The Sun. — London, England, 1824-08-05 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. [Prom Culignani's Messenger of Mondaill The King took an airing hi the forest of St. Cermain on Saturday. Yesterday his Majesty granted a private au dience to the Earl of Harrowhy,President of the Council of his Britannic Majesty. Yesterday Lord liarrowhy and family alighted At Meurice'i Hotel. Ross►ni and Madame Coibran have arrived at Pathi. ( Prom the Comititotionnel qf Mond. ) ) A His A he (Aerobe' of Deputies for 18'2,4 may be said to have closed. This'Session has been very remarkable, less by the changes intro. Aured in the Charter than by revealing the scandal , of th e p a st and tire projects of the future. The 'Churnber had a strung attarlunent to every, thing, older than the year 178U,nnd a marked repugnance for every thing which originated et that period. The pretensions of Nobles have appeared Haiti. 'openly ; convents have been demanded, anti elder mid younger sons, as in Old Franco ; even old, Inititnry privileges, and the old division into pro. yincesand intendencies were not forgotten. For the centre lisa Han, of which so many romp kints are justly made, they would give us twenty or thirty oligarchical centralisutious, changing nisterial despotism for provincial tyranny, and 'protecting a rich and enlightened Democracy, un'Arktocrnry that is both poor and igno rant: The Ministers like councils of departments totter thaw provincial states, and thus they pro- Tt at the same time both by the abuses of the old regime and-the new system. • Faits I 'Foul., '27.—The Director of. the Police of' Cassel, M. Manger, who. was. impri soned ut Fulda during ltih trial, has been carried to Cassel and suGred the sentence of the law. 110 W3O expesedin the public square, and when the gaoler had taken off his uniform and his de. corations, the .executioner clothed him like a con vict and .put iconr.on him. lie was then sent to Spangenberg, to be confined for life in the gaol there ! For some years lie had abused the Conti. , ilenCt of the Elector,• and had induced him to commit several- unjust arts, antler the pretence of his safety being threatened. The Elector, who raw . eunspiracirs-cgainst him in every corner, has punished several' innocent individuals, on the re presentation of M. Munger. . Some of the unfor tunate Persons even put an end•to themselves in prison out Of despair at not being able to justify . themselves on account of the ascendancy of M. Manger, who has contrived to render the Elector inaccessible. the Journal des Delves.) PA it 14, AtPaurri.---The reign of the Emperor Alexander has been remarkable among other tl►irrgs for the progress of litt•r.ature among tlt+• Hossiang. Prior to 1617, There had been only .4,000 work 4 printed in Russia, about 'equal to the number which appear every year at the Leipsig 1820, there were in the Libra -0, of the Academy of Sciences at St. PetersbUrah 3,(100. natiuual work)), among which were 151.) t ornances. , At preliont, the number of theee na tional nrodoctions nototinis to 14,000. A.t eu vv there ore nine reading societies and ten printing. house'. At Petereborgh there kre t,even of 11u former and five of the latter. In - Dorput, ltevel,. ar.d Chirkow, there is in.each it telidillg .liocipq and it printing press, and ILere are nine type founderies in the empire. 'A lexamier 1.3 not only the enlightened protector of literary men, but reads with attention every hung relative to politiO, religion; idithry, stu 41,tic,i, and geography. ills own room has the appearande of belonging to a srrunrtd by protest *ion. li , S ht very Vb.)) 1)1 six in the morn., !big' ; he writes several preCilan 'Mitt elegatate, and on important topics. lle n• pH acquainted with the mtural 'history of Otis vast Empire. If a Itir.siati lournal should streak of '' the useless class of men of letters," Imblic contempt would hnmediately revenge' iirem ; and if M. Schisekolt, Minister of Public. ..)nstruction, knew, that one of his. subokerns slated to insult :literary HMI' Crimittlic men, he tymild resitiost him immediately to return for • some moothslto College. leßtiNCit ND's, A.no.....2„—Five per Genie, opened at 98f. 23e.: elfwen lit UM 90.!. ; Neftpniitan 5 per Cents.; in duCane, nits francs, 1111, Keno. dlimpagne i 18 Royal Spanish 1 44.---Excliange ou London--Onaluonth, 24,;-;TIOe ditto, ..114f, Cour* A uthookl9itt. , • Ii A M IlUilf; 28.-r :Our Official Gazetfr colaniiii " Various nets having °flee •so frequently spoken -4.1 r the sending of u corps or II anoverietv troops to Portugal:Vie' -think totair duty to reinurlc, for the information of the public, that according to the latest accounts r e cc irqf o roto As kingdom ,of Porto td, ilia sending of any cops of ps thither fa nut t , thought necessary." S 'pCKtUOti.M, lout 20,—The Prince of Moskwa, and the Duke of Etchingen,lifive obtained ceratnissions ht die 'Artil lery, and CountrErlim in the flame °nerds. • It is thought that their Majesties will go to Norway before , bury return, hither ; but nothing certain Is known respecting it. An anonymous writer has g reatly intpotuntti, first the Diet, and now the Editors a the ournals, with A project to relieve tttiwg metal distress, And which goes far beyond every preceding aptom of monopoly, &c. the author proposing nothing letii tban the erection of a company of shareholders, to curry on -the whole orourforeigneonmerce for the account ofthe nation. pm , LI it u G • (MY 17, IN Majesty hes retired to 2 , 4rakisivelo, from his visit to the Military Coloniea in the Go. Valmont of Novogrod, The (hand i):tke Ni t holas and the Orand Ductless Alex /Aria will embark at the end of this month on board a Russian skip of 'the line for Stettin. They intend to spend part of the winter acthe 'l.:trite of Berlin, and will act out on their return iri s January. Accordinglo a notice from the offi pece of the-inistr or el.; riar.ee, those persons who receive annual ons from the It tioeerornent, whether living in the empire or abroad, 441104 lietw,tfOrttl apply at the proper titt le, in order that the vqunts piety It e made op, otherwise their clainorWill be re. .'"g;t. 'rhos• milling abroad ere allowed the term of one yens. .Tiro welillitr, whith rim cool, windy, and dry durinethe, 'whale of it, • t I.hy, to),1 the greatest part of Jone.'hae been for 'the warrti rs with frequent mine, promise a goo d goods is enir ident . ble, but' , 11e . doL iltussia goods psrtieni a rn " i6n tenon of trsither 1,4 the expo!' . - t greet. r ' ), ( A! OW Two . TT !tit 01 ITAMltUltalf, au -1,00400 are 5. 1 • • PETEO4IIIIIIOrt, 4.1 I, lt 10....140)i1d0ri, 9 16.32. aerPstp, siutme foiei,ondost, 'two ishothx, f; 164. nk:ll2.litgo Jet 4 V 2 4.--liondon, 'risme ft:mutts 22. C R j oi s ß ox t ) uok ran 9 Appi.nreti ,b err „ ja ti you yeti:4lot are in idate or disturbenoe about cabeca, owing St the demands of the clergy fur tithes end er. ? a m o f t itbes. The Constitution reduced tiles* demands con. 11iLritbly, but as their ACti hart been ratnulled, tha clergy now amnia in tor Arrears. PORTUC Lisnow, JULY O.—To-day w present to our readers the Speech of his Britannic Majesty, on closing the ession of Parliament. With the exception of the conyuloeti state of a part of Ireland, to which his illajelty alludes, all the rest of the speech shows the state of peace and increasing pro. sperity of the British nation. Some English Journals, animated only by the thirst of gain which the idea of the separation of the itiovinces of . Sottili . America from the mother countries in Europe hold out to them, are amazed at not finding in his Majesty's Speech any allusion to the subject of the recognition of the independence of those States, which they eagerly expected ; and their impatience breaks . out Into unjust complaints and satires.. • -• These are the same journals that murmured because the English Government reftised to prt'cipitate Great Britain into a continental war in ]}rope, to support the impotent patty of the Cortemtit'Spen, which was afterwards treated by these very journals with the most insulting epithets, and with the most re markable inconsistency, pronounced, to be the most contemptible of the human race, for not having defended with more heroism - the City ef -(.liliz, in which, they had ehut themselves up. The English Government, by its prudence end wisdom on that oc. castor), deliVered Great Britain front \vai in'filtielt..;. at least, it would have been opposed by . the will end the eflortteof the • principal part of the population of the Peninsula, as the event proved. The most distinguished end sound part of the British nation knows how to appreeiate the good fortune of having escaped from' the manitold temptations of the disorganizing faction which moved heaven and earth to draw England into its ruinous contest. The English Gov: rnment • gave a great mint' of its witelont mid firmness on this.ocCasion s it showed find it knew Spain better than those wl:o sought to involve it in that war; and the British nation has every reason, as well as the people of the Peninsula, to praise and bless the moderation and fore sight of the Government which saved Europe from a cruel war, and flerm a renewal of those miseries which • it cost so much blond (English as well as that - of other nations) tte terminate. It is the same wise and prudent policy which new induces the British Government to resist ell the incitement% of these same advocides of cause of " Liberty and Equality," now Invested with the specious title of the Independence of America, and gilded with the seducing hopes of a commerce which shall transifomi the stones Of the streets of Great Britain into gold and diamonds. Thin policy, which prevents the British Go vernment from interfering in the measures which the nations of the Peninsula are taking to put down rebellion in their triune •A dantic shwninions, rifler having conquered it at home, la that which justice prescribes; and the propriety of notyrecipitating a measure which would be as contrary to the relations of peace anti good neighbourhood with the mother countries of Europe (of touch greater weight, in a political view, than the unform ed and distant new States of South America), as if the latter should think fit to recognize the independence of Ireland, or of any other part of' the British empire which should be in a dis turbed state, merely because it might ste: l „, the political or com mercial interests (tithe State which should choose to act in this manner, anti even without first giving time to the States of Eu. ,rope to maintain their political riglite by means of persuasion or 'three ' which they have been prevented from employing by ,the political convulsions from which they have not been delivered till within less titan a year. Besides this, the state of things which Is elreatly manifesting itself in various parts of those deeolated countries, shows how much reason there it to dietrost first appearances, Always dis figured by enthusiasm ; and how much snore agratable to the interest of Great Britain is the policy recommended by its wise Ministers, precipitating nothing, leaving circumstances to be matured by the course of time, and by the series of - events, which are the best guides of the true policy of nations. Mean time, nothing prevents British commerce front continuing its peaceful relations with those States, the recognition of whose independence would certainly not increase the metudof causing the private right of the English merchants to be More respected in their commercial transactions with these people, titan in the present state in which those stations exist. Experience .proves how quick the step from a ramie re cognition to an intimate alliance, and the consequences of such an alliance are incalculable. A precipitate step is net always easy to be retraced, and its influence almost always' 'extends further than is desired, or than can be afterwards remedied.-- At all events,,the recognition of the independence of a State .which hes not yet received from time the necessary selidity,. and which really does 'tabs, knoW its own situation, would be an" absurdity, broken); at the question in the most favourable light, since such to mognition of independence would be only saying to the recognise this state as independent, so far as it can defend itself against that of which formerly, it constituted' an integral part ; .and thin declaration which i norkg.is not de." signed to restrain the frau exeretsu of the. political rights of the diplomatic Sovereign over it." By what we perceive in the speeches in the English Par liament, we must-believe that the great and prevailing policy by which its Government is guided in this -matter, as it was its respect to the first of which we spite, ie that 01)0(3;4106;00d understanding with all nations ; this heing the best calculated to secure to it the immense benefits which,--it„topl Awns de, ri ye . fr6oh thit•etteelleince,of its In OOPS, rpnP to, A great mass 0(14 pitiluct ire capital, front Its commeretal trim its . .exteneve navigation,. and from the immenee superiority of its manufactures, which must neceiniarily open to It all the markets in the WOll4l, whether it recognisee or does :not recognise the independence of this or that political Government. THE A 1111 Y. Major-Goierni Sir lIVNItY TOR 11 ESIA hits !W M) to Weedon, to inspect the 1,3 d (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot, and to ascertain the proficiency . acquired by that corps, in the improved system. The 3d division of the Ofith Regiment, under the comumnd I x Major II ulme, sailed in the Borodino transport from Liver pool, for Halifax, on Thursday last. The 4th and last division, tinder Major White, embarked on board the Kain for the same :destination on Saturday, PENBIONgI4B.—Three veteran companies, con. sisting of one hundred rank and file each, are to be formed immediately out of the Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital under Boat;' -five yews of age. They are to do garrison duty in New. fotrolland. 31 AJ 01I.GEWER Htioat.” Ca sum v1.r..--The late Major protral Duguld Campbell entered the service as an Ensign, on the WW I APO, 1703, in the 57th Regiment of Foot. Ile was appointed Lieutenant i n t h e same corps, on the 20th March, 17011 . lie was Prometed, on the 24th January, 1791, to an In, dependent Company, was subsequently platied upon half-pay, and. appointed, on the Ist July, 1793, Captain in the "tit Regiment of Foot. Ile was :grimed on the Ist of January, 1 7 9 n, 51'titn 4x lir4i}n, find Major 'Or 46th PliciWthe nth A yri 1, 11140; f 1 e was trifttla;' 411' tiii . 2slfriiipteniber,'l6o3. l o teutenant:Colonel by Brevet, and appointed, on the 13th of August, 11112, Lieutenant-C(l,nel of the 3tl 'West India Regi. *newt. tie wn* appointvd, on the Ist January, 1812, Colonel by Brevet, and on the 4th of ;June, 1014, Major-Generul, DUELLING. The case of an Officdr being called out by a Private of 'Colonial Militia at Antigua has created much observation in the Leeward Islands. The following Order has in consequence been issued "ANTIGUA, JUNE 9,1 H cc MlLl'T'fAOr!itlltAL 0111)%101. " 1. The Captain-General has learned with equal surprise and regret, that a Cement of Brigade of Artillery has permitted himself to go out and tight a duel with a private of the same corps, who toes most unwarrantably soight a quarral.with him, upon no other grounds than his havinr faithfully Aliseharged ins duly as President of Regiments Court-Mertish under th e sentence of wlikh the inireto trill iegntly and deservedly suffered punishment. " 2. It is obvious that such proceedings cannot fail to be Plzbveni:vs of all discipline in the Militia, and eventually to destroy as establishment so essential to the security of the country . ; for it would be at once absurd anti unfair to expect that officers can enforce subordination, and perform strictly and effectually their various duties, under the penalty of answer ing for that pertOrmance sown as that parade shall have been dismissed, at the provocation of any individual in the ranks, who may choose to consider himself aggrieved, and seek re. venge upon his officer in personal insult and outrage. 3, The Captain-General is confident diet the truth of this position must strike every one to whom he addresses himself with conviction: there is an end of all military rule, if the Alai's must personally meet the private soldiers upon points of duty. The existence of the Militia is at stake in this ques ; mil for itapreserystion,' he exhorts the officers of the Oink:hotly flit in general, and of the Brigade of Artillery in paitienlar4 ur enter: into is joint resolution, That no officer, under ssitii , eircOntstiteces as have been described, shall think iiiinaelf warranted in going 'out to light a duel, and that this I,:trdeti' Opinion and'resolution of the Whittle shall bear the re- A4f the individual stsho rw . 4, -No man can or has it right to question the courage of th e (Aileen of the' of .Antigoo t and. the Captain-Gine nil, entirely convinced et 'his, .aohrunly calls upon them to abstain from proofs of it, so mischievous to the interest of their country, and to adopt the line el conduct which he has suggested. " By command of his Axcellency the Capt a in_G e nerai, (Signed) " WILLIAM MUSGRAVE," JAMAICA INTELLIGENCE. ( From Me Jamaica Courant of the 18th of June.) 44 We were on Wednesday in possession of very unpleasant tidings that have transpired ,regarding the proceed ings of the slaves on Argyle Estate, in Hanover. We were yesterday put in possession of the following account old woman, attached to the Argyle Estate, informed Mr. Malcolm that the slaves on the property intended to set fire to the trash house. The Maroons were suspected of being concerned, but had not openly joined. A notice of this alarming circumstance had been dispatched to his Grace, who on Wednesday sent his Military Secretary over to the Commander-in-Chief with the intelligence. We are informed his Excellency has ,taken mea sures to reinforce the militia in this disturbed quarter. Two companies of the Hanoverian regiment had marched. " Since writing the above, we have been permitted the per usal of those letters from the parish of Hanover, which, we are inclined to believe, state, that the slaves on Argyle Estate, ha ving been promised Saturday for themselves, resisted working on that day when call A ant, on which the overseers-punished a general discontent was the consequence arenwd,raerutfrtearging A 'tlie trash-house of a 'neighbouring - estate, they absmnded into the woods : many had since returned, and the whole woo expected to follow, when tranquillity was shortly expected. We hive heard that the /Arno ftigate was to be held in re di nt t s s to take trOops on hoard, in the event of the ebullition. resuming a decided character. We earnestly hope o the news of the negroes having re sttlini their and subordination. If we may i er w r t o . i s l will judge from thi prOate letters we bore seen, considerable alarm appears to exist throughout the parishes of St. James and Han over. The following hand-bill lifts' been' circulated at Mon tego Bay " Montego Day, Jane , 15, 18 . 2.1. • " Otrie fItiNDRED AND FIrTY PW,I.Mts Ete,Atto.-- The above reward is ottere'd by the'Vestry of the parish of Si. James to any Negro Slave, or to tiny person or persons, who *llllll .apprehend, or cause ,to be apprehended, and conveyed to may gaol, or military' post, any and each of the ringleaders . who have been, or are now, concerned in the rebellious-con duct at present existingtin the perishes of St. James. and Ilan over t and the sum of ' two doubloons, for - the apprehension of any Nego who lass been certainly engaged therein. " THOS. JOSI,PII tiltElt,' C. V." tiINGSTON,'JUNEI7. - I3IPORTA NT—(CoMm greaTnin.) Intelligence of the nature we arc about to communicate, should always be published with the greatest precaution : how far it may be true we know not, but we sincerely hope there may berm foundation for the alarm.; we, however, think it our duty to lay the facts before our renders as we received them. An express arrived at the King's-house in Spaniel Town yesterday morning about ten o'clock, brought by a trooper front Hanover, the object of which was to acquaint the Execu tive that the negmes on Argyle Estate in that parish, had re belled anti attempted to murder .the overseer, he with great dif ficulty escaping. The militia of that parish, we understand, has been called out and are now under arms. An express was sent front the Executive at two o'clock, P.M. yesterday, to Sir John Keane, •Alajor-General Commanding, and the trooper who had brought the intelligence, was, at the time our inform ant left Spanish Town (five P.M.), waiting the 'return of the , General's answer. •We ate very sorry, sorry indeed to add, that. the Accompong Toten Maroons have been implicated in the conspiracy on the oath of wirer !dock man. KINGSTON, .11TNE 15. - --We understand that the gang of ne grecs who preferred a complaint before the Sitting 31tepstrates of,this city, for misusage on die pare,of the.owner, was on Tues day sent •off to Spanish Town, under charge of one of the City Guards: On reaching the outskirts-of the city, with one accord they, all. sat down, anti declared .they , would not. leave King ston t in this dilemma two slaves of this city camp forward, and attempted to rescue the party froth the Constable in charge, who immediatelyyetreated through the streets to the Guard house, anti on representing the obstruction he bad met with, an order was given to lodge the two slaves who h a d i nt e r p o s ed, in the cage', Which was carried into effect. Yeaterd the refractory gang was placed tit a waggon,, um, der charge of a strong.party, and again dispatched to Spanish Town. orrox, Jt: NE 17.—We are-.informed, that when the Duke of York-left Trinidad, thelanded'proprietors had assem bled in Port of Spain, and were anxiously waiting to hear the Order in council promulgated by heat of drum. 7 he town was crowded, and the inhabitants ins state of most gloomy discon tent, and fearful foreboding. We understand there was a una nimous and resolute determination to disobey certain Clauses of the Order in Council, which, if carried-into eflitt, must be ruinmps to the Colony ;, anti one of which, as hir.• Burnley. very justly remarked on a former occasion, would virtually 041611 slavery t • Wi• 'feel Interested • for Trinadad on another score, having learned Mat thin tiovetnor hart permitted a large number of the free cultured men w'land there, who had been transported ,rpm Martinique' for having been engaged in a treasonable conspiracy. XTIIACT OF A I.ETTEII FrIONI I.IICF.A. IN IfANOVER, • nATrn Tut! 14TH JuxN, 1824. . " F sin sorry to tell you that this neighbourhood is in rather an unpleasant state of alarm, in consequence of the Negroes 9itheAtrig,fis;ates (not twenty miles , froth this) having left o ff work, anit run Intl the woods. They have burned two or three trash-houses, #na prrißtiome provisions, &c. The Militia are callettott t. Two enmintrileteolfilhe Hanover Iteghnent left this last night for Argyle, where, I h?lieVe, the butitness corn. nienced. I understand a company of the 33d are sent from Maroon Tewn:te the scene of action. Argyle, Chester Otstle, Alexandria, Golden Grove, and Mount Pelier, are mentioned as being in the most disturbed state. 1 have not heard of any loss of lives yet." 1.. Ex.rnacr OF A LETTER inom BLACK lIIVER, pa.Tria JUNE 16. 46 We i e are. n a state of anxiety here, from several troopers. having arrived from Hanover and St. James's, with dispatches , to Our Colonel. Report says that a conspiracy, most exten. sire In the plot, plot, And nearly ready for action, has fortunately been discovered, an d f or th e present prevented . The head quarters appear to have been fixed at Argyle Estate, and a regular organization of the slaves, in conjunction with the ne groca on that estate, were established at Chester Castle, Wind. sor Forest, Alexandria, &c. • At Alexandria some of the buildings have been taint. , The militia in that quarter are on duty, anti our regiment are in hourly expectation of being called out." EXTRACT OF A. LETTER FROM MONTEGO BAY, DATED JUNE 15. "We are all in a state of the greatest possible ,• alarm. A deep laid p l ot h as been discovered on the estate near our line, in. Hanover, eight hours previously to its breaking, out : the consequence is that the negroes on the leading . cstatcs .(Argyle and Chester Castle) have absconded and gone Into the woods ; the whole of them, with the exception of some old women. It ie most extensive: it commenced on the border* of St. James's, and a train of communication has been traced down to the " The Argy i k 41-raertrlltland. negroei were to commence by murdering Mai. colm, their master, and a ft erwa r d * all the white people .1. to proceed to burn every thing that wimid burn, and to continue their proceeding from one estate to another. On Alonday, in the deed of the :Ot, two 'trash-houses were burnt to the ground on Alexan dria estate, one of Alalcoles properties._ 'rho military are oat. A requisition . from the St. James's Magistrateo to Mind 'Moffitt' at Falmouth, for, fifty men, to be sent from Maroon Town - here, (for not one soldier have we, though excellent new barracks) has been refused to be crri o li I ant m this onient ordered to march, and the c l l l , l ot t : tt y tn .ith. which I am attached. The following' in open rehelliont—Argyle, Golden Grove,' '1 Si Grove, Chester Castle, Alexindrut, and RatnilleesPen, and every . ap. pearance at t he estates are ,Montpeliers. Three htindred armed men are in the woos," EXTRACT- OF . 4. ilirrEll TOONE SAVAI.4I4AI.I.I.A.DIAII. &AMU I)A'3' E, . , , ..... . , " Expresses ItiliVett on r Sdturtiai , from Hanover, anti Placed lametile., night on -- Estate. The negroes on Ar. gYle and Alexandria Estates in Hanover ,set fire to the estates, and were jus t go i ng to mur d e r the 'Whites, when one of them ran and inform e d h is master , just in time to escape." " ') I !" 1 7. --The Governor and Council met yesterdny, and havel "nce hid several communications with Sir John Keane." In addition tit the above, we learn that his Excellency Sir John Kean?, K.C.It., t h e COnintander of the Fo rce s, had sent ori i. ll , l, tritettens fur th e troops to Oe placed under the orders of the '"giaincy of the Tartish of Hanover. A p r i vy council was summoned hihis Grace the - I - hike Of Manchester, to meet on ThUrttli t y, J une 17, the day the moil was closed. ri ,o 4 - A PILIVATPLETT ER or I:I,I,SAII.E,DATT,. . _ ," I am sorry to inform you that, all the hopes of tr anq uilli ty "id' we had entertained from the judicious arrangernenti-of the Governor, are extingurshO, and that we are again thk eat , cued with the horrors of insurrection. The slaves on two estates have risen, and the example will certainlT be followed it'somethin l is not done to ameliorate their condition, purpo u nt to the dirdettons of the British Government. OM. planters ap. pear to for get t h at t he negro es are partially enlightened, and , that mere p rom i se * o f ame ndment arc not N uffi c i ent. The whip, too, that dreadful engine of coercion, is too much used on Hont9 . of the ouatem, as will he fOund the case in the present instance. We are withoot any intelligence to-day, except what cones to Government, aml which you will find in theCouront; but yesterday there were se eras letters from the neighbour.' hood of the insurgent estates, in which great alarm is mani fested. The few wise and moderate men who are here talk of petitioning the British Government to send out Commissioner* u) settle the tlifrerences between the slaves and their masters, Something of this sort, indeed, must be done, if they hope to preserve the colony ; for although these ebullitions may be quelled from time - totime, yet so long as the half enlightened negro and the violent planter are left to their own passions, there can be no hope of permanent tranquillity." ( From the Kingston .Chronicle of June 10.) EXTUACT OF A LETTER Ilto3l PANAMA, DATED MAY 20. "The Aurora, Captain Prescott, with specie from San Blaa, arrived at Guayaquil the latter end of March, and was to call at Lima on her way house. .Cantarac, the Itiixigist General, %v . :is posseision of - Lima'. the Patriot force:Oka Patavileg, one hundred and twenty odes distant. , " Bolivar,. Whiv, is declared_ Supreme Dictator, 114 , 1 , g0ne Trokilloto form some sort of order amongst the authorities, as Torre Tagle, the late President, joined the Royalists on their entering I.iura. It is not likely a battle will take place very soon, the Colom bians acting on the defensive, the Royalists being no much su perior in number, Bolivar was in expectation of reinforce ments to the amount of 7,000 or HMO men by the Middle of May. •On their arrival, little doubt is entertained of thst issue being the liberation of the whole of Peru. Owing to this unsettled state, business ,is very doll throughout the Pacific, nor is it expected to itif.prove until the - fate of Peru is decided. Four American vessels direct had arrived in ustya. quil. Flour, which had been selling at 35 dollars, fell to tt ; British cotton goods equally low in prices, and very little in demand. - Much disappointment was felt in Panrna, as large shipments had been made to San Bias, and remittances expected by the Aurora. By the logger liermona Petrenilla, armed from that port, letters were received stating that no Sales could be effected, from the ttnaettled state of Mixico,'and the principal - merchants (the old Spaniards) being ordered to quit the country. it is expected that money to large amounts, doe to merchants in Panama, will be shipped to Jamaica, by the way of Tampico." CIIAIU. Fa OF Al WOfteESTER ASSIZEA, Atrop3•r 3. Befikre Mr. PARK. . . . Mary halfpenny, aged 30 years, the wife ore farmer, stood indicted for the wilful murder of 'Airy Walton. Mr. Cnoss stated thecae to the Jury. He said the prisoner was the wife of a farmer, residing in the parish of llockleton, in this county. The deceased was a young woman, an orphan, who was an hired servant, and-was employed by tie prisoner in doing domestic offices, and in agricultural labour in the tiehle. On the 19th of 'March last, the deceased was coming from a Mt-nip-field, carrying a heavy.load of turnips, when the prisoner beat her with the butt end of a haunting whip ; she fell, and the violence seas repeated while she lay on the ground. "%Viten she got up, the prisoner beat her again. She then went to bed, and got up next morning, when site was Again beaten by the pri soner. In the course of the dity she became very drowsy, pro. biddy arising from an injury in the head, and in the course of that day she, expired. The prisoner wished to get the 'eddy buried as soon as she could, and when questioned uy the Cler gyman of the starlet) es to the time the deceased died, she va rted in her story ; at one time'she said the girt died on Friday, and afterwards on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The girl was buried, but In consequence of some suspicious circum. stances, the body was disinterred, and an invest held there on, and the issue of that inquiry occasioned the present pro, ceed ing. • Thos. Walton, brother of the deceased; ..id that she was for three years in the employ of the Halfpennys, Margaret Jay, a parish apprentice in the employ of the hus band of the prisoner, stated : I have lived three years with the prisoner ; the deceased lived with her more time three years ; she workd in the fields and at time* in the house. On the Friday before the died she was bringing a basket of turnips from the field to the'house, and the prisoner said, " won't you take them into the house ?" The deceased was' weak in the back, and with difficulty carried the turnips ; she dropped them. The prisoner said to the deceased, " you will pick them up, wontyson ?" and gave her cuts with a whip all the time she was picking them up.—(A large hunting whip was produced.)—Slle struck her violently. The deceased asked me to assist her in earl leg the basket of turnips ; I tried, but tie l'a sh lt u o t n ad into e shoulders th o e uld hu n u o s t e, h a ft m t i g he a n y L e her side, and back. The prisoner desired me to hold one of the i 1 e four prisoner o r five dr b o l v o e w s Mary on 'deceased's arms, and she held the, ether, and we pulled her 'nuq the kitchen, and the prisoner beat her again as she lay on the ground to make her' j=et up. The deceased died on Satur day night on Sunday morning. The deceinted endeavoured to go up stairs and .fell - fermi weakness, and the prisoner . whipped 1 ' again. l' AY/ the prisoner with the gown, pinafore, and ter : • stockings of the deceased, - which she washed at the draw-well. In the course of the day the deceased complained of soreness, At five o'clock on the following morning I got up ; the prisoner 'said, " is not Mary up yet ?" 1 said, no ; she got a holly stick, and saidi'll fetch her down, and she went up stairs, and heat the tteceaeoelVlth the stick ; the deceased complained of the injury, afp went to Led again, and was very ill; the pri 'saner boiled some cider cordial that night, and took it up to the deceased; I went up to the room where Mary Walton was with my mistress, after the master and two children had gone to , bed, my mistress took up, a can of camomile tea; Mary illilton was in bed, undressed ; the prisoner put some canto mile tea in a spoon to Mary Walton's mouth, but she could not get it into it ; she could not speak, but I heard a sort of sound ; she looked at me all the time ; when the girl could, not take It, the prisoner, who had raised her up, gave her a push down in the bed, and said, " the next I brings thee, thee 'shall take ;" the camomile was bought from Mrs.Ueorge ; the prisoner told rue not to tell Mrs. George, when' I went forlt, that Mary W. wits very ill, but that she had only got a cold ; 1 Aid not see that she had a cold ; I lay on the bed by the the. ceased all n ht;' with my clothes on; my mistress told me, `"'den's yoc till the clothes off her, for she is in a nice le 'awed:" dutf i g the night Mary Walton did not move, as I ifelt ; 1 did not know she was then dead ; there was no light 'left in the room during the night I, my mistress called me be tween five and six o'clock on Friday morning; I got up, and went to my mistress's bed-aide, and she told me to go and ask Mary how she was I I then went and put my finger against her cheek ; I found it cold ; I shook her, and then returned to my mistress and told her. She was lying in the same place in the morning where I saw her on the overnight. I said, " she is dead, mistress;" my mistress replied, " she is not, is she ?" and said, " go and- call your master, and tell him to get up directly." My mistress got up and boiled some water in a kettle, and put it into a pail and took it up stairs; I did not go tip stairs; no person came in to assist in laying out the body. .my mistress told me to tell the gentlefolks, it' I was asked, " diat my master went up to assist her in washing and laying out the body, anti that my mistress said she knew no one in the' parish she could send for." My master did go into the room. I observed one, of Mary Walton's eyes was black all round ; I !Mew at that time how it happened, and I told the Coroner at Hanbary, but I have forgot it now. About a week blue befo c r u e t sh h e er died. oti the About o b u e a t d a f w o i r t t i; tiig before, I saw my mistress strike Mary Walton on one eye w i t h her list ; we were washing at the time ; I saw t h e bl ow g i ven ; the e lt e i y b e e o f f or t e he eh d e' ce d e i ft ed, my mistress sed w as a lath.—Cross-exeimined by 3lr. CurtWOOD:-1 lived three years with these people; Mary Walton lived there more than three ears; I believe she told me, that In M arc h l ast , s h e hired for another year, but I am not sure; she told me she had two' pounds , a year .wages. When my mistress was angry about the turnips, on the Friday manning, she beat thedeceased with awhip; the deceased did not say she wanted a doctor, but have sk telling : n i.c o a t rse b try. e ..... e i n :y ite rlew Japusensrosoontni sometimes i nl a i b ei o isa u iv t iel this the been l e she complained of being sore all over. I have been with Mr. Gray, a schoolmaster, at Tenbury, since I left my mistress • I Tenbury is four miles from my mistress's house, anti no doctor b affairae beatenki tchen, s in r e c e l e I a w t l e e i t'llrelt when by my mistress about my head and shoulders, I gen show the us,we w an e bate cire she eu t ; ) I lti he i l liu re s c lse cad w l o le ula tu do lien ss w s l i i i e e n I s i t k ie ed, we a s sid be m at a in k g e us do our duty. I remember the deceased drawing, water about a week before her dead) ; I do not remember that the handle of the windlass slipped and struck her on the head ; I do not know that I have said • so twiee.—Mr. Justice. PAM: : Yes,, you have.—lte-examined : My mistress told me lo tell the gentlefolks, if they asked me how it happened, that the girl was windin g u p water at t h e well, and the windlass came against her head.—By the JUDGE : My mistress told me a l so to tell the gentl e f o lk s , t h at t h e d ecease d scratched her arms with a piece of b r a ss ; I did swear befose the Co roner t h at I saw the handle strike the deceased's' head,' and that she was also sick, • and reached very much, but that was not tree. James Preece : I lived at Mrs. Halfpenny's at the time the deceased lived there ; I remember she had a black eye ; it was ; caused by a blow of the windlass • t I heard the last wi tness say so, but not the deceased.—By the JUDO It r I heard th e p ar i s h girl say so the week before the deceased died. Witness continued : The prisoner is my 'mother ; I saw M ary Walton on , the Friday before she died ; she was very b o d y I saw her again on Friday. night ; site was then very ill ; I did not see her after; I - never heard the prisoner say any thing about what Mary WalteUdied of.—Judge: Be cautinutt'; though the prisoner is your mother, you are sworn toepeak the truths. . Witness: The prisoner told me on the Sunday that the de. Ceased died of a fever; there was no fever in the :house, .s I heard of...—Cross-examined : The last witness i s the parish girl 1 allude to; I never saw- the primer strike the girl with e st i c k o r whip,e...---fly the Judge: I have seen th e p r i soner strike•the dist:cased with her han The deceased had a black eye a weekebefore site died, and it was then the last witness said to me that the deceased had been struck with a windlaiie. Thomas Davies__l was sent for on the Monday sfter the death to see deceased; I saw Mrs. IlairPennY ; she said Vine. thing smelled very strongly ; and there was something ors fever of which the deceased died; i was to tarry the deceased . to her grave on the Tuesday following. By the Juno worked for Mrs. Halfpenny during the week on which the girl died. I never saw the prisoner strike the deceased, or any of het girls, with a whip or stick I worked in the barn during Friday, and beard no cry of mur der or screaming; 1 saw the deceased on Friday morning, and there was no noise or scolding going on then ; I saw MaCY W Walton on Thursday evening working in the turnip-field, and afterwards she was knitting. John Edwards, examined by 31 Caoss-4 wa4o laboureri 'in Mr. Halfpenny's employ threeniontlis agot Mr. Justice PARK—Really, Mr. Cross, you ought not to go so far back as three months before the girl's death. Bring your examination into sonic reasonable compass of time. • %VII did you not put a count in your indictment Of a long course Pe ill usage ? • Mr. C tense. My Lord, I will confine myself to a short period . before the death. . - _ ..... Rev. Mr. officiated at the pariah church for about fortnight at the time of the girl's death; rwent on the Monday after to inquire if any person was dead, as I had heard a rumour ; Mn. Halfpenny told me Mary Talton was dead; I asked it!r. . what she died of ? she replied that she was afraid it was of a very bad infectious fever; I asked her if she had had medical .advice; she said she had not; I asked her why she had not. and her answer was that she thought there was no danger asked her how long the girl had been ill, and she said, " tha t she failed on or about Thursday or Friday ;" I asked her how. long the girl had been dead, and she replied, " Friday morninA ;" but she .corrected herself, and begged my pard on, and said, ""no it .was Saturday morning ;" and afterwards s'te. said, "" no, I ant wrong, it was on Sunday morning ;" she she hoped I would excuse her, as sh e was ve i y much ag . iw , She said the body had become very offensive site said to have ! the truly buried nu Tuestliy af 4r .evm, coffin would be brought home Oat evening, an! 1 was gone to find the rr batons of the d e ceased ; Iti v.,; 30% I t on Tuesday afternoon for the interm e nt an d l e f t tit: I r , turned in about three quarters of a n b oor ; to have the body buried at.l2 o'clock on the Tuesday, .14.-d ••`) up stairs to see the body ;• she took me initujlLLly up s oiir., and turned the sheet down for me to see thecopsc : saw face and shoulders, but obst•rved nothing particular; I tboug 4 I observed a mark over the left eyeond asked her about it; said it was always in that w a y; the body appeared very much swelled it was not offensive . :* had not seen the deceased While she was alive ; she paid pitch hind been burnt in the room: I. smelhul the pitch strtingly.—Cross-examined. Except the front Mr. Halfpenny ; mark on the eye, thtisg was nothing that drew my attention. I. did not measure. the body; Mr. Halfpenny brought a . Jacob Dovey,-.4 am a' coffin-maker, and live four miles . made the coffin for Mary 'Walton • s tring as a measure; I took'th e co ffi n h ome a b out fi ve t i c lack Ott Monday. and w en t u p stairs ; I said it was usual for the coffin' maker to assist in p u t t i ng t h e co rps e into the cof fi n, an d ta'ao to do so • she said no, she was g o i ng t o h ave a woman to allym iG her. Cross-examined : It is not uncontrnsn for persons to send the measure of a corpse, nor is it uncommon for females' w• lay out a female corpse. • , the Mr. John Citing : I ant a surgeon . O n Wedneedel , 24th M arch, I went to Mr. Ilallpenny's house, in comp any i with Mr. Clark. Th e b o d y was taken out of the coffin , and I examined it ; I h a d t h e h ead shaved ; we f oun d ,` I upon the scalp half an inch is length ; it did not pass tigoisi.; the scalp ; th e woun d was on the superior and anterior r.agl s of the parietal bones • there was a discoloumtion of the in teguments round the left e y e an d l e f t temp le , and a contus ion on the'right shoulder-blade.---4 UDG E : That contusion alight have been occasioned by a fall. t' Witness : Yes it W as n o great i n j ury. Th ere w as. super ficial scratch on he right l e g b e l ow th e k nee; both legs yr@ta swollen by .disease ; probably the effect of chilblain* they; were bad wounds ; the arms and hands were neirlY . 