The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There is an interesting fact communicated by the last arrivals from Constantinople. We arei told that a petition has been presented from the, Greeks 'without the Morea to the Grand Seignor, announcing their submission, and praying for mercy ! This is a good old Christian manoeuvre, transferred to the secret councils 'of the infidels, from countries nearer home. It is in the natur e of a snug " hole-and-corner" petition, suggested by the Turkish Tories, to the Greek sla es who inhabit that part of the ancient republic now oc cupied by the soldiers of iVlahomet, and therefore liable to be hanged or shot if they do not sue for mercy. It comes in the nick of time to form the text of a new note from the Reis Effendi to the Allies ;—" You see, Gentle men, how little occasion there is for you to inter fere between his Highness and his Christian subjects : you want to make them free, while they themselves are satisfied with subjection. Go, about your business, we pray you." this is, we repeat, a very pretty and adroit manoeuvre. — May we suggest that Austria, with all her inge nious diplomacy, is not quite so profoundly cle ver as she imagines herself to be ?—Times. In another column will be found a paragraph from the Brighton Guardian, detailing the commitment, imprisonment for nine weeks, trial, and acquittal of a boy of ten years of age, on the charge of having stolen from the field of T. Rogers, Esq., of Kingston, a quantity of corn of the value of three half-pence ! " Bail," says the account, " was refused to be taken by' the com mitting Macristrate ; and, though evidence was offered to he produced, that he was not near the spot at the time when the crime was said to have been committed ; but, on the contrary, was at work with his father, the worshipful man of au thority was inflexible." We have here a striking exemplification of a viee in the English criminal procedure, which, more than any other, perhaps, has tended to degrade the lower orders In vain the inimitable Fielding raised his indignant voice against the arbitrary power of commitment ; it subsists unimpaired ; and, we fear, will, continue to subsist. The wonder is, how the feelings of the people should not have been so far blunted by the frequency of acts of this nature, as to ac quiesce tamely in all cases. It is said, unplea sant consequences wore threatened to the actors in this scene of aristocratic unfeelingness. In re.sclin,,,e. the Reports of the various Commissions appended to the French Codes, nothing strikes an Englishman so much as the anxiety every where expressed to preserve alive the feeling of honour in the people. Speaking of a Law of Brumaire, year 4, for making decisions in police matters final, when the penalty did not exceed the value of three days' labour, or three days' imprisonment, the Reporter of the Commission of Legislation ob serves, " This disposition was little con- formaule to the national character. The slightest invasion of what constitutes personal consideration, is beyond all price in the eyes of every Frenchman ; it can only be a matter of indifference to mert hardened in crime, and the legislator ought to make abstraction of theM in his combinations." The French System of Criminal Procedure breathes throughout a spirit as opposite to that of England as light is to darkness. The English seems to delight in committing without reason, and acquitting with out reason ; it would seem to have been dic tated by some malevolent demon who wished to destroy all honour in a nation, and to throw down every barrier between virtue and crime ; to deprive virtue of security, and to deprive crime of apprehension. The French, on the contrary, surrounds the citizen with a multitude of securi ties, before committing him finally for trial ; its anxiety is, that no innocent man should suffer, and no guilty man escape. It is not necessary, said M. Dhaubersart,. President of the Commis sion of Legislation, ", it is not necessary that justice be indulgent, provided it is impartial ; and the rigour of its decisions will be always balanced by the severity of the examination which prece.des it." The Marquis of Lansdowne has a noble opportunity of distinguishing himself, by the improvement of our barbarous system of procedure. The reform of some parts of our law will be difficult in the extreme, and great judgment must be brought to the task. But the defects of our criminal procedure are so obvious, that a Laplander or Samoiede could point to them ; and they have only been preserved to this day in all their pristine barbarity, becatise our Legislators have been too intent on preserving hares or partridges to bestow any consideration on the people, and too much • interest on'their own concerns to deem anything else worth at tending to.—Morning Chronicle. It appears from the Paris Papers that a sort Of farce is acting by the Porte and the Greeks, with a view to spare the former the mortification of se eming to have been, forced to treat with the latter. The continental Greeks have consented to submit, oil the condition of obtaining forgive ness, and the Turks will octroie them such terms as have been agt:eed on with the Allies.—/bid. At the bottom of the Irish emigration plan are a number of Irish landlords, who, having been instrumental in aggravating the wretched ness of their native country, by rack-renting their tenantry to support their extravagance abroad, are now alarmed lest the misery which their, sys tem has pro(L . ced should drive the unfortunate peasantry on their estates to acts of desperation, They are desirous to thin their numbers, that they may diminish the physical force which they have alienated from their interests by cupidity and oppression. Most of these landlords, however, pretend to liberality in po litics, and are advocates for giving to the Roman Catholics political power ; but they well know that the suffering population, whose resentment they dread, care not a straw about what is ab- Catholic Emancip a ti on ." Th e s urdly called peasantry are shrewd enough to know, that the placing a few Catholic Aristocrats in Parliament, a nd bestowing silk gowns on a few Catholic Bar ris.'ers, will not have the effect of adding a penny