspected some future rector of Bishopsgate might - demand to the full extent of 2s. 9d. in the pound,---a hear) , in fliction - which he humanely averted by entering into a compact for a sure conaideration for his spiritual services. Amongst the defendants were several who owed six quarters' rates. They pleaded large families, runaway losers, and griping distress. They for the most part referred to the parish-officers for the truth of their declarations, that while they were able they cheerfully paid rates of all kinds. The LORD MAYOR, in answer to the supplications for pity, which were in some instances made, said that be had no other alternative with respect to the church-rates than to order warrants to take the amount in execution. The Act of Parliament left him no discretionary power. A female named w ßlackburn was called upon for a church-rate of l/. 75., which had been due for soma time, and for poor rates to a considerably higher amount. She said that the officers knew she had six children to support, and that she was wretchedly poor. The parish officers at once said, that the poor rates should be omitted, but the church-rate should be paid. Slrs. Blackburn—Paid! out of what ? Out of my children's mouths ? And I am to look at my children without a morsel of bread ? You know, gentlemen (to the parish officers), that I work the flesh off my bones to keep my poor children alive. The LORD MAYOR (to the parish officers)—You had better diminish your demand upon this poor woman. Shall I reduce it to I/. ? The Churchwardens—Yes, my Lord, we'll take that. Mrs. Blackburn (her utterance almost choked)—' But how are you to get it? Nly husband can earn no more than 16s a-week. We have nothing else to support us. How can you get a pound out of that ? There are eight of us to live upon it. I paid you a few shillings a month some time ago, and then I was obliged to stint my own and my children's mouths. Good God, how unlike the author of the Christian religion this dealing is. You may come and take away the poor bed from under us, but you can't get a farthing from us. The LORD MAYOR recommended the remission of the whole rate, and we believe his recommenda tion was attended to. Against two defendants who did not appear, and were said to be well able to pay the rates but would not, warrants were ordered to be issued. Several attempts, it appears, had been made by some of the most popular representatives of the ward of Bishopsgate, to postpone the building of the new church until there should be some allevia tion of the existing distress, and some strong com ments have been made upon the practice of which we have spoken—that of alternately begging through thr parish for the church, and compelling the wretch ed inhabitants to pay the church rate, however over whelming and intolerable the natural claims upon them may be. The LORD MAYOR'S whole day was occupied in this disagreeable duty. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday Israel Horrod, who has been in cus tody for several days past upon a charge of burglary and robbery at the house of a gentleman in whose service he had lived as valet, was brought before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting magistrate, for final exami nation. The prisoner'is a very fine-looking young man, and bears with him an appearance and manner very superior to what is met with in persons of his class in life. The prisoner's mother, a very respect able-looking aged widow, residing, in good circum stances, at Cowley, near Uxbridge, attended the ex amination, and seemed deeply affected at the situa tion of her son, towards whom she frequently cast a glance expressive of the most bitter sorrow and anguish. Humphrey St. John Mildmay, Esq., being sworn, deposed, that he resides at Mountclear, near Roe hampton, in the county of Surrey, and that the pri soner had lived in his service there as valet and foot man for some time, but was discharged in the month of August last. On the night of Saturday, the 11th of this month, witness, just previously to his going to bed, deposited three 10/. notes and two 5/. notes of the Bank of England, together with five sove reigns, in one of the drawers of a bureau in his library, and Jawing locked the