The Sun. — London, England, 1828-01-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC .TOURNkT,S. The rumours yesterday morning—and they were confirmed in the evening—were, that the members of the old Administration, who were not included in the new, were gone down to Windsor to resign their seals ; and that the Duke of Wellington would give his first cabinet-dinner to the new Ministry on the same day (yesterday). All this was very pro bable ; and the going down to Windsor was exe cuted. But then, why were not the new appoint ments gazetted last night, for which there was ample time ! What ! a hitch still ? The expres sions of the Duke of Wellington, quoted in our paper of yesterday morning, against his at any time accepting of the Premiership, have appalled the public. The union of that office with the Com mandership-in-Chief is a measure of a fearful cha racter indeed. And we call it, of course, the retention of the Commandership-in - Chief by his Grace, if he should put in Lord Hill or Lord Dale, or any other Lord whom he has had under his orders, and still keeps under his hatches. This would be Ju bus Cesar and Marcus Bibulus ; that is, it would be Julius CTsar's self and Julius Caesar ! A commander-in-chief of the army and a commander in-chief of all the civil powers of the realm, being the same person, has nothing to do but to desire the King of England to live in soft ease and tranquil re tirement at Windsor, or any where else ; and there he must live. Nothing but a civil war could get him out; and who would expose their breasts to the bayonets of the British army, constituted, for ex ample, as is the present; when the orders that should command our obedience would appear to come from the King himself by his legal organs, disobedience to which would be legally, also, the crime of high treason ? Tell not the people of England, that the two offices will reside but for a short time in the came hands. We know the force of precedent. If the time be but short, as it is now professed, during which the offices shall reside in the same hands, who can promise us that they will not re main longer hereafter? But such an union of powers, so long as it lasts, removes the Crown from the existing dynasty ; and is not only dangerous by the precedent, but fatal by the ac'. The other circumstances connected with the fab ication of this Adnsinistratiou are of less importance, but are still most curious. We recollect it to have been said,-- and we also believe the report to have been essen tially correct—that after Mr. Huskisson's return from the Continent, and when all that fracas about the nomination of Mr. Henries to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer sprung up, he, Mr. Huskisson, then most solemnly declared it; the presence of him who is still the highest personage of the realm, that " no consideration whatever should at any time in duce him to join those persons who had been the cause of his friend Canning's; death," or words to that effect ; and that this declaration was received with the warmest applause of him to whom it was addressed. " This, Huskisson, is what I know your noble mind would feel upon the occasion, and it does you credit." And yet, what are we to believe now ? That Mr. Huskisson h"c joined tl:e men whom he then repudiated, and that the personage above cited has sanctioned the union ? Lady, lately Mrs. Canning, appears to believe this; for we find chat she personally addressed the warmest remon strances to the supposed offender on the subject, charging him with ingratitude to the best of friends, and informing him the Duke of Portland, she knew, joined in these her feelings. And yet, if we take Mr. Huskisson from the Ministry (if Ministry it be to be), what other capable advocates have we fur the liberal principles to which all ranks and conditions of men have so frankly wedded themselves? And so, indeed, has Mr. Huskisson replied, asserting that he has not departed from one single political principle ; free trade, and the Corn bill as it was proposed last year, having been fully conceded to him as measures of Government, and it being agreed that the Duke of Wellington and Lord Bathurst are to carry the measures through ! Yet, if the union were fully justifiable on these principles, (and perhaps private friendship, and more especially regard for the deceased, with whom we can never act again, ought not to interfere with public prin ciples), it should at least seem that Mr. Huskisson's reasons have not appeared equally valid to such men as Lord Carlisle, Mr. Sturges Bourne, and Lord Stan ley, wlaohave shrunk from the union. Lord Rosslyn is said to have been offered the Ordnance. It is curious,meanwhi le, to consider what the King's speech can be on the opening of Parliament, proceeding from so heterogeneous a mixture: and time presses. With respect, however, to the recall of the French troops from Spain, and that of the British force from Portugal, it must be recollected that these measures were arranged by Mr. Canning.—Tinzes. The period has, at length, nearly arrived when Ministers should enter into some financial arrange ments satisfactory to the country, as the supplies for the current year must, in part, be voted almost as soon as Parliament meets. It will be recollected that the greater part of the money laid out day by day by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, has, of late, been obtained from the sale of Exche quer Bills, by which no reduction of debt takes place, but an exchange only from a safe to a most unsafe and dangerous debt, This fallacious measure of finance ought to be put an end to immediately, par ticularly as (for the current year) no surplua what ever over the expenditure can be contemplated to arise, in consequence of the loss of upwards of two millions from the expiration of the contract with the Bank of the Dead Weight Annuity. It is, there fore, most probable, that this important subject will come under discussion when Supplies shall be moved, and it will then become a question for the House to decide, whether an addition of five mil lions of Exchequer Bills shall be voted to the thirty at present in circulation, in order to continue the daily purchases of Stock by the Commissioners for the year, while no surplus of Revenue over Expen diture sha!l exist. If our conjecture be right on this point, some strong and important discussions must take place before any money is voted for sup plies of the current year, particularly as those Members who allowed the financial plans for the year 1827 to pass in silence were, we appre hend, influenced not only by a promise of a Fi nance Committee, but by a full expectation that, before any money should be