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$l(Jt. ,;~-. . P#fmtmo FILENC - 11 1)A.1 3 ELLS. (From the Flo:k, dated .lug. •14.1 Attic, Auo. 13.—The King heard MASS 'his 1113:4111114 . 11i9. 11 IS Majesty gave a private audience to his Royal highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg. his Excellency the Count Villele transacted business with the King. His Majesty went out about two o'clock, and drove to Choisy, M. de will arrive at Paris before the .4 7 .iid of the month. His Excellency 'has only 'tallied a leave of absence. ' M. Bois Le Comte, who was lately Secretary of Legation at St..Pctersburgh, and is now first Secretary at Madrid, will act as Charge d'Af faires of France during the absence of M. de gra laru. (Front . the jourrugde!Debats of Friday.) PARIS, A ua. 13.—if 13uonapirte's testament is .real, as stated by the English newspapers, it will •be sufficient to Tender his memory odious. A low vindictive spirit prevails in it—a harsh tone, a •avant of respect for every thing sacred, of all ele -vation of character, and even of a moral sense. We are puzzled to conceive how so sensible a man ias linonaparte could have drawn up such a docu •ment, de4tined naturally to be madepuhlic. If it ws written by him, it is a proof bow mach ' ~-,-ireisfortunes can debase some men, and render them furious, however great may be their itttel lectual superiority. Whet a contrast between this testament and that of Louis XVI. It is the calmness of heaven and the madness of hell. (Frani Vie Courier Fraoca;4.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 3ur.Y 12.—intrigues are at ,present very numerous, and torrents of blood will yet he shed, If the unfortunate Greeks should tie exterminated, they will owe their fall to the Christians of Europe. They transported the troops of the Captain Pacha, and their flags floated in the midstof his fleet. Christians were the negociators between him and those Albanians who sold Ipsara. The Christians are how selling ,themselves and their vessels to the Pacha of Egypt. The policy of Europe is delivering up tin Greeks to their Musselmen executioners. The Moniteur of Friday, Aug. 13, contains, in the official ,part, three Royal Ordonances, au thorising the establishment of two Fire Insurance Companies, one at Bourg and one, at Versailles ; and of a Company at Bordeaux, fur the erecting of Foundries of Iron and other metals. BA YONNE, A vo.3.—The King's garde du corps set out the day before yesterday to return to Ver sailles. The Spanish General Pnlafox has arrived here from Spain, on his way to the baths. The Financial Committee appointed for the liquidntion of the ncrounts of the army of Spain for the year 1824, which was ut first established at Toulouse, has arrived here to commence its ope rations. PARIS, Auo. It.—Our renders may remember that two clerks in the War Office and four other • persons were arrested for having forged a great number of brevets of Knights of St. Louis, mid of •the documents necessary to obtain them. Three of these persons have been set at liberty, and the others are to be tried at the Assizes. The details .of this affair, which is oxpected to come on in 'September, will be extremely curious. A great - -number of persons belonging to time most honour. able classes of society, whose confidence and cre dulity h av e been most scandalously abused by titese criminals, will he' examined as witnesses. - v E !qt: rurrni. A tIo. 11—Five per opened at 101 f. c. ; closed at 101. f. 16 e.—Neapolitan Fire per Cents. in '4l needs, tiq ; in francs, 91. 4 .ls.—Spanish 5 per Cons. In ; Royal Loan, "55.-- . Exchange on London, one inanth, 25. 15.; 'three inontins, emirs Authentique.). 'FAKING OF MARA. PAIATICI/r.A113.1 [Prom the Journal iles Debuts of Th►►rsdar/.] Sig VIINA, J trt,Y 7• —(Private Letter.)-1 send you in haste an ac:•:%tnt, ttlas ! tro true, of the catastrophe of Ipsara. Publish it-in the Newspapers, that the universe may learn the misfortunes and the glory of Greece. Ipsara is no more; all have perished. The following is the account given by an eyo-witness, as he told me the story, mingling his recital with salts. On July 6, in the evening, the Captain of an American verged appeared at the Chanceaerie at Smyrna, who declared the following was the truth 1---" On July :3, at three o'eloi:k in the looming, the fleet of the Captain Paella, composed of line or Lnttle ships and frileatei, appeared off the harbour of Ipssita, while the transports; among which were several vessel* under foreign colours, steered for the north`part of the island, to the anchorage called Amoudia. This post was defended by four batteries, confided to the care of a battalion of Albanian coerce- frames, called 'Tabider or coast guards. The Turks immediately began, to disembark, while the Albanians fired ones so as to do nu injury, and then ran away. part of them going over to the Turks, and a few saving themselves by retreating towards .Ipaars. The Osmanlis then landed without tiny obstacle, and they disembarked more than twenty thousand Asiatics, who ..took possession of the heights that command the island, and -hoisted the Turkish flag. The Ipsariota immediately perceived that they were betrayed. At the same moment the Turks . contmenced their attack, and the Christians having united, an obstinate context ensued, which lasted till the next day, Sun day, July 4. The ipsuriuts then resolved to bury themselves under the ruins of their country. They took away the rudders of their vessels, and took means to prevent any body escaping by means of them. The Captain Paella, informed of this, ' caused more troops to advance. This was five o'clock in the afternoon. The Ipsariots, worn out with fatigue, foreseeing that they must be conquered, resolved to perish in a manner worthy of their name and character as freemen. Collecting.all the old men, women, and chi ldren, they led them all to Fort • St. Nicholas there waiting till they were surrounded by the enemy's army. raising the standard of the Cross in.the air, they cried with a loud voice, Long live Greece I Death 'to the Turks !' And set fire to a mine and a large magazine of powder. !risers is widow( if of her heroic population, and the Cross has been supplanted by the Crescent. Aerailtlig from Frankfort, dated August 5, "Y :—' 4 A very riy,orous but necessary and wholesome ordin. gliousen ante. has been i ssue d by the Prince of Sax e - - ! 