drawer, placed the keys in another open one adjoining, where he usually left them. When he came down stairs the next morning, he found the drawer which he had placed the money still locked, as he had left it, but the keys missing from the bureau, and could nowhere be found ; and on the cash-drawer being subsequently opened, the whole of the money above described was also found to have vanished. The numbers of two of the 101. notes thus missing, Mr. Mildmay said, were 19,266 anti 19,267, both dated the Ist of August, 1828. Since the prisoner has been in custody, the witness added, he had acknowledged to him of his own free word, and without either threat or promise having been held out to him, that he bad committed the robbery, and declared that he had no accomplice whatever in the perpetration of it. William Bell deposed that he is at present a foot man in the service of Mr. Mildmay, and he recol lected perfectly well that on the night of Saturday, the 11th instant, he assisted the porter to Mr. may's house at Roehampton, in locking up and secur ing inside an outer door of a hall which leads to the kitchens and other Offices in the bottom part of the house, but that the next morning he found this door opened, which must have been done from the inside as there was no appearance whatever of violence having been - used. William 'Cole, book-keeper at the, new Bull-and- Mouth coach-office, in Qxford-street, deposed, that on the 13th of this month, the prisoner came to the office and had a place booked for him on the outside of the Telegraph coach to Hereford, in the name of ThOmpson, and he gave witness the 101. note of the Bank of England now produced, numbered 19,2c6, and dated the Ist of August, 1828. Witness wrote the name of Thompson on the note, which he after wards paid away to a Mr. Saundersori, and gave the prisoner the change, deducting 1/. 9s. for the coach fare; but whether the prisoner went by the coach or not the witness did not know. Isaac. Nathan, a Jew salesman, residing in Little Chapel -street, Edgewure-road, deposed, that on the 13th of this month the prisoner came to his shop and purchased there the blue coat and the pair of boots now produced, and gave him in payment for them the 101. note produced, numbered 19,267, dated the Ist of August, 1828, and the witness gave him the change, deducting the price of the coat and pair of boots. George Dyer, a clerk in the Bank of England, de posed that the two 10/. notes which he now pro duced, dated and numbered as above described, were paid into the Bank on the 15th of this month. Thomas Clements, one of the officers. belonging to this office, deposed that he apprehended the prisoner on the night of the 15th of this month, at a • public-house called the Bricklayers' Arms, in Park street, Grosvenor-square. He told the prisoner that he apprehended him for the robbery at Mr.Mild may's house; but the prisoner then ,denied all knowledge of the offence, and he was lodged for that night in St. James's watch-house. The next, day the prisoner was brought before Sir George Farrant, the Magistrate of this office, to whom the prisoner expressed a wish to make a private commu nication, and he was permitted to do so. After that, in the course of the same day, while witness Iwas conveying the prisoner to gaol for re-exantintt titan, he asked him if he had told Sir George Farrant the truth, and the prisoner replied, " that so help him God he had ;" and he then went on to tell the witness that be had had no accomplice in commit ting the robbery at Mr. Mildmay's house, which he confessed he had committed, but did it all by him self alone. One of the 101. notes, be said, he had passed at the Bull and Mouth, in Oxford-street, where he took a place by a coach, for Hereford,.but he never intended to go by the coach, as his only object was to get the note changed in paying for the place ; and another 10/. note he said he had passed to Mr. Nathan, a clothes' salesman, near the Edge ware-road ; but all the other notes, he said, he had thrown into the river Thames, as he was going over Vauxhall-bridge. Witness afterwards told the prisoner that he did not believe that he had thrown any of the notes into the river, for that he (the wit , ness) knew where a third 10/. note had been changed, and the prisoner they admitted that he had not thrown them, as he had said, into the river, but that he had changed the 51. notes at the livery-stables of a Mr. Coates, where he had hired a gig and horse, and that the third 10/. note he had changed at the Gloucester coach.:office, where he took a place for Dover, but did not go. 