The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-11 00:00:00

k ,1,7-j•,7 - 444' protest against the odious notion, that the Royal Mercy ought to be considered as a favour. The punishment of death is either justly awarded, or it is not. If it .be justl)s awarded, then the setting aside the sentence is injustice to the country. The King has no prerogative which is not to be exercised for the benefit of the people, and the Minister who advises an, exercise of it which cannot he reconciled with the public. good is guilty of a crime towards the nation. The King can, or ought to have, no personal feelings in matters of justice, for the King is the . Representative of the nation, and he ought no more to set aside the law in matters of life and death, than in matters of property. To set aside a sentence justly pronounced under a law not abhorrent to general feeling, is to commit an injustice a gainst society ; for whatever tends to shake the opinion of men in the certainty of punishment for crime, encourages crime, and the Sovereign cannot be supposed to have any pre rogative to do what is injurious to his people. If on the other hand, the punishment is unjustly awarded, to reverse the sentence is not a favour. It is due to the convict. To execute the innocent is to array the people against the '-•v__,erdsto_hold up the Sovereign as conniving at the 'perpetratiMi of injustice. There ought to be no favour, for favour is injustice to the public ; but the careful consiueration of the case of the convict is no favour, but a duty to him and to society. There is, however, no question as to the principle, for a revision does sc tuallv take place. The question is as to the mode of revi-ion. We contend that at present the public have no security for the duty being performed in a proper and efficient manner. We contend that no men are entitled in this country to cl.tim the privilege of acting as Judges in cases of life and death in private ; that there can be no security for impartial justice where there is no publicity. We contend that all inquisitorial inquiries into a man's life, all reception of gos siping stories, all interest and favour, . all garbled evidence—are an abomination which ought not to be tolerated in a country calling itself free.— Let there be a. Tribunal of Revision acting in the face of the public, • and possessed of the con fidence of the nation ; and let s not the defective - rstate of the law be made a pretext for sporting with its sentences; and let the nation be spared from the exhibitions which we have witnessed during the last two or three weeks.—Morning. Chronicle. The Colony of Sierra Leone has been proved, by mournful experience, to be the grave of Eu ropeans—the very ebarnel-house of our foreign service. It was expected that long before this it would have been abandoned. The experi ment of fixing a „military station on this pesti lential coast has been.a.costly one to this coun try both in money and • lives. The interests of economy, as well as of humanity, call for its , abolition ; but still, though every wind that blows from that inhospitable region wafts to us the news of some fresh fatality, our Govern ment as tenaciously clings to the desperate pro ject of turning this settlement to some good count,, as if the picture of desolation and misery which it j.ii\iseSt r s were relieved by a single ray of hope ? Is this infatuation, or is there some in fluence stronger than the consideration of saving both money and life, from being uselessly squandered on this horrible place, that causes it still to be retained . by renewed sacrifices of both ? A Correspondent wishes to know who the Secretary or Agent for this Colony is—what is the amount of his salary for the same, and what other situation he holds ? Also, who the Agent for the Royal African Corps is; and who actually, pockets the emoluments there of? We would reccommend this subject as one which the Finance Committee should give their serious attention to, if they really intend to make use of the powers vested in them, to enable the Duke of Wellington to carry his pro mises of retrenchment into effect. We under stand that, however profitless the Government finds the Colony of Sierra Leone to be, Mr. Macauley of anti-slavery notoriety, does not find it quite so barren a speculation. He has an establishment there, and a commission of 2 1 per per cent. on every slave captured and released. That is, the Captains have so much per slave from Government, for the re-capture—the re mittance is made through Mr. Macauley, who charges a commission of 2 per cent. This pretty little bonus upon his exertions in the cause of the Negro is. very well calculated to keep his sensibilities upon that subject alive.— Morning Herald. The determination of Government not to per mit the Portuguese Refugees to remain longer assembled together at Plymouth, is one which, however it may excite the displeasure of those who view them as objects of sympathy and in terest, merely because they are part of a refrac tory minority, of. Portuguese opposed to the established and ancient institutions of their country, will not fail to receive the approbation of all candid and honourable minds. The single question for the British Government was, whether these foreigners could be allowed to remain in England in a state of open and undisguised or ganization, and for the purposes of declared and irreconcileable hostility t o the su p reme autho rity actually existing in Portugal, w thous a viola tion of that titutiality which Great Britain piof es „„ toward- the two political parties who have been sarnegling for dominion n, that country ? If ther e et•ei- ba , c been difficulty in the soltoio' hi, que..tion, it was removed when t he depot. Ur P1)1110 1 1:11 44. :indlid to tipeiate as an encouci:g:. - - to such of the Br;izilian party as yet remained in Portogii, prong the agitation of that coun xty and to In viewed by then, as a convenient and flottpilaide refttg,, to o h:ch they night at any time beta!(e thei»selve, , , in the event of their machina tions at home exciting any livrly attention, or any warm rev-mment on the part of the existing Government. if in these circumstances the British Government had not determined to disperse this army of determined foes to the authority of Don Aliguel, and to abolish this rendezvous, which offered and afforded'a welcome, the most gratifying and seductive, to all Portuguese whom political dis content, or military insubordination, or civil crime, might impel to abandon their country, it would have proved its profession of neutrality to be a mockery, and have exposed itself to the charge of maintaining and upholding upon the shores of Britain an establishment ,hostile alike to the! welfare and the peace and the morals of ano ther European nation, , The duty pf Great Britain to act as she has done was equally imperative, whether we *topsider her as pledged to neutrality towards the several parties in Portugal, or merely as a member of the great European commu nity of civilized nations. To foment disorder anij to encourage crime among the subjects, even of a hostile State, in one of the most equivocal, as it is one of the most odious rights of war. But inde pendently of these considerations of morality and good faith—the highest arid moat important of all-national interests—Great Britain has ,other in terest, which, although subordinate to these, is equally distinct, in the removal of the Plymouth depot. It is quite certain that this rendezvous of rortuguese discontent and ,criminality .could not have existed without attracting to this country a continually increased number of Portuguese, expa triated, some on account of political feelings, and some, who probably ere long would have been the majority, for moral as well as legal crime. It was at least probable that the whole of these would in the end be left dependent, as the Spanish refugees new are, upon the charitable bounty of this coun try. This . was a termination of the affair to which the British Government, with the experience it, has already had, was bound to look. We under stand, however, that the agents of Don Pedro have determined to remove the whole body of Por tuguese refugees to the Brazils. If they do so, it is well. In this case the very wise and pro per resolution of the British Government will have been more successful than we• could have anticipa ted. We shall, however, be inclined to withhold our belief that they are going, until we know that they are actually gone. We anticipated that ere long it would have become our duty (and this anti cipation is not yet at an end) to plead in their be half to the British people, the necessity of preser ving them from starvation, for the honour of Eng land and from feelings of humanity; and this duty, whenever called upon, we shall even now not hesi tate fo discharge. Although we despise the Portu guese enemies of Don Miguel . for the cowardice they have repeatedly displayed, and particularly at Oporto—although we despise them still more, and loathing be added to our contempt, for the kissings, and huggings, and triumphant yells, in which, like assassins as well as cowards, they indulged before the eyes of Britons at the Plymouth Theatre, when General Stubbs announced the death of Don Miguel —notwithstanding all this, having once been received in England, in England they must Pot be permitted to starve. We shall therefore sin . cerely rejoice if they are conveyed to the Brazils, or any where else, so that we may be relieved from the painful task of appealing to the charity of our countrymen on behalf of men in whose favour we could certainly never plead any thing hut their circumstances of hopeless destitution.— The honourable neutrality of England demands, however, that these enemies of the established Go vernment of Portugal should not be permitted to leave her shores, equipped as an expedition against any part of the Portuguese territories; while on the other hand the humanity of the English Govern ment must forbid it to set them afloat upon the high seas unarmed, to fall without resistance into the hands 8f the Power they have justly offended. The only course which reconciles these opposing difficul ties seems to be that of giving them an English con voy to the place of their avowed destination.— Morning Post. To those who regretted the secession of Mr. Hus kisson and his colkague, Mr. Grant, from office, it must be gratifying to learn that the accounts from . every quarter of the kingdom attest the wisdom of the measures which were introduced under their sanction, and in support of which, when in office, they had to wage a sort of perpetual . war with the abettors of monopoly, and the enemies of improve ment. Both the ,silk and the glove trade are reviv ing, under the influence of their measu res , f rom t h e shock which British industry sustained in 1825, and instead of reiterated accounts of want of employment and starving workmen, we hear from all quarters that there is a lack of men, but none whatsoever of employ ment. Th^ truth is that those who calculated upon the system of reciprocity being followed by an inunda tion of foreign manufeettneed articles, made their cal eulerons on grounds which experience has chewn to he wholiy untenable. They directed their attention to the simple ingredient labour, and finding that it was unquestionably cheaper on the Continent than in this country, they came immediately to the conclusion that the manufacture of the Continent must also be cieeeper than that of England, and being so, would inevingy supplant the latter in the home as well as in the foreign market. Labour, however, is hot one ingredient of manufeetures, and the cheapness of which in one country as compared with another, it is, perhaps, the easiest of all to overcome. in calculating dee chances of rivalship, every thisg must be calculated—the labour ex pended--the difficulty or facility of commookation— the expense of catriage—the rate of profit—and many others which it would be easy to enumerate, not =tong the invelaive and improving capacities Of the people between whom the rivalry is to take place. Now the opponents of Messo. Huskisson and Grant took none of these things into eoneidera tion, and experience has shown that. they erred in not noticing them ; for not ooly has the silk manu facture greatly improved since the permission to im port French silks at a duty, but we find that even in the article of gloves, where it was confidently averred that we could not hazard an encounter with our Gallic neighbours, the superiority of the latter is rapidly giving way. In November, 1827, 5,714 dozens were imported ; and during the last month only 2,720; being a falling off of more than one half the amount of last year, and a growing superio rity on the part of the English manufacturer in the same proportion during the present. Of the silk manufacture we have no official testimony to such a late date; but we have good reason to believe that when it comes to be produced, it will be even more satisfactory. An•equally undoubted evidence, how ever, of the truth of the principles on which Messrs. Huskisson and Grant legislated, is to be found in the conduct of foreigners. The former gentleman de clared that, however they might object, in the first in stance, to the western of reciprocity, they would ultimately find their interest in embracing it; andtin proof of his prediction, the Government of the United States, which first objected to it, would now gladly avail itself of its benefits; while a Com mercial Committee of inquiry has been appointed in France, and, as we have the best authority for stat ing, for the express purpose of establishing the - com merce of France on the same basis as that of this country! A nobler testimony could. not well be af forded to the valuable services which Mr. Huskis son has rendered to his country, nor a prouder conso lation, were he in want of any, under his banishment from °dice.--Ll7orntng Adwrtiser. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. AFFOINTMENTB FOR THIS WEEK. The Sinnintun Fox,hounds, on Friday, ut Marton-- at nine. 'Elie York City 1 - lArrierv;on Friday, at Huntington— at half-past ten. The Boroughbridge Harriers, on Friday ; at Milby—at half-past ten. The Marquis of Cleve Fox-houndq, on FrAl, a Noin4n,s Boor, at half-put ten; and Saturday, at Stone bridge, Laver 13anks, at eleven, the Northumberland Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Nether witton—at ten, Sir R. Pulestou's Hounds, on F r id ay, at Halton Hall —at eleven. Mr. Wickitead's Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Aqualate.— at half-past ten. Sir T. Sykes's Fox-bounds, on Friday, at Knapton Plantation—at ten. The I'lurworth Fox-hounds, on Friday, at Neasham— at tea. MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY. --- A ninner ckto Meeting cf this Society took place yesterday, a t w hi ch Mr. crown, of the British Museum, was declared expelled, by a majority of six. Earl Stanhope was in the Chair. AFFAIR OF I-lONOUR.—We have heard a "coating rumour of an affair of a delicate nature, which occurred lately in Belfast. We do not, however, vouch fur the accurkzy of our statement. It is said that a certain Noble Marquis has sworn informations against a learned and rather dogmatic Barrister, for having delivered to him a hostile message from a gentleman who has lately been lather reluctantly introduced into th e Law Courts, in consequence of having rashly ventured into the holy state of matrimony. This Mr. con ceiving sonic insult (a very erroneous conception, we are told) offered to his fair sister, lately on a visit to the Nyrth, forthwith deputed the aforesaid lawyer to demand an apology, or a meeting. The Courts above are likely, we have been told, to finally settle the matter.—Northern Whig, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. There was a novel but useful decision at this office yesterday, respecting the delivery of parcels. to the inhabitants of the outskirts of the Metropolis. The porter at the White Horse-inn, Fetter-lane, was charged with demanding more than the legal porterage for a basket of game, which had arrived at the above inn from Swaffham, directed to Wm: Berry, Esq., of Kennington. The carriage was paid at Swaffham, and the porter, instead of forwarding the baSket by one of the coaches from the poulterer's at the end of Fleet-market, or the Kiugs and Keys in Fleet -street, which :would have entitled him to only 3d. porterage, carried it to the Cress Keys in Graceehurch-street, which entitled him to Bd. por terage, according to the distance, and from thence it was conveyed to Kennington by the errand -cart. The charge for conveying it from the inn to its destination was Is. 6d., and it reached Mr. Berry at seven o'clock in the evening instead of one o'clock in the day. Mr. Berry, therefore, complained, not only of the additional porterage, but the delay from taking it to the carrier instead of to the nearest coach. Mr. Alderman LticAs decided that a porter car rying a parcel to the farthest instead of the . nearest coach, for the sake of increasing his porterage, was not entitled to such increase, and he fined the de fendLnt The porter immediately paid the fine. BOW-STREET. Daniel Heath alias John Loyd, the attorney's clerk who stands charged with bigamy, was yester day brought forward to be re-examined. Basjamin Parrott stated that he was a broker, and liven in Cromer-street. About 14 years ago he knew the father and mother of Caroline Charreneau who lived opposite to him •in Cromer-street. The father owned some billiard-tables, he also kept a sma:l shop in Cromer-street Remembered the daughter, Caroline Charreneau; she was afterwards married to the prisoner, and became Mrs. Heath. Witness was not present at the marriage, but had always understood that it took place. Mr. My:swum—How long is it since you saw the woman whom you knew as Caroline Charre neau ? Witness-1 saw her about a fortnight ago. Mr. MINSHULL observed, that the fact of the first wife being living a fortnight ago established a case against the prisoner. Mr. Harmer, who appeared for the prisoner, ad mitted that there was now sufficient evidence against hill to warrant a committal. Mr. IVIINSHULL having made -up. his mind to send the prisoner for trial, another examination could not . be objected to. He therefore directed the second wife and the other witnesses in the case to attend again on Wednesday next. The prisoner was then removed in custody. At a very late hour last night Devkin, the night constable of Kentish-town, brought in custody to this office a man named John Pace, who is cha rge d with being o ne o f a gang of four housebreakers who committed a burglary at the house of a lady named Mountain, who-resides at Whetstone, near Barnet. Mrs. Mountain, the lady whose house was broken into, is the widow of Mr. Mountain, the coach pro prietor, of the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill. George Lawrence, the gardener, deposed as fol lows :—On the night of -the 22d of October last I locked the outer gate of the shrubbery, and -bolted and barred the hall-door, leaving the female ser vant to secure the ,upper part of the house. I then went to bed, and was awoke about half-past one o'clock in the morning by the female servant, who, knocking at my door, cried out, " Gardener, gardener, there are thievea in the house; for God's sake get up, or we shall all be murdered." At the same moment I heard some persons knocking at the hall-door. I lifted up my bed-room window and looked out, .but could see no one. I then partly dressed myself, and taking a cord from my box, I tied it to the foot of my bed, and lowered myself down into the garden, a height of about fifteen feet. I took my gun with me, which was loaded with slugs, As soon as I descended, I perceived four men running with all speed from the outer iron door which leads into the hall, and which had been very strongly secured. As soon as the men saw me they all ran away, and I pursued them. I presented my gun towards them, and said, " If you do not stop, I will blow your brains out." They did not mind me, but continued running, and I then presented the gun at them a second time, and pulled the trig ger, but the gun missed fire, and did not go off. I continued in pursuit of the men, who were running tom:n:s. the gate. I came up with one of the men (the prisoner) jtzst as he was turning round the cor ner of the shrubbery-walk. I raised the gun and struck the prisoner, either on the head or the shoul ders, a violent blow with the barrel, and knocked him, into a laurel in the shrubbery. I did not stop to secure the prisoner, believing that I had disabled him, but continued to pursue the other three men. Two of them, in forcing through the shrubbery gate, ran against the bell wire, and broke it. They got clear- off. The third man was in the act of getting o:verthe gate also, when I knocked him off with a blow of the e!m, which broke the stock in two. The man cried out, think you have broken sny ; I give myself up." I then took him into custody . , AO brought him with me to Whetstone, where I delivered him into the hands of the con stable at that place. The man Iso secured was tried arid convicted last Friday upon my evidence at the Old Bailey. Mr. Maism.u.L—Are you quite sure that the pri soner is the man whom you struck and knocked, as you say, into the laurel.;—Witness—l am quite posi tive that the prisoner is the man. 7.,t was . a beauti ful moonlight morning, and I could not be mistaken in the features of the prisoner. Mr. IVllNstium.—But you tvpre not, perhaps, suf ficiently collected at the time to be eutain of the man's features.—Witness—l was perfectly collected, Sir, Ind felt no alarm until I got over the fence, which was after I had struck the prisoner. Mr. MiNiffp,J, dire'cled the gaoler to place a candie so as the lien should fall directly upon the countenance of the prisoner, who told at the same time to put on his hat. Mr. Mltigsg,t4L—Now, witness, recollect yourself, and look once more ,;',"; the prisoner. The witness again turned - pound, and in the same pog,i;re manner declared that the prisoner was the man : he could no: be mistaken in him. Mr. MINSITULL- cyidence is certainty very contrusive as far as it ha. gone. 3 , 1;.:”llum then eskeki how the prisoner had been taken '? The witness Lawreacg explained, that the day after the burglary had taken pla.ce ; he went to the Sw,4-with-two-Necks public-house at Whetstone, and gave a description there of the man whom he had knocked into the laurel-bush, requesting that if suc 7 l a man should happen to stop there, word should be sent to him at Mrs. Mountain's. Mr. Shearman said that perhaps he could explain the matter more fully. The day after the burglary it was a,scertaiped that four men, answering the de scription of the robbers had been on the night pre vious at the public house called the Swan-with-two- Necks, Whetstone. Directions were agcoNjngly left there, that if any of the men should again call, word Apia() be sent to the witness Lawrence. Ac cordingly, about two o'clock yesterday, the prisoner came to the Swan-witk,two,-Alecks ? driving a cart with fish in it. Intimation was immedigtelV for warded to Lawrence, that a man answering the de scription of the one he had previously described, as having been knocked by him into the laurel-bush; was then at the inn. Lawrence immediately went over to Whetstone, and without any hesitation identified the prisoner, upon , which he was taken into custody. Mr. MiNsHuu. asked the prisoner if be had any thing to say in answer to the charge? he prisoner replied that he had a great deal to say, but he did not wish to enter into his defence at present.