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4ons on to irn and I . • . Orrts i . ,-,-. .. ' '' 'A• /I/ - ii- 14- ill q • _=?.-'- --- 0 ** , . - - - .4" , ~:::- . Nmgrovio. Ste' H 1,/ ‘-a• :sent, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1824. mbla Ma• NUMBER 9826. PRICE SEVENPENCE. ARMY—HALF-PAY, PENSIONS, &c. ARMY PAY OFFICE, Whitehall, London, 16th February 1824. IT appearing evident to the Paymaster-Ge neral, from various representations made to him by Claimants for Half-Pay, Pensions for Wounds, Retired Pay, Widows' Pensions, &c. that many Officers and others, resid ing in the Country, are ignorant of the means by which, agree ably to the Regulations of the Department, they may receive their Allowances from this Office— favourite among all that were acquainted with the family. These inquiries proved fruitless, no tidings of the little inno cent could be obtained. No one had seen it, nor had any suspicious persons been seen about the village. The agony of Mrs. Sewell now became dreadful, her loss was soon known at every house, and all humanely sympathised in her sufferings. Emissaries were dispatched in every direction,, the garden and every spot that could be thought of as a place of concealment, was examined, but still without success. Mr. Hoare, the land lord of the Swan Inn, immediately lode off to apprize the fa ther of the mysterious disappearance - of his child, while every man in the village who could obtain a horse, rode off at full speed in different directions, in the hope that some person might be stopped who had taken the child away for some sinister purpose. It was calculated that at one time there were not less than 300 horsemen thus engaged. All thepraise-worthy activity, however was as fruitless as the first search, and the messengers kept dropping into the village at different hours of the night, lamenting that their exertions had been in vain, but still hoping that some of their friends might have been more fortunate than themselves. In the mean time the father arrived, and joined in the general pursuit. As the feelings of the neighbours became more calm, they naturally renewed their examination of the servant girl, as to whether she had left the kitchen during the evening, or whe ther she had seen any body come in ? She denied having seen any person whatever ; but admitted that she had gone out of the back door for some water ;--and what, in a great measure, relieved her from suspicion, was, the fact of her having run in all directions, inquiring for the child, with as much apparent distraction as her mistress, crying and wringing her hands in the most vehement manner, and lamenting, in boisterous terms, the loss of the " little dear !"—At one o'clock she was sent to Mr. Hoare's, at the Swan inn, for a pot of beer. Mrs. Hoare then made some observations on the sufferings of her Master aid Mistress. In reply to these observations she.only laughed, and evinced a levity very different from the sorrow she had previously manifested. This excited considerable disgust in the minds of Mr. Hoare and his wife, but it led to no positive conclusion in their mind. _ _ INCOME' AND EXPENDITURE OF 'I'HL UNITED KINGDO FOR THE SUN. 'reii trYt Pub oruni An ACCOUNTof the NET PUBLIC INCOME of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and TRBLAND, in the Year ended. the Sti ofJaneary,lBl4. after abating the EXPENDITURE thereout defrayed by the several Revenue Departments, and of the netn,l twines or Pay' meats within the same period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded Debt, or for PR vimg. oft Unfunded Debt. THE NEW TRAGEDY. t - .. . Applicable to the Applicable to INCOME. Consolidated other Public Ser. Income paid into Fund. vices. the Exchequer. ----- ---- . -- _ j? s. d. S s. d. X 3. d. Customs . . •• . . . . . 8,797,087 13 31 901,1,694 19 7 11;494,782 12 10i Excise . s - . - - . - . 94,533,021 I lei 500,807 0 0 p 5,849,629 . 1 1 0 3 p . Stam ' - . . . • 6,501,950 0 41 6 , 801 , 950 0 4 i Taxes under the managementofthe Commissioners of Taxes, including the Arrears o Property Tax - - - - - - 6,909,990 18 6 3,936 10 93 6,206,847 891 Post Office - - - - .. - - . 1;469,699 6 li 1,462,699 6 It One Shilling and Sixpence Duty on P ens i ons an d S a l ar ie s , an d F our Shillings in th - Pound ea Pensions - - - . - . - 61,153 7 31 . 61,359 7 3j Hackney Coaches and 'Hawkers and Pedlars - - . •153,880 0 0 b3890 0 0 Crown Lands - - - - - - - 966 13 4 966 13 4 ... Small brooches of the King's Hereditary Revenues - - - - 4,174 4 11 4,174 4 11 Surplus Produce of Lottery, after payment of Lottery Prizes - • 24,809 3 0 94,209 8 0 Surplus Fees, Regulated Public Offices - - - . - . 29,718 17 4 39,719 17 4 Poundage Fees, Pells Fees, Casualties, Treasury Fees, aad Hospital Fees •-• ' 10,408 13 03 10,209 13 01 Total Ordinary Revenue - - 51,509,276 8 11l The mount of Savings on third Carl of the Civil List - • 11,018 19 74 11,018 19 2 Money brought from the Civil List on account of the Clerk of the Hanaper - . 7,918 4 71 7,91 e 9 7 Money received in Repayment of the Loan raised for the service of the Emperor . Germany, per Acts 35, and 37, Geo. 111. - 766,666 13 4 766,666 13 4 By the East India Company on account of Retired Pay, Pensions, &c. of his Majesty's ' Forces serving in the East Indies, per Act 4 Geo. IV. c. 71. - 90,000 0 0 90,000 0 0 By the Trustees of Militaty and Naval Pensions, &c. after deducting 175,0001. included in the remains in the Exchequer nt the sth of January, 1823 4,675,000 0 0 4,675,000 0 0 By the Bank of England, to pay interest on 1,050,0001. advanced in Exchequer Bills to the Trustees of Military and Naval Pensions. &c. - 10,712 0 o 10,719 0 0 By the CommissiOners for issuing Exchequer Bills, for Public Works - - 116,733 15 5 116,733 lb b Money repaid in Ireland on account of advances from the Consolidated Fund, under va rious Acts for Public Improvement - - - . - 108,919 1 111 109 , 219 1 lli Imprest and other monies paid into the Exchequer - - - - 319,085 IS 101 59,969 9 0 379,047 6 104 48,180.8116 14 2 8,492,669 16 23 57,672,999 843 - - -- EXPENDITURE. NBT EXPENDITURE. - .- - - Dividends, Interest, and Management, of the Public Funded Debt, four quarters, to 101 h October, X. s. d. X. a. d. 191*, exclusive of 7,407,3931. Os. 10,1. issued to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt 214 , 084 , 584 1 2 10 Interest on Exchequer Bills and Irish Treasury Bills, exclusive of 75,000/. *inking Fund . 1,131,191 19 7 29,913,706 12 5 Issued to the Trustees of Military and Naval Pensions, &c. per Act 3 Ceo, TV, c. bl - - . 9.507,130 0 0 Ditto Bank of England, 4 Geo. IV., c. 19 - - - - - - - 992,870 0 0 ---. 2,800,000 0 0 Civil List, four quarters, to 6th January, 1894 - - - .. - " . 1,057,000 0 0 Pensions, charged by Act of Parliament upon Consolidated Fund, four quarters, to 10th October, 1928 877,776 2 4 Salaries and Allowances - . . - - - 70,573 15 6 Officers of Courts of Justice - . - . - - - - 97,459 6 6 Expenses of the National Debt Office - - - - - - - 9,200 0 0 Expenses of the Mint. - - - - . . . - 11,746 10 8 Bounties - - - . - . - 9.958 13 8 Miscellaneous - - - 914,735 11 9 - - - - - Ditto, Ireland - - - 305,257 17 S - --- Army 2,143,006 1 1 .. . - - - - - - - 7,35 1 ,991 16 11 Navy - - - - - 5,414,151 2 2 - . . Ditto, Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital to pay Out-Pensioners - - - - 155,000 0 0 Ordnance - - - . . . - 1,361,298 5 73 Miscellaneous - - - - - . - . 1,953,366 2 10 - 16,9119,537 6 93 By the Total - - . . - - - 52,790 ,6 11 50,439,550 033 194 for Employment of the Poor toners for issuing paid to B a nk ofEnglanEd.momieutehraßn i rec ils, e i i , v e e r d A f c r t o s m 7 G th e e o m . I TB l., a c ce . o n un a t n o d f Un , elnitssed Dividends - - - - 165,900 0 0 - - - Advances out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland fur Public Works . . . 304,54 in 9 532,464 17 8 • ' Total I ncome - - - . . 50,063.0 14 6710,984 10 17 1 4 - - -•- Surplus of paid in the Excheqeer over expenditure thereout . - --- . Mn. EDITOR—The new Tragedy of _Alava: which has been for some time in rehearsal pre4 with Covent-Garden Theatre, has, I find, been vvitil drawn by the Manager of that -Establishment. ander the censure of the Lord Chamberlain', office. As the infliction of such a censure can h , called for, or justified, only by some religio.l , . moral, or political objection to its public appear ance on the stage, and as the discredit of pri ducing a work to which any one of these objec tions can be honestly made might, by conjecture. attach to some writer whose interests or feelin l : , may suffer by the imputation, I think mys(-1, bound thus publicly to avow, that .1 am the a!: - thor of the production in question, arid solely re sponsible.for whatever poetical or political delis • quencies it may be found to contain.. nade, nd iG - esty's - rcuin F Wyse: ed bX Notice is hereby given, That all Officers, or other Persons, °II the List of Unattached General Officers, Half-Pay, Retired NI and Half-Pay, Military Pensions for *Wounds, Widows' Pensions, Royal Bounty, or Compassionate Allowances, &c. 114 !'Y receive their Pay, or Pension, as the case may be, in any of the three following modes, viz,— ; tile %jestef ► slid"; y thii , an' lod of Y Personal application at this Office; or Through an Agent, resident in London, duly authorised by P °wer of Attorney ; or . gene , h de in the By Remittances, without any deduction or abatement what ", by Bills drawn out by this Office in their favour, payable ' 3ll demand by the Receiver-General of the Land Tax, the Col- Itt lects of Cess in Scotland, the. Collectors of Customs, or Col 17t4ts of Excise, in any part of the country , u nder the Act 4t h Geo. HI. Sess. 2. Cap. 23. In hitherto withholding my name, and sub mitting my work entirely to the disposal of ltir KEMBLE, I was influenced only by literary diffi dence ; for I should consider myself asdishonoure(! , indeed if I had ever written a line which, in an" circumstances, I should be either ashamed or afraid to avow. r con. ice of 5 and gnOr" All Officers, or other persons, desirous of receiving their Pay, I/r Pensions, &c. in the mode last mentioned, should apply for a B Peiel Instructions and Forms of Affidavits, &c. by Letter ad ;relied to the Right Honourable the Paymaster - General , 44 411, London, when every Information will be afforded to th ern. opceis I and Those persons to whom I am known will not readily believe me capable of composing a work which could he justly charged as being in any re spect inimical to the religious, moral, or political interests of my country. itrietA ,caries es, of ,art of domi- ri ,„ EAST INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 18, 1824. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the LAND UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS . of ENG ' Lil° TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give 41.044; The immediate publication of the play in clues: tion will enal,le the public at large to decide, whether the unusual severity with which it ha , , been visited be the result of sound discretion and laudable vigilance in the official guardians of dra matic purity, or a harsh, unnecessary, and inju dicious exercise of authority, not more injuriou , to the interests and feelings of the author, that, fatal in its principle •to the character and inde pendence of dramatic literature in this country. I remain, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, MA RTIN ARCHER SHEE. Cavendish-square, Feb. M. they naco• rintea ►r WC' al, Or opceibi Fulled, Th at a GENERAL COURT of the said Company will t 4 laid' at their House in Leadenball.street o n WEDNES ' h 41 , the 3d March next, at Eleven o'Clock in the forenoon, M the desire of Nine Proprietors, agreeably to the following Letter, viz ected, to the d, 3°0 16 L here. ( 1 To the Honourable the Court of Director• of the East India Company. 4 ; London, Feb. 18, 114. 1y in , nst " Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned Prop r i e t ors, duly gualifled,"request you will call a Court of Preprictors of East India Stock, at the earliest convenient day, fot • taking into thei r consideration the Services of the late Governor-General the Marquis of Hastings. FOR THE SUN. ,tipoo ER• n ACCOUNT of toe BALANCE of PUBLIC MONEY remaining in the EXCHEQUEIt iin the sth Januar: raised by ADDI T IONS to the ' FUNDED or UNFUNDED DEBT in the Year ended sth January, 1834 REDEMPTION of the FUNDED, or for paying ofrthe UNFUNDED, DEBT, within the same period; EXCHEQUER on the sth January, 1824. 5?,622 4 990 $ 4 tSit3; the MOWS rof MONEY the MONEY applied towards the Ind the MONEY remaining in the THE DRAMA. !nt• . nt. 1111 Your obedient servants, " James Sliaw " Douglas Kinnaird C. Flower Joseph Hume J. C. Villiers Randle Jackson Edw. Codrington Thomas Murdoch Alex. Johnston." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. Balances at bth January, 1823 Ditto to the Account of Trustees of Military and Naval Pensions, towards payments becoming duo from them on 16th January, MS • s. d. 7,797,0V40 4 9 X. s. 11. . . Money taised in the year ended 3th January,l3s/4. by the erection of Funded or Unfunded Debt: — Funded Debt:— x a. d.' Contributions to Loan. per Act 3 Geo. IV., c. 7 3 . . - 8,250,000 0 01 Ditto, Ireland . ditto . - . - 130,000 0 oi 175,000 0 I, 7,972,040 4 9 3, 0 9 , 4 ileforw. Unfunded Debt:— E xe hßoner Bills issued per Oct 3 Ge o . IV. , c . 193 - . - Ditto - Act 4 Geo. IY., c. 4 ' - Ditto Act 4 Geo. IV. c. 100 - - . • Ditto . • Ditto ditto 3 Geo. IV., c. b 6 Ditto ditto 5 7 Geo. Ill. ' c. 34 and 194 - Geo. 111., c. 45 Publir Works, 2,400,000 0 0 BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. rjrHE GALLERY for the EXHIBITION . and SALE o f t h e WORKS o f MODERN murisTs 4 4 OPEN DAILY, from Ten in the Morning until Fire in t h* Evening. 6,492,900 0 0 20 ,000,000 0 0 7 034,600 0 0 03,550 0 0 1 01,660 0 0 102,000 0 0 gre et' nnoli s ' goes"A' Liar at tV ratse Vl'. ;1' 34,494,600 0 0 36,894,600 0 0 - By Order, JOHN TOUNG, Keeper. Admisgion ts.—Catalugue Is. I v The Remaining Subscribers t o the Engraving front Mr. Picture of " Our Saviour Healing the Sick in the ..-1%P1e," who have not received th e i r I mpress i o ns, mg re `` them upon application at the British Institution. Total Surplus of Income paid into the Eichequer i•vor Expenditure thereont 44,896,640 4 9 4,710,98410 bl .rch gt Intit 110' Applied by the Comminsioner% for the reduction ofthe National Dobt in the redetnig:oe of the Ft4.,ded pebt: ,e . 7,401,395 o to 11,000 0 Sinking Fund Interest on redeemed Fended Debt Applied towards • liiirui.ded Debt Redemption of Punded Debt Unfunded Debt : Issued to the Paymaster Of E xchequer Bills to pay off Unfunded Debt 51,517,604 15 21 X. a. d. THE SECOND EDITION of the WEST MINSTER REVIEW will be r e ad y f or P u bli ca tion Wednesday next. 7,482,325 0 10 34,4574,000 0 0 43,160,323 0 10 9,4%11,179 14 41 Balances in the Exchequer at sth January, 1884 Ineri** isre• 30, 0' Fisbo Fer i issioo ~lB ; h op' 1 1 ,. rie•anci March' 11, . 1 ' \V at' id 11. se i r Traw° [da d ' • j • _jd t• no r jiidy of ts Jlha , oyhe" 111:11 late r aug io idiot/ We s ‘,:f tosP, ~...--- B so' This Day were pulAisleed, LP LECTIONSon the LIEUTENANTCY of e ARQUESS WELLELEY. Pri uted t f h or JOUN AICTRAAY, Albem S arle-street. li n t n N u 9somE DRESS, at a LOW PRICE. and Co. 15, Henrietta-street, Covent-gar- Z• ni ann ounce to the Nobili ey have rtroduced for thi s Season snipe of the must beautiful Ma ni i Is for LA DIES' MORNING and AFTERNOONAVEAIt at bar* ever been exhibited. The Ravenna Dresses, gal. !Inch Ceobemeres, and the Tyrian Silks, in rich colours, at 17 *.. Ws., a n d 32 s . a Dress. Their beauty and richness, nuti and durability, have given treat satisfaction to t*lvry purchaser. A large quantity of beautiful Shawls, the r oparty of one o f th e most eminent Factors, which must * told, many of them at half their original prices. The 1‘1!ual !variety of Silk s , an d all articles sold by other Silk 7ereers, at exceedingly low prices. No patterns cut. ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A CHILD. [FURTHER PARTICULARS.] murder of the most atrocious, but at the t ine time of a most unaccountable nature, as far as respects p: inducement, was committed on Saturday night last, at ' est-row near East d, Sussex, on the bod o a fe ale child,, named Martha Grinstea Ann Sewell, aged ten months. The tpilitherof the child i n ques ti on i s h ea d ost l er at the Dorset Arms i3l , East Grinstead and the mother keeps a gro cer ' s an d gene i taler' s s h op at Forest-row. They are both much respected tim e Ueighbourhood in which they live, and are connected by si d " e q With some of the substantial farmers of the county. Be to t he Unhappy infant whose melancholy death we are about el44 l t eribe, the unfortunate parents had four other children, the v ftfi ti ,l / t . whom is thirteen years of age. The mother, who ( ally Zed the business in the absence of her husband, who -11:11 e home occasionally, had a servant girl, Esther Gor ineth, about fifteen years of age, to assist . her in nurs littife C hildren. This girl had lived with her a year and rake and was apparently warmly attached to all the 1, 44 but especially to the younger child ; indeed such inytittaffection of the latter for this girl, that it would , 143 nie quit the mother to repose in her arms. For u onpini: lt le back, this infant had been afflicted with the 11,,Litht hracll e ' the but was gradually recovering. On Saturday f h n tne mother having given it the breast, laid it in the syttti the kitchen in a profound sleep, and went to at u'eloctrle customers in the shop ; this was about seven 1 14 te The servant girl, Esther, was in the kitchen at the te k 'arid received directions to rock the cradle if the child (43 1:00i I.e .Atle9s--a duty which she had repeatedly before per -04141 7 ry thing remained quiet for about half ar . i hour, al the mother came into the kitchen to get something out tove4board. As she passed the cradle, she saw that it was e 1( kell,, 11 1 ) , apparently as she left it, but as she returned she and felt surprised that it rocked lighter than usua , t at lately pulled ' down the little cradle quilt to look at ; Il tita t ,7 4 s but it was not there. Astonished at such a circum 4hat tilsearle. turned. round s to the servapt . E . sther, who was clean : bet, children's shoes in an adjoining room, and asked fittil k , a tone of alarm, what had become of litt Martha? 411tri` teplied, with affected astonishment, that " she didn't The „.abe was sure." An instant search was made among tilittOhbours, some of whom it was thought might have t ue child in a joke, or from a ff ection,for it was a grea t At a late hour of the night all the messengers had returned, and the wretched parents, and a few of their friends, remained sitting by the fire, brooding over the cause of their misery and indulging in all manner of speculation as to the fate of the child. At the break of day the father and six or seven other persons renewed their search about the premises ; and at last they called for the key of the wash-house, which was locked, and which the servant, Esther, had said was locked before the child was missed. This declaration of hers had prevented the search of this place before, and indeed its distance from the dwelling-house (about 12 or 14 yards), added to the improba bility of the child having been conveyed there, prevented all suspicion. There was a loft over the wash-house into which the father mounted, whilst others looked among the lumber below; at length Mr. Ilisted, a butcher, who lived in the adjoining house, approached the copper and asked if any . Person had looked there ? He was answered in the nega tive, and instantly lifted off the cover, when to his horror he " the clothes of an infant floating on the surface of some water which it contained. He stepped back for a moment, overpowered by his feelings, but on returning he saw the arm of the child, and lifting it up, there discovered the hapless little victim completely dead. He drew it from the vessel, and carried it in his arms to his own house; and then all the doubts which had previously existed were at an end. It now became a sub ject of inquiry. to ascertain how the child had been placed in such a situation, and suspicion finally fell on the servant girl. She was interrogated over and over again as to whether she knew any thing• of the matter, but she solemnly protested her innocence, offering to take her oath that she knew nething about it. Still the inconsistencies of her conduct strengthened the belief in her guilt, and ultimately it was determined to send her in custody of the constable, Waghorn, to East Grin stead, with a view to her examination by a Magistrate. She was accordingly conveyed in a gig to East Grinstead, and after divine service she was visited by Mr. Meggins, of Hommerwood Lodge, and other gentlemen, but to these persons she still protested her innocence in the most solemn manner. After their de parture, the constable addresed her in confident terms, and advised her to confess, as her guilt would, no doubt, before long, be made manifest. This course, although extremely in judicious, had the desired effect, and at last she admitted, that she had put the child in the copper. She told two different stories—first saying, that she had the child in her arms when she went to fill a kettle with water, and that it fell into the copper ; and next, that she had taken the infant, while yet asleep, in her apron, and threw it into the water, and that while it was struggling, she put down the cover, and walked away. The latter statement seems to be most consistent with proba bility. Upon being questioned as to her motive for such an act of cruelty, she could assign no reason whatever, simply saying, that as the child lay in the cradle, the resolution to drown it suddenly seized her mind, and she took it up, and running to the wash-house, plunged it into the copper. On beingasked, why she did not tell what had happened, when she saw her master and mistress in such distress P she merely said, that " she had half a mind to tell them where the child was, but then again she thought she wouldn't." In the course of Monday several witnesses were obtained, who proved the incon sistencies of the prisoner's conduct and statements ; but none of them could give the slightest evidence as to the foul act which she had confessed, and which, from the manner in which that confession was obtained, can scarce be received as legal evidence. On Tuesday, Mr. Gwynne, the Coroner for the county, held an Inquest on the body of the deceased, at the Swan Inn, when a vast body of evidence was heard ; but still the confession of the prisoner formed the main feature of the case. The Coroner justly animadverted on the conduct of Wagliorn, the consta ble, i n extorting a confession; b u t, s i tuate d as h e was , h e could not shut out his evidence, and at a late hour the Jury re turned a verdict of " Wilful Alurder against Esther Gorringe." The Coroner forthwith made out his warrant for her commit ment, to take her trialat the ensuing Assizes for the county.— No further attempt was made to induce the prisoners to confess her guilt ; but she did not retract her previous statement, and, in fact, appeared perfectly . indifferent to her fate; showing an apathy which some conceive partook of insanity. Upon in quiring of those who had an opportunity of observing her con duct for the last two years, however, it does not appear that there was any thing in her manner which indicated the slightest aberration of intellect. On the contrary, she always appeared particularly shrewd for her age. It was asked whether any quarrel had arisen between her and her mistress, which could by possibility have excited a spirit of revenge in her bosom ? but to this it was answered, that she was always treated in the kindest manner, and invariably showed the most affectionate disposition towards her mistress and all her family, and parti cularly, as we before stated, towards the unfortunate little vic tim of her unaccountable passion. On the Friday her mis tress went to attend the funeral of her brother, who had been a respectable miller in the neighbourhood, and the child was left in the prisoner's care. At night she praised the quiet ness of the child, and on hearing that her mistress wished to attend a funeral sermon which was to be preached on the death of her brother, on the Sunday following, she particu larly urged her to go, assuring her that the child would be as happy as if she were at home. How to account for the act she has committed, therefore, seems to be perfectly impos sible. The wretched girl was yesterday conveyed to Horsham Gaol, but previous to her departure she sent to her mistress, with great particularity, for a clean chemise, a pair of clean stockings, 18 pence which was in her box, and two-pence which she said would be found on a shelf in the kitchen. The man ner in which she delivered this message, as well as her demea nour generally, still more confirmed the notion of the soundness of her mind. The crowd which pressed for admission to the Coroner's In quest exceeded all former precedent, and the attentions to the unfortunate parents, from all ranks, are of the most consolatory description. Every hour they receive visits of condolence, as well as some solid mark of the sympathy which their severe suf ferings have induced. It is rumoured that the prisoner is a natural child; her father is dead, but her mother is alive, and lives at East Grinstead. IMPORTANT TO PUBLICANS.—We have seen an office copy of a case lately submitted to the Judges on the liability of publicans to be charged for their windows, which were considered to be exempt from duty as shop windows, and to charge accordingly, appealed against and allowed. The Judges, however, by the instances referred to for their opinion, decided otherwise, and de clared them subject to the tax.—( Birmingham Gaeette.) J. C. HERRIES. WhitehaU 'rrea.ury ChAmber'', ref, 12, 1694, lIIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, FEB. 17. 51,577,604 15 safety of Vie ship, in order to stimulate the zeal and attention of this class of per Sons, engaged as they were in a highly meritorious ser vice. By the policy of most maritime states, payment of wages was made to depend en the successful completion of the voyage, as that mhich was to secure the owner his freight. The Learned Judge then proceeded to cite a variety of authorities, foreign and domestic, . o the same effect ; illustrating the cases by a course of argument i ad reasoning of which our limits will not allow more than a mere mtline. his Lordship quoted the work, which he designated "as a [ very elaborate a nd comprehensive compilation," of M. Jacobson, an ' ' advocate of Ilamburgh,.who, in p. 183 of his book, stated that to the 'ta ' .ieneral rule, that freight was the mother of wages, there lay many ' exceptions ; and of these the Court considered that which had been considered by Dr. Adams of a ship's going out in ballast, propos *rkg to get a homeward freight. being disappointed in her object, nd returning as she went out, one -of the strongest. It never mild be said, that in such a case the seamen were not entitled to heir wages, both on the outward and the homeward voyage. A ule, therefore, so evidently. open as . this (that freight is the mother .f we,ges) to a ll reasona bl e except i on , cou ld no t b e cons id ere d as niversally conclusive, in the absence of every other confirmation, uch as might have been expected to be found in the institutions if nations, or in the decisions of their tribunals; and still less o, if it was in opposition to all reasonable principles and prac tice in respect of general utility and convenience. Thu Court then emarked, that the modern practice of all maritime States de parted from the application of the rule where enough of the vessel as saved to be applicable to the payment of wages • and this was the understanding of France, particularly in her celebrated Marine Ordinances, promulgated in the reign of Louis XIV. The same erinciple was to be observed in the maritime laws of Spain, in the height of her naval power in 1583; of Holland, eminently the maritime state of Europe ; in the Ordinances of Rotterdam ; and ikewise in the Naval Code of Denmark;—(Jacobson, page 1534_ The Court had been informed on good authority but ez relations nly, that a similar improvement of the rule obtained in America, a country which had of late years eery successfully turned its at tention to the understanding of maritime law), although, there, no ore than in our own, books and decisions, were there any recorded cases in which the dOctrine had been specifically. recognized. Upon , the grounds he had stated, he pronounced that this summery petition ought to be admitted; and that if the facts as had been stated to ; dm, were true, the mariners mould nave , a right to such a portion of `the materials that had been saved as would satisfy their wages. TH E NEPTUNE. Lord ST owEr.r. to-day gave sentence. This case came os for the judgement of the Court on the admissibility of a summaryaieti. lion given in by some seamen for their wages, on account of services performed by them on board the Neptune. Out of the proceeds of those parts of the ship and her materials - which were saved, tbe ship herself having been stranded, they claimed to be remunerated The petition stated, that some time inl the for theirmonth services o tieh o r e n a t b y o , a l rd B2 . 2, this ship being then in the port of Lon 4 don, and consigned on a voyage to Rio de Janeiro, from awned to Ilamburgh, and back again to the port of London. William s Clark, the master and sole owner thereof, by himself or his agent, hired George Brown, one of the petitioners, to serve as a seaman, on board the said vessel iluring the said intended voyage, and agreed to pay him for those services at such a rate ; that Brown havh. ing subsequently signed the mariners'' contract, sailed in the Nep tune for Rio de Janeiro, where she arrived on the 4th of June following, having discharged her cargo, or part of it, and thereby earned freight to a considerable amount ; that:the - ship then took o , board a cargo of sugar and coffee, and proceeded on her voyage to Hamburgli ; that she had come 'within soundings off the coast o Great Britain, when, on the 29th October, a gals of wind came on, which drove her close in upon the French coast ; and that on the is , of November the was stranded on the coast of Brittany. It was fur ther stated, that no part of the cargo could be saved ; but that Brown, and the other seamen on board, immediately set to work to save wha , they could of the ship, and her tackle; and continuing to do so up to th , 6th of Nov. they succeeded in saving her ni aid, part of the rigging Rom spars, an anchor and cable, and other articles, which sold for such . sum of money as would have sufficed to pay the wages of all the mari ners who had sailed and continued in her up to the 6th Nov.; tha before Brown and the others were discharged by the master, they did while on board such vessel, well and truly perform the duties of sea. men, were obedient to th e master' s commands, and not having ob tamed their wages for such services, they now claimed that this Court I would order them to be paid out of the proceeds of finise parts of the, ship which had been so saved. The admissibility of this petition w , not contested as on any point of fact in 'the case: on the contrary, th 1 facts were admitted by both parties, who were willing, in this stage o , the matter, to take the judgment of the Court upon the question o law— whether the mariners were entitled to recover their wages out o 1 the materials that had been so preserved. Now, that they were not so entitled, had been principally and almost exclusively contended, on the authority of a maxim very well known in that Court, perhaps ROMAN CATHOLICS. more so than in any other, " that freight is the mother of wages.' At a meeting of the. Dublin Catholic Association, held in , that city Now the ease which had been cited from Siderfin related to a total on Saturdaylast, the Secretary read the following letter, which has loss and perishment of the vessel--not to an instance in which any been addressed by Lord Killeen to Mr. David Lynch, Chairman of part of the vessel had been saved; and the dictum of Molloy, which the COMmittee appointed to make arrangements, for the Aggregate had been likewise referred to, regarded a similar case of total loss. Meeting:— " Corbalton Hall, Feb. 7, 1824. and was therefore totally out of the principle of the case now be . " Dmax Sue—l had the honour to receive your letter yesterday fore the Court. The inaxim in question was certainly a favourit evening, and feel flattered at having been called upon by your. Conn_ of the English law; but it was to be taken on the argument a mittee to preside at the Aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics,. the sole ground of a solid opposition (if that opposition could b fixed for Friday next, so estimated) to the claim of the mariners. Now here no freigh " Not haVing, for some months past, in consequence of my absence . - had been claimed as due ; there was a forfeiture of freight, and from Ireland, taken any. art in the Catholic affairs, and being ignos. there must be a forfeiture of *ages, if this maxim was to go- ant to dila moment of the line, of proceedings about min adopted by aern the case. The maxim itself, like many others, althotigh,the Catholic body, Ido not feel myself qualified on the present ocea expressed in positive language, could not be considered as enthision to accept the very distinguished honour offered we • .I must,: led to the praise of much real or literal accuracy ; for the natur- Committee therefore, beg of you to convey to,the Gentleman of the al and legal parents of wages were, the mariners' contract and th My regret atbeing;,under such circumstances, unable to comply with performance 0 t the covenants therein stipulated ; they generat their reaaeat, and my warn* acknowledgMents for the very flatter ed wages. The 1 Chief Justice Abbott, in his excellent Publi- ing m anner in which the communication was made to me. cation, had laid it down, that the rule in reipect of a forfeiture o " I have the liononr to he, wages being worked by a forfeiture of freight, had been framed as an " Your very faithful and obedient Serv an t, additional security, both for the payment of the wag.es, and the. "''o David Lynch, Esq. " KILLEXN." MR. EDITOR—As you direct your attention to the Stage, and appear to be more lenient and beral in your comments upon actors and dramatic novelties than most of your competitors, I take the liberty of addressing you in consequence of a remark that „I observe in a respectable Morn: ing Paper of this day, written by a critic who is always acute, and generally candid, Of which, for the sake of a Lady of , the most amiable charac ter, and of very high literary talents I request, that you will admit a short notice. In that re mark the critic, speaking of •Miss F. 41. KELLY'S performance of Juliet ,on Monday, says, " it is known that from motives of vulgar malice, — 'not worth notice, she had not long since been shamefully assailed during the first performance, and last, of a bad tragedy." Now, Mr. Editor,- I ,have no disposition to discourage the efforts of Miss F. Ku.i.v, a young Lady,of very pro mising talents, and who, being very young, will doubtless improve by experience, and probably becotne one of the chief ornaments•of the Stage, but there can be no necessity to support her ta lents by an attack upon a tragedy in which her efforts were by no means so successful as they have been on other occasions. Tile tragedy al luded to is the production. of Mrs. HEMANSy a lady whose poetical effusions have deservedly raised, her name into high literary .distinction, and whose dramatic work has been; justly ad mired since it has been published. I was pre sent at its representation, and can ,confidently assert that no " vulgar malice," or any kind of disapprobation was directed against the play itself. Let the critic read that play, and, I doubt not, that he has sufficient taste to discern its beauties, and Infficient liberality to retract his hasty censure. And now, Mr. Editor, a word or two upon the Managers. It is understood that the piece was withdrawn 'till the _recovery of Miss. PooTx should enable her to assume the part acted by .11.1ite F. 11. KELLY. I must therefore infer, and join with the public in regretting, that Miss FOOTA is still unable to resume her public situation ; but we find that another tragedy was since announced for performance,and rejected by .the Licenser. Surely,. Mr. Editor, if Miss FOOTE is sufficiently recovered, the Managers ought to do justice to Mrs. IlEstANs before they bring forward a new tragedy, for otherwise, they will throw an unmerited stigma upon au excel , lent play, and wound the feelings of a truly, meritorious Lady. - Feb. 18. Bedford-Coffee-Howie. VINDEL Lady Harrowby and her daughter, and Mrs. and Mi ss Canning, were on Tuesday night in th e large gallery formed in the roof over the House of Commons, to hear the debate on Lord Nugent's motion. In such situation the ladies could hear very well; but they had a very imperfect opportunity of seeing, as they could only peep, and that somewhat ask ance, through the grated ventilators in, the ceiling of the house. The Ladies took their seats there ibout five o'clock, and did not leave till after the rising of - the House. Peers, Peers' sons, Ambassadors, the We s tmi nster b oys ( gownsmen), may be accommodated below the bar ; but the Commons of England have no recognised accommodation for Ladle, to hear them debates. BRUSSELS, Fan. 11.—A, mummy has been brought to Bruges, taken from one of the pyra mids of Egypt. It appears to be that of a Princess of the race. of Pharaoh, who died about 3,700 years ago. It is still—in the .case which .contained. it in the pyramid. , -; The comer repre sents a"female:of more than human keight, in the Egyptian costume. The colents are fiery vivid and well preserved. There was in the _same case an embalmed cat, an undoubted indication of the high rank of its companion-