'Witness asked the prisoner how such a thought could have ciente into his head as to commit this robbery ; and he replied that he could not account for it, but that he had been Miserable and unhappy ever since Mr. Mildmay had discharg ed him, and he knew that he could never expect to get into another place. On the Saturday, he said, that he committed the robbery, he was sitting alone at the Bricklayers' Arms public-house in Park-street when the thought suddenly came into his head to go down and commit this robbery, mad he started up en the instant, and walked all the way to Roehamp ton. When he got down there, he hid himself, he said, behind one of the trees in the lawn, where he remained until he saw the carriage drive away from the house, and he then quietly, when there was no one about, stole in at the street-door, which leads to the lower apartments of the house, and which gene rally stands open during the day, as there is an inner door kept closed, and this passage has no direct com munication whatever with the chief entrance hall to the body of the house, the door to which is up a flight of steps, and over this lower hall. Having got into this passage, the prisoner said that he con cealed himself in one of the coal-cellars off the pas sage, until about three o'clock in the morning, when taking off his shoes, he climbed up to the top of the inner door, which still obstructed him, and there worked himself in through an unglazed fan-light, for the admission of the air to this part of the house. Thus lie got into the kitchen, and from thence easily proceeded, as he knew every inch of the way, up to the study ; turd, knowing where the keys of the bureau were generally deposited by Mr. Mildmay, he easily found them, and opening the drawer where ' the money was, he took out all the cash, and again locked the drawer as he had found it ; but carried the keys away with him altogether. Having thus accomplished the robbery, he made his way out again, through the fan-light, as he had entered ; for although he might easily, he said, have opened this door, being then on the inside, he would not do so, because be knew by experience that the door creaked on its hinges, and he could not venture to open it without. the risk of disturbing the servants who slept in the neighbourhood of it. Having got over this door, he coal-cellar,oncemere cv‘a,hmeeretohn put hisor o igi n n i a li l s hiding-place, ' e i , the and opening very gently the outer door of all , which, had been fastened at night-time, be made his final exit that way, but did not hazard closing the door after him, lest it should make any noise. Henry Goddard, another officer of this office, de posed, that he found the pair of boots and the. blue coat now produced, and which Mr. Nathan had proved to have sold to the prisoner, at the residence of the prisoner's mother at Cowley, where the pri soner was living at the time. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was fully committed for trial on this charge. Mr. Mildmay was now swore again, and deposed, thatin the month of July lest, he was residing in Piccadilly, and the prisoner Has then in his service; and in that month he (Mr. Mildmay) missed a vast quantity of wearing apparel of all sorts; indeed, to an extent that almost stripped his wardrobe at the time ; but not wishing to prosecute the prisoner, al though he had no doubt but he was the thief, he dis missed him from his service, and let the matter drop. The four shirts and other articles now produced were part of the things then stolen from his house. Clements and Goddard, the officers, stated that they found at the residence of the prisoner's mother, at Cowley, where he lived ever since he was dis charged by Mr. Mildmay, an immense quantity of wearing apparel of every kind belonging to Mr. Mildmay, including no less than 21 beautiful shi rts, chiefly