The Sun. — London, England, 1824-12-09 00:00:00

111 E LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 9. [BRITISH PRESS.j In the Madrid Gazettes received yesterday, we have'an otfiuial report of the crimes said to have been committed by, Vigo, the Constitutional ,Governor itt Corunna, in July, 1823. 'Where judicial proceedings are conducted arbitrarily and in secret,• little reliance can be had on their correctness. The character of the Judges, too, is material. It is unhappily notorious, that in all these respects the administration of justice in Spain isdissentitled to public confidence. The overthrow of established political institutions is generally accompanied with enormities shocking to humanity. 'No revolution was ever more calm or bloodless than the Spanish. .The Constitti tionalists were reproached rather With pusil lanimity than.ferocity. They seemed more afraid to punish the .adherents , of the absolute -Mo narchy than to put them to death causelessly. If,, however, the charges against the men con demned at Carolina be true, it would seem that the exasperation of party feeling was producing the re-enactment of the ntrocities . of the French revolution. What, then, may -we expect should another popular- movement take place . in that wretched and ruined country'! Even now asses- sinations are daily perpetrated, sometimes by the Constitutionalists in revenge for previous out- rages 'on them, but most '.frequently by the Royalist Volunteers, who are Composed of the basest rabble, and allowed to' rob and murder, ithout form or colour of law, whomsoever they suspect of liberalism. The Spanish Tribunals are now filled with furious, ignorant, and sail-- guinary bigots, raised from the lowest. stations of society, without possessing any qualification for , their office, to which they have been. preferred solely because they are untainted with • any participation in the administration of the Constitutional system. The per Sons of rank who are nominally at the head of the public departments, have really - no share in guiding public affairs. The King gives his con. Cadence only, 'to such men us the Trappist, the Curate Merino,'and the ruffian Bessieres. They actually tonttitute . the Spanish ministry, though: they have not 'the' honthirs •and emoluments of office. We .therefore disbelieve the story of the noyattes of Corunna. There appears to be no sufficient reason ' for the crime.' It is, we' think, most likely 'that the Royalist sufferers perished in an attempt to, capture the` veSsel in which they were confined. 'A t the time the French army was It the plate, such a moment would-hardly 'have' been selected for the per petration' of 'so' unprovoked and horrible a massacre. The .Cotistitutionalists heard their condemnation with indifference, and' died with fortitude. We fear that lite days of blood are .only beginning ; the invasion .of the French will.yet cause torrents 'to be shed.- Spain iS pidly relapsing into the 'wildest barbarism and inextricable -confusion ;the elementi Of order and security have been scattered 'to the winds, and the work of pretended "pacification" haS ended in the uprooting of the foundations of 'attires society. , • ' • ' [Tut To dEs.l in the Paris Papers which arrived yesterday, up to the latest customary period, are various de bates, assertions, and contradictions, on the sub ject of the evacuation, of the Peninsula, by the Army of Occupation. The news that the French were to retire is 44 too good to be true." They may be dimished—perhaps only changed. Yet the time for their removal must come ; and then, if' Ferdinand be allowed to' reign in despotic dignity --so let Win. The people and their Sovereign will be worthy of each other.— A monstrous tale is fabricated in a Madrid Paper against the unhappy men who have been recently executed at • Cortinna by the Go vernment. They are represented as having, during the .existence of the Constitution in 1823, carried out to sea and drowned, with circumstances of peculiar' cruelty, between forty and fifty persons whose only crime was attachment to the unli mited Monarchy, the (ice. The details of the transaction savour strongly of romance ; we do not believe' ai`word of them; but that no pitrticle of deubt'may eiist in any mind, we 'call Uiport Quiroga and Vigo, who are now in Londun, tO contradict the report. The affair of the• pro• jected or rumoured indemnities to the emigrants seems to agitate the interior of France. It is very true that a ,difference is-made. at Pales, be. tweet' a' property of unliroken descent,'" Un bier patrintoniai,'► and one acquired by the revolution. And we are net 'sorry . that -the possessors of the latter should