The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-07 00:00:00

ri trade, at the bna of which are the Methodists, is gaining ground ; and that, in fact, the Metho dists anti cotton are superseding and pushing to the South and the West the linen manufacture and the Scotch Presbyterians. By and by the Lesds woollen Unitarians will introduce them selves. All these sects push out Catholicism. The same kind of a lteration beg an i n t h e days of Oliver Cromwell, and the pushing and -oust ing since then in England hai been so great, that, at length, we have scarcely any Catholics left. The Catholic Clergy, seeing this, must fear that in time they will have no 'flocks; they must, therefore, b e eager to be put upon the State books, and for that purpose they are se cretly working, by means of Mr. O'Connell and other Catholics, and by Lord Plunkett and other Protestants, to endeavour to bring about what is called Emancipation, so that they may be put upon the State books, and•thus be amply provided for, in case the Protestants should in time become the greater number im Now who can blame the Catholic Clergy for this ? John Bull, however, will be much to blame if he suffers Lord Plunkett or • any o th er l aw yer I to bring about such a state of things as that he should have to 'maintain two Churches. One Church is quite as much as the people like. As Mr. O'Connell and other Barristers, together probably with the Catholic Clergy, have effected this organization of the people, so the Govern ment must put it down ; and the latter have very properly issued this Proclamation ; and if the meetings are persisted'in, and disagreeable con sequences ensue, the Catholic Barristers and Clergy will have AC; -thank 'themselves for such consequences. For our part we hope that no thing unpleasant will arise ; but it is one thing to rouse a body of the poor, another to put them down, or to 'keep them from plundering the rich. What would be said if in London- the Protestant Barristers and Protestant Clergy were to procure an assemblage of the St. Giles's and. Whitechapel, and Lambeth and Limehousc, and Rotherhithe and Westminster 'Protestants, 'and to say to them, " Here you are in military array, 100,000 strong—keep orderly—do not drink•gin-s--you St. Giles's boys and Whitechapel. boys, and Rotherhithe boys, and Westtninster boys, be good friends, shake hands—bury in obli vion • party feuds—wear Church-and-king co lours—keep order—attend to the parish clergy; abd the Select Vestries—the -Church and the King are in danger, Wellington is , going'to ad mit the' Catholics into power and emolument,— Here• are 100,000; we willArsave similar bodies in other parts of the tountry,. and if Wellington attempts to adMit the Catholics to the thousands and the ten thousands a-year, we will take our stand." Now what would Mr. O'Connell say to such an assemblage' in London ? would - he not' say that such should b e put down ? The Ca tholics of Ireland have been the cause of Proclamation, and they must mace the - best of it. If the Catholics -Wish fors Emancipatiou, they ought to-ask it as a matter of favour-s-not right. The Government of Great •Britain has the right to say to either Catholic, Jew, or Turk, " You shall not, on account of your religious opinions, have to do with the Go vernment, in Church or State. The Govern ment of former days made oaths to prevent the introduction into Parliament, or into offices, of any other than - those belonging to the Protestant faith." If the Government chooses to alter the oaths, so that Catholics, Jews, or -Turks, 'may take their seats in Parliament, or office, as it is called—or rather take thousands and tens of thousands a year—why the Government can do so. But, if the Government will not consent, the Catholics have no right to say, " We will enter your Parliament, or take office—that is the thousands and tens of thOusant:s a year-5..-Whe ther you will or not." A Catholic has no more right to a seat in a Protestant Parliament, or a place in a Protestant Government, 'of which the Protestant Church is part•and pareeli than a Jew born in England. We hope that the -Govern ment will resist Emancipation, as a matter of right—concede it, if it thinks proper, as 'a Mat ter of favour, but not with a Clerical Wing at- tached to it ; no scheme of Lord Plunkett and Mr. O'Connell's hatching—but simply to alter the oaths, o ne of 'which obliges a Member of Parliament t o say 'that " the Roman Catholic religion is damnable and idolatrous."—Morning Heredd. It is characteristic of our days, and our country more particularly, to make the most of every thing. Properties are discovered in objects of which our more obtuse ancestors had no suspicion, and of which they were too inert and sluggish, if they had made the discovery, to derive the utmost possible advantage. We may be assured that, in our own inquisitiv e times, nothing will be left unexplored from which benefit can be derived ; and that whenever advantage can be taken, it will be taken. We were much gratified by the com pliment unwillingly paid to t h e superior acute nes§ 'of Englishmen,by John N e il son, Esq. to whose evidence in the Canada Report we have already alluded Do the French Canadians • experience any obsu. des in their attempts to get possession of new lands ? Very great, indeed. The laws which p ro „ vide for and regulate concessions or grants by the Seigneurs to the actual settlers, have since the con quest, been suffered to be nearly a dead letter. The Attorney-General ought to see that they are exe cuted. The King is authorised by law to grant to real settlers upon the Seigneur's refusing. Nothing of that kind has been done since the conquest; the consequence is, that the English . Seigneurs, particu larly, have imposed onerous conditions upon the settlers, conditions that they are not authorised by law or usage to impose, and which a fresh settler is unable to satisfy. They dare not venture to take up the land's, and are confined in a narrow limit. There is hardly any difference between .the system that was introduced after the settlement of Canada, under the French • Government, and the sys tem that was introduced under the English Govequnent the old English Colonies; it. was always, grlnting away land to any man that would actually settle upon them, or cause them to be settled, and taking car e t h at those that got posses sion of any quantity of land did actually set down upon it, arid settle (tozir feii a Lieu.) Would not a French Canadian, living in the country, naturally settle upon the lands granted to him ? Th e Seig neur is like any other man ; people (Te e n o t l o oked (?