to their wages, or giving an additional m ea l of potatoes .and salt to themselves and their children. It is of far more interest to them that rent should he lowered, than that the whole of the Catholic Bar should be made placemen and pensioners. It is of far more interest to them that their land lords should spend the money at home which they derive from their Irish acres, than that Mr. O'Connell or Mr. Blake should make five hun dred speeches yearly from the Treasury Bench of St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. In fact, the great mass of the Irish peasantry care little who are the Statesmen or the Judges, or the legislator s over them, provided they can get cheap laud fur their potatoes, and good wages for their work. But the landlord's agent, who in general has two objects to serve, one to in gratiate himself with his employer by servility and exaction, and the other to make his own fortune, canteat, consistently with those objects, allow the peasantry the means of a comfortable subsistence. By. rack-renting the land to the larger farmers, the latter in their turns are com pelled to demand extravagant rents from the .smaller farmers, to whom they sub-let portions ,of their own takings. These again in their turn are obliged to obtain labour at a price which may be considered a famine price to the labourer ; and While starvation and disease are going their de structive round among the poor, the absentee landlord is„Squandering on foreign luxuries and vices the rental which, if expended judiciously at horns, might make thousands of those who con tribute to produce it comparatively happy. It suits his taste and inclination better, it appears, to gratify his own passions at the expellee of his country, and then impute all the evils which he has produced ,to the excess of population.— Morning Herald. The Duke of Wellington's journey into the North, and his reception there, is still a sore subject with the Whig Journals, and, of course, with their patrons, who feel, in his Grace's re turn to office, an awkward thorn again placed in their side, which they vainly flattered themselves they had effectually plucked out and got rid of. It is true his Grace is not a Cabinet Minister, but he is something very like one ; and has, if we mistake not, much readier means of access to the Royal ear than some of those who are. Besides, though .his Grace is not admitted to Council, he Can, from his snug station at the Horse Guards, overlook the game, and probably see and know quite as much about it as the players. All this the Whigs, dislike exceedingly. They know the quantum of love the Duke must entertain towards them, who have, whenever they could, both in and out of Parliament, vilified him to the utmost ; and, of course, a brother of such a kind near the throne is more than the ticklish state of Office-loving Whigism can well bear. It is a diffi cult matter now, however, to run down or decry the •Duke ; and, therefore, a hint here, an inuendo there, is all that his defamers venture to tort to. At present, and for some time past, ir favourite point has been to show that the narked distinction and enthusiasm with which his grace has been received through his recent tour has been entirely owing to his military fame, and has no reference whatever to more recent poli tical movements. This we refuted long ago ; but though the brains be out, the man will not always die ; and the poet has told us . Disarm, refute •his sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again. Drowning men, it is said, catch at twigs ; but the Whig defamers of the Duke of Wellington, even more desperate than this, catch at the air. AS a specimen of this, we are told that at one ofthe entertainments given to his Grace, at which one of his late colleagues, Lord Bathurst, was present, the Bishop of Durham was requested to giTe his Lordship's health, which he very wisely detlined doing, alleging that it would be giving a political character to the meeting. " There !" say( the Whigs, " is a convincing proof that po litiCal feeling had nothing to do with the Duke's reception in the North.' Precisely so, gentle mep ; and here is his Grace's reception every where, a proof tln,t in spite of his journey having no political object, and in spite of the most dis creet endeavours to avoid all political allusion, yet the feeling would break forth, to your ever lasting discomfiture and annoyance. Now if the Whigs are wise, they will drop this subject alto gether. His Grace may jocularly say to them, Perhaps it were right to dissemble your love, But why would you kick-me down staii:i ? It is a good maxim never to make enemies in the day prosperity of those who may be our friends in adversity. The prosperity - of the Whigs may not last for ever, and the day may come when they may be glad to shelter themselves under the Duke's wing. The Duke, no doubt; is as mer cifill as he is brave ; and if these puny assailants will but let him alone, he may both forget and forgave their pigmy ,efforts„ which, if they have any effect at all, only tend to enhance his reputa tion 'and their own disgrace.—lbid. The recent history of Portugal is remark able for the inconsistencies which it exhibits. The t Heir Apparent of the Portuguese Monarchy duridg the life time of the last Monarch, placed himself at the head of a revolted dependency of the Portuguese 0:011711, and arrogated to himself the dignity and attributes of an independent Sovel.eign. In this pretension and enterprize he was seconded by the inhabitants of Brazil, or rather was impelled by their ardent desire for an independent national existence, thus to pretend and Undertake. The King, his father, after much delay, and with manifest and avowed re luetatice, agreed at length to recognize his new- • born !Royalty, and the separate existence of the State which had conferred it. But he did this upon the express condition that the Crowns of Portugal awl Brazil were henceforth and for ever to continue separate. The first-born son of the House of Braganzi3, in assuming to him self all independent sovereignty in America, re linquished explicitly his title to an European Crown—nor would either his American sub jects, or his Father, whose authority over them he had