The Sun. — London, England, 1820-12-22 00:00:00

TIM LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EXTRACTS FROM-THE MORNING PAPERS.] , . [ , iliorning Post.] . That able and enltglitened young Statesman, Mr. 'Peel, it is we bel;eve finally determined, is to succeed the highly ac complished and night Flan. George Canning, as President of the Board of Control. By the much to be regretted seces sion •of the latter -Gentleman (an event which though cer tainly connected with the else of the Queen, has nothing to do with the itti,..stion .her g•eilt) the revolting contradiction • which has lately been witnessed between a verdict rtison facts' and a decision against their cons-equences, is litely to cease soon after the meeting of Parliament. Notwithstanding all the effrontery with which a temporary `escape been cele brated as a triumph, sentence will not fail in -sonte shape or otl.er to . follow conviction. The Bill of Pairi4allll Penalties will certainly not be revived; but the evidence receiied neon it, being recotded in the Journals of the Parliament,. will be come the foundation of a measure to guard the honour of the Crown and the character of the Country. Every question of • fact having been so fully investigated, the discussions upon the new Bill cannot be extended to anv great length, while there is much reason to expect, in the ilouse of Lords, the . support of many Members who voted against the last, merely on grounds of expediency, aunt who have since seen the jurioos effects of their forbearance. Upon this prospect ',Ye . congratulate the thinkiog and the worthy part of the Public. Is it to be endued that a persOn convicted, as the Qiieeri has beets, should reniain at the head of female society in Great Britain? If this tre right, then let Ils join the Radical tiers , lutionists in cursing the Intitiory and the exaMple'of our l liert e r Queen Is it for the VOlnntary companion of ItergaMi timid of other menials, in it tour tif several months, to hwy , : her tztstt , (to say nothing of her morals), rentaitt•unstigmariv.ed, and as a patter., before the•Gen tl e wonten of ilia Country? Shall she retain the pritileges' of a Orlect , (stone - ttl . them mech more than matters of ceremony), and the income, which ope rates in so many modes to the olldie t ietv-intent ? Shall the I urtmlent have o ppottorlities fur sheltering',.:'iinder the .pre fence of btyalty to her, the stratagems which prolong . the• agitations of the rea!tn. while they affect nedeplore them ? Moreover, are the best Institutions to he , continually placed upon the defetislie by Adde e .tet-S, are act t oilly adver tised for; and by : 11iF,wers, which malign sititietinies the.!4o - sometimes the clergy,. anti sowietirties'the went? % milt Were this rise of life or death—were there symp toms of penitence in iglu could ;my other than tho s e pe e . tended appeals to compassion be heard, which are voice truly excitements to anger— t might he allowed that stomethme more polit t e than dustier dors exist, for then Mt;icy'woOldlit SI! 'hit t when Vice it=stuucs an air o f,teliteiphittg power, and stands upon the offensive a , 4ainst tettson, trath, and morality, it bybores British Parliament to renounce every -sugges tiOtt, except those of conceit:nee, and to stake their all'upoti the sure belief—that not hittg is more politic than justice: Pforning Chronicle.] A Brazil packet- arrived yest el day with letters to the srttli., October. These vary in their contents, according to the feelings and, political sentiments of the writers, but the best of those We had an- opportunity of seeing, in substance agree as follows. His Britannic Majesty's ship Creole, which left Lisbon on the 10th Sept. With the news of the Oporto Revolu tion, arrived at Rio daneiro on the lath Oct. and the pre ceding day, a Portuguese brig, also from Lisbon, reached the par r s, - having sailed a few days prerisins to the creolv. The news being thus folly conai nit d, had created a lively sensa; t ioh in the Brazil - capital, the Grst Ell'ect of which was, a rise in the produce of the country as well as in the freights of British ves,els. No hostile measure had been taken against the pro perty of the inhabitants of Portugal, nor was any thing of the . kiwi apprehended. Several Councils of State had been held, in which there wasts great diversity of opinions. The acting. iNioister, Count dos Arcos, was of opinion tbat the'COnstitu tional System proclaimed in Portugal ought not only 17 be approved, hot also extended to, and adopted in, the Brazilian dominions. Villa Nova Portugal,, another MinSster; Was of quite a Contrary opinion. and conceived that the arrival of Lord Beresford thel - Tagns would suffice - to put down the RcFulation. • The celebrat,d Thezoarfiro - Moe, Targini, agreed with his friend Villa Nova, and hoped that a work he had lately puhlished, against Coustitutional Doctrines and Thrones, also hare great influence in - destroying the : tiefitt contagion that bad begun to spread in Port ogat.• Sonic rumours stated that the Crown Prince would he sent over tn Portngal ; and others, that the Infante Don would be chosen for tilts Firmly, it was the general opi• Dion that the Government would take no• direct means to coonteract the revolution in Oporto, and it was too early forthe Lisbon events to hafo cruised the Atlantic. The packets which tiOnveyed the news from England to Pernam buco reached Bahia in sixty • boors. It is evident, front •the report.; already received from the three principal points of the Brazils. that the people there rejoice - at what has taken plate• in the Mother country, indeed they ale themselves anxious to better, their own political condition. • By the stifle coveyance we learn, that the Chili satradron, under Lord Cochrane, sailed front Valparaiso on the •?Ist August, consist ing of nine armed vessels and thirteen transports, hating on boarfl4,ooo. Men, commanded by Gtncral San Martin. On the satin. day Director O'Higgins issued a Proclamation, de— claring the coast of Peru in a state of hlackade, from Point St.' Helena to Igusatte; and allaWing seven months for vessels coculoy. Irons Europe and the United States, five for those from Brazils, and three front the River Plate.. [Morning Herald.] . . Nothing c a n espial the hypocrisy and elfrontry with which the! journals of a servile cast, all caveat Europe, Affect to de plore.the Spanish revolution. The malignant; but feeble at terbitts, Made by.a few wicked or bigotted traitors, to beguile .1 weak sovereign—to blacken his soul with perjury, and ex pose' himself to the wild Justice of a people's revenge—to plot secret conspiracy in towns and villages, and light the torch of discord arid fanaticism ; but with no other result than exciting popular alarm and bringing - punish u:ent oh their own hearts—this is scrapped op and disguised in general diatribes against revolutions:. " Revolutions (says the Crratra'itr) arterine things in destription, but deplorable 111 C7C petifuent.- Liberty is the •specious phantom : plunder, mas sacre, and anarchy, 'the reality." This is somewhat too . sweeper —revolittioos are not ;alwa y s deplorable in reality. The revolution that liberated Komi , ferini the tyranny of Tar quin was trot deplorable in reality—nor that which unyoked Sweden from the Danish despotism—nor that whist.) released Portugal from the rapacious and cruel grasp of Philip and his MrOisters—nor that which castout the evil spirit of the Stuarts from• England, and broug,lat religious and civil freedom with the douses of_Orange and, Brunswick — these revolutions were not deplorable in experiment'. But how does the argu ment, really stand in regard to Spain " The dawn," it is .admitted, " was calm and cloudless." And who has darkened' or disturbed it ? Why; rhos . e wretches who wor ship.soperstitiora and slatery—those whom Milton Ipny since compared to idolatroras savages-rallering•divine homage to the most venumuirs arid odious reptiles of the creation. 'Aral we aretold that these Joust take advantage of their 'own wrong to 'blacken the character of the SPaoisli Revolution. arrain "-liberty i• a phantom." Yet has the English,riation, one, of the most truly intellectual of nations, ancient or mu d eritaitt Fchased th e u rescreation of this phantom with str - vams of its hest 6lood, • A. phantom too', which. has pros:ell mare staystantial.than the drilled mercenaries of Germany, and .the devoted hordes of the north, in exhaiisting and clearing the gigantic power of Buonaparte. Again " plunder, massatre, and' anarcliy,.the , reality." What instance of plinider in hpaira ? Is it t oe•appropi tat ioo of the Nlooizisb re, ernes to tire-pnirlic-citilit and public good ? What massacre ? Unless those meditated by the Royalist Traitors. What anarchy?— Uukeis . if Ire Bailed atiatchy, tbat the popular voice, alarmed hy.,•secret pliats, and ar dent in the preservation of . a pew systitni of bene'fieent' freedom, denounces teracherY office, or'calls• o f punishment .upon guilty heads—without at fire stoic time a single act of violence ur disobedience to the Lists's. • • • [ BritiSh PreSSI • We trust that Mr. Canning's. resignation will be immedi ately fclioWed by that of the-other Members of the Cabinet, aryt yetv:e sliolifst,inot wish that they were permitted to de part from oificeswith the credit of a r(sii•natiour; it is'slue to th'e co:ontry,that;.they Should be driVen rroin , theiT seats by A voq, of,ittot House uPCommons, as undeserving of the public capfaVe. If tl,ory.perskt in clinging to of fi ce conch' forsgrr , wr pre? thayuch will bedheir fate', fur miss - that they are ilc Wrre. lSydlie•elooffitence and wit of Mr Canning', and bare inifffit•t to depl-itil VII but the vulgar ground of Ministerial patrAltage. r4scroirtthience, what hope can they entertain of we i ,4llterirtg ;the Storm that they have been preparing for tlretuscivcs, and must encOunter on the meeting of Parlia cent ? Thy departure of Mr. Calming causes a terrible chalm lit the Caloirict, which the Ministers will find it ditti milt - to supply. The talent s. and acquirements of. Mr.• Can to-lug siren! Ilse highest and most valuable description, and are C! prcially calcnlated to delight and influence a numerous mixed assembly; and although his want of consistency, nod the absence of what might be called political character, de prived hial of the possibility of ever reaching an elevation in the State whith it would req;sire public confidence to . pre , - serve, no assembly possessing' the o rdinary elements of a po pular meeting could withhold from the fascination of hisoro tory their highest approbation; often have the sportive sal lies of his Wit, the vivid sparkling of his eloquence, turned the ' tide of victory in fa's'our of his late colleagues, 'or base ef fected for them what to a curl upting Ministry is no less ser viceable, by givipg . to. their venal followers a plausible exat. - cuse for voting contrary to the general sense uf the O body 'Of the people. It might he injurious to the honour of the e;rown, hui tint to the dignity of Parlianmnt, and op posed. to the trite interests of the cAnitry, to support his.side of any 'proposed 'political question ; but to err with Canninz could not be periqhally - disgraceful to the understandings of his lolloWers, for they were, shielded k,y the Want: of his wit, and might justify themselves by his arginnents and his inge nuity. Ile ratikedlirplace as one of the least important Tent bees attic Cabinet, hut in pr",*&.t of actual weight he was the first and greatest. tro him it 'tiers that in'tbe hour of (hu ger his colleagues looked for s'Opport—he was the Achilles of their hAttle---and he now heard them at the moment when they could least spare him: . The Treasury prints emulously, and we doubt nut, with unfeigned sorrow, lament Mr. Can tlll‘i4.B depilftUre ! hut the cause they .assign for it is as sin gular as it is unlucky. They kay,that.h . ont the turn which the proceed]ngs respecting the Queen have taken, odd the Par liamentary di-cossions that are likely to ensile °On them, he coal() out whit honour tie himself, or advautage to the Go rernment;.cootimie in the Administration. So the public thrt-ttgn't long since, hilt it is strange that the Treasury writers silieruld consent to acknowledge the humiliating fact. ; 1 1 1 - Canning forfeited every cl.rim to the rood opinion of the . , poli;io when he nutted himself with the .prest;nt Ministry, and crrtaiii it is, that no act of his.life ever liecame hint so Will as his reOgliativn. From the tenor of tile e xpressions ii..,ed by the Treasury Writers, We • are to Collect that A par.- . 7 , - , ..., s , :cli as we noticed .sometime since, is certainly cote(- ' iitted by the tithinet, of instituting in the next Session of • P a rliamoent, suttee" new persecution of the Qaeen. Persecui' lOn ',e'now Milli can any hit ther procimiling3 hostile to her Yhijosty, foe the. word prosk , ention implies a mode of pro . eceding,consonant to cslatilished legal usages, arid all such proceeding ceased' When . the Bill of Pains and Penalties was i t tialutorird bY the Miiiiiluts ood throWn out liv .. the Hose of ' LOrds. ..lie'th.e proposed measures Mr. Cauilitig could. not ctiociir . ; they were repugnant to his printiples of good faith; sotind policy, and .honesty ; he' could tutu longer continue in the Cabinet -•‘ with honour to himself;" ;end his resigno lion dings the severest reproach upon those who remain alio him, :or shall succeed hint upon conditions which he funnel it impossible to arieept:l Timcse3 Among the evicted attempts which bate of late been made to impose Upon the public:, not the least wiehed :is the :isser tisin in a posit of ;esterday morning, that " The Queen's de st en‘tion is still coolly meditated." It is false, and the wri • ter knits it to be false, that the CZneti's thrilroction 'vet meditated at all. Her deg, adalion certainly was ntrdi tat ed on_ gronink. more than justified by bur ( ) Wu witnesses; and which, accso ding tot " oat nod ingeoious!' defeoce made for her in The Timm she herself studiously fornished for the sake of a hoax I - Rot be this 39 it may, we Confidently believe that, far from intending to destroy her Majesty, the eXist t - ti.; Government will trot touch a hair of 'her brad. Let her bear, as she can (her lot is not to he envied,) the weight of evidence recora.d against her. Let her dwell, if she please, arnid her vile Italian Court at Brandenhurgh House, and even invite to grace its circle the Grand Chamberlain whose inn:trait figures ht-side bet own in every print -shop. The Go , . eernment, we presume, will, no longer interfere to prevent these indulgences Of her taste. They will no longer occupy her tieie from proceedingwith bet -Chancery suit against her deceas ed ,lirother's Orphans, anti clearing up the mystery which still hangs ;:hout the Memorable tond.• he (Arent menfdotibtless will tut oppose the liberality of Parliamtmt proriliing an al lowance kir her-suitable to the sep:trated wife of the King— but. beyqnd this even Radical liberality can hardly expect theist (0 go. The especial honours and dignities winch some ,Queens might well deserve, are certainly not to be bestowed .on .one, whose claim to is, to say the least of it, so Villi vdcal. The votes and sreeChes of so largia,majot icy ofthePeers cannot he overlitohed by' t he other branches of t he Legislat ore ; anti those votes and speeches certainly stand in the iFity of any measure which would irdply a Pa rliamentar y recognition of her perfect purity and virtue. The Journal, above allnded to, says t bat the Queen's destruction will he " required, as it 1;4s1;, of Nlr. Peel." Now, though we yesterday stated, that these was a report of that Gentlemati's being about to succeed, Mt. Urinning, we in no deg's, pled;eed ourselves to the itCC.lNicy of suet, report ; nor have we any particular reason to give it greater credit, than • tic tlions . and other rumours of the same so, t that arise and die away daily; but certain we :art-, that it the Cabinet should receive the accession of Mr. Peel's powerful abilities, his Colleagues would be as far front de ilianding as he would be ft:ow paying such a price for- his ad mission to ounce. • [The TA.mes.] The resignation of Nfr - Canhing, which we yesterday an nouneet4 is ungnestionably true ; but it appears tint eqoally certain whether ?l r. Peel will he his successor, or whether Mr. Hu4Osson, Lord Binning, stud Mr. Sturges Bourne will continne in their respective employments under the pre sent Admimstration. One thing, however, is clear, from the • retirement of the President of the Board of Control, that the Ministers are not softened in their rancour against the Qdeen ; that they' meditate fresh, schemes of annoyance and insult against her Majesty, and further attempts to inflame the indignant, minds of the ptiople.— flow the intended attack will be made—whether by rt.repe tition of Italian grossness and perjury, or by the more covert process of political influence and chicanery, a very short time will deter Mine. But we would press upon the serious attention of the British public a circumstance of considerable import:thee upon this sobject. The Hanoverian Government have it in contemplation in adopt some measure against the Queen, said to he founded upon the late proceedings in our House of Lords. The ',I gents - of that Government its Paris have made no secret of this intention: for several days past.-- , It is well known how zealously , Hanoverian Commissioners acted in procuring evidence a;ainst, and retard in g or sto pp in g evidence for, her Majesty ; and since, in defiance of all their esnleayours and those of their employers, the political drama turned out to be no tragedy as they bad hoped,butonly a farce, since tbe innocent and unprovoked oppression of tbeQueen,and (tie consequent support isf tier enlightened subject s in thiscoun- try fins Oared her IsCvond the reach -of attacks in England, ex cept front the futile abuses of hireling scribes, and the unmean-H lug slander of the interested and malienant,--t be reene must be Changed, the plot remaining the same. But are Minis ters so very' fooliSts :IS to eat Cct that the accusations which were " false as hell" in the 'Engtish House of Lords will, by sortie prnitiol transmutation, be " true as holy writ," when produced before an Hanoverian Legislature? Do they really suppose, that were they to effect - the degra, dation of the Queen front the throne of Hanover, so shal low all artifice v/0l impose upon the judgmentnnd blind the . eyes of the Britistr- nation? Why, these same .111 en would have made her Majesty Queen Regnant• of Hano ver, ape, and have givember !hc . Dochy of Cornwall to boot, if they could hate Induced het to forfeit herj est and indispu table Tiehis, and thereby to sign the acknowledgcs . 2tst of- I,r own ettlpribility. The Queen, boy/ever, has nothing to tear : her clainis are founded noon the immutable principles of j us. tice and innocence, and sapporte,d by a noble-winded and generous peirple. But the case is different as it regards the country, which has every thing to fear from the continuation of these iniquitous proceedings—these reiterated acts of op pression agisinst her Majesty. • • [The. Public Ledger.]. The advi•cca. from - Vienna are not later than those by the last arrival from Paris; but -it appears from tberiethat The Obsentr, Which had, for some weeks, maintained a total silence with regard to the affairs of Naples, has tecum mencettits task. of representing that kingdom' as in a Com- • pie, state of anarchy. According, toils stateirents,.insnbor dination prerails among the troopsrembodied: no recruits are obtained but by coercion; and in the capital of the kingdom nothiug.but pillage and murder arc the order of the day, and the Carhonari hid open defiance both to the Goreanment and the Representative Body. It. is rather surprising that none of these statements, if lonnded in fact, should find their way into' the private letters received in.this country team `Bplrs. The question of peace or war between Austria and Naples, is still said to hinge on the tensor of the answer to the propo sitions of the'Allied Sovereigns. But hostilities will • not, it is said, commence, in any event, until towards .the end of 41411L110 y. The invading army will he commanded - by Gen. Friniont, who will have under his orders the Generals of Prince Philip de Hesse Lloinburgh. Baron de Stat. terheim, arid Count do ‘Valruaden. The latter will uornmand the advanced guard. Mr. Canning's resi , :nation, we are assured, took place, ac- Cori' ig tothe usual official forms, on Wednesday. It is as serted by his friends, that be coon - fornicated to his Col leagues his intentiOtt of resigning upwards of a month ago, should they persist in their design, of further - proceedings against the Queen. it is understood that an ufrer was made to him of replacing Lord Stewart as Ambassador at Vienna, which he declined.—(lbid.) LAW INTELLICIRINiCE. couRT 0? c}I.ANcERY, ncc.2l. lASTEILSI-11.1) OF Qt3r,F.l'S" COLLEGE.. Mr. IV wrfiEtitui , ; stated that it was the wish of the Tallies that the Petition in this ease inizlit be he:ird on the day after the'next seal, if it met with his Lordship's approbation. The Luau CutAtiqKLLOR---" I will hear it on whatever day the parties may appoint. A' the cast has been mentioned to tne % l may as well corrvdt a mistete that has One abroad: • I have received attanonymotts letter, purporting to come front Catithridge, and • eviacntly written in a fictitious ham!, sup posing. that 1 have the appointment of the. Ntister. The wri ter is roistahen, for it is oat vested in me; the case - does'ttot come before me as,Visiror of th, College, because his Majesty is the Visitor, and the appointment is ve'sted its the Crown, and by the Crown disposed of with the advice of the Council ; (,oral Chancelliit, liare not even the recommendation. I Itre said so much to vase the minds 'of those who ate so fretted, afraid I should : do wrong." TII EARL OF SHAFTESBURY V. VIE DUKE OF MARL— BOROVipli. This cause was again lironOtt before the Lord Chancellor by Mr. Shadwell, Who notited, the postponement that hail taken place for the purpose of basin!,: an affidavit of the st u ff the;Duke was entitled to, made, wlich has already beet] laid before our readers. Mr. Wuay called the ottention , of his Lordship to the,,ali davit of Mr. PennelE.er, and Another person, who .had ahlo se.airn in support of Ihe ease of hi's noble cli,nt. - The Loan CnANcELLoti.—flas the Duke made an affitl,Ait that he has not encumbered) these, reins? After sos,÷=-,slisei tations from Mr. Shathrell, his Lordship said, that it would be Drevsfary that lA's Gr,ice should malse an affidavit that he had not tt,“igned or encumbered the property in question. At ;present it was merely stated that the DuLe of Marlborouch was entitl.ed to the rents-;: but that fact, sqing • thipK, as any I,rson mig;ht come bOhe Coiirt to-morrow, and say, ; !bat lie bed >ut assignment of the property that was now Ott subject of dispute. Surely, said his Lordship, his Grace Carl have no abjection to nialsing an affidavit as to the interest he has in thit tuth,or whether helots or has not made an as signment of it. Mr. WRAY undertoook to, make an affidavit by the next seal, if the proceedings were allowed to be stayed until that • time. Nit.. SIIADWELL said the real question h ere was, tbether the -Clt.Ftcs . shotild t, r 'shonlif not he discban!ed ? . The Loan CIIANCELI.Mt said hr Wott!ii [Mt discharge the order he had made ; :krol aftcs , some farther conversation, the east was ot (lured to stand until the next seal day. COURT OF KING'S BENrH, DEC. 91. 110TnwttL , AND ANOTHER V. DEMAINE., this was an action on a Pail Bond given be the defendant ti, the late Sheriffs of London, to which the defendant pleaded infancy. • It appeared in er.idenee,,that the defendant had been in business for himself as cc Manchester Warehouseman 'for a year, and that he Was a remarkably tall young man, and had all the appearance of full age. In support ol'his plea of in fancy, however, •he called a Tip-I:shirt cousin, who T einem bered him when b , r was only three months old,. and be al“ ) produced the register of his bith, by which it appeared. that • tie was in a state of infancy when he executed the Bail liond. .The• Jory, under the Learned Judge's directions, found •for the defendant. ". • gANDEItSO AND :OTHERS— ASSIGNEES OF PRO , . BERT, J. GREGG. . . This was an action of troeer by ?t,,s,...necs of a Bankrupt, wine merchant, to reeover a ef rtain t i nawity of wine, alleged to have been :'old to the defendant, a retired•balter, atter bankruptcy. ; Bnonotiam was for the plaintiff, and Mr. SCARLET!' for the defendant. There wa* nothing of public interest in the case. The plaintiffs made not their claim,. in the opinion; of the Learned Judge,•to the sum of 8.21. 14s. for %\bich'the Jury found their verdict. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • Bow-sTitttr.--7Yesterdav a celebrated Ch" was brought to the office by liitotp and •Nicholls, charger, with robbing the Royal, institution, in Albemarle-street, to which he .had been lung a subscriber.—lt appeared front the evidence adduced itt support of the chat'ge, that the Royal Institution is possessed of a very superior library, partic,ularly in scientific books, glut that she estimation of the hooks had latterly been reduced by their being rendered imperfect or incomplete ; tint by She stealing or destroying of the books. hitt by the tearisig •.,•'!4t of leaves. This practice is sopposed to have been carried on for some years, but r:t length it was discovered that books were feiuntl to be innierft et, which were ascertained to have bren-perfect but a very short Critte be fore. The discovery of the defectite books increased in touch, that Mr. John Stert, the Assistma Librarian, made a formal statement to the Managers of it, and at the same time, how ever noplensant, be Mentioned the accused as the Gentleman he suspected, and stated, as the groom; of his suspicion, that the books which be' discovered with leaves talons out welt hooks that the accused was in the habit of reading, and that. after the accused- hail left the Institution be had tumid leaves taken out of them. Mr. Siert, therefore, was .directed to watch the conduct of the, :teemed when he. came to the Institution, which he tiecordinely. did. Ott Wedneoay even fog the accused was at the Institution during Ins usual hours, between five and seven, when Mr. Stilt watched him very closely, and had nu doubt that he had turn some leaves out of sonic books he had been.looking at. Atter t he.occus co had left the Institution, Mr. Steit proceeded to examine the books which be loot particularly noticed lie hail been to lOok into, when he found a periodical scientifk work,:called Nickei.ton's Jrnerntii, defective of five leaves, which he was po sitive was entire and coniplete last week; add he strongly suspected that' the accused had taken them. Bisho'p and Nicholls, the olficerS,'accompatoied Nr. Stert to the accused's house ; and on the officers c,tiumnoicating to him their busi ness (having a search-warrant, granted by Mr. Birn,ie, to search his house fOr stolen property), he appeared a good deal surprised.. Mr. Stert proceeded to examine his papers, and identified a nit miter which had been torn out of hooks t:- hinging to the Royal Institution. NVbile. Mr—St , rt was pursuing this—condoct, the accused was walling np and down. the room in great agitation. Bishop advised him -to attend to what was doing, as stolen property being identified, he trust be answerable for the consetrences. The officers- seized the .leaves, &c. as identified by Mr. Stert, and them and the, accused they _brought - to the office, when Mr...Siert identified south v leaves which. corres ponded with buoks belonging to the Royal Institution. All the hooks which had been plundered, of leaves were those Which the aLcused was in the. habit of reading, when be was at the Royal Institution. Three leaves found iii his huse c o r r esponded with,t he first. volonie of YVillick'S Dortt,stic o En 4cloperditt,wilidi Mr.Stertlonl tics doubt belonged to the vo lume belonging to the Royal Institution. Also thee leave; containing from page 451 to 426, of Cullen's Materia Medico, Which had been missed from that work belonging to the In stitution. The officers produesd a number in (Abyr leaves, amounting in the.who!e to Z.ltivot SO, small ;mid large, which Mr. Stert bad no doubt belonged to hooks in the library of the lustitotion. Previous to the commeoceruent of the examination, the Chymist requested that it iniglst be a private one; he said he should be,particularly Obliged thereby- Mr. BiliNa that be did •not sit there to confer ob ligations, but to fulfil a duty y in roarYy cases.a most painful one; and lie did nut see any thing in this particular instatwe which erught to induce hint to depart from the ordinary eirs'- toMs of the office• The Prisoner was then plactd at the Bar.. In his defence, be said, the leaves seized by tilt officers in his house and pro duced before the Magistrate, belooged to books which lie had at home; however, some books belonging to the institution were produced, in which the leaveS thatOwd to the places where leaves had been takeo out, as to the pays, type of printing, &e. The Magistrate, after hearing the whole of the case, espe c.ially as the Institution was tojined or despoiled by one of its subscribers, thought that to constitute a felony, she pro perty stolen tuost bear sonic value, and hoWever valtial2le the hooks 'might .frotn which Os; leaves found in . tlw accused's house, and'identified by Mr. Siert had been torn, yet the leaves separated 'from (hem were only waste paper, aid thins value was doutitfot If they had Weighed a ponnd he- might have committed him for the value of a pottod,of waste paper; but as that was not the case lie discharged hint. Mr. Bnoom, a grazier, af t e r sellin g some cattle at Smithfield market on 'Monday, was to return home by the Oundle.coach the next Morning. — At six o'clock Le was going to the Holloway turnpike to pay the toll for the cattle he had brought through, when he was stopped by three men in smock frocks, who knocked him down, and robbed him of %Oh in notes. 'Eli E. Elii.VE;.l,6 R. ' .!-..t . F.,a ,\.:c PEA; ft!ENTARKABLF, DISPENSA riON 'OF PROViDENCE. The following is an extv;..v.::t of a letter dated Peiersburgh, Decembev 2; (14) 18.20—" The EMperor left his capital,abont three months ago, on a jotirney into:theinfekier of his empire, and nothing remarkable occurred till he came to the Goyernment of Twer, about 500 wersts (400 English miles) from Pet,ersb . nrg,h. Ile halted for 4 night 'at a Own, the uaine of which cannot at present recollect, - and took up his abOde at a house prepared him, as is usual in such cases, by the Commandant of the plate. lie had ' scarcely descended from his carriage, and seated hintself, when a respec; fa hie inhabitant of the place hating gained admit; taace, and, after apologizinf7, for his intrusion, soli cited him. to remove to his house, where he would have better accommc•dation. The Emperor . - . thanked him for the•kindneks of his offer, but dined accepting it., His affectionate subject could not be induced to take a denial ) and sue; ceeded, after lunch solicitation. With reluct-: ante the Emperor consented, and •followed the Merchant to his house, though quite contrary to his usual custom, of avoiding giving trouble to private individua.ls. After an hour had elapsed, there arrived in the same town a, I.4ady of rank, accompanied by her two daughters, and• attended . hy"Several servants. As there was aft- pearance of rain they determined tostop the night there,:, and on inquiring for lodgings, were con : -I ducted to the apartments which the Emperoi had so recently quitted. They felt proud, to put, up at a •place which, their beloved Mo narch bad just occupied. The rain, which haci threatened, soon fell in torrents,and the storm was accompanied with