/. ; and th ey h ave after, they will take advantage taken advantage qf it, particularly the E nglish mg _ ncursjor they arc the word of all. When they are placed in the shoes of a Canadian Seigneur t h ey think that there is 110 limit to the raising of rents, and every thing burthenseinc to the settler ; am id they have not been compelled to observe the laws— the laws have not been enforced that were intended to preserve the advantages and encouragement to the actual settlers; and that has kept the people from extending themselves." • But why were they not looked after ? It would have been too much to expect that Eng lish., Seigneurs shall look alter the interests of Canadian settlers; they looked after their own, however,,,- and saw sources of advantage which the French Seigneurs were unable to discover. " If - people arc not looked after (says Mr. Nelson), . . , . , they will ta k e advantage of it." They who trust to their interests being looked after by other people, instead of looking after them themselves, commit a grievous mistake. The principle is now thoroughly understood, that wherever there is power, it will be used ;' and, of course, where there-is a power to take advantage of another, it will be used. So thoroughly is this principle understood' in practice, that in. many parts of England you cannot safely employ a labouring man without employing another man to watch him. We remember reading a description in a traveller hr the-East, of an old woman watching some provisions, with a stick to beat off the ° monkeys lying in wait. The moment a.monkey perceived the eye of -the old woman off' the scene, he darted forward and made a snatch. This is emblematical of an enlightened age. To instance the superiority or our own age over preceding ages, we may allude to the superior knowledge possessed of the British Consti tution, many properties of which were hardly known to our forefathers. Many of our ,Bo rough 3 are now mines of wealth to the fortunate individuals who are in possession. of a trust with out responsibility. It either escaped our fore fathers that they might take every advantage, n their power, or they had not the heart to act up to their knowledge. We have before us a print ed statement, on the face of a large sheet, of the Borough Rate Assessment and Gaol Expendi ture of the Borough of Leicester, extracted from the Returns made pursuant to order of the House of Commons, 23d May, 1826; from which it appears, that the improvement in the working of that Borough has been surprisingly great of late years. The estim a t e d p opu l at i on o f :the Borough of Leicester is sixteen thousand souls, and there have passed through the -Borough Gaol in eighteen years 6,105 persons, which, deducting 3,000 for infants under 12, make about the half of the male and female po pulation: ' The number of commitments in 1810 was 157 ;in 1826 .it was 755. The observa, lions at the fuoL of the statement are very in structive on this point :—" You are re quested particularly to observe, that no Bo rough-rate was known in Leicester prior to the recent date of 1767—that the fundS, out of which the Borough Gaol was Main-. tabled at all times prior to the above periods, still remain, and are greatly increased in value— . that the jurisdiction, patronage, &c. of the Bo rough Court, remain in the same Corporate Body as formerly, and the legal liability to pro vide gaols, &c. also the same as prior to 1767, when no Borough rate existed—that though the police and gaol expenditure have increased, from 1810 to 1827, from 3991.9 d. to 4,1221. 195.8 d., the population of the Borough has increased in no material degree—that the. value of money has doubled in the above space of time, and, there 7 fore, measured in the : necessaries of life, 4;122/. 195.8 d. in 1827 is equal to -double that sum in 1810, when the total expellees were 3391. 9d.—that in the annual increase of ex penditure of 3,7231. 18s. l id., the increased maintenance of prisoners amounts to only :171/. 3s. Bd.—that though . in the Treasurer's account, published in 1827, 2,8001. only is given credit for . on behalf- of the Borough, and a balance , rtilide accordingly, both in 1827 and 1828, in favour of the Trea surer, 1,2001. more was actually paid' into his hands in 1827, &c.—that out of 6,105 persons committed to gaol, 697 only were con victed, at an expense of 6,0711. 19s. ld. for prosecutions only—that these committals have increased from 157 to - 670 within the year,.and the expense from 399/. to 4,1221. per annum in seventeen year S—that during the last four years, 2,617 individuals have been committed to the Borough Gaol of Leicester, and 225' had been convicted, at an expense of 2,2461.,- leaving' 2,366 'persons unconvicted of any crime, who have thus received the rudiments at least of a gaol education—that the demoralization of such an education to so great a number of persons, must spread widely among the people—that the expense falls upon the householders of the bo rough—that the Magistrates are self-elected— that of the 24 Aldermen, out of whom the Magistrates are chosen, 10 reside within the bo rough, and 14- out 'of the borough." -These are. the wonderful improvements of our times. Archbishop of Canterbury and Church-rate jobs cannot be confined to a narrow circle. Every Select Vestry and Borough can and will imitate such glorious examples. What will it be twenty years hence ?—Morning Chronicle. SPIRIT of the PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Saturday.) The Proclamation issued by the Irish Govern: meat, is almost in so many words, an echo of the Resolutions and . Address, previously for warded by the Catholic Association to the county Tipperary. So palpable do we consider the, humanity and patriotism of this official do cument of the Government, that if it ,hatl not been sought.by the Brunswick Press, to .inter pret it into -a proof that " Lord Anglesea is de terminedlo act vigorously," we should have per-' witted it to pass as one of . the ordinary demon strations of his Excellency's regard to Ireland.' If it be deemed an act of decision in. the Vice- toy, according to the Orange acceptation, to have th us warned the peasantry, that is hot, as the Brunswick scribes think, a symptom of Anti- Catholi c i sm i n t h e Irish Government, inasmuch as the ,Association in forbidding the assemblages to which it refers, expressed their sentiments in relation to their own power, quite as anthorita iively and decidedly. Lord Anglesea has there foreore than the C a th o li c leaders d o t n h e eyi n s o e t h h ,e li s i g ain: Before the Proelama- - tion appeared in the Gaz e tt e , t h e influence Web generated the Tipperary meetings, caused them to subside , a nd dis t r i bu ted each' component be ing of the great physical mass, int o hi s f ormer privacy and single ness ' (From the Caledon ian Mercur y of Saturday.) IRELsom e time AND .-4reland and its affairs are' a u p pre sent; . - sent; and will doubtless continue for to come, an all engrosSing subject. of int er est.— The actual condition of th at country is indeed deplorable, while the prospect áf any chang e f 0 r the better is remote and contingent. Men's minds and passions have been worked tip to a state of frenzied exacerbation ; hatred and terror have taken possession of all ; and such is the madness and fury of the opposing factions, that 1 there is no crime however great, no atrocity however inhuman, no evil however dreadful, which may not be the sudden product of the excitement- that now prevails. Unhappily, too, there is Method - in this domineering madness; a fiightful order reianS in the midst of confusion'; unity the mos t systematic and appalling has grown out of and triumphs in the very centre of discord. This may seem paradoxical in ex- pression, but every one knows it is true in reality. Ireland is at the present moment 'one huge . and monstrous . anOmaly. There is . nothing : in :it 'which does not exceed all precedent, transgress • all ordinary rule's, contradict all experience, and baffle all sagacity to divine the consequences to Which the actual state of things may ultimately lead. As to the regular Government, it has been almost totally superseded, and may now be considered as in abeyance. In a word, Irelatsd is on the eve of a civil and religious war. (From the Northern 'Whig of Friday.) The state of the country at the present crisis is truly awful. In the North a desperate and armed faction, released from a temporary check, exasperated by a partial rebuff, and thirsting for blood, are daily excited against their Catholic countrymen by the inflammatory harangu es of men, whose conduct more resembles that of Priests of Moloch, than Ministers of Jesus. in the South and West, a peasantry, the fiercest in Europe, and proverbially reckless of life, ar e re gularly organized, and only restrained from rush- - mg into rebellion by the prudence, moderation, or fear of the Catholic Association ! In t h e North, Catholic blOod haS already been shed; and, in the South, the peasantry have come into collision with the Police, torn . . down their bar. rack, and consumed everything in it to ashes. We do not hesitate to assert, that the only alter native to granting Emancipation which is left to the Government is rebellion and.civil war, the most horrible by which any country was ever scourged. We cannot, .however, conceive that the Government will be mad enough to hesitate any longer. (From the Scotsman of Saturday'..).. There is one feature in the condition of Ire land which may be considered as a most pecu liar one. In other countries factions are gene rally confined to a small portion of the people, while the neutral and moderate, who comprise the great mass, contribute in a thousand ways to soften their mutual rancour, and allay their pro pensity to outrage. But in Ireland, unfortu nately, there is no neutral party to temper the violence of the adverse factions. The latter em braces nearly the whole population, and the con sequence is, that their separatio❑ from one ano ther is more entire, and their hostility more in veterate than has been seen any where else in modern times. What was wanting in such a country to fill up the measure of public danger ? Nothing but that the two parties should be regu larly organised, marshalled under leaders, and provided with arms —put, in short, in the condi tion of two hostile armies, fully equipped to rush into the combat which they both long to begin. This has been nearly accomplished, for both parties are banded together as one man ; and though the Catholics want arms, the Orangemen generally have them, and justly consider this ad vantage as a compensation for the inferiority of their numbers. ------ --- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. gUNDAY, OCT* s.—Wind S.S.E.—High water five minutes past nine.—Arrived the Joseph Hume, Rat ray, from Quebec ; Lady Cremorne, --, Bay Cha leur; Tagus, Berry, Lisbon ; Lee, —, Cork ; Mary Ann; Malaga. CLEARED 01.111VARDS..---.The Wellington, Robinson, for Berbice; Brothers, Parkinson, Rio Janeiro ; Antonia and Cornelia, Blom, for Amsterdam ; Vrow Elizabeth, De Wyk, for Antwerp; Sophia, Reike, for Dantzic ; Jo • banna Maria, Lange, for Dordt ; Elizabeth Ann, Paul, for Eastport ; Planter, APDonnell, for New Orleans ; Louisa, , for Havre de Grace ; Fursten Von Lergaitz, Neuman, fur Stettin; Sceptre, Stewart, for Ba hia ; Jane, WatFon, for 113iramichi ; Atlantic, M'Farlane, for Baltimore : Francis, Cillespy, for Barbadoes; John Viana, for Lisbon. MUSSELBURGH.--On Tuesday last, the Town Customs of Musielburgh were let by Public Roup in the usual form. The fish market dues fell a trifle, but the common good let higher, and on account of the increas ing trade' of the. port, the harbour dues were from 1501. to 1801.— Scotsman. CHOLERA MORBUS.—We regret to find that there are at present nearly a hundred cases of this malady in Inverness, and that it is increasing. It is attended by great derangement of the live, and seems to have been in duced by the late variable state of the weather.—lnverness Courier. HIGHGATE A RCHWAY.—The public gene rally are probably unaware, that by an act which received the Royal assent just before the close of the last session of Parliament, the rate of toll for passing under the above archway will, after the 31st of December next, be doubled. The act in question is entitled "An Act for improving the Road from London to Liverpool, and from London to Holyhead." For this purpoae his Majesty's Treasury is empowered to advance 37,0001. to certain commissioners named in the act, who are to employ it as therein specified. The money is to be returned to the Treasury, with interest at 4 per cent. ; and to enable them to do this, additional tolls are to be taken on the line of road. These are to cease when the money has been repaid ; the improvements are afterwards to be kept up out of the ordinary tolls : 14,0001.: is to be expended in improving Highgate Arch way Trust road ; for the repayment of which au additional toll is to be taken on and after the Ist of January next, of ld. for every foot passenger, horse, &c. passing under the archway. These tolls are to be kept separate, and paid annually to his Majesty's Treasury. If they fall short of 500/. per year, the difference is to be made up out of the original tolls. The present toll for a foot-passenger is Id. and the probable effect of the additional one will he to induce most pedestrians to take the more circuitous but untaxed road. The remainder of the 37,0001. is for improvements at a distance from the metropolis. ENTRAORDINAIa: ESCAPE AND LAMENT- DrATIL-On Tuesday last, as Mr. F. AITLEVARD, of this place, bricklayer, was crossing the Humber to Barrow in a boat, accompanied by JOHN SUTTON, he be came involved in one of the moat distressing adventures it has been our lot to relate. Owing to the state of the- wind they were obliged to make several tacks. On en deavouring to reach Barrow haven, a sudden squall threw the little vessel omits beans ends, and filled it. with water. It of course sunk, the shock dislodging both its ma s ts, which floated. In this emergency, SUTTON contri ed to get on to the back of ArpLEVARD, who is a most excellent swimmer. The latter, however, very na turally in his perilous circumstances, requested the former to let go his hold, and seek assistance from one of the masts. This he did; but in less than ten minutes, to the great grief of his companion, was seen with his face immersed in the water, to all appearance dead. The tide running down rapidly, and there being also a great swell on the river„irPLEYAnD, aided by the buoyancy of the other mast, had enough to do to take care of himself, and with all' his skill was, after all his efforts, obliged to relinquish the idea of reaching the Lincolnshire shore, and to leave himself to the mercy of the stream. Thus situ ated, he drifted down, seeing at the distance of two or three miles, the Barton steam-boat pass him twice. After he had been for nearly three hours at the mercy of the waves, and had reached within a short distance Skitter point, he was fortunately seen by the master of a coal sloop, on her way to Wisbeach, and taken up nearly ex hausted. The sloop is called the Nine Brothers, and the humane master, Mr. B. WATSON, to whom, and to three women on board, the unfortunate sufferer will feel him self, as long as he lives, deeply indebted. They put bins on their own bed, rubbed his body with their flannel gar ments, comforted and cherished hint, brought him to his friends, and restored him to his employments. To his cre dit, it must not be forgotten that on being laid on the floor of the cabin, his first thought was of his compa nion; and, strange to relate, in a very short time his -body was seen floating near, and 'immediately secure&—a very singular circumstance, as the poor fellow must have been dead a very considerable time. At this period - a gold duster came alongside the sloop, the men offering to take charge of the sufferers ; but the humane master would not allow his patient to be disturbed, and foregoing his voyage, made tbe best of his way to Hull with his own vessel.— We are happy to say, that APMEYAILD has recovered, and is now following his usual occupation. We trust that WATSON will be, by some means or other, amply reward ed. His conduct, and that of his female companions, de serve every praise. An inquest was held on the body of SuTTGX on Wednesday, at our Mansion-house, before German COULSON, Esq., and a verdict r e t urne d cons i stent 'with the facts of the case.—Hull Rockingham, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday a young man, named "Webb, of respectable appearance, came to complain against the Church*wardens and Overseers of the parish of St. Mary Woolchurcli, Lombard-street, for having refused to give him the means of supporting nature. Sir PETER expressed , surprise at hearing such a com plaint from a person who seemed to be so much above a pauper in appearance, education, and address. The - Vestry Clerk of St. Mary Woolchurch stated, that the case stood completely by itself. It was one of the most incredible description. The pauper was the son of a clergyman, whose income amounted to at least 2,0001. a year, and who officiated amongst the most exalted ranks of society. The authorities of the parish were of course unwilling to support the pauper, when the individual upon whom he had so powerful a claim was so well able to contribute to his necessities. Sir PrrEa LAURIE.-Certainly not ; hut let us hear the circumstances. There surely must he some singular cause-fire such a departure from the natural course of things. The Vestry Clerk stated, that the Rev. Mr. Webb was, according to the pauper's description, a minor Canon of St. Paul's, a minor canon of Westminster, vicar of Langley, in ,Iludingliamshire, Minister of the Chapel Royal at .Windsor, and of the Chapel Royal at St. fames's, and woe also possessed of a living in liertford shire. The pauper had applied two years ago to the parish for assistance, and had candidly stated the flourish ing state of his father's circumstances. On that -occasion the parish officers wrote to the Rev. Gentleman respecting the condition of his son, and. their :expectation that some measures would be immediately taken to remove such a burden from the parish. To this application the Rev. Gentlensan replied, by declining to give the slightest relief to his son, and stating. that he obtained a good situation for the pauper, which the pauper lost by his own misconduct, and that he (the Rev. Gentleman) had other family claims to which he was obliged to give his attention. Sir PETER LAURIE (to the pauper)—Are yon the legi timate child of your father? Pauper—Certainly. Sir PETER-And is your mother alive?