be a little sensible of the weakness of their title. This - may serve as' a lesson to future revolutionists, and even reformers, at least to leave property inviolate, however they may tamper with the political institutions of their country.. IMORNTNG POST.] Thnch Papers to . the 7th inst., arrived yester d'ay. They contain very contradictory state ments respecting - the evacuation of Spain. Ac cording to the Opposition Journals, Liberal and Ultras, that measure.had been suspended in con- sequence of a new arrangement by which a corps of 10,000 men was to be left in the Peninsula in addition to the garrisons previously ordered to be retained, and both Santona and Saragossa were to be occupied. The greatest joy, it is added, prevailed in Madrid on that occasion, not only because individuals considered the presence of tl;e French a protection against plunder and persecution, but because it was thought that'the Cabinet of the Tuileries would nUt have abandoned its original intention, if Fer dinand had not made all the concessions requir- , Fed, enaces3ions vollich would materially tend to PuirY the country, and to restore its lost rights and happiness. This intelligence, however, is contradicted, by the.Etolle, which, from its offi cial din rde ter) MUit certainly have the best formation respectinctbe intentions of the French ith„i s icy and the, oianner in, which they are to 1w exccuted• rt says on this subject:— " The Journal des Debuts, fhe—Constilutionnet, !and the Quoiidienne, announce to-day to their readers that the evacuation of Spain by the French troops will not take place. The Journal der &bats and the Constitutionnel give a letter from Madrid, dated November 28, received by an extraordinary channel, which brings this news. The Quolidienne says that a courier was to set off the day before yesterday (last Sunday) or yesterday, to carry an order for suspending the movement of the troops. Notwithstanding all these assertions, we persist in saying, that the evacuation was' to commence on the Ist of De cember. On attentively considering this con tradiction, however,' it will he seen that it does not go beyond re-asserting that the evacuation would commence at a particular period, a fact which is admitted' by the Madrid letter. Whether it would continue and terminate is therefore the . real question'; and on this head the EtOile .has avoided giving a clear and deCisive answer. [NEW TIMES.] Yesterday afternoOti an Express arrived from Paris with accounts to Monday evening. It was inferred, from a slight decline which took place immediately upon its arrival being known in the Funds, that some unfavourable information had been received' by this conveyance ; but for this supposition there (lid not appear any reasonable ground,and the alteration in question was probably produced by a vague rumour that his Majesty was indisposed. Consols opened and continued at 954 i, until the afternoon, when they declined to 95f-a, and at the close of, business was rather higher for the account. The long-talked-of Spanish expedition was stated to have. at length sailed from Ferrol, with' about two thousand troops ; but we do not place reliance' upon the correctness of this statement, or attach much im portance to. the fact, should it prove correct. 7-- There was a decline in the price of Spanish Bonds yesterday of nearly. 1 .per. cent., and the_ usual accompanying reports were in. circulation ; so - much has been said already against the,proba bilitY of their ever being worth a shilling, that until any alteration in the determination of Spain :is known to, be a fact, it will be unnecessary to say any thing further upon. the suhject The last' price of : the Bonds of 1821 .was 221, and those of 1823, 15 to 16. There was, not a single Fuf 'reign . arrival yesterday announced at the Post Office, or any other arrival beyond the express: froin France ; the Foreign Securities, how ever, were lower than, on the preceding day.— The scheme for a new Brazilian Company, alluded to' by us some days ago, is expected to be brought out to-day ; merchants and others ac quainted with the country speak highly ,of the probable success of this undertaking, and the permission of the Emperor of Brazil to werk the - mines having been officially obtained. some time back. The Shares of . the two .New , Companies continue .steady ; those of Colombia are. at 84 .to Of premium,and those of Rio de la Plata 54 to 64.' [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have-received the Paris papers of Sunday and Monday. In most of the former it is posi tively stated that. the French troops are to re main in Spain ; and that such regiments as had commenced their march, were