called for in 1828, sound and able finance measures should be of fered to the House by the then Administration. That Administration is now dissolved; therefore dose persons who depended on it to carry such ins. portant plans into execution will not now place the same reliance on the present, either with regard to ,the Dead Weight Sinking Fund, or to the impor tant and essential reductions expected by the coun try from a Com mittee, bu t will, we should suppos e , object to raise any mon e y f or suc h purpose under the existing state of the Revenue, and endeavour at onc e t o s top these financial, trickeries, without wait ing until the end of the Session for a Report of a Finance Committee, w hen every thing is likely to be passed over in the most hurried and improper manner. Should such a course not have the good fortune to be supported by a majority, we imagine the folly of the proposition will be attempted to be practically exposed, by first raising five millions of Exchequer Bills this year, to buy up stock to the Tike amount, a nd, shortly after, b y making a con tract to sell ten or fifteen millions of the very same Stock, by way of loan, for the purchase of which these very Exchequer Bills were created. Notwith standing this manifest folly could he hardly comple ted, yet we anticipate it, only because the public ilas year by year been deluded by the like financial trickery, and by the very persons who compose the presen t Government.—Morning Chronicle. It is an understood matter with Cl ii l stians and Jews ( w e know not what it may be wit Turks) to put always the worst possible construction on lan guage used with respect to any man which admits of a double interpretation. No one who knows the -world will, therefore, feel any astonishment that the following sentence in a contemporary (Tice Times) Pf yesterday, was not construed to the advantage of Mr. Huskisson. "We have heard, it is said, of a very singular stipulation imputed-lo Mr. Huskisson, and which we can hardly credit, unless it be ex plained by some circumstances, or combination of circumstances, which have not come to our know ledge." We, too, haverheard of a very singular sti pulation imputed to the Right Honourable Gentle man, which, without being wanting in Christian charity, we take to be the one alluded to by our Contemporary; namely, that before it was agreed that he should form one of the new Cabinet, it was stipulated that he should abandon his free-trade system, and, more particularly, leave untouched that monopoly from which he himself lately stated the country suffered many times more than from all the other monopolies put together—the monopoly of corn. This report, however, we believe to be a calumny. Supposing Mr. Huskisson to be without principle, the most vulgar self-interest would tell him that the only motive which could induce a Ministry to wish to obtain his services on such a humiliating condition would be a desire to deStroy his reputation, that it might never again be employed against them; for he could never be to them of any utility after such a self-debasement, and the first op portunity would be seized to " Cast him like a loathsome weed away." No; we cannot think so poorly either of the heart or the head of Mr. Huskisson, as that he would submit to such a degrading contract; and we think we are doing him a service by at once stating dis tinctly the terms of a report so injurious to his repu tation.—lbid. A Meeting of the British Catholics, yesterday, in Thorney-street, will be memorable in the annals of the Catholic Question, for the distinct evidence pro duced by Lord Rossmore of the violation of a pledge of the Government of this country, at the time of the Union, to the Irish Catholics. " I con sider (said his Lordship) the Union the corner stone of the case of Ireland, and, in unravelling it, inch by inch, I shall bring to light the sophistry of Mr. Peel's assertion, that no engagement was taken with the Catholics of Ireland.' A long communi cation was read by his Lordship from Mr. Lidwill, a venerable Irish Magistrate of the county of Tip perary, detailing most circumstantially the manner in which a letter from Lord Cornwallis, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to Lord Llandaff, remained in his hands from the March to the Summer Assizes of 1800, in which letter Lord Cornwallis distinctly stated, that he was authorised by Mr. Pitt to pledge to the Catholics the faith of the English Go vernment to the measure of Emancipation, as the condition of their supporting the Union. Mr.' Lidwill took memoranda of the very passages in the letter which contained this pledge, so that he has been enabled to give the words used by his Lordship. We know not what stronger pledge than this could be given by a Government to any portion of its subjects. The head of the Government of Ireland, a man of the most irreproachable honour, solemnly declares that he is authorised by the Prime Minister of the King of England to assure the Irish Catholics that the British Government will support Emancipation should certain conditions be fulfilled by the Catholics "What can be more solemn ! When, through the unfortunate influence possessed by Lady Ilamilton over Nelson, he was, in an evil hour, tempted to violate the national faith pledged to the Neapolitan Republicans, and to stain his reputation by surrendering these 'unfortunate men to the executioner, the Government might re gret the breach of faith when it was too late. But it is not yet too late to fulfil the pledge given to the Irish Catholics. It is not yet too late to clean the national honour from the stain on it, which must afflict 'every man who feels a pride in the character of his country for truth and sincerity.— " The Union," as Lord Rossmore observed, "is the corner-stone of the case of Ireland." That Union could not haqtre been carried but for the Ca tholics. Had it not been carried, the Catholics must have been emancipated. It is the Union, which they were instrumental in carrying, which has been the obstacle in their way. The nwla fides of the British Government has, therefore, manacled them. But when did ever nations thrive by injustice and op pression. " I have lived long enough (says Lord Rossmore) to witness her (Ireland's) decline—her rapid decline since the Union—the measure of all others that ought, under a wise Government, to have proved a blessing to both countries, instead of be coming a curse to both." England is cursed by the wide-spreading distress among the labouring classes, caused by the inundations of destitute Irish, whose competition deprives labour of its reward. She is cursed by the reaction of the misery she has caused. She is cursed because Mr. Peel could only recom mend himself to the notice of the University of Ox ford by advocating sentiments acceptable to High Church bigotry, but which his descendants will wish blotted out of his history.—lbid. That crime at the present day has increased in a ratio beyond that of the increase of population admits of no doubt ; and that an extraordinary proportion of such crime is committed by juvenile offenders, the proceedings of all the Quarter Sessions in the kingdom afford conclusive evidence. When we come to examine into the particulars of the mass of, juvenile delinquency tried at the Sessions, we find that the greater part consists of such petty offences as- might well be disposed of, for the adequated cor rection of the offenders, by a summary mode of proof and consiction, which would save the public a great deal of the expense now lavished on the ex pensive machinery of justice, and produce better effect upon the mind and habits of the youthful cul prits. It has already appeared in our columns that the Magistrates of the county of Warwick resolved, at the Sessions which have just expired, to petition Parliament upon the alarming increase of crime, and the necessity a some alteration in the present sys tem of conviction and punishment as regards juve nile delinquents. It appears that, in the county above-named, the number of convictions for felony, during the seven years ending Michaelmas 1826, was 3,840—0 f which one half was of offenders under twentysone years of age , many of whom were scarcely above the age of childhood! In attempt ing to account for this in some measure, it was stated, by Sir Eardley Wilmot, that offences of the most trifling nature, and committed by mere chil dren' were now constantly brought before the public with all the parade of the greatest turpitude; and he expressed an opinion that the payment of ex pences to those who bring offenders to justice is a great auxiliary to crime, inasmuch as it fills our gaols with petty offenders„ who leave their prison accomplished thieves. There is a good deal of truth in these observations; but the source of the evil lies deeper—and Parliament cannot apply an effectual remedy sinless it strikes at its very root. All Ma gistrates know that the Clerk of the Peace, who is an officer possessing and exercising, in general, a great deal of influence with the majority, has fees upon all the business done at Session, and pretty lar ge fees too. It is, consequently, his interest to have as a al smany offenders to try as possible. H e draw s th e i n dictments in most of the prosecutions, the petty ones, and the prosecutors, or their attorneys, generally ask his advice; it is his interest to recommend the prosecution of the most trivial offences, and hence a great deal of the parading befor e the public of the most insignificant offences, as if they had been "crimes of the greatest turpitude." If, indeed, such public exposure, pa- Mde, and punishment of youthful misbehaviour, had the effect of producin g a correction of the habits, and preventing the commission of greater crimes, the great objection to such mode of proceeding would be removed, and the punishment might be said to be a merciful severity. But as experience has long shown that the effect is directly the con trary, and that the solemn procedure of a trial by jury, followed by imprisonment in a felon's gaol, burdens the feelings, and produces a confirmed de pravity in the mind and habits of petty juvenile offenders, it is high time for the Legislature to in terpose a remedy, and prevent at the same time, this waste of public money, and destruction of morals Magistrates should do their part, and be very careful to what description of prosecutors they pay their x expenses, and the Legislature ought to abolish all ; fees to Clerks of the Peace, and establish a fixed salary for the office, instead of those emoluments which operate as a premium to a strained and harsh application of the powers of the law.-11forning Herald. The Times of yesterday republishes a part of a speech pronounced by the Duke of Wellington, on the 2d of May last, with a view to show that the expressions he then made use of are incompatible with his Grace's assumption of the Premiership. We shall first give the words as we find them in our own columns. They are as follow : " I have been accused of ingratitude towards his Ma jesty, and of aspiring to the situation of Prime Minister ; and that, in consequence of my disappointment, I threw up the command of the Army. These charges are absurd. Every one who knows me is aware that my being Prime Minister was out of the question, and no man ever spoke to me, to whom I did not express the same opinion." — Lords' Debate of May 2, from the New Times of May 3. There is nothing in the above about the" madness, and worse than madness," mentioned by the Times. Were we indeed to judge from the style merely of the report given in the latter, we should have very little hesitation in saying, that its language was not Lord Wellington's. We say this, not because it differs from our own, but because it differs essentially from any thing we ever heard his Lordship speak, either on that or any other occasion. We are aware at the same time, that it would be a matter of very great difficulty to determine, from internal evidence, whether his Grace made use of the words imputed to him or not. Before giving the version of the Times, we shall give that of the Chronicle. " Would any man believe that he was anxious to give up a situation which placed him again at the command of that army with which he had been so long connected ; which gave him an opportunity of bringing forward those who had served with him, or of recommending them to his Majesty ; that he should be willing to give up this high and honourable station, which he held with pride, to take a situation which he felt he could not fill with honour and satisfaction, for he could not address their Lordships en the numerous subjects he would have then to bring under their consideration, in the manner in which they ought to be addressed ?"—Morning Chronicle, May S. Now in the version of the Times, which, like Old Crabtree's in the School for Scandal, is certainly the most circumstantial:— " Would any man, therefore, believe, that when he was in a situation which enabled him to to recommend to the notice of his Majesty all his former friends and companions in arms, and to reward them according to their merits, for exertions which they had formerly made under his com mand in the field—would any man believe that lie would voluntarily resign a situation so consonant to his feel ings and his habits, for the mere empty ambition of being placed at the head of the Government? Be knew that lie was DISQUALIFIED FOR ANY SUCH OFFICE—he knew that lie was unable to address the House as a person who aspired to such an office ought to address it—(Hear, and a laugh.) And he therefore said, that feeling as he did with respect to the situation which he bad recently filled at the head of the army—liking it, as he did, from the opportu nities which it gave him to improve the condition of his old comrades in arms—knowing his own capacity for filling that office, and his incapacity for filling the post of First Minister, he should have BEEN MAD, and WORSE THAN MAD, had he ever entertained the INSANE project which certain individuals, for BASE PURPOSES, had imputed to him.—(Hear, hear.)" It ought in justice to be observed, in explanation of these very different accounts, that the space be low the bar of the House of Lords was, on the night in question, crowded to excess; and that, by a'very absurd want of attention in the officiaries of that House, the gentlemen through whom its Members communicate with the public—we mean the re porters—are left to elbow their way in the best manner they can, amidst the jostling of the mob of ' idle people who go to the House to prevent others from hearing. It will, under such circum stan .!es, sometimes happen, that one may secure a place where he can hear and take notes of a speech which is inaudible to all his collaborateurs. We do not, however, know that any thing of this kind haypened on the night of the 2d of May, nor that the gentlemen who attended for the Times had any advantage of position whatever. We see, there fore, no reason why we should accept of the report of that paper as a correct one, any more than our own, which adverts to the supposed incapacity of his Grace in general terms, or that of the Chronicle, wherein the only alleged incapacity is his want of the gift of fluent oratory. An Even ing contemporary observes, that were every word that has been uttered by public men to be set in array against them, there would be little difficulty in convicting most of them of inconsistency. This is, no doubt, true ; but, first, we do not think that any such argument is wanted to justify the Noble Duke, for it is by no means apparent that he uttered any thing which necessarily involves an imputation of inconsistency ; and, secondly, if he had, we doubt the applicability of the rule to the case in question. There may be changes of circumstances, in the lapse of years, which not only absolve a Statesman from blame in altering his sentiments, but which render the alteration imperative; but we are not aware that any such change has occurred since last May. The utmost, therefore, we conceive, that can be said of it is, that if the Duke really tittered what the Times im putes to him, he must entertain just now a better opinion of his own powers than he did eight months ago ; that lie has inspected more closely the duties of a Prime Minister, and, measuring himself by others, and not by any imaginary standard of excel lence, he sees that he may fill the office without dis advantage to the King and the country. That he should accept of a post for which he deemed him self inadequate, even at the command of his Sove reign, which it would, in such a case, be his duty to disobey, we think impossible, because such a supposition would be contrary to the whole tenour of the Duke's actions, which are a much better indi cation of his character than half a hundred iipeeches. We are not called upon, nor do we intend, to advocate the propriety of his Grace's ac ceptance of the Premiership; we hare no doubt he had very sufficient reasons, and by waiting until the 29th, we shall hear them from the highest source—himself. That our contemporaries should find so much difficulty in accounting for that step, seems, indeed, very strange, when we recollect the facility with which they got over his resumption o f the office of Commander-in-Chief. He certainly stood as strongly pledged—more strongly as we read his sentiments—not to resume that office under a Prime Minister, of whose views respecting the Catholic Question he did not approve, as he did not to become Prime Minister with his present stock of capabilities. Yet, though his Grace declared that it was impossible to preside at the Horse Guards under Mr. Canning, because that gentleman was an advocate of the Catholic claims, he did not con sent to preside there under Lord Goderich, who was as sincere, if not so eloquent, a friend of those claims. If not only was his changed resolution not blamed, but applauded by all parties, in the one case, there does not seem much reason for blaming it in the other.—New Times. The composition of the New Administration con tinues to engage the undivided attention of the pub lic; and, as might have been foreseen, it incurs the disapprobation generally of all those • who were, or professed to be, the warm admirers and th e zea l ou s supporters of the late " thing of shreds and patches" which was called a Ministry. There are indeed some few persons to be found, who: having b een the zealous advocates of the late Administration, aspire nevertheless to be reckoned . ameng the warm friends of the present. These experience the fate they have so diligently earned. Their voice is disreg ar d e d by all parties—no one thinks it worth while even to inquire their meaning, since all agree that sincerity is required to give any value to opinion. The op ponents of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry seem convinced that the task they have undertaken is a most difficult one, and they accordingly apply them selves to it with correspondent intrepidity, and not without exhibiting also a very considerable degree of cunning. In order to convince our readers, however, how little the new Ad m i n i s tration has'Lb fear,' either from the intrepidity or the cunning of its assailants, we think it right to laybefore them a specimen or two of the manner in which these qualities havealteady been ex erted. Nothing can be more intrepid than the conclu sion that a man is really unfit for any particular station because he has been heard to speak modestly, or even disparagingly, of his own merits and preten sions. And this is precisely what is urged against the fitness of the Duke of Wellington for the office of Premier. His Grace disclaimed a year ago all pretensions to this elevated station, and de clared very strongly that he did not consider himself fully qualified for all its various and important duties; and it is upon these words, and upon these words only, that the adherents of the late Whig Ministers found their solitary argument against a nomination which diffuses confidence and joy throughout the land. The Whigs recognize these words of the illustrious Duke, as the most authoritative words he ever spoke : the King and the People of Eng land consider them as the only words ever spoken by this distinguished man to which they may pro perly deny any authority whatever. It is natural enough that the adherents of the Whigs should think it impossible for a great man when speak ing of himself to err from an excess of modesty, for this is an error from which the great men of their party have fortunately been exempt; but it is, nevertheless, an amazing instance ,of their intrepidity to put forward an opinion so ostenta tiously, which they must know to be repugnant to the sense and feelings of all the rest of man kind. The illustrious 'Wellington only gave honest expression to the feelings of his noble heart, when he so strongly declared his disinclination to accept or seek the office of Prime Minister. He neither sought it then, nor wishes it now; for his Grace affords one of the most striking proofs on record of extreme modesty being the companion of exalted merit. Well do we remember the observation so justly made by Mr. Sheridan on the demeanour of the heroic Deliverer of Europe, on his return from his immortal feats of glory, that modest as he was before he entered upon his unexampled career of victory, he returned from the field of his triumphs a full-eighth degree more modest than when he went. Such is the universally acknowledged characteristic of the truly great 'man who now so auspiciously presides over the Councils of Britain, and who in his acceptance of that high office has sa crificed his own taste and feelings to the commands of his Sovereign, but happily at the same time to the best interests of his country. But the intrepidity of the opponents of the Duke of Wellington's Ministry is not more conspicuous than their cunning. They strive sedulously to attach to the new Administration that which was the charac teristic stigma of the late one. They would fix upon it the fatal reproach—a reproach which no Ministry can deserve and retain any hold upon the confidence or affection of the British nation—of being under the dominion of conflicting principles, of containing within itself two opposite parties, en gaged in a constant struggle for the ascendancy.— If they could succeed in the slightest degree in pro ducing among the Ministers themselves such feel ings as they insidiously impute, or in exciting throughout the country the remotest suspicion of the existence of such feelings, they know that their work would be accomplished, and that the Administration of the Duke of Wellington, powerful and respectable as it is, must inevitably endure the same fate as the weak and worthless Administration which preceded it. But we know that their attempt is as desperate as it is cun ning, and that it must utterly fail. The Right Hon. Gentleman, whose name these emissaries of a disappointed faction employ as the chief instru ment in their base and mischievous manoeuvre, looks upon their artifice with the contempt and de testation it so well deserves. He feels himself now to be in his natural position, associated with a body of able, virtuous, consistent, and patriotic colleagues, and lie knows how' much more valuable to his country, and how much more honourable to himself, may be his public services thus surrounded and sup ported, than they could ever have been, whatever might have been his personal predominance in such an Administration as that to which it has recently been his misfortune to belong. The faction must surely despair of the success of their profligate at tempt to sow division by such means, when they re collect that the Right Hon. Gentleman, whose name they so audaciously employ, has passed a long political life in harmonious and beneficial co-opera tion with the most numerous and influential portion of the present Cabinet. If there are persons in the country who entertain a sincere apprehension, that a difference of opinion may arise in the Administra tion in consequence of any excess of zeal in favour of particular principles of mercantile policy, or from a desire to precipitate indiscreetly a course of retrenchment in the national expen diture ; on the part of that Statesman, we beg to refer them generally to the fact above stated, as the best antidote to their alarm. To this we beg to add two other well mown facts, which are not without their share of importance. One of these facts is, that the very last measure relating to the trade of the country, introduced to the House of Commons under the san.aion of Mr. Huskisson, was a measure not to diminish but to increase the discriminating duties in favour of Bri tish shipping, and was accordingly abused by all the zealots of political economy. The other fact is, that Mr. Huskisson is the very last British States man in whose favour an augmentation (a very pro- - per augmentation no doubt) of the national expen diture took place. We adduce these undeniable facts to show that Mr. Huskisson is not so much a zealot in the cause either of free trade or of retrench ment, as his enemies and the enemies of the Ad ministration wish to describe him.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--When we stated yes terday that Joseph Holcombe was committed on a charge of an indecent nature, awl that his master, who was in at tendance to hear how far the charge was substantiated, said not a word in his servant's favour, we did not mean it to be inferred as a necessary consequence that the master was fully convinced the servant was guilty, and still less that he had nothing to say in favour of the prisoner's previous character. If a trial takes place, we understand the master will be quite ready to speak to the prisoner's apparent good con duct in all respects whilst in his service. A very respectable-looking man, whose appearance and demeanour by no means bespoke him a person familiar with fraud or dishonest practices, was yesterday brought before Sir GEORGE FA 11 RANT, the Sitting Magistrate at this office, for re-examination upon the followiag charges, on which he has been in custody for several days past : Mr. Phillips, the barrister, attended on the part of the P rosecutors and Mr. Adolphus appeared on beh a lf o f t h e prisoner. A great number of the prisoner's friends, who, with his general connexions are said to be very respectable, attended the examination, and seemed to feel a deep anxiety about his fate, as the prisoner himself is stated, up to the present grounds of accusation, to have borne through life an un exceptionable charaeter. Mr. Charles Wainwright, being sworn, deposed that he i s in partnership with George William Wainwright