The Sun. — London, England, 1824-05-20 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Allorning Papers, May 20. [MORNING CIIRONICIA.] The Stanmer packet arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon on Monday the 17th, too late for the let ters to be sent by the Mail of that day, in con sequence of which an express was dispatched, which is said to have reached town in twenty-six hours. The Mail had not arrived yesterday, of course we are still deprived of our Lisbon letters; but one, written by an intelligent person in-Fal mouth. 'lnd closed just at the moment the express was coming away, affords some particulars which to doubt will be studiously kept out of the Gazettes; although it will not be possible to form a correct idea of all that has; taken place in the Portuguese capital until the regular let ters arrive. The Stammer is said to have reach ed an English port in eleven days, consequently she must have left on the 6th, we have therefore many interesting particulars to learn. As far, however, as we understand the affair, the King's Palace of Bemposta was surrounded by troops under the command of the Infante, at the time his Proclamations were issued, that is on the 30th, and from that moment, and 36 hours after -wards, he was kept a close prisoner, and no one of his friends allowed to see him. General Pam plona, one of the Ministers, in vain endeavoured to have a conference with him, by seeking to enter through a secluded garden in the back of the Palace. The King sent him avord to fly, and he took refuge on hoard of an English frigate. It is understood. the Queen purposely arrived from the country to be ready and on the spot, to avail herself of any favourable occurrence that might arise out of the execution of her long pro jected scheme, no other, as we have often before stated it, than a design to dispossess the King of his power, get her Son, a rash and intemperate boy of 19, named Regent, so that she might be able to govern, the kingdom herself through him. The means by which she sought to avail herself are evident front the Infante's Proclamations. %Visit ing to become a second Nero, the stripling un sheaths his sword, calls upon the army he had been appointed to command, and invites them to co-operate in the extermination of the Free , masons, a name he expected would rouse the pre judices of the mob more than any other, and if he had not been stopped short in his wicked career, most probably we should have heard of the Roscio-square„ as in former times, being en livened by the amusing performance of a few autoi clot fe, as a kind of finish to the King's deposition. But here we should like to know who are meant by the comprehensive term Free masons, against whom the Prince Generalissimo calls out his army. By this term, we understand,all the King's friends and partisans; those who had ventured to speak in terms of horror of the mur der of the Marquess de Louie ; persons known to regret the loss of the Constitutional cause ; those who disapproved of the follies and extrava gance of the beardless Prince, or detested the base designs of his mother ; possibly a few husbands who had handsome and virtuous wives, for at least this has been a recent crime in Lisbon—in short, men of liberal ideas ; other wise, it would never have been possible to throw 7 or 800 persons into prisons on this plea, for we should conceive it impossible to find 100 real Freemasons in the Portuguese capital; and in times like the present, we doubt they have ceased work ing, and keep themselves snug in their quar ters. Among the persons arrested, are two of the Late Ministers, who have hardly been out of office two months, known to be avowed anti-liberals, and one of them the author of most of the Procla mations which have recently appeared against the Freemasons, and the most decided enemy tiley possibly can have. Even Count Palmella was among the names found on the Prince's sweeping list of proscription I We do not know what the Members of Holy Alliance will say to this novel mode of creating a revolution adopt ed by the Portuguese Infante at the head of the soldiery ; but we think it ten times more anti legitimate than the La Isla or Oporto Revolu tionists. \V have every reason to hope that it will not succeed, and we say hope, for we have yet no means of knowing what has happened in the pro viuces, where it has been hinted to us, a protecting force was collecting, and A marente has been named to us as the leader of it. It has long been known that the Silveira family were in the interests of the Queen—constituting heads of the fanatic party—and this party, seconded by a certain class of the Clergy, were always of opinion that the late counter-Revolution could not prosper and become consolidated, because it was followed by no bloodshed, and this sentiment is breathed in every line of the Infante's present Proclamations. To a certain extent, w e nevertheless fear this party has triumphed, for it would seem that the King was weak enough to pardon the Infante, and actually consented to change most of his Mi niiters, who, it is presumed, will be succeeded by men more in the interests of the Queen and her son. rNEW We have received the Etoile of Tuesday, which contains only a very guarded art i c l e on the affairs of Portugal. It is not reason a bl e (says the Editor) to pronounce a decided opi n i on on ! events which are still undeci ded • The lelf,„t,! 1)011 Miguel, whose conduct o n the 77th of May last year, and who then delivered his august fa ther from the hands of the Revolutionists, can not be presumed to have acted on the late occa sion, except from motives which only demand to be bett er k nown i n or d er to be better appre ciated. These Papers mention that the medical advisers of the Emperor Alexander have rec°lll - to him the use of warm bathing,and that for this purpose- his Imperial Majesty is going to Carlsbad, in Bohemia. No mention is made of South America ; but it is suggested that a Con gress of Sovereign s will probably be held at Carlsbad. The British Funds continue steady, notwith standing thc numerous reports, mostly of au un favourable character, which have been in circu lation for the )"st days, Cousols yester day did not vary more than an eighth per cent., and closed at 961 for the present account. — Foreign Securities continue depressed, and in most of them there was yesterday much business trans acted. Colombian Bonds closed at 842, Scrip I premium. Mexican Scrip 62 premium, and Spanish Bonds 204. The private letters from Paris quote the last price of the Iterates on Mon day at 104. 65. for the account. The late reports upon the subject of the financial measures of Spain appear to have been only of a temporary duration, and the prices of the Bonds in that capital again returned to their former quotations. In point of political news, the same want of in terest continues.—(lbid.) [THE TINES. The Constitutionnel of Monday last, reasoning on the Lisbon news, remarks with great truth, that the party which calls itself Monarchical in Portugal takes a singular method of shewing its respect to the rights of the Crown, paternal au thority, and legitimate Government. Of the two Princes of that Kingdom, the elder declares war against his fath e r, and the younger keeps him a prisoner in his Palace. Letters were received yesterday from Malta, dated the 29th ult. The reports of peace with Algiers which had been circulated there, are ascertained to have been unfounded, but the sole ground of difference understood still to subsist, was the removal of the English Con sul who had given the original offence, which the Deg insisted on, but was willing to make every other concession required of him. It is pro bable, therefore, that the news will shortly arrive of a final accommodation. T he Revenge, 74, was to sail from Malta on the Ist inst., tojoin the squad ron off Algiers. The Cambrian frigate had sailed for Tunis, &c., and several ships of war were sta tioned at various points from which they could with greater facility afford protection to the Bri tish trade from the depredations of the pirates. His Britannic Majesty's sloop of war the Pan dora sailed with a convoy from Malta for Gib raltar, on the 27th of April, and on the same day she was joined by a small fleet from Smyrna, after which the whole proceeded for the Gut.— These letters confirm the accounts of the destruc tion of the arsenal at Cairo by fire, and state that it was not believed at Alexandria that the Pacha of Egypt would take any part in the expedition against the Greeks.—(lbid.) [BRITISH PRESS.] We do not think " even-handed justice" has been dealt to Mr. Battier. lie has been struck out of the army list, and all his hopes of profes sion destroyed ; while slight and passing censure only has glanced from the War-office on Lord Londonderry. It is true, the message came from Mr. Battier, which provoked the duel with the Noble Marquis, and which he met with unquestioned spirit ; but Lord London derry should have exerted his influence in the first instance to have prevented the un worthy treatment Mr. Battier experienced from the officers of the Tenth, and which pro voked all the consequences that followed.—The ' Gazette of Tuesday, which we gave, contained a notice, stating that Ensign Battier had been struck off the half-pay list of the army ; while the General Order from the Horse Guards talks of Lord Londonderry's acceptance of the chal lenge as "a transaction at variance with the prin ciples of subordination, and therefore of a ten , dency injurious to the discipline of the army," and then expresses " his M a j esty ' s concern an d displeasure that an officer of Lord Londonderry's high rank and military reputation should have committed himself in personal collision with an in ferior officer, by accepting a challenge for any supposed aggression proceeding from the exercise of his authority as Colonel of the regiment." Now this, as affects Lord Londonderry, is very well, and was probably called for by military disci pline. But Mr. Battier has been visited with a far different notification ; he is erased by a stroke of the pen from the Army List, while a superior officer is only lightly censured. The whole affair has excited a strong sensation, and is likely, we understand, to become the subject of immediate Parliamentary discussion, on a petititou from Mr. Battier. [MORNING lIERALD:j A letter from Paris, dated May 15, says— " It is not quite certain that the project of law upon the Rentes will be adopted by the Chamber of Peers. The Ministers are at this moment strain. ing every nerve to secure a majority. The Chan cellor, who is President of the Chamber, has openly declared to his circle that he will vote against the law. This being so golden an occa sion to render themselves popular, it is thought the Peers, or at least a great number of them, are tempted to seize it. The latest letters from Mexico state that in stead of the Federal Republic being consolidated, as some have supposed, there were scarcely four Provinces of all those which compose that im mense country which obeyed the new Govern ment. It is a curious circumstance that the Pro vince of Guadalaxara, though it has sent Deputies to Congress, at the same time keeps an army in the field to sustain its own sovereignty. In the Province of Jalisco General de Iturbide has been unanimously elecled " First Citizen " of that State. It is rather a singular coincidence that General de Iturbide sailed from Southampton for Mexico on the same day in May on which he, lust year, sailed from Mexico for Italy.— (Ibid.) Extract of a letter from Madrid, dated May 6th, 1824:--" It is said that an expedition to America has been determined upon in one of the late Councils held at Aranjuez, and that the Generals Bessieres,Capape, and Locho, are to be employed in it, if they wish to preserve the rank w hich they have assumed to themselves. If not willing to go, they are to be allowed to tire to their domiciles, with merely one step more in rank than that which they had when th e y took up arms in the Royal cause. There is no doubt that a new levy of 30,000 men is re solved upon, bat how they are to be got together, clothed, and armed, is the difficulty. For this purpose it appears that the Minister of Finance (who is now generally nick-named Minister of cod fish) has a new loan in contemplation. The scarcity of money is most severely felt here at present ; it is a rarity to see a single peiato.— (Ibid.) [MORNING POST.] The great influx of the lower orders of the Irish into this country since the Peace has often been remarked, as well as the effect which is likely to be thus produced on the condition, the comforts, and habits of English labourers. This subject is at the present moment one of consider able interest, and from the notice that has lately been taken of it in Parliament, may perhaps be come a popular topic. We may also observe, that in proportion as the prejudices which have hither to kept the two countries apart wear out, or are eradicated, the numbers of Irish who come to England will increase. It is indeed a fact, that from the period of our Gracious Sovereign's visit to that portion of his dominions, and owing also to the benevolent aid afforded by the British public to the poor of Ireland during the last famine, not only has the disposition to seek employment on this side of the Channel much strengthened, but an admiration has been excited among the very lowest classes, of the institutions and conduct of the people here, which are acutely contrasted with the general state of things they had been previously accus tomed to witness. " If," .say these unhappy creatures, " our own Nobility and Gentry would only act towards their poor countrymen at home as the English Noblemen and Gentlemen do to the people here, Ireland would soon be as fine a country as any in the whole wide world." Now all these circumstances, in our opinion, are fraught with great and permanent benefits to the Em pire, if judiciously regulated. It is, for instance, an absolute source of wealth to England to be able to command an inexhaustible supply of cheap labour from the sister-country, while in return, a liking, and almost necessarily an imi tation of our manners, customs, and feelings are transfused throughout that part of the United Kingdom. It is needless for us to remind our readers that on the other side of the Channel there are no poor laws whatever—that no relief is administered to the indigent exempt from gratu itous contributions—and consequently that men dicancy, idleness, and all other concomitant vices, prevail among a large mass of the wretched inha bitants. Upon this side of the water a highly finished contrast is exhibited. The aged, the help less, and unemployed poor of England,are of right supported by their respective parishes,and however liable the system may be to abuse, or however in reality much abused, it abounds with results to counterbalance the evil a thousandth-fold. The mere moral impulse to benevolent action which is given by the tacit admission of the right of the poor to protection and sustenance is not to be estimated perhaps by Englishmen themselves, but to strangers it appears universal and glowing. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 12, HURTHWAITE V. JENLINSON. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked Mr. Horne if the parties would bring this case before the House of Lords ? Mr. HoiiNE said t they would rather have his Lordship's de cision upon it; but it was very possible that whatever party his Lordship decided against, would appeal to the House of Lords. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that it was a question upon the construction of a will, of the greatest difficulty to be deter. mined. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas had pro nounced one opinion upon it; and the Judges of the Court of King's Bench an opposite opinion. The words of the will were so extremely unintelligible, and admitted of such various con structions, that he dared say people would be found to differ from him in whatever interpretation he should give them. There was no case in the books which afforded him any light in deciding it ; and he should therefore like to heat what the twelve Judges would say upon it before he pronounced his opi nion. However, as the parties wished him to give his opinion now, to which they certainly were entitled, although he should be by no means satisfied with it himself, without receiving the assistance he had mentioned, he would give judgment in it on Saturday morning. BOOKS. Before the admirable invention of printing, books were scarcer and dearer than jewels. The Arabs alone had them, from the Bth to the 13th century of our era. China was full of them, when we could neither read nor write. Copiers were much employed in the Roman Empire. This was a very ungracious em ployment—the dealers always paid authors and copiers very ill. It required two years of assiduous labour for a copier to transcribe the whole Bible well on vellum. The complaint now is of the too great abundance of books. But it is not for readers to complain ; the remedy is in their own hands ; nothing forces them to read. Nor for authors ; they who make the multitude of hooks have not to complain of being pressed. Notwithstanding this enormous quantity, how few people read ! But if they read, and with ad vantage, should we have to witness the deplorable infatuations to which the vulgar are still every clay a prey ? The reason that books are multiplied in spite of the general law that beings shall not be multiplied without necessity, is that, books are made from books. A new history of France or Spain is manu factured from several volumes already printed, without adding any thing new. All dictionaries are made from dictionaries ; almost all new geo graphical books are made from other books of geography; Sir Thomas's Dream has brought forth 2,000 large volumes of divi►►ity ; and the same race of little worms that have devoured the pa rent are now gnawing the children. Ecrive qui •oudra chacun 1 sou metier Peut perdre impunement de lencre et du papier. IVrite, write away ! each writer at his pleasure May squander ink and paper without measure. O ye who, like myself; lay black on white, and make clean paper dirty ! call to mind the follow ing verses, which I remember to have read, and by which we ought to have been corrected : This miscellaneous rubbish once was flax, Till made soft linen by the honest weaver ; But when at length it dropped from people's backs, 'Twas turned to paper, and became receiver Of all that fifty motley brains could fashion ; So now 'tis burned without.the least compassion : It now, like glory, terminates in smoke; Thus all our toils are nothing but a joke— All ends in smoke ; each' nothing that we follow Tells of the nothing that must all things swallow. philosophical Dictionary.) ing received by M r . 11. A DRINS, the principal COINER'.—In and p r is o n c onseq uence of information be -keeper of Birmingham, he, accompanied by the constables, headborough, &c., proceeded o n F r iday last to the house of George Pitchf or d, i n Wayborough_lane, in the parish of Solihull, in Warwickshire, where, in a small room adjoining the kitchen, they found an iron press ready for working, having dies for striking half-crowns ; near to the press Mr. Ad kins found a box, containing betweeu five and six hundred counterfeit half-crowns, apparently just struck off. In the chambers and other parts of the house and premises, they discovered se veral pair of dies for sovereigns and shillings. The man, his wife, and the whole of the appa ratus, were conveyed to the prison in Birming ham for examination. They were examined on Monday, and remanded till Monday next. METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. BY It. BANKS. PHILosOPHICAL, INSTRUMENT MAKER. I Thei t •ino- 1 1 Weathor. er. 1 I ? . - F I :-.. 4 "..,",, ;,- •-• 7-i ::.• =-. 5 . --.4 ~- ,i _-,•• • .:. :'" • , • <2, 0 I 0 Inches May 9 55 64 48 30.40 Fair Fait 10 54 66 f',o .10 Do. Do. 11 52 54 45 .04 Cloudy Clondy 12 150 53 421 29.98 .03 Rain Do. 13 45 48 42 .92 .16 Do. Rain 14 46 49 44 .3.1 .41 Do. Do. 15 44 47 42 .60 Do. 2.44 Do. 16 47 153 37 .90 I S I Cloudy Fair 3.0-4 in the alloy/ eight days, an enoicnoui of Rain have fallen titity. it. B. PUBLIC BUILDINGS in WESTMtNSTBR• The REPORT Of the SELECT COMMITTNI 6 ° whom the Account of the Expence incurred, and an Estimate, of the Expence remainin g t o b e in curre d, i n th e b u ilding 0 ' the Courts of Justice in St. Margaret's -street and New Palace' yard, together with a Plan thereof, were referred, has just bees printed. After some observations on the new buildings is Palace-yard, the Committee gave the following document , which presents at one vie* the proposed alteration : An Estimate of the probable Expence of the alteration pro' posed to be made by the Select Committee, May 6, 162 4 • agreeably to the accompanying drawings. I. To prepare the foundations, and rebuild the wall connect ing with the North-West tower of Westminster Hall, to th g height of 34 feet above the level of the Yorkshire landing' forming the foundation, setting it back to a line with the south side of the octagon turret ; the :exterior to be faced with Bath stone, and decorated agreeably to the drawing with moulded plinth, cornice, and battlemented parapet. 2. To prepare the foundations, and build new front and se' turn walls, next New Palace-yard, as far as the proposed oc i tagon tower, of the several thicknesses and heights shewn ire the drawing ;—the exterior to be faced with Bath stone, all' decorated in the Gothic style with moulded plinths, fasciegf and cornices, and terminated with battlemented parapets the aperture to correspond with the windows of Westminste r Hall. 3. To prepare the foundations and erect an octagon tower 64 the north-west angle of the building, 18 feet diameter and 7 0 ' feet high, containing four stories, faced with Bath stone, to cor• respond with the rest of the front ; the upper ornamented cor,' nice and battlement to correspond with those of th e t o wers 0 ' Westminster Hall. 4. To prepare the foundations, and rebuild the front next S' Margaret's-street, from the proposed octagon tower as far as the north tower of the stone building; the exterior to be faced wit h Bath stone, and to be decorated in the same style as the front next New Palace yard; the windows, &c. to be ornamented A t those in the towers of 'Westminster Hall. 5. To raise the walls of the Bail-court, and form rooms oat the same, in lieu of some of those next New Palace-yard pro' posed to be removed. _ 6. To lower the roof of the Court of King's Bench, and the staircase adjoining, and put new lead flats over the rooms .a. joining the North tower of the stone building, and over the po sage forming the approach to the Court of King's Bench fro' 'Westminster Hall. - 7. Incidental expences in shoring up the different parts of the building to make the proposed alterations, and in connect' ing the new works with the present building. The estimated amount of the various Works are as follow :--. Bricklayer's Work - - - - £lBOO . Masons work - - - - . 