to return imme diately to their old quarters. •This statement, though given with the utmost confidence, and on the authority of letters of '.a very recent date from Madrid, is extremely suspicious, particularly as titi explanatory circumstance ac companies it. It is merely mentioned, that when every thing was in complke readiness to carry the original arrangements into execution, they were suspended by the arrival of a French. Courier, and that 10,000' men more than were Originally intended are to be left at the disposal of the. Spanish Government. It was probably some rumour of this kind Which had improved the renter on Saturday ; but it is very strange that such news should have found its.way from Paris to Ma drid, and be kept till the return of post a profound secret' in the former city. As the measure originat ed with the French Government, one would think that its own subjects would' be apprized of it the first. Moreover the terms are not mentioned, which eiould procure the concession for the Spa nish Court ; and it is not so much as hinted that. Ferdinand has yielded a single point. Besides, the Moniteur of Sunday guards a profound silence on the subject ; and the Etoile of Monday gives it a flat contradiction. The silence of the one, and the pointed denial of the other, particularly as, from their ministerial 'connexion, they must have access to the best and earliest sources of in formation—are quite sufficient to overthrow a ru mour which' bad not before 'it' shadow of con sistency in its favour. It would 'be an unnsual thing to see the French Cabinet accused of form ing its resolutions rashly', and abandoning them precipitately ; whereas it would clearly lay itself open to both these imputations were it to make any' change in its policy towards " Spain. Its ho nour and good faith are pledged for the fulfilment of the capitulations concluded between the Duke of Augouleme and tlw Constitutional Generals. `Besides the French troops' are extremely dis gusted with the service in which they are em ployed in Spain, on' account of the atrocities which they are obliged to witness and How far they might be influenced by this feeling even tually it is difficult to say. At 'least their attach tmnt to legitimacy 'would not be confirmed by . remaining spectators` of the horrible excesses' which it has caused in that country. ,At the same time delay would benefit no party ; and, after st, lapse of six months, or six, years, the Spdnish Government would be as intractable, and pro- 1 bably more so, thah it is at this moment. [vtonlvika` Nr6.E.] The rapidity with which the public mind has been directed t o the subject of; Rail Road s , an d the numerous schemes f or establishing this new mode of convey 0t alle - which have been recently projected or carried 'into efloct difieyetit Parts of the kingdom, are matters w f e.ii. worthy of ob. servation. It is nearly . 40 yeari P since,hui, raits . were first introduced, as an ir4i:oy e ment upon the old . Wooden or train rail-wax; and the loco motite engine, which is to act so prominent a part in the projected roads, has been i n opera tion in the neighbourliiiod - of Newcastle-upon- Tyne some nine or ten years, without excit ing much interest or attention. It is only within two or three years that the public appear to be, all at once, alive to.the important results to be anticipated from the introduction , of this peculiar power. There appear to be two reasons why an extraordinary effort should be _made at the present moment to establish' this improved means of transportdor merChandize. In the first place,commercial men, in the preieii t circumstances of trade, being obliged ta - submit to a low rate of profit, perceive the necessity of economising in every branch of expenditure which comes un der the technical denomination of " Charges on Merchandize," and the transit of goods between the merchant and the manufacturer and the con sumer, is one very important item of this charge. It is to be expected, therefore, that the trading part of the community will be on the alert to establish those facilities of communication—those new methods for . the. cheap and expeditious transport of goods—which promise to be of such importance to the consumer, the manufacturer, and the merchant. In the second place, the cur rent rate of interest being low, monied' men are eager to embrace any scheme which promises a fair return for the capital invested; and thus the funds requisite for undertakings of great cost and mag nitude are readily furnished. The public utility of the scheme being apparent, the means of carrying it into execution are forthwith provided. The Steam Engine is the great moving power by