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THE LONDON JOURNALS. OA 11. Y Eibracts from the Morning . Papers, Sept. 14 EIVIORNINQ lIEUALD.J Paris Papers of Saturday were received yester day. The principal, if not the only news of any consequence, likely to appear in them at present, is the actual or approaching dissolution of Louis XVIII. He is described as still transacting business and 'giving audiences, which proves little more than that he still breathes. It is evident that he is unable to leave his apartment, as he does not even go to hear mass in the Royal Chapel, which is within the Palace of the Tuile. .ties. Some pains seem to be taken to induce a belief that M. de Villele has made his ground good with the successor. The fact of a change of Ministry is of little importance—perhaps even in France—where it is but a mere party question. It is the opinion, however, of persons who take an interest in French politics, and have means of information, that the Count d'Artois, on his ac cession, would dismiss M. de Villele and recal M. de Chateaubriand. It is this expectation, confidently entertained by the Ultras of the Cha teauhriand party, that has kept them steady to their Chief. There is no intelligence from Spain, only excepting a single paragraph from Bayonne, vthich states that a reinforcement of artillery and ammunition was on the eve of being sent from that place to Cadiz. If any inference be de ducible from this statement—supposing it true —it is that Andalusia is still in a condition to alarm the French. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the P2th inst. and the Etoilc of Sunday reached us last night by Express. They are silent on the subject of the King's health, and continue to represent him as transact ing business with his Ministers, but the visits to Monsieur have recommenced, and it is openly acknowledged that M. de Villele's policy is not only that of the reigning Monarch, but of the Heir apparent to the Throne. It is doubtful, however, whether it be not altogether the policy of the latter; for though the King's person re tains just animation enough to be used as an effigy of Sovereignty at a Council, it is not known whether his spirit ever emerges sufficiently from habitual lethargy, to regain a full con sciousness of political matters. Indeed all the private accounts received yesterday from Paris, and they were numerous, represent him as in the last stage of existence, and all classes, from the courtier to the tradesman, as pre paring mourning to do honour to his memory. The exp,ectation seems so general, that shoals) the art of his physicians or the natural energies of his constitution delay his dissolution a few weeks longer, the feeling is likely to prove one of dis appointment. Louis X VIII. has played his Part On this terrestial stage, and his loving and faith ful subjects considering that he can afford their ' curiosity no further gratification, begin with their characteristic love of novelty, to lone- for a new reign, in order t o know what course his succes sor will pursue, and what changes may or may not occur. • With such u people Kings must not grow-old on the throne, if they wish to preserve public respect and affection. [NEW Times.] Private advices confirm the accounts of the serious illness of the King of France. The Mode of Sunday, however , which we have received, does not contain an allusion to this delicate sub ject. Nor indeed does it afford any news, ex cept the price of Stocks and some vague state wants respecting Greece. The Remits closed ou Saturday at 99 for money, and at 99. 15. for account. These prices, though a trifle lower than on the preceding day, sufficiently mark the public opinion that no political convul sion will attend the demise of the Crown. The successor to the Throne is so engaging in man ners us to have conciliated the affections both of the civil and military classes ; and his political smith/wilts being quite in unison with the system which the present Ministers pursue, it is not likely that a change of any consequence will take place even in the Cabinet. The Greek news in these Papers is, as we have said, vague. On the one hand, we aro told that Ibrahim Bey, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, is leading an expe dition of 25,0(X) men against the Mores : on the other, that the Egyptian expedition has been greatly exaggerated. One account states that 1000 Turks had penetrated within four leagues of Athens, but that they were soon dispersed by the Greeks, under a Chief named Sawa. It appears certain that the Captain Pacha remains With his fleet in the neighbourhood of Samos, which Island, it is to be feared, will ere long be the scene of a contest still more bloody than that of Ipsara. [IIIIITISit PRESS.] Our Readers will remember, that when we gave an account, a short time since, of the revolt at Tarifa, we predicted that it would have the effect of furnishing the Spanish Authorities with a pretext to shed, with cruel profusion, the blood of ail those who opposed themselves, either by word or deed, to their frightful dominion, as every opposition to tyranny would be deemed a revolutionary movement. The event has fully confirmed our prediction. On the report of the Minister of Mercy and Justice, which we gave "We days ago, it was ordered that " every per. SQII found with arms in his hands, or implicated 111 any conspiracy or popular commotion tending to disturb the public tranquillity, should he de livered over immediately to a military tribunal, who, after passing judgment upon them with the utmost Possible dispatch, should, on the spot, in flict punibinnent upon them ;" and from the report rot Doti Joseph O'Donnell, the Commander-in- Chief of th e C amp o f St. Roch, it appeared that on the 23d and 14th ult. 36 Constitutionalists were executed, and that capital proceedings were carrying on against one hundred and dix others. The private accounts from Tarifa state, that above %00 prisoners 114 been delivered over to the military commissions, who were in structed to assort them according to their re spective offences, and to condemn them after wards instanter, conformably to the Royal order. It is impossible not to ask, after all this, can this state of things last in Spain ? Is the Spanish character so utterly debased, so utterly devoid of all moral and manly feeling, as to crouch be neath a despotism so remorseless as this ? We think not. This may not be the moment in which it might be safe or prudent to rise up against it ; but that the avengers of their coun try, who now brood indignantly and in silence over her wrongs, will yet fall with resistless fury on its oppressors, and that, perhaps, at no distant day—we have no doubt. In the present state of Europe, such a Government touches too closely on the extreme of all human endurance to be lasting. The Continental Powers themselves are by no means easy under it; they are well aware of the counter-alliance, which, while it works unseen, is hourly gathering strength.— There is a mass of suffering in the mean time, but " the end is not yet." We are cordially glad to find that the appoint ment of Lord Erskine as Envoy to the Court of Wirtemberg has given the most general satisfac tion ; and that even from quarters which have the strongest repugnance to admit that any act of his Majesty's Government can be right, praise has been extorted by this liberal and generous appropriation of the patronage of the Crown. We have purposely forborne till now from notic ing the appointment, in order that we might see how this delicate and disinterested act of kind ness towards the immediate descendant of the most distinguished Barrister who ever practised in an English Court of Justice, would be received by the habitual Oppobitionists ; and it gives us pleasure to acknowledge►, that such of them as have had the candour and honesty to speak out, have done Mr. Canning justice in the motives that led him to advise the Noble Lord's appointment. Some of tie Papers have kept silence : they could not, even for the sake of novelty, bring themselves to forego the malicious carping which is their characteristic.--(lbid.) secute, and hang their fellow-subjects, out of pure affectiou for the altar and the throne. But even Royalists will not starve without a murmur:Hence, as the arrears increase, the noise increases—the confusion grows on all sides ; and hence, the French Government—not, we venture to say, the least importunate of creditors—•adds, by the second provision of its own treaty, to the mass of troubles which that treaty professes to cure. Let, indeed, the poor Spaniards fare how they may, France will be paid, or strive hard for payment in one shape or another. M. de Villele rebuked some Deputies for but imagining that the French Government would have advanced a sous, without some security for repayment? How then is France to be repaid ? Money there is not a rnaravedi in the treasury of Madrid. France, it is true, may go into the market, offer her guarantee for a loan to Ferdinand, and thus pay herself out of her own pocket : but this would be too monstrous a trick upon the nation. None but Englishmen are magnanimous enough to borrow millions wherewith to discharge their I own demands upon their own debtors. 111 1 what other mode, therefore, can France be in demnified ? She may take a mortgage upon America, but England and the United States would be apt to contest the foreclosure of such a mortgage. France may then demand the Ebro for her frontier; and there, again, unfortunately, England might embody her own force with that of the Spanish nation, to avert such a death blow to the monarchy. Since, therefore, Ferdinand cannot indemnify his cousin by money, and since Engtand, Europe, or America, would be inclined to frustrate a repayment in the form of power, what is left behind ? Why this : however devout and reverential towards the priesthood Charles X., the coming French Sovereign, may profess to be, he, like other Princes, must first take care of himself—he must resort to the only Spanish f►rnrl available for any useful purpose, and hasten, instead of postponing the sale of the Church property, to save the na- Con from ruin. Thus may the very instruments of arbitrary power he converted to the ends of justice, and to the final benefit of mankind. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The projected Reform in the judicial proce dure of Scotland, forms at present the subject of cliscussion in Pamphlets and Newspapers in that country. It appears to us that many of the ob. jections of the opponents of the Bill are unan swerable. We should not, however, be by any means disposed to adopt their conclusion, that the existing mode of procedure should be pre. served with as little alteration as possible. A correspondent of The Glasgow Chroniele, a great admirer of Jury Trials, observes, in his 28th Letter- [THE TIMES.] Two Conventions between two Bourbon Princes —one reigning in France, the other trying to do as much in Spain—have been published by the French official Journal. Of these two cousins, King Louis stipulates that 45,000 of his sibjects shall remain at the disposal of King Ferdinand, for the distinct purpose of cutting the throats of as many Spaniards as shall dare to express them selves discontented with the condition to which o tyrannical measures of Ferdinand have re duced themselves and their country. On the inn. cal spirit which dictated such an agreement, we shall not now remark. Kings used to reign, or profess to reign, for the benefit of their subjects : the doctrine of this more enlightened era is, that nations must endure the worst extremity of evil for the personal advantage of their Kings. But the terms of the treaties, and the consequences to which they lead, are more business-like topics for examination. The first convention presents us with the subject matter of both, stating the motives which have induced Ferdinand to require, and Louis to grant, a French army of the above magnitude to be employed in the Spanish ser vice, naming also the consideration which Ferdi nand is to pay for their assistance, viz. 2,000,000 francs per month, to commence from the Ist of December, 1893, and limiting their continuance in Spain to the Ist of July, 182.1; until which period they are to occupy all the most im portant garrisons of the kingdoM. The second convention, dated June 30, includes among the number of fortresses occupied, those of Saragossa -- and Cordova, and extends the time of occupation to January 1, 1825. 4 "ro. morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow t" — When is the day to arrive, we wonder, on which the same motives which now ac tuate these two Bourbons must not, by every rule of consistency, produce the same re sults ? When (to quote the language of the , treaty) will the " tranquillity and w e ll-being of , Spain" be more advanced under the present misgovernment than they were on the 30th of last June ? When will, or when can, the army of Ferdinand be " re-composed, on a basis of or ,' der and discipline ;" or the Government of lc Ferdinand so consolidated, that he may keep cc down the seditious and factious, who are Po ' deavouring to disturb him ?" NVe ask again, ' when are these consequences to arise—or what materials exist itt Spain towards realizing such a moral revolution ? If a French army, in full pos session of Spain, has not enabled her to ad vance one step towards tranquillity during almost two years, but has put in notion ICTItACT or A LeTTEU. FROM PFTEILSBURGH, et; a. 1. sundry principles of disorder before un - R. thOUg lit of, is it reasonable to suppose, that ~ A frigate to ta k e our Minister, Sir Charles Bagot, who is in less than four months from the time at which held in very great estimation here, and also his Lady, to Eng. we write until the Ist of next January, a change land, is hourly expected. The wind has been contrary. so absolute can be effected ? Europe, then has "It . is calculated these are upwards l of two thousand English to reckon on another treaty for continuing the in this capital, and the population he upwards of three hundred thousand. As a po i dominion of the Government of France over th . commercial interconrse with England, six hundred and eighty vessels arrived here Peninsula. And, once more, are there not, in the L during last year. There J r a - great bustle among the merchants occupation itself, the seeds of its own perpetuity preparing those vessels, which have arrived ? at this moment in with their cargoes, From all that has yet transpired of the stale Spain, most other national passions are mergingthe best English churches I have seen on o h r i the '. Xn a t' r in e Continent, , 0 0 ri f e , :! f i iYa r ri i ot a w ill ve i . ry hl ) : iot!s and that of uneasiness under the yoke of foreigners . exeiiiplary man, nephew h t) :"? t j j l e e v. o Apri i iste_r. In the prayers for the King of England, the names Spaniards of all parties begin to forget their the t i r oy l a i7t a n r r n i l it s l I tir a lti m u lly d follow. The Ambassador's seat, with domestic feuds in a general abhorrence of the French. here, then, lice very dis.mse itself is rip. " Colonel Cathcart, so e n r o a t , canopy IT Itcoaprrswitieiol',ea':,'.'rd the Embassy, has been some time confined to , his room by a severe plied plied as a remedy for its own violence. The French indisposition. army remains until tranquillity shall he restored ; " I)awe, me ti painter, whom you may recollect in Lon_ on and still this mode of " purgation does but increase don ' has be en here some years, and is making a harvest. lie h as entered i nto a contract with golden eitus. i " the choler" which it seeks to terminate !—By Government, to ' lie h i tt, a i paint most . part of the distinguished a specific and most grave provision of time treaty, Generals. rounded i with represen i ta a tio u i t :s e i n it r ' s tl i t i lLe t n P orth a er t n ee l;ei w .ot ich lis sue_ is to pay (Ferdinand to pay !) two , million francs per mouth, or about one trillion P n ; e r l i v n . c es: e Ch ' a m r l e o n t t . ee d w D i uke of Kent, and his niece, the amiable million a ra ti n ter a l i n % 1 1; g n i g i a c n s e d . )0 1 rt 'he Duke sterling per ollotltn, for the extra e x Pences of the of WelliNgton is or , der ' e l :i h tt l : L b 111•Ad a s ti ncs stile of making roads has extended to r l a t i u ts s . si French army. Ile might its well pay off the Na- an:l ' " ° S t i e r rienja e nl i ii -14'11? to i the capital. is 3l'Adanzising at present. tional Debt of England. Then see how this pe- m r i e iti i e n h a t,,t e l w ie British Minister at Stock. holm, is expected oveXe r days on a visit. cuniary obligation is to operate. Is there any productive revenue in ar o d u i t f i l ea w i ri b t u ing letters to Britain, especially should they touch Can any Government go on without any income ? on g ' l L l i t t r t e er o s p r e c n itiC a t t in t r ie ts i s t i . a o , fl; a e s e :t is d perfectly id well Decidedly none. Then time finance of Spain be« ' known letters contain am thing offensive, communications are s t l i t m o al. - th" : conies another principle daily accumulating dis- English trwi Gentlemen were a short time a.gtoostehn order. The claimants for arrears of pay, o P e o t li e c tthe l co w u% totally blind, cou y ld not io h had de beensu rp t o r rj l lin eery g ' one of whom being t military and civil, are more desperate and less subordioate every hour. Royalists, if they be into j, ratters of Government. Let this hit ca pa b len tye lo st teeing St Upon ,ng ish travellers coming to this quarter, as atten ti on thorough-going Royalists, may rob, and ' leer- way save much trouble," to it t ther t l u lie b t y rs a e used c li p ; r t a h t e e o p. u r r e t n o i e f Se 4 ;si A on, t n o or ju l r i y y tribunal—no lover of his country can feel . any interest in it. u not rts — t Let it sink or swim as it nifty, no one will wet his boards to save it. And Sir A. 111 4 Kenzie could not hare found, in the judicial history of any nation, so complete an illustration of ns Local k C i o s his objections to this separate jury establishment as the case which he cites of Pl a i n v . Walker, tried a t P ert h in 1823, where a Judge of the Jury Court, with clerks, masers, at tendants, a bar of Counsel, and .15 Jurymen from distant parts of the country, assembled to. discuss whether a cook had well or ill dressed a wedding supper.' The Innkeeper, who was found justified in dismissing his cook, had a taxed account of HI, to pay, fir the cook had not a farthing in the world. Truly, as the Baronet observes, this case should have been tried by the Loc a l C ourt at Perth, which is said to be very well conducted. But he surely errs when he says that it should not be tried there by a Jury; for I could tell a case about a shep herd's dog lasting five years in a Local Court, and costing much more than this trial about the wedding supper ! The trial of a cause is only perfect in one country in the world, and that country is England. It' her abused mode of stating a cause for trial were restored to its primitive brevity and ac curacy, she would stand pre - emihent in the ar t o f j ust i ce. Her Jury trial is a fine disp lay of human skill and power, and is only defective in not being sufficiently accessible to the poorer classes and the smaller duiptites,on account both of its too great expellee, and of the too short periods during which the bless ing _ conies round the country. Lord Althorp's Bill of last Session would have remedied this evil, but the yell of party proclaimed an Mani!, and threatened danger to the independ ence of the bar—a false device which it is lamentable to think certain great names helped to s u p port. The interests of the lawyers are opposed to it, which i s t h e secret of the opposition ; and in this country, to the question put by the crown whether Jury trial could be resorted to in the local courts, all the lawyers vehemently answered that its introduction would subvert the principles of monarchy ! destroy the administration of Jus tice! oppress the country ! and ruin the parties ! And perhaps nothing better discovers the timidity under which the Commis sioners went to work, than their having adopted th e w ild and exaggerated fears of the lawyers in this important part of the inquiry." Jury trial is a fine display of human skill and power ; but it is liable to one trifling objection,— a material objection, however, in the eyes of a Scotchman,—it is necessarily attended with en ormous expence.—We fear this objection will always render Scotchmen deaf to all its boasted advantages. RUSSIA. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday George Hicks, Gentleman (a Soli citor), the Hon. and Rev. Edward Finch, and another, were in dicted for obtaining 6,0001. of Joseph Wilfred Parkins, under false pretences. The charge arose out of an annuity transaction. The indictment consisted of several counts, charging the offence in various ways ; but the counts upon which it appeared the principal reliance was placed were those which charged the de fendants with failing to remove certain incumbrances on the property in question, and on the promise of removing which it was alleged the money had been obtained from Mr. Parkins. Mr. Hicks was the only defendant who appeared ; the others, it was said, have never been in this country for some time pre vious to or since the finding of the indictment. Mr. Hicks was under bail, and gave notice to the prosecutor of his intention to appear and take his trial. He is a young man, of a gentle manly and prepossessing appearance, and conducted himself throughout the whole proceeding in a most becoming manner. The usual forms being gone through, Mr. ALLEY stated the case on the part of the prosecution. The defendant, together with the lion. E. M. Finch, and another person not present, proposed to Mr. Wilfred Parkins to advance 6,0001. on a certain vicarage and rectory in NVar wickshire, which were alleged to be burthened with a slight incumbrance, but which, in reality, n ever h a d existence. Mr. Parkins was ultimately induced to advance 6,0001. in Bank of England notes. On these grounds the prisoner at the bar was charged with a conspiracy to defraud. Mr. Alley went into a minute detail of the circumstances preceding and attending the commission of the offence ; the principal persons charged with the conspiracy were the prisoner Hicks, an attorney, Wollas ton, and the Hon. Edward M. Finch, brother to a Nobleman. The two latter were not in custody. Having explained the nature of the principal charge to the Jury, Mr. Alley proceeded to call witnesses to support his allegations. Mr. Joseph Wilfred Parkins having been sworn, was asked whether he knew the defendant Hicks ? He said he had the misihrtune to be acquainted with the defendant. Mr. GURNEY— Fray, Mr. Parkins, abstain from epithets. Mr. ADOLPHUS-111r. Parkins, I advised you before you went into the box not to answer more than is asked.- Mr. Parkins-1 will endeavour, Sir, but Ido not want to be interrupted (to Mr. Gurney.) Mr. GURNEY—You will be interrupted,. Sir, when it is proper. Mr. Parkins resumed— The witness stated that he was introduced to the prisoner by a Mr. Woollaston, in the Park. The prisoner informed wit. ness that Woollaston was an eminent solicitor. After some cursory conversation the parties s e p a r a t e d. Witn ess met Hicks and Woollaston several times afterwards, particularly at Hicks . ' house at dinner. Sir Henry Tempest and several others were of the party. At one of their social meetings, Sir Henry Tempest urged the witness to adopt the business of lending money on annuities—said that lie himself had disposed of his money that way. The witness declared his disinclination to follow that advice. Two or three days after that period, the prisoner and Woollaston called on witness, and told him that the Honourable Mr. Finch