The Sun. — London, England, 1820-12-29 00:00:00

THE _ LONDON J O URNALS. (DAILY EX . T11..-V_;TS FROM THE NIORNING PAPERS.] porning Post.] It is with much pleasure we refer our Readers to "rations calm:lns of our Paper of this day, for further gratifying proof, that the Good Cause is analue it. s triniophaot pro4resti. throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. England, :Sem hand, and Ireland now emulate each other in warmth of loyal and affectionate esprrssiou towards his Majesty. Not only is Radicalism ermy where detested and abhorred, but Ihe influence of the - p:ace hunting Whigs is ohrtouslY in a state of most rapid decline. The People now fast returning . to their 'senses, pl: inly perceive. that 0101)0 the factions Uttigs tire not Radicals - or Revolutionists themselves, they have been, and are still the cause of revolutionary hopes in other men. Their influence in this tray has been matter Of Merit:o.lo daily observation. Even while they acknowledge that mischievous views and schemes are too general among the populace, they rarely make any of their efforts for office without bolding langauge still More inflammatory than that which thirty years since generated the now inonstrups and gic,wing evil. But it is said, " Give this party power, and then their influence will he opposed to the present dangers." To this see answer, that what they bare done is scarcely pos eible to he undone by others, and certainly could not possibly be undone by themselves, if they were . in office.— ..Whatever they may' have meant iby their harangues, the greater Batt of their hearers suppose them to have been sineeie. i hey think . that " the cause for which Hampde:i bled in the field" is a cause seriously recommended to their veneration and adoption. Now, although the learners of any fake system may be undeceived by the preceptors, while the latter have no personal interest in renouncing it, or in post ppiiing its operation, or in vxplaitring it away, it would be absurd to calculate upon such a degree of servile docility, as would make any' pupils join in the renunciation, without a. share in the profits of the change. The improved politi cal morality which the Whigs when beneficed might be ex pected to inculcate, would for this reason, be ineffectual and effete; and there are reasons why it would be worse than nseless. Several men of property are to be found among the Whigs. The Radicals, in the war which they wage against Property, delight to represent the Whigs as mere tricksters politics, and not.at all less inimical than Tories to " the people." Already is this doctrine circulated, for the purpose at clearing away whatsoever feeble safeguard of property may exist in the personal interest, which some few of the Whigs have in preserving it. The Whigs, whets they obtain power, siiust either gratify the hopes they have excites, or deceive them. Of the instant ruin involved in the first part of this dik,llll3lit .we are not now to speak ; the latter expedient is that which the orpiment we are answering, proposes for con sideration. Let:then any one contemplate for a moment a Whig Administration rtfusing to grant a reform of Parlia ment, or granting it only in a modified shape—a moderate Reform ! Who has words to describe the increase of rage with which the refusal, or the insufficient grant, would in spire the long expectant Itevolutionists? The pursuit of gain was never yet so eager, as not to be capable of new vigour, and subject to greater instigation, when a sense of deceit is added to the original motives for activity. Many moderate men who incline to Wl:iggism acknowledge the evil of, a po litical populace, .and of rendering public meetings the staple produce of the country ; let theta; he assured, that whenever resistance to Revolution shall become the business of a Whig Administration, a storm of contumely, reproach, and rage, will commence, such as our worst periods have not yet wit nessed, and probably no Government could withstand. • ' [Morning, Herald.] The Paris-Papers, which arrived last night, are rather in teresting. The King of the Two Sicilies sailed from Naples on the 13th, under the British and French flag, to meet the Allied Powers at Laybach, or such other place as should be mutually fixed upon. Thus far The Monitenr. The Consti tutignel, and some of the minor Journals, add, that his Nea politan Majeaty had embarked on board the English ship the N'engenr, with his suite on board the French ship Duchess of Berry—that news had arrived of his landing at Leghorn, that :be Duke of Campo Chiaro had been impeached by the Par liament and succeeded by the Mt! de Gallo. Other accounts assert that all the Neapolitan Ministers had been impeached, and a new Ministry formed—and lastly, that tiie King, at his departure, had addressed two Proclamations to the Ne apolitan people. There is not the least intimation of the tenor of these. Proclamations. Indeed, the article in 77/.c i:atitutionel ends-abruptly with stars—,ignifying, we sup pose, that the cens-ors had been busy with Cr.' . Frost% the Vienna accounts we learn, that the first invitation front the Congress, to a pers,mal interview, wits declined by the King of Naples, on the ground of his .