111 Ibur n ajpiinst lotteri e s. Whoever' puts into the lottery Alla pay_ ft" or 15 dollars, or b e p u ni s h e d by imprisonment and haul labour. (.. , olleetorti ore to pay 60 dollars, to be sent for three weeks to the liotut2 of Correaion, and if they have any public eriployment, they ore to be deprived of it. Persons travelling Pit fore* lotteries shall be placed under the care of the Pollee, :t he as p l o4s and tiqogerous presorts, and, if necessary, sent out of t country. The narties of Rua' persons as are detected trambling in the lottery shall t w . 'Those who know E ow m iry families, bay, whole villages, have been totally ruined by the lottery, will not think the law too severe." Letter: from 1 ort Saint. Mar'y's, dated the .g3tl or last tnonth, announce,' that ftotti the 17th up to the 23d, the whole of Andalusia was visited by an extraordinary and intense heot, and its dream had been most destructive.— The people of Cadiz and its vicinity have remarked, that h p. peartnices MOttleW at similar lt aye always manifested themselves, ,previous to the dreadful visitation of thc yellow fever. • GERMAN PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 10.—(From a Mer. cantile Letter.)—All the inhabitants who ..were founitat Ipsara have been massacred. A French Captatn, Who was present at the enterprise, and sailed away on the Sah in the evening, re lates, that with the, exception of a fortified menastery, every thing was in possession of • the Turks. We are, therefore, in hourly expectation of further news about this monastery. Another division of Turkish troops is said to have landed near Athens and to have taken possession of that city.—(illorneinr Zeitung, Aug. 6.) Faamonir, AUG. 7.—The - Oriental Spectator has been succeeded at Smyrna by a new paper called the Smyrnean. The first Number appeared on the 3tl July, at which time it could not have the news of the takinwor Ipsara. It formally contradicts the assertion of several European Journals that the Oiientril Sp:eta/or was suspended by order of the Pacha. It will be seen by the short extract annexed, that the scenes of dis. order at Smyrna, of which several Journals have spoken, are also destitute of foundation :-- - - " 8111(NRAI JULY 3.—Colocotroni and his adherents have at length recognised the Provisional Government of Greece, and made their submission. Napoli di Romania has opened its gates. " We learn from Mitylene, that the Turkish fleet was still at anchor there ; some frigates are gone to reconnoitre Ipsara. The Captain Pacha is in expectation of the great Egyptian squadron to begin the campaign. The disorders which have prevailed in the army have ceased; the soldiers eagerly de mand to be led against the enemy. Letters from Alexandria say, that the expedition of the Viceroy was to sail about the end of :lune. " Hassan Podia, our Governor, by his moderation and dis interestedness, is really the father of the Rayas, and especially the protector of the Greeks. It is to his firmness and wisdom that we are indebted for the tranquillity which we have enjoyed for several immths past. The Greeks resort fl'om all quarters to our eityl they are received with open' arms by the Local Authorities. The Porte every day sends Firmuns in favour of the Rayas. " For these six weeks past the Greeks have had their Arch bishop here. This respectable old man has been extremely well received by the Pacha. When he goes out he is always accompanied by a numerous suite. ' For some days past swarms of locusts have ravaged the gardens here and at Magnesia. It may be affirmed that the air was darkened by the great multitude of these insects" Wriman, JULY 28.—0 n the 12th of this month the se pulchral vault In the Chateau, containing the remains of the an cestors of his Royal Highness the Grand Duke, was opened hy his order, for the purpose of removing them to the Ch a p e l,. which has been built for the Grand Ducal family in the new Cemetry out of the city. There were 28 coffins; the oldest was that of Duke William IV, who died in 1662. POLITICS OF THE ENGLISH CABINET (From the AlgenteitteFungi FROM THE JULY 20.—The Frankfort Journal, in its number of the I fith inst., revered, nn has already been stated, to the previously published article from Bentz, respecting the reasons for the presence of Count Munster at Johannisberg, and the presumed triumph in the British Cabinet of the prin ciples established by - the recent Congresses on the right of inter ference, and certainly the very conscientious editor may. well be pardomil for adopting one apocryphal article. Nevertheless, the Elber;frhi ProvhreLsl Gazelle, anti after it, the Haw! , /ugh Correwondent, have on this subject called him to account, and have thought themselves bound to stand forward as chain. pions of the English Cabinet. The Elberfeld article of the 19th of June is, however, an admonitory example of the ill success which must attend the handling of such important and complicated questions of high policy, when they are inves tigated under a local point of view. Let it even be admitted that the right of interference is, as it appears to this Elberfeld statesman to be—Suppose the instances of interference in the affairs of Naples, Sardinia, and Spain, ,were as arbitrary acts of intertneddling as he, in complete ignorance of the history of the times, has represented them—suppose the English Govern ment not to. have recognized such interference, and yet to send troops to Portugal, or a naval force to the Bay of Lis bon—still the Elberteld .correspondent might , have recol lected-that the British Cabinet had disclaimed the right of In-. teteering in a much more comprehensive sense than hia de-, tinition presented. That Cabinet has distinctly refused to the King of Spain the rigltt of claiming the • aid of his allies -to tranquillize his American possessions, in the same form as the King of Portugal at present claims the. assist ance of England, his ancient ally to tranquillize POrtngal. Now, since the old law of' nations denies to no Sovereign the right of concluding alliances for the .maintenance of the inte grity of his possessions, and England has expressly refused this right to Spain, surely the Elholtlil Zeltung ought to' be con vinced that the right of interference is by no means understood. in the same sense in London as at Elberfeld. What the Cabi net of London regards as irreconcileable with its views of the law of nations anti political right's, are not merely the so-called acts of arbitrary interference, but also, as the above-cited example shows, those interpositions which take place in conse quence of a direct demand of aid on the part of n legitimate Government. The Meech' correspondent also gave a very inconsiderate direction to his polemics against the Abbe Hen neeart, when he considered the British Cabinetjustified, grantinto g on the same principles, in refusing lo Spain, an Portugal, aid solleitated by the legitimate Soverei g n. The correspondent of.the Abbe Ilennecen Is, however, right when he maintains, that if the. succours in sea or land forces sought by the King of Portugal be In any way supplied, a great and salutary change will take place in the views of the Cabinet of London, which change must, from the wisdom and eon sistency still belonging to that Government, unavoidably lead to the recognition of the right of interference in a stricter sense. FIRE IN TISE CALEDONIAN CHAPEL, HATTON. G MIDI:N.—OH Saturday night, about ten o'clock, considerable alarm was excited throughput the neighbourhood, in consequence of a general cry that the Caledonian Chapel, in Hatton-garden, bins on fire. Some Gentlemen of the Committee had been transacting business in the Chapel in ti►r course of the evening, and on leaving it Iw. tween nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Endes, a lock. smith, who resides behind the chapel, looked in on the premises, when he saw flames issuing from the vaults under the Chapel. The rafters were on fire, and the devouring element had reached the Chapel, when some of the seats were nearly consumed, and the steps leadieg to the pulpit. Alarm was instantly given to Mr. Brant, en extensive coachmaker, whose preni6es are adjoining, and immediately his men, with the assistance of the ‘iatchmen, conveyed buckets of ee ater to the spot from a large cistern on Mr. Brant's premises. In a few minutes the fire en gines arrived, but, shameful to state, the exer tions of the firemen wore almost useless by nearly the same scarcity of water as occurred in Ore ville-street, insomuch that the engines could not work. The firemen, however, assisted in pulling up the flooring of the chapel, to prevent the ex tension of the fire, which, after raging for nearly half an hour, was got completely under by the supply of water from Mr. Brant's premises. But for this lucky circumstance, the chapel, as also Mr. Bcant's premises, must have been consumed. The cause of the tire is altogether involved in mystery. In the vaults nutler the chapel there is a stove, in tended for the circulation of heat through the cha pel, by means of a flue, but which has not been used for years. On part of this flue, between it and the rafters, were placed a number of planks, which were used as temporary tables on Sacrament days. Among those planks the fire commenced. During the time of Divine Service, or when the Com tnittee are sitting, the back entrance to the chapel is generally left open, through which there is a ready access to the vaults ; and it is sup. posed some person conveyed on one of those oc casions th e materials for combustion, but from what motive is as yet unknown. Every exertion will, however, be made to discover the sacra -1 legions offender.—(illorning Paper.) ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. [IOME CIRCUIT.--111.AIDSTONE, FRIDAY, Atm. 12. 1.113EL.....-I'IIII.POTT V. PAGE. _ . This was an action for two Miele concerning the plaintiff, in his character of Guardian of the Poor of St. Mary the Virgin, Dover, imputing to him fraud and malversation in his office. —There were also counts for verbal slander, imputing that the plaintiff was a public..delinquent, and deserved a halter. The defendant, in addition to the general issue, pleaded special pleas of justification, alleging the truth of the libellous and slander ous matter respectively. Issue thereon. The trial of this case commenced on Thursday afternoon, about 2 o'clock, and was adjourned at five until this morning. The plaintiff was a corn-chandler at Dover, and the defend. ant was a brewer in the same town. In 1821, the plaintiff had been appointed, under the authority of Mr. Gilbert's Act, a guardian of the poor in the parish of St. Misty the Vigin, and gave so mach satisfaction by his conduct, that in the succeed ing year he was unanimously appointed in the same office under the regulations of the Act of Parliament above mentioned. Two other inhabitants of the town, named Popkiss and lamb, were joined with him in office, the latter us treasurer, and the former as visitor. The defendant had been in the habit of su plying the. poor-house with beer every altern a t e m o nth. in October, 1822, the plaintiff contracted with another brewing firm, named Jekin and Co., in the town, to supply the poor house with beer for three consecutive months. Mr. Popkiss, who was a friend of the defendant, endeavoured to have the contract made with the latter, but without success. This cir cumstance was supposed to excite considerable irritation in the det'endant's mind towards the plaintiff, to whom he conceived he was indebted for the acceptance of the other brewer in pre. Terence to himself. In the Spring of 1822 the plaintiff became embarrassed in Ids circumstances in consequence of the agricul tural distress which then prevailed, and being a corn-chandler was affected by the difficulties of the farmers with whom he dealt. Finding himself so embarrassed, and that the balance of the parish accounts was quite against him, he acquainted Mr. Lamb and Mr. Popkiss with his situation, and proposed to de posit in their hands a quantity of corn and other property, to cover any balance that might be found due from him to the parish. To this proposal they acceded, and accordingly the plaintiff sent in corn chandlery goods to the amount which he deemed sufficient to balance his accounts, and they wer e de posited in the poor house. Towards the close of the year 1822, lr. Popkiss and Mr. Lamb signified their intention of resign ing their offices, not choosing to act any longer with the plaintiff. This was notified to the Alagistrates, who suggested the pro. priety of calling a Vestry Meeting for the purpose of consider ing the subject. On the 2d of November, 11122, a notice was given in the parish church of a Vestry Meeting, to be held on the 111th of November, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of recommending two fit and proper persons to the Ma gistrates, to supply the place of Messrs. Popkiss and Lamb, in the office of guardians. A meeting accordingly took place on November 18, at which upwards of three hundred persons were present. It wasproposed that the defendant should take the chair, but he declined in favour of n Mr. Humphries, who was immediately elected President. Before the business announced for the day was proceeded in, the Chairman called upon Mr.. Popkiss to explain the reason why lie anti Mr. Lamb desired to resign their offices, and refused to act any longer with the plaintiff? Whereupon Mr. Popkiss, in plesence of the plain tiff, entered into an enumeration of the reasons why Mr. Lamb and himself were averse from twai; with the plaintiff. He stated, that the plaintiff had received 90!. or 1001. of the parish money, and Inui applied it to his own use; that he had borrowed two several stuns, of 11/. and 10/. in copper money, of two tradesmen in the town, for the purpose of paying the out-door poor of the parish, but had applied the money to his own private use ; that he had bought a cow for the use of the poor-house, and charged it in his accounts at the price of 151., whereas he had given but ten guineas for it; that he had purchased a cart for the use of the poor-house on • mode rate terms, and charged in his account nearly double what he hail given for it; that he had sold some hog barley to the poor house at 2.35. per quarter, which was of the worst quality, m when the best alt barley might have been purchased at the same price in the market ; that he had in like manner sold some pigs to the poor-house, at the price ofllll., which were troubled with the staggers and the worms ; that he was in insol. vent circumstances, and that he was guilty of other malversa dons then enumerated. These were the reasons which himself and Mr. Lamb had'to assign for wishing to secede from the of. flee. • A considerable clamour then arose in the meeting The - . with le I the: d 9 1) )/. in b ti elo vi n i trin e : l a 'e ns t w tt e i re d d on t e h lled upon ccrtninly applied it to his Own private purposes, but that the t s .u ta m t l e s. wl i t clamour ensued at this confession. The plaintiff attempted to parish should not be the worse a sixpence for him. A loud explain, but was Interrupted with groaning, hissing, and hoot. and was not permitted to finish a sentence. lie was asked whether he was not insolvent (which would have disqualified him by Mr. (inheres Act) and he replied in the negative.— The defendant then addressed the sleeting in the energetic speech, in which h e .v e hentendy declaimed against the plain. tiff. He said to the Vestry, ss is this a person fit to be intrusted with the public purse ? No I There was no pub. 1k delinquent ever stood thriven]: that deserved the halter more than that fellow Philpott." In conclusion, the defendant proposed a resolution, strongly condemning the plaintiff's conduct. This resolution was thought too violent, but the Vestry Clerk drew up a resolution, expressive of the send- Melds of the Meeting, which was adopted, recommending that an application shonld be made to the Magistrates to suspend the plaintiff's appointment, it being manifest to this Vestry, that by his conduct he it not worthy to fill the situation," &c. '!'his resolution was carried by a majority of more than three hundred to six, and was signed by fifty-three vestrymen, in cluding the defendant. This resolution the declaration charged to be libellous, and was the first ground of the plaintiff's complaint. Parish disputes of some duration followed this proceeding. In August, 1823, t h e d e f en d ant addressed a letter to Alt'. iomas Neighbou'r, a respectable wine-me rc h a nt of London, and uncle to the plaintiff; and, although he haul no previous acquaintance with that Gentleman, entered into a de tail of the disputes between himself and the plaintiff, in order to shew that he had no vindictive feelings towards the latter.— The letter alluded to an offer which Mr. Neighbour wax sup. posed to have made to his nephew of 001. to enable him to maintain an action against the defendant for the vindication of his character, and then called the attention of the uncle to the proceedings as above related, which had taken plitee at the 'Vestry 3leeting in November, 11t22, reiterating the charges which Mr. Popkiss had made against the plaintiff on that occa. sion. It spoke of the plaintiff's defence ta those charges as " altogether most impotent and unsatisfactory," and concluded by advising Mr. Neighbour to keep his 5001. in his pocket, or give it to the plaintiff's wife and her childr e n, i nstea d of squan dering It among the Lawyers in support of au action which must end in a nonsuit. This letter was the second ground of the plaintiff's complaint, and was charged to be libellous. The third ground was the language used by the defendant at the Vestry Meeting above mentioned. It a pp eare d t h at s i nce the resolution of the Vestry the plaintiff had repeatedly offe re d t o pay any balance due from hint to the parish, but that none was claimed of him, and that he bad demanded the goods which he had deposited, to cover any balance which might be found i against him but this was after he w as i n f o rmed that the goods had been sold or applied 'to parish uses. Mutual actions had been brought between the . plaintiff and Mr. Popkiss, on th e 57 Geo. 3. c. 157, for supplying the poor-house with goods whilst they were respectively in office ; and these proceedings tended to increase the dissentionm between the parties. Mr. MARFIXATT addressed the Jury on behalf of the%de.' fondant, and called several witnesses to prove the special pleas of justification. The Jury retired for about half an hour, and found their ver. dict for the plaintiff—Damages One Farthing. The trial lasted until six in :he evening. The business of the Crown Side ended this evening at seven o'clock. None of the capital convicts were kft for execution. The gaol would not have been cleared ito soon, but for the as. sistunce of Mr. Nolan yesterday, Who tried a great ninny psi. soners in the Anabaptist c h a p e l at' this town. Two rather interestin g cases on the Civil Side weremade .remainers until the next Assizes,, in consequence of the pres. sure of other business ; namely, indictments preferred by Lord Ilarborough against Lieutenant Graham, and a Seamen in the Preventive Service; the first, for an alledgetf challenge sent to his Lordship by the Lieutenant; and the second, for an al. lcged assault upon his Lordship on a late occasion, when the King's Bench refused an application for a criminal information at the instance of his Lordship. SATURDAY, Ana. 14. The Assizes finished this afternoon about four o'clock. On the Civil Sitle four Special Jury causes were left as remanets to the next Assizes, there being no time to dispose of them. PIMPOTT7/. This was another action for a libel, at the instance of the same plaintlir in the case of Philpott v. Page. It Wil3 intended to try this cause, but this morning the Learned Judge re. fused to grant a certificate to deprive the plaintiff of his full costs, although the Jury gave him only a farthing damages. But one ease was tried to-day. It was an action to try the but was wholly destitute of p u bli c i n . boundaries of a m anor; terest. The business at Lewes is expected to be very heavy fur Sussex. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Suurwsnunv, Auo. 13. muuoutt AND Roundly. John Felton, uged 20 years, stood charged, on the o at h o f Mary Whitehouse, widow, with having feloneously stolen, on the night of the lid of February, 1822; a silver watch, 101. in bank notes, &c. from the person of her husband, Samuel Whitehouse. To explain the circumstances of this transaction it will be necessary to state the following facts :—On the 3d of February, 1822, 31r. Samuel Whitehouse, a respectable farmer, residing at West Bromwich, went to visit a 11ir. Joseph Down ing, an opulent farmer residing in the parish of Rowley, near the Beech-lanes, on the road to Hales Owen, who was his bro ther-in-law (Downing having married Wlitehouse's sister), and they went out to shoot together early in the morning. At six o'clock at night they returned to the house of a man named Fox, whom they had visited in the morning, and remained there drinking until nine o'clock at night, when they were un der the influence of liquor. Whitehouse had ten pounds in his small-clothes pocket, and a watch. Ile left Fox's house on horseback, and Downing left soon afterwards. Aboutlialf‘an hour afterwards Mr. Whitehouse was found lying by the side of the road in a state of insensibilty. Deep wounds had been inflicted on his head, which terminated his existence in two days; he remained during that period perfectly insensible.— Mr. Downing was apprehended on the charge of having murdered Mr. 'Whitehouse, and was fully committed for that crime, and was tried at the Summer Assizes at Shrews bury, 1822, but was acquitted. It was sworn upon that occa sion, by a surgeon, that a blow had been inflicted with the barrel ore gun (and it was proved that Downing carried a gun when he left Fox's house), which would have produced such an injury as that which occasioned the deceased'S death. The prisoner Felton was also, at the time of the Coroner's Inquest, in custody, on suspicion of being concerned in the murder, and also a young man named Fox, the son of a man at whose house the deceased and Mr. Joseph Downing were drinking on the night of the murder. They, however. were finally discharged. Mr. MALE, for the prosecution, with whom was Mr. en oss, stated the case to the Jury. He said that the prisoner, at the time of the murder and robbery of Mr. Whitehouse, kept the Pheasant public-house, within half a mile of the spot where the deed was perpetrated. It would be proved, that, on the night in question, the prisoner was seen on horseback, going in the direction where the body was found, and must have passed by the place. It was not alleged that the prisoner in flicted the wounds that caused the death of the deceased, but, that he passed by when the deceased lay insensible on the ground, and rifled his person of his watch, and ten one pound notes. The deceased, when first discovered, was lying on his face, with his head towards a ditch, but in a quarter of an hour after, when assistance was procured, on proceeding to the spot, he was found in a different position, and the pockets rifled of the watch and notes. The deceased's watch was found in the prisoner's possession in June last, and in such a condi tion that no doubt could be entertained of its having been buried for a considerable period; in the earth, as it was covered with soil and tarnished. On the prisoner being taken into cus tody, he told two different stories about his obtaining posses sion of the watch. The Jury would seriously consider the facts he should prove, and if they were convinced of the prisoner's guilt, they would. discharge their duty by convicting him. Mrs. Mary Whitehouse, the sister of Mr. Joseph Downing, a good looking woman, attired in deep mourning, was called.