The Sun. — London, England, 1824-09-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DA 110 Y Extracts from the Morning Papers ; Sept. 18.1 [THE TIMEB.] The event so often predicted--the death of Louis the XVIIIth of France—has at length become matter of history. That Prince is ac tually dead. He and Napoleon are alike re move from the world, which blazed with their adverse pretensions—that world which was w►ung with misery, and drenched with blood, for the sake of fixing one or the other of them upon a throne, from which, within ten short years, they have now successively and irrevoca bly fallen. Yet, for all the millions of lives that were sacrificed, and of treasures wasted, on ac count of these two men, how few of the indivi duals that survive then► would pay five pounds, or travel a day's journey, to bring either of them back into existence. Such, alas lin the eye of a calm observer, is the vanity of most human agi tations. No European Prince of the last two centuries underwent more vicissitudes than Louis X Vlll. nor endured them with more exemplary equanimity. It is not too much to say on his behalf, that there was no exhibition of meanness in his adversity, nor of insolence in his prosper• Otis fortune, flow much of this seeming superi olity to fate may have sprung from A real gran deur of conception—calculating profoundly, and despising thoroughly, the petty fluctuations to uhich'human life is exposed ; or how much from mete constitutional heedlessness—not troubling itself about any but immediate and trivial objects —it might, perhaps, he no very difficult office to determine. Louis eras unquestionably more an 'Epicurean than a Stoic. Ms indolent love of pleasure served him as a substitute for the nobler contempt of suffering ; and those who speak of him as magnanimous under misfortnue, may be reminded that Oman of sluggish sensibility buys the fame of being " magnanimous" at a small expence. Louis XVIII. was sometimes call- Pd " Look Le Faux." Of his royal prede cessors few escaped without a satirical agno , men, indicative more, perhaps, of the national sentiment which applied it, than of the personal, qualities which it imputed. This epithet, how• ever, seems to have been obtained by his late Most Christian Majesty from two dailies of his subjects) one of which charged him with the non-performance of pledges given to them while they were companions of his exile ; the other, with a gradual violation of those which were ern• bodied in the Charter, and which, accompanied his restoration to the throne. Between these parties, opposite as they were, and irreconcile. able, the, King had to shape a course of policy which it was not easy to execute, but which, we imagine, was easier to Louis in proportion to his habits of indolence, to the coldness of the better atrections in him, and, at the same time, to an absence of the acrimonious end vindic. dictive passions. A Prince of a more fiery character would either have quarrelled with his friends when they reproached him with the breech of his promise, or have given way to the Royal appetite for omnipotence, by wholly refusing a charter to his subjects, or by seizing the first provocation afforded him, through treason or intemperance, to overturn it. Louis XVIII. did neither : his taste was pleasure— not power. lie maintained a good-humoured in tercourse with the adherents whose most sanguine hopes he had disappointed. lie rather permitted, than authorized or suggested, those numberless attacks by %s hick the Charter has been all but destioyed. lie dismissed those Ministers who bad the strongest claims upon his gratitude with out hesitation or apparent sorrow and others, hom he had grounds foi• disliking or suspecting, he treated with a show of confidence and esteem. That all this sat gracefully upon the King of France, is acknowledged by men of the most hostile parties ; and is accounted for on no other supposition than that his Majesty cared for ns►tie of them. A Royal heart is well under stood to be, in most instances, from the sta tibu, perhaps, of the owner, less susceptible of kindly predilections than that of a private citizen. Bait we fear there is evidence in the life of Louis: that his heart was even inure than Royal. The perfect composure with which he shook off De Gazes, and Richelieu, and La Chatre—the insU perable.testimony of his. autograph narration, re couuting his escape from the perks of the revolu tion, and tin' gay philosophy with which he con templated the failure of his nearest relatives in a Ilin►ilar attempt to his ovviigo far, we think, to settle the question us to the character and ge nius of Louis XVII . l.'s dispositions. U pun the whole, he may rank in history as a Prince who steered with more than ordinary temper through circumstances complicated and new ; and, as compared with the average of Bourbon Princes, lie is entitled to a place i❑ which few of the fa mily can approach him. Emonsfsc The important intelligence which The Chronicle exclusively communicated to the public, on Wed• nesdsy morning last, of the landing of General Iturbide in Mexico, and of his subsequent fate, has been fully confirmed by the arrival in Lon don, yesterday forenoon, of Mr. Tote, belonging to the establishment of Messrs. B. A. Gold. selnuidt and Co. This gentleman accomplished the journey Wm Mexico to Tampico in six days, where he embarked on board his Majesty's ship Forte, Captain Sir Thomas Cochrane, and was landed in 4'2 days at Plymouth, on Tuesday last. In the present state of American politics nothing eau be more favourable to the cause of society in the Western Hemisphere than the decision which the Republican Government adopted respecting Iturbide, for it furnishes future disturbers of the Republic's tranquillity with a lesson which will iie ver be forgotten. To England it is also important, in its far us it must establish the independence of the Mexican Republic. It removes all fears of civil war i n M ex i co, by which alone commerce could have suffered, and it opens a vast field for the advantageous employment of capital, either on interest or on industry, in the future connection of British merchants with this the richest and most popu lous of New American States. It will, most probably, be the means of preventing much in dividual distress in Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, and many other manufacturing cities. It deprives the British Government of every pretext for doubting that a firm Government has been esta blished im Mexico, and the speedy acknowledg ment of its independence by Great Britain must be a necessary consequence of the execution of Itur bide, who,in his death, has thus performed a signal service to his country.---The pacification of the Re public of Peru is now alone wanting to crown the labours of the Liberators of America from Euro pean despotism, and a letter has been received by an erninent, merchant unconnected with the Stock Exchange, dated in New York on the 10th August, from which sanguine hopes may be drawn that only a short period will elapse before the receipt of intelligence from that Republic of its complete emancipation from the yoke of the Royalist worshippers of the adored and beloved Ferdinand. The following Is extracted from this letter : "'Of Iturbide we have heard nothing, but it is very impro bable that ho can succeed. The present Government is gra dually consolidating Itself, although much must yet be done to render Its operations any thing bordering on perfection. We know that General Bolivar has recaptured Lima, and Callao, and before this time the Royalists must have been entirely sub dued. We have heard that the Colombian Executive have or. dered ten thousand soldiers to reinforce Bolivar in Peru but not one of them will be wanted, I br he must already have finished the liberation of that portion of America from Spanish influence, and it belongs to the people to form that system of Government best suited to the progress which they have made in knowledge, that only real foundation to true liberty, &c." Thit letter paves the way to the receipt of im portant and favourable intelligence from the Pacific. • [MORNING POST.) The adventurous enterprise of Iturbide has terminated as we anticipated. Like Murat, he only revisited the country where he had reigned, to be. led -to military execution, and to con firm by his death the solidity of the system which he sought to overthrow. It appears that the favourable reception with which he met at Soto la Marina, was only a snare to entrap him and all the persons by.whom he was attended. — Scarcely had they landed and placed themselves unconsciously in the hands of their enemies than he was arrested by General Garza, (who at first bud welcomed him) and given up to the Provi sional Congress of the State, who ordered the Decree issued by the Sovereign Congress Gene rut on.the 28th of April last, declaring him out of the-pale of the law under whatever title he might jiresent himself on the Mexican territory, to be executed. The mode of execution recotn mended was decapitation, and he was to be al lowed " the. proper time to prepare himself for death like a .Christian." But he had only three hours granted him" for preparation, and he was shot instead of beheaded. 64 At three in the afternoon," says General Garza, 46 the declara tion conformably to the law of the 25th of April, was delivered to Me, and at six on the same evening it was necessary to execute it without speeches or declarations, lest public sympathy should interfere if it was delayed." It does not appear however that much or any sympathy was displayed towards the ex-Emperor. On the con trary, wherever the intelligence of his death pe netrated, we are told that public rejoicings and illuminations took place. And indeed his death cannot be considered as otherwise than a na tional benefit ; for it has rescued the State from the danger of civil war, and prevented those con tentions, which even if they had not amounted to civil war, would have impeded the effectual col lection of the revenue, the consolidation of the Government and the laws, and retarded the full establishment and recognition of Mexican inde pendence. Whatever may have b een I tur bid e ' s intentions, his enterprise was calculated to injure the best interest, of hii country. Had he only meant to share 'the pretended perils of the State, he would have negociated with the Sove reign Congress for leave to return, instead of vio lating the solemn engagement which he had contracted to live in Europe, and landing on the Mexican coast as an invader, not a friend. His rroclatnation was evidently intended to Conceal his real designs, for it states nothing which could .really justify his undertaking on the score of po. Hay or ,patriotism. .He said that he came as a soldier, not as-an Emperor, but had he succeeded, we are much mistaken if lie would not have done one of these two things—resumed the arbi trary sway which he had been forced to abdi cate, or laid the independence of Mexico pros trate at the feet of despotic Spain.—The intelli gence of this adventurer's landing, appre !tension, and execution, was brought yesterday by a vessel belonging to Messrs. B. A. Goldsmid arid Co., - and Is .contained in Mexican Journals to the 30th of July, but principally in a Gazette Extraoidinary of the 26th of that month, which gives • all the official documents relative to those events. Iturbide was shot at Padilla on the 19th of July; and the Sovereign Congress, pitying the situation of his wife and family settled a pension of 8,000 dollars a year .upon the former. [NEW TIMES.] We yesterday announced in a Second Edition the official account of the death of his. Majesty Louis /NW. which happened nt four o'clock in the morning of Thursday the 16th inst. The Crown consequently devolves on Charles Philip of France, now King Charles X. who was born at Versailes on the 9th of October 1757, and is consequently nearly 67 yews of age. Ills son, the Duke of Angouleme, now becomes Dauphin, and is Heir Apparent to the Throne. Much idle speculation relative to political changes in France is afloat in some of our Journals ; and the Correspondent of an Evening paper, among other incoherent rhapsodies, talks of an Opposi tion headed by the Dauphin, and uniting in its ranks M.M. de Talleyraud, Montmorency, De cazes, Chateaubriand, Broglie, and Labourdon naye. This reminds us of an old song, in which , Moses, Homer, Judas, and Wat Tyler, are brought together in the same stanza. These lat ter worthies are quite as likely to coalesce as the former. The new King may think fit to recom pense the fidelity of one or two individuals who have beets long attached to his person, by bring ing them into his Councils; but the Cabinet will in all probability preserve nearly its present Con stitution, and, what is of more consequence to us Englishmen, the volley of France will conti nue pacific. King Charles, at his age and with his experience, cannot fail to see and appreciate all the value of a peace which adds so much to Ow security of his Throne, and to the pio:perity of his subjects. [MORNING maiti.n..l Certain intelligence of the death of Louis the Eighteenth arrived yesterday. He expired at four o'clock on Thursday moruing. The Count d'Artois is saluted King by the title of Charles X., and the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme are styled the Dauphin and Dauphiness. The title of Charles X. has been already borne by the Cardinal de Bourbon, who was set up by the league as King of France in opposition to Henry IV. He is not, however, admitted among the Kings of France, though during a considerable part of the war he enjoyed more substantial sovereignty than Henry. No change of any im portance may be expected for the present—at least conspicuously. There can be no doubt, however, that on this occasion, so propitious to in trigue, the Palace and salons are in busy agita tion. The jealousy and hatred known to exist between the Duchesses of Angouleme and Berri, must rage more than ever—now that the former has her foot on the step of the Throne—and is likely to be Queen at no very great distance, Charles X. is no more than one or two years younger than his brother—and he does not ap pear a person of absolutely robust health. She will, when she becomes Queen, have the mortifi cation to behold the SOLI of the Duchess of Berri growing up beside her, as her husband's successor to a throne to which she should have given an heir. The Courtiers and Ex-ministers are no doubt busily engaged. There are two oppositions in France—the extreme Ultra-royalists, and the Liberals. It is said that a sort of union has taken place between these parties. It is not probable, as to the two leaders of the Liberals whose names are mentioned, viz. M. de Talleyrand and (le Cazes—both seem shut out effectually during the present reign. Talleyrand is hated by Charles X. and the Duchess of Aegouleme. His only hold was upon Louis XVIII. The Duke de Cazes is still more odious—as The murder of the Duke de Berri was charged upon hum, as a conse quence of the loose rein which he gave during his Ministry to the Liberal and Revolutionists. The natural chief of the latter party is the Duke of Orleans—but he seems to stand aloof front politics altogether. Wednesday's Paris Papers have arrived, but contain scarcely any news. There is in one of them, in reference to the King's illness, a precious specimen of French cha racter—especially that versatility of tempera• ment, which can pass in a breath, backwards and forwards from enchantment to despair, and from despair to enchantment.—" How glorious—how holy is the agony of the most Christian King ! Monarchs of the Earth, come and learn how to die. Sorrow is spread among the people—the father of the family is dying —weep all—weep ! --the et n i e ltei w i rno r i e on l e g , ell. n a . o p . f . p i r l:l r o a e l e t t i ol: lirn:af.ttritid: t he o l n e y o t a b l l u e t y e S , o c i n o s o i c s f a o F i t l e e r d a o n u c t r o e . selves !"—This almost equals the grimarier of the B ou l evar d s , w h o laughs on one side of h i s face and cries on the other at the same moment. DIRITISH PRESS.] )iro have received several communications on the subject of obscene publications. The public sense of the evil is strong. It would require bat a little exertion to suppress it. Every pro secution would be attended with success. What ever differences of opinion may have prevailed respecting the liberty of the press as to political or religious questions, there has never existed a doubt with regard to publications of the character to which we allude. We hope and trust, there. fore, that this shocking and growing evil will be timely eradicated, for which purpose the most vigorous and decisive steps should be immediately taken. The contagion ought not to be suffered to go on spreading vice and misery another hour unmolested. The, first movement of the friends of public morality would, we are satisfied, half destroy it. Why are they then thus supine ? Why are the inno cent youth of both sexes allowed a moment longer to imbibe the poison ? Why, by the most criminal connivance,are the depraved wretches, who thrive by this traffic, suffered with shameless effrontery to carry on their guilty trade at noon-day ? While the readiest attention is paid to offences of other descriptions, those against ntliials are pass ed over, as if unworthy of notice. We have no doubt, however, that of the unhappy end aban doned outcasts from society who throng our streets, a large proportion were drawn to their ruin by means of these indecent publications. The heart is generally corrupted before the sedu cer triumphs over the victim of his licentious pas sions ; and no mode of undermining the moral principles of youth is so fatally successful as the supply of works tending to inflate - and vitiate the imagination. In the same manner, boys are led gradually, but not slowly, into the lowest depths of vice. No language can express the indignation and horror with which we contemplate the progress of this nauseous and revolting evil. We know of none that deserves more serious consideration.— Ifovv is it that the police have overlooked the growth of this infamous trade ? It falls peculi arly within their province, and without any sug gestion or information, they should have proceed ed at once against the venders of these pamph. lets. The fact is singular enough, that the shops most conspicuous for their outrages on public de. cency are in the immediate vicinity of the chief police establishment of the metropolis. We a s k again, where is the Society for the Suppression of Vice ? On Wednesday the Bth instant, an appalling accident happened at N ewar k, to a boy, eight years o f age, a son o f the widdow itinu E ars. While in his mothe r ' s turn. ing-shop, he was unfortunately drawn into the machine, and had one thigh fractured in two places, the cap of th e ot h er knee completely crushed, one a rm dislocated, and the scalp tak en o ff. In this eicruciating, state he still exists, with very li ttl e hope of recnvery,...(Stampord Mercury.) ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER, SEPT. 15. [BEFORE MR. BARON ilummoc.l The Court sat at eight o'clock this morning until eleven at night, and concluded a laborious Assize on the part of the Crown, with the important trials of George Hampson otherwise Henry Hughes, aged 36; Jeremiah Haigh otherwise Jeremiah Hagan otherwise John Thompson, 27; and Jas. Farley other wise Robert Brice, 37, for misdemeanors, who were removed by virtue of his Majesty's Writ of Habeas Corpus on the 7th of August, 1624, from the New Bailey prison at Salford, charged by information with assaulting and obstructing John Richard son, John Webster, Joseph Wooddisse, and Thomas Mould, officers of his Majesty's Excise, in the due execution of their duty at Manchester. _ _ _ _ SCARLETT, Mr. Serjeant CROss, and Mr. STAUKIE conducted the prosecution on the part of the Crown ; and Mr. W 11.1.141319 the defence for George flampson otherwise Henry Hughes. The other prisoners were not defended. The prisoners severally pleaded Not Guilty. Mr. SCARLE.TT stated the case for the prosecution, by say ing that the chief difficulty would be the identity of the prt soners. John Richardson examined by Mr. Serjeant CROSS—He was a supervisor of the Excise when this matter happened; he was on duty on the 17th of March last, Thomas Mould, John Web ster, Francis Dalton, and Thomas Monis, all officers of the Lx. cise, were on duty that day; they were searching for private stills, and had made a seizure of one in Bennett-street; they seized some private stills and spirits in Five Houses.street ; be sent Mr. Dalton to the Excise Office with what they had seized. They went to a fourth place and found a still at work, which led to the disturbance ; he sent for a horse and cart; Webster went; two got into the cart; the road was bad, and it stopped. Armstrong said his name was " Freedom and liberty ; ' he got upon the cart and he took down the end ; they threw bricks at the horse; he saw Hughes come down to the cellar; he saw Haigh standing about; Brice did not interfere —(the information was given in the name of Farley against Brice). Ile did 'not see any of the officers assaulted; he knew one was taken to the Coach and horses ; this was Mould; they were rubbing his temples, and they had fainted away ; a sur geon came and dressed his wounds; he found Webster also in the same state. JUDGE—Where are these officers? They can speak to the 111-usage themselves. John Webster, examined by Mr. Paux—He is an Excise officer; he went with the last witness on the day mentioned; he recollects the seizure in the street; he saw Armstrong there, he loaded the wash tubs. Armstrong said, is there any person of ply name here.? my name is Freedom and Liberty. lie saw Hampson, her knew him by sight before ; he saw Brice in the crowd ; he got a cart and loaded it ; the road was bad, and the cart could not go on ; he got hold of the cart, and called to the' horse to stop ; cried " whoa!" I said let go ; he rolled off a tub from the cast, and,l went to secure them. Armstrong struck him a severe blow on the head ; Haigh knocked his hat oft; and struck him several times with a brick on the back part of his head. He heard some of the crowd say " damn him, kill him] damn him, kill him I" I fell down on my sid e ; 1 don't know what became of my hat. Hampson, Haigh, and Armstrong struck him with sticks; they struck him upon the head and shoulders ; he was bareheaded at that time. He fell with his face downwards, they had no other idea than that he must have been murdered. They made four wounds on his head before he fell a second time, his skull was bare for near}y three inches.— lle saw Farley amongst the crowd (i. e. Brice), he did not see his said;; he was running backwards and forwards. They bent him whilst on the ground, can't say who, his face being downwards in the mud ;- he was taken into a baker's shop, and a surgeon was sent to him; he was insensible and bleeding very much ; a druggist was sent for; lie was attended for six weeks, from the March until the 11th or 12th May. Thomas Mould examined by Mr. SCARLETT.—He is an officer of Excise, and was with the others ; he was present at the last seizure; he saw Armstrong; he had a stick, and said he would taste the wash ; he swung the stick round and said his name was "Freedom and Liberty," and asked if there was any one there that would fight with him; it was a bad road; Arm strong began to pull something out of the cart; he went along with Webster; he got hold of the still end, and Armstrong knocked him down with a stick ; he struck him over the fore head Y flughes (Hampton) just got before him; he was stand ing on the left hand ; he was getting up from the blow Arm strong gave him; he got up, and received another blow by a brick on the temple, and he tell; he wienfterwards beat about, And lie lost his senses ; there is is hole where it struck him now; he felt a blow at the back of the neck ; he was taken to the Coach and Horses, in St. George's, there, and the landlord got brandy and rubbed him with it; he saw Armstrong and !lamp son ;: can't recollect the others ; Hampton travels, and sells butter, &c. ; he sees him often at public-houses, and he can swear to him ;he was ill, and never shall be we ll,' from the blows he had on his head ; he was confined from 17th March until 23d March, when he was obliged to give up, and was confined until the 2d July. Cross-examined by Mr. WILLIAMS.—One hundred and fifty persons were round him. Examination continued—The crowd was on the other side of the cart; Hughes and Armstrong were among them. The prisoners did not cross-examine this witness. By Ain SCARLETT—IIagan had a blue frock coat on, and fashionably cut. William Morris examined by Serjeant CROSS—He was it aiug up George's row ; he saw Armstrong ; he saw Hughes rfi ampson) ; he saw Hampton beat Webstervery much ; there were three beating him on his head, back, &e. ; Webster was i down on the ground ; his head was bare. Henry Brasishaw......The substance of the evidence of this wit.. ness resembled that of the preceding ones. WILLIAMS, - for the defence of Hughes, examined. John Copley examined by Mr. WILLIAMS—Iie lives at the back of George's-row in the back cellar where the last still was se i ze d ; he was there the whole time ; he remembers it well ; he was the first man who followed after the Excise Officercame i n ; there was a person of the name of Kelly laying bricks he knows Hughes ; the business commenced at twelve, o'clock; it lasted half an hour; Hughes was never there. John Kelley examined by Mr. Wrr.tantrs—He was em ployed in the cellar. Mr. Wwker owned the premises. lie re-' members the Excise Officers coming down ; he had known fiughea'l2 months and better ; they might be there three quar ters of an hour ; he did not see Henry liughei ; he must have seen him had he been there ; was there during the disturbance; was not there from first to last. Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant CROSS.—He is an Irishman; he did not put the still in ; .he was laying the bricks in the next cellar ; there was only a pipe six inches long; people came in and went out; there were 50 persons • old Patrick Hughes was off.—(A laugh.)—Hughes did come in ; lie knew the greatest part of the people ; he can tell a fair tale about them.--(A laugh.)—lt was not Hampton. Armstrong was the man who struck the officers ; he can't say who ; there were three ; he was wrong when he said his friend Hughes was there; can't say as to Hagan ; he was a stranger ; he helped to take the Ex cise Officer away after they had knocked him down and secure d him. (A laugh.)—He did not get his living by putting up stills. Mr. SCARLETT then addressed the Jury, and said - he would not at almost the mid hour of night detain tire Court by any length of address. The Learned tientletnan then drew his re marks on the nature of the evidence for the defence, and said it was clear that Hughes was guilty; and as to Brice,' he would consent to an acquittal; and leave the Jury to draw their own ' conclusions as to the guilt of the other prisoners. The Learned JuDGE charged the Jury, and said there was no doubt that a most violent outrage had been committed on the officers in the due execution of their duty. With respect to Hughes, he thought there was no question of his guilt; and as to Brice, no evidence being offered against him 01 a conchs. sive nature, he must be acquitted.. The Learned Judge was proceeding to suns up the case; when the J said they would not trouble his Lordship further, and found Hughes and Hagan (guilty, and Acquitted Brice. • The prisoners will be btought up for judgment next Term. The inhabitants of Calais, in Maine, and St. Stephen's, in New Brunswick, by the erection of a bridge over the St. Croix river, have connected the United States with the British Provinces of the North. ROBllERY.—Yesterday, two men and a boy, dressed as sweeps, went to the house of Mr. Smith, 85, New. man -street, Oxford.street, and stated to the servant that they were sent to sweep some of the chimneys. The servant without hesitation allowed them tb remain in ti►e hall while she went to ask her mistress, and on her return was surprised to find they had taken with them, from the drawer of the pantry, some silver table and tea spoons, marked differently, with the letters S. L. and E. S. and E. A. S. Information of the robbery was lodged at Alary.la-bonne Office. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon, as a boy belonging to some plasterers at work at a building at the back of the York Hotel, Bridge. street, was going up a ladder, with a box on his head, his foot slipped, and dreadful to relate he fell on the spikes of an iron railing, three of which entered just below the spinal bone. H e was immediately conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where little hopes are entertained`of his recovery. Two of the spikes entered nearly .flue inches.. FOR THE SUN. Ma. EDITOR--/ am sorry to perceive that you' have thought proper to permit, in your Reporter's account of the very disgraceful proceedings which took place at Marlborough-street Police Office, instituted by a Mr. GILBERT, Estate Agent, of Old Bond-street, against a female with whom I have had the bad fortune to be united, and from whom, in consequence of her de linquency, I was under the necessity of SW' rating shortly after my ill-fated union, to occupy any place in your widely circulated Journal, more particularly as that you have made it known through the world that she had had the audacity to slander the conduct of one of my friends, vii. Lady Wastel Brisco, from whom she had ima gined she, till lately, would have been enabled to have, by threats, extorted a sum of money, under pretence that it would he the means of preventing her from libelling her Ladyship in the Consistorial Court, where two years ago I was cited to appear ; but since which pe riod no charges have been exhibited against m e by this infatuated woman. As an act of justice, to which I feel confident you will be alive, and give publicity to this letter, I can positively assure you, that the suit has only been established for the purpose of fojaning a source of extortion, and Lady Brisco is by no means a solitary In d ' stance of the one I h ave a l re ady described an d was it not that l am no t i nc li ne d t o blazon t his l etter with a few other names of ladies to whom simila r anonymous proposals have been made, I Could astonish your Readers not a little. Suffice it for me to add, that my wife was, one of the turn Pogson, who, I doubt not, are well known to some few h un d re d s o f your Readers in trade, both in town an d coun t r y, and her elder si ster Is now occupying a superb mansion and manor, situate near A ttl e b oroug h, Norwich, out of o' l s l it appeared the assault in qaestion arose, 5 1 r. Gilbert being Land Agent. Vide his lamentation at the Office in consequence ! I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant, J. M. WINNINOTONI e ** The Police account re ferred to in " f above letter, and which appeared in Tus So ( ° yesterday, was copied from The Times noc s. paper. • Mr. WHITE, of Manchester House, Exmou t h, while sailing in a yacht in Torbay, lately, acc° l " . panied by two gentlemen, "pissed a shoal of fil: ing fish, in rapid motion, alternately, throuo"` the air and water, and pursued by several pot; poises from the Channel. The spectators enjoY et ' this novel and interesting sight nearly two hoar!. On Wednesday last, in the forenoon, large flakes of snow fell upoitldon, near Exeter. SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning one of the 1 0 ::, pensioners belonging to Greenwich Hospital was disco'leecl suspended from one of the trees in Greenwich-park, quite desZ i It seems the unfortunate man (who was a native of Italy) been guilty of some improper conduct, and was y es terdstw. have been examined by the o ffi cers of the establishment rev to it, which, it is supposed, had such an effect upon his min us ,: to induce him to commit the rash act. A Coroner's Inquest to be held upon the body. COAL MARKET, SEPT. 17. Ships at Market. Ships sold 92f Newcastle - 7 3 1 16 Sunderland - . 14 o ce 97s Rio to 393 91 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Siptember 17. Amstet dam .. . . 12 3 C. F- Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 4 Antwerp liamburgh al ri. Altana ... . S 7 V • Paris, 3 Day's sight 2 5 2 ti 6 : , 0 01 C it., : ... Ditto tiourtleaux, ditto Berlin 7 10 goat/ Frankfort on the M.iin Petetsburgli . 9 Vienna Trieste Madrid . ............................ Cadiz vir Bil boa 354 Etr" ti Barcelona ieville Gibraltar . 301 Leghorn Genoa . 44f-Venice, Ital. Liv 47 Malta 47 -Naples 3Bl „ Palermo Lisbon ()polio RioJaneito Bahia . 49 Dublin .... 91 Cork 91 pet Cent. BULLION. t OP Portugal Gold,in Coin /.n 0 O P g i 7 Foreitm Gold, in Bars - s 0 New Doubloons ......... •• • , $ 15, 0 4 104 New Dollars Silver in Bars, Standard ' 0 43 . . -__....... BIRTHS. nt y of N wn ' On the 11th inst., at Castle Ward, in 'th e — i the lady of Edward Wolstenholme, Esq., 0 1 rii, ot aasPare g s On Tuesday, at Upp er H oinerton , t h e lady °: jun., EN., 111. P., of a daughter. bap b eri ' On Tuesday ev e nin g , th e 14 t h inst., the lady o f Esq., of South -street, Finsbury, of a son. 31ARRIED. li hoaleiglt Recently at St. George's, Hanover-square , liug — e do hoto la t Standert, Esq., of Taunton, Sdmerset, M.D., to,",:rLieute eldest daughter of Major-G e neral John Alun'til, " rant-Governor of Demerara. at Il e " - On Wednesday, the 15th inst , by special licence, ug h, to Admiral Digby's, in liarley.st . reet, 14rd Ellen br :i Dlgif Jane Elizabeth Dighy, only daughter of Rear-Adm'r Commissary -General eh i iCrl and Viscountess Andover. • Delnl Assistant Commi s s a on On the Atli of August, at Halif ax , Nova Sc otia, ae Allis Louisa. Bryant, a o t f B (.; . u tl e: or n - s g g e thl ti r l e e • daughter of Brevet Major Cole, of the 81st Regim,,e l l.,, t .„ 4 burh. On the 17th Inst., to El at . F o ot. Henry Hyde, Esq., of;Upper Norton-street l'ortlantl-P' , Martyr i a , Dzw''',. c e,, to lED. In January last, in India, D George Martin Annec'eh „.140,6114- tenant in the lion. East India Company's service, tl in . l gt oe, youngest son of Arthur Annesley, Esq. , d 111°c -11-- Oxfordshire. bit e All On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Oillmore Croft, Egg' , ' eminent surgeon in London. . „ bn o rce, On the loth ult., in the 79th year of his age, d' `- Esq., of Tottenham, Middlesex. - r 0 1 the late Rev. Andrew Chatto, of Illainhouse. iter valog' On the 6th inst., at Edinburgh, Isabella, eldest datighte On Tuesday, the 14th inst., . at Newington-place, ii, ton, Sarah, wife of Mr. William Dawson. of Batforti. This singular character, who was well ICll° ber of " 14 atelY, at a very advanced age, Sarah Gibson,' the appellation of " Sally bathe 1fr003," for a great nul l ) . o r 3 '' ars inlisbittd a solitary hut in Warley Wood, where' It is plied pleasure-parties with requisites for refreshments.e4,,, supposed she had resided upwards of 60 years in tlds dirj.,"7;,, which we understand was, a few days since, accidentw stroyed by tire.—(Bath Herald.) ____—......-- ----- 7 of the Pigibsl; Printed and Published for. the PROPRIETOR 6, th 4 OFiVICS, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. Cau# rapti. I I