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LITERARY NOTICE. A BRIEF MEMOIR of the LIFE and WRITINGS of JOHN BRITTON, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., &e. Mr. BRITTON is too well known by his various .Productions in illustration of the science of Ar chitecture, by his descriptions of the remains of ancient architecttiral excellence, and of modern edifices in this country, for it to be necessary to dwell on his talents and his labours. His name will descend to posterity with the valuable pro ductions which he has submitted to the Public; ahl, with a natural and laudable ambition, he is desirous that his history and the Progress of his life also should correspond with the duration of his wo:ks. He possesses a large circle of private friends, and is as much esteemed for his domestic merits, as he is respected for his talents and his interesting publications. To gratify those friends, and to do justice to himself, he records his origin and his pursuits at a time when, if he uttered ought but truth, he might be subject to detection and reproof. He tells his story with modesty, and the detail of his progress in life exhibits a love of science, and a perseverance in the attain ment of knowledge, which hold forth an instruc tive lesson, end an honourable example to those who do not possess the advantages of birth, for 7 tune, and powerful' patronage. While employed in cultivating his knowledge of Architecture, he has been the Architect of his own reputation and independence. His example therefore may be deemed correlative with the progress of HouAturn's INDUSTRIOUS APPRENTICE. Like the hero of that moral, and admirable, graphic Allegory, his origin was humble, and if his efforts have not raised him to the summit of civic honours, yet it may he fairly inferred that had his objects been -of the same description, Iris zeal, diligence, knowledge, and integrity, might have been at tended with similar success. Mr. BRITTON is to be considered as the Historian of Architecture, and not as a Professor of that useful, noble, and elevated science; but so far as theoretical know- ledge and practical illustration are concerned, there are few professors, perhaps, who possess a more extensive and a sounder acquaintance with an art that provides domestic convenience, and mainly contributes to national grandeur. In the course of his narration he gives a list of his vari ous publications, mentions with honest sin cerity his professional connections, states his ob ligations to them, and is never wanting in respect and gratitude. We have not room to detail the numerous productions of this assiduo u s and iutel ligent author, hut we ought not to conclude Without strongly recommending the present work to the attention of all juvenile candidateti for re putation and fortune, who are not upheld by wealthy kindred or powerful support, but who are to make their way in life by industry, pru lience, knowledge and rectitude. The example of Mr. BRITTON points out the means by which they may attain domestic happiness, estimable con -arections, and the respect of mankind. FRENCH PA PERS. (Front the Eloise, dated Sunday, 4.) ROYAL TRIBUNAL OF PARIS. PARIS, DEC. 3 —The Court was opened a -the usual hour ; the audience was not so now& -Tonsils on the preceding day. M. De Broe, the Attorney-General, commenced by com plaining at having to speak again on this subject; the system ;of defence set up by the Counsel for the Constitutionviel had, he said, disfigured the facts, and it was therefore necessary to prove them in their true point of view. M. Dupin, as Counsel for the Constitntionnel, replied, that De Broe had improperly qualified his defence, and that it was not his intention to substitute a proch' de tendanee against the Clergy, to that against the Constitutionnel, and he renewed the declaration which he had made, that it was a Catholic who was pleading before the Court. He then maintained that the Editors of the Conslitutionnel had a political object in attack ing abuses which cover themselves with the cloak of religion, in pointing out the ultramOntane doctrines which inundate and besiege, in combating the intrusion of Monastic• Orders, the existence of which threatens our liberties, and may renew in France the troubles of which our-ancestors were the witnesses .and the victims. The Conditutionnel was acquitted. • (From the Courier Francais of Saturday.) MADRID, Nov. I.—(Private Correspondence.)—ln propor tion as the truth comes to light, we lose the little hope which remained of preserving a small part of our transtnarine posses - Monte Official dispatches were received a few days ago, which have thrown our Ministry into consternation. M. Pinillos, the new Intendant. of the Havannalt, has written from the United States, where he has stopped on his way to his destination. He announces, not only to the 'Minister for Foreign Atfairs, but to the King himself, that the naval and military preparations which are now making - in Golombia and Mexico, are so consi derable, that it must be considered as impossible long to defend the Isle of Cuba, and that of Porto Rico against the attacks ak , hich appear to be manifested against them: The hostile force will also find a powerful auxiliary in the elements of discord which prevail in the interior, and in the fermentation which the Republican spirit excites. The report of M. Pinillos says also, s, that the fears which these preparations inspire, - must extend be yond the Colonies which hwie remained faithftil to the mother • country. - Spain itself ought to be oh its guard. Next spring, - the enemy will not confine himself to•privateering war; a land ing on the coast, where the discontent is the most general, way very likely take place, and augment the embarrassment of the Government—iti short, the picture which he draws is most alarming, and has excited the most serious uneasiness. It is remarked, that the conferences between the King and the Duke •de l'lnfantado have since been very frequent. Ftrams.—Pa . ll is, DEC. 3.—Five . per Cents. 95f. sM.—Three per Cents. opened at 63f. 50c.; closed at 63f. • 90L —Bank StoCk, 2,o2sf.—Rente de Naples, (Certif. Falcon net,) 78f. 90c..-11ente d'Espagne; llf.—Royal Spanish lioan,• 1823, 48g—Exchange on London, one month, 24f. 95c.; three months, 24f. 75c.—(Coors Authentique.) THE KEY. ROW LAND II I LL.-01) Sunday morn ing, during the absence of the Rev. ROWLAND HILL, his family, and servants, from the d welling-house, attending divine -worship, some thief or thieves managed to scale the area rail ings, and descend into the kitchen, the door leading into which .was unfastened. Instead of proceeding up stairs and ran sacking the house of plate and other portable property, the thieves contented themselves with laying siege to the pantry, which happened to be well stocked with the good things of this life on the occasion, consisting of a corned round of beet, two loins of f r e s h p or k, a fill et of veal stuffed and ready for the spit, together with a prime Stilton and other Cheshire cheeses. The cook was the first who dis covered the robbery of the larder. She ran up stairs breathless to inform her master of the loss. The reverend gentleman was surprised at the news, when• having patiently listened to her while enumerating the joints that had disappeared, he ob served, in his usual accents of good nature, Never mind, . never mind, Kitty, don't alarm yourself; we shall substitute something else for our loss : the poor creatures who managed to take away the meat, perhaps, wanted it much more than , ore do." LAW IN ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LORD DARLINGTON V. CODRINGTON, This long-litigated cause which, after having passed the Courts below,was taken to the House of Louis, when the De cree of the Master of the Rolls was affirmed, was again brought under discussion.--Sir WILLIAM GRANT decided that Lady Bath was the absolute owner of the estates situate at Stoke Newington, upon which a question was rose by Sir "THOS. SUTTON, whether she was more than a copy-holder, it being contended that as such she did not come within the mean ing of the Act of Parliament. After much argument, • 'The MASTER of the RoLts said, that his opinion at pre sent was, that the former decisions were right; but as the question now stood, it would be necessary for him to read over the bill and answer, and refer to the settlements before the House of Lords, where, if he found his mind changed, he would ctril on the bar to reargue it. [PROCEEDINGS OF YESTERDAY.] COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 6. DE BEAUVOIR v. RHODES. The LOUD CnANcTritiott;iirtu;nito — iiis promise of Sa turday, now pronounced upon the question, whethet the in junction to restrain the action of ejectment in this case should abide or not, and gave it as his opinion that the injunction could not be dissolved, except upon terms which must be ex plained to the Court. lie would give the parties time to in form him what terms they were ready to propose, and they were at liberty to state them to the Court on Thursday morning. Meantime his Lordship wished the lessee to understand that if he persisted and went on building, it might eventually be at his own peril with regard to the expences. • COVENT-GARDEN TIiEAT E.-CONST V. HARRIS. Mr. lianT resumed his argument against the motion for in structions to be given by the Court to the receiver to make the proper disbursements for the current and nightly expences of the theatre. Mr. HEALD was heard in reply. The LORD CHANCELLOR then expatiated upon the diffi culty of the Court giving the directions which were now sought. He renewed many of his former remarks upon the force of the partnership deed of 1812, under which the plaintiff now came before the Court, and the responsi bility which remained with the contracting parties of the existing lease to fulfil the conditions of that deed, by pay ing off the incumbrance through the agency of a common re ceiver. His Lordship also renewedhis complaints of the diffi culty of this Court uadertaking to Manage a theatre. There might be judges who had di scr i m i n ati on for those matters—he had none. Ile could take no other course than that of send ing it to the Master, who in all probability must consult the same parties as before ' to know what expenses ought to be al lowed. Now this had already been done ; directions had been given by the parties under which the treasurer or receiver had been acting ; and that with the approbation of the Master, upon his accounts up to a certain period. if any objection were Made to those orders by any party, that was another question ; but that question ought to come before hitn in the shape of exceptions. In what he had formerly said, as to appropriating the funds, rents, or profits to the incumbrances, he wished to • be more clearly understood. There could be no doubt of the force of the steed of 1812 in that appropriation. But in saying that, he slid not mean to go so far as to imply that cx necessi tate, any or all of the new profits which might be made must be immediately applied to the discharge of ancient debts. So far was that from being his opinion, that if he were compelled to make an order in this case, the only order he could make would be to direct that the exigent expenditure for employing the the atre should be allowed, and that die surplus should be paid into the Court to abide the division under the covenanters of the deed of 1812, upon the final decision of the cause. If that were to be done, then he must also take such methods as were available to him to ascertain the amount of the surplus over the nightly and current expence to be so paid in. That would be his duty as a judge, if he were pressed to give any directions. Because he could only do in this case that which he would be bound to do in any other partnership case. But, as a man, he could not but feel, that instead of a surplus this property might be over_ hung with debts, which would make such an order wholly superfluous, if not ruinous. Sir W. Grant had done a bold thing with a theatre 'similarly circumstanced. He found that the parties would come to no agreement, and that he had not the power of bringing them to any satisfactory conclusion. He ordered a sale of the theatre, and did it upon a sound principle. " There are interests to be sustained connected with this pro perty which must be neglected so long as the parties remain at variance. If you cannot come to such an accommodation as will allow those interests to be protected, must _have the the atre disposed of to other parties, who will by that step be left sufficiently free to do what is proper. He must be allowed to any once more—though he had frequently expressed his opinion of it before—that the proprietors of this or any other theatre would do well to agree with each other out of doors. If they persisted in coming to this Court to settle all their dsagree ments, they'did it with the prospect directly before them of running their joint property into absolute ruin. It' they per sisted in requiring the order of the Court, he must give that order which he before mentioned. He hoped that they would think better of it ; and therefore he would give them till Thurs day morning to consult. After a few sentences from each of the Counsel, chiefly urged in apologizing for their several clients troubling the Court, the' question stands adjourned till Thursday. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 5. EANAS V. LEATON. This was a suit instituted by the plaintiff to enforce against the defendant an equity of redemption in certain lands which were mortgaged in the year 1780, f or 3001. Mr. BICKERSTETII, for the plaintiff, contended, that al though the period of 20 years, limited for redemption of mort gages, had expired, yet that an acknowledgment contained in a letter by' the defendant's father, that he held the lands in mortgage, would . supply that defect. T he letter was dated in November, 1795, and the application to the Court was. made within ten days of the twenty years after that period. Mr. SUGDEN and Mr. 1%11:G6:sox, for the defendant, set up several grounds of opposition. They'principally relied upon the time which had elapsed. They disputed also the title of the plaintiff, who claimed as heir at law bf the mortgagor ; sud, contended that the promis es h av i ng b een ma d e t h e su bj ect of a settlement, on the marriage of the mortgagee, the par ties now in .possession under that settlement were to be considered as purchasers who had no notice of the incum brance. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, in pronouncing his judgment, overruled all these points. He said that, although the parties claiming under the settlement might rightfully demand to be considered as purchasers, and although, perhaps, in truth they had no notice of the m or t gage , y et , as they might by the exer cise of due diligence have informed themselves of that fact, they must be treated as negligent purchasers. He thought the proof of the pedigree was sufficient to establish the plaintiff's claim, and that the period, although it came so close upon the statute,' yet, as it was within it, was sufficient to save the right . of re demption. His . Honour, therefore; pronounced the usual decree. Mr: SUGDEN prayed that this might be varied, and that some account might be taken of the increased value of the pro. perty, which the defendants had much improved, under the be. lief that they held it in fee: • • His HONOUR said he could not comply with this request. The defendant might present i a petition, if he had any-grounds for it. COURT OF KING'S BENCH,-DEC. 5. WOOD V. WOOLER. This was an action against Air. '1'..1. Wooler, who recently made an application to the Court for a mandamus to admit • him a member' of Lincoln's-inn, to recover the am Olt; bill for printing several numbers of a work called The Mecha nics' Chronicle, which did not succeed. The total amount ori ginally claimed was 33/. 13s. 6d., and 151. having been paid, the sum was reduced to 231. 13s. 6d., which the plaintiff now sought to recover. • The defence set up was. that the plaintiff was in partnership with his son-in-law, Mr. Keene, and that therefore the action should have been brought in their joint names. It was stated by Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, that his client resisted the demand on this ground, because he believed there had been a fraudulent s ch eme to rep r esent Mr. It eene as separately liable for debts, and to procure his creditors to take a compo sition,- and on the other hand to put forward Mr. Wood as the sole claimant on the - customers. Mr. Keene was called for the plaintiff; and stated, that at the time when this busi ness was done for Mr. Wooler, he was not in partnership with Mr. Wood, though a partnership was in contemplation ; though he admitted that the transactions had been effected in their joint name, and that he had made out a bill to the de fendant kr his own name alone. A letter of Mr. Wooler was read, bearing d a t e a f ter t h e C ommencement of t h e act i on, ob jecting to the amount of the bill, but not to the liability as stated to the plaintiff only. For the defendant, receipts and accounts were put in, some . by Keene only, and where a s for " Keene and W oo d ;" an d t h e c l erk who acted at the time, and several customers, stated that they considered and dealt with Keene and Wood as partners. It was also said that Keene at Christmas compounded with some of his creditors. A good deal of merriment was excited by the pompous manner in which the publications printed at the office were announcad by some of the witnesses ; one of whom talked of " selling the Roman empire," and another announced hiMself as " trustee for the Nation." It appeared that a newspaper called Thy Nation" had preceded " The Mechanics' Chronicle" in the press ; and on some explanation being asked of the change, the Lord Chief Justice said, " Oh, they have only turned the nation into a Mechanics' institute." (Great laughter.). Mr. GURNEY, for the plaintiff, replied, and urged that al though, in some matters, Keene and Wood might have a joint interest, they had none in this affair, and that the statement of any fraudulent scheme was unsustained by proof. The boRD CHIEF J USTICE left the case to the Jury on the single question, whether at the time when tie business was done by Mr. Wooler's orders, Keene was in -partnership with Wood. The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for the de• Pendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 5. HICKS V. CLARKE ANT) ANOI HER. This was an action of trespass. The plaintiff is an attorney, and some years since conducted a cause in which the defendant, Clarke, and his brother, were some of the parties. In the course of that suit Mr. Hicks received some papers from other parties, on condition of giving them up when required. To this condition his clients consented, hut, in some tune after, they satight to possess themselves of those papers, and the plaintiff refused to give them . up. He also . gave up the conducting of their cause. In the course of some time the defendants forcibly entered the plaintiff's chambers, and endeavoured to take away some papers, which the plaintiff did not allow them to do. The defendant also imputed improper conduct to the plaintiff with respect to the conducting their cause. The tres pass complained of was, the forcible entrance, although the principal object of the action was to vindicate the plaintiff's conduct from all imputations of impropriety with respect to the cause in which he had been engaged, and in refusing its management. __ Illr:'Sergeant WILDE, in the early pdrt of the cause, offered to take a verdict for nominal damages only, if the defendants would admit that they had acted wrong, and that the conduct of the plaintiff was without impeachment as far as he was con cerned for them. Mr. Sergeant 'AWES, for the defendants, refused to' make any such admission, and .having addressed himself at some length to the merits of the case, he submitted that though a verdict might go for , the plaintiff, yet there could be no more than nominal damages. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE (having in the course of the trial made several ineffectual attempts to shorten the case and save time) observed, in his charge, on the expediency of con suming the time of the suitors of the Court with a cause of this description. There would have been an end of this case long ago and the plaintiff would be content with nominal damages if the defendants had instructed their Counsel to make the acknowledg. meat required. If there would now be more than nominal dama ges, the defendants would have to blame themselves. Knowing nothing of the - plantiff but from what appeared in this cause, his Lordship said he was bound to say his conduct towards these parties was extremely correct. The. Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 201. JENKINS v. BIDDITLPHS (SISTERS). This was an action against the Sheriff of Hereford, for com pensation-for damages sustained by the plaintiff's in consequence of his negligence in making a false return to a writ issued • against them._ The circumstances of the case were these: 'The plaintiff's (two sisters) held some property adjoining the estate of a person named James, with whom they had some legal controversy ) • James issued writs against them, to which writs he returned non est ihventus, and in consequence of this return, the plaintiffs in the present action were outlawed, their estate was seized by the Crown, from whence - it came into the possession of -James. At the time the return was made, one sister was living within 4 miles of Hereford, and the other was actually in the custody of the Sheriff in Hereford jail. For the defence it was urged that James, when he put the writs into the hand s o f th e Sh er iff, i n fo rme d him that no such persons were residing within his bailiwick, and that he must of necessity.return non,est inrentns.. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in charging the Jury, said, that the Sheriff was presumed to know all those at least whom he had in his custody ; and it was for the Jury to say whether thee was not negligence in the return with regard to the sister residing near Hereford. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs, damages ill., being the expences incurred by the reversal of the outlawry, no oth e r damage ha v ing b een proved. The action having been brought jointly by the sisters, the Court would not stiffer them to offer evidence as damages indi vidually sustained by either of them. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—(Tats DAY.) James Kay stood indicted for assaulting Mrs. E. Wilson, on the 6th October, at the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea. The short facts of the case were—the defendant, under the effects of wine, hart mistaken the prosecutrix for another person, and committed the assault complained of. The parties having ar. ringed the matter o u t o f Court, t he c as e did not go to the Jrv, and the necessary forms having been complied with they retired. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET, - - Edward Cockerel:. a young man well known to the police as a flashy character, and who, under the name of Smith, _nar rowly escaped conviction at the Old Bailey Sessions for an of fence similar to the one of which he now stands accused, was yesterday placed at the bar, for attempting to pass a forged Si. note, purporting to be one of the Bath and Bristol Bank, a firm not in existence, and payable at the house of Bernard, Savary, and More, London, bankers, not to be found in the pireczory. It appeared in evidence, that on Saturday night last the prisoner went into the shop of Sir. Haskins, a jeweller, in St. Martin's 'wart, and selected a couple of gold seals, a brooch, & watch• key, auyounting in the whole to 31. 45., in payment for which he ten thred the note in question. - The shop-boy not having sufficient change, left his customer, an d too k the note across the way to Mr. arrison, the snuff-manufacturer, who he requested to accommodate him with it. Now it so happened that he could not have applied to a more unlucky person for Mr. Co:le 'tell's purpose, inasmuch as he (Mr. li.) had himself been taken in a short time since by a note of an almog Similar des cription.. He therefore accompanied the lad bac4c to the shop, where he found Mr. Cockerell waiting for his change, and close:y watched, though unknown to him, by the street-keeper, who had recognised him as an " old acquaintance." Mr. H. went behind the counter, and assuming for the once the character of master of the house, put several embarrassing ques _ions to his ieould-be customer as to his having obtained possession of the note; the replies to which were so unsatisfac tory, that the street-keeper was invited to walk in and to take Mr. Coekerell into custody. Several other persons were in at tendance with charges of a similar nature against the prisoner; among the rest a tailor, of the name of Hopkins, residing • at C telsea, from whom he had ordered a coat, paying a pound deposit, and getting four sovereigns in change, which having obtained, it is unnecessary to say- he thought his old coat would do well enough a-little longer, and of course never went to look after his new one. It :having been stated to Sir R. BIIINIE that a respectable engraver in Great Queen street had been applied to to engrave a note-plate, from which he had struck off' 500 impressions, and which circumstances that had subsequently arisen induced, him to think had been ordered for fraudulent purposes, an officer was sent off to re quest his attendance, in order to • arcertain whether the flash notes in question was the same. Many other charges are ex pected to be gone into against-Cockerel, who was remanded till Thursday. • _ QUEEN-SQUARE. BILITTALITY TO A DONKEY.—Yesterday John 'Man, a costermonger, residing in Old Pye-street, Ntrestminster, was brought up by Cooper on a warrant, charged with gross cruelty to ft donkey : _ _ Serjeant John Carter, - belonging to the 3d company of the Ist Guards, stated that on :Thursday morning last, as he was pro ceeding along Old Pye.street, he saw the prisoner take up a birch broom, and ,strike the animal several times with it ; he then ran desperately at the aqs. kicked it most inhumanly in the belly, struck it about the head with his fists, and afterwards very deliberately took from his pocket a clasp knife, saying, " Now I'll cut you fur the simples," and cut part of the poor donkey's ear off, which he threw into the middle of the street. The prisoner said, that he merely cut a bit of the ass's ear off because he was troubled with the megrims, which is a very good thing when an animal is so afflicted. The Serjeant replied that it was done after he had beat and kicked it most cagily. Daniel Macfarlane, a sergeant- in the second company of the same regiment, fully corroborated the statement of the former witness, and said that the barbarity was deliberately inflicted on the animal, tie at the same time using most horrid expres sions, " now you'll stand still, won't you ?" The prisoner, in his defence, called a brother costermonger, named Reeves, to prove the state of the animal. lie knew the donkey was subject to the megrims; he saw the prisoner kick him,•but not to injure the ass, and noticed him to cut a bit from the donkey's ear. Prisoner to the Magistrates—Do you wish to see the donkey? Mr. GREGORIE—No, I hear enough. Mt. WHITE—Has he got the megrims now? Prisoner —Oh no, Sir. lie was then convicted in the penalty of 40s. with 7s. costs. Mr. GREGORIE told the Sergeants it did them great credit in bringing the case forward, and he never knew one to be more clearly out.—They were allowed their expences from the office. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK. Daniel Frederick Matthews, auctioneer, appeared to answer to the charge of having made an illegal seizure, and forcible SHOCKING A CCIDENT.— Last night, about ten o'clock, a shocking accident occurred on the Kensington road, near the Alagpie.—JAmcs IVPlNlunnocll, Esq., of Portland-place, was re turning home on horseback, when by some acci dent the animal took fright and galloped off with alarming speed ; Mr.lll‘Murdoch, who is a clever horseman, kept his sear for some time, but at length the girth of the saddle broke, and The rider was thrown to the ground with his head down wards, and, shocking to relate, besides other serious injuries, his collar-bone was broken by the fall. entry on the premises of George Quilstoffe, who resides at No. 8„ Upper :Queen-street Many witnesses substantiated the charge, and amongst them a porter in the - employ of Mr. Matthews, named Redman. Another of thatgentleman's por ters, and the only witness produced by him, gave such evidence as occasioned the most severe animadversiOns of the Magistrate. Mr. Matthews agreed to.- return the-property and pay the ex pences, which was acceded to. w The MAGISTRATE, on itetennination, thus addreNd the - parties :--L - "-Mr. Davis, your conduct as a landlord has'been very reprehensible, and to it may be attributed the whole' of this unpleasant anir. YotiThave also subjected yourself to an action at law, and should bear a part of the capences with Mr. Matthews. Mr. Swain, your evidence this•day has been most disgraceful ