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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 16. [MORN/NG CHRONICLE.] We are glad to see that the country seems at 'length roused to the consideration of the case of the starving Spaniards and Italians. The Lord Mayor has received intimations from some of the highest persons in the kingdom, that his humane views upon the subject will find powerful sup poi tern where aid can most eiTectually be admi. iiistered. Lot no time be lost—Never. did a eilW require less deliberation.. Perhaps our friend 7'he courier, who lays claim to a knowledge of the exact movements of lli uisters, will this day inform us that Mr. Robin son, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, retires from his situation before the Meeting of Parlia ment, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. uskisson.—( Ibid.) No express had bean received yesterday from Pai is, and there was not any political news from any foreign station. The Consols have been very inanimate, and the few transactions which have been effected in them were at the same prices for' which they could have been purchased on Tues. clay, 92+1, being the only quotation for the set. clement on the 18th proximo. It is, however, the general opinion that nothing is likely to occur in Europe for some time in any degree calculated to depreciate their value. At present it is the inte. rest of Kings to permit mankind to enjoy repose, and so long as this is the case, there is little chance of the tranquillity of Europe being dis turbed. Hopes may therefore he, and are enter tained, that British National Securities will gra dually advance, and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will before long be enabled to create a two and a half per cent. Stock on which he may found a system of Finance by which one-half of the actual amount of the National Debt may be extinguished without the addition of an iota► to the existing burdens of the people. This will be one of the many benefits which the continuation of peace must, from necessity, bestow on the British nation.—(Mief.) (Tlll 'PUBLIC LIMGEIO It is the Earl . of Harrowby and Lord Sid month who retire, we Understand, from the Ca binet ; and, as there is no intention, it is said, of up the vacancy occasioned by the retreat of the latter, who had a voice, but no depart ' oleo:, the appointment of a successor to Lord Barrow by presents a number of di !lieu !ties. When we say that it will give the ascendancy to one of the parties, into which the Cabinet is now divid ed, the Public will at once see its importance. Each party, of course, is exerting itself to the ut most to introduce one of its own friends; and the issue Will pour It stream Of light into the pew. tralla of our Government, by which - even the vulgar will be enabled to see the spring by which its wheels are moved. Should the nomination fill! On one who is an opponent to political im provement and conciliation, it would be down right nonsense afterwards to speak of the popular bias of our Government; It might be mentioned, way of rhetorical flourish, or perhaps employed to Justify some constitutional anomaly ; but as a practical illustration it . NV OU Id be absolutely ridi culous. If the public feeling were consulted, every one is aware how the matter would be de dided ;or the national interests were considered, • we know on what side the balance would turn. in this view of it alone, the question assumes a deep interest ; for the country has been Ha tier ing itself for some time that omr policy has undergone a great and favourable change? 'and that things would gradually come round to their former state, when England, by a conformity be tween her measures and the spirit of her institu tions, presented ascetic or happiness such as had been, perhaps, never equalled. This hope would be dashed to the ground, were the vacancy in the Cabinet to be filled up in a manner that should sheer that all that has been said about liberality lately, wets merely for show. The people of Ire land would be actually driven to despair; and the brilliant prospects that were opened abroad, would fade more rapidly than they .had arisen. But our hopes on this occasion, we freely confess,. far exceed our doubts ; and it is ow strong per suasion that the liberal party in the Cabinet will triumph In the appointment of a successor to the Earl of Barrow by. [rivrisit ettEss.] The Pali Papers of Monday crime to band last night. The approach of the Session of the Chambers is Infusing activity into the French politicians, especially those who have ranged themselves on the side or the Opposition. To say the truth, if they were inclined to repose, the violent measures