cambric, and all marked with Mn. Mildniay'x name in full ; but Mr. Mildmay gave them all up again to the prisoner's mother, except the four shirts, &c., mentioned in his evidence. On this charge the prisoner was also committed for trial. Clements, the oflicer,• added that on searching the prisoner's person, he . found in one of his pockets the very keys of Mr. Mildmay's bureau which he had taken away, and a French snuff-box which Mr, to 111 r. Henry Baring, the Mild b m ro a t y he b r el o i f e‘ed m - us. w Ai te d l m m a ig Y; there was also found on him a silver watch, which his mother said had belonged to her husband, and which she had herself given, she said, to the prisoner. The prisoner denied that the snuffbox belonged rod e to Mr._Henry Baring, for that it was a 13 °, 1 present to him by a very dear friend now c'e a to Mr. Mildmay said that he. fully believed did belong to Mr. Baring, .for he hnd . see ts i o one in his p o s sess i on , b ut h e s hould We i fact in a day or two from Mr. Baring. s oi The 'prison er sa id th a t M r . B ar i n g's box , ..h e i it, was much larger, as would be found i n s . el The 'MA G ISTR ATE ordered the watch to 1' up to the prisoner's mother. 0 The family of the prisoner ar e r espee o o bear an excellent character at Cowley. 1116 01 is at present the parish clerk, as were his fa grandfather also in their time; misfortuaeirof seems to pervade the family, for it is 04.0 months' ago that another br o ther o f the P l. drowned himself at Cowley about some The prisoner has been for some time P r career of vice. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCO• AN K t er) , tclcl LIVERPOOL. 0411 WynttssnAv, OCT. 22.—Wind 32 minutes past ton.-----Arrived the Favouritot. from Malaga; Lady Ann, Bexfield, from ditto' Verwagtung, Lloffels, from Rotterdam ; Goet' i po. Klein; from J e r se y ; A ct i ve , C onnor , front • Economy, Jones, from Charloiton ; At L. London; Caynies, Gri ffi ths, from ditto; Harriett ,7,8 land, from ditto. rta /ti CLEARED OUTWA JaJameslll.4 o.7 " . tt , p: for Douglas ; Catharine and Hannah, Go Ramsay. THE MARKETS. AC - 1 Valli ettta Nut Sale 141 r COUNTRY CORN 111.4.0,1(1.:11 DURING TB 00 .4 W_____heat. Barley. Per Ijuarter. S. to S. S. to s. ls. to Blandferd 79 41 . . 30 0 Brigg '72 76 36 40 94 2 8 • Cambridge — 71 29 Chard 50 78 92 378' 23 30 '• liuntingdon— 60 78 90 42 19 , Long Sutton— F 4 72 SO 2j 44 Louth.----.. 70 80 36 43 83 30 40. Lynn 5l 78 32 .42 94 50 01 Newark 65 74 32 50 17 Nottingham 7A 4:2 fU Peterborough 40 .70 26 50 13 . 115 41. Plymouth Pontefract — 7$ . 38 96 0 Slaafonl 70 80 30 43 92 2 4 . s4' pppingham .-- 70 fid 30 45 36 . -34 0, %robed' 50 74 /8 .26 LEEDS CORN MARKEL—Oct. 21. t 0, 2 We had a tolerably good supply of Grain •, W I N O dine in Wheat in the London market hist Friday' siderable effect upon the trade, and Old Wheat 411 and New ss. to 6s. per quarter loiver, 'and business done at that decline, as the buyers exr e being still lower. The ht , :t samples of Barley : t o' es. per quarter cheaper, and other descriptions swil saleable. Oats were Ft. tO Id. per stone, and 4 1 2s. per load lower. Beans were also Is. to 20• r ter cheaper. Rapeseed full as dear. po. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. tiOlb. Barley, Norfolk and Suiiblk • • 4a 0 Yorkshire and LlncolnsLire - G finding Beans (l3lb. SO, Oats, rotVwe - , dealing, Foreign J5(l. to ltkl. English 14a to Shelling Xs to 4 81 ' pd Itapeaeed, English, 251. to W..-- Foreign, - et. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANOE.--Oct• This morning's market opened very dull, but the.close the re was mere ac ti v it y i n th e tra d e , considerable parcels of Wheat were taken.oa ser . . 4 at a reduction of Is. to Is. Sd. per 701 b e. op' S";ilf 'ions of this day week. We note a decline irk the new Oats of fully 4d. per bushel, and very little., this abateme n t ; old were a l so diffi cu lt o f sa l e , sr eo lt cheaper. Beans, Pease, and Indian Corn haVe ceded in value Is. to 21. per quarter. Flour st''' s ; b l at 51. to tie., an d O a t mea l I s . t o 2 s . per wee k. . previous currency, and the trade dull., VYnnAT, English, W h ite, 10 per 70Ib. a O I Re Scotch, Ncich, and ManV ./ Irish, White - -- 10 0 ---- R o d 8 0 -- Foreign 0 t OATS; English, Welsh, and Sooteh, per 451 b 3 I ° Irish Foreign 3 ' 7 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 441 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601b8. .... 