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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Petpers, Aug. 13. [ NEW 71Tdri.] Yesterday a slight variation took place in Con *els, and at the close of business the price was tiSti for the Account, having been prev►ousty done at 94. In Foreign Secnrities,Spanish Bond►► ri~aintain - their price at 9.2. The Scrip of the Buentis Ayres Loan was ut z premium ; Colom trim) Scrip 4f discount; and Mexican Bonds 594. Letters were received yesterday from Constan. tiuople of the 10th ult. The account of the suc eines' of the Capitain Pacha had afforded much satisfaction to the Porte. The plague was in cietsing in its ravages amongst the inhabitants of the capital. Two fires had lately broken out s one of which destroyed the palace of one of the Sul tana's at Beshicktesh, the other was of less im portance. The letters from Smyrna are only of the 2d ult. being four days earlier than those pre- Niously received.—(lbid.) [BRITISH PRIM.) By a private letter, received by the last New' York packet, we learn with great pleasure that the dissensions which were on the point 'of breaking out between the Congress of Nalilico and the supreme executive authority of the Mexican federation, have been suppressed by the .energy of the Dictator Bravo. There was every reason tcr suspect that Iturbide had been tamper. ing with QttiuttiMir And the 'principal persons in the local government at Xalisco, and if the Dic tatorhad not crushed the designs of the conspira tors ,y his expeditious movement on Guada. laanra, a civil war might have ensued. We are much gratified to find, that the feelings of the people are decidedly in favour of the federal union, rind that Bravo entered the city amid the enthusiastic applause of its inhabitants. The militerrfaction, on which Iturbide's hopes rested, is now powerless, 'and the adventurer himself will, in all Probability, fall into the hands of the Republican Generals almost as soon us he makes Isis - desCeut on the coast. We cannot pity him, though the sternest decree of public justice should be executed upon him. No criminal en terprize was ever undertaken. to disturb the peace of et, nation with less ground of extenuation.— There can be no doubt now of the solidity and strength of the Mexican Government. The only danger that could menace it has passed away. [MORNING urritALD.] There is still a probability of a pacific settle. ment between France and St. Domingo. The Commissioners of the latter have left France, not because the negotiation was broken otr, but from their not being invested with sufficiently full powers. It would appear that the French Go vernment would be satisfied with retaining the style and title of Protector of St. Domingo, re. [Jouncing the sovereignty. Our opinion is, that the French Government had better at once ac knowledge the, independence of ilayti. The Blacks there appear to be able to maintain their independence, which is all that France, or any other Government, ought to require from them. In a trading respect, it is very immaterial to France, whether she holds the sovereignty of that island, or whether she does not, provid e d the r populutiou of the Blacks remains the same io a state of independence as in a state of bon dage ; for where there is population, there must be trade—and as in 'all probability the Ifaytians are not manufacturers, they must be supplied wi th clothing, iron, &c. from France, or other , parts of Europe. As to the question, whether, in a state of independence, 'they will coatinue to produce sugar, coffee, and so forth, io,the same ratio as they did in u state of slavery, the extent of that will depend on the advantages they may derive from doing so. But if the same population remain, and are clothed, fed, and Judged, as well as before, and if, as is probable, they have no Manufacturers, they must neces. sootily import manufactures from some place, and if impoit, they must pay for them ;.and hOw• are they , to effect a payment.to France, or any other country, but by coffee, sugar, rice, and so fortill- For we never heard that lfayti prOtinced' gold or silver, therefore they cannot pay in the latter. We should notbe surprised if the g'rerichGoVernment were at length beginning to open their eyes to the folly of fielding colonies be. yard 'the period of their being capable of being de ...Met?) independent. England his experienced, its a - striking instance, the increased commercial bene fit she has received by reason of the separation of the United States from her.. Cn all probability the United States, now independent, are better citAtnmers to England in proportion of one hurt• tired to one, than if that tract of country had still remained dependent on her. (THE TIMES.] • When the Alien trill was last under discus. skin in Parliament, Mr. Peel described it as an essential mitigation of that arbitrary and uncoil trifsatiore, that all such foreigners as could prove a seven years' 4 residence - " in the United Kingdom, would be thenceforth released from its grasp. The Minister took full credit fur this indulgence—and we are willing to he iiele that he did not intend the clause as a merely culaurable, but as a bona fide provision on behalf of a ;Yertein class of aliens it is, therefore, as Much to bring the subject under Mr. Peel's con sideration as under The public notice, that we ''" i ts 'it once the manner in which the spirit of 11 ' 4 amended law has been