pursued by the Ministry anti the Jesuitical party would not leave them at leisure to enjoy it. One of the objects of attack with the ecclesiastical bigots is, the burial ground in the vicinity of Paris, well known under the denomination of the Cemetery of the Pere La Chaise. A pamphlet ha, I wo , ex tensively and gratuitously distributed, styling it . the " atheistical cemetery." Every artifice re sorted to by the Jesuits to concentrate again, in the hands of the Romish Church, all the dim gerous power it formerly possessed. For thii purpose it is deemed necessary that the Priests should have under their absolute controul the places of sepulture ; and this pamphlet is an ex- Pedient to excite the mistaken zeal of the fana tical portion of the community to regard s ith disgust and horror that public usylum of death in which almost ovary ;family lwrasioilttri.some mem ber interred. The ground of Note Lachnise 064 bought by the Municipal Authorities. by whom the grants we made to individuals forthe recep tion of the , mortul remains of their relatives. — It ig rather singular, t h at at the wry rno., meat this outrageous , complaint is tiaistgl , ag ainst this remelt-4y, a sort , of prospeoltits has been issuetl in Loutlem f or i niy ib ir institution, under the title of the Necropolis, , or City of the Dead. The disgusting finconveithmufts resulting from the cramped space of the metropp , litan church-yards have long been felt and re gretted. Lord Stowell, in giving judgment on the case respecting the allowableness of iron cof fins, observed, that the church-yards in London could not be made 46 commensurate to the de mands of a large and increasing population: the period of decay and dissolution did not arrive fast enough, in the accustomed mpde of deposit ing bodies in the earth, to evacuate the ground for the use of succeeding claimants." All con siderations of decency are, however, overborne by the ecclesiastical agitators in France. Whe ther they succeed or not in restoring the un healthy custom of burying the dead in the midst of the habitations of the living, we shall be glad to lend our aid towards abolishing the practice in this country. [MORNING HERALD.] Monday's Paris papers arrived last night. They contain some articles of intelligence from Spain, which, however, are unimportant. One state ment is, that bands of Constitutionalists have taken the field, which, under the circumstances, is neither desirable nor probable. The Curate, or rather Rector Merino, is said to have taken the field against them. Arrests, punishments, and persecutions still continue, and with the me rit of impartiality—for Liberals and Royalists, peasants, artisans, and grandees, are alike visited with the tender mercies of the Apostolic Junta. This Junta, not satisfied with directing every thing from behind the curtain, is about to restore the Inquisition. The name will be different, but the power and its depositories the MM.—The Paris Journals, especially those of the actual Ministry, have taken up the cause of the Irish Catholics with earnestness. They undoubtedly have the right, even by way of retaliation. On this side of the water we arrange with no little self-complacency the politics of our neighbours. We have afforded also precedents of interference. Queen Elizabeth and Cromwell, the only Sove reigns who made England respected abroad, from the accession of the House of Tudor to the Itevo lo►ion, interposed their influence and their arms for the protection of foreign Protestants. There was also, be it remembered—and be it. remem bered honoris causa—a Committee, in 1816, in Loudon, for the protection of French Protestants from persecution. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 14th inst. and tte Eloile of Tuesday reached us last night by express.— They contain intelligence from Madrid to the 3d, at which time the King's health was so en tirely re-established that no more bulletins were to be issued. Prince Maximilian of Saxony, and the Princess Amelia, his daughter, had not yet arrived, although they had been daily expected at the Escurial for a considerable time. They are said to have been detained at Burgos " by the wish of seeing the antiquities' bf that city." We believe that a truer reason may i(n' assigned for the delay. A father who comes from a dis tant land to embrace his daughter is not 'apt in general to linger on the way in search of old ruins. But a Prince who sees with his own eyes the contempt and detestation is viewed by his subjects, and who finds that SOD abandoned by the Allies whose arms fornt ed his only force, may well pause and ascertain what will be the result of this desertion, before he needlessly rushes into the midst of the dan ger. hail the French remained at Madrid, Maximilian would long since have reached the capital, but he stays at Burgos, where he is still tinder their protection, as in a post of observa tion, and his sudden love for antiquities is only a just and prudent regard for his own safety.— The Madrid Gazette publishes new regulations approved by the King, relative to the steps to be taken by such of his subjects, conformably to the Treaties of 1814 and 1815, have any claims to make on the Royal Treasury of France. Be fore adopting any direct steps, they must have those claims approved by the Committee of Li quidation. [Num- Times.] This day will be held a Special General Court of the Equitable Society, to consider the motion for referring to the Court of Directors various matters connected with the disposal of the large surplus eltisting beyond the present value of the claims on the society. We need not repeat what, we have already said of the great in• terest felt in this question by a large part of the Tho Equitable Society is, in point of fact, n partnership of which the different classes of Members stand in different relations to the common Fund f ati to their actual or contingent interest 4 in it. The,Surplus applicable to their benefit is said to amount to betwooO ,Two and Three Millions Sterling ; and it may not p er h a ps be easy to determine at once how this vast sum is to hi, ;Worth:flied among those wh o are entitled to a participati on . One thing is cortain, that the '4)Ciety will proceed with that equity, with that tiwav r oi m ., and whit that prudence, which have hitherto charac terised all their measures. The motion v f to. day is to refer the con,idoratioo o r tt wc $ o _ Wtect to the Directors, with foil itistturtion, act° the points on which (for the satisfallori L o f On; Proprietary at large) they will have to re. port. This mode" of proceeding'at Once attests tiholenocu°rnflad of the :d k nee integrity of t. ft.gil(;(l:ati:tn6tluert n ai'ei i i who have so ably administered the concerns of the society ; and at the,:satne tuft it relieves the !Ater from a situation of some delicacy in k which they might have stood had they offered their sentiment., to th e prpprietogs,xithout being exactly await. of the points"'nn which the latter req uired in formation. If this motion' be carried (of vihich, ftwn the onatamity, of the last Court, there can be little douV)pthieDfr e ctors will .not, ,o 1 1) ha ve 'to report 3)t:Ui4,l4 l liti ß k[iir 'rcbjection of the measures submitied , ip , AaitAleliborationi but they will have to.state-tiT'grottnds op whicli their recommendation iii both prititeeds. L Thus a document o t great importance, both " Tor its general reasoning and for its par- Ocular application, may be eipected to be produced. he Members of tl4 l Plirtneribip *lone have a right to its benefits ; but their lute rests are to be considered on a broad scale, weighing the future against the present, and em bracing both the actual and the contingent. A singular method is observed by this Society to insure a regularattendance at the General Courts in points of time. Every one must have observed how much time is lost at public meetings in gene ral by the delay of their commencement. If the hour fixed be eleven, the business rarely begins before twelve. To obviate this, in the Equitable Society, every Member of the Court who arrives before eleven o'clock receives a ticket entitling him to half-a crown; so that those who attend Punctually not only have the advantage of un derstanding all the business that is transacted, but save their coach hire into the bargain. [TIIE TIMES.] We stated yesterday, on what we believe to be good information, the objects of the recent series of Cabinet meetings. Of all the questions which can come before the Ministry and the Parliament, the most pressing and important un doubtedly is, " What shall we do with Ireland ?" it has been said in high quarters, that the violent language of the Catholic demagogues and priests " are serious obstacles in the way of any " concession to the general body of the Ca tholics." Why should any practical serious ness be attached to things in reality so trilling? For the priests, we shall say nothing— it will be easy hereafter to lay them and their anger on the shelf ; but with respect to the lay part of the Association, we assert our firm belief, that they have not entertained, from the outset of their exhibition, and do not at this mo ment meditate, any one scheme or hope whatever of the slightest evil consequence to the State' it self, or to any ono interest , protected by the State, except it be the old Orange monopoly of place and power in Ireland. A rebellion! 'What would such men as O'Connell and his friends, consisting, as they do chiefly, of barristers, ner chants,and countrygentlemen,what could such men look for in the course of a civil conflict, but broken heads, or at the best of it, rags and hunger, banish ment and confiscation of their properties ? They know their weakness better ; but, what is as much to the purpose, they know what they already en joy, and what they may by fair means pretend to, without a fatal risk• to themselves, or confu sion and wretchedness to their country.—The Associators who make speeches, have been try ing an experiment on the nerves of English men, and have rather overacted their part.— They have been puerile enough to league with the French newspapers, as well as with their own priests, for an assault upon the mind of Eng land. Now, considering them as men who have reasonable ground for the complaint, we could have allowed for their intemperate remonstrances —their honest indignation —their impetuous abuse of those to whom they ascribe their grievances (for there may very well be a negative grievance), but we must subjoin, that they ought not to have thriatened their English f e ll o w-subjects, because the English are not a nation to be bullied. We consider the Catholic leaders, ther e f ore , as any thing but a dangerous body of statesmeu : they have, an far no nu 44641nri dor aft (lc J gone near to spoil a fine and promising game. There is, however, another circumstance to be looked at in this Association —we 111611 11 its combining within itself the great bulk of property and character which (over and above what has been assumed for themselves by the agitators) is to be found among the Catholics. This union of the respect able N o bility, Aristocracy, and. Catholic Gent►y of Ireland, with the 66 Association," is an addi tional ►argument against fearing the secret designs of that body, and in favour of admitting its avowed pretensions. Do Lords Kenmore and Fingal seek to bring about a revolution ! The Catholics have a right to union among themselves, and to whatever moral influence upon the Govern ment and on public opinion can lob derived from such an evidence of their general harmony and sincerity. If, therefore, we conceive that there would he political danger Land such un questionably is our strong impression) in now re fusing their claims, the danger strikes us to be that of withholding a constitut►onal right from the sober, the moderate, and well-conducted majority of the Catholics—not that of exasperat ing the violent and factious, whose confidence iu their own cause might well be distrusted were we to make their measures only the bases on which to reason. .I.II3TRUCTIVE liuttrttemt.E.—A. letter received in Greenock, dated Frederica, St. Slmeon's Island, (ieorgie, Sept. 00, states that the hurricane had proved very destructive. 11any of the .planters were en tirely.rumed ; the cotton end corn crops being destroyed, and the houses, fences,.and cattle swept away. Many of the poor negroes saved themselves by ,floating on pieces of wood: One planter had sustained a loss of sixty thousand dollars. Another hits lost about twenty houses and his cotton. crop, 1,000 bands of rice, and 100 heads of sheep. The roads were rendered impassable by fallen trees, and from the bridges being all washed away which has almost entirely cut oflthe com munication between plantations, towns, &c. About one hundred persons .had lost their lives. A Mr. Snow, lost his daughter, his sister.in.law, two brothers-in-law, together with a gen tleman, Mr: Merril; who was paying his addresses to his were all in. the Same house, and were washed away. Air. they Snow and his wife unveil themselves by float ing on trees nr log for oor 11 hours. The body of Mr. Merril had since been fclUnd, and in one of his hands he had a piece, of the gown of tiro young lady, whom he had perhaps attempted to sure, and to whom he was to have been wedded. DuEt.s.— m On Su n d ay last, a meeting took. place at Calais betw een Mr. KEMP and Mr. NATII4- Nirr: RoNALno, the latter (:elitiemait being one of the parties who had heel , lately conipelled_ to enter into recogoi zauce s to keep7he peace. Oil t h e word being given; Mr. Knit. fired his ,pistol in Ilse Air, en which the seconds interfer• ed, and Mr. Ka m p hav i ii , g in the presence of their respective friends, ic exo nerated Mr. Ros.Lns m fro a ll knowled ge or participation in the pro ceedinp which, led to the interference of the police on the former occdsion; Matteis were TO - eahly adjusted.—A meeting too k pl ac e hi a field near Blackness, between 'a Mr. it -----s and Mr. M`K-- - v. The parties fired by signal, when % % M.'s hall passed through Mr. it.'s arm. The seconds immediately interfered, and Mr. R. was conveyed to a house, where surgical aid was promptly procured. he wound was considered . slight. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 15. BURTON V. DUNHAM. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, General Napier Christie Burton, of New-street, Dorset-square, to recover from the defendant, who is a Sheriff's officer, compensation for in jury sustained by him, in consequence of the defendant having seized his goods upon an execution issued against a person of the same name. The case stated by Mr. BROUGHAM, and sworn to by the plaintiff's servants, was, that on the 6th of January, about five or six o'clock in the evening, the defendant, accompanied by a man named Biss, came to the plaintiff's house, and seized his goods under an execution for 2481. The plaintiff remonstrated with them, and assured them that although he and the person against whOM the execution issued were of the same name, he (plaintiff) did not owe any person so much money ; but the defendant was deaf to all remonstrance, and having left hiss in possession of the goods in New-street, and having ascertained that the plaintiff had a country-house at llornsey, he went there, seized the household furniture, and left a person in possession. On the next day, when the error was discovered, the two men were withdrawn, and an apology was made by the defendant; but the servants of the plaintiff; who were present when the apology was made, did not think he was satisfied with it, but i they swore that he shook his hand at the defendant's men as lie was accustomed to do when in a passion. The plaintiff gave instruction* on the filth of January to take proceedings, but a writ was not sued out until the month of May. Mr. SCARLETT for the defendant said, it was quite evident from the delay which had taken place in bringing the action, that it was the action of the plaintiff's attorney, and not of the plaintiff, who he was satisfied was too honourable a man to punish in the shape of damages a man who had merely com mitted an error for which he was sincerely sorry, or to add to the loss of the parties who had employed the defendant, and who had already lost the amount (2481.) of the bill of exchange which was drawn by the plaintiff's son who was now dead. If he were instructed rightly, he ,should be able to prove that the plaintiff, so far from bringing an action, had promised on the 7th of IJanuaty last that if a suitable apology were made he would not institute any proceedings. The apology required was made, and the General having expressed himself satisfied the action in its present form was not maintainable. George Gray examined—On the 7th of January last I went by directions of the defendant to the plaintiff's house to apologise to him for having put in the execution, and to shoe him his son's bill of exchange for 2281. which was the cause of bringing the action. When the bill was shewn to the plaintiff he said it was not his hand-writing, but was the hand-writing of his nephew who had been dead for several years. I said I trusted that as the defendant had acted through mistake the General would not take any proceedings against him. The General replied, . it was a most unjustifiable proceeding, but that the defendant bad done nothing more than his duty. I then said that Burt, and Johnson (the Attorneys who had obtained the execution) were very sorry for the mistake, to which the General said that he had received a letter from fluid and Johnson which said nothing: and that the letter was not at all satisfactory. I again pressed him to accept an apology from the defendant, but liesaid that a great injury had been done to his character as a gentleman and a man of honour, and that his servants would give their tongues liberty. The officer who had been in charge of the plaintiff's goods then suggested that the apology should be made in the presence of the servants, and the General then said he would call the servants. The bell was then rung, and the footman and cook having come into the parlour, the officer said that the execution had been put in through a mistake— that the General's honour ought not to suffer by the circum stance--and that the General had been kindly pleased to accept', this apology and to decline bringing an action against the Sheriff's officer. As I was gOing away the General desired that I should take away the man from Ilornsey and make the same apology to the servants there. I said I had instructions to withdraw the man in possession, and that I should make an apology to the servants at Hammy. I gave a similar explana tion to the servants at Horns . When I le ft the General the e l / 2 impression on my mind wa s, as far as 31r. Dunham was concerned, the General watt sat ed with the apology. it clerk from the office of Hurd and Johnson swore, that on the morning of the 7th of January last, about twelve o'clock, he delivered a lateen) the General from 'llurd and Johnson, apo logising for the mistake.—(The letter was then put in anti read.)—When the plaintiff read that letter, lie said it was a great mistake to make between a Captain and a General ; that the bill of exchange was drawn by his nephew, who was a Captain in 1817, and who could not by the most rapid pro motion be a General in 1824. ' The witness then corroborated the testimony of the last witness respecting the apology, &C. After this had been done, the General was in good humour, and related the manner in which the attempt had been made on his life. • - ' John piss gave similar testimony. Mr. llnotronwas having replica, }lto r.r...-.1.4 1 t ►1 numpriro ..p J.s. If which set of witnesses they believed. lithe believed the plain tiff's witnesses, a verdictinust be found for hint, with such moderate damages as they might think justice required ; but if they believed the defendant a witnesses, a verdict must be fbund for him. The Jury . having deliberated for about ten minutes, found" a verdict for the plaintiff'—Damages 201. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 15. ( Sittings after llfichaehnas Term in Guildhall, beibre Lord 'Chief Jnelice BraT and a Special Juryi GIYING CHARACTER TO A SERVANT* ; WYATT V. COCKS AND ANOTIIF.R. BD. STEPHEN opened the pleadings. Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the case.= • This an action for loss of character. The plaintiff, Elizabeth l'iryat,:lived in was the service of Mr. Cocks, a most respectable Gentleman, and a banker at the West.iend of the town, and remained there two years and half. Finding the situation too hard for her, she g ave notice to Mrs. Cocks that she would leave. Mrs. Cocks warned : the plaintitragainst " quitting her service, as if she did, , she would have to return to the country—to poverty; and perhaps disgrace." She afterwards wished her to remain in her service. The plaintiffafter leaving Mrs. Cocks went to Mrs. Burnet, who applied for her character to Mrs. Cocks, front which anise the cause of the present action. Mrs. Cocks represented the girl ns being deficient In every thing, that she kn e w n o thi n g of hair dressing or dressing. Among other expressions she said that the girl was "unsteady." Now that word might bear many con structions, but with Lathes of education, like Mrs. Cocks and Mrs. Burnet its meaning could not be mistaken --rfor Mrs. It answered to ad s effect. --"- If that be the case (unsteady) I have daughters growing up, and she is very unfit to be about them." _Thi o wa s the ground of the action. The plaintiff was in humble circumstances, but her character was the dearest thing she had, and he trusted that the Jury would so consider it.— The plaintiff had been refused service in consequenee of Mrs. Cocks refusing to give her a character. She had been reduced to great distress. As a further act of kindness, indeed, the only one on the part of the defendant, he made this a Special Jury case—ntidoubt thinking that they, being'inasters, would know how to deal with the case. He would only add, that the, girl had given general satisfaction to her mistress, and he did not see why a servant should be compelled to remain in a moral prison, from the fear of not getting a character from her mistress. Airs. Burnett—Remembers about a twelvemonth ago calling on Mrs. Cocks, of Harley-street, for a character of Elizabeth Wyatt, for honesty, sobriety, &c. ; Mrs. Cocks said she was perfectly honest and sober, but that there was a general want of steadiness in her conduct ; that was the whole of her answer ; witness inquired ifplaintiff was a good dress-maker, defendant replied, that she knew very little of dross-making; she said that plaintiff was formerly a nursery-maid; after the expres 'ion of want of steadiness, witness said that she bad daughters growing up, and that she could not take a person of that cha racter ; defendant made no answer to this ; she said that she. afterwards took her to attend about her own person. Cross-examined.—She said that her want of steadiness about the children was the cause of' her making the change of taking her about her own person. • Mr. William Kinnaird Jenkins had occasion, on Wednes day, 7th January, to waft on Mrs. Cocks, in consequence of what he had heard respecting Betsy Wyatt. Mrs. Cocks had been a pupil, ef .hits. He said, " Mrs. Cocks, did you KAY j to Betsy Wyatt She was to return toiler wretched hovel in. , the country, and that you would take care that the should not get another situation In .London ?" She answered, "I be •heve I was hasty in making the expression respectintr the wretched hovel in the country, hut I did not say any Thing about, a situation." I then said to her, " I hope you are not rose; .to ,refuse the girl a character." She replied, " Bow can I give her a character for steadiness, when she left my house at five o'clock in the morning, to go I know not where,? I awoke between three and four in the morning, but waited till five or Ititlfpast five before I rung the bell, .for fear of alarming the house—that was the reason of my discovering her being out." She did not say at what time of the year it was. She believed it was in the Regent's Park that the plaintiff had been, The house of Mrs. Cocks is close to the Regent's Park. ,I said to Mrs. Cocks that it' a servant of mine had done so I should discharge her instantly. Cross.examined.—l asked the girl why she had deceived Mrs. Jenkins by not telling her she had been out in the Park in the morning. She then wept, and said she was willing to apologize to 1(lre. Cocks for so doing. I told her to consult Mr. Stephens, the attorney,? and Mr. Ballantyne, the clergy man, before she did any thing. Re:examineti.--iilien I told her of the complaint of going .it was before fale left. N hen I saw Mrs. Cocks, she said th at out at five in the inornintf 7 , she did not say how many months she did not refuse to give the plaintiffa character, but oliserved, " how can I give her a character for steadiness, when she is not steady ?--I cannot give an unjust character." I then spoke of an apology, and said 1 would go and speak to plaintiff about it. Elizabeth Lee remembers plaintiff leaving the house. I tan a servant to Mrs. Cocks. I remember Mrs. C. saying that I might tell Betsy to go to see her. I said to Betsy, gown and make an apology. I remember the morning when Be tse y to the Regent's Park. It was twelve months before she gave notice of leaving. She attended the children, and afterwards waited on Mrs. Cocks ; she had the care of a child who fell ill. Mrs. Cocks was satisfied with her conduct. Cross-examined—l did not hear Sir William Knighton find fault with her. Re-called—l did not know what the apology was for. It was something private between Mrs. Cocks and Betsy. The Phin tiffremained a twelvemonth after the morning of going o ut to the Regent's Park. Barnard Stadds, butler in the family. I heard Mrs. Corks say to t s h a child t s : I Be t syel g b t believ e vspieleeli pelisse s w ieg a s L a ns n tla e r w ' e if rf after the child recovered. 3lr. Sergeant Vauc HAN addressed the Jury for the defend. avast her, mistresssh sh e pelisse ; it fowr pleased; a sh heard en d r o n e l a y o tion of malice must be proved. What would the Jury ant, contending that there was no malice proved and before a verdict could be given for the plaintiff, the inten a servant girl going out at live o'clock in the morning without the knowledge of her mistress ? But the girl was refused a character—she might have gone into the service of 3lr. Alex ander if she thought proper.: lie would not say that she Was not right in getting her character cleared first, but that might have been done without Wring recourse to an. attorney and an officious clergyman. The allusion to the case being üb* mitted to a special Jury was not at all called for. Sreeld Jurymen, as masters, must feel as sensibly alive to the conduct of servants as other persons. The girl could not be termed steady who was reproved by Sir William Knighton fou r s areles S. a situation in London, ness in nursing a sick child, and 3frs. Cocks was jified in think of giving a character as she found the girl to deserve. In fact she denied having had anyintention a preventing her getting consequently no malice could be assumed, nor was any proved the On these grounds he confidently expected a verdict for De fendant. The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, observing, that if Mrs. which was the sting of the charge, an_t! Cocks had discharged the plaintiff on the day of he r being in the Regent's Park, telling her at the same time that she would not give her a good character , s he would be justified ; having kept her for twelve months afterward s, and hav ntitled ing brought no other charge against he r, the plainff was e to have a character. The question of malice was for th e May to consider. If they thought there was no malice, and th at the plaintiff' had not suffered in character, they would find for the defendant ; but if otherwise, they would find for the plain tiff', and give what damages they , t h oug ht would place her in the same s ituation she stood before leaving the defendants service. The Jury retired for one hour an d a half, a nd returned verdict for the plaintitT—Damages 1004 CAEN NORMANDY, Dcc. 9. At the Assizes held-here, a female, of the ite ms of Marie Desvages, a native of this province,irs put to the bar, accused of having destroyed 11,. new-born child, under circumstance s of the ma!' aggravating nature. It appeared from the evii dence of the witnesses, that on Fri da y , asking of of July, she was seen by two persons walk'fig on the road that leads from Roulones to Vire... — Spots of blood were observed on her, and ! . I , le appearance of the woman exciting co nsidera ble suspicion, search was made in the neighbour hood. Spots of blood were traced to some do:. tance, and a parcel of foul linen was discovered . close to a hedge, very near the side of the road. On a closer inspection the foot of a new..h°,!" child was seen appearing above the ground, he body and the head not being visible. The ie. fant was removed with precaution from its hastily' formed grave, and, to the astonishment Of th e spectators, it was ascertained that the poor little innocent still breathed. Its mouth had been closed with part of a handkerchief rolled all n i , ll ats.r. n 0 " Om rut pow, no d olly,' of causing suffocation, or preventing its cries b eing heard. The wretched mother confessed that t h child was her own, hut would not state wh o the father was ; the child had been placed by n self in the situation it was found ; she a lso added, that she dug the hole in the earth before the child was brought forth, and immedia tel y it made its appearance, it was covered with th e soil. Tl,vo physicians, who were examined by the Judge , er• respecting the extraordinary circumstance of the child being found alive, stated it as t heir opinion, that the infant being placed in the earth the verY instant it was born, it was quite possible that i t might continue to live in this situation as whe n in the mother's womb : the poor little creature had remained in this situation, totally exclude d from the air, from eight in the morning till fhe ear in the afternoon. The child was conveye d to t Foundling Hospital, and does not appear to hav suffered an e ill effect from its having been 5,° many hours y under ground. The mother was foun,... guilty on all the counts, and the Prociireur be passed on her. A law, Roi was of opinion that sentence of death sh° ll ! dates from the 24th of June last, ena ble . co o. Court to mitigate the sentence, and she on" demned to hard labour for life. however, thatdergYe of beer, have resolved to abstain from th e use since the late unwarrantable a d v ance of id , pe r jy pot in the price by the brewers. of Ci re ncester The'Ma orit of the.iehabitants '3301: °(Otliitt°o:l3l: 6'9 COAL MARKET, Dtc• IS. Ships at Market. Ships sold WI Newcastle - . 30i 35:1 Sunderland -14 f BIRTHS. ' of th e On the 11th inst., the lady of John Lowden, LA., Church-yard, Bedford-street, Covent - g arden, of a •son. On the 13th inst., at Grove-hlll, Camberwell , IVIFs• Wynne, of a daughter. MA RRIED. ll in - -,_„fton..ui , At St. Andrew's, Ilolborn, John Hewitt, of UP' , the WC the county of Kent, Esq., to Anne, third daughter et Mr. John Howie, of queen-street, Cheapsid e. sec ond Mr, T . Vaughan. of Enfield, to Elizabeth Edridge, daughter of 13. Edridge, P.sq" theßev Buntingford,.llerss. Robert OnTuesday, the 14th inst , at Charlton , onist Lynam, A.M. to . Elizabetb, s econd d a ughter of li fie. . . , Cotsworth, of ;Blackheath. . h, CO' Elizabeth Ann, daughter of B. Jacob, On Wedneaday, the 15th inst.,Giles's chtuc side, t o herwell, 31r. Henry Congreve.„ of Wood-street , di e " b o wl Westrninster-road. . ___—'...-------- Esq., of Urn* . • D I ED. !Virg. On the 14th inst., at Thenford, Northamptonshire, ' On. I; Ingram, in 'her 77th year. 11 i )t* Gloucester-street, Portman-square. f Mr' 4 —m i stY , the 1 3th inst., aged 74, Mrs. NOrMstise 1 °n t he.l4ll ' inat, at Has& ', Elizabeth, the wife o , • Joseph E ll iott, late. Quartern gs taster of the Royal ,•4 0il Y i ' aged . On Tuesday, the 14th inst., • te r ' On Wednesday, William Glirimes E of 1 utlgat e- ; 4 , • sq„ • , in his'B2d year. 111 0 ' Elizabeth Cato, widow of the late Mr. Thomas Cato, of aly born.hill; in the 71st ymr‘of her age. - • • ••-)plict On Sunday, the Nth inst., at Cheltenham, Mt. Chro., Emmott, , late of fkicester.square, aged M. hilAt • On the 7th of May last, at Serampore, was drowned/ sl • • bathing, Captain J. C. Carne, of the East India ComPanY ' at her house at Islington, „.si, Artillery, son of John Came, of FalmOuth, Esq. --- —'-'-:-----"ait.".. r Printed and Published for the Pitorltivrotti, at the *, OFFICE, No. 112, itrand, by J. D. CAROTAIS6. 1 I