superseded, been satisfied without this explicit relinquishment. But (and this is a striking inconsistency) the Throne of Portugal was not provided with any other successor to the reigning Monarch at the moment when the legi timate Successor thus renounced his claims. Affairs then remained in this ambiguous situa tion when the last Sovereign of Portugal, the father of the Emperor of Brazil, was withdrawn by the common destiny of mortals from the scene of human contention and intrigue, Pon Pedro in these circumstances resumed the pretensions he had abandoned to an Empire in the two op posite hemispheres, and his pretensions were al lowed ; because he at the same time lent him self to the governing prejudices of the moment, and flattered the infatuation which prevailed generally throughout Europe, and which pre vailed more particularly in England, the an cient and powerful ally of Portugal—an in fatuation which was displayed in the ridi culous belief that all nations indiscriminately are fitted to receive free political institutions. This infatuation was quickly dispelled. The PortugUese nation sheered unequivocally, and in the face of difficulties the most discouraging, its repugnance to, and its utter incapacity for, the liberal institutions which were thus offered to its acceptance. These feelings and dispositions were concentrated and displayed in the manifes tation of an enthusiastic attachment to the Prince Don Miguel, who, after the Emperor of the Brazils, was next in succession to the Portu guese Throne. Don Miguel himself, a bigot, in opposition to the prevalent infatuation (for on both sides there are bigots), was demanded by the Portuguese nation, in a voice gradually growing stronger and stronger, for its Sovereign. That voice was heard ,to the Brazilian shore, and the Emperor relinquished every thing ex cept his nominal dignity, .and his - hollow preten sions, by appointing his younger brother—(who had on his side the Treaty which separates Bra- zil from Portugal, and, what is of infinitely , greater importance, had with him the sympathies and feelings of the Portuguese nation) —his Lieutenant in the Kingdom of Portugal, with regal powers the most complete and unqualified. Don Miguel, exhibiting another glaring incon sistency, accepts this delegated power, although it it clogged with conditions which his opinions and his partisans render it impossible that he should fulfil ; and although it emanates from a source which he and they must deem unlawful. Yet he accepts it. He accepts it, knowing it to be the most convenient passport to independent authority, and determined, no doubt, to exercise his authority independently. The practical re sult will be, that Don Miguel will be King of Portugal, with the full prerogatives which his predecessors have enjoyed ; and that the Portu guese people will be more happy and united without political freedom than they were ever likely to have been with it. If these are the only results, we sh a ll b e s a ti s fi e d ; f or it is im possible not to perceive, that the enthusiasm of the English nation in favour of free politicalin stitutions—an enthusiasm which has been im pelled without being regulated by the temper of its Government—has created the danger of Por tugal being thrown out of the alliance of Eng land into the arms of France or of Spain. — Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Reeve, the pawnbroker on Snow hill, appeared upon an information for receiving a penny, for the loan of 3s. for one day, that being more than the legal interest. This complaint, as usual, was dismissed for informality. Mr. Harmer attended for the defendant. Jam Smith, of Red Lion-court, Drury-lane, proved the pawning, &c., and admitted that he had pawned various otheearticles at the instance of the informer John Brown, but he would not, although hardly pressed by Mr. Harmer, give any reply to the question, whether these articles had not been pledged with the intention of laying informations. He stated, however, that the pledge at Messrs. Reeve's was a quantity of seven yards of cotton. The information stated, it was " a piece" of cotton, and Mr. Harmer in sisted, that it should have been described as " a remnant," as every body understood " a piece" was a quantity of 25 or 28 yards ; and in thus defining the word, Mr. Harmer was supported by two linen-drapers, who were accidentally present. Mr. Alderman ScuoLEv held the objection to be fatal, and told Mr. Brown that as he came there to take advan- tage, he must not be surprised if every advantage were taken of him. His witness was too honest for that sort of business, unfortunately; and he recommended AIL. Brown to endeavour to get his bread in a different way. In ques tions between the public and the pawnbrokers, Magistrates generally had an unfavourable bias against the latter ; but when the trade was attacked in this way, he thought it became the Magistrates to lean towards it. The informa tion was not supported by evidence in other respects ; and he therefore dismissed it. Mr. Brown left the Court, promising to fil e 20 inore informations, and lauding his own public spirit. BOW-STREET. —Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey again attended at this office, when the final hearing of the case against his servant, Mary Bell, otherwise Gast, was appointed to take place. The case, it will be remembered, was postponed from Wednes day, in order to procure the attendance of George Butt, a servant of the Rev. William Towers, of Brentwood, in Essex, the son-in-law of Admiral Harvey. On the evi dence of this man, the Admiral said he placed the fullest reliance of being enabled to convict the accused at the Old Bailey, while, on the other hand, Mr. Harmer, by whose desire the, witness was brought forward, insisted that his evidence would fully establish the innocence of his client. The accused and her husband were present at the time appointed, and the witness from Brentwood, who was sent for by a special messenger from this office, was also in attendance. The Gallant Admiral, on entering the office, expressed a wish that the proceedings should be got through as speedily as possible, observing that he had to attend the levee of the Lord High Admiral at two o'clock. He added, that