violated. A merchant in tile otrot London, having called within these fliw days at the Alien Mice to take out •his cepilicate as a seven ye!arie resident iti irang! land, was asked wloth er he could undertake to say that, • during the period of seven years, he had never been f ur , a single day out of the kingdom. The gentleman was unable to carry his declaration so far, end was, rr fu„,d hie corti. h e w. a t is to he observed, that t or _ n u, „ ass pa s t this foreigner has carried ..on 'usi • years pa s t and has, during that time, rented constantly a dwell ing -house and counting•houge in Lontimi. In order, therefore, to establish the correctness of the meaning assigned to the term " residence" by the Alien-office, it must he laid down that an ex pedition to Calais by one steam-boat, and a re turn by the next, will work a defeazance of the new clause in the bill, and reinstate the Secretary of the Home Department in the full plenitude of that absolute power over Aliens ,which he pro fessed with such exemplaiy temper and modera tion to abandon. [MOO /4ING 1101 r.) One consideration arising out of the monstrous pretensions of the Catholic priesthood to work miracles has been strangely overlooked, in the different remarks upon that subject, which have been occasioned both by the Hohenlohe imposi tions in Ireland, and the more recent crime com mitted by the priest Carroll. We allude to this —that if miracles can be wrought by such ordi nary persons as Catholic Clergymen, the strongest evidence' which we possess for the Divinity of the Redeemer and his Mission is subverted.— When Mr. Hume wished to destroy the foun dation of Christianity, he argued against the pus 'Ability of the truth of those miracles recorded in the New Testament, and the great, learned and pious authOrities who have written in support of our religion have uniformly rested their reason ings ou the fact that divine power alone wus competent to the performance of such superna tural acts. But grant that Prince Hohenlohe or Father Carroll Is able to reverse the course of nature, and our Heavenly Saviour is at once de graded to the level of, their wretched humunity It is indeed equally horrible and disgusting to reflect upon the consequences to which the pre sumption of Catholic Cleigy and the ignorance of their infatuated flocks so directly lead. In Irland the utmost which has resulted from the murder of Sinnott's child, is, that a few of the higher orderti of Catholics are ashamed not to allow that a Priest may go mad, while the most rations t of the lower orders insist on oath, that even i►► a state of insanity he can work miracles! [MORNING CHRONICLE.I Orders were received yesterday to suspend the loading in the Thames of the two transports with stores for Cape Coast Castle, from which it is suspected that Government has determined to bid a final farewell to that deadly British posses sion. It is currently rumoured that the Dutch have been the real cause of the resistance which has been made to, and the calamities which have fallen on, the English settlement at this station, for its existence was incompatible with the valu able Slave Trade which is prosecuted on that coast by ell those Sovereigns whom England placed on their thrones, and who yearly promise to abate the iniquity of ,a traffic in human flesh. — Poor England, however, must now submit not only to the indignity of having her benevolent views thwarted, and her commercial and,colonial interests injured by those whom 'she has loaded with benefits, but even her garrisons on the coast of Africa are assaulted by the natives, at the in-' stigation of Dutch slave dealers, and no:satisfac tion is obtained, nor any apology made to her, for au. insult offered to hrr feelings. French, Spa nish, Dutch, and, in short, all Luropeun nations possessed of West India settlements, cue permitted to iMport from Africa slaves into their colonies,and thereby to extend their cultivation, and bring it cheaper to market. Hence arises no small portion of the distress which is at present experienced by the British West India interestond to this injustice is added the insult of instigating the Ashantees to attack the British settlement of Cape Coast Castle. It is, however, the interest of the Holy Alliance and of the Bourbons that it should be so, and Englund must submit to the indignity. The ac counts received from Paris of the conclusion of peace .betwixt the Dey of Algiers and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, are not believed, and.the result of the pro jected bombardment is looked for with much anx i e ty. The people of .England are at war with t h e D e y Of Algiers, but the why and wherefore is one of those mysteries which Ministers do not think necessary to make public ; indeed many firmly believe that they do not know themselves the grounds of these hostilities. Dr. WILLIAM AWIINCK has been appointed Judge of the Lower Court at Hatnburgh, vice Dr. Setturratt, resigned. A , new street is about to be wade in Paris, which will unite Saint George's-street with Mont. Martre. On Saturday last, a mad dog got amongst the hounds ofl'nomAs WAnc, Esq. of liylton.castle, in the County of Durham, and bit give of them : the rabid animal then seized a young pup in its mouth, and ran off with it. Luckily, however, a servant of ,Mr. ,W. pursued and shot it. It is feltred that several other dogs may have been bit by this animal. En the parish of Feliciano, Bullard's plain, Louisiana, a rattle-snake was. lately killed, hav ing on ity tail 137 rattles. The oldest inhabitant does not recollect seeing one with more than 40 . . The number of rattles is said by Naturalists to indicate the number Of years that the reptile has lived.-- {Philadelphia Paper, July 5.) RACOONISINO AN OLD ACQUAINTANCX.—A New York Paper says--Two. pedestrian travel., lers having very. harmoniously passed, through Pennsylvania, arrived together at Philadelphia, and while sitting et .a tavern drinking„ one of them suddenly darted his hand into the breeches pocket of the other, snatched his watch and money and ran off, The fleeced traveller, unable to overtake his roguish companion, left Philadel phia for this city, and enjnying the 4th of July in' u manner rather riotous, he was taken up and put into Bridewell ; when to and behold ! among a hundred , fellow-prisoners, he recognised the thief, his companion through •Periesylvania, who had been also . imprisoned for similar disorders, gave the alarm, and upon searching, his watch was found ; and thus ,by being imprisoned him? self, he recovered the moat valuable part of his stolen property. A few days ago a young man named f3oF.oOrf, been shooting nen.uDoutaster, was, in the havingllC act of gun in.a hedge, on the op pearance of, a person to reprimand him, when it went off and killed Wirt on the spot. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT ON CHANCERY, THURSDAY, Auo. 12. OORDOW V SORDOX. In this cause, wliCiiiThisflnailYitiiued yesterday, the de fendant proffered papers to the Court which, he said, would prove the perjury of all the witnesses on the other side. Ile Wished his Lordship to receive them, not only to evidence the fact with a view to the decree, but alio for the purpose of lay ing them before the Attorney . General with directions to prose cute the parties. The LORD CBANCELLOA said that he was ready to receive tindxead over any papers which should be handed to him with the consent of the parties in the cause, but he would not read any. of them over with a view to directing a prosecution. If they contained such strong proofs of perjury, the defendant might lay them before the Attorney-General himself. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Atte. 12. Befbre Ms MASTER of the ROLLS.) SMITH, WIDOW, V. STARYIE AND OTHERS. Mr. HEALD moved that an order for entering the appear ance of three defendants in this case, should be discharged, and that a motion for appointing a receiver should be dismissed. The appearance tbr the defendants, Swaine, his wife, and anothee, had been entered without their consent. The property in this case amounted to 25,0001., with the rents of an estate of 51101. a year, and though the cause had been in Court for nine years, yet not a single shilling hail been divided among the legatees. In fact., the case had never obtained a hearing during all that time. The two plaintiffs, Smith, the executors, had gone to the.grave without accounting for the property. The defendants were eighteen in number, poor people, chiefly liv. ing on a small annuity of 1001. a year, and four of them had also since died without receiving any benefit from the pro perty', and their children were likely to share the Name fate. For nine long years had, this case been in Court, one Solici tor being employed for all parties, the plaintiffs and de. fendants, twenty in number. His client was now obliged to wheel a barrow along the streets with oysters, and must continue to do so till this cause .was terminated. An estate of 7001. a year unsold, and' yet art application made to ap point a receiver of monies which had never been accounted fort Ile would say nothing of the Solicitor, who was, for aught he knew, very respectable. But his clients, Mr. and Mrs. Swaine, had been advised, since the cause took nine years with the present solicit/Sr, without a hearing, and was likely to take nine more, to try another solicitor. - They hoped by this change to obtain some chance of benefit for their children, as there appeared little chance for themselves. The solicitor might give good reasons for the delay—why a cause which had been put into Court in 1816, had not yet had One hearing. The defendants applied to Mr. Monkhouse, who had appointed him (Mr. Heald) to state the case. Mr. Monkhouse told the de fendants that mach had been said about the delays in Chancery, and that probably their solicitor, Mr. Pownall, could satisfac torily account for the delay in their case. They were naturally anxious for a speedy termination of the cause, and told him that several other families were similarly circumstanced. Of the f am ily of Kenepsev, one had died; of Bannister, two died; another died in the - family Wyne, and both the plaintiffs had died since the commencement of the suit. The defendants this clients) were apprehensive of a similar fate before any benefit were derived. They applied to Mr. Monkkouse, anti sent a note to Mr. Pownall, informing him that they declined his future services as their solicitor in the cause, and desiring him to deliver up the paper's to Mr. Monkhouse as their Solicitor.— Mr.. Pownall, in answer, stated the progress of the case. In Easter Term, 1815, he was applied to to tile a bill against the defendants, and to put in an answer. ble also entered an appearance for the defendants. It was surely a strange thins that only one Solicitor ehotild be employed in a case of this eutent for both parties e though lie did not know but one Soli. citor could. do as well as twenty in an amicable suit, whisk this was represented to be ; such a plan was adopted with a view of saving expense, but that object was not very material where the money was to be paid out of the same fund. His Honour i g e i e c e n . e C p l i i t a e n vi e s e l e l r d sued es n o t o t r h d e er t o to s t a r : ef or e . r h t e n a m t t o e s r t e r t e s h p l e a c d t. e his report in 1822, and the cause was set down for further diree tions. i butoth Aj) () l was th i b e defe rred r r t ° h e e d :V : 11 ; 1 cl! i w l a' tlisnB:23br abated, in e v i a n e u n c s i n e e convenient consequence e o e o n . e e of both the plaintiffs having died. The testator died in 1812, having acquired a large propertyaolely by his own industry. Hewes a man of humble origin, as, were all hie nephews anti nieces, the defendants. The testator lied written4he will with his own hand, but being no scholar, sonic di ffi culty had been felt in explaining the will, which ha d been rather confusedlydrawn up. When Hr. Pownall had received the notice of disinissal from the defendants,he expressed great surprise, and well be might express surpriae, at receiving such at order from a poor oyster woman. This notice had the effect of awakening him from that. long dreaming sleep. which he had indulged for twelve years, during which time the defendants bad been kept out of the benefit of their uncle's legacies. Mr. Pownall, however, tamed to deliver up the ;Hirers without being paid for his costs—costs from a pauper for a cause which had been nine years in chancery without one hearing ! He deferred sending a alibi - mum to 11r. Monkhouse to enter an appearance fbr the defendants for receiving the suit till it was too late for him to answer. Mr. Pownall further demurred to being changed as Solicitor in the cease without an order of Court, as he had expedited the cause as much as possible. The Learned Counsel had never heard of a more important case than the present, which was one of peculiar hardship and distress. He would have taken it before the other Court, but such cases were of common occurrence there. It was a new thing that a Solicitor could. not be changed without an order of Court. The Lord Chancellor would not hear such an as sertion. Mr. Monkhoutie replied to Mr. Pownall on the 211th July. The Learned Counsel concluded by moving that the order for entering an appearance sh ou ld b e di sc h arg ed, as we ll as that for reviving the suit ; and that they be discharged with costs. Mr. HART defended the conduct of Mr. Powhall. He depfe cated the waste of time at this season of the year, in a cause which called for very little argument, Hie Learned Friend had made a comic use of the woman with the wheelbarrow of oys ters, but he would not.follow that example, where thee time of the Court was so preceious. The delay which had occurred was solely attributable to the inexplicable nature of the testator's will, not one word of which was properly spelt. The testator was a man of low origin and mean education; the defendants were of the same character, being 'chiefly paupers, and he saw no reason why his Learned Friend should have expressed him self so warmly in such a case, unless it was for the purpose of exciting popular opinion, and inflaming theblic mind re specting the delays attributed to the Court of Chancery. He had acted strangely in taking the cause into this Court, but lie knew that the Lord Chancellor would not have listened to a motion of this kind, his Lordship having already decided that a 'Solicitor was entitled to his costs before delivery of the papers in the cause. Mr. Pownall had never said that it was necessary to have an order of Court to deliver up the Paers. He had no wish to remain solicitor for the defendants and had no objection to Mr. Monkhouse or any other person being appointed, but he had a right to his costs. The Court could do nothing without the consent of Mr. Pownall. He had prepared the briefs, and delivered them to Counsel, and every thing was ready for going on with the cause, with the exception of his Honour the Vice. Chancellor, whose lamented illness was now the cause of delay. Mr. Moons followed on the same side. Ile said that Smith had ill-used his wife, and had separated from her, living with another woman for four years in a course of adultery. But finding that his wife was the proper person to take out letters of administration, in consequence of the death of another per ,he took her hack again. There Were several causes ope rating as delay, for which hit. Pownall was not at all account able. Mr. fistaLD replied, t A unite ittiportant case than the present never came before the Court. If 111 r, Pownall .was it mean, petty Attorney, living in a n obscure corner of the town , and ' 4 ' 4 l paupers for his clients, he shou ld have felt himself bound to have exposed his conduct to the Court. :But as he was represented as a respectable, man, he had obstetric.; from saying any thing again s t hi m . If he had depicted him as have ing put the cause into a sledge, dragged by a worm across the Court, the delay could not have been more. But his Learned , Friends had advocated his cause, more in words than . facts, for it did not appear that any substantial defence had ,heen set up 'for the unaccountable delay. if Smith lived with another :woman, in open adultery, it