The Sun. — London, England, 1824-10-28 00:00:00

1111.: LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Oct. 29. [MORNING HERALD.] Sir William A'Court has, it appears, migrated from Madrid to Lisbon, and been received with the usual solemnities by his Faithful Majesty. It has been the fortune of Sir William to attend the whole, or nearly the whole, round of the invalid Governments of Europe. Ills practice, however, has not been the most successful. It is true, he quieted the Government of Naples, by placing an Austrian strait-waistcoat upon it. But he has left Spain in a condition more deplorable even than he found her. The Government of Portu gal, also, affords a case for him to try his skill upon. Its imbecility is unaccountable and in credible. The mass of the people appears tranquil—the disaffection of the army seems limited to some ambitious officers—yet is the Government defied and attacked by the Queen and the Patriarch—by a woman, and an old Priest. Some restraint has been im posed on the Queen, by confinement to a par ticular residence ; but the Patriarch walks at large, a detected and notorious conspirator, and HO one dares lay hands upon him. The reason why the Queen and this presumptuous Priest plot against the King of Portugal is, that there is still some shadow remaining of Liberalism in tine Government, which they wish to get rid of—and introduce priestcraft and pure slavery. There is one measure by which the King gives signs of life, if it does not prove him capable of something better than his brothers of Spain and Naples.— He has established a system of education, by professors taught abroad, and by early schools according to the Laucasterian, or mutual in struction, method. [llll IT MI TRESS.] Yesterday we received Sydney Gaieties to the 14th May, and Hobart Town Papers to the 12th of JUIIP. New South Wales appears to be in a flourishing condition. Private letters from Van Diemen's Land, of the 13th. of June, mentioned the arrival of the new Governor, and say that the Colony was in a prosperous state.— Tho market, however, was overstocked with Eu ropean goods. A Sydney Paper contains a narra tive of the massacre, on one of the Friendly Islands, of Capt. Powell, late Commander of the Rambler, with five of his men. Mr. Butler, who with his family was on his way, in the ship Brothers, to Van Dieman's Land, as Registrar of the Supreme Court, died on board during the voy age, as well as one of his children. Mr. Phallorn, who was appointed to New South Wales by the Church Missionary Society, also died on board the Brothers. Col. Sorel!, late Lieut.-Gov. of Van Dieman's Land, and the late Deputy Judge-Advo cate, were to leave that Colony on the 10th of June, in the Guildford, for England. The new Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel Arthur, with his family, arrived in the River on the 10th of May. Captain Montagu, of the 40th regiment, and lady, accompanied the Colonel, who has appoint ed Captain M. to be his Secretary. The Sydney Gazette, of May 6, gives the following notice of the power exercised by the Censorship over the Press of the Colony " Far the last 12 or 111 months we have been labouring under ate of the most unhappy mistakes. It has been a maxim to inert all correspondences that passed the Censor of the Press— many of which, indeed, came through that channel ; certain writers, for views best known to themselves, thinking it advis able to aberrate from the usual order of things. Herein con sisted our mistake. We conceived it obligatory to publish all the documents that were so transmitted ; whereas we have learnt, that in us was vested the discretionary power of admis sion or rejection ; the Censorship of the Press only extending to the protection of the interests of the Government." EN LW TIMES.] It is stated in a Boston Paper of the Vith nit. that a squadron of observation is to be fitted out under Commodore Rogers, the precise object of which does not appear to be very well known. The American Journalist speculates upon it in a very loose and rambling manner. Ile thinks It is to act, if required, in support of the prin ciples laid down in the Message of the President of the United States. It would hardly be worth while to fit out a squadron upon a contingency so distant and so extremely improbable. If there were any prospect of an armed interference by the Great Powers of Europe between Spain and her Colonies, it would undoubtedly be known to the British Government at least as soon as to the American, and it would be acted upon at least as promptly. But we know in this part of the world that no such cause of disturb ance to the general peace is in the least likely to artse. It is therefore probable that the specula tions in the American Paper as to the destruction of this squadron are unfounded : and indeed the force mentioned, one seventy-four, a frigate, and some smaller vessels, is altogether incompetent to perform the important task assigned to it by this hypothesis. It is natural that the American Go vernment should wish to exercise its ships and seamen ; and we are therefore disposed to be lieve that such a squadron may begetting ready ; but, its immediate object we apprehend is merely to protect American Commerce, and to assist in clearing the sea of pirates. [MORNING. POST.) We noticed last week the arrival of the Speedy from Santa Martha laden with hides and tobacco, being the first vessel that has arrived from Colom bia since the British Consul reached Bogota. A difficulty not foreseen by the shippers, though arising from a revenue regulation well known in this country, has prevented the discharge of the vessel,which is in fact at present in a state of deten tion. By one of the acts for preventing smuggling, tobacco cannot be imported in packages of less weight than 450 lbs. The tobacco on board the Speedy,consiiting of bales weighing only 1251b5. each, has therefore been detained until the Lords of the Treasury shall give directions as to the enforcing, or suspending, the operations of the Act. 'iro convey tobacco from the interior of Spanish America to the coast, in packages of the we i g ht required by the Act, is wholly imprac ticable. The merchandize transported from Bo gota to Santa Martha is carried partly on mules and partly by porters—and by law the weight of, every package is limited to 15Olbs. This re striction originates in the narrowness and general imperfection of the roads, which are described by Humboldt as being so narrow in many of the passages across the mountains, that horned cattle can scarcely pass without The Porters, a numerous and class, are represented to have invariably opposed the formation of good roads in South America, ns leading to the destruction of their monopoly, which is so productive, that, as a body, they are wealthy. The contradictory regulations of the two countries might tend greatly to embarrass commercial intercourse in respect of tobacco—a commodity of no mean importance ; but it can scarcely admit of doubt, that the British Go vernment will suspend the operation of this Act as to the productions of Colombia, and other South American States. With us, the importation of tobacco, in small packages, is prohibited, with the express view of dimi nishing the facility of transport to the interior ; while in Colombia the package is by law re stricted to a certain weight, for the purpose of giving that facility of transport, which, for the protection of our revenue, is rendered penal. To insist on the strict enforcement of this Act would operate as a prohibition against the importation of tobacco from new States of South America. [TUB PUBLIC Leunett.] Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, an express was received in the City from Falmouth, announcing the arrival of a Ja maica packet. Colonel Campbell, one of the British Commissioners to the Colombian Govern ment, has returned by this conveyance, and ar rived, we are assured, last night in town. Shortly after the arrival of the express, all the South American Securities improved ; after which it would be superfluous to say, that the accounts brought by the Packet are of a favourable cha racter. This last remark applies, we understand, to all the Neiv States ; and the intelligence from Peru, though not of a decisive character, serves at least to overthrow entirely the sinister rumours, which had been set afloat respecting Bolivar's po sition, and the means of this excellent Patriot to bring the war to a successful termination. From Mexico the intelligence is said to be most satisfactory ; and, when we contrast her present situation with the state of things such as it exist ed at the beginning of this year, we cannot but admire the facilities, which appertain to this, in common with every free people, to relieve them selves from difficulties, under which enslaved na tions would probably sink. Toward the close of the last and the commencement of the present year,that country was one scene of anarchy; the Civil Autho rity was too feeble to put the laws in execution, even in the immediate vicinity of the seat of Go vernment; the military force was disorganised and mutinous ; whilst a gloom, bordering on despair, universally prevailed. A few mouths were suf ficient to transform the scene completely ; and, at the date of the last accounts, confidence bad succeeded to despondency ; whilst the effects of a Arm Government had begun to be visible every where. Such is the elasticity of a state of freedom; and here may be also seen, in a sur. prising manner, the healing effects of tutelary rule. NUE TIMES.) The Judges, it will be seen, have delayed judg ment on the demurrers which have been argued the two last days in the Court of King's Bench, iu the case of" Duncan v. Thwaites and others." This case, it is well known, involves the legality of reporting police proceedings, and indeed all other initiatory proceedings in civil or criminal cases. It is erroneous to call the publication of these proceedings the publication of exparle evidence ; for so far as the case is gone into, the evidence ; on both sides is published.— We have, however, argued the points so often before, that we have little new to say on the subject; yet is that little strong. It is impossible to prevent the publication of the pro ceedings in question. They must continue, or a revolution will be effected in the administration of justice, of which, we believe, the Judges can have but a very imperfect idea. Let them reflect for a moment what our police-offices would be come, it' no notice were taken of the proceedings there. In how helpless and solitary a state would every injured person find himself, if he had all the burden thrown upon himself indi vidually of making his case known to the public, so as to get together evidence, to state the course of proceedings which he meant to adopt to occasion the production of articles lost and of implements used in the perpetration of the wrong. All this, and much more than we can sum up, is crow per formed gratuitously by the Journals, for the in jured man, through the publication of the Police reports. If we were to say that there is no evil mixed up with the good in these cases, we should say that which is not true of any human institu tion whatever ; but we do assert, that the good is in so much greater a proportion s that the prac tice must continue, whatever may be the decision of the Judges. No Jury would or could find the conductor of a Journal guilty of publishing a true report of the proceedings iu any Cuurt.— The above-named eminent ‘ persons would, there fore, do well to accommodate their abstract rea. zonings to the expediency and substantial justice of the case. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The address of the Assistant Barrister to Lord Clermont, in the account of the trial at the Dun dalk Quarter Sessions, October 14, given by The Freeman's Journal, is altogether a curiosity in its way. The particulars of the two assaults with which his Lordship was charged on two boys, the one twelve years of age, the other fourteen, ap peared in The Chronicle some time ago. It was altogether a strange proceeding—such indeed as could occur only in a country in which one clash was long habituated to impunity, and the rest of the people to be wantonly oppressed and outraged. The assaults wero so completely proved, too, that the Assistant Barrister " could not perceive a point to hang a doubt upon."— The Jury having found a verdict of Guilty, the Assistant Barrister stated it as the unanimous opinion of the Bench, " that the assaults for which the Noble Lord then stood convicted were of the slightest description—he might add, of the most frivolous nature " (we must bear in mind that slight and frivolous are very different in different countries—the poor man, whose cheek Mr. Wakefield saw cut open with a horsewhip, in presence of several Magistrates, at a fair in Ireland, was very slightly as saulted ; in short, to kill in some parts of Ireland is thought a very frivolous affair). But pass we on to the point in the Address which induces us to notice the production at all ; for oppression being the order of the day in Ire land, it is only when any thing occurs out of the way that we can allude to it. "It had been more than insinuated," said this Judge, " by his Lordship's talented advocate, that this prosecu tion did not emanate from the injured feelings of the party, neither was it carried on their expellee, but that it was promoted by a body of intriguing individuals, associated to gether for reducing to their own base level, every person in society conspicuous for rank, talent, or eminent virtue. Placed where he was, it was not for him to say whether such was the fact or not ; but assuming it to he so, it was truly melancholy that his Lordship should be the vic tim of any such vile conspiracy." Here is lan guage for a Judge ! Vile conspiracy ! It is a vile conspiracy when two or three individuals en able, by their assistance, a poor man to obtain that justice for a wrong done to him by a man of rank and wealth, from which his own po verty would exclude him. This is vile in the extreme. What is the use of making law ex pensive if the rich are not to have the advantage of this against the poor ? 0 vile conspiracy. But when a number of Peers and wealthy men club their purses to bring an humble individual to jus tice for a political libel, there is no oppression here—no vile conspiracy—it is patriotism. Surely this Assistant-Barrister will not have the assurance to pretend, that when the Duke of Wellington, the majority of the Bench of Bishops, and other patriotic individuals formed themselves into an as sociation for crushing all who expressed senti ments different from their own, by means of that admirable instrument, the Law of Libel, that his Grace and the Bench were guilty of a vile con spiracy! 0, no! such a thought never could have entered his head. Vile means merely inter fering in behalf of the meek and lowly. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held before J. WaIQUT UN WIN, Eq. ? Coroner, at the Reindeer Tavern, in the parish of St. George in the East, to inquire how, and by what means, John Collins, a youth 10 years of age, came by his death. Saturday t o ti n ,on.thieusoc t k no i rii i i l n ls g , last,i S n w eo e e n n l l e ) y a n b y e i w n with h sw a o f r r n i n t d i e , p h o e se w d a ' 1 t k l e l a d t f u o i r d np to o r p t o h s e e t o o f n v d i o e : " i nwf o t k h . ealterations d l a n ) a u lt g d un t s l e i he f r e w f e o n r t a t n o the spot where workmen were employed in removing some old materials, and taking down some store-rooms, which had for merly been used as cellars belonging to the London Dock Com pany. The witness, with his friend and other persons, stood on the brink of the arches, looking at the workmen employed, when, in an instant, three of the arches gave way at the same moment; and the deceased, who had been standing at some short distance from the witness, was buried in the ruins; it was about 20 minutes before the deceased was found, when he was taken up quite dead, and in a dreadfully mangled state. CouoNE R—Was there any other sufferer than the unfortu nate boy of whom _you have been Speaking ? Witness—Mysolf and friends, with several other persons, fell in with the ruins, but fortunately escaped with only being severely bruised. Mr. Ellis, foreman of the works, stated, the Dock Company employed watchmen and officers, both day and night, to caution fpersons against approaching the spot where the deceased had un ortunately met with his death, but it was impossible to keep them off, for both young and old were determined to satisfy their curiosity. ConoN au to the witness.—What is your opinion upon the case ? Witness.-1 am decidedly of opinion it was an accident, and that every precaution has been taken by the Dock Company to avoid any misfortunes. _ The ConasrEit then addressed the jury, and intimated that it was; his opinion that the deceased had been killed accidentally. The Jury were of the same opinion, and returned a verdict accordingly. COHONER to the Jury.—Gentlemen, the next thing for your consideration is a deodand. Mr. Ellis, the foreman of the works, now came forward, and said that he had received instructions to inform the Coroner and the Gentlemen of the Jury, that the expenses of burying the deceased would be defrayed by the London Dock Company. The Jury were unanimously of opinion, under such circum stances, a deodand might be disp e ns e d with. Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, a respectable Jury as sembled in the board-room of Bridewell-hospital, before Taos. SHELTON, Esq., Coroner for London, to in q ui re int o th e death of Samuel Morgan, who on Saturday afternoon last sprang from a boat into the Thames, and sunk. On the return of the Jury from viewing the body, the follow ing evidence was adduced George Osborne, a waterman, residing in Jackson's-place, said he was plying for fares at Blackfriars-bridge, on Saturday last, about three o'clock, when the deceased and another man came up, and aked him to row them over the water. He com plied ; but the companion of the deceased, on getting to the stairs, refused to go, observing he would not for 50/. The deceased, however, went into the boat, and the witness having rowed as far as the middle arch of the bridge, looked round to avoid a barge and boat, and the yo ung man j um p e d i n t o t h e r i ver and sunk, exclaiming " God bless you !" Drags and every means were used, but he never rose again. Ile looked rather wild, and spoke not a word. The witness do es not t hi n k he was intoxicated ; he walked steadily into the boat ; he did not stand up in the boat before he threw himself in, but appeared to wit ness to go in head foremost. The witness could not save James Schofield, a gas-man, deposed that he had known the deceased fir two years, and worked with him at the works in Dorset-street ; he was discharged from his situation at Christ mas last. On Saturday last, about half-past two o'clock, the deceased came to him and wanted him to drink beer, but the witness declined ; he then left him. He was a man that would drink excessively, and was a single man, 29 years of age ; lie was latterly in the employ of the Imperial Gas Company. At the time witness sa w hi m, a loan, a stranger to witness, was with him; the dece ase d was not drun k then. The deceased's brother, a soldier, a ttended, and said, that when he saw hind last March ' he seemed dejected, but would paper, being a li st o f small sums owing to mine never explain the reason. The witness produced a piece of persons, and signed " Their dear and affectionate friend, S. Morgan." The witness said that the man described as being with him was named Allen, and is a hackney-coachman, and must have known of the deceased's intention, as the above paper was given by deceased to him, but the witness could not find hint to bring him forward the witness had heard the deceased was ill, during the last week, with a rheumatic afflxtion. Ile •C ° R° l4 Ett, in addressing the Jury, said there was no possibility of getting any more evidence ; and as it was a singular ca se i n t h e absence of any evidence to s h ow the state of his mind, th ey could come to the conclus i on t h ey thought answering the c ase; i t was pro b a bl e t h a t some thi ng m i g h t have been hanging about his mind which produced ab er . p ration of intellect. T he Jury returne d a verdict--.`' That he i drowned himself in a fit of temporary derangement." A Berlin Paper of the 9th instant announces the baptism of a soldier belonging to the ipth Regiment, of Hebraic extraction, in the garrison church at Potsdam. The soldier's sponsors were his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke NicitoLAS and his Royal Highn e ss the Cuowx Putticii of Prussia. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. lifAwsrox.flousi.—Edward and Thomas Hammond, the sons of a turnkey of Newgate, were charged on suspicion of having stolen a parcel containing 2,9341. the property of Messrs. Snow and Co., the bankers. The porter;of the bankers, it will be recollected, was, in going through the City, towards the West-end, robbed of the parcel, which was cut out of his coat pocket by some fellows who had followed him a considerable way. One person pressed against him two or three times, and disappeared at the corner of Shoe lane, when the porter missed the parcel. A journeyman baker stated that he was, about the time of the robbery, standing in Shoe-lane, talking to a friend; he observed the two prisoners, whom he knew, and a person whom he did not know, come quickly down the lane, and turn shortly round the corner of the Court. Witness knew the two brothers from having seen them about the streets, and their manner at the time induced him to say to the person who stood next to him, that they had been doing no good, or something to that effect. He could speak more positively as to the identity of Edward than of Thomas. The Solicitor for the prisoners requested that they should be dischar ' ged, as there was no ground for detaining them. The LORD MAY oft was informed by Mr. Brown, the Mar shal, that further evidence would be adduced in the interval be tween this and another examination. __ _ His Lordship, on this account, remanded them. James Hangman, a young man of respectable appearance and address, was charged on suspicion of being one of the gang by whom, it is believed, the parcel, containing between 13,0001. and 14,000/., the property of the Maidstone bank, was stolen. C. Alexander Martin, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Edmonds, Atkinson, and Co., deposed, that on the 18th inst. he made up a parcel containing upwards of 13,000/. in cash, and drafts payable at sight. It was directed to Sir Peter Pole and Co., and delivered to the book-keeper of the coach-office, to be deposited in the care of the coachman. Thomas Paine, the book-keeper of the Coach-office at Maid stone, stated, that he received the parcel in question, and took it up stairs to his bed-room. On the following morning he brought it down and laid it on his desk. It was then a quarter past five, and the coach was late. Its usual time for starting from Maid stone was a few minutes after five. When he laid the parcel on his desk it was dark, and the coach was getting ready. He was called out to remove a quantity of hops, which some persons on the outside disputed about, and said were in the way. He was not absent two minutes, and when he left his office to arrange about the accommodation of the passengers heleftnobod.y behind him. The person who took the parcel must have jumped over the counter to getat it. The instant he returned he discovered that the parcel was gone. and he cried out that somebody had stolen a va luable parcel. Ile laid hold of a person who was standing at the door, and charged him with having committed the robbery, and was about to search him, when the person said he would not submit to be searched unless a constable were sent for: Witness afterwards seized the prisoner, Honeyman, who was standing in the immediate neighl iurhood at the time, and slightly searched him, but found no property in his possession. The prisoner said nothing. He was the only person close to the door, with the exception of the gentleman who refused to be searched except by an officer, and who, it bad been ascer tained, was a most respectable hop-merchant, resident in Maid stone. The witness thought he could positively swear to the identity of the prisoner, although he had not seen him since until yesterday. Honeyman was, ho added, dressed at that time differently. Iloneyman.—" My Lord, I never was at Maidstone in my life. Let the witness take care what he is about, for I have most respectable persons to prove that I was in town at the time." The witness said he certainly was greatly agitated at the time of the robbery, and had permitted the prisoner to proceed on his journey. Thomas Curtis, of Maidstone, coach-master, said he had seen his coach go off, and was standing in the yard on the morn ing in question, when he saw the prisoner upon the pavement there. This witness swore positively that Honeyman was the man who was searched at Maidstone, and that he had on different clothes from those which he now wore. Elizabeth Chittenden, the chambermaid of the Star Inn, Maidstone, deposed, that on the day before the robbery, the prisoner, in company with two oth er p ersons, slept in a double bedded room. They were very particular in ordering that they should be called very early on the following morning, to come to town by the coach. She could swear to the identity of the prisoner most positively, although he was dressed in a different manner now. The prisoner here put on his hat, and desired the witness to look well at him, and be cautious of what she said. The witness said, she not only knew the prisoner again by his figure, his complexion, and the colour of his hair, but by his voice. Mr. Brown, the Marshal, said, he did not wish to proceed further with the ease that day, as he expected a witness in town, whose evidence, if it turned out that she could identify the pri. toner, would be of the utmost importance. The prisoner's Solicitor said, that the Magistrate could not try a case, nor properly examine contradictory evidence, but he had known instances where they had heard evidence of un alibi. Ile had, he believed, powerful evidence of this nature, which he wished his Lordship to hear, with the view of inducing him to allow the prisoner to give hail. The Lout) M A YO it declined hearing this evidence, and re manded the prisoner for further examination. Bow-ST nEET.—On Tuesday evening, two soldiers were brought to this office, followed by an immense crowd of people, who thronged the office-doors and avenues so as to make access difficult, charged with a very gross and unmanly outrage that evening, in St' ych-street, Drury-lane. The names of the pri soners were Alexander Ramsay and John „Michell, the fonner a private in the 2d batt. Ist Foot Guards, and the latter! in the 7th Fusileers. They were both in a state of intoxication, but not so much so as to seem unconscious of what they were doing. The complainant was an elderly woman, who seemed, lode. pendently of the consequences of the violence she had just re. ceived, to be in extremely delicate health. Her name is Mary Clarke, and she is the wife of a hair-dresser in Ivy -lane, she and her daughter callying on business as bonnet-makers in a small way at No. 52, Wych-street. The case was about to be gone into, when Mr. Hat.r.s, perceiving that Mrs. Clarke was much agitated, and that the soldiers were hardly in a fit state to be examined, ordered them to be taken to the watch-house for the night. Yesterday the soldiers were again brought up, when it ap peared by the evidence of Mrs. Clarke, her daughter, Mr. John Marshal, clerk to a solicitor in King's Arms-yard, Coleman street, Langfield, a constable, and other witnesses, that about a wi t le h n ird th s e o y ld a i r e r r iv l e v ( e i re oi w lp aLk it i half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening, the defendants and - I street, si a io 7 window, welkin M d r o s. w C n la W rk7s h keeping the whole of the fOot-pavement to themselves ; and two of them pushed the third against it, and broke a pane o f glass. Mrs. Clark e very naturally ran out, and telling them that they had broken her window,. desired that they would pay her for it. Inst ea d o f d o i ng s o, however, they abused her in terms the most abominable. Tlie language was described by one witness as being of the vilest and most horribly disgusting kind. They followed her up to the door, to which she re treated in the apprehension of sonic personal violence, and she then said tremblingly, " Well, gentlemen, if you will n o t pay for it, go quietly . about your business; pray do." " O you b—y old b—h," said Illitcltell, " I'll pay you for your window, " a nd instantly lie struck her a v i o l ent bl ow on t h e tem pl e , which forced the back part of her head against the wall, and stunned her; and even in this state, while she was leaning, senseless, against the wall, the unmanly fellow re peated the blow more than once, until she fell upon the ground. By this time a large crowd had collected, and Langfield, the constable, coming up, he and Mr. Marshall seized Mitchell, and endeavo ure d to secure him, but he slipped from them, knocked Langfield down, and had very nearly served Mr. Marshall the same. Mrs. Clarke's daughter, in her feeble endeavours to protect her mother, was threatened by the prison ers with the same treatment. The whole three at length forced their way into Mrs. Clarke's shop, where they broke three inure panes of glass, and threw some of her little stock in trade upon the floor, and trampled upon it. They were at length with great difficulty secured. Mitchell who had fallen among the broken glass in the shop, and cut his face 'lightly, upon discovering th e h urt h e h a d received, sat down in a chair and cried for some minutes. The third soldier escaped. Mitchell, in his defence, said he believed he broke the window, and was willing to pay for it on the spot, but when he searched in his pocket for Ins money, he had been robbed somehow or other in the crowd. Mrs. Clarke, he added, hung about his neck so tightly, that he was obliged to push her away. Ramsay said he had no share in the matter from beginning to end, further than endeavouring to get Mitchell away. lie did not assault any body nor break any glass. Mr. Marshall declared,. hat Ramsay was, during the whole time, extremely violent, and that lie endeavoured to rescue Mitchell after lie was in custody. Mr. HALLS said that this was as gross a case as he had heard of for a long time. Did soldiers suppose that instead of con ducting themselves like men anti like gentlemen (for so it was his pride to see soldiers behave), they were to be suffered to go about committing outrages upon his Majesty's peaceable sub jects ? Did they imagine that they who ought peculiarly to be the protectors of the defenceless, were to be permitted to use violence like this upon a helpless unoffending woman ? If so, they were mistaken, and the law must teach them better. The Worthy Magistrate then oidered them to be taken to prison, and directed the parties to go Immediately to the Sessions, then sitting, and indict theme ; ihtiox.4l.t.t.L."—Yesteitlay young man, mused Thgrnai Mick, an auctioneer and appraiser in Sing-street, in the 130' rough, was brought before R. J. CHAMBERS, Esq.. charged with haring, on the 18th of September last, at the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, feloniously forged and counterfeited a checque, purporting to be of the hand-writing of Joseph Tar ner, and drawn upon Henry Weston C. Allen Young, end Ellis Bastock, bankers, for the payment of SOL with intent to defraud that firm, against the Statute, &c. The prisoner ap pears to be about 24 years of age, and was 'stated to have been. carrying on a very respectable business in the upholstery sp• praising line in King-street, Snow's-fields. Hall, the chief constable, stated that he apprehended the prisoner at the Spur Inn, in the Borough, about 9 o'clock on Tuesday night, and conveyed him off to the Belllock-up-ho n* , in Falcon -court, where he was given safely into the custody or Ellis, the landlord of that house, and locked up. The nest , morning (yesterday) the prisoner made two different attenipte to escape from his confinement, in the following ingeniousman ner :—The door of the room in which he was putt tothe sleeptom, hs 4 strong bolts, which were fastened at the outside, bot and considered of sufficient security to guard against the escape_ of any person ; however, this obstacle was overcome by LP prisoner, who untied the sacking of his bed , and taking the cent introduced the bite of it through a small w i c ket in the doo r, which is used for the purpose of passing refreslunents those confined within. When he put the cord through, hi°, lowered the bite down, and succeded in drawing the bolts bark with a jerk of the bed-cord, when he instantly ran downthe private staircase, and was stopped by the landlady of the neiieo whom he however rushed past. Ellis now hea rin g the ran to the spot, secured the p r i s oner, and locked hi m u p le end other room, out of which the p r i s oner also managed to We, Having descended the stairs, he again came in contact lita t t lo h n e g c i a n s g e a to gn a in h st o l u th se Ellis's wife, whom he knocked down, and rushed past in, 1 ,7; alley, follpwed by the landlord with the cry of " Steli The prisoner got a considerable distance before he was sP"' c i li n en ß t la m ck ig n h ian t b-setreet- Upon "arching secured, and was at length discovered secreted in a privy be' prisoner, Hall stated that lie found 68 sovereigns in his purl?... Mr. HARMER, who attended for the prisoner, requested tom! postponed to a fluture_ aminatior: The MAO/STRATE said that he had no ob e jectioA, if i t u h pi e w P/9 ; position met with the consent of one of the rwi,6": ll ',;" n zi- • then present ; who immediately acquiesced with the pettier he and Mr. Chambers having asked that gentleman et,re be o suspected the bank an and n : l e h t e h w e as p prisoner to partner,to have e com a the nswer being in the affir • mauve, the prisoner was accordingly remanew" . . • rn i_A ide , d a torguy AEROSTATION. MR. GREEN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS DESCEND " GOSPORV, Ocr. 2 6.—1 minutes past three o'clock, accompanied by. at Gandy, after a voyage of thirty-five minutes, we arrived at r'r ian d,, about two miles from Midhurst, where we effected a sate now ing, after striking against a chimney, and having narrow ing, chura. escape of being driven against the steeple of Ileyshott This was, however, prevented by the network becoming4l tangled with an apple-tree in the garden of Mr. Perrle il w e l i . o enabled a young man to come to our assistance. W i t: mi ght endeavouring to secure the balloon, the graPPling "`"" grouch hold of him, but others corning to his assistance lie was o °. h at, hurt. We first reached the earth just at the brow o ,t,_:,.„rn thinking it a safe place to descend, being about two nue .. 1 . .,;; (1 the village, where we hoped to get help ; but the pippmita, l e ft Portsea at te n : failing to hold, in consequence of the prongs becomtngenLZ-wi with the rope, we were driven by the force of the rt ote s considerable velocity towards Heyshott, and came rn W rit e s with a poplar tree, when the net-work becoming en,'!" the the combined force of the wind and gas broke offthe Wh i r w ojo upper part of the tree, weighing not less tha nelt7to pro. we carried up with us to an immense height. v_,„ a seil. ceeded with great speed, and after striking many , vt; e cts buildings, all of which tended to retard our progreall, i l o ppla at last effectual) ctually secured in Mr. Perry's garden' bYsigt tree. On leaving the earth, the mercury ill w e s abo t to at 29. and 6-10ths, and at the greatest elevation t_ o il to 23 . and 7-10ths, giving an altitude of abouta Of quarter." their tai W ° Mr. Gandy gave the young man who came to - a sovereign to repair his clothes. tti' r seen 6 • The inhabitants of lie shots never having be fo re ' t o the hewekeyr Mr. . would (Tandy loon, were so much alarmed, that many of them rat! ring. pit. houses, and their fears prevented them from rot te n Is adst'. Green assistance, otherwise his descent would have bee, ed more easy. e m 111. eon' Mr. Green experienced the greatest assistance Jo- rtg r o er t i ness and intrepidity of his companion, who remained in as the sis c e h a a n n ee ne i l n , but for his aid Mr. Green's descent would have been ho stO 4 On Saturday we ek well more difficult. Mr. Gandy might several dw,„ ei „ c hed tit sured his own safety, by leaving the car when it 7000 earth, but he remained with Mr. Green, and re d s interference of Mr. Green's an w d as y offeredo a g 0 0 7: 1111 : , ti l itio ttl iw. : certainly h ave„ , he bed/ Green, although the wind - blo w ing dirge* t ° tfig d wP° t e committee, and in °`" present. in 'if Mr.arrived t Part. °B 010 . Green, with his companion, a- c locki s° w ee great and four about a quarter past nine 0 _, I „, w ho n el „ -- great satisfaction of his Committee and frie ° l o o_, ; . e . : 4 ;1" anxiously waiting his arrival, having left his °P"ei Swan Inn, Chichester, from which place he will --t -r-- - ------ rop er! 0 , We understand that another ext ensive P 10 the estate of Gilston in Fife, has be ,1010 , dig sold for 42,5001., and that the derrang" 0 aria esttr creasing for land ; the prices of grain pm have also considerably advanced lately' , burgh Star.) iv 0 0160 On Monday se i nnight a large l'e w sorl Dn ' to tbe 0 0 0 dog attacked a pig in an out house belonifing Crain t he no b Lyrnington, and had completelyeaten the esh is wigs ; th e to the skull before it was discovered. Two attew4 s ad atf 7 th to destroy it by shooting, but they were unsuccessl; bold al an end was put to its miseries by being struck on the a hammer. W ilt BIRTHS. Lad! O the 24th inst., at North Runcton, N orfolk, Gurney, of a son. livit cluv." Herts, the On the 24th nst., at Langley Buil, James Sulivan, Esq., of a son. ~,prd• MARRIED. h e rd), n ifil' On Tuesday, the 26th inst, at St . Paul's c isolb l f , - Lieutenant W. C. Burbidge, R.N. , to 31iss Itrills' tingbourne, Kent. f My 0 -Met ° On the 23e1 inst., at Monkwearmouth, cou , dor s ecom. Mr. George Swan, surgeon, to 3largaret, 4 0 0, Mr. Ralph Coulthard, Finsbury-terrace, Lon don_... at cli a On the 27th inst., at the Friends' 3leeting• i'' "ti rclal , 1 10 Ford Barclay, Esq., son of the late Robert Ba to d Clapham-common, banker, to Esther, third d a ! g sarrel . A. liarn Foster Reynolds, Esq.. of Carshalton-houFy Irk On the 25th inst., at Whimple, Devon, Sir to' . 0 , s o u r Lewin, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-lalioiler, %aim, Caroline, eldest daughter of the late William nalleh ' 7 Maid well-hall, Northampton, and niece 0 (. 381 " of Downes, near Exeter. .4 0 01 1 DIED. co l o n- ~„0 1 ',, On Friday, the 22d, at Chichester Lic ut irdis COY" Munro Popham, C. 8., of the Hon. ' East In ti service, e of i r tiat Court- -, ag On the 19th inst. at Paris, aged 131, the he (._ , .. 11 s ot Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, I -I °n ° iirlr' i the lIP d'Etat, and formerly DireetorAieneral 0 : - ..• On. le Forests. I Har t" dig ' Lately, at St. Petersburgh, Major-Genera , i , 01 cer of great merit, whose premature deanise i • 400 lamented in the Russian capital. the law T o :01 , On the 25th inst., Mrs. Jackson, Widow of th ,g h isr• Jackson, Esq., Deputy Commissary-oam%! W on, Iffier, 10 On the 14th inst., at Earl's-terrace, lienswil y t be krui gavel Mac Arthur, widow of the late C olonel o pt her 74th year. fig WA I7I.I 'W . On the 26th inst., at Ifoxton, Mr. Thorri ii4 bbero f osSY son of the late Thomas Wallis, Esq., Widths , 100 to , On the 23d inst., Edward Stanley, Esq., ag e " JO years his Majesty's Consul-General at Treste; 4 0 , Oar . On Friday, the 2'2d inst., at Plymouth, ago 1044 Weeks, R.N. 1 , 1 13 ' On the tith alt., at Reigate, in her 313th year. , 10 1 1 $ el.' 0 1° Leeming, of Homerton. M a no r Fat cch 0 s l, On Sunday, the 24th inst., at the ic, _ .eof , r .,,,, Cray, Kent Mr. Stephen Brooker, in the 01. 1 _ Y jese plO w On Tuesday, the 26th inst., Ann, Wife Of Di" ,f ,,,,ce, of Union-street, Borough, aged 26. 01 GIN w atgo s i i i 0 , On the 24th inst., at his house, M. -1 , _ nw dale, Pl'' New-road, St. George's East, Wiu.lsonig ~.. 'n or` , In Dublin County, N. C. (America), o _r_ on th: w ;be Jacob Matthews, aged 108 years. Until a o t: ru th ;ije, deo, his death, he retained almost the vigour 1, 4 ; 01 . WS was , perfect, and lie could walk ten or ‘ 1 . 1 0 7,, ; t he/ n ° Seven years ago his wife died, aged 100 y • . married about 80 years. x ,..,1`'.10 _____-------- sgesilis Printed and Published fps the Paorn ~. 8. 04 " .. Or mg, No. 112, Strand, by J. { i