he supposed his Royal Highness had read the case in the public papers, and he expected to be called upon to repeat it in propria persona, as his Royal Highness was well known to be a lover of fun. Mr. AlmsHoLir.,—ls it still your intention, Admiral, to prosecute? Admiral Harvey—Yes, certainly, it is my fixed determination. George Butt was then examined—He stated that he was at Admiral Harvey's house, in Clifford -street, from Thurs day to Saturday. When be 'arrived with his master nu Thursday, he saw Mary, and asked her how she did. She replied that she was better 'in health than - spirits, a tcry i.1,- pleasant thing hating occurred in the Lol4e. Witness asked her what she meant. She replied, that after the workmen went from work one day, the found that a tin box in the Admiral's dressing-roam had Leen opened, and the things which it contained (meaning, as the witness understood, the star• and medal) lying by tbe side of She did not know, she said, if any thin. ~ tai been lost, as she never had the curiosity to look into the box to know what it contained. She then said, she would take me up - to the Admiral's room, to show me the contents of the box, in order that I might ask the Admiral's butler what it -really contained. Qhe said she was fearful ofsaying any thing to' the Admiral, 1,e4 shwild scold her, hut she should of course tell him if she l r.rned that any thing had been lost front the box. flit witness went ,up stairs with the ac cused accord.r , ily. She took d key from her pocket, with • which she unlocked the 'rex, and took out a medal which, she said, was the Trafalgar medal. The witness :being asked to describe the appearance of this medal, said he saw it only in the hands of the accused. The word " Trafalgar," he remembered, was written upon it, with a date, and it appeared to be about the size of a half-crown. The accused also showed him another medal, with a thistle upon it, mid she bade him to he sure to tell the butler what he saw. On Saturday morning, she repeated this charge, and told the witness, that either he or the butler.should write to her from the country to say whe ther the box contained any thing else. The witness added, that a short time before he left town, the ac cused again took him to examine the box, and in addi tion to the two medals, be saw that the box contained a star, which he knew, from having seen it worn by the Admiral. The Witness had nothing further to state, excepting that he heard at the Admiral's country-house on Monday that the star and medal had been stolen. Mr. 111flisnu1 t.—Have you any question, Mr. Harmer, to put to the witness.—Mr. Harmer—No, Sir. His evi dence has fully effected the object for which I required it —namely, to establish beyond doubt the fact of my client's• innocence. Admiral Harvey—The witness certainly has varied a t at a t all m I e n s at y wh el ic ,o h ui h a e be ma ta de ke t ,, o d r o n w e. n, T b h ut er i e f i i s n t o li ttle necessity from t h t e h must, I hope it will be understood I distinctly declare that I bear no malice to the accused. It is quite true that the Trafalgar medal is gone, and it is also true, as the witness describes, that there was a medal in the box with the word " Trafalgar" upon it. Upon close examination of the pa.. pers found near the box, I have discovered this medal, wrapped in a bit of silver paper. You are therefore wel some, Mr. Mariner, and the accused is quite welcome, to whatever benefit you may derive from the recovery of this medal. I would have you to understand, however, that this medal is not that which I received as Captain of the Temeraire, but a much smaller one. The larger m e d a l , on which I set the highest value, from the eircum_ stances under which I had the honour to obtain it, ha a been taken by somebody. I have now only . to add, that if the worthy magistrates who have heard the evidence tell me that in their opinion I cannot convict the accused, J ain quite willing to forego the prosecution. Sir R. BIRNIE-There is not a shadow of evidence against her. Mr. Harmer—My client most strongly persists in de daring her innocence ; and, indeed, it appears palpable to common sense, that if she were the thief she would not have acted so foolishly as to put herself in possession of the very articles with which she is accused of stealing. I am glad to find that the gallant Admiral has displayed such good-feeling , and in b e h a lf o f my c li en t, I can only sa y, that she sha ll at all times be forthcoming to meet whatever additional evidence may be brought against her, if, indeed, any such is in existence. If she were brought to trial and acquitted, as most assuredly she would be, she could not be tried again, even although the medal were found in her possession. Mr. Mlxstiut.t. expressed a strong 'opinion as to the vague nature of the evidence against the accused. Mr. Harmer—lndeed, she had no occasion for commit ting such a theft; for I find that, like a prudent woman, she has hoarded her earning!), and has a sum of money in the Bank. Her husband, too, is a very proper and respectable man. Admiral Harvey—l must say, I really believe he is, from the respectable references he gave, when his wife was held to bail. Mr. Missnur.r.—There is one thing connected with this business which I think requires same explanation. This woman stated that she was married to the man with whom it was discovered she was living in the Admiral's house. I ask her now, if she can produce the certificate of her marriage? • Mr. Harmer handed this document to the Magistrate, ob- Serving that he did not mean the accused had not taken an imprudent step in marrying in her master's house, and without his permission. The fact was, however, that they had arranged matters to get married after Christmas, but he supposed that his client felt herself lonely in the house in Clifford -street, and wished for a protector. Admiral Harvey—l have some information from the neighbours of the manner in which they passed their time, and I find that they have had parties and riots in abundance in my house. Mr. Harmer—Perhaps, Admiral, it was only the cele bration of their wedding. Admiral Harvey, after repeating the grounds which he had for suspecting the accused in the first instance, said that his opinion was still unchanged, and that hg should go away with the full assurance of her guilt. Mr. Harmer—l am really sorry, Admiral, for your own sake, to hear you say so. Sir R. Brawrs—Take my ward for it, Admiral, that you'll find the articles you have missed somewhere in your own house. Gut, the husband of the accused, who evinced a good deal of impatience during the examination, and particu larly when the Admiral acknowledged to have found a n►edal with the word " Trafalgar" upon it, said with warmth, that if the Admiral found at any future time the property which he missed, he hoped he would have the honour to male it known. Admiral Harvey—l hope I have not shown any want of temper to-day, and I wish that this good man would be equally considerate. . .. Air. Harmer—lt is certainly very wrong of him to make such a reflection : but we must consider that he acts under heated feelings, and above all, that he is lately mar ried.—(A laugh.)—For my own part, I am quite per suaded that if the Admiral should find the things which are missing, he will at once come forward to make this poor woman with whom character is every thing, very suitable amends. The accused was then discharged, and thus the matter ended. George Rowland Minshull, Esq., one of the magistrates of this office, appeared against the driver of the cabriolet, No. 16, in the capacity of prosecutor, under the following circumstances : Mr. Minshull stated, that on Wednesday morning he was walking along Oxford-street, when he saw a man follow a hay-cart, Rnd pull five or six times at the hay, until he had taken a large arm-full. He then very deliberately mounted the cabriolet, No. 16, of which it appeared he was the driver, and drove away, but not until he (Mr. Minshull) discovered his number. Conceiving that this was a direct felony, and that the man who drove the load of hay would be liable to a fine if it were found deficient in weight, Mr. Minshull said he felt it his duty to apply to Sir Richard Birnie for a warrant against the driver of the vehicle in question. As it appeared, however, that the man was sorry for what he had done, and was not himself the owner of the horse which be drove, he hoped . Sir Richard Birnie would consent to his discharge, after a suitable reprimand. The prisoner was accordingly discharged, with a caution not to snake free with other people's hay in future. MAR YLEB ONE- OFFICE. —Sarah Brown, a dirty girl of the town, was charged with stealing a silver watch, to which were appended a gold chain, four seals, two rings, and a key, from the person of Mr. Joseph Thomson, who gave his address, 14, Charles-street, Portman-square.—She was committed. A second charge wag preferred by the Rev. Dr. Samuel Charles Goodwin, against Mr. John Brown, rho lives at No. 18, Upper Frederick-street, Marylebone, of beating ,carpets in the street, contrary to the statute. Mr. HOSKINS was about to impose a nominal fine, be cause he considered the case a slight one, and the alleged offence, as stated by the Doctor, was committed previous to the former conviction, when Mr. Wooler, who attended professionally for the de fendant, requested that the evidence of Susan Cox, his ser vant, might be taken. She was placed in the witness box, and her evidence was so opposed to Dr. Goodwin's, that Mr. Hoskins said he considered the Doctor would do well to withdraw the charge, upon the defendant's paying the expenses ; and that course was adopted. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday a very well-dressed young rnanO)ame<l Samuel Hollingsworth, was put to the bar of this office, charged with fraudulently obtaining the sum of 20/. from Mr. Hewitt, proprietor of the Horse shoeand 111agpi?, Be,lford-row. . Mr. Hewitt and the prisoner's father, who is an uphol sterer, also residing Bedford-street, had been acquainted for some years, and several money transactions had passed between them. Oa the 6th of September, the prisoner called on Mr. Hewitt and produced a note, purporting to be written and signed by. his father, requesting 201. to meet a bill of 601. which had rather unexpectedly become due. Not in the least doubting but the prisoner had been sent by his father, Mr. Hewitt gave the sum required, with which the prisoner absconded, and was not heard et, until Wednesday last, ►hen he was taken into custody at Kings land. When the father was applied to, he denied all know ledge of the transaction, at the same time refusing to pay the money. Mr. Hollingsworth, sen., who was in attendance, re peated this denial to the Magistrate, adding, that so far tton& giving his son authority to use his name, his former v ,, nduct had been of such a nature, that for upwards of twelvemonths no communication had taken place between tl ,tn. While making this statement he appeared very much affected, and shed tears. The prisoner, who had confessed the fraud when appre hended, offered nothing is his defence, and was fully com mitted ; the father, as well as Mr. Hewitt, being bound over to prosecute. The prisoner was then removed from the bar, without betraying the slightest emotion. LAMBETH-STREET.—..A young female, apparently not more than eighteen years of age, named Anne Turner, alias Ilfeeeham, was placed within the bar, before M. WYATT and J. llAttowxcx, Esqrs., ou a more extraor dinary charge of bigamy than usually appears in the re cords of the police. What adds to the singularity of the transaction is, that it is the first husband, Meecham, that is the prosecutor, and the grounds which he stated as instigating him to institute the proceedings were as follow :—On the 17th of December list, he married the prisoner, at Shadwell church, and the second husband was a guest at the wedding-feast ; when it was over, and the day had been spent in jollity, wishing to enter into all the privileges of wedded love, lie solicited her to retire for the night, but this she peremptorily xe fused, and declined cohabiting with him ever since, not; withstanding his frequent entreaties for that purpose. On the 4th Jauuary last she married his faithless friend Tar rant, and was living with, and conferring those favours on him of which he (Meechain) supposed he was entitled to the monopoly. Ur. WvArr—Has your union been consummated ?-- A/ m o m/l l—Never, Sir. When I heard of her marriage, I procured a warrant. A legal adviser for the prisoner submitted that there was no evidence to criminate his client ; and asked Meechain if he did not tell his wife that she might act as she chose ; for that he would not have any thing to do with her ? Meecham—l said so when I could not get her to live with me. Mr. WYATT-That ' s not very extraordinary. What evidence is there of the two several marriages?—Meecham —I can produce some, Sir : here are the certificates. The Rev. Mr. Manilas, who happened to be on the bench, observed, that some time since Meecham called upon him on the subject; but from what he then collected, the prisoner, who was under age, was married by special licence. "Who gave her away ?" Asked the Rev. Gentle man. Meecham—" Her father, Sir." The Rev. Mr. AIATHIAS—And who was at her second marriage ? Meecham—Her mother, Sir ; and her father knew of it. — The Bench unequivocally manifested their contempt of such conduct, and considering that the documents produced were a sufficient prima fade evidence of Ler guilt, re manded the prisoner to a future day, to give time for the attendance of witnesses who were present at both marriages. QUEEN-SQUARE.---Yesterday Nathaniel Peppiatt was brought up for final examination, before D. W. GaxooßlE, Esq., charged with feloniously uttering a forged 51. Bank of England note, well knowing the same to be a forgery. Elizabeth Faulkner, of Chelsea, had known the prisoner three or four years : some time back, when his father bad his goods seized, she had allowed him to sleep with her son, and had made a great deal of him. On Wednesday, the 10th of October, the prisoner and another person dressed like a countryman, called upon her, and wanted her to purchase a lot of potatoes, which they had for sale. The prisoner asked her to give him change for a 61. note, which shs did, and he signed his name upon it : she after wards paid it away to Mr. Dubois, of Royal Hospital row, who returned it to her again a few days afterwards as a forgery. It appeared that the note bad passed through several hands, until paid into the Bank, where it was detected, being a forgery, and afterwards traced back to the prisoner. The note was now produced, and Mrs. Faulkner identi fied it as the same she received from the prisoner. Mr. Charles Christmas, Kent-road, an inspector of the Bank of England, examined the note, and pronounced it to be a forgery throughout ; it was not from the Bank plate, nor was it the same paper used by the Bank ; the signa ture at the bottom was also a forgery. A Solicitor, who attended for the prisoner, hero request ed that the horse and gig' might be given up. Mr. GREGOILIE asked the prisoner if he would say who the horse and gig belonged to ?—The prisoner said, lie had got them from Mr. Catz. - Mr. GaacoasE thought it would not be prudent for the constable to give up possession of the horse and gig, as, in the event of the prisoner being acquitted, he might be liable. solicitor (to Winks)—Do you refuse to give up the horse and gig ? Winks.—l do. Here a livery . ..stable-keeper stepped forward, and said, he had a few words to say upon the subject. The horse and gig were his, and he had lent them on hire to this Mr. Catz for a month, and be had now had them a mouth and nine days; his name was not Catz, but Barrow, and in that name he hired the gig and horse. Mr. Gaxmanzx appeared surprised at this intelligence, and said that on the former examination, Mr. Catz offered to snake oath that the horse and gig were his ; the horse, lie said, he had bought at Uxbridge fair three years ago, and the gig he had bought at Wandsworth. It was finally agreed that the constable should keep possession of the horse and gig. The parties were then bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner was removed. He was afterwards ordered to be brought up again in a few days, in consequence of some information received, when it is expected that there will be more charges brought against him. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCT. e 5. BLACKBURN V. BLACKBURN. This was an action forTh e defendant pleaded, first, the general issue, and secondly, a jus tification. The plaintiff was formerly a preacher of the Wesleyan Methodist persuasion, but within these few years had become the minister of a con gregation of Independent Dissenters, at Bethnal green, from which situation he had been suspended in consequence of a malicious libel published by the defendant, charging him with forgery and fraud.-- The circumstances which appeared to give rise to this charge were these :—So long ago as 1814 the plaintiff had been preaching for some time in Canter bury, where he had contracted a debt which he had not the means of meeting at the time, and being anxious to leave that part of the country, he pro posed to give a bill for the amount, which was 201. 95., at two months' date, payable in town. Thin proposal was acceded to by the party to whom the money was owing. It happened, however, that nei ther this person, nor the plaintiff, were very con versant with the strict forms of business, and the bill was drawn and accepted by the plaintiff, and made payable at the house of the defendant, in the Minories, he being at that time on very good terms with him. Having entered into this arrangement, the plaintiff came to town, and previous to the bill becoming due, provided the defendant, his uncle, with 20/. to take it up, which was done accordingly, and thus the matter rested until the plaintiff became a minister of the congregation at Bethnal-green, when, from some inexplicable cause, he thought pro per to give rise to various rumours of misconduct on the part of the plaintiff. In consequence of these rumours, a meeting of the deacons and elders of the congregation was convened, and the defendant was requested to attend and state his grounds for the report he had circulated. lie did attend, widths the ground of what he had stated, produced the bill drawn by the plaintiff, in 1814, asserting that on the face of it he had been guilty of a forgery in making it payable in his own name at his (the defendant's) house. A letter was also produced from the persona to whom the bill was given, stating the whwlc of the tiansaction. This bill was examined by the persons present, and de clared to be nothing more than a simple bill of ex change; and although somewhat irregular in its form, yet there appeared on it no ground for an ac cusation either of fraud or forgery. In consequence of this, another meeting was held, when a statement was published, in which it was declared by the con gregation that they were satisfied the plaintiff had been guilty of no misconduct, and he accordingly continued his situation of preacher. This statement was published in February last, and in the May fol lowing the defendant thought proper to make it an excuse of repeating the libel in a stronger and snore direct form. In consequence of this, the plaintiff was suspended from preaching, and his only resource to prove the falsehood of the statement was to come into a court of law, where he had no doubt of ob taining ample justice. _ _ _ Garrett, one of the deacons of the meeting, proved the facts of this statement, so far as related to the suspension of the plaintiff in consequence of the representations of the defendant. The :Lary, after having retired for an hour, re turned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 50/., giving it as their opinion that there was no proof of express malice, and that the defendant did not mean to make a charge of forgery against the plaintiff. The trial of this cause occupied the Court from two o'clock until ten. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, OCT. 25. This being county-day, the bench was unusually crowded with magistrates, there being upwards of thirty in attendance. • During the early part of the day, the Court was occupied in hearing parish appeals. Licences were granted for the Lyceum, Adelphi, Sadler's Wells, Bagnigge Wells, and several other houses of entertainment. A petition, signed by 2,000 inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, was presented on behalf of Messrs. Wyatt and Farrel, for a licence, authorising the performance of certain entertainment s in a new theatre about to be established on the north side of Whitechapel-road. The prayer of the petition was supported by Messrs. ADOLPHUS, STIRLING, and C. PHILLIPS. Messrs. BRODERICK and A. PHILLIPS Opposed it on behalf of the proprietors of the New Brunswick Theatre, and Mr. E. QUIN on behalf of the rector, churchwardens, and overseers of the parish. The CHAIRMAN was not disposed to pay much at tention to the opposition of a rival establishment; but he thought that the petitioners by the terms of their petition besought the Court to give theln a licence for doing what they were forbidden to do by Act of Parliament,—namely, for performing dramatic entertainments. After a very long and very desultory discussion, the prayer of the petition was refused, there being four votes for it, and twenty against it. The whole of the late Mr. FARQUHAR'S pro perty was, at his death, estimated at between five and six hundred thousand pounds. Extreme carelessness and in attention to his concerns, and many improvident purchases made during the latter years of his life, bad exceedingly diminished his wealth. " The sheikh of Bornou," says Major Den ham, "again questioned us as to the object of our visit. He showed, however, evident satisfaction at our assurance, that the King of England had heard of Bornou and him self; and immediately turning to his kaganawha (Coun sellor), said, ' this is in consequence of our defeating the Begharmis.' Upon which the Chief who Lad most distin guished himself in their memorable battles, Bagah Furby (the gatherer of horses), seating himself in front of us, de manded, did he ever hear of me ?' The immediate reply of ' certainly,' did wonders for our cause.' Exclamations were general; and, ' ah ! then, your King must be a great man!' was re-echoed from every side.".—Donham's Africa. FIRE AT BISHOP'S CLEEVE• (From the- Cheltenham Chronicle.) t o On Saturday evening last the inhabitants ni'y town were alarmed by a cry of fire. It wens spn;, discovered that a very extensive fire was rars . ,er Bishop's Cleeve, and on the a rr i va l o f a irneoT e ti for the engines of the fire offices, it was asceliP" o f that the scene of d evas t a ti on was on t h e prem' the Rev. Dr. Townsend. t The conflagration, w hi c h b ro k e ou t a non to o'clock, raged with the greatest violence unt i Lig o'clock, when the wh o l e o f t h ese b u ildings "j a i destroyed, it was su bd ue d. Th e h arm enn tib " upwards of sixty loads of barley, and th e . prothi c g ii more than seven a c res o f p eas , all of which belo o'e to Mr. Holder. The .loss has been e stinlate! t o, about 600/., an d we un d erstan d i t i s b ut Par t ' insured in the Phoenix office. We regret that we cannot conclude thisaccil without noticing that one man, who was parti cill o l conspicuous in his ex er ti ons , met w i t h an ne el " ,l h i c l; through a portion of a w a ll f a lli ng on hi m , by " 1- his arm was broken. ;, 1 1 fli te A subscription has been set on foot to rein- t e o r e Holder for the g rea t l oss h e h as sustained. Thad is said t o h ave or i g i nate d f rom a b oy h av i ng ven , "" into a loft over a stable with a lighted candle. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Oct. 21. At this day's cattle market, which was rather W o l supplied, especially with half-fat Sheep and Beasts , _.,6 pretty numerously attended, both by London and buyers, each kind of stock met with a very doll so". / the following p r i ces per s t one o f 81b . to s i n k the 0f1.815.0 Beef 38.8 d. to 4 s . 10d. Veal Mutton I 3 O 410 Pork 4 6 Lamb 4s. Od. to 4s. Sd ,mve The foregoing quotati ons are Beef, Mutton, and Vea l, , stone beneath those of thi s day se ' nnight ; in prices cu,„,rlce` and Pork no alteration. Much of the supply left the unsold. HAILSHAM M ARKET. —Oct. 24. , . 60. Beef 3s. 10d. to 4s. &1. os. to ia• -0 v Mutton 3 8 48 I Pork 0 Lamb w rio Tr r o a n d es e 7w ith hi g cs o hT o w d Eey t r b es in ni g uisT s m , o w er h mo i us c A h ,R w yK e e r rE e yT s d c .u— a l r i c oc. e, t. b 2 d i a . • Beef , 4a. Od. to 4s. 10d. 1 Veal Os. Od. t ° . 6 Mutton 310 4 8 4 0 4 Lamb Os. Od. to Os. Od. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Oet. 23. Od• Od 3s. 10d. to 4s. Bd. Os. 0,1. 0 4, 11 I Mutton 310 410 4 2 A good supply, and a sluggish trade. CHICHESTER MARKET.—Oct. 24. Od Beef 3s. tid. to 4s. tki. Os. Od., to 7 s' 6 Mutton 3ti 4 8 I Pork 4 2 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. thr on With lean stock the t ra d e was somewhat brisker than. prid last market day, but with fat stoek, especially that of in quality, very dull. RUA/FORD MARKET.—Oct. 24. —' a ' S. d. toe. d. as d. VI i Beef 3 8 4 6 I Veal Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork 4 4 L3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Suckling Calve f r om 14s. to 365.; Quarter old Pigsties. to 155' ese Supply good, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W,;.!. Wheat. Barley. oats. .0, Bea, S. t 9 6i 45 66 45 46 44 01 56 50 48 540 • 54 66 5 6 -01 6 6 44 4e 40 t o 50 _v., Per Quarter. Blandford . Cambridge Chard _ Huntingdon -.--. Louth Lynn, Newark Nottingham _ Peterborough —.— Plymouth Uppingham York s. to s. 52 56 - 51 sti 76 42 4S 32 56 50 60 55 61 40 50 56 66 54 02 42 55 40 54 44 66 S. to S. 29 31 36 32 38 29 34 26 32 31 33 27 37 36 4i 28 32 87 38 S. to S. 20 26 .25 . 32 26 30 28 30 24 SO 22 25 16 22 19 23 24 30 30 40 24 30 25 28 22 30 20 30 20 24 18 30 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Oct. 23. ' , the There was but a short supply of Grain to-0 1 ; *J ul demand for Wheat was very limited, only the 10- a b i tt middling qualities supported last week's prices) 3 , 13 • w ile few sales e ff ected. Barley, owi n g to the s h or t SuPPLY', ers .:: sold at ls. to 2s. per quarter higher to n ece a s itou e utt he , ' Oats and Shelling both were e ach dull sa l e , and Ixll6`lower. New Beans were also very d u ll, andis. to i per quarter cheaper. In Rap es e e d th ere was very hi": doing, and prices much the same. • • Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 60Ib. 504. to 535. Ut i t i r d t ,, Lincoln. 6olb. t : Barley, --h. . ............... 30, t o 34• Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . s. . to 325. • Grinding ..... .......... • ..... Beau; .... " ... .............• 4ds. to Ws. 2s. ko 9_ r s• ;t Oats, Potatoe —Healing, Foreign. to 14d....English 12d. to 13d. 1. 325. to 345. Per To. Shelling l3d. Rapeseed, English720/. to 231. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—Oct. 24. At per lb. sinking the offial. 4,863 Sheep --4 d. to 6d. I 22 Calves-- 876 Cattle 4 6 125 Pigs -- 81 Lambs at 4d. to 60 5,1 tol d' MANCHESTER POTATOE MARK ET.—Oct. 2a Potatoes, 48. 6d., ss. Od., and ss. 3d. per load of 12 score eu 12Ibs. ; New ditto, Os. Od Os. Od., and Os. per ditto; .„ 4 6s. ad., 78.0 d. and 7s. 6d. per load of 16 pecks;'. Onions., 1 .- 1155., and 18s. Od. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YARN MARKE No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20....101 to Ilk 124 13 40..16 17 Mule copTwisti 30 „A 1 12 for warp 40 —l4 15 50 17 19 to —2O 22 70.24 26 • 80 _2B 31 GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os. sd. toOs. 9d, Mutton 0 4 0 6 Veal 0 5 0 9 Hams lamb percr. I 6 3 quarternLoat... 0 9 0 0 Hour, per stone 2 0 g 8 Rye. 1 6 1 8 Mule Cop Weft —: YT.—Oct. 23. i t 30 101 to i g 40....,...,.12 ti —l6 , 6 tio 17e 70 20e 80 24 5:2 100 30 36 .120 34 8 10 7 a 114 8 go 18 9 11 24 10 Weft from waste MA Rli ETS.—OcT 22. 24• Pd Oatmeal, per st. l s . ed. to Peaserneai . 2 0 •3 6. 0 Pot Barley, cwt 12 0 18 0 Pearl p etietat 12 0 ... _2OO 24 a Grey White ditto l4 0 0 Blue ditto 14 0 HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER, OCT. 24.—1 n our market on Saturd4 825 Pockets were weighed ; another advance in pl' ce , took place ; very fine samples, which are scarce, te tchy " 985., and a curious lot or two, 100 s. The general ave rage may be stated at 82s. to 92e. The Worcester Duty is laid at 15,000/. The bankers o f thi s town have :sir ified their intention of reducing the interest on accounts and lodg ments to two per cent. at the commencement of the ens!t ing year.—Bostote Gazette. On Th urs d a y morning a farmer n ame d restOrd, residing on the Argeeha road, in the north suburb ; of Clonmel, Laying complained of illness, waa al kiw o im mediately a corp„! ___Dribrin Morning Post. BIRTHS. On the V.sth inst. at Blackheath, Mr & (l a d e , Eickef of a son and e ighth child. On the 14th inst. at Amsterdam, the lady of John h, singer, Esq. of Antwerp, of a son. MARRIED. On the 25th inst. at Witham, Essex, Mr, Sarnt ie f Ebbs, Tower-hill, London, to Eliza, eldest daughter ° Air. Thomas Butler, of the former place. On the 25th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square , bi the Rev. Evan Nepean, Robert C o l e, E sq. Captain 86t; King's Light Infantry, to M ary Ed en, el d est d aug hter Lieut.-Col. Jarvis, of Dover. On the 23d inst. at St. B o t o l p h' s , B is h opsga t e , by th t e Rev. Richard Harvey, A.M., Ji re h T owne, Hi g h-sae ° ' Borough, to Albertina Augusta, youngest daughter of A lt. James Dalgety, Bishopsgate-street. On the 23d inst. at Longbridge Deverill church, by the Rev. J. Fr a mpt on , M r. lb otson, Foyle, AlidAllese3,?l,•'' Grace, daught er o f W. H u bb ar d, E sq. C roc k erton , ~ On the 24th inst. at Cookham church, Berks, E. LA n t,„ Esq. of Syd e nham, wid ower , t o M rs. Wi nc h , o f Cookb3j-' widow. DIED. In Killarney, aged 76, the Right Hon. the Countess a ( ' Severac, daughter of the former truly benevolent a nd ve nerated Viscount Thomas, sister to the late, and ;oat to the present Earl of Kenmare. On the 22d inst. at his seat, Rochetts, Essex, 04)° 111 c• Markham, Esq. th4yourigest son of the late Archbishop York. On the 24th inst. at Violet Cottage, Sutton, StrreY' Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Harwood, Grosvenor_roi c, Chelsea. On the 22d inst. at Bromley, Kent, Frances.Vansittrat youngest daughter of the Rev. Edward Neale, R ec tor Taplow, Bucks. PUMP and Punwawa:. by M. YOUNG, at ll* sw-Oriscs, No. 112, Strand hNi s pr O es T:C A E rai prissta PIKE-ROADS under a n Act pa levetal Turnpike luffia North of th, ;t4°- Whiteln I "daY, the 12t in the afternoon upon the ht (is I3 AR on the I;certain 1 Highway ing to the Toln sult about EREI ONE OTHER. the said IJKI3R SINGTON. T , GROVE , MALL acr y Cleading lI URCH-10 INGTON.