only aggravated the case. But 'this cause had been in Court mince 1816, and .net one step had been taken to expedite a hearing. Nothing to rouse the Solicitor for both parties from his dreaming sleep. Mr. Moor t t er ha n d i ic s u si n i a d t .. that one of hi* clients was a pauper, an d tit o but were wo w p e o retheme matters for Comedy ? He was astounded, th a t Pownall, a man of character, eltould have - instructed his Counsel to say, that there was no ground of complaint in the present case. But while he (Mr. Heald) had the honour.: of wearing &gown, he should, ferret out the pet!) , artifices of those who made affidavits of this description, which only tended to bring the Court and the Bar into public scandal., 'rhe:long delay/ in this Court, of which the public had so often and so justly complained, were not attributable to the practice of • the Court, to the Judges who, presided in th e Court, nor to the Cetrnsel at the Bar, but to -Solicitors and others.who ori ginated the causes. Was it not shocking that . a receiver should be asked for an estate , which. had been nitre years in ChanCery, without 14 shilling Wing beet) receiv ed by tha; annuitants? He had looked over this case yester. day, and hie Iconscieneet could not, rest , till lie .hed brought it before the Court. Wee it to be endured that property of this' kind should - be • allowed - to remain unaccounted for be cause the parties entitled to it were paupers ? letters of Meal. nistration being only sued out as the signal of their death I Was the Attorney to be allowed to retain the property till the paupers were swept away, one generation after another, like mere dross, till the whole claimants were gone, when the Attorney should get all the property, and stand on their tombstones, the monument of his own fortune, and their utter ruin ! This was but poor encouragement to the indus trious classes of this commercial country, that the fruits of their labours should not be guaranteed to their posterity, merely because they were poor. It would not be allowed in the other Court that the consent of Mr. Pownall was necessary to the disposal °tibia cause. Was a man getting into Pow nail's grasp never to get out without his consent ? His was a wooden trap, which killed not indeed, but in which. a Man pined to death. It was monstrous that two Counsel and one Solicitor should be arrayed against a pauper,. to preventhitn from changing one solicitor and employing another. His Learned Friend (Mr. Hart) had complained'of the time wasted in this cause on a summer's day ; but had the cause of justice had any respect to the season of the year, whether it was a sum. mer or a winter's day ? When his Learned Friend bad to de fend cases Of this kind, " exciting popular opinion, and inflam ing the public mind," were phrases everlastingly on his tongue. But if those of the public press, who took down with pen and ink what was uttered in this Court, almost quicker than it was spoken, had omitted to mention that a case of this nature had been heard without exciting the abhorrence of the Court, he should be very much surprised indeed. He trusted that the appearance should be discharged ; and that the motion for re• viving the suit should be dismissed, and dismissed with costs. Lord °tyro RD said, the question was of very great import ance. The facts of the case tended to excite surprise, for it wag not a little extraordinary, that this being an• amicable suit, should be five years before it was noticed at all. It was now nine years, and nothing appeared to have been done in the case. It was evident that Mr. Pownall had considered himself being discontinued as Solicitor for the defendants, in having sent a subpoena to Mr. Monkhouse to put in an appearance for diem. Knowing this, he should have given notice of his inten tion to resist his dismissal as Solicitor to the defendants. As ' allusion had been made to himself in his judicial capacity, he felt sonic difficulty in the present case. It was important to the suitors of this Court to itnow, for they had all beard the Lord Chancellor say, that Solicitors should not capriciously abandon causes in which they were engaged. If he were to speak his . present impression, he.would allow the motion for withdrawing the appearance; but as it involved the conduct of a respectable Solicitor of the Court, he did not wish to decide hastily, and would therefore take home the affidavits, and de liver his judgment to-morrow morning. It behoved Solicitors to ponder before they engaged to conduct causes for both parties in which there were conflicting interests. Mr. Pownall had acted wrong in doing so; but, as he was not before him judicially, he was unwilling to judge hastily; the more so as it affected his character. As to the costs, the Solicitor had a lien on the fund in Court, but no controul over the papers in the cause; nor was his consent necessary, as the Court would act without it. Mr. HART then moved for a receiver, but deferred the motion at the suggestion of Mr. Heald. ASSIZ E INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Ava. 12. MIL SIDE. COULTER V. THE HUNDRED OF FEVERSHAM. This was an action' on the Black Act, 8 Geo. I. c. 21. s. 8, against the inhabitants of the Hundred of Faversham, to re cover a sum of 200/. as part compensation for the malicious de struction by fire of a barn and certain stacks of corn belonging to the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TADDY