and another person in the plate-glass.manufacturing business. Their manufactory is in East Smithfield, but their ware house is at No. 44, Conduit -street, Bond-street. The prisoner has been in their employment between eight and prisoner had also autho r ity to ma k e sa l es o f g l a ss, Ste., ten years, in the capacit y o f c l erk and b ook- k eeper . The to customers; but it was his duty to enter every transaction of sale in the regular account-books kept for that purpose, and he had no authority whatever to deviate from this practice. Witness had, he said, examined all the accounts belonging to the house, and had brought them with him to the office, and he c ou ld fi n d no entry made of any plate o r plates of glass s o ld to a Mr. Capps on or about the 23d of May, 1827, although he had searched the accounts for a month before and a month after that date. In answer to some questions put in cross-examination to Mr. Wainwright, by the prisoner's solicitor, (Mr. Adolphus not having as yet arrived), he said that entries might have, and be believed had, been sometimes omitted!, to be made by himself in mistake, and the prisoner might; have at times paid to him cash for articles sold which cash the witness might have neglected to enter in the cash' account. He could no t, however, particularly call to mind! that any such occurrence had ever taken place, but he would not swear that none such did happen. At. all events, whether the prisoner paid over the money or not, ' • he was bound, the Chums said, to mate an entry, of sale in the sale-book: Dennis Capps deposed that he was a carver and gil4, residing at No. 46, Foley-street. He bad known the pri soner very well for some years as the clerk of Messrs. Wainwright, with whom' he had occasional dealings. Qn or about the 23d of May last, 'witness. purchased at tue warehouse of Messrs. Wainwright, 'of the prisoner, one plate glass, measuring 22 inches by 19, and paid him 30s. for it, which was about its fair value. On the 19th of January, 1827, witness also, he said, - purchased of the pti soneranother plate glass, measuring 29 inches by 21 : t hi s glass was sent home to the witness fronl, Al !tsej ,, , N a i n. wright, and in a few days after, he met the prisoner in; a gig in Oxford-street, and he told witness that he was going to call upon him for payment of the glass, upon whidh witness paid him 21. the amount agreed for. In F,eptenk ber, 1826, witness bought of the prisoner, at' the ware house of Messrs. Wainwright, two other plate glasses, one silvered plate measuring 40 inches by 22, and the otherla polished plate measuring 29 inches by 21 ; the price of the former was Si. 18s., and of the latter 395., and these glasses were paid for to the prisoner, who called in the fol lowing month at witness's house for the amount; and in witness's absence from home at the time, his wife gave the money to the prisoner. Mr. Phillips, who examined all the witnesses for the prosecution, here asked Mr. Capps if his wife were present to prove that fact? Mr. Capps said, that she was pro. sent ; he had brought her with him. Mrs. Sarah Capps was next sworn, and deposed, that she was the wife of the last witness, and that in the absence Of her husband from home, when the prisoner called, die paid the latter 5/. 175., for two plates of glass, had of Messrs. Wainwright, in the month of September, 1826. She paid the amount in a Si. note and silver. She asked the prisoner to give her a receipt ; Abut.he said there was no occasion for that, as he would enter it in the books as 'r cash transaction. Mr. Wainwright was here again examined, and he stated that there was no entry in the books of the money paid by the last witness to the prisoner, nor was there any entry of any of the transactions spoken to by Mr. Capps. Mr. Phillips said, that these were all the cases he should go into at present, and this was Mr. Adolphus's time, if he wished to ask any questions of the witnesses present. Mr. Adolphus said that he did not mean to put any questions to the witnesses, and those which had been asked of Mr. Wainwright, in cross-examination, as he under} stood, were pnt before he entered. He (Mr. Adolphus) was of opinion that Counsel had no right to cross-examine witnesses before a Magistrate in this stage of such pro! ceeding as the present, and he always had and ever should refrain from doing so. He sat there merely to watch the proceedings on the part of the prisoner, and unless there appeared some clear ground for doing so, not even to in} terfere with the discretion of the Magistrates as to coma, witting or not committing the accused for trial ; all he should ask of the Magistrate in the present case was to admit the prisoner to bail, if he thought it consistent with his duty to do so. Sir GEORGE FARRANT said that he could not in a case of this sort suffer the accused to go at large upon bail. Mr. Phillips said that there was a man named Trevella a carver and gilder, residing at Newington, in custody, also, he understood, charged as a guilty receiver of various articles of valuable property, belonging to Messrs. Wain.: wright, from the prisoner. Since this person has been in the House of Correction, he has written a long statement of all his transactions with the prisoner, and had sent it of his own accord to Mr. Wainwright; this statement he (Mr. Phillips) then held in his hand, and he wished Tre vella now to be placed at the bar, that he might ask him one or two questions ; for upon his answers to those ques. , tions would turn out whether or not he should be admitted as a witness for the prosecution. Mr. Adolphus did not care what his Learned Friend did with Trevella, as he (Mr. Adolphus) did not attend there on his behalf, but merely for the prisoner. The MAGISTRATE ordered Trevella to be brought from the lock-up-room and placed at the bar, which being done, Mr. Phillips, after cautioning Trevella not to answer any question put to him if he did not think proper, as neither promise nor threat should be held out to him to do so, handed him a written paper, and asked him if that was his hand-writing? Trevella immediately answered that it was, and that he had sent the document to Mr. Wainwright as containing a true and faithful account of every transaction 4e ever had with the prisoner, and he was 'ready to authenticate it by his signature, which he accordingly did. Mr. Phillips said, that as Trevelli had acted and spoken so candidly; he would now admit him as a witness for the prosecution, and if the Magistrate would remand the pri soner, fresh charges would be gone into against him, on the evidence of Trevella and others, on a future day. Sir G. FARRANT said that he would remand the prisoner for another week ; but in the mean time any of his friends whom he might wish to see might have unrestrained access to him at proper hours, which has hitherto nat been allow ed to him. Trevella, the Magistrate said, should be dis charged, on his procuring bail for his future appearance as a witness. This case, fer some reason or other, seems to have ex cited an unusual and remarkable sensation amongst the tradespeople at the west end of the town, particularly those in the glass line. MARYLEBONE. —Daniel Day, a journeyman baker, was charged with embezzling various sums of money be longing to his master. The prisoner was discharged a week ago by Mr. James English, of Hampstead, after having been in his service for two years ; and now it appeared he had received the amount of many bread bills, without accounting for it. Mr. English told Mr. GRIFFITH he had already disco vered a deficiency of 261. 