--The prisoner was remanded. MARLBOROUG H-STREET. A very decent-looking young female and her hus- I band, named Addington, who have been in custody some days, charged with possessing:several prints and other articles of property belonging to Mr. Tomp kins, the eminent engraver, were brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for examination. IThe brother of the female prisoner had been for some time in the service of Mr.. Tompkins, during which his master Occasionally missed several thinp, but did not suspect the lad,- who was quite ,a youth, until he • absconded altogether, and bad not since been seen or, heard of; although every search bad been made for him in various places, and amongst others at the re'idence of the two prisoners ; and here Mr. Tompkins found,the- prints now produced, his property. It was dear, Mr. Tompkins said;that. the prisoners knew nothing-of the prints they had got hold of, or their value ; for,, in fact, there was when he lost them no less than five different prints in each frame, one placed at the back of another, he having so arranged them himself for safety and con venience when he should want them, and they are all still in the same state. Every one of the prints, although small, Mr. Tompkins said, was of consider able value, and aome of them had, in fact, been lent to him as a favour by Lady Diana Beauclerk to make engravings from, and he was quite ashamed and grieved at not being able to return them sooner. In searching a box belonging to the youth who has ab peonded, a book was also found which had been stolen from a private drawer in Mr. 'J'ompkins's house, and the recovery of which, Mr. Tompkins said, gave him the utmost satisfaction,' for it was a book of so atrocious a nature, that he greatly fe are d same junior member of his own family might have got hold of it. _ _ Mr. DYER had looked at this book, and although he had occasion often, in the course of his life, to have books of a very infamous nature submitted to his inspection, all that he had ever seen or beard of fell far short of this detestable publication. All the abominations that ever degraded or debased huma nity must have been concentrated in the mind of the author of this work; and, indeed, the wretch who could have sat down to pen it must have been in the fullest sense of the terms " hostis humani generis ;" it was totally impossible that any of the youth of either sex, to whose eyes the blighting curse of this volume was applied, could escape utter and irremediable ruin. So entirely horror-struck were his (the Magistrate's) senses on perusing only two pages of it, that he dropped it from his hands with an involuntary shudder of disgust, and he could not venture again to look at it, or even to submit it to the inspection of any of his brother Magistrates ; for this reason, too, he was ignorant of where it was published, or what its date was. Mr. Tompkins said that he has bad this book in his possession for upwards of 40 years; for about . that time since he was acquainted intimately with a young man, a friend of his, who had by some acci dent got hold of this book, and lent it to him, Mr. Tomkins, to read, but on perusing a few pages of it, he found it to be of so diabolical a description that he determined never to return it, or let it go into the world from his hands again, and he never did afterwards part with it, but instantly sealed it up, and placed it in one of his private drawers, where it remained in that state until a few months ago, when he missed it. Mr. DYER asked Mt. Tompkins how he wished to have the book now disposed of ?—Mr. Tomp kins said, that his desire by all means was to have it destroyed immediately. Mr. DYER said, that this was precisely the sort of answer be expected from a gentleman of Mr. Tomp kins's respectability; and he (Mr. Dyer) would see that the book should be destroyed in his own pre sence.—The prisoners were remanded. The driver of the hackney chariot No. 18, was summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. Dyer, the magistrate, which was preferred before Mr. SHARP, a county magistrate, who sat on the bench, for driving an incompetent chariot. The defendant admitted the bad state of the vehicle to the full extent described by the magistrate, but said that he was really so poor, he could not af ford to have it mended. The defendant was then convicted . in 10s., the highest penalty the act allows for this offence, and the costs, which not being able to pay, he was com mitted to prison. A notice was yesterday forwarded from the Judges of the Court of King's Bench to Sir George Far rant, the magistrate at this office, under whose com mitment William Smith, Esq., in custody of a charge of rape, was lodged in Newgate the day before, re quiring the magistrates to have the depositions taken before him in the case produced in the Court of - King's Bench before the Lord Chief Justice thereof, at the hour of three o'clock that afternoon, on an application to be then made on the part of the pri soner, that the court would allow him to go at large upon sufficient bail unto the sessions in which his trial is to take place; and in pursuance of this notice Mr. Bishop, one of the clerks of the office, was directed by the Magistrate to be in attendance in court at the hour named, with the'depositions of the witnesses in the ewe. A habeas was also served in the early part of the day upon Mr. Wontner, the Governor - of Newgate, requiring him to produce Mr. Smith in 'the Court of King's Bench at the same hour... (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) • • On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Smith was removed. to NeWgate, and immediately afterwards numerous affidavits, tending to show the falsehood of the charge, and the infamous :character of the parties making it, were laid before Mr. Justice Bayley, who immediately granted ati habeas corpus for the defendant to be brought before a Judge to be bailed. Mr. Smith was accordingly taken yesterday after noon before Mr. Justice Park, who, after perusing the various papers, said, he thought it a fit case to adm4 to bail, and that he should not require the sureties 'to enter into hravy reeognizenees. The Learned Judge then directed the defendant to give segarity, himself in MI., and four persons in 30/. each. This was immediately done ? and the defend,- ant liberated. Jane Byrne, the prosecutrix, and her witness, Elizabeth Roebuck, attended at the Judge's cham bers for upwards of two hours; and Jane went be fore the Judge to oppose two of the bail; but on the gentlemen being finestioned, they gave the most sa tisfactory answers. • An extraordinary fact. respecting Roebuck hqs been ascertained in consequence of 'the publication of the evidence in the Times, which is, that about six years ago she - rpade -a charge of rape against a re spectable publican in Holborn, which was so palpa bly false, that' although she swore positively to the fact, the Magistrates et I . s9w-street e3ercised their good sense and discretion, and discharged theaccpsed. MARYLEBONE. - ROBBERY AT THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S.--A gentleman came to the office yesterday morning, and said he thought he could give Mr. Rawlinson some information whi,ch might lead to a discovery of the thieves. At a quarter past three on Tuesday afternoon, he W 45 4?04t to enter the door of his Excellency's house, in Portiandrplace i for the par- pose of obtaining a passport, and an old man came' up to him from the corner of the street and told him he must go round to another entrance, in Wey inoutil7.strppt, iir;tl showed him the way. He after wards saw the old IN, pprne up the area steps from the ground offices of the house; he then thought the circumstance extraordinary, for his appearance was too shabby to justify a supposition that he belonged 0 they establishm ent o f t h e P r i nce , or that be had an y iawfui cKeuiie fqr being in the area; and sine he had read of the roz 4 er y iy the pewspaperS, he could not divest his mind of a SPPPQitii4/4 was privy to, if not an accomplice In, it, Mr. RAWLINSON had no doubt the individual noticed by the gentleman was an old man who gets his bread by sweeping the streets opposite the Am patisudor's house, and showing strangers the way to the pasfp9ttlee; and he immediately ordered Dutch, the o leer, to fetch him. He was the person wanted, 'and the following inquiries ensued Mr. RAWLINSON—.-Well, old man, you sweep the crossing opposite the French Ambassador's house; was you there yesterday ? Old man--All day long your Worship, till about three o'clock. Mr. ItAwuNsoN—You stopped a gentleman yes terday afternoon from going in at the door, and showed him the way to the office. I stops a good many gentlemen in the course of : the week, your Worship. GentleMan—And 1 was obliged to give you 6d. to get - rid "of you. Thank,.yokir Honour, you did: Mr.,RAWLINSAN—You have been told you must . not ask for money. , • only moves my, hat, your Worship; I moved my hat to this gentleman,. your Worship, and fold him I was,very poor; but I ax'd for nothing. Mr. ItAwuNs9N-.—He saw you come up the area steps of the Ambassador's house, between three and four o'clock; what bleiiness had you.there ? I had been to warm myself, your Worship. Mr. RAWLINSON--W here? In the sarvants'-hall. `f Do you go to the servants'-hall whenever you please?" said Mr. RAW LINSON. Whenever I wants a bit of a warm. Mr. RAWLINSON—And you get a bit of dinner there sometimes, I suppose. " No, never," replied the old man, emphatically, for the sarvants are all at board wages. Mr. RAWLINSON—How many people do you sup poSe go down the area-steps in the course of the day ? " God knows, a great many." " Do you ever see Jew clothesmen go down with bags ?", " Yes, often," replied the old man, and added somewhat testily, "but I don't stop there to watch the place, and I shall never go to warm my self no more." Mr. RAwuNspN told him not to feel angry, for no one suspected him, and he might go about his business. - The servant who was in the butler's pantry last, previous to the robbery, declares he locked the door; but it was found unlocked, and the skeleton key left behind does not fit it, and the Magistrates cannot see why a thief stealing in broad day-light should carry with him a phosphorous-box and dark lantern. OLD BAILEY, DEC. 10. SINGULAR PROSECUTION. lir. Maxwell Campain, a respectable-looking youth, aged 19, was indicted for stealing eighteen sovereigns, :the property of George Milne, in the dwelling-house of D. Griffiths. Mr. BODKIN stated the case for the prosecution. The prosecutor stated that he lives at Hamp stead, and is a butcher, in the employ of Mr. Grif fiths, and so was the prisoner. On the day named. in the indictment he missed 18 sovereigns, which were previously safe in his box. They were never missed till the 23d of November, wheu he 'went to his box. There was no mark upon the sovereigns by which he could identify them from others of the. King's coin. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The pi isoner did not sleep in the same room with me, but other persons did. Mr. Griffiths (or Mr. Griffin) was here called by Mr. BODKIN, when he admitted that both the accused and the accuser were in his employ, and when the charge was made by one against the other, 6/. 16s. was found in his (the prisoner's) box. Mr. Sergeant ARAISIN told Mr. Bodkin that there was no offence proved, nor, if he might judge by the depositions, was there likely to be. Mr. CLARKSON then said that he had eight wit nesses to prove— The COURT interposed, and said that there was nothing upon which to put the prisoner on his de fence. Mr. CLARKSON replied, that he was convinced of that fact, but for the sake of the respectable youth at the bur, he was bound to state that eight witnesses were in Court of high character and respectability, some of whom would prove when and from what source the money found in the box of his client was furnished. He concluded by observing that it was a most scandalous commitment. Mr. Sergeant ARABIN ' without further r emar k, told the jury that there did not appear to be any charge against the young man which could be sub stantiated, end directed an acquittal. Verdict—not Guilty. The sessions having terminated, the RECORDER, who had succeeded Mr. Sergeant Arabin, proceeded from the Old to the New Court, and pronounced the sentences upon the prisoners who had been convicted of the offences upon which they had been committed. The awful sentence of death upon the following 24 unhappy individuals, viz.:— For Housebreaking—Edward Nightingale, aged 34; William Humphreys, 19; Joseph Mott, 23 ; William Morley, 21; Thomas Ouseby, 20; Edwin Harris, alias Nutting, alias Coombe, 21 ; and Wm. Woodward, 21. (Ti'e two last prisoners pleaded far mercy on the ground that they had committed. no personal violence.) For uttering base coin, having been previously convicted. John Ponsonby, alias Greenwood, 59. (The prisoner pleaded d►stress, and expressed his contrition.) Stealing in Dwelling-houses--Wm. Wood, 23; Edward Rowley, 22; and Robert Sherstone, 23. (When this prisoner was asked the usual question, he said, "I accused myself, and acknowledged the offence, in order to protect imocent individuals against whom suspicion lay.") Horse-stealing—William Deacon, 21; Thomas Brooks, 22. Sheep-stealing—John Lovell, 36 ; Thos Eyre, 38. Burglary—Peter Glennon, 19; William Jones, 19; and John Price 24. Returning from Transportation—Charles Yeates, alias W. Smith, alias Chat es Coombe, 30. Highway Robbery—John Attridge, 16 ; James Wheeler, 21 ; Daniel John Quay, 17. (The two latter are part of • the Bethnal-green Guy Faux's gang, w ho committed plunder on the sth of Novem ber last.) High Treason James Coleman, 23. (This prisoner was ordered to be drawn upon a sledge from the prison to the plate of execution.) Forgery—Matthew Reilly, 20. When Mr. Shelton said to the prisoner, " You Stpc) convicted of forgery, what have you to say why you should pot receive judgment IQ die accord ing to law ?" • The prisoner, with arms a-kimbo, came to the front of the dock (Ind betokened that he wished to be heard. His youth and respectable appearance im mediately superseded the necessity of 'a call for si lence. The prisoner then said, "My Lord, what is the reason or that lineation being put to me ? Is it merely prpfor•tna, or that your Lordship expects me to give an answer to it ?" Slr. Shelton—lt is put to you for the purpose of your stating any objection you may think proper. Prisoner—l certainly have an objection, and were you in my plaee, Sir, you would. linconpn—Allow me to entreat you to consider the awful and melancholy situation in which you stand. You must receive sentence of death. You are not to dispute the law; but if you can show just cause why it should not be enforced, the Court will be very glad to hear you. Prisoner—The Judges who tried me neglected to ppint out to the Jury the different times on which I was stated to be insane. My frirnd4 C4llle f.pwurd and showed that I was insane, and - the inference might have been that I was at the , time the offence was committed. RECORDER--I did not try you, but I haie no 0011}}t ;141.t that your case underwent mature con. sideration, and th 4 the jniy, after a deliberate con sultation, decided that pit were sane wten you cbrn mitted the offence, or, in other words, that you knew whether you were doing right or wrong. • Prisoner—Then, my Lord, I wish that my obser i vations may reach a higher Court. RECORDER—Depend upon it that your case will go tier s , an d r e ee iva full investigation—the Secre tary of State is ever ready to lieten to every thing which persons placed in your unfortunate sin , can urge. The prisoner then b o w e d relpeet f u lt y to t h e and retired. Transportation for life.Will;am Curnuro Jeremiah St. Leger, Richard Cation, Wm. George Smith, and W. Wyse. The last-named prisoner was tried and couvi at the September Sessions 'of stealing notes large amount belonging to the bankers at' when a point was reserved for the considers decision of the Twelve Judges. For Fourteen Years' Transportation, Pratt, Sarah Smith, Robert Mills, Caroline Thomas Bird, Margaret Boylan, Mary Price, Crossley, and Elizabeth Gray. For Seven Years' Transportation.---, Walters, Edward Leed, John Clark, Wu]. Wm. Cole, John Parsons, George Will Reynolds, John Jennings, Elisabeth Murphy Hastings, John Murrell, Mary Anne Croster, Walker, John Basil, James Baylis, Joseph Jane Moses, James Jackson, Ellen Burgess, Maliony, Elizabeth Wetherall, Christian Grasv Clark, John Markham, Thomas Parnell, Gee. Mary Stewart, Mary Brien, Wm. Wright, Clark, William Taylor, Anne Walker, H, diner, Thomas Fitzgerald, Julia Welsh, Brown, Joseph Dornier,"'John Walker, Edwards, Sarah Quin, Mary Clifford, Mary Beverly, John Keen, Eliza Dwyer, Joseph and George Knight. For Two Years' Imprisonment in the Correction, and to be kept to Hard Labor Todd and John Seabrook. Francis Sweeney, and James King meat, and hard labour, for 18 months. John Stephens, Ana Robert Stanley, and Jones—lmprisonment, and hard labour, for months. W. Godfrey, W. Johns, John Lane, W. Sarah Ashley, Dennis Hayles Hannah ssnart, Tidd, Alexander Monrow, Alexander Moi James Latimer—lmprisonment for six mow hard labour. Eliz. Davis and. John Robertson—lmps for four months and hard labour. James Marshall—lmprisonment for three hard labour, and one private whipping. John Ryan, Eliz. Luffen, James Faller, Brown, Mary Hill, Thomas Johnson, Thomas ger, Thomas Collard, Robert Hayditton, J brook, Thomas Johnson, John Forrester Richardson, John Morgan, Daniel O. Richard Knight, and John Ryan--Imprison three months and hard labour. James Edwards and Thomas Thomas—lnar ment for two months and hard labour. • James Webb - -Imprisonment for six weeks, labour, and to be publicly whipped near the where the felony took place. William Davis, George Floward, James Sa Sarah Cootes, Jane Smith, Ann Bonner, Tb' Howell, George Springham, and John Hall prisonment for six months, and hard labour. George Pearson--Imprisonment for one 0 34 hard labour, and to be whi ppe d. 