had incumbered some church livings anti two lay estates besides, by several annuities, and wished to exchange those several annuities for one large one. The sum of the collective incumbrances amounted to 6,0001. They added, that if witness would advance the 6,0001 to the Honourable Mr. Finch, to clear off these annuities, he would receive a charge on the property of 600!. per a nnu m . fli c k s took him to the Enrolm e nt Office, Chancery-lane, and having examined the books, stated to witness that there were no more incumbrances on the property than those previously alleged by him. Witness having confidence in Hicks, gave him a cheque for 6,000/. on his bankers, to be applied to the clearing of the incuinbrancee. The cheque contained a direction to the bankers not to pay the sum of the cheque until the title deeds of the livings and estates should be deposited with them. Witness then left town, and on his return having met /licks and Wol laston, was informed by them that the bankers refused to ad. ranee the sum of the cheque; they suggested at the same time that the motive of the bankers' refusal was a wish to retain in their hands the 6,0001. for the use of which Mr. Parkins re quired nu interest. Witness, to convince them that he had no tloubt of their honour, gave them another cheque for the same sum 60001.; the cheque was sent to the bankers; the sum was sent back to witness, who delivered it (six notes of 10001. e a ch) to the prison er Hicks, Wollaston, and Finch. Certain papers were then produced, which were alleged to be the title-deeds of the livings and estates; they were executed and subscribed by .3lr. Finch, in his presence, and retained by Mr. Hicks, wit. news's solicitor, who declared that every thing was correct. Part of the annuity was paid : 20001. or 3000/. are now due to witness. Cross-examined by Mr. GURNEY.—The annuity has been paid up to December last; these payments were made from the estate of Mr. Henry Finch, who was surety for his brother, Mr. Edward Finch ; the cheques which he gave on the beakers are destroyed; never had any occasion to transact any busi. ness in the way of annuities for Church Livings.—(Mr. Gurney here handed a paper to the witness.)—Witness : The signature to that paper is witness's hand-writing—(after sonic considera tion)—tt was not his handwriting; the signature is his ; he never saw it before; does not know how his name happened to be attached to it; he never sent this cheque to his bankers— (on consideration)—lie did send that cheque ; remembers that in the beginning of the cross-examination he swore that the cheques were destroyed ; now he sees that this is one of them ; swears that his bankers did not pay the sum of 6,000/. on the presentation of this cheque; can swear that he was in town when the money was paid ; thinks lie was; to the best of his recollection he was ; cannot' positively swear as to a particular date. Cross-examination continued.—l paid it myself in Hick's office. I felt a repugnance to entering into the business, be. cause it was an annuity transaction. I had bought annuities before.—(A laugh.)—lt was in June that I indict e d Mr. flicks. I h a d hi m taken up on a Saturday. Bail were offered. There was another indictment, which I removed into the King's B enc h ; but that was abandoned, it to bein a g detectiye a . ina f t A w i i v. bringwill en n action ag urged to do so, but I believe e not ve threatendid. wway often never intended. Can't say whether I threaten e d or not. I in sured Mr. Finch's life this year, and not before. When I said that between 2 and 3 , 000 /. was due to me, I meant an d sa id f or arr e ars as well as for insurance. I calculat e f or t h e r i s k o f not swear ear l t d h e a n t life. I have actually paid about 2001. Mr. Parkins was here requested to leave the Court, The CHAIRMAN now said, that the whole evidence of Mr. Parkins had been heard, and he wished to know on what grounds Mr. Alley intended to establish the fraud ? Mr. ALLEY said he would prove fraud by the defendant's own letters, and other evidence which he should adduce. If the Chairman thought the case had not a leg to stand on, lie would not press it. The CHAIRMAN said, the Jury had heard the nature of the evidence already given ? but he had no wish to stop the case it' there was important evidence to be given. Two letters written by Mr. Hicks to Mr. Parkins, and the Annuity Deed were then put in and read ; the latter being first proved by the subscribing witness. The deed contained a I covenant from the granter of the annuity to shew himself, when required, at any Insurance Office. George Keats, of Howland-street, said, I promised the At. torney for the prosecution to produce the deeds to-day, but I have not brought them. These are the induction deeds. 1 lent them to Mr. Hicks about three years ago, to show them to Mr. Parkins. Mr. Finch owes me money. I have the title deeds at home. Mr. ALLEY—WeII, go and fetch them. Mr. Keats—l certainly will not.—(l laugh.) Mr. GURNEY said, he was not bound, in a criminal prose cution, to wait for witnesses. Mr. Weare, a coal-merchant, examined—l knew Mr. Hicks ten or twelve years ; Ido nut know Mr. Finch. An annuity deed was here handed in. The witness said lie had nut yet been paid. Mr. Thomas Carr, Devonshire -street, Portland-place, said, Mr. Hicks has transacted business for me with Mr. Finch; the annuity has not been paid off. Mr. Sherranl-1 know 31r. Hicks; I had a conversation with him respecting the annuity. He said, " I had some dealings with the fortunate youth l" meaning Mr. Parkins.—(Loud laughter.) —This was respecting the annuity. Mr. ALLEY—That is my case. Mr. Ounsmy then submitted, on the part of the defendant, that no case had been made out to call for any defence. After a short discussion between Mr. GultNE V, Mr. ALLEY, and Mr. ADOLPHUS, it was decided that the case should go to the Jury ; and 111 r. G tIIINE Y addressed the Jury on behalf of Mr. Hicks, in a most able and eloquent speech, denying the charge in tub, not merely as re gar d e d the fraud alleged to be committed by Mr. Hicks, but as regarded any fraud at all committed on Mr. Parkins. Notwithstanding that Gentleman's repug nance at engaging in annuity transactions, he had received at the rate of between sixteen and seventeen per cent. since the beginning of the transaction. lie had received his money down to last 111idsuinnier ; it was an annuity, depending on a good life of 32 ; lie had paid 6000/. ; he had received 40001. and th e annuity was still in existence. There was, therefore, nut the smallest pretence fur preferring this indictment against a re spectable individual, because another individual, the granter of the annuity, had failed in the performance of a covenant, to had rendered himself liable to action fur a breach of cove. pay utrsome prior incumbrances. So that because Mr. Finch nant, Mr. Hicks was to be indicted for a transportable tn. fence. The Learned Gentleman, then, at considerable length, w e nt over the evidence of Mr. Parkins, and contended, th at it was impossible, as this distance of time, to rely upon that Gentleman's accuracy as to particular expressions, and which particular expressions were the very foundation of the present charge. There was not a single important fact in the evidence of Mr. Parkins which he had nut said and unsaid several times. When he was asked whether he had not engaged a man as a kind of spy to take notice of what should pass between himself and Mr. Hicks, and yet to appear as a stranger ; when asked whether he had not committed this base action (which no man within fifty degrees of a gentleman would commit), he said he could not recollect whether he had or had not done it. How was it possible for the Jury to think of receiving such evidence ? lie had sworn that between two and 3,000/. was due to him, although he had been paid down to Midsummer, and had, in fact, paid but 2001. for insurance. Was it upon such evidence as this that respectable men were to be put in peril, their characters assailed, and their ruin to be decided upon for ever ? Without meaning to impute to Mr. Parkins that he would intentionally say what was not right, he (Mr. 0.) would fearlessly declare that he had said what was not right. He complained of being defrauded by Mr. Hicks when , in fact, he was not defrauded at all. Mr. H. was a respectable man, in honourable practice, honourably married, and moving in respectable society, and was most improperly and unjustly (as well as the member of a noble family) brought to trial on this groundless charge of Mr. Parkins, who had received for four years at the rate of sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and four pence for his money. He should leave the case in the hands of the Jury upon the evidence as it now stood, and . should think it perf ect ly unnecessar y to ca ll a ny witnesses to Mr. Hick's character. .31r. ALLEY claimed a right to reply upon a technical point which he contended gave that right. His claim was disallow ed, and The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Conn) then proceeded to sum up the evidence, observing that this extraordinary case depended on the sole and unsupported evidence of Mr. Parkins, who, ne doubt, intended to state the facts correctly, but who appeared to labour under so much uncertainty of recollection, that there was reason to apprehend his own view of the case miglit induce him, unintentionally, to give an incorrect statement of the facts. —The Hon. and Learned Gentlemen then went through Mr. Parkins' evidence, commenting upon it in detail, and left it to the Jury to say whether they could convict a respectable man upon such a case. The Jury instantly returned a verdict of Not Guilty.'-I' l Hicks immediately walked away from the Bar without showing any sign of exultation or triumph. LONDON MARKETS. the 41b. lual—th ere PRICE OF BREAD. The hi g hest rice ut Bread in th e M e tropolis it 90' for three halfpence b e l ow th at rate . are tillers who sell frinu u'halfpoul to IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEE t. " Wheat Barley Malt Oats English. :slo3:l : 1ri5h .1...................._,i 3 1: 1 0 ........:.......... : Rye . - gm0....1. _........ Beans ... 6BO Peas Tares ... ......... Rapeseed . 4O Brank ... — Mustard ... 206 Seeds llB Flour .. Linseed - ma , ..... ••••••••••• 8 0 0 ......... I,VO SEEDS, Sept. 13. New English R. Clover, per cwt... 471 68% 7111- 11 net:et: Old Ditto New Foreign ditto 6ll 701 84s—fine 981 Old ditto ditto 29% 411 53s—fine 7 91 New Whiteditto s7s 74s 771—hoe 86$ Old ditto ass 48$ 63s—fine 94$ New Trefoil.. per cwt 6s 131 14s—tine 19$ Old ditto 4s 91 15s—tine 28 1 New Itiligiass Old ditto els 301 S.is—fins 481 English Carraway Seeds 31s 9Gs 39s—fine —s Foreign ditto 32s 40; 441—fine —s Coriander do. • 7s Gd 9s 10s—fine —b St.Fuht....per yr. Itye-Grast , 44s—hne 46v .221 334—iitic 3SI Macey ditto sps 5.1 s Linseed fur feeding '47s 49s—fine 51s nit's), for crushing 38' 42s—tine 48' Canary Seed 58s G3s—fine 65* VhiteMustard Seed.. per bushel 7s lus--fine I is Brown ditto Turnip Seeds es 81 6d—fine toi ... Tare• . 3s 4s-4tie d$ 9$ Rape iced ....per last NEWCiATE AND LEADENEIALL NIAIiKETS, See' ll ' By the Carcase. Reef is 4d to 3s Sd I V eal ss pd to 4$ 4d Mutton ..... is Btl as ad Pork 3l Oh to 56 4d Lamb, 3s id to 4s Bd. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, Sept. 11. As d Old Hay 4l 10s Od tu 61 Os Od--Areraget 51 -- ° 1 6 d Straw 4l 5s Od to 41 Os od-Average, '2. IQs n A Clover 5l 51 Od to If! 15s 00-Average, 61 "" ST. JAMES'S. o O. Hay 31 6s Od to 51 15$ Oi! 1 Clove r. 31 10s 0d to 61 Os -d d New ditto... 01 31 1° 0: New Hayol Us Od to 01 Os Od I Stiaw ill I9s Oil to 31 ' 3s a- WHITECHAPEL. Hay Straw Clover Od to su 5 0 1 ) 5s Os Od ---___.Astrvitrr:;:::: 0 4 1 1 7 , 4 11 ' a l l 5 4 1 1 10 ;0 Od dd t 0 0 0 6 2 1 1 18 6 s s o o d d -__,: i v s f e r r a a y s. , t VI 1 3 .1 ; u l _..... PRICE OF HOPS, per Cwt., Sept. IL Oil! Duty laid at 153,0001. About 80 pockets of this year's growth have come to 0 13 r.: ket, the quality o f w hi c h i s very fair for first pickings. TO/ have found buyers at 905. to liOz. fiat. Kent Pockets Sussex Pockets Essex Pocket s Kent Bags .. Farnham, fine,. 61 Os to 81 104—Seconds, to 41 4 nds, 41 10s u s to 5 4 i i v ; b 9 Sussex Bags 3l lOs to 4) Os to 4 Essex Bags _t2 ... 2_,......- 1 i°6 RAW HIDES. V' 6d to id nest Heifers & St eer s, p e r A t. Ordinary .. • • r i utl Js 52.1 to Ss 4(: Market Calf .. each.. 4 Middlings... 2s 10d to 31 Cd Lambs... Os Od t° °5 " } sd SHEEP SKINS. . Os Od to (is Ot 1 Sliearlings ...... Idd to il 4 Polled Us Od to Us ati j Lambs g , 0,1 tu b Fells PRICE OF LEATHER. to 44d Butts. 50 to stilks e a c h Ditto, 5i to 66Ibs each per lb ..... : i ll eid J to ttij Dressing Hides l tl to elid iu _ jaJ Coacli Hides 160 t " id Crop Hides, 35 to 401 bi for cutting Ditto .... 45 to 501lii ... . it t t c :: l it' a Call Skiiis..f.i to 4011 is . tea t° - 45 j Ditto 7O to doll's Small S e als (G Ilitl I° jodreenland) Large d i tt o .. " h i to , ~ A , Panne l l H orse Hides ..led tO ' isa" Oil "____ Spanish Horse Hides I. PRICES OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sec. per pt.► „ 7 "" Town Tallow 39s —s od I Yellow Soap ............ Yellow Russia 37 s Od — s Od Muttled ............... sip White ditto.. 3tis Od Cur ................ 041 Soap ditto.. 35s Od —s oil Graf's .............. 6sOJ Nlelting Stud SOs Od od Good Dregs .......... Ditto Rough.. 19s od. —s Od - - . PRICE OF' CANDLES, P ROM TALLOW CHANOLEWA "AL" l'"" of Candles, per dozen, Ss dd-Aloulds, per dozen allowed for ready 717,01 PrinrCti-ilnalar47l):4o7u£ dlb 12.!* f) i t 11 3, ,41 41 Wheat, Berl 141 O C s ° a L i 7N 7l l. o lt s Y l Gut Lurotto. Sept. 11. 89 per (if" r .. . NeW ditto 141 tos a 171 Os /3arley . ...... 11 Ilia 4`' ,s; Rye (itCY Pets, 41 Id., a 1 1 ua r jT m. Te'fair, a person who is underst ood Some years past t o h ave su pplied Scotlan d w.t ; forged no t es , h as b een se i ze d w i t h another n ote dealer, M ats notes on diff eren t b an k s taken with them. 111. e notes are on th e Huddersfield, Royal Leith C°lll,l Ann Quin, and about 550 forg,ei. r_nercial Bank of Scotland, Si r Wm. Forbe s Co.'s Bank, &e.—(GlasavwChrt ) al Printed and Published for the PROPRIETO IOI I air OFF.ICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. 13. CAI l'A,""" 1 I 10 1 thh,