-olVanced age. The request was repeated, and urged by the English and French Minis tcrs, whiclr iariticed hint to comply. The place of Meeting seas not yet fixed. -Florence is mentioned in sonic of the iintruals. Military preparations are still going en, on the Bart of Naples and Austrial, but we are inclined to think that war will be avoided. The dictation of a foreign power is the domestic gLivernatent of i nation,'is the most flagrant iojustice. But, consistently with this great principle, wo should still entertain t he riplition, that the concession of solar additional force 01) the executive, pot affecting the frame and sabstauce of a really valid representative Constitution, would uot be too great a wiee for the tranquillity of Italy and of Europe. Another Congress will, it is stated, assemble next Tear —for what object is not stated. Perhaps it is intended that there shall be an.annual European Congress, for the purposes of revision and surveillance. The frequency of these solemn meetings wilt, and has already detracted nut d little frum their authority in the. popular estimation. .[Morning Chronicle.] The Revolution that has taken place in the Northern part of Hayti, and of which sufficient details are already before the public. for them to judge of its real character, besides its ge neral importance, is an event of great interest 4..0 our West India Islands. The whole population Of the Western Divi sion of the Island, or- that which was formerly subject to Ftancl:, is now united under our Government, and this nuton gives to President Boyer and his Military Establish ment, already'onmerous, an accession of strength equal to 90,000 men, together with a controul ot•er a sum of money, hoarded up by Christophe, of almoSt an incredible amount, if t was not known how it had been amassed.-- , President Buyer is represented as possessing Many of the virtues of his preele ce.'esors, the deceased Alexander Potion, but he is endowed with more firmness and decision of character, is more stirring, iii a word, more ambitious. His ambition, however, if so it niav Ws' called, has been exercised for the. public good only, and. since lie came into power, bas chiefly had for object the rescuing so many of his - nu - fortunate countrymen from the pike of tyranny. His anxious wishes have at length sueceed• ed., and it may confidently he expected, that the extraordinary meana of offence which have fallen into his hands, will, in their employmen:, he confined to defensive measures, to the redress of his late Rival's wrongs, end to place the whole Country ander his cornmand, in an altitude to repel any at tempts to wrest from the inhabitants of Hayti their hard earned independence. No one knows better than President Boyer the quarter from which danger may be expected, not withstanding the recent trent is in itself sufficient to-destroy all hopes of future suli;ogatioo by any European power ; and he siso knows that datiger does not threaten him in the shape of an open hostile .force He is aware, that stratagem and intrigue will he first employed, and that plans to divide and weaken wile be the forerunners of schemes, never abandoned, and oqw reviyed, though without the smallest prospect of sitecess.—ln reviewing the affairs of Hayti, it appears almost incredible that Christophe's real character should have so long remained unknown, and that men of en lightened minds should have allowed themselves' to have been misled by repoeits of persons purposely sent over to this country to hla•con forth the patriotism, humanity, and ca pacious mind of this second Nero We have been itninced to make this ten - lark, . from our having read in a Morning Paper a (utter., purporting to he front Cape Henry, which, after mentioning the tyrant's death. expatiates largely on his snrtues, his ardent wish to establish schools within his do se o n s , his partiality to our language, &c.- Christophe was,. perhatn , , of all ra,o the most cunning in his policy, - aod if he affected to court the gaeal- will of this couotry, it was because lee expected to find here a shield against his natural enemy. 31e possessed no partialit v to us,- as a nation, tic as indivi 7 . dlais ; ;and so ulna was tins the case, that he invariably re fined to converse in English, though born British co-: luny, acid speaking - our language fluently. When he granted an interview to an Englishman, an interpreter-was always : " iatroduceel. As a topic of mere intereit and utility, we shall isJw proceed to make a few remarks on what we conceive is likely to be the effect of the Haytian Revolution ; and we think our readers will do us the justice to rtelmit, that we bare invariably advocated the cause of Cw.stitutional Go vernments, independent of their other numerous merits, be panic they are less likely to disturb the peace and tranquillity of their neighbours than the uncnntrolled sway of au amid sinus Chief, at the head of an armed population, devoted to his cause ., through fear, or impelled. on by Ober motives. G;oistophe's admirers may, indeed, say, that be evinced no disposition to interfere with the neighliouring.islands. This we are equally ready to admit; but we ask, what would have I been his conduct, if a similar 'Revolution _bad placed the two 'sections of the island under his contruul ? He was crafty enough to see that the countenance, or. rather the forbear- atice of this Government, was necessary to enable him to carry his aggrandising projects into effect. If since his dis astrous attack on Port •au-Prince, in 1814, Ike had not reuew ed . ho4ilities, it .was because among other reasons be at. that period discovered he t could no longer depend on tie fidelity of his troops. Could it, however, be ex pected, it the island had been reduced to his will and power, that he 'srGalet have remained at peace with theneigh bouring islands, pstore 'population is chiefly black ? He was at var'ance with all colours but his own ; and his restless and avaricious temper made him anxious to increase his power and add to his wealth. Fortunately, the powerful attitude of his rival in front, and above all the contrast of laos and in stitutions, kept hint in check. Under the Goveintnent of President Boyer, fixed' and defined laws .exist, as well as a Constitution, which confers on him the executive part of the _Government, but makes hint actountable for his acts. The various other departments are filled by persons of colour, pos-• sessiog the confidence of their fellow-countrymen; and those who have had an opportunity olseeitic , their diplomatic ce,r respondence, &c. will readily confess they have shown no de ficiency of talent. It has indeed been urged, that the laws regarding the white population, hear features of excessive hardship and vexation; but, it must be remembered that their code of laws : was hastily formed after the expulsion of the French army from their territory in 1804. The mild ad f ministration of Petion formed a striking contrast with that of Christophe, in many other respects. In troinstarice,, do we recollect, during the war between Great Britain and the Unit ed States, did the former suffer any retaliation for insults offered to his flag, even in cases when captures were made under the guns of his batteries. As regards Chtistophe, the • ease of the H yperion frigate needs only to be mentioned. • British blood was then shed, at Gonnaives, in the most wan ton wanner, and we never heard that any satisfaction was ever given on this subject. [New Times.] ' There are two points on which misrepresentation is more than usually audacious, relative to the Loyal Addresses ; one, that they are got up in holes and corners by a few contemp tible who Are afraid, to avow their sentiments openly the other that those who subscribe them insult their neighboors by a claith of exclusive loyalty. Now to both these eomplaints the simple insproion of the flaeliney Address af fords a sufficient answer; persons Who put forth their names and addra,ses to the world certainly betray no fear of avowing their sentiments: and if they prefer subscribing a Declaration'to astending a riotous and disorderly meeting, who is to blame but thwse who by argument and example have render ed almost all politic meetings riotous and disorderly ? The Lilyerties of Englishmen have been so completely trod den down by factious mobs anti a 'sedttibets Press, that a Gentleman can scarcely venture to utter a loyal sentiment at an open Vestry INlCeting, without the probability of encoon-, tering personal violence from the rabble, and the certainly of encountering personal slander from the Press. In this war fare there is no equality; the mob has the physical power, and the Press bas the coot roul'of popular opinion, a controul unsparingly exercised by means of insolent abuse and wilful falsehood. As to the other consideration, nautelyi the asser tion of exclusive loyalty on the part of the subscribers, how is that 'made out ? They draw no line of exclusion but what the Constitution has drawn : they propose no peculiar test of loy alty ; but they d. dare themselves ready " to counteract by all lawful means the insidious attempts of the disaffected." Are there no such attempts daily made ? Or, if they are made, ought not every loyal man to resist them ? It is possible that , some perfectly loyal and weli-disposed men may not see the danger which is viewed with alarm by nineteen-twentieths of the respectable part of the nation: but it is no impeachment of such loyalty to say, that t hose who do ace the danger should step forward to avert it. As to those who admit that disloyal and seditious principles have made an alarming pro gress, but who view that progress with complacency, there ' can be no injustice in classing such men among the disaffect ed, and in avowing a loyalty exclusive of their sentiments. , • [The Tinzes.] The statement which we published yesterday on the an , thority of titivate letters, viz. that the old King of Naples has agreed to meet the members of the Holy Alliance, and to hear their deinands upon him and his people, is confirmed by the Paris Papers arrived at a late boor last night, which also as sert that the King's journey is undertaken with the consent of the Neapolitan Parliament. This news seems to us to he riot a little sus prishig. The only views, indeed, with which an acquicacence so perilous could have beets yielded by the representatives , of the Neapolitan nation, roust as it. seems to us, be defeated by the necessary eittrseitusoices of the Royal mission. The object of the Neapolitans would probably be either, Ist, to conciliate the Allied Sovereigns by a prompt compliance with their nnreasonable SUIIIIIIMIS or, 2d, to convince these potentates, through the medium of .the royal ambassador, that public justice as well as their own interests would he better consolted by re specting than by overturoing the infant liberties of Naples. —Now it is unfortitnotely too apparent that a much larger nicasni e of complaisance will he required by Russia and Austria from Naples arid her Monarch, than the mere grant of an interview can satisfy. it the allied Sovereigns only desired discussion, becailse they were unwillims to act without information, they would nut have issued those . violent and alarming notes, „by which Prince Metterniek and a Russian Minister tong since proscribed as sobverlifiJ of " social order," all the changes of Government througli out the South of Europe. It the allied Courts were sin cere in their wish to examine the question. face to face with King Ferdinand. it is. (lode ineinstrous that they should have already so peremptorily prejudged and pronounced upon it. The Neaiailitan revolution has been coadenined, both in its nature and its origin, by the Mioist'er4 of the Holy Alliance. The new. Government is called a':sionarchy only in name : and as for its origin, it has been ascribed to the army, to the Carbonari, to a conspiracy against legiti mate rulers—to every thing but the true cause.. The real authors of treedozn at Naples and elsewhtre have been the abuses of au old despotic govetomeot. But are the Allied Sovereigns prepared to argue that position ? Will they listen to King Ferdinand, when he assures them that arbitiary power is an cull which, in the present condition of maidand, must unavoidably cure itself; and that oppression it) the :9th cen t ury; is as surely followed by resistance as winter by tio, spring? No: it is not to be convinced by the King of Naples. that the high personages at TroplOvu have reqoired his presence among them. Why have they angrily turned off ins •Am basiSadors unheard . ? `(-lad they cared ever su little what the sentiments of King Ferdinand were, they might have dis covered them from his autograph letters and firm his accre dited Ministers. We sitspect the project, therefore, is to make him imbibe their feelings, land not to hear him express his own. But should it prove a more difficult task floor. one cart rationally reckon upon, to perplessombinste, and gain over the mind of a Monarch, Dever distingoished for pro forind reasoning, nor steady and resolute action—one who is now 70 years of age, anti ,who has spent his lag life in the habitual exercise of absolute power—another expedient still remains to the military potentates; Proclamations may be published in the old mao's nutty—his persiin tel the mercy of his allies—and a pretext thus Wrought out for the chastisement and subjugation of his " rebeltious7 subjects. If, then, we are justified in supposing that tfemands will be made upon the King of Naples, sod thrhugh him upon the nation itself, entirely inconsistent with their rights and liberties, are the'Neapolitans prepared to surrender at dis cretion ? If not, what does it profit them to abandon to u-- friendly foreigners tlw guardianship of their aged Mon arch, and to hazard all the evils of which his communication with these strangers may be made the plausible instrument ? Whatever King Ferdinand may do or suffer within the Austrian territory, it does not, we regret to say, appear to us that the prospect of a, war is rendered more distant, 4 but the reverse, unhappily, by this ill-judged absence frout;bas states. The Journat,des Debats, of Monday last; indeed af firms that . his Majesty embarked on board the Beitish 'nian-of-war Vengeur for Trieste, and that his suite were colt veyed by a French frigate; if so, we may consider that hits personal safety is guaranteed by the honour of these trio Go vernmsitts. But against the abuse of his name and authority what pledges can' be given ? In the meantime, at Naples the preparations iire making for the worst ; on the part of the Crowns Prince and the Ministry is full of activity and vigour. Advises of the Bth announce that the Whol l e Niat:olitao was within a few days to be assembled- a n the fr.eitiera, Many regiments of horse and - foot, with an :alerosate train of artillery, had put themselves in march for Foggia, where . they were to wait for further orders. All the Generals ap poirded to commands were ready to start at a moment's warn ing, auth it was generally circulated and believed that a large number of Spanish and other Foreign otilcerswould tender their services to the cause of Naples. It was on the 13th; • says a paragraph , in 7he ConstitutioNel, that the King set sail from Naples; the same paper adds, that the Prime Minister, Campo Chian), had been impeached Cour account of Yester day mentioned two Ministers as undee imperichinent,) and that he had been succeeded by the Mahe de Gallo. Other re ports speak of• an entire change of tuintstry,' the whOle uf i the former Cabinet having been impeached. The King was said to hare landed at Leghorn, and to have addressed tw o Proclamations to his subjects before he departed from Naples• [British Press] There are few towns i❑ England now that have not sent forth two Addresses to the Throne—both breathing a spirit o f loyalty to the person and dynasty of his Majesty; - but dd-. tering widely in the opinions they severally express res pecting the conduct of the present Ministers. The friends and the opponents of. the Ministers may therefore exhibit each their catalogue, containing ti,e. names of Addresses favour able to their respective views of the political state of the country, and, as the names ate read, who that is not aware of the private history of the sevet al Addresses will be capa ble of netermining which of the two lists might to be regard ed as the correct index to public opinion ? They will both contain the ❑ames of the very same towns, and bath will pro fess to give utterance to the sentiments of the inhabitants of the varioas places in their collective capacity. The two lists will form a hind of debtor and creditor account, in which we shall find a prayer against the Ministers from any given town balanced on the opposite side by a prayer o❑ their behalf front the very same place—the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen of the City of London, sitting by them iselyes, contra the Lard Mayor and the body of the Al dermen mixed up with the'other Members of the Common Council—the inhabitants of several wards of the City contra the inhabitants of the very same wards solicited . in taverns, and behind their counters—Bristol opposed to Bristol, Bir mingham to Birmingham, Manchester to Manchester, and so on through the greater part of the cities and towns on the map of England. EDINBURGH, DEC. 25. COURT OF SESSIONS-(ROYAL. BURGHS.) A very interesting and important, case, respect ing the liability of. Magistrates to account for misapplication of the revenues of Royal Burghs, at the instance of the Burgesses, was decided in the Second Division of the Court of Session on the 14th instant. Thirty-four burgesses an' guild-brethren of the Royal Burgh of Inverury, averring that they composed the whole body of the burgesses (except the Members of the Town Coun cil), brought an action against the present Magistrates and their predecessors in office for some years past (during which period the same ruling interest has invariably prevailed in the managenient of the burgh), upon the narrative that the affairs of the burgh bad been intentionally and deliberately mismanaged. The pursuers stated, various specific in stalic'es of misapplication of the seventies of the burgh; in pat ticular, that the , losses sustained' in a manufactur ing speculation, undertaken for the benefit of one indi vidual magistrate, had been placed in the debit of the funds' . of the Royal Burgh; and that the expences of defending :a criminal indictment, brought at the instance of his Majesty s Advocate against the same Magistrate, (and tried before the Criminal Circuit at Aberdeen), had likewise been defrayed .out of the funds of the burgh. Various sums were farther specifically stated as having been received by the Magistrates, and not accounted for, and other sums were candescended on with equal precision, as having been applied k or the private purposes of the Magistrates as individuals, and not for the uses, purposes, or ben :fit of the Royal Burgh. An offer to prove one and all of these assertions was distinctly toads. The case was originally argued before Lord Pitmilly, Or dinary, and the defences pleaded upon the part of the Ma gistrate's were (alter a general denial of the pursuer's asser tions) in the first place, that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the action ; and, in the second place, that " tun gesses" had no such patrimonial interest as gave to them a title to pursue. Lord Pltrnilly pronounced judgment, finding that" burgesses, though they had a remote.interest in'the funds and property of the Burgh, have no patrimonial right, in these funds and property, so as to confer on them a title to • call the Magistrates to account." The burgesses applied, by petition, to the Second Division of the Court, and maintained that the general jurisdiction of the Court of Session was universal and supreme as a civil Court, so declared by • statute, and so confirmed by usage ; and that if there was any such jurisdiction in the Court of Exchequer, as maintained by the defenders, the Court of .Session had at least a cumulative jurisdiction, It was farther argued, that in case of • Dumbarton, in 1781, the Court of Exchequer had expressly decided that that Conrt, as consti tuted since the union of the kingdoMs, possessed no such jus risdiction ; and, therefore, if the Court of Session should af firm the judgment of the Lord Ordinary, it was clear,that no means of remedy or redress was open in this eau - titre , to bur itrsses rourplaining of the moat flagrant and speciii.Ciustances of abuse and misapplication of the revenues intrusted to the management of Magistrates for their behoof. The Court " adhered to the interlocutor complained of, on the ground assigned by thel.ord Ordinary,. and also in speet that this Court has no jtificidietirm in such questions," aird awarded expences against the Burgesses. Counsel for the Burgesses, James Gordon, George Crans toun, and John Cunningham, Esqrs.—Agent, Mr. Patrick Irvine, W.S. • Counsel for the Magistrates, Thomas Thomson, Henry Cocl,hurn, and James Ivory, .E.iqrs—Agents, Mess's. Inglis and - Weir, W .5. We understand that the &flatus Academiczts of the University of• Edinburgh agreed lately on the following dutiful and loy-41 Address to the KING, which they appointed the Principal to transmit to Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH, Secretary for the Home Department, to be presented by him to his MAJEsT : We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjeets, the Principal and. Professors of the,.University of Edinburgh, feel it onr duty to approach the Throne, with profound respect, and humbly to lay before your Majesty the expression of our principles and sentiments in the present alarming aspect of public affairs. We hare seen with abhorrence and reprobation the malig nant assiduity with which- infidel and factious men have la boured, by circulating impious and disloyal publications, to corrupt the piety, morals and patriotism of the people. We lament that the influence of these publications, and of the insidious art employed to recommend them to the ignorant and unwary, has been so successful. It has engendered in some districts of the empire u spirit of irreligion, discon tent, and sedition. It has occasionally issued in local acts of tumult and treason, and it is with the utmost disgust and sorrow that we have lately observed these evils extended and aggravated by another cause. There have not been wanting those, who,. casually possessing a temporary and adventi tious power over the passions of the worthless among the people, and who, restrained by no considera;ion of decorum or duty, have directed, with baneful effect, doctrines the most revolutionary, and calumnies the most atrocious, against ,all the highest dignities, authorities, and establishments of the land. lieliceit is, that with the religion of the Gospel'reviled and derided, with the Thicine insulted and threatened, and with all the Constituted bulwarks of justice, law, ally liberty, traduced and uuderinined, the etnualonwealth is placed in danger. It appears to us, therefore, that the crisis is now arrived when it behoves every friend of the constitutional monarchy of Britain to stand forward, avowinc; his determination to protect with all his energies its existence, and to defend from violation that rich treasure of blessings which it has secured for our country. Under these impressions, we earnestly entreat permission of your Majesty to present to your Majesty the unfeigned and cordial assurance of lair devoted and stedfast attachment to the established Constitution in Church and State—of our respectful and affectionate regard for your Royal Person, and for the Howse ofltrunswick—and of our unshaken trust, jus tified by our past experience, its the enlightened and paternal administration of the Government confided to the care of your Mnjesty ; and we solicit leave at . the same time to renew to your Majesty the pledge which we haVe heretofore given, that w e u tl continue to employ, in our academical station, the must strenuous and unrerbittcd exertions to fulfil all the duties which we owe to.your Majesty, and to the youth of the nation wha are intosted to our charge. We'Ss ill labour to uphold among the youth the belief and the practical etlicacv of that Divine religion, which, while it is the most solid safeguard of the throne of Sovereigns, is-the most certain. source of a kingdom's strength and happiness and glory. • We will be earnest in our efforts to discourage the spirit of civil insubordination, licentiousness, and faction, to inculcate the practice of a pure morality, and to inspire and strengthen that patriotism which leads to consecrate life and fortune to the safety and honour of the State, when the State in a perilous conjunctuhe requires the sacrifice. In following out the accomplishment of These objects with perseverance and zeal, we indulge the anitnating conviction, that the more we shell thereby promote the hest interests of your people, the tunic we shall gratify the _wish thatis dearest to your Majesty's heart.—CEdiaburgh Courant, Dec. 2.5.) COS UNERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at" the hose and Crown public-house, in tiunhill-row, before T. W. UNwiN, ECq. over the body of Martha Singlttos, the on forturtase paramour of Charles Taylor, who was shot in Rhodes's - fields, near Hoxton. The Jury took a view of the body. In the neck were three stabs, apparently made by some sharronstrument, as a pair of scissors ; on the left arm was another wound of the same nature. On the right arm were sera - Al large cuts, apparently from a knife. The deceased wus about 25 years of age, and was a flue yoll4 woman. The first withessealled was a young man, named William Walpole, who state, that he lodged at the Rose and Crown. On Monday'morning, at about twenty minutes after t ea o'clock, he was called upon by the landlord to assist him in getting into the room occepied by the deceased, as the door was fastened inside. The warless forced hirriself intolhe town through a wainscot partition. When be got in be saw some blood at the bottom of the ha, _ He let in the landloal tont some other persons. The deceased was in bed and spoke to the witness, to whom she said she was dying. He saw a wound iii her neck. She survived about 40 minutes after be first saw her. Mr. Pearcy immediately ran for a doctor. The witness did not stay in the room the whole time that the de ceased survived. J. Pearcy, the landlord of the house, 'deposed, that the de ceased had lodged in his house about twetse weeks, and had been introduced as a married woman. lie saw the body of the deceased Charles Taylor at Shoreditch Church, and im mediately recognised him. The last time he saw Taylor wee on - 11qtrsday, hut he understood that he left the house for the last time on' Friday morning. The witness told the de ceased on Sunday night that he thought the man who had. been killed at Buxton was her husband. She had appeared extremely uneasy from the time of his absence, but on bear ing the intelligence she looked distracted. She expressed a wish to go and see the that night ; but he told her that it was too late, and appointed to go with her the next morn ing. The next morning, at about twenty minutes after tes o'clock, he went up to her room to ask her if she was ready to go ; he knocked at the door but received no answer, and found that the door was fast. He then went into his own room and knocked at the partition, which divided the two rooms, just over the head of the bed. Receiving no answer, the par tition was forced aside, and be got into the room, when Ire saw' her in bed covered up with the clothes in the ordinary suan ner ; he at first perceived nothing particular, and requested her to get up, when she made no answer. The first whores. Walpole, told him that the deceased had bled herself, whine the witness immediately ran to Mr. Smith, the parish dector a who did sot come. He then sent for a coach to take the de ceased to the Hospital, but before the coach arrived, the de ceased was dead. The witness then spoke as to the state of mind which the deceased had been in previous to the catas trophe. She had been very uneasy during tire whole of Fri day, and at times talked incoherently. Upon the whole, Ire thought that she was not in a sound state of wind. John Hall, One of the beadles of the ',lrish, stated, that he called at the Rose and tCrown on Christmas Day, a little after one o'clock. The deceased was lying in bed, hot. life was quite "extinct.. He saw some blood upon the floor, and near to it a knife, with marks of blood, which was produced- It was a common table knife; a pair of scissors, walked with blood, were also found amongst the bed clothes. In loekinie round the room, he perceived a letter on the table sealed. up with black wax. He also found in her pockets a seal, which corresponded with the impression on the letter. The letter was stated to be in the hand-writing of Taylor, and appeared to have been intended to be sent to the bro ther of the deceased, as the letter of both. It was directed to Robert Singleton, at . Mr. Charles Campbell's, Benniugton Park, near Stevenage, Herts. The following is a copy De AR RICHAKIJ—I have taken this opportunity to infer= you, that your sister Martha is very well, and she 'hopes that her father and mother, and all of you will make yourselves as comfortable as the case will admit, and nut to thick that .she will be left without a friend in the world, as that will never be the case while I have the use of my limbs to work for her and what we have done,'we beg will in time he overlooked.--. Please to give my love to them all, which I hope they 'will ac cept and you the same. Ask Charles if he will come and live with use in the Spring if I stud for him op; and phase .to send me an answer back as soon as you can, as I don't knew that I shall be in that putt of London, where I ant now very little while ; so I shall expect an answer back by the latter end of the Christmas week. " Front your loving sister, &c.. " MARTHA SINGLETON:7 (Signed in the same hand-writing.) L. Crochwell,one of the'beadles of Shoreditch parish,stated that lit consequence of Mr. Nate) , having been to the Church, and recognised the body of Charles 'l' aylor, the witnessThoughz be bad got a due to the case of that unfortunate individual; he came to the Rose and Crown on Suaday, and was intro duced to the deceased, when he queitiened her as to tbo time when she last saw Taylor ? She stated that he Led left her on Friday morning, and that she had net seen bins since. She stated, that be was-by trade a bricklayer, and had left her on the morning of Friday, saying, that he should go to a Gentleman in Bishopsgate-street, and try to get seven pounds, which was due to him for wriett done in lepairing a house at Norwood. She said it was sr- • ven or eight weeks since TaylOr had had any work,and that in the meantime they existed upon her own property. :Sim beg g ed earnestly for permission to we the body. 'the witness said she should, and appointed the following day, at alma= .eleven, for her to come in company with Mr. Pearey . to view the body. The witness asked the deceased whether !she Lad been married to Taylor, how long, and at what church She • said she had been marries! to him about seven years, astd was married at the nextchurch to Whitechapel choral. - She:Aar, in thee - gteatest agitation throughout the whole of this con rsu-sation. On being further questioned, she, replied, that her Maiden name was Wright. LThe witness here remarked, that Wright" was the name written on the inside of Tay lor's coml. On being asked whether site bad arty fattier? she replied in the negative. She appeared to be in the meat - pitiable anguish. The father and sister of the 'unfortunate were both in at ___. _ tendance, and appeared to be very decent people. The Jury e from a delicacy towards their feelings, abstained from tines Coning them further; than _asking the father whether The letter found upon the table was in the han&writing of daughter. Fle replied i4l the negative, and said that sties could not write. Her name was Singleton, which was alsa. his name. _ Mr. Smith, jun., the son of the parish-doctor, stated, iri explanation, that when Mr. Pearcy called upon his father. he merely stated that a female had bled herself, but by vw means represented the case in so serious a light as it wasp or there would not have been the slightest hesitation in. attending. The Coroner then addressed the Jury, who rent - nerd a Ter-. dict—" That the deceased had come to her death by her owl. act, she not being at the time in a sound state of mind." An I nquest was also held 'on the body of a new-born infant,' found floating in the baton of the City Canal by a waggimer no marks of violence appeared to he on the body.- 7 Verdic— t" Found drowned." • DREADFUL SUlClDE.—Yesterday, an Inquest was held at the sign of the Gower Arias, Gower-street, Bedford-square, before T. STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of John Grj-• firlis, aged 33, late its the service of Sit Warren, where he was frequently attacked by serious indisposition. The de ceased resided in Gower Mew:, and being left by himself au his apartment, he . contrived to procure a ease knife, .vista which he inflicted a most dreadful wound on his thruett. About eight o'clock yesterday , morning, he was found welter ing in his blood, and the deadly instrument lying by his s ki, The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deeta'Sed couimitted the act, being at the time in a state of insanity." BIRTHS. On the 95th instant, the Lady of George A. Bond, Esq., o f the Hof,. East India Service, of a still-born son. On the 27th lost , at fver, Bucks, the Lady of 1,0. Lineatu. Esq., of a daughter. MAR VIED On the 28th inst., at St. Ge!irge's, Blontrisbut7, F.(lwaid Hohop], Esq., third son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Hotroyd, to. Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Chat les Pugsley, Esq. of Ilfracombe, Devon. At.l3rsslington, near Bristol, John Gordon, Esq. M.A. of St. John's College, eldest son of the Dean of Lincoln, tdMiss Matthews, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, and second daughter of Mr. Thos. Matthews, formerly of Bri,tol. DIED. 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