5 4 Feeding ' 5 S BEAN.. English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 --, Irish, &e. ........ ..................... Foreign PEAS'S, English ; per Imperial quarter 5O 0 ----- Foreign FLoua, English, per 2801 b. 5B 0 'ih .. Iris . ' 63 0 • OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 51401b5. St 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. Rye, per Imperial quarter Mat's', per Imperial quarter ImPowr OF Gams for the Weer ending Oct vd, Wheal Oats. Barley. Flour. Ce ,_ I 11 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeigq. Er:s !Irish, &c. - .."' 91 ) 14 22,396 l e I 3,406 LEWES MARKET.—Oct. 21. pi White What (per quarter) #3 12 oto XS Red ditto 3lO 0 Ito Barley ... 116 Oats, New 1 3 Peace 2 0 Oil Cake, New ll 0 0 0 I 0 0 per t hotti l MANCLIESTER SMITHFIELD.--oe.t. At per lb. sinking the offal. tO i 3,1)59 SU cattle t 140 Pito 6 M ANCHESTER POTATOE MARKEZ-- O SO I A 71 Potatoes, 61.0 d., 64.6 d., 7s.Od. per load of I. , 121bs. ; New ditto, Os., Os. Od., and Os. Oct. per ditto; t/s. lid., 66. 6cl. and 7t. (Id. per load . of 16 peeks; °moll°. 135., and 13s. 6d. per 12 score. A MANCHESTER YAP No. d. d. Throbtio Twist, 20.....111 to II 30 .... 121 13 40 ... IN I 1 ; blulectlpTwisti so 111 for witip 40..14 15 50 —l7i 20 00..20 22 70 —23 26 80 -.27 3U :d MA RKE' 3 141 e Cop Weft T-Ot. 1 0 4,0 ewro , .. 4 00 ....•••• uf 70 itj orv••• • 100 ••••••,... , I go 10 v ereor.' 9, Weft rota waste 110? INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, OCT. 22.—0 n Saturday IRO 1 , of New Hops w ere we i g h e d ; t h ere was li tt le " in the prices ; tine averaged 80s. to 84s. The . was so great that a considerable number remaiaed_l; BIRTHS.. 1 Ou the 15th inst. at Bryngwyn, Herefordshire , of James Phillippa, Esq. of a daughter. . al' On the 18th inst. the lady of W. J. Bagshagr), the Oaks, Sheffield, of a son. .IARRIED. Ch On the 21st inst. at HeigLington, the Rel' l o,, Pasley Vivian, of Wellingborough, NorthamptoiV Grace Anna, second daughter of Lieut.-Genets' of Walworth Castle, in the county of Durham. V On the 2sd inst. at Finchley, Osborne Deig l lJ late of Edmonton, to Charlotte, eldest daughter ° O i Newman, Esq. Soho-square. On the 22d inst. at St. Margaret's, WeittniniUning Morris, Esq. o f C a mb er w e ll, to Anne Sophia, I' 4 ,01 0 ' daughter of th e lat e John C r o s bi e , E sq . g o. -- c r On the 7th- inst. at Berlin, by Professor BrP -- o t I) I , Mr. George Duerr, son of Mr. Frederick Duerr/ e et'' mondsey, London, to Charlotte Caroline Cachet° ' child of J. G. Duerr, Esq. of Berlin, Prussia. ,ro cit Ou the 21st inst. Major Campbell, of Portland " r Douglas, of Billericay. . gull At Baton, Leicestershire, Richard Bu c kley - tfot: Esq. to Marian Matilda, only daughter o f Tliot° kin, Esq. of Tixover, Rutlandshir e , Me 1/ On the 23d inst. in 411 S ou l s Ch urc h, by --,,, Ca , James Wulff, H enr y T. J ones , E sq . o f Chatham/ ;If!, line Munster, youngest daughter of Major-Cienel l 'a Royal Artillery, and widow of the late Sir Ilich ar Binge, Bart. s .DIRD. On the 22d inst. at Wembly Perk, Middlesex, , Gray, Esq. iu his 82d year. h t On the 22d inst. at Brixton, J. H. Shiale, of Laugharne, in his 61st year, ec t On the 22d inst. Mr. Richard Knight, of Gracexr O e ' street, in his 79th year. t On the 21st inst. John Waller, Req. of Chapel' near Feversham, Kent, aged 87. J' On the 21st inst. at his residence, Charlottem Portland-place, the Rev. Joseph Davidson, form King's College, Cambridge, aged 85. Iv On the 22d inst. at Sawbridgeword s , Herta, pee 69th year of her age, Sarah, wife of Mr. HWY late of Camberwell. IV I , !th e 4. 64 TII vo N( s litra v \.___ Sci 1 14,, 411 tb( Oil the 14th inst. Harriet Beatsoa, wife of John house, Esq. of Rotherham, in the county of Yorit.. J 1 11( On the 9th inst. at N e w ar k, Alm. nizabotb r brook, aged 90. St / -..-- A P MINT ra) and PUBLIMiIia by sIURDO YOLT7 4 ‘" SUN OFF , 112, &ILAN% LONVOZ4. ra t ofi Ip nth I ;7 4 , I with, f o ;, 44 8;r„ LA" kri .~