which the commercial superiority of this country is to be advanced and maintained; and new and improved applications of this power are naturally hailed, as extending the basis of our national pro- sperity. Not long since, every engine was station ary and permanent, mighty in its operations, but limited and confined to one spot. At present we see them moving on the waters in every direction, ploughing the lusty billows, and forcing their way in despite of wind and weather. Almost all our Packet establishments between England, Trance, and Holland, Scotland and Ireland, are steani ships. Neither is their office confined to the conveyance of passengers ; merchandise to a large extent is transported with extreme regularity and dispatch, especially between Liverpool, Dublin, and Glasgow. In a few years we shall not be surprised to see this. same power, under the form of the loco-mo-, tive engine, conducting the immense traffic be tween Liverpool and Manchester, Edinhurgh and Glasgow, Birmingham and London.—Canals were' a wonderful improvement upon carts and pacic-horses. The route was, indeed, more cir cuitous, - but the increased power, was consider able. Milt is gained in power, however, an, pears to he lost in time.; and this is a difficulty which cannot be overcome, and which, in the present day, will not be summitted to. Between ,Liverpool and Manchester for instance, the aver age time• required for the conveyance' of goods, by canal, is stated to be thirty-six hours; by rail w proposed to be effected in one-sixth of the time it is i me - and those only 'who are acquai n t e d b us i nes s can be fully aw a re o w f iti t r h e 6il i m portance of this increased expedition ; what activity it will infuse into various branches of trade,.and what facilities it will impart to the general operations of commerce. [MORNING 'JERALD.] From the evidence'adduced , upon t h e tr i a l o f • the two men last week, at' lertford Assizes, for the robbery in .the house. of Lord Cowper's steward, it Wills to.follOw*alinett as certainty, that' two out of the th ree m en w h o h a d b een be , fore convicted of the same offence, and • left for execution, [mist have,been innocent. We know of nothing more frightfully appalling that such a circumstance as, this" which, were it . ti solitary 'one, would call .for observation ; but 'recollecting as we 'do„that.,More.tlitin one instance of a similar nature'haS *tared within a short time, it be comes extremely irriPortant, both to the character .of our Courts, to the purity of publk justice, and. to the lives and safety of us all, that the matter should be fully investigated, and a remedy, if possible, provided- against its recurrence. From the various processes'. through which a criminal charge must pass before a final conviction and sentence against any man can be pronounced, one would be led to suppose,' that though it affords many means of escape to the guilty, it was, at least, a sure protection for the innocent. First, there is the apprehension, and the . grounds . of it .the examination and re-examination by the Magistrate—then the hearing before the Grand .-Jury---next the trial—and after that, very . often, a re-considering, if not a re-hearing. of the whole by the Judge,---and often by the Secretary of State .and the LW Officers of the Crown before execution. •Yet, notwithstanding all this, many innocent persons have been con demned, and some, we fear, have even been executed. if,we were asked to what causes we should principally impute such circumstances, - we should say . that it was in a great measure owing to too great a reliance, in the first instance, on the zeal and first impressions of pro-. tie cut() r s and police officers ; and next to the very little part which Juries appear to take upon trials, and the rigid adherence to technical rules of evidence. The great ob ject. of evidence'shouldbe to elicit truth ; but witnesses' are sometimes treated by learned persons who have, made it' a 'science, one would often suppose. that the m ain object, on the c o n trail, - was to supp ress a nd, keep it back The obviousqueStro' n' t o ask a Witness, especially in a criminal case,' is, what do you know o f this - matter?—that he should then,tell his own story, if poSsible, without . i n terruption ; and that no other' questions should be put to him but suc h as arise. out of his own narrativ6 or of cir cumstances whkh there may be reason to think he has omitted . . Instead_ of this, persons though sworn to , are told that the per. on s i P ly ea a lk us t w h e e r w q t u lo es le tio tr n u s T,: i speaking of s t o h r e ::l7S 'u k s i g the questions (We are le ase s in which - Contisel are employ ed) can ' at best. be but imperfectly informed upon'the subject; and are un d e r no oblig a ti on to ask More than will suit their purpose, it follows of course theta great deal will, of necessity, b e - • kept hack ; which would throw light upon the subject. The prejudicei which are excited against prisoner's (SoMetimes perhaps unavoidably) are, often a material ob stacle to any thing like a fair trial. It is no uncommon thing to hear a Learned Counsel, after having-detailed , the facts of the case, continue his address to the Jury in something like this strain : " and the prisoners at the bar, gentle men, being: persons of notoriously bad charac ter, and known to the officers as having been concerned in many other robberies, they thought it their duty to apprehend them for this." It is not, indeed, many days since, that a gentle man of rank and education, in giving evidence against a pickpocket, told the Jury that he should not have prosecuted him, had he not found him, upon inquiry, to be an old offender! Another obstacle attending the administration of public justice as affects the accused, in the difficulty and expence of brina a ing up witnesses on their behalf. In the case we have alluded to at Hertford, one of the persons was respited upon the ground of an alibi, which was set up, we believe, after his condemnation, and . which probably would have been proved before the Jury, could the parties have been taken down - from Lon don to Hertford for the purpose. There are va rious other causes connected with the subject, which must occur to persons accustomed to our Courts of Justice, some . of them propably of more weight than those which we have suggested. It is a subject of infinite importance, and deServes the grave consideration of those who from know— ledge, habit, and inclination, are best qualified to suggest and carry into effect an efficient remedy. PROVINCIAL, JOURNALS. • ( From the Dublin correspondent of Dec. 4.) Some of, the British Jouynalti,_which were wont to Coquet somewhat too amorously perhaps with the " Catholic Rights," are beginning to express their surprise as well as censure at the extravagance and mischief of the Catholic As sociation, and of the Roman Catholic Clergy, who are not only among the active members of the Society, but in all, quarters of the kingdom; its patrons as well as Strenuous abettors. But who ever heard.of a tribunal•for the redress of grievances being established in any country—assuniing prerogatives compa tible only with .the: greatest degree of legitimate civil power ,—and setting itself into a 'formal and parliamentary insti tution—without extravagance marking its conduct, ' and mis. chief following its arrogance and ambition. In the very idea of such 'an' institution, extravagance and mischief in here. It is impossible to think' upon a numerous Societyr— formed uporf , peculiar religious and political opinions —pursuing objects inimical .to all others who do not profess similar opini ons—meetingperiodicallyproceeding officially and gravely— taxing their . cotintry at their will —and 'forming funds for the carrying. on `of their own objects—we say, it is impossible to - ponder for an instapt.uport ; such a thingi without seeing the-in. trinsic evil of it, and the public misfortune consequent from its very existence. -Against any :other 'description . of mischief, where the invader, is not violating the 'frontiers with denuncia tions of conquest and slaVery, a' State has scarcely any thing to .apprehend but against one of this:sort - it behoves it to presume iii limbic ' every thing that •is ba il —every thing that militates, against th e notion of a lawful Government existing in its au then tic vigour and efficiency--and to, consider it as one of its own pri mary duties, to bruise the ser pent'i head at once before it seduce the million into political sin anti death. It is flagrant nonsense to maintain that it is lawful to set up such a power in the heart of a State,. as this Catholic Association. , 'rhe principle is. .against the very notion of eiVil , GOvernment ; and no Govern ,ment or people ever 'yet heardof, reposed the existence of the •orie, and the social conservation of the other, upon the petty. fogging. interpretation of laws enacted for secondary or sub lidiary purposes :—the pritnary end of all society must,be main. tain ed upen its broad original grounds', not. upon the quirks and subtleties of technical law ; it is the StatesmaNnot the Barrister, who should be consulted,when ti formidable inroad is making up on the essential privileges of Government: IViienever a power, in principle and in fact, incompatible' with the free operations and uncontroulable. duties necessarily,. belonging to el/Cry Slate has started up and assumed " an•attitilde not to be disregarded," it has beep en instinct in thevstablisliethliolity, to,,challenge it at once and to suppress it. ft matters, not what glosses or guises may be adopted, or 3tt *hat aliatiefi'orforms such an anti-social power may be exhibited ; Orilung must be put down ; there doubt--shotild the is bail—the thing obscurity, of law cramp the wholeternevigonr:of the Alagiiirate —let "hi m act upon the necessity of the case, under the respon sibility'nseparable'from the'exercise of power in all cases, and throw himself for justification upon the Legislature dills coun try. 'ln principle, the Caovernnient and the Catholic Association cannot co-exist nor in practice can they, as will be seen by-encl.! tip. It is needless to comment upon the measures of this Asso ciation--its spirioriti Object. , All those clear.—and all are illegal—and not only illegal, but revolutionary, if we have any such thintf t 011 Constitution. • These denuntiation.v and libels against the Etitablished'Cnurch and Clergy, which issue 'from this Body cOntinually, are illegal, and they do most griev ously threaten the public repose of the realm ; the raising of Money, to give the greater'effiCacy to the operations of the en gines employed against the Established Church and the charac ter of the Clergy, is illegal ; the publications ,and.manifestoes scattered among the peoliie in derogation of the administration o r justice—the avowals 'of . having the RonurPontifrs - attention officially attracted to the state of Ireland.:-.all are illegal— grossly illegal—and those revolutionary abominations must soon ce a se. ' POACHING. DESPERA.TE AirvaAT.—A desperate encounter took place about two o'clock in the morning of Thursday last, between. the keepers of the Duke of NORFOLK and a party of.porachers, in a plan latelyoa t l i to n s r'o us m f o e eo r .n s li d e a l yt d and we North filluibgeht, reme mb ered,L olm i a, belonging . h ts o t George .Mayers, the gamekeeper o f o o r r a w o o od off - e r n e c v e e , 0 f pr the o s prosecu t ed t wo e ki are now expiating their delinquency at the tread mill, at„Swaffham house of correction. On Thurs day mor n ing. the. moon shone very- bright, when Mayers, assisted • by two: other 'persons, of the names • of Williams and BlOinfield, were on the look out. They- scion discovered a party of poachers, consisting of a man of .the. neighbour hood, of the name -Of 'lathes Gill, and three others coming near. The• poachers, who were armed with guns, fired on the keepers; two of them missed ; Gill levelled his pike at tliebead of Mayers, who adyiSed him not to fire ; but he was . determined • not to be deteried ; Mayers stooped'donn, so that the charge slightly grazed his shoulder, lodging a few shots in the flesh; he now fi red in his turn ; the contents of his piece lodged in the fleshy part of the thigh.of Gill, who fell disabled, and was soon made prisoner: The other poachers ran away, and . have for the present escaped. Gill was put into a cart, and conveyed to 'Digs, where he arrived about four o'clock in the morning, for the benefifottiiedical advice; and for better security he was carried to the Half Moon Inn, where he rernains'in a very dangerous state. 'On Friday last Gill Underwent an.examination before George Lee, Esq. and the ti) e Mayers, fore ,mlNortilltliloaninosd, facts, -aiidlilptn Rev. fie M ld r. co M rr:l t i l o u r i ii n t g e ' d ; and Gill was fully committed to the county . gaol to take his trial at the next AsSizes.• -,lle still, iovieVer, continues in too dangerous- a condition in be removed it present, life being in a very ,preCariOus 'state,' and ,is" thereftire_iii the custody of two consiables„ till a rnelliCal 'gentlemen shall decide . the propriety , of .removed with safety.—( Bury Gazette.): . • - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday Claudia: Samuel. Deranges, Jean Bonnet, and Guillaume Domaine, alias Delatre, three Frenchmen, were brought before Sir R. BIRWIE, and under went a very long examination on the charge of having, by vie lent threats, extorted from Monsieur Thebommery, a trench merchant, residing in the' City of London, certain valuable securities, namely, 290 shares in a Mercantile Company, calkti " The Paris and Madrid Woollen Cloth Company." It appeared by the testimony of .several witnesses that some time ago a company of merchants in Paris obtained from' th e King of Spain a Royal Concession" for the exclusive mast'. facture of woollen cloths at Madrid, and agents were pointed by the Company in various parts of - Europe for me sale of shares. The agents in London were. Blessrs,Evarth and Thebommery; of Broad-street, City, who had been en trusted with 1,000 shares for sale. The, banker to the Coin- pany at Paris is Monsieur Vernet. Some shot f time ago the defendants went to the Gentlemen above mentioned, and themselves to he employed by M. Vernet, the Paris banker, to raise money for him upon the shares whieh.klessrs Evart and Thebommery had in their possession, and desired to be furnished with a quantity for that purpose. The shares were then at about 451. per share, and were in the nature of Excho quer bills, bearing interest, and payable at Madrid or Paris, Messrs. Evarth and Thebommery refused to part with any of the shares until they were better satisfied that the defendants had authority to dispose of them. Desanges pressed repeated ly to have some supplied to him, and said he knew a capitalist who would immediately advance money upon them. After being several times pressed to give the name of his capitalist, Desanges, at length, said it was Kinnear. The defendants repeated their demand several times, and. were as often po attively refused, at which it was stated they became desperate ly enraged. A few evenings ago they went together to the private counting-house of Monsieur Thebonnuem in NiCholas-lane, Lombard.street, and finding him alone, "they commenced a series of threats, -which were to be put i n execution, unless he gave up to them the shares which he had in his own possession. They said, among other things, that they would immediately. publish a l e tter, which should affect. the credit of the Company, and also the credit of their (Mess ,e rs. Evarth and Theboininery's) house, and Bonnet s would plunge a poignarti in the heart of M. 'lliebommery, un less their demand was complied with. Under the terror of these threats, 31. Thebommery gave up 290 of the shares in question, with which the dcfendantsleft the house. Mr. Evarth. came in before they left • the house, and found his partner in a great fright, and the defendants in as great a passion, butte was too late to prevent them from obtaining the shares. 3. 1 Thebommery immediately conveyed information ofthis trans action to the Company at Paris, and on Tuesday night 31 • Pierre Audriel, one of the managing partners, arrived in Lon don, and a warrant was obtained from Sir Richard Birnie for the apprehension of the defendants. Bishop, Morris, and Nichols, took them into custody in a few hours. • , t The above facts were sworn to ; and M. Audriel swore tpa the shares were the property of himself and partners, and Oa . ' they had given the defendants no authority to dispo.se of O L T . The defence set up was, that they were authorised and 0 Alloyed by M. Vernet, the Paris banker, to raise money oe , 11 these shares in this country, he being a partner in dieconTa n,, and their banker. the itlr a l n g :ter On the other side it was denied that M. Vernet had anY P° to give any such authority. complainants, ea i nli nt in im a the shares restored, and to be protected from the retied, violence of the defendants. If they would give ap the ell. no more would be required of them than to enter int° I II " theyTleiehoduemfennedant give s y sa e u id p ti t i h e e y si l l i a a zances to keep the peace. r t an d intimated that leis hilisAcßlilelnEtsßo, owyhdoeisiitrteedndteedhfvo The complainants said they would not object to the 5 11 , being impounded at this Office until it could be seer: 1 5 1 they had any claim upon 31. Vernet, and if thY l l,, it should be settled ; but they could not consent that the r d es cia tZt i ll s tuhrynwellrle.SAl tiernsfieet;es fendants should keep possession of the shares. Mao At length Desanges went with an officer and . Mr. '4ll and and brought the shares to the Office, where they, were sealed with the official seal, and M.'Audriel having aifie own seal, they were deposited in the Magistrates' drawer; „ in - The defendants Dumaine and Bonnet were held. te.n.t e it: 100/. each to keep the peace. Desanges not havng 1), 51 , ! : used any threat, was ~dischatged unconditionally. p UNTOIY-HALL.—(UtiAItOE OF MITRDER.)-1.1. man, named Ambrose Gannell, was brought before t "idol of Magistrate, R. J. CUAMBERS, Esq., charged on all o f, the having murdered a woman named Anne Bruton. stie d that overseers of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark, t . . 7 ne w the deceased' was admitted into the workhouse of t,t'f„ The on the 4th instant, . and she expired the fallowing_ 1 1`‘7, 1 7 0 'died parish surgeon who attended her pronounced Inn tha t her in consequence of the typhus fever; but obeery swe lled tongue exhibited a very extraordinary' appearance, belsenuent to an enormous size, and quite black immediatell. , &„dhood to her death. Strong reports prevailed in the neign wo where the deceased lived, before she was ta k en into the Work house, that her death proceeded from the injuries. she ceived from the prisoner. After some investigations, was remanded to await the result of the Coronee.s ,tiurea, • . At Gravesend, there is a sect of persons, ctv7 scendanta of O'Bitv AN, but professed adherents tO the South , cotian faith, who have allowed. their beards to remain linshorn for several Weeks past. One of the same faith, a short time. ago, at Ashton-under-Line, according to his own statement, had, had a colloquy with the Supreme Being, and, that heliad been Commanded to allow his beard to grow in imitation of-tie Apostles of old ; and now, on Sundays a flock of these,4_e: luded:lnen like so many he-goats; may 'be seen going' arta r'''' . turning to their place of teorship.—( Kentish Chrenic,l) d i SINGUL4It Rii:TENCIE.---We recorded in ° 01 0, paper of the 13th ult. the committal to our Y u cottar f a,„„t,, !Thomas Watts (late servant to Mr. Hawley of e —'ol Lodge, near hlelton Illowbray), for felony. 'lle was charg ed upon the oath of Anne liunney, late also a. tiervent air. Hawley's, with having entered her bed-room about t hr ee i, o'clock in the morning of the 211th of October last, tul,," if t .; She further stated, that immediately after tempting her life by cutting her throat with a patron the' act he ran away ; when she went to her master's r0001_!„4. informed him of the circumstance, who proceeded to the nt , ;;,,, Chamber, .and found him apparently asleep, and a feil?., 44 :a by want in a bed adjoining • 1 -.• Jpon the wound being exatillu. Tbe a Surgeon, he pronounced that her life was not in asufi ef „. ; °a ble woman bearing a very indifferent character, grea t t„ 7 o(iSfe was taken by the Worth); Magistrate in order, to . I— p a tas the. troth, and the prisoner was remanded several tWI,! re ire' She strictly adhered to her fi rst statement, upon oath, ti•f t ot i tor no other alternative, and he was accordingly cotninittet •.,, ho at the ensuing Assizes. Ever since his continemeat!,ll.eimPoidt been very much depressed in her Mind, and Stung Or " -- 14 . , of $ with remorse of conscience, in having placed w e ;get) on fellow-servant in such Inuninent dan t ,ger. She coriabgt.op Friday last to the parish o ff icers of Little DeihY , h arfck' had taken a false oath, and that the whole was $ OO tion of her own ; that she committed the- act with he r vi be perpetrating no hand out of revenge, she being pregnant by the prisoner...me , f i r " te f ar had refused - to marry her. This abandoned woman "" general jail delivery.— day actually went over to hlelton to the salLo I ll s}, a t ,: the the express purpose (if it could be done). of swearing 1.4100 truth of such. confession. It is understood that thea, neSt will be obliged to remain immured in prison th e ' 4 r .... 2...... delivery.—( Leicester CI at ti of w pn 11; fi ednesday, the lithßiinast.lllllirs.Chayles 13 ' ir4runli ine-o ce-court, of a daughter. MARRIEI). t he An 11746-. On Saturday, the 27th of November,. at Paris/ a t e , tvna igUlo , Radar's chapel, Louis Gabriel Ilercule de Patra `-': f . 00 00 of Guinea , near Calais, to Sarah, eldest daughter Sandon, Esq., Chase-green, Entield, Aliddlese%* re IVllm.`c - On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Ilanover-squa i ' le w of hi Stiles Roe, Esq., of Sculcoates, county of York , 1 ) e t al o 1 311111 ' Richard Bassett, to Mary Anne, only daughter of der, Esq., of St.'„lohn's-wood. 1101/91- On Friday, Mr. Phipps, of Gracechurch-strecti t" ville, of the New-road. ()E:aOn on k th .r e ida l y s i t i t n i s le t. 3 , d a i t ns tl t te ReEv.D.l.cwis Ws , t r P S :e el:1 ; i: ne :thoriee:Oreirsts.nres.:lralrattißipee.:nEalgge:i.i:F:Boyll,ct ilni S iletirt.r e rtji : lo. l ,osse l: : : : l o :;: ti et ol in i l e e l r e to r e r lo: r. er ciii ° ; f t .oa rlo . Thomas sth ow ey, •. ~ , o hire, a refor n " sh:ee n n t, d ti so l i e e n of the author of the `well-known work 02 .;1, tic' Medicine, late senior physician of 'Westminster flosV , ~yq•, agedagA 7-851:dfiaonrditiblurnirm.nag6itty.,:,opairSitslh,elikee:311014fitpedreswisorunlirgtioet,:fen.11.ju'Orit;:wel)Cinia•nnuS:teillie:ttIkcint;I:1'iinles:5:1'1, at Cape Coast Castle, on the sth of ieptentha last, b tu ofur• 'John Alexander Schetky, Fellow of the.oYal C 6ilege ti 3leir pons of Edinburgh, Deputy inspector of Hospitals, 0 ber of COuncil, Sierra Leone: 'VP ----- t t he $ Printed and Published for the Puornivroiti, 3 .., i, OFFICE, No. 119, Strand, by J. 13, C;AttiTAI" Jo 811 .16 At, tv Th 1 do -. 1 Fe V: 0 441