and Mr. BOLLARD conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. MalittvATT and Mr. CHITTY the defendants. The plaintiff was a respectable farmer at,Doddington, and had aft off-hand farm at Newnhatu, whet* alooker and his family resided. On Sunday evening, the 28th of September last, after the family were retired to rest, they were aroused by a light near the dwelling. It was immediately dis covered that a large barn was on fire, and that an oat stack was in flames in two places. The fire spread rapidly, and in a short time destroyed property to the amount of 1001. and upwards. Front the appearance of . the fire when fi rst dis. covered, - it was manifestly not accidental. In anticipation of the intended defence that it , was caused by lightning, se veral witnesses . proved that the night had been tine, and no lightning visible. It was suggested that the fire bad been kin. died by some person who bore malice towards the plaintiff, in consequence of his having been very active in the suppression of poaching, and in reducing the poor's rates of the parish.— The usual notices had been given to the inhabitants, and depo. sitions made before a Magistrate, in pursuance of the directions of the statute. Steps had also been taken to detect the authors of the mischief, by advertising a reward of 2001. but without success. The defence set up was, that the fire was occasioned by light. ning, and several witnesses were called, who deposed that, on the evening in question, flashes of lightning had been seen, but not sufficiently strong, In their judgment,to do any mishief.— They admitted that no thunder accompanied the lightning. Mr. Sergeant TARDY was stopped in reply~. Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence, and the Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2001. BRUTAL OUTRAGE. Some time ago, a young lady of the first re spectability, residing in Baker-street Portman-square, whose personal charms are perhaps the slightest recommendation to &area mesatenownhore addresses s na si t l e e c o o n u oy n h o t t o p a o t s t s r i a b e i t y g til v e e ad e r r ig , ti: ciprocity of sentiment was never likely to take place. An acci dental introduction at a public-assembly was the only familia rity that ever subsisted between the respective families; yet, on this slight authority the man (we cannot misapply the adjective grnt le) thought proper to press his pretensions to an excess that left decency, moderation, and good manners entirely out of the question. His first triode of attack was personal, and the in terruptions the young lady experienced in her walks, if unat tended, became so, frequent and vexatious, that s h e was com pelled to acquaint her uncle (at whose house she resides) with the whole story from first to last. That gentleman, highly ir ritated at the unmerited ill-treatment of his niece, immediately wrote a letter to the person complained of, dictated in the most peremptory terms, against a repetition of the offence, under pain of corporeal punishment. This unceremonious announcement produced a cessation of personal hostilities ; but though relieved from the torture of listening to nonsense, he determined she should peruse it. A " paper-bullet" battery was therefore opened, and the young lady had the daily mortification of be holding her toilet encumbered with embossed cards, and rose coloured bilktr.doul., breathing at the same time both odours and insults, with the pretty nani by-pamby in press of su n- fi o wers, forget - me-tots , and fettered Cupids. This epistolary warfare was kept up for a considerable time, without making any im pression on the besieged citadel ; fresh redoubts were thrown up ; the utmost vigilance , was employed to prevent the admission of these paper envoys, whether dressed in " lilies fair or roses red," and when, perchance, some stratagem introduced these unwelcome messengers to " my lady's chamber," judg meta was pronounced instanter, and the culprits were imme, diately consigned to an auto-da : fr by the hands of Mrs. Abigail the common executioner. Continued disappointment will abate even a lover's ardour, and as our hero was none of the most persevering, he at length saw the inutility and folly of his pro cedure, and immediately raised the siege. On M onday evening, the young lady above-mentioned, having Alined at the house of a friend in Gloucester-place, was return ing home et a little after ten o'clock, attended only by a female domestic, when (most enal-a-propor ) her discarded suitor made his appearance, accompanied by another person, both evidently inebriated.. The young lady had at the moment entered Port man-square, which waa un usually destitute either of watchmen or casual passengere. The recognition was mutual; but the young lady i hoping that he would not presume to offer any molests. tine, walked on at a quick pace, without seeming- to be con scious of the rencontre. Her hope of e:cape was, however, un deceived by a rude embrace from one of the Bacchanals, whilst the other endeavoured to take the same liberty with the servant, who, being sup er i or to t h e genera l d el i cac i es of the sex, repelled the intruder with the thrust of an umbrella, which is said to have extracted at least two of his front teeth, and called forth the pur ple fluid in abundance; but seeing the young lady still strug gling with her drunken assailant,tliis modern Amazonian turned her fahchion In that quarter, and, by a powerful and well-di rected blow, induced him to sign a release in blood. Th e y oung lady fainted, and the two fellows Immediately turned the whole weight of their fury against the woman, whose courage subsiding after the first effort, remained entirely defenceless. With a bar barity unparalleled in the records of cruelty, they knocked her down ; and, when at length her repeateal cries appeared to reach the ear of a distant watchman, they abandoned their hopeless victims, and found a temporary security in flight. On the watchman's arrival, the servant had somewhat recovered, but the lady was still insensible, and in that state was conveyed home in a coach, when the circumstances were explained, to the great distress of an affectionate family. On the following day, it was ascertained that the chief actor in this disgraceful scene had suddenly left town, no doubt to evade the come quencea of any legal proceedings that might be taken. The abettor is not yet. traced ; but w ien the young lady is suffici. only recovered to give evidence, those heroes may probably be ' introduced in propria nernina. The servant's deposition was taken on Wei nesday irsorning as to the simple fact of assault, and a magistrate's warrant forthwith granted thereon, but the absence of the parties still prevents its execution. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CHARGE OF MURDER. MAN rtoir-H u sr.—l/assay, against whom it may be recol lected a warrant was some time ago issued for the raurderef man named Delany in Clr.th.fair, was brought before the Joan MAYoR by Mr. COPE, into whose hands the Police of Dublin had committed him. The evidence taken upon the death of Delany stated, that in a desperate quarrel in Cloth-fair batten a number of Irishmen, Hussey seized a hammer, and inflictedn wound with it upon the temple of Delany; of which wound the deceased afterwards died. It was not supposed at first that the wound was mortal, and a representation having been made to one of the City Magistrates that a poor man was confined in the Comptcr for a common assault, and that bail was in realness for him, and that if he was not discharged his family would be severe sufferers, the necessary order of dismissal was given, and Hussey got out of prison. Delany, who had ventured togits deuce at Guildhall on the subject of the assault, though suffering excessively from the wound, grew daily worse, and after a aa" vere struggle, died in the hospital. Hussey lived for nearly three weeks amongst his friends in London and then went to Ireland.' He wandered about for some time until he thought the thing " was blown over and then visited his relations at Roscommon: but the report of the murder had reached his native place, a nd ha - was apprehended by the Police, who told Mr. Cope that they ON obliged to handle him roughly on account of the desperate re sistance he made. The prisoner has received a severe cut on the head, and been pricked with bayonets in several parts of the body. He declares himself that lie was sitting quietly with child in his arms when the posse comitatns entered, and up at4 cessarily attacked and overpowered him. The Loan MAYOR asked Davis, the beadle of the Pa, where the murder was committ e d, whether the prisons, woo 'a person named in the warrant ? Davis replied in the affirmative. The Loan MAYOR then asked the prisoner whether he wish' ed to say thing ? Hussey declared he had nothing to say, except that he wit° innocent of the murder. MATRIMONIAL RIGHTS. M SIOX.FIOUSE.--A case of a singular description „W 49 heard before the LORD M A Y O R and Sir J AM E S SHAM 6 ' lD• nesly, the beadle of Aldgate, applied for an order of filiati°9" against a Jew, who, according to the Parish account, desertan his bastard child. When the father was brought up on a ferTe s r . occasion the mother of the child assured the Lord Mayor her child was no bastard, as th e defendant married her bef or e consummation. She then chewed the ring, which she cal ls.. upon him to say whether he had not put upon her finger, P'v nouncing those words which constitute•ithem man and wife* The Lcutp alsmort, whom the poor woman appealed te,. l a very earnest manner for the honour of her child, asked whet h e r such marriages were customary amongst the Jews, and whe th e r the defendant had performed the ceremony in the manner de scribed. wasT he bindingw matnl until solemnly ly divor c e declared took p place. a she had been betrayed and seduced; had she not been convinced of the stability of the bond, she could have married another ler; was more unexceptionable. But why dispute the proltriegi • the marriage, when one of the Cioldsmidts had been married 01 the same manner. The defendant admitted that he had married the young trft• man so far as he had described, but the tie was of no Ow- There were irregularities in the ceremony, which made It ha," possible to be recognised by the Jewish law. Indeed, if P"' expectation of her had been answered, he would have WM: pleted the ceremony before the High Priest, and thus put the e legality of her claim to him beyond all question. If m a rt ia was ge ;o f t th t k c in ail The Jewess submitted to the Lord Mayor that her claim ws l ,, undeniable. She had given no cause for divorce ; her child we' legitimate. She then produced a variety of letters from the defendant, which exhibited his passion in the several stare until it sank into positive abhorrence, and the epithets of et - , dearment were gradually reduced to that of " wretched woman.' The Loan MAYOR, under all these circumstances, sub mitted the question of the legality of the niarriae to the High Priest ; from whom he and Su. James Shaw received the foil/0 - in communication : The solemnization of marriages amongst the Jews 1# 11 ' bulated by a code of laws, which impose sertain ceremonici Or - e performed, and blessings said under a canopy by a WWI properly qualified and authorised for such purpose. Parties UM . ' ever surreptitiously contract themselves in marriages by the man putting a ring on the finger of a woman in the presence e, witnesses, and declaring its purpose ; but such marriage is no only disreputable, but occasions much inconvenience, as its re , ' lidity may . be questioned, and the law considered the wife of such formation in the same light as an unclean woman. Her claim for maintenance is likewise subject to much question, although there is none for that of her children, and neither the man not she can marry any other person unless a regular divorce be. been executed between them. Thus, though the ceremony incomplete and subject to dispute. they must, with respect t 4 other connections, still be considered as mon and wife." Sir JAMES SHAW entertained a very different view of the case from that which the High Priest had communicated. it' considered the case analogous to those Scottish cases which rr, " so familiar, and in which it was known the use of a few Irer a "' of - engagement and acquiescence formed an indissoluble tic. ere did not see how the parish could call upon the defendant N* maintain his bastard child under such circumstances, as it 4 , 1 ",'" i p awe ea egitied r cuh e hm d :ta t whL o teheo t .a i nc i t m eenrvee3 t mr h i at the infant was to all Intents and ptur"" oamnYrog that a wtb be s h tandoeftc. operation an s tpi a lo m anc e eo f c at p h i b opinion. jiw. Jewish 0 e e l would not attempt to disturb. He recommended the parist,P 2 proceed against the defendant in the usual way, for havrge - IV serted his wife and child, and measures would be taken to punish the father, who certainly deserved to steer for having attempted so gross and injurious a deception. The case being discharged, the next step will be to against the man in the m anner suggeste d b y t h e Lord mar. There it at present residing at Pelton, n.t„ f Chester-le-street,. a woman who was c hri s t ene d on the idwa, July, 1721, and is consequently 103 yea rs old, and who tra v „ between the twO pl a c es , th e distance being two miles, th." 4 - four times a week l SINGULAR OC CURRENCE .-0 11 Saturday m rff‘ ing last, as a Gentleman was sitting under the chattel °, 1 4 ,1, Abbey at Lincinden, admiring the beautiful scenery timil mw r k rounds that ancient and interehung edifice, he perceived Ar nik , in the air pursuing a lark, which a little while before irsg_ A r n - t o ing the woods re-echo with its melodious notes. in In",, — t w a save the little fugitive, he shouted and clapped his immediately the lark descended, anti alighted on bisiww i L i p P ed did it offer to leave him when taken into the hand, but a "L it le confident of that . protection which it had sought. The t ,""bly man brought it in his hat to Dumfries, and on going "'— garden, gave the little warbler liberty. t his Mrs. Cout.soN, an inmate of Palmer , -robe-maker, who received a severe fright a t late fire in Chan cery -l ane, has di e d i n O n ' e quence. Mi s s G oug h , of the C o b urg Thea t l r i will, it is suppos e d, recover, but never be em it ''' .A to resume her p ro f ess i ona l avocat i ons ; att d hl`' ,s Eardley, who was taken to St. Bartholomew hospital, still continues in a dangerous 5ta_........)ta• BIRTHS. th . m ks-' d, of On the 22d ult., at Rome, the lady ofTelettel a son. if. 14^ On the Bth inst., a t Ili g hb ury-terrace, t h e boy of Cole; Esq. of Furnivars-inn, of a daughtet. s es bris 43 " On Wednesday, the 11th inst., Airs. {Williamson) - place, Ilackney-road, of a daughter. MARRIED. h n, O r ` On Tuesday, the 10th inst., at S t . A n d r e w -Untie" - s to Cs" Thomas' Neighbour, jun., o f King-atzeet, Snow" l " mm "j j etaie 64 roline, youngest daugh ter o f M r. John Simpson, of hall-street. h On Tuesday, the 10 t h i nst., at St. Otorte -t- e- • in Queen-square, Samuel M•Culloh, Esq., of Rallim° re ' Or' United States of America, to Eleanor AlTulloh, of Ore mond-street, and formerly of Charlton, in Kent. 9tIL At Tilston, In th e county of Chester, on Monday , 00 , inst. by the Rev. William Garnett, S amu el Alderstlkorga of A idersey, in the said county, to Lucy, daughter of Baylis, Esq., of ShifFnal, in the county of Salop. _ . f DIED. Dsi de M.D. tate of the Charter-house. Igar is Thursday,stoOonnne.tly:eh.inst. On the 7th inst., at s ornera ..i ewn age d 15, Miss Anna B oa Davids, daughter of the late Captain Albert %V. Do i°s ' ~ Artillery. .1-tree" August 12, in his Mat year, Arthur Hampstead -road. 1 er Ik li On the 11th inst., drowned while bathing in the t i lf oleo, Layton, in the 13th of his age, Edward, B ° ll °f ' ''C' , fenny, Esq. of Deronshire.street, Queen-No. l re' a Stt g-1 On the 6th' list., at Chelsea, Mn. Chollet. mid" "" dies. Mr. Mortimer Corner, of Williatn .__,—,,,...0_—%•". Chollet, Esq., late Commissary-General in the West In ~,, Printed and Published for the PROPILIETOIOI, at t " Wring 112, Strand, by J. B. CAnsTekitts•