3 similar state with th e ' egs ; I removed the scalp, and the the wound on theaiglit parietal bone did no t pene t ra te the sco,P.;, there was contusion, an d extravasation round the wound , nn, n near the right temple. I fi n i n d t h e membranes o f the ht.!! in a natural state ; we- examined the d are a nd pie meter. 11 left hemisphere o f die brain cont a i ne d a b ou t three gla4e.s ,1 water or serum in • th e vent iel es ; on exam i n i ng the nghe hemisphere, I ob se r v ed a s li g h t turg i dity of t h e brain on surface; in other respects it had a natural appearance; I ± le 1 thorax, the h ear t an d l ungs were i n a healthy state ; Ido """ consider th a t theserum k 'found on the leventrieles of the br ain would have caused death. I have heard the ev idence as to 1e treatment the deceasetl i received on the F r id a y morning; a concussion of the bran itroduced her death. Mr. Justice PARK ;,:Could the deceased, baying recei blow with a windlass, hoe gone on for a week, and thee stn‘ deniy have died from the effects of the blow Witness : I cannot say but she might.—Judge Wool) t ll ° blow of this whip have produced such appearances as you ale se-ved ?—.I cannot ; sp9ak positively .what produced the appes.r; an Ts Tite injury wlis ridgy of recent occurrence. Mr. Clarke, surgeon, corroborated the. above.—Q. Do tl k the beating the deceased received on the Friday; judgia. fro n e appearances, was sufficient to cause death P—Witile ss. I di H. t. 1011 Q. Do you think that a.blow from a windlass would WO -- such an appearance ?—Yes. r etire. 'Mr. Justice PARK 1 wish to speak to the parish app thA When did the prisonere tell you to say to the gentlefolks the girl received a blow of a windlass ?—Witnesa : The ley 1t tore the Coroner's Inquest sat. usee l- Alr. Justice PA R K said, that it was essential to the indict to prove, by unquestionable testimony, that the blows inffil - _`,`i, by the prisoner caused the death of the deceased. Such e ar, derma had not been produced ; but the evidence ofthe,.! geon, Mr. Clarke, not only threw doubt upon it, l l"; ,ert completely negatived .the filet . The present, inquiry wo jiri proper one; for, wheiever there had been a loss of huma n ip• I thinx . under suspicious ciretimitnnces, it was highly i m portant quiry should be institutedvr-The Jury, under the (fir" the Judge, acquitted the:priiiner. . . A MOTHER HER CH I.l 'F ies ' 001 Mary Bri a dl e y, aged 20 years, stood indicted AO ' 1 her infant child in a field, with intent to cause its tient °. pace Air. liTax, for the prYsecution, stated, that the ° p r of of which the prisoner stood ch arge d, was . a most misdemeanour. She charge d with desertiPg h fain male child on the II th of July last. It " - Wet' proved that she took the child that morning iVnin c ity, center to a place situate' about three miles from i th i e and there s h e unnaturally left it to perish in ataLe Had the infant died, the prisoner would have had in wio ; her trial for the murder; but Providence ordered it nth er da th , a poor labouring man heard its cries and saved it from, i . the y He should callhis witnesses, an d t he J ury wo uld linY cotEddvidenentecertawinamaaddodutibeedt oftotipieropyreistoinwerfi'ris,glitngt. the prisoner's subsequent admission that it was of the child p~u called upon for har defence, she said a man had offer'. ' her to live with hi m , b ut not to take her child alga. 0 (01 Mr. Justice description, lam happy 'to say , are of occurren rare i n staer, believe for the last hundre d I inui sr „„ 0 00 1 ; years on y one s PAllKe—Oen•Jeraen of the Jury, caie has occurred, and that was a case where a mother her the child with intent to starve child in a garden, which welt destroyed by a kite, Ind tl t '; l eav ing was hanged. The indictment charges the prisoner te! with intending to murder it ; and, Gentlemen, 1 do re u ,: w iii , ; what other intention she could have had ; Prriec ti t lt! its the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, that ir tin' c f . „wag; perished, the prisoner would have been legidifgu iltY l u tiftY and would have been executed. She tartar o'o from the spot where she exposed die infant; Rol OIL' excuse herself by stating that she deserted it nilu e *,,f it n''f, sition that wealthy persons would take better eitie, t io4 o ,: e she could do, because she would have left it 14' 0 ° - been some person's house, and not in a field, if' suchiliti 0 00 motive. You, however, Gentlemen, will say Y' • any doubt of her guilt. ts. l • eft The Jury found the prlioner risor Mr. Justice Peux, in passing sentence, told the p io it. and - one count ctut7_, t crts zt she had been convicted of ono of the most drea d ful that could be 'committed short of murder. In _, 01 ,,!„ - t i the l' r „a Almighty she had been guilty murder, an d tin t a vidence of God the child would hav i perished. .1 wen t. Id, unnatural crime, and called fist exemplary imn is j veal* '- therefore., sentenced her to be imprisoned for labov r * as ter as her health would permit, to be kept w hard days, they etll at the house, • S ' l o l 'g A CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND - /." ,„telli. i ' d —A set of notorious scoundrels are going about tows 7, 10 te; the delivery of coals ; when the coals have been deliY, e i r : sea t ' to look at the Vender's and Meter's tickets thst W er t with the coals ; by this they ascertain the quantilYThir 0 , sent, and the names both of the Buyer and Vender' fot P s ' o l I co►nplisbed, they bring in a bill regularly made 0 11, e pos rent, and in some cases have succeeded in getting "" paid to them anti make some planet') e ofli, tri llj 'llt il . oli Friday, a person culti►.tg himself` .j 04 0 1, Cot iO l tii"dsoYi and pretending to be - a Cornet in ti.e - itteo, 'lards, was apprehended at. 1)ov er, nut fully. cou ni t it" trial, on a ci►er ...of I• /I el-' e Ai r ChtsA g 0 til . , c lark,. urging L leacceptance m . t a r i of the firm of Cox and dreenwood, to a draught dok„„ I, r ) name of William jiindsey, in favour of I.ieut• Verlw" . o . l !parching the baggagF of the prisoner his linen 1). N:, - 4 - nd'his mune is supposed hi be' David Neatlle" i,