dreadful thunder; and. while,: probably, they were all congratulating them- . selves on their escape from the pitiless storm, the ligh tiling . struck the house, and it fell immedie.te-* ly; and, awful to relate ! the Lady, her daugh ters, and several domestics perished in the ruins! ! Stirely the' Lord was with the Emperor in this _ wonderful-escape ! Had he remained twO hou'rs longer in the habi tttion inTwhich he appeared to be: fixed for the night, his numerous and atfectiomyte, subjects would have been mourning his loss, in.; stead of as now rejoicing that be is niercifully stilt preserved—the beloved. Sovereign of a loyal people. The. feelings of the WorthY merchant may .be better conceived than described when he thus saw himself the instrument whom God had • ,onoured to preserve , the invaluable life of is Monarch. • The ituF'ans are •remarlia-. Ile for their devoted attachment to their Sove; reigns. Not the utmost stretch - of tyranny by .the inflictions of arbitrary cruelty would di vest them of that attachment. HolieVer despotic, they would never refuse to defend the person' of their Monarch against his enemies external or in-l• ternal, if an appeal were once made to the loyalty of the Russian people ;—but, when to the =e:nera tion and love which the. mere name of his Majesty -e,icites in the Russian population, an Alexander adds those amiable Cle>tian qualities--;-tho4 virtues, public and private—the reverential re-• gard to the Sacred Scriptures, and the frank. avowal of the Saviour as the foundation d his hopes- , -the veneration tad love of the ittissian, subject rise to an unspeakable devotedness. We hesitate not to add to thii very singular and in-' teresting anecdote, that this providential preser.: cation of the noble and good A leNander_ is a blessing for which the civilized world should fe'...4 thankful to the Supreme Being." M. NALDI.—The following are given in .11 - ,a Paris Papers which arrived yesterday, as tli' correct particulars of the lamentable accident which occasioned the death of this Gentleman : " M. NALDI, of the Royal Italian Theatre, be ing invited to dine with M. GACCCIA, came with. his wife and daughter, and examined the cooking apparatus in the chimney, the process of which was accelerated by ,the marmite otociare. The disengagement of the calOric went On well, and. the operation was near its con-lusion, when M. NALDI imprudently pressed the safety-sucker, so closely with the fire tongs, that the _cover of the autoclam exploded, struck N. NAi.DI On the forehead, carried away part of the skull, and laid him dead at the feet of his daughter. M:G.tacrx was slightly hurt." An eminent house at Liverpool yesterday morning spoken of on 'Change as being in a state of 'insolvency. The Peterborough dispensary ball, on Monday evening, was very numerously and fashionabiy at• tended, and the funds of that excellent charity ‘% ere more benefitted upon this than any for,per oc caSion. i The city may be congratulated upon that , universal haranny and concord, and upon that ge neral determination to be agreeable and happy, which, so evidently prvaded the whole assembly- The Noble Earl Pitctwilliarn and the Countess, Lord and . Lady Milton and their daugbtei,'lNTiss Wentworth, who was Capon this ocsasion introduc edfor the first time to the inhabitants of Peterbo , rough, were present, and by their agreeable affa bility diffused a general sat.i.3faction.—Mrs. Marsh' and the eldest stini were also present, a.'ui scarcely a family of respectability in the town and neighbourhood was wholly absent. One hundred and twenty cheerful countenances gave and received pleasure. 13 . 1'047. On the 20th inst., at Ltrxer "L'optin; S•tirreY, Mrs. Rober Hogzart, of a dnifeltter. -.-- • Mrilt 14.1 ED. • A few days a 5 ,...), Nit. 8. Fassoo, inn. of South Lambeth, to , Phi ilk, diaugbter of the late John. (;net;, 11, Esq. of Chelsea. Yeoerday ittfiriliiv, at At. (eo,ge's Church, Bloomsbury, Mks Mary eldest ,titer .1 V; ol.Wi ogfield, Esti and Diecr to the Earl of Thgby, to Wm. Gunton, Esq, of io the count) . of lies cfui d.. • nirir). On the Isth inet., nt 14;peonn, Elarhis Parish, of Emmanuel t 011t1Cry Catlth , On tnes(lnv )net, .tnhn Ckslit , „•Esq.,• of Bell-rue-house, Itamsgale, late of Entie!d, Nliddit sex, aged 83. LONDON: Printed be.). B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 2P, Greet Orint,n,l-stteet, Linterr-stittare: anti puhlished by W. A. soltrrs, of No. 7, 1 3 ,onth Mniton-street, at -TriE SuN Oitier, No. 112. Strom' : where Atireitisements, Orders, Letters, &c. (cost-tiaFet) mint be addressed.