—The pauper replied. in the negatiVe. His father had married a second wife, and he had not eeen or had any communication with the Rev. gentleman for six years. The Vestry Clerk said, that the parish officers did not at first credit the unfortunate pauper, his story was so completely at variance with human feeling, but they found that it was true. Sir- PETEII: LAURIE-What was the misconduct by which you lost your situation? Pauper—l was a clerk at Messrs. Everett!, the bankers, and a person in their em ployment took some money. I knew of the fact, and did not mention it. I was discharged on that account. Sir PETER LAURIE—Was that the utmost extent of your misconduct? Pauper—The only offence 1 ever committed. - Sir PETER-L-And your father knew it? Pauper—He (lid. My employers can bear testimony to my irreproach able conduct in every other respect. The best proof of their good opinion is, that they have at various times given me employment. When they had no employment for me as a clerk, in order to keep me from complete destitution, they employed me as a footman. That kept me from star vation. - - - . Sir PETER LA U RlE—Did you,write to your father about your privations? Pauper—Repeatedly, but in vain. .• Sir PETER—Did he give you no relief? Pauper—Since I lost my situation he gave me 51. ; six years have elapsed since that' time. I wrote to him that if he did not do some little thing for me, I must apply to :may parish, to prevent me from resorting to any desperate extremity for the sup port of my existence. Sir PerEa—Good God ! And did hegive you nothing? Pauper—Nothing--not a farthing. Sir PrrnitL-Young man, you must either be a very bad son, or your father must have a very hard - beast ; which is it ? Pauper—My father's heart is like a stone. He was aware of my wretchedness. He even refused, to pay me, in my distress, the money be owed me: When he was taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act in 1821, I 'advanced 30/. to him to meet the expences, and he would not. pay me one farthing. Sir PETER—If you misrepresent on this dreadful occa sion, you must meet with a direct contradiction ; and nothing can prove a base heart more effectually than a falsehood under such circumstances. Pauper—l have told the truth. lie bas nothing to accuse me of but the error I have stated. My employers, who have been very kind to me, can, if applied to, state that no further offence has ever been laid to my charge. The Vestry Clerk stated that the representation of the pauper, upon the present occasion, differed in no respect from his statement to them., There was no reason to doubt it. The parish authorities bad, upon this second application of the pauper, written again to the Rev. Gen tleman, and stated to him, thatif he' persisted in refusing aid to his unfortunate son, the case : Tilust inevitably appear before the public. No notice was taken of this appeal, and the young man must either be supported by the parish or die of hunger. Sir PETER—This is is scarcely to be believed. I never heard any thing more dreadful. Did the father make no other excuse for abandoning his child than that of other claims ? Vestry Clerk—None. He said he had taken a great deal of trouble in getting his son a situation ; and that his son having lost that situation by his conduct, he could not do anything further for him. Pauper—l have tried every means of gettineinto bread. 1 went to Brighton, and got a place at one of the libraries, which I kept till it was Alit up. I wrote to my father, that if lie did not (lo something for me, I must go to the parish, or do something worse. - Sir PE rut—And he refused you ? Pauper—He never took notice of my letter. Sir Prrea—And he id a minister of Christ ? Pauper-- He has livings to the amount'of upwards of 2,0001. a-vear. Sir PETER—And what were the debts which he white washed, as they call the passing through the Insolvent Court? Pauper—l believe about 3,0001. Sir PETER-And did . he give up ad) , of his situations to pay his creditors ? Pauper—Not one. He agreed, I be lieve, to pay annually something to the liquidation of his debts. He pays curates for officiating for him, for he sel dom or never acts himself. lam anxious to accept of any situation which will preserve me from a degrading depend ence upon the parish, and my former employers will speak favourably of me, notwithstanding the error into which I unfortunately fell. Sir PETER—Is this person of whom yoU speak married to a second wife ? Pauper-4le is. Sir PETER-And who are the claimants upon his 2,0001. a year? Pauper—His wife and three children. Sir PETER-To what do you attribute this strange per version of nature? Is the Rev. Gentleman penurious? Pauper—No : the reverse. He keeps an establishment, and is expensive in his habits, I believe ; but I know but little about him, not having seen him for six years. Sir PETER-Has he no feeling for:your forlorn condi dition ? Pauper—Not the most distant; no more than if. I never existed. He never casts a thought upon me. Sir PETER-In all my experience I never met with any thing like this. And this man is the religious instructor of the people. He abandons. his child to misery, and the temptation which every where .assail .poverty in this city. He will not forgive in his son that which those who suf fered by the .offence, and were.strangers, pardoned. Ile will look on while. his. flesh and blood - , perishes in the streets, and he receives his .2,0001. a-year, and comforts himself in the reflection that _he is a minister of the .Gos pel ! The picture is frightful. The Vestry Clerk said he supposed that another applica tion would be attended to. Sir PETER.--I dare say it will. It will probably be made through a more commanding. channel. It is rather too much for poor persons, who can scarcely pay the rates, to be supporting the son of a clergyman whu has such pluralities. The en try Clerk—We shall coatinue to assist him un til wegirear from his father. SIC PETER—.Certainly, do. You will bear from his father, and his father will, depend upon it, hear from you: If he have no touch of humanity, he probably has sonie sense of shame. Mr. Hobler—The parish can compel him to assist his son , and I think th e y must compe l hi m . The parties then left the Justice-room. GUILDHALL —Joseph Howard, aged 19, who has been employed for the last four years as a porter on the premises of Mr. Lynch, a wholesale dealer in coffee, in Size-lane , was brought up on suspicion of having stolen 401. in notes, and 70/. in gal and silver, out of a tin cash b ox i n his master's desk, on Saturday last. Martin, the officer, permanently stationed at this jut:- flee-room, 'had examined the premises and found no marks of breaking in or out. The lock of the desk was taken off, and the smith was of opinion, from the appearance of the dust, upon which any other than the ordinary key would have left an impression, that Mr. Lynch had left his desk unlocked upon this occasion. The prisoner probably dis covered this in cleaning out the counting-house. The sky light was raised on an inclined plane, a part of the lower half being moveable, and sliding under the upper when it was necessary to admit air. This window was fastened by a rope, which was cut close to the ring to which it was tied, and if it had been cut by a person standing on the leads, there must have been an inch or two of rope left hanging upon the ring. He was sure no person bad en tered by that window. He thought the - prisoner had mounted the bags of coffee, and cut the rope - on the inside, that he might threw out the banker's cheques, &c.,011 the leads, and raise a suspicion that the thieves escaped in that direction. A regular houSehreaker would have left nothing behind.. He searched the prisoner's lodging, and also .the boxes of the female servants in the house, without gaining a clue. • Mr. 'Alderman Scnotre remanded the prisoner for fur ther examination on Friday next. William Rocket, a stout old man, who says he was formerly a butcher, was charged with knowingly attempt ing to pass a forged cheque for 191. 7s. 6d. on Messrs. Pares and Heygate, purporting to be drawn .by George Smith, in favour of M. Jenkins, Esq., and dated Oct. 2. The Prisoner was dismissed. BOW- STREET.—Yesterday Joseph Arnold, owner and driver of the hackney-coach, No. 85, appeared to sup port a summons which he had obtained against a Mrs. flolmes, whom he charged with having broken one of the Windows of his coach, the amount of which she refused to pay him. From the evidence of the coachman it appeared that Mrs. Holmes hired the coach in• que4ion in Whitechapel, nearly opposite the Red Lion, with directions to drive to her residence in Liverpool-street, Broad -street, city. As soon as she was seated in the coach, she pulled up the widow, and in doing so smashed the glass. Having driven the lady to Liverpool-street, the witness demanded the amount of the broken window, which she refused to pay ; whereupon he (the coachman) gave the young man now present into - the custody of a watchman, as be was the person who had called him froni his stand. Mrs. Holmes distinctly denied that she had broken the coach-window, and a gentleman named Lewis, at whose house she had passed the evening, and who had handed her into the coach, declared also that Mrs. Holmes had sot smashed the glass, and added, to the best of his belief, that it vas broken before she entered the coach. Mr. HALLS asked the coachman whether lie could not distinctly swear that the glass was whole before the lady entered the coach ?—The• coachman said, that he was posi • tive the lady must have done the mischief, because a short time before. both his glasses were whole, he having been engaged in cleaning them. Mr. HALLS—How long before the lady took your coach had you aeon that both your glasses were uninjured ? Coachman—AN:Mt 'three hours; your Worship. Mr. HaLLs,--Might not the glass have been broken in the interval? Coachman—No such thing, your Worship; I swears that the lady broke my glass. Mrs. Holmes—l positively deny that 1 did so. Finding a draught of air in the coach, I very gently raised the win dow ; in doing so I heard the glass shake ; and before I had .half raised the window, the glass fell into the street. I immediately called to Mr. Lewis t 4 notice the cjreuui stance, in case the coachman should attempt to make any charge for the damage. Coactman—Will your Worship be pleased to swear the lady ? Mr..HALus—.-Certainly, if she feels no objection. Mrs. Holmes—Not in the least. The oath was then administered, and Mrs. Holmes re peated distinctly, not only that she herself - had not broken the glass, hut that to the best of her belief itliad been broken before she touched it. A gentleman present said that it was constantly the prac tice of hackney-coachmen to charge persons with breaking the glasses of their coaches; and in this way they were often paid four or five times for the same damage. , Mr. Hm.r.s—lf that be the fact, it is necessary that the public. should he protected from such impositions. At •the same time, it is requisite t hat hackney-coachmen should be protected also. lam afraid I must decide against you, Madam. Mr. Holmes (the defendant's husband)—The lady, Sir, has sworn that she did not break the. glass " But the coachman has sworn that she did," said the Magistrate. • Mr. Lewis—l am a witness for Mrs. Holmes, and I de clare that she did not break the window. Mr. HALLS—The coachman swears to the contrary: I am bound to believe ins oath. Mr. Lewis—l should think, Sir, yuu are least : equally bound to believe that of the lady. 11Ir. HALLS—SO I do, but I think she id mistaken. I decide in favour of the coachman. Mr. Holmes—l hope, Sir there is an appeal from your decision ; if so, I shall certainly resist the payment. The clerk observed, that there was no appeal from a decision under the Ilacknry-coach Art. • • • ' -- •- • Coachman—Your Worship, I shall have to summon. the parties before you again, for giving me 6d. less than my fare. Mr. Lewis—l think you will do right, coachman, from the encouragement you have met with with to-day. The damage was then paid for, and the parties retired. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a young man of very respectable appearance, named James Penman, ,a native of Scotland, which was strongly evinced by his dialect, was brought from the watch-house of St. Pancras -parish, before Mr. RQZ; the sitting Magistrate, charged by a hackney-wadi:inn with refusing to pay him his fare. It appeared by the statement of the hackney-coachman, that about 10 o'clock the night befure the defendant hired him from his stand, and kept him driving about from one direction to another for several hours, until at last he found that the defendant bad no real destination whatever, and he therefore drove him to the watch-house to secure the payment of the fare. The unhappy young man, while standing at the bar, and also as it appeared at the watch-house, betrayed by his demeanour strong and evident symptoms of a very unset tled state of mind, and a respectable tradesnian in the neighbourhood" of the office,' who attended for the purpose, stated that he knee the young man very well, and knew his friends in Scotland to be highly respectable, and that they are very well known to the family of Lady Hampden, but that the unhappy young man himself has been for some time labouring under strong mental aberration, which, of late, has grown to a degree of considerable excitement; and if, he said, the Magistrate could have the defendant de tained until his friends could be communicated with, he (the applicant) would undertake to write to them forth with, as he knew their address in Scotland. Mr. Rots said, that there was sufficient grounds in what the applicant alone had stated to detain' the young man until his friends could be heard from ; but, 'at all events, he could' he detained upon the charge of the ceachnian until the amount of the fare (12s. 6d.) shoOld be paid,.and which it was clear the young man himself, without some aid • from others, could not pay, as he had not a farthing of money about him. He was accordingly ordered to be de tained, until hiti friends shall be heard from, and every in e • per care directed to be taken of him. The, next charge immediately succeeding the last was against a young man, of equally respectable appearance, brought from the same watch-house, and also a native of Scotland, named Thomas Foot, and, if possible, with a stronger northern accent than his predecessor, and who was evidently also in a very unsound state of mind, although his malady seemed of a 'more subdued nature than that of the other. A watchman stated, that between three and four o'clock on that morning, while the rain came down in torrents, he met this young man walking on the Hampstead-road, without either hat or coat on, and addressing a speech of some sort, which he (the watchman) did not quite under stand, to the moon, and as he refused t o explain or give any account of himself, he thought it his (the watchman's) duty to take him to the watch-house. • An elderly respectable-looking female, residing in Union. terrace, Hampstead-road,"stated, that this young man had lodged in her house for nine months past, and there could not be any where a more regular or well-conducted young man in all his habits and manners, until about.a week ago, at three o'clock in the morning, she .was disturbed .by some one speaking very loud, in the garden, at the back of the house, and wondering who it could possibly be, she got out of. bed, and on looking through the window, she saw that it was her lodger, who had • quitted his bed and had gone into the garden, where he seemed to be looking up, and talking something to the sky ; that circumstance, however, passed away, believing it to be as she supposed only a mere. frolic, and she thought no more of it until Sunday night last, when he got up in a similar manner, and about the same hour, and went out of the house alto gether, without his hat or coat, and she was now so muck alarmed . by his conduct on those two o ccasions, that no consideration should induce her to take him back again to her house. Mr. lloE asked her if she knew any thing of the young man's friend ?—She replied that she din not, except that she was satisfied they were respectable, because they sent him pl e nty o f money , f or h e regularly every three w ee k s received by post a 61. note. Site always took in his letters, awl the postage of each was !?,s. 10d. Mr. Roe asked her if sbe knew the address of his friends ?—She replied, that any letters that she had ever taken charge of from him to be sent to the Post-office, woe always addressed to " Hobert Foot, Esq. Glasgow." 311.. Roe now asked the young man himself, who scented hitherto to be quite unconscious of what was going on in his presence, if he had been brought up to any business or profession, and what part of Scotland be was a native of. —He replied, in a scarcely audible tone, and after a tie quert repetition of the question to him front the Magistrate, that be was a native of Glasgow, and that he had been brought up as a sculptor and modeller. Mr. ROE ordered that this young man should be de tained also, as a disorderly person, and that proper care 'should be taken of him, until a communication should, 136 had from his friends in Scotland ; and he (Mr. Roe) tut self would, be said, tak e u p on hi m t o a dd ress a letter " Mr. Foot, of Glasgow, respecting him. There was nearly 21. in money found upon the r; 11/ 21 man's persdn, and Out of this it was directed that N ha comforts he might require should be supplied him. (c A fashionable-looking yo u n g man , name d Chadw was charged with assaulting a Mr. Collins, residing us Berners-street ; but on the investigation of the case, it a ijf peired dead). by the evidence th a t M r . C o lli n s bin l e , was The first aggressor, by seizi ng M r . Ch a d w i c k hY,' h . 0 , collar, although Mr. Chadwick sub sequen tly k noc ked I° ,l down ; audit further appeared th a t th e w h o l e arose out a groundless charge of stealing a dog from him, w it ! i c er Mr. Collins had made against Mr. Chadwick, and nn these circumstances the Magistrates dismissed the affai" ; The parties, however, h a d no t go t we ll c l ear outride the office-door, u hen Mr. Collins thought proper to call Chadwick a thief and a dog-stealer, and Mr. Chad thought it quite as, proper to knock Mr. Collins 0 O b again with a blow of a stick, almost under the nose of the Magistrate, before whom, of course, both parties oncel more made their appearance, and Mr. Chadwick was O 31. for, the knock-dow n bl ow , a lth oug h h e sa id he thnugh'm e some allowance ought t o h e ma d e f or hi s f ee li ngs w hen was publicly called a thief and a d og-stealer. Mr. ROE said, that these words might be punishable b : civil action, hut wer e no t t o - b e redressed by a blolr 01. stick, and that, too, ahnest in the very eye of justice. 1 Mr. Chadwick i ns t an tly p a id th e 31. an d sa id that I Mr. Collins used similar language to hinragain, he (hi c e i Chad Wick) would soon have to pay 31. more; but .heS not much care, as it went to the King, and not to Collins: A man named Penni»ger, who stated himself to La' s been eleven y ears • an officer in his Majesty's service, 11° who has lately become the landlord of one of the m ost n Er toriously ill-conducted public-houses in London, co iled t he Maidenhead, in Llopkins- s tr ee t, St. J ames ' s , appeared t° • answer an information preferred against bins at the instal of the parish-officers, for harb o u r i ng re p u t e d thi eves ou other bad characters in his house. The information was dismissed for want of evidence. t Bnckland said that he c ould p rove b e y on d . doubt, on Sunday night laSt the landlord did know that be 0 ' entertaining a thief in his house, and the Magistrll ordered that a fr e sh i n fo rma ti on s h ou ld b e l a id upon new ground. George Curtis,'who is in custody charged with obtO r ing various articles of saddlery, harness, from trao 4 ; men in that line, under the false pr e t ence th a t he' vis° groom in the service of some gentleman . who dealt With them,. was fully committed for trial upon three clear cad established against him. MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday morning the wife tradesman, and her daughter-in- law, were .brought her Mr. 'RA WLINSO N, on suspicion of felony, but' no positi e evidence being given against then, they were dischargew UNION-HALL.—Yesterday John Priestley,the mot e( and owner of a fishing-smack, was brought up in c ustody from Newington, in the watch-house of which parish b e had been confined during the night on a charge of havi 4 violently assaulted his wife Rebecca. The complainant's eyes bore ample proof of the usages" had receiv e d, i n a ddi t i on to w hi c h s h e pro d u c ed one o f be , side-te e th, whi c h h a d b een k noc k e d out during the conflie'; Snow, the be a dl e o f N ew i ngto n, procee d e d to state, the on Sunday evening the inhabitants of South-street, Es st ; lane, W a l wor th, were extreme l y a l arme d i n consequence' a riot and cries of " murder !" pnieeeding from a hol e i in the street, occu pi e d b y a man name d D av i son. . 'SeVet, persons endeavou re d. t o ga i n admittance, but c o uld 07 until he (Snow) and some of the watchmen under 13 ' 5 controul forced their way into the .premises, where tbeY say a woman lying on the floor bleeding very mu c h frets the nose and mouth. The defendant was in the roes l ' as also a man named Davison, who appeared to 1 11 _,' e been very muc h . b ea t en . Ott inquiring into the cs 7, of the. distu r b ance th e d e f en d ant , w h o seemed kil;11 exasperated at th e time, d escr ib e d th at hi s wife 114 abandoned her home and six children, and eloped Davison, a carpenter, residing in South-street,. took her home with him. Priestley having sour s his wife in vain for some time without weer* length ascertained that she was.living with Davison,-s n having met that man on ,Sunday, at. Deptford, he went C to him, and having upbraided him for seducing The age° . tions of Mrs. 'Priestley. declared that he was detetiniited knowing her place of concealment, and threatened tai every tooth Davison had in his head .down his throat 0 1 1 refused to take hin t th a t i nstant to where hia(PriestleP) wife was living. Davison, terribly alarmed'at the 60'1 held out by P r i es tl e y, w h o was prep a ring te ' avenge on the seducer, at length reluctantly consented to becO r his guide to the habitation he had taken for the unfortuna te A woman.. The moment Pri es tl e y en t ere d th e r oom an d ea f his wife, his feelings, as Snow de scr ib e d, got the bete f : I his judgment, and he c o mm ence d an a tta c k bog ) upon hrs wife and the man who w a s th e c hi e f cause o f h er b°l . ing abandoned her family. Priestley being a very pot', ful man, soon tliuntplied over Davison, an d l a id sprawling along the floor, from which he was unable 1 '; rise fur none time. The wife of Priestley shared a SiMi ls 4 fate, and her cries fur assistance brought the beadle s°, his assistants to the house as above described. Snow sal ed, that lie had every reason to believe the above staten3e° to be correct. Defendant.—l am exceedingly sorry for having lifted i ° , hand to my wife, but your worship, my passion got better of me. he has tr ea t e d me w i t h gre a t crue l ty , hi ing eloped with the same man about six months ago. afterwards forgave her, and consented to take her hoo .i e ' notwithstanding wh a t h a d h appene d . She conduete' herself with propriety from that period until the P re :, sent occasion. Her h av i ng now a b an d on ed h er child 0131 j six weeks old, irritated me so dreadfully, that upon ing her, I certainly s tr uc k h er , w hi c h I am 'no* heartil sorry for. , Sonic affectionate glances here took pla'ee between 10; Priestley and her husband, when the former exclaial " I forgive him, if he forgives me. lam not a f ra id eg o s he will heat me again, and I shall faithfully promise P e to deserve it." Mr. CirAstenns then added that the case was discharged' THE ARMY. .4 Sir John Byng,, the Commander-in-Chief of the For' in Ireland; has-left Dublin, on a tour of inspection to lb e South of Ireland. The 21st Regiment:of Foot, embarked, on Saturdayi ft Bristol, for Waterford. The 9th Regiment of Infantry embarked, on Saturday' at Liverpool, for Belfast. A Detachment of the ,Coldstream Guards ; arrived in , Aylesbury on Friday. They are on their way to' eliester, where it is presumed they are intended to rep l2 ' (- other corps detached from the latter place tti Ireland< Bucks Chronicle. A report is prevalent this evening, that orders have W e i , received for the military here to be in readiness to ernba! A fur Ireland, and that some of the steam-boats are engs to be prepared for their transport,— Glasgow Courier. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. Mrs. J. P. Clark, Sackville , stre e4 Piccadilly, of a son. On the 4th inst. in Hans-place, Mrs. Bruce, of daughter. On the 4th inst. at Painswiek House, Gloucestershi re ' the lady of W. 11. Ilyett, Esq. a a daughter. On the 6th inst. in Pull-mall East, Mrs. Robert C uff of a son. MARRIED. On the 4th inst. at St. Peter's Church, Walworth, by the:Rev. Dr. Holloway, George J. Fabian, Esq. Li evt. f R.N., to Ellen, (laughter of the late W. Bentham, E'4• v Sheerness, Kent. • DIED. On the 17th of August, Thomas Pemberton, Esq. of tb' island o f S t . Ch r i stop h er . On the-Ist inst. ut Harrow, G e org e H enr y, a ged the youngest s o n o f th e R ev . B. E vans . • On the 29th ult. at the B e acon, Exm o uth, a ged W I months, Frederick Samuel, the infant bon of Lieutenant' General Boye. On•the 24th ult. Mr. Thomas Smith, P r i nce ' s -strPrince's-stree t' Spits!fields, aged 62, atter a severe illness of only tto°days. , jtiriXlWs7l.l4 ft..; - nth H. le, i° On the sth inst. at Hampstead, Mr. Richard Nob'. the 69th year of his age. On the 3d inst. at Hammersmith, Madame Notre, aged t e ' On the 4th inst. at Holloway, in the 29th y ea r of et age, Isabelk4 third daughter of John Thorn, Esq. of Ju street, Brunswick-square. At Brighton, on the 4th inst. Miss Emma 8r ,61 7 hifr s econd daught er o f G eorge B rett l e , E sq. o f Brixton' wr Surrey, and Wood-str ee t, L on don, in the 13th year of ' t age. Oa the 4th inst. in her 9ed year, at her house in 12/r., 11 . 4 , wick-square, M rs . 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