— She was exceedingly agitated, and could not speak for some time. She being partially recovered, stated, that on the 3d of April her husband went out shooting, anti took with him the watch now produced. Thomas Fox, the landlord of the Pheasant public.house, re collected the deceased, Paul Whitehouse, and Joseph Down ing coining to his house ; the deceased had bank-notes in his pocket, and a silver watch. Richard Astan found the deceased in the road insensible, and went to the Meech Tree public-house for assistance; on return ing to the deceased he said, I heard a halloo, and then a second halloo ; and I mnde en hallooing in answer, and directly after 1 heard a horse gallop off in a direction towards the Pheasant public-house, which is situate about hair a mile from where the deceased lay. When I arrived where the deceased was lying, I found he had been removed into the ditch; his waistcoat was raised up ; the waistband of his breeches was unbuttoned, and one of the pockets was unbuttoned. I did not see that be had a watch when I first saw him. He had no watch when I again saw him. I assisted in removing him to the Beech. Tree, where he lived two days in a state of insensibility. John Downing—l live at Harbourne. On the 3d April 1822, about twenty minutes past nine, I saw the prisoner at the bar pass my house on horseback, which is situate about half a mile from where 3lr. Whitehouse was found, and in the direct road to the Pheasant public house. The prisoner's father lived at Harbourne ; I particularly noticed the prisoner by his beat ing the horse over the shoulders to make him go faster. It Was a moon-light night ; I am sure it was the prisoner. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence, and called several witnesses, who gave him a character. Mr. Justice Panic considered that the circumstances were very slight against the prisoner. The Jury returned a Verdict of Not Guilty. FURIOUS AND UNSKILFUL. DRIVING. JONES v. oiIEEN AND SIX OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the de fendants, the proprietors of a stage-coach called the Leek, which runs from Aberystwith to Ludlow, to recover a compen. nation in damages for an injury he sustained through the un skilfulness of the defendants' servant. The damages were laid at MU Mr. Justice LITTLF.DALE left the Jury to decide what fair and reasonable damages the unfortunate plaintiff was entitled to for the serious injury he had received. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Dainages 1501. SATVUDAY.—After a few cases of no public interest, these Assizes concluded this day, and on Monday the Judges pro. coed to open the Commission at Hereford. ' WESTERN CIRCUIT.DoacuEsTEn, AVG. 13. NI:GUI/ENT DRIVING. DROWN V. DALLYMORE AND OTHERS. This was an action brought against the defendants, whn are proprietors of a van running from Bath to London. to recover compensation in damages for the injury the plaintiff had sus tained by the negligence of their servants. Mr. Sergeant PET.I. stated the case to the Jury. On the 23d of Dec. last, the plaintiff, who is gardener, was driving his cart slowly toward 4 Lavington, when he heard the van of the de fendants coming behind him at a furious rate. Ile drew up on the proper side of the road ; the van, however, struck the off wheel of his cart with great violence ; the plaintiff was thrown out of the cart. The consequence was that his leg was broken. It would be . proved that the servants of the defend a nt s were in a state of intoxication. Application had been made by the plaintiff' for redress, but the answer given by the defendants was, that the damages were a matter of no consequence to them, for that there was a Society of Coach Proprietors united together for the purpose of meeting any damages which might be obtained in actions of this description. The case having been proved by evidence, the Jury, in the first instance, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, One Hundred Pounds, after all the expences should be satis fied ; but as the Learned Judge intimated that there were no means of accurately ascertaining the amount of those expences, they fOund a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, Two Hun. tired Pounds. Mr. Baron GAnnow said he felt it incumbent upon him to observe, that one of the chief securities of the public against negligence and misconduct on the part of the servants of coach proprietors was the liability ,of individual proprietors to pay damages in cases of this description. The formation of a S'o. ciety of coach proprietors, therefore, for the purpose of cover. tug those damages, and rendering the result of actions of this kind a matter of no importance to individuals, as it entirely defeated that security, could not but be most injurious to the public. CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.. Mary Baker, aged 23, was indicted for the wilful murder of her female bastard child, at the parish of Chidcock, in this county. Mr. BELLAMY stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner had been a servant in the family of a Mr. Webb. It would be proved in evidence that she had denied the fact of her pregnancy, and that she had concealed the birth of the child. The birth took place at about one o'clock in the morn. ing of the 26th of May, and at about six or seven In the even. ing a medical gentleman was sent for.