4700 Carpenter's work, including the value of work pre pared which will be rendered useless by the altera tion - - - - - 1080 Plumber's work . - - - 900 Smith's work - - - - - 250 X8736' The Architect's commission on the above works, at 3/. per cent. - - - - - 262 For attending on the Committee, and making dif ferent designs agreeably to the directions of the Committee, with estimates of the same - 80 - Clerk of the Works - - . 40 361. Total probable cost of the alterations proposed to be made by the Committee - 9115 Deducting No. 5, estimated by Mr. Soane at about sl la Further deduction of value of materials uncertain* A List of the Rooms provided in the Original Plan, an d for which no preparation is made in the Altered Plan Room for the Solicitors attending the Courts ; Law Library • Record Rooms for the Court of Common Pleas ; Coffee Roan; Room for Barristers to robe in, &c. JOHN SOANE, Architect. Lincoln's Inn-fields, May 13, 1824. " Upon inquiring whether any room was appropriated in til e former state of the Courts to solicitors attending them, it aP; peared that no such room formerly ex i s t e d, th a t th ere nev e :, was any law library - , and that the upper floors of the per,. octagon turret may be made use of for cont a ini ng th e re cords 0 ' the Court of Common Pleas; and your Committee do not deer! it necessary to raise the walls of the Bail Court, and form wo; over the same (as specified under No. 5), by which the expen d above-mentioned may be saved." The Committee conclude their Report with the followilif; re marks : " In the interior fitting up• of' the two unfinished Cours , o. it will be proper to a b s t a i n f rom ornamen t s an d d eco ratt which do not a pp ear t o su i t t h e grave an d una d orne d f . 75_ racter of a tribunal for the ad m i n i strat i on o f justice, vi.'l„ in fact requires nothi ng b eyon d its _proportion and eYI, ,5 ."" fitness for its purpose, combined with the most perfect wile' plicity and plainness. The passages leading to and froo 2 those Court should also partake of the same unassunli" qualities. " With regard to public buildings in general, this vast U l f: tropolis presents a muc h sma ll er num b er of those which can ,e"" denominated grand or o rnamenta l, t h an i ts extent and opulen—, would induce a stranger to ex p ec t ; f or i t must b e con f esse d th e with the exception of the two, cathedrals ' of three of the st(irl s bridges over the Th ames , an d some very few other structures , 1 offers but little th a t d eserves a d m i ra ti on ; an d i t i s f urt h er toeb regretted, that this deficiency arises not so much from cost hal'. ing been spored as from good taste having been wanting. Larl works have, in some instances, been undertaken h a stily arL, withostt due consideration - others have been com m itted to ty ; persocs who accidentally happened at the time to be attached * 4 ' surveyors•to the several departments; but a general and suPel j d intending eye has always been wanting to p erva d e , di re ct, an contron.l the whole. " If a superintending and controulling power of this tleserN' tion should at any time be fortunate enough to meet with soe'l a rare combination of talent as might exhibit marks of origine., invention, united to a thorough knowledge of the principles DJ which the great masters of ancient art conducted their worts' we might expect to see symmetry, proportion, and die! given to our public buildings, and an hono ura bl e compeudP" successfully maintained, with all that is admirable and Pre eminent, either in ancient or modern architecture. " It would be an unnecessary, and possibly an invidious ta e , even if it were within the pro v in ce o f y our C omm i ttee , to Put' sue this subject further, by ent er in g i n t o an y d e t a il e d WWll nation of recent instances • but they may be allowed to obsery o that the Banquettin g douse at Whitehall, which stars ,„ so eminent among all the buildings in thi s p ar t o f Westo'; ster, owes more of its imposing effect to the scale and g rande.n of its proportions, and to the r e l a ti ve corres p on d ence of all 1 , parts, than to its highly enri c h e d an d we ll c h osen o rders an` l decorations. A space is now open for modern ability to shelf whether it can produce, on th e o th er s id e o f t h a t fi n e street+ something which may be worthy to stand nearly opposite PI this splendid relict of the ancient palace. " Your Committee cannot dismiss the matter referred t° them without endeavouring to impress upon the House the itn' portance, in a national point of view, of paying more attentio n to the public edifices which may hereafter be required, than /In; been given to those already erected. In a period distinguish& by its progress in improvements of so many kinds, fertile in in' ventions of such various descriptions, eminent in the encourage' ment of all the arts which are denominated liberal, and actl! e t in the diffusion of knowledge a nd the extension of science, ! becomes a matter of wonder no less than of regret, that arch': tecture has not kept pace with other advances towards pqrfe g ,_ tion, and that we are still obliged to look for examples of e . ", cellence in this art, either to times that are passed, or to °t he countries rather than to our own.' COAL-MARKET, MAY 19. Ships at Market. sold Price. 42i Newcastle - - 26 -30 s 04.1 to 39 4 10 Sunderland - - 8 i - 30s O t t to BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., in Highbury-place, Mrs. John More of a son. At Stratfield Turgis, on the 17th inst., the lady of J4jeu" . Col. Sir Guy Campbell, Bart., of a son. On the 18th inst., in 31 anchester-square, the lady of 1 113%• well Close, Esq., of Elm Park, Armagh, of a son, still bores MARRIED. On Tuesday last, at Clapham Church, Samuel Wilson, 1 3 0" .' of the City, and of 'White hall, Essex, to Mrs. Devis, of the late eminent artist of that name. lE. On Monday ev en i ng , a f ter D a lingering illness, Wilmot, ''"„ wife of Mr. Philip Jacob, of the Crescent, Cripplegate , 5 " / cc rely lamented by her family and friends. iti On the 13th inst., at Weymouth, in her 20th year, of 3 "V, consumption, Laura Maria, eltlest daughter of Bayles NV' l " . dell, Esq. On Wednesday morning, the 19th inst., at Chatham-1 4344 West, Hackney, Mr. Jeffries, aged 65. On Wednesday, the 19th inst., from a joint attack of Pa; 3 ' lysis and apoplexy, greatly lamented by his numerous farm Mr. Samuel Grierson, of Basingliall-street, in the 51st year his age. lAletr, 4, s Edinburgh, on aged teloth 7 inst., years., lllr .John Guthrie, b oo seller, t" Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, Ikt the Stfr OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARS'FAIIIti. BRUNTON V. ROBINE. Mr. RICHARDS moved for an injunction to restrain the de fendant from selling hats or bonnets constructed in the way invented by the plaintiff, for which he had obtained his Ma jesty's letters-patent in the year 1817. The plaintiff's affida vit stated that his invention consisted of the introduction of silk, in a peculiar manner, into the plait which composed the bonnet; that the defendant had been for some time past in the habit of selling bonnets constructed in this way, and still con. tinned to do so; and that the deponent lately went to the de fendant's shop in St. James's-street, where he saw Mrs. Ro bine, of whom he asked to buy one of these bonnets; but she refused to sell it to him, saying that as she had been threatened with an action for the infringement of Mr. Brunton's patent, she must decline selling them to any one who was not intro duced to her by a friend, in order that she might be assured her so doing would not lead to an action. However, while de ponent was in the shop, a lady came in who was known to Mrs. Robine ; and the latter immediately sold her one of the bonnets in question. The LORD CHANCE LLOR.—I think this is a case for an in. junction ; but you must serve the defendant with a subpoena. I do not see, if we grant injunctions for blacking to cover the feet, why we should not also grant injunctions for bonnets to cover the head. COTENT•GARDEN THEATRE. CONST V. HARRIS. Mr. HEALD reminded his Lordship that he said he would not Lear any motion in this case until the receiver should be appointed by the Master. The receiver was now appointed ; Mr. Heald, therefore, had a motion to make, that the receipts of the Theatre should be applied to the current expences of the establishment. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the expenditure of the Theatre should be supplied. The adverse Solicitor said, that Counsel were instructed to oppose Mr. Heald's motion; they were not present just now, but were expected to come into Court every moment. Mr. HEALD did not care for that; if his motion was not op posed, he would take his Lordship's, order for the application of the receipts. The LORD CHANCELLOR trusted the Gentlemen would not quarrel about the receipts of this night ; all parties might argue the matter to-morrow morning. Mr. SUGDEN having came in now, expressed his hope that his Lordship would hear his motion rt lative to the application of the receipts to-morrow, as well as Mr. Heald's motion. The LORD CHANCE LLOR said that he understood the bu siness of the Theatre to have been carried on up to last night as usual. . Mr. HEALD assented to this. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Then Iet matters go on to night as heretofore, and let a ll the mot i ons come on next Friday. IN THE HATTER OF FROSTS. Mr. AGAR having concluded his reply in this case, which was an application to strike the names of the Messrs. Frost off the Rolls, for having (as alleged) sued out a concerted commis sion of bankruptcy. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after speaking of the high cha racter which the elder Mr. Frost bore on the Northern Circuit, proceeded to make some remarks upon the case, in the course of which he severely reprehended the conduct of an y so li c i tor who would act in the double capacity of commissioner and solicitor in the same case. His Lordship observed, it was quite 1 clear that the object of the commission in questi on was any thing but to benefit the creditors. With respect to th e bffl of costs, there certainly were items of it which ought not to have been charged, and which the Masters of this Court woutl never allow ; but he apprehended that if he were Se strike every country solicitor's name off the Rolls, merely forintroducing overcharges into his bill, he should thin the land of these gen tlemen, particularly in the North. However,. as there was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor respecting a decision upon the first commission, he should like, before he pronounced his opinion in the present case, to hear Counsel upon that appeal. The argument of the appeal was acccordingly proceeded with, amen occupied the Court for the remainder of the day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 19. Sitting: in Banco. EMERY V. BROWNE, WIDOW. Mr. Sergeant PEEL moved for a rule to skew cause why the defendant in this case should not be discharged out of the cus tody of the Sheriff of Worcester, on entering a common ap pearance. The affidavit on which this application was made stated the following facts :—The defendant is a widow woman, residing at Rock, in the county of Worcester, where she pos sesses a house and garden. On one occasion she sold some of the produce of her garden for 41. It:N. Not receiving the money in the date she had reason to expect, she appli e d t o th e plain tiff; who is an attorney practisTg at Kidderminster, and re quested him to write " a lawyers letter" to the party indebt ed to her, but not to proceed any farther, as she had not money to go on with a law-suit. The pl a i n tiff, h owever , in stead of the g entle stimulant of " a lawyer's l e tt er ," a ppli e d a more powerful medicine to rouse up the tartly disposition of his client's debtor. He brought his ac ti on at l aw , w hi c h went on to trial, and a verdict was given forthe debt and costs. Like many others, however, who go t o ex p ens i ve l aw - sn it s f or sma ll sums, the widow got only a verdict. It did not appear that the verdict was productive of its object, for it turned out in a short time afterwards that the plaintiff made application to the defen dant for his costs, amounting to no less than Kg . ; and when the widow and her son came to his office respecting it, the attorney wanted her to give him a mortgage on her small property to se cure its payment. Upon her refusing this, the plaintiffarrested her on an affidavit of a debt exceeding 601. The poor widow, not being able to procure bail for such an amount, went to prison, where she continued until after the trial of the case at the next Worcester Assizes. On that occasion the plaintiff was non suited ; and now the widow rejoiced, for she anticipated that her imprisonment would be at end, and that she should be restored again to her friends. In this, however, she had calculated with out a competent knowledge (though with some experience) of " the law's delay." The plaintiff was defeated in his action, but not conquered in legal tact. He laid a detainer on the wi dow for the debt, with the avowed purpose of moving, in the course of the next term, that the nonsuit should be set aside ; and at the same time again sent in his former bill of costs. The next term came, and no such motion was made, and the widow remained up to the present moment in the gaol of Worcester. It was under these circumstances that she sought relief by the present moment. The Coo RT expressed considerable indignation at the con duct of the plaintiff; and granted the rule to show cause, and at die same time ordered it to be stated, in addition to the affi davit, whether the plaintiff' was an attorney of that Court; that if he were, the Court might make such further orders re specting him as the justice of the case might require, unless a full and satisfactory answer were given to all the allegations of the defendant's affidavit. 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