'Mary Slade, Caroline M'Cann, John ', O rville Long, John Steele, Mary Woods, Joseph Thomas Mullins, Wm. Henderson, Joseph U 7 ' Susan Haley, Daniel Daniels, Wm. Thomas, J il l Mullis, S ara h G r iffi t h , J . Baker, Sarah Kec° —lmprisonment for one month, and hard labogr' Ann Malony—lmprisonment for three weelo7 o hard labour. Catharine Long, James Pearce, John Han/ Mary Greavea, and Hannah Connor, alias Dr' —lmprisonment for fourteen days in Newigate. Wm. Brown, :John Mahoney, Wm. Hood," ,i Brown, George Brown, Th omas H ug h es , Humplireys,John Simmons, John Thompson, Martin, Ben. Colston, Edw. Brett—to be whip and discharged. . 1 ) The Sessions was then adjourned to the 15. 1 January. On Friday a party of twely©, at-the Duke; Norfolk's, For n ham, kill e d 9'7 brace of Prielointo 001 . 1 ,01 brace of hares. This rather di s proves tiny state l which we h a v e h ear d _ o f the scarcity of game 1 0 4 neighbourhood. Nearly as great a quantity, in provvi to the number of guns, was killed on the same daly Culford, the estate of R. 13enyon De Beauvoir, Esq.; joining that of his Grace.--Bury Retold. Amongst the improvements making by j Duke of Bedford in Covent-garden Market, it is V • hoped that certain spots will be allotted for the P A / basket-women, from whence they might be called s(' wanted, instead of bein g a ll owe d, as at present, to t ( every person that enters the market, particularly f e te " 11 , We regret to h ear th a t M r . J o h n M art i or , celebrated historical painter and engraver, hat been 0 t d in consequence of the accident which he met with gardens of the Zoological Society, to attend the dllt9 his profession for the last two months. The conssl!) will be a postponement of the publication of his tft, print, as a companion t o hi s splend i d productions of Deluge," " Belshauer's Feast," and Joshtutent st ras 9 , the Sun to stand still ,;" but it i s sa ti s f ac t ory to fiat., be is rapidly recovering the use of his hand. A BIRTHS. fr On the Bth inst., in Frederick's-place, the lady of v,, Lloyd, Esq, of a son: d ad On the Bth inst., in Queen-square, the lady of f' William Mason, Esq., of a sou. On the 4th inst., at South-town, Kenton, Devon, o f I cis Anne, wife of Lieutenant H. A. Corneck, still-horn child, a daughter. ol On the 9th inst.,• the lady of S. J. Allen, Beg . ' Batheaston Villa, of a son. On the Bth inst., Mrs. B. Hopkinson, of Red square, of a daughter. Stol ,~.:.~ . , 11:1( kw; the 29 AI 161 /46:14 6 4 ,1 5, kaol othile % a 1 tevi , ,7 "eal Wi te. AN,. 64 Y, k,tha h kb, 44 1 31ri Nith MARRIED. ty,„ On the 9th inst., at D ow d esete ll , h Gloucestershrrf' Ura l he Rev. Charles Cov e y, M.A., William Morris, for • R.N., son of the late Robert Morris, Esq., 1141 .„P•„ „„, Gloucester, to Ann R ogers , d aug h ter o f t h e Rev. 1 - 4 ' • It iot i ori Coxwell, rect or o f th e f ormer p l ace. Is m3'On the 10th i ns t., a t Mi nster , I s l e o f Thanet, Penny Hillman Esq., of Sydenham, eldest son o f th 2 Junes Hillman, Esq., many years of his Majesty's F,r si li yard at Deptford, to A nn , on l y d aug h ter o f William "A ~11 Esq., of the above place. On the 9th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, the !A l' ''. 2 1 , 141 _ R. P. Goldsworthy Tiddeman, ALA., of Magd a len 1 1r 14 : , 2! Oxford, to Elizabeth Francis, second daughter 'O l Richard Hilliard, of Stockwell-place, Surrey. th. On the 6th inst., at St. J ames ' s , Cl er k enwe ll , hi Rev. .Francis Daman, Mr. George Olding, sure:of Ifigh-street, Borongb; to Mary A9n,'eldeat d oo m? William Watson, Esq., of R e d Li on - street , , Cl er k eu On the 6th inst., at St. Ma r y' s , Lambe th , by . th e #' Charles Turner, John Tucker, Esq., of Gloucester-10s Queen-square, to Sarah, only surviving daughter 0 late Mr. John Henry Wilkinson. On the 10th inst., a t S t . G eorge ' s , H ano ver-squar e . li t , the Rev. Edward Rose Breton, Edward Frederick D Esq., to Lucy, daughter of the late Peter Breton, gq i Southampton. t 'r, an "dlovri 4 ' th• DIED. s t ir On the 7th inst. at her house, Palmer's-green, 9 , 1 1 1 0, gate, in her 82d year, Sarah Lewis, relict of the late Lewis, Esq., of Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. On the 7th inst., William Saprell, Esq., of Bristol- pla t' On the 9th inst., at Wa!worth, Surrey, aged 42+ %ph' garet Barnard, third daught er o f th e l ate spp ti o mph of Gracechnrch-street. N A On the 9th inst., Mr. To Fakeloth, of place, Hackney, late of F ou l m i re , Cambridgeshire, egach4" On the 7th inst., aged 51, Robert Lilly Storks' of Grove-hill-terrace, Camberwell, and of Lawren 4 . - London. On the 9th inst., at Wpstgrltain, in lieut., the inptp t nir the Rev. R. L. Adigns, aged one week. Jel e l ) On the VIII inst., at Tottenham, the Rev. Shrimpton Brooksbank, aged 35. Lately, in Queen -street, May-fair, Louisa, the ! ilk the Rev. J. M. Turner, rector of Wilmslow, Ch! shir e ' o o On the 10th inst. Mrs. W. G. H arr i s , l a t e of ,„, bridge, Wilts, in her 30th year. Legh (late Miss Turner, whose ease created 0 sympathy of the public :er large), wilt of /ifr. 11 1. 0 1 , Legh, E . 0 Esq., M.P., of Legone P ar k, o f a s till-born. 7., On the 4th inst. in the-Clapham-road, in the 67th /T 4 of her age, Mrs. Ann Wild, relict of the late Jobn Esq. of Martin's-lane. 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