14s. and the prisoner was re manded for future examination. Mr. John Gidney, late of Old Cavendish-street, coach, maker, charged with obtaining timber to the amount of 140/. under false pretences, from Mr. Robert Ashby, of Bugbrook, in Northamptonshire, was brought up for examination. Mr. Robert Leigh, of No. 27, Great Castle-street, Re gent-street, coach-maker, stated that he had known the prisoner for 20 years, and on the 3d of December bought of him this same lot of timber at the rate of 71, per load (41. less than Gidney agreed to give the owner) it now lies in Robert's Mews; Hampstead-road, under the care of a person named Hoare, and the witness had paid Mr. Gidney 401. on account. Mr. Hosxflis asked whether any other charges were likely, to be brought against the prisoner ? Buckeridge the offi cer replied " Yes ;" and he was again remanded. Samuel Charles .Durant was charged with being a party to the fraud. This is the person whose name ap pears as the acceptor on the two bills for 701. each, with which Gidney pretended to pay the owner for the timber. He has been apprehended since Gidney's first examination; and was yesterday remanded. WORSHIP-STREET.—Ann Smith was yesterday again brought up, charged with stealing 9s. 6d. from a gentleman who had fallen into her company. The prosecutor was summoned, but did not choose to come forward. It, appeared that Bs. 6d. had been given by the prisoner to a person formerly intimate with her, and, as it was supposed, to be returned to the prosecutor. Against this person and, his brother, who, it turned out, are respectable individuals, the Magistrate (R. E. BaouGHTOI4, Esq.), having dis charged the prisoner, made her a witness. She then stated her name to be Ann Frencham. After a hearing of some length, Mr. Baouowrow was: of opinion that the two individuals in question had coin mitted a misdemeanor in interrupting the course of justice,' and he therefore held them to bail, themselves in 501., and two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the next sessions to . answer any charge preferred against them. Whilst this examination was going on in Adolphus a p t a te r n lo d u e r d , theano a th ß er ol c v a - s s e tr x e v e a t s p h a e t a r r o tinforwhom office, onirt irre.spAecdtionjpg the conduct of as counsel, but it presented nothing materially of public in terest. The patrol was held to bail. season' to the very many! 0 f the O ye V a E r R is , as . t his persons now resident here) as in the summer months. I During this week, the easterly Storm, Maid ' we mentioned in our last, continued with great severit A ga N ; a2ood.—liveTlyh(eovrt?nvvgn at and violence, and on Wednesday night it bleW a tre mendous gale from S.E. accompanied with showers of sno and sleet. On Thursday, it aarne to a thaw, and a heav rain falling in the cou rse of the night, the snow has disa peared along , the c oast. The mails have, until yesterdaY got in pretty re gularly ; but the Inverness mail, . with ai horses, was o bliged to return on Thursday, when abou two miles beyond Oldmeldrum. There was no interrup tion from Turriff to Inverness, nor from the latter place t Huntly, between which and Pitmachie the • *low -le pretty deep. The south mail of yesterday, due at balf r pas nine A.M. did not reach until about one o'clock this morn ing, being 15 hours out of course. Therprincipol stoppage we understand, was at the large den beyond-Perth, wher the snow was drifted to such a depth, that some of th coaches going to the southward, were obliged the day pre vious to return to Perth, in the streets of which the snow lay about three feet clesp,.../Derdeen cowlick. i i THE MURDER IN MONTAGUE4IACE. 130 W STREET. EXAMINATION OF JONkS CONTINUED FROM OUR pAFER , Or YESTERDAY. Mrs. Staploni, the landlady of th e }M us e- i l l Mitre-street, in Which the prisoner kidged,..klego:sed as follows :—On the Thursday after ChriitinaSiday, a woman, calling herself Mrs. Edwards;' came' to" my house and took the' back room on the' gist floor; - she paid one shilling deposit. On the' Satuiday lowing she came with ,1% plan . whom- she called her husband, and they took poisession,,,;:theeriFoner is the person who came with itet., .an 4 ~teptl e t g ed himself to be her husband. I did not seel.the prisoner on the Monday follOWing, but the woman came down stairs for water, and I saw her. I 'aid not see rither of them again ; that f lay. In the evening, between five and six o'clock, .1' : h e ard them go out and put their candle on , the, stairs is the manner they were accustomed to do.; I beard them return about _ eleven o'clock - the. same evening. The woman paid me three, shillings on New Year's day, and two ,shillings _ the Friday following. Jones himself nempaid:itte any thing. I saw Jones about one. : or„twO..Oreloek on New Year's day ; he came in with an umbrella; he wished me a happy new year, and went up t o his room. He had gone out earlier than usual. They both went out on Newi;Y,ear's evening, but I did not see them. Thezt„ieft my house 04 the, following Sunday. On Sunday ,evening about five o'clock; a woman, named Mills, knocked at my door, and asked if Mr. and Mrs. Jones . were,, at hoinA; ,:and)Fl isr swered that there was no one in our house of that name. - Some one up stairs said in, an mnder tone, " Tell her to send her name ; up," ; , . l and I' asked the woman her name. She said it was Mills,: and, I sent a young woman up„tu noonii toi ask if they knew any one of the,natne of J.otios,,,i They said they did not, and the woman Mills went away. Mrs. Edwards then came down, and asked me if I would let my little girl go to the,• top, and bottom of the street to see if any one was watching,' =.The little girl returned, , and osigt,that-sha,',couhr sot ii M urri r ed c , l 7l74 ls , , s , ee po a n i , ly t i pe r i to o n k . as if I had been doing ? , 7 ' t sind ‘ l she"iurned as th m en ue s h ai , d .fiur to ri m ed e , from me. She seemed very much 4440,. ; I made no reply, but asked her if she knew a, pc t spn of the name of Mills, and she : said , .she_ ,she then asked me to let my little girl look out again, and I did, and the child could see no one. ghe then went up stairs, and presently came down again; and asked me to look out for her myself. I did SO and told her I could not see any persoir about ; and she then asked me to do the same favpur for her has' band, and then went out; and .. I never saw, her again. In about ten minutes the prisoner Jones F ame down, and asked m e if Mrs.'EdWards was gone otql I told him she was ; and 'he then asked me to Odle same favour for him that I had: dOnel4,lter4--410 was to look out and see if any one was:watching tie Louse. I did, and told him there were .none but neighbours. He said, " Hush l don't speak so loud ;" and he then went out, and I did not 'see him again. I did not hear till twelve o'clock that night what the Edwards's were-charged with. Mary, the wife of John Mills ' a labOuring man, re siding in Cornwall-road, Liunbeth, examined- 1 knew the prisoner. On the night 'Of WednesdaY, the 2d of January, about half-past five, the prisoner and Charlotte Berry called at mT house; I o pened the door to them. She said, " how do you do, Mrs. Mills ?" I asked them ° to walk into' the par lour. They said they were going to the play, to 4iT the Battle of Nelson. The prisoner' asked me` if I would take somethink to drink. -I said I had rather not, and he then put a crown-piece upon the table. I called my daughter Jane, and he told her :to' fetch a quartern and a half of the-best gin: My daughter procured the gin,. and gave Jones the change. In the course of conversation, Charlotte.seid : they, had 0 very bad joh,for , chey had been obliged; pawm hi coat ; but, shei*tl, he had gone,out:tbe day befoFe and, got her 2/., with which sholhtid been enabled tn• get her things out of 'pawn. My hfilbandteame in, and he and the prisoner had some conversation about their affairs ; and I beard the prisoneraay, that it was his intent ion to go to, set again, and take Charlotte with, him. They went Away Omit ; .sis o'clock. , Jane. Mills, aged 13, the daughter of the last wit' ness, corroborated her mother's , statment. - Alice Handly, of No.'ll, Bridge-toad, Lambeth, shopkeeper, deposed to haiing sold, an umbrella (produced) to the prisoner for fiv e an d s ii pen Ce, between one and two o'clock on New 'Year's-dap The prisoner paid her with two half-crowns and . 9 sixpence. The witness did not observe that he 41 0 any other money. Furzeman was called, and stated that he foun d the umbrella produced in the prisoner's lqdgings in •. • Mitre-street. Mrs. Stapleton was recalled, and asked if her bus' band was in attendance; because he had let the pii" soner into the house on the Monday night. Mrs' Stapleton said he was not in attendance, and there upon the prisoner's solicitor submitted to M r . H a lls the propriety of postponing the examination, in order that his evidence might be taken before any other evidence was gone Mr. HALLS said it would he better to do so, eso' cially as it was then so late, and supposing .all the witnesses to be in attendance, it would not be pow' sible to get through :the evidence that night; be would therefore adjourn 'the hearing of the case to Thursday.—The •prisoner was then taken•away. . Th e easterly gale, stated in our la.st, contiptv ing Without intermission during this week, •and inarsiog ev en in violence, has prevented all intercourse by . sea, 0° thatdays past, nor any sa ili ngs f or , upwar d s o f a fortnight, s circumstance, we b elieve, w ithout precedent, i u , the me' been no arrivals at Aberdeen for th ese ten mory th o e f r t e have heold oldest person, On Wednesday, it bl ew a tre mendous gale f rom S. E., an d the "a lat ' 4 ' cle Y wee hi g her than kn own f ar a num b er of years. On the rocky coast immediately t o t h e sou thward: of Aberdeen,• it Woke w ith such prodigious force and violence as, to end,aug er t h e. fi,b. ing-boats in the fishing-creeks.—Aberdeen CAN/tick • • E s instant, i ß u lßj aven HS d . ish-squ are , t h e l a d y of o f Charles Pott, E sq., Da O vin n d ttß h h ae erc2lßayd, q., M.P., of a son. 0 22d instant, in Hu n t er -street, B runsw i c k -squar e r On the 20th instant, the l a d y o f D r . Holland, of Lower B roo k- s treet, of a son. . , of a daughter. the lady oEfsgAidoerfinßedan feorhdr-issqtoupa . . to Cathe rine n'Of StarhOrough' D.D., vicar, Mr. Joseph Taylor, of Christopher , , M-A•, u r e ß n r 2 r k ec 2 e yh d C .ar o .d i s le , ge, Oxford, eon of Richard WoOdfiimk, instant, the Rev. Edward Wood o h ninyue e ,ai • On the 22d instant, at St. Martin's - in-the-Piehl a ,hy the Charing-cross, to Sarah Ann Bell, only dau g h ter , o f the late Mr. Thomas Johnson, of St. Martin's-court, Leices daughter of Edward ,Shewell, . ...•_ ri.nstant, at ,St. Mary's Chu h'M 'I b e coafivv O tl.ee n :G t s h b he Rev. ' re ' it - Y e °" Dibdln,.t John Bateman, AL A. 1 Richard Bateman, Esq., of Wheat hill,sbt : y e t' °Otsnhntideutaßshroeeen:2.:Dd the late Esq., o " . " -- r '' of Jul l 827 at Madras, ' . On the 16th y,. , den , Carthsv, 21st Native Infantry , • to Jeminaa Borland, ter of John Ewart, Esq., late fifth daughter of wewington, Edinburgh - i:ll.4te: n e a c r n li v e a ty st , o :: lu m a t fislauoiritchlkorfto* 3,li.. " , d dr 'i eset e?" n l -,: e o a ri i) : .....---- DIED. Alexinder Bail* W e ' On the 20th instant, aged 22 months, tiavid'Ste;4lBfan• r ice, . . P . i e o s c u ° Prescott - street. eldes t - h s e t r son e e l t 4. t of h Mr.instant, , esteemed for her maternal virtues and ezeinplary life; Mfa. D'S. at l‘ vicar of Killian', in Torkshke. i • • , Jacobina Bayne, relict of the Rev . On the 18th instant, at Camden-tilaci, tYiekti m Mr. Reader Wilkinson, aged 81 . .. , . .. ,On the 21st instant, Mr. William inart. 'cof Thelibortel , , . , , r . street, Golden-square,, aged, 75,. . , „, - On the 21st initant; at s3l4l}l3o4.c4raFioti, NA .ifio nab Water Man, well known 414, ni de - o th t lt4lo` ! s 'Woman." She was upwards o 92 yeara'af age, - ; ; PRINTED and P o rt Ix , E N b D t y 1 I M 2 s . YOUNG, S4 LI a t the ,4 , ~ , ; r ~~ Z:. ♦ r 4 SO "` tvhc egi will ' 444* Vim - tit 1600 As 4 AU Of `~ ~Y ht/i of .'CO OR 1. 4) : the nov nun • reef :*cone ''it that Prel teri ' I *ell belt hoc 11 4 E Yc Iva( eon }lop of 1 Ti Pea to t Ti' coy the tam the the, nor be Ma _ 7 and ed bra tre riet wit prc fits net pat det tot me to tre 1. 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