—The child was found concealed in the prisoners box, and there was every reason to believe, from its external appearance, and from a n acc urate dissectinn, that the child had been born alive. The lungs were fully Inflated, and a portion of the left lobe of the lungs floated in water, a c i rcumstance w hi c h o f itself proved that the child had breathed. Mr. Damn GAitn ow—This, Mr. Bellamy, is a vulgar error, for which men of science have long been convinced that there is no solid foundation. One of the most distinguished orna. ments of medical science, whose pupil I had myself the ad. vantage of being at an early period - of my life (I allude to Dr. William Hunter), has shown most satisfactorily that no infe. rence can be drawn from the fact of the lungs floating in water, as to the child having been born alive. Mr. BELLAMY, after the remark which had just fallen from his Lordship, said he should not press the point to which he had directed the attention of the Jury. It would be proved, however that on the dissection of the lungs, blood followed the knife; that three wounds had been inflicted apparently with some sharp instrument about the neck and chest, and that there was a tumour, accompanied with extravasation of blood on the right side of the head, which must have been occasioned by a blow sufficient to produce death. The Learned Counsel pro. ceeded to tall his witnesses. Mr: Robinson gave the following testimony :—I am a surgeon and apothecary at Bridport ; I have been in business 25 years, and have had much experience in midwifery during all that time. I was sent for to visit Mary Baker on the 2fith of May, at Mr. Webb's ; I arrived at six in the evening; I found the pri soner in bed in one of the attics; I inquired her complaint, and she informed me she had a pain in her back and the toothache ; I inquired if any thing else was the matter ? and she said she hat) bled at the nose to the amount of a quart of blood ' • 1 went to the laundry to examine this blood; on inspecting it, I declared that it had not come from the nose, and I must see her again ; on examining her bosom I declared her to be pregnant, and said you have had a child ; she persisted in denying it; I said, have you any objection to have your boxes searched ? She said she had none ; the housekeeper asked her for her key, and she said she did not know where it was; I went to the laundry, and sent for a screw-driver to break it open ; another servant came and said the prisoner had confessed the child was in the box; OR breaking•the,_box open I discovered a cloak, under it a flannel petticoat, and'ebecquered apron, with marks of blood, which contained a new-born infant I took it out v and not finding the after-birth, I went to tha l "..prisonet, and' delivered her of the after-birth in twenty minutes, On examining the child I found the navel-string had been torn off about six inches from the body of the cldid, and observed that it did not cor respond to the portion attached to the after-birth. I observed three wounds in the upper part of the chest and neck; the largest was about halt an inch in length, and had nearly penetrated the integumentg; none of these wounds could have occasioned death. On opening the chest, I found its con• tents had a very healthy appearance, the lungg, heart, and appurtenances, nearly tilled the chest, the lungs having been inflated. I proceeded with my partner, Mr. Sweeting, to take off a portion of the left lobe of the lungs. Small bubbles of air were detached by squeezing it, and it floated in water. The -cavitya healthyi of the appearance. bdomenw On e xaminingasthenotienel,and i ts contents also had t served, on the right side, a portion of coagula t ed i'e dhbelaool w l,l e ar o g b e ; than a half-crown piece; beneath was a quantity of bloody serum, and beneath that the membrane, immediately covering the brain, was suffused with blood. There was a puffy tumour in the scalp on the right side of the head, immediately above this coagulated blood. On removing the right parietal bone we found the vessels of the brain very turgid with blood. %Olen we dissected the portion of the lungs, blood followed the knife; the transparent corner of the child's eyes was very The naval-string was torn, but this would not have occasional death. The blow on the head, which must have produced the tumour, was sufficient to cause death. The colour of the lungs was florid. The child had every appearance of having been born alive. The wounds appeared to have been inflicted by a d sharp instrument. It is my opinion that the blow on the 11 " was produced by violence, and not by a difficult labour. Examined by Mr. Baron GARROW.—Such a turnout migr have been produced in the agony of labour, by t he bead of t child coming in contact with the sharp edge of a close-s tool. I found afterwards that the labour had taken place on g dose-stool. Mr. Baron GARROW here intimated to the Jury that ev . en supposing the child to have been born alive, after the °P in g which had just been given by the witness, there was no t su cient evidence to convict the prisoner of the capital offenicoe4 The probabilities were always strongly against the cononiss. of so unnatural an o f f ence, and in this case the struggling whir. • • titit. might have been occasioned by a premature labour, w.e• • The cient to account for the wound on the head of the child. e,r._ was, however, ample evidence to convict the prisoner of tile concealment of the birth of the child. but ri l o e u . n l u d rY h c a r e g q Judge sentenced her to twelve month's impri sonme nt in Otte l i i i i i l t t t y ed of th c e o p n r ce ian al n in er g o i f ts tl b ie ir m th u ; rd a e n r d o t f h t e ll e be c a h r i n House of Correction.—The prisoner appeared to be in One. of extreme dejection during the early part of the trial; countenance was pale and death-like, but it became soniewint re-animated when the Learned Ju dge intimated to the Jury that there was not sufficient evidence to convict her. sentence was passing upon her she knelt down, and clasped her hands together with an expression of intense mtntal sutl'ering• —This was the only case of any interest at these Assizes. Th e, Grand Jury were, this day occupied for a considerable time , examining witnesses for the Bill of indictment against Sante Gale; for the minder of Jane Batlden, who was found dead in $ pool, a few days ago, near Bridport, in this county. The de ceased was in an advanced state of pregnancy by the prisoner, and the principal circumstance of suspicion against him With that lie had failed to keep an appointment which lie had made with her friends, for the purpose of coming to tome arrange* ment for the maintenance of the child. The Jury returned the Bill—not found. YORK, Au 0.12. HARDY V. DEWSNAP. Mr. SCAMETT said that the plaintiff was an attorney a t _ Sheffield, and had been for some time one of the Coroners 1 ? , .. the county of York. He had been elected to that office by to° suffrages of a considerable number of freeholders, and was tiler!: fore at the time of his election a man of respectable c h a racter's.. their estimation. The present action was brought in consequen e of a wanton, deliberate, and malicious attack which the defen d: ant had made upon the character of this gentleman. The de fendant, Mr. Dewsnap, WAR a collector —or, as he chose to sty's himself, an auditor of accounts. Unfortunately for himself, he was not contented with being a mere auditor • he was eve ll animated with the ambition of being a great talker upon WO occasions. As an auditor, he had been employed by the plait tiff to collect certain debts due to a deceased brother, of which he had refused to give any account, after he had admitted that he had received their full amount. The plaintiff 118 " M r made various applications to him for the money ~, cofiected, and having met with various excuses and refo,t st at last brought an action to recover its amount. Vt " t ' er . lie was smarting under that infliction, the defendant ut eil the words which had given rise to the present action. a in a society consisting of the most respectable merchants. P., manufacturers in the town of Sheffield. Speaking of the pis. l ,7, tiff, he had thought proper to call him a scoundrel and a pe_T o fogging attorney. A gentleman of the name of Heaton, 71 c 1. happened to be i'resent, and to know something of the traNno tions which had taken place between the parties, ad ViSC not to use such language. The defendant replied that lientilf a right to use it, and th a t h e did no t c a re if the Hardy know of it—for, said h e , a ll u di ng t o an action vi' o had been brought against him by an attorney calloi 0 , ', 11 1 0 head, who had only recovered a shilling damage s ! ' 0 to lawyer's character is wort h more t h an a s hilling; and t idal. Hardy, his character is not worth sixpence ;" he also 2, 0 1." "As a lawyer and a Coroner, he is a villain and a son a• It was not the object of his client to convert the slander lice of the defendant into a source of emolument to de but he hoped that the Jury, w h en t h e y reco llected that t 0 0- fendant had pleaded the general issue, without putting i what Oration on the record; would not cons id er it a trilling c.a- w hich deserved light and inconsider a bl e d amage s, but a eas e deserved to be visited with the severest indignation. pith SVm. Brownell, secretary to the Sheffield Fire-Oin ee ) or t he I know the plaintiff ; he is an attorney, and a Coroner ; an d county. The defendant, Dewsnap, is a collector dare n i s le' toe' also a farmer. I remember being at Mrs. Smith's c°l, - a Oleg . In Sheffield, on the oth of May, about eight o'clock in vet , oreb d Dewsnap said that Hardy was a pettifogging ing. Fifteen or 'sixteen respectable persons wer e d ; i a, 5 0 seoun ...dy suf that all his business proved it. Heaton said, "If kil t bah fers such imputations, he deserves to lose every , flien and I will withdraw my own b us i ness from him. 'to I . By Mr. BROUGHAM —At this time Dewsnap w so ' ll ica certain degree, under th e i n fl uence o f li qu or, but not as to be insensible to what he was saying or doing. „ e ning Mr. Heaton—l went about nine o'clock in tl e; t onlY of the night in question to our club ; Dewsnap 50 ", f other persons were there. He was quite consci°.. A us „l an he was doing. Ifs called Hardy a lying sc"" -- on t h e . pettifoggini; rascal, and offered to bet a wafl er a l a e of subject. Dewsnap said he had ascertained the v on ly lawyer's character in an action with Bromehead, wh°llilianif I recovered one shilling damages. He desired me t ° what he had said. wools • n ° l* Mr. Justice BATLEY said that this was action ft spoken, and also for a libel. Ile was bound to 0 1 1' 1 0 0 el the produced p a p er was , i n hi s op i n i on , a libel, and defendant's suffering Heaton to take it away atir 4 7 publication.—V er di et f ur t h e p l a i nt iff —Damages a ~..,..—.._ —_— R 1 e 111: ‘ ECORDEIt'S REPOILT.—On Saturday t r i i err ia connrit made his Report to the King in Council, 0 t te ' - ‘ the tamers remaining under sentence of death in N,,e w i „g 3 sifai° l ',i whole of whom were convicted at the Old Dailey o ' 7 ' foe namely—Richard Tolkington. atred 30, for uttering uchotel Chambers, ,hicei W est, iniring i,es 2B ra on l yd j l : ft , draft upon Messrs. Willis, PereiV'al, and Co. for 0; 4 00 0 upwards l7 : C hafi e t 3 when E" gi e .lames mi. She d e i n ia , m lo c , lin T t l e t y o I s is, W ro a r tts h, , ,u l g i b ' rz lc w ief ra ; 29 8 _ for stealing in a dwellin Thomas Jay alias Norfolk, 31, for' horse -stealing ; ,u r 14 Cook, 24, Philip Smith alias Lloyd, 21, John lofyinch pleased to order that they should all be respited. Ori likethe fire irons placed upon tt r -4. k h GLASGOW, that which is caused b y ti (EA tiTtiQUA- - • hoc 1 rt 6 _, l ,, o t f e morning of Sunday last, about nine o'clock? a s n ' l ,o°-_,% 4 : i a n r e i earthquake was felt at Conrie and its neighb ° 4;ri, "' in one the houses in the village were perceptibly bo ove ttl ?use, in particular the motion was such as to_ i og oi .. the causeway. POOP SUDDEN DEATII.—The driver of t he ,„ e d SP ° A VI' shortly after leaving the former place on Fritity — , at 3 , 1 , 1. plained of being unwell, and was obliged, en a t viCosci''••s borne, about eight miles from Dorchester, to quit & live or olit Medical assistance was procured, but in the space ° f • doe' 4 six chi' ~,,,0t ,.. hours he was a corpse. fle . has left a wife and i is a singular circumstance, that no less than three cl: 1 ;ii a have, within the short period of 12 months been ow'. rived of life at Afilhorne.—(Southanipton' Chronicle.) eagiriciaaonbthveeiyr.sstelwivTia2rgah2ig waggon the sh a tntel n yor o d iasiw : e danh o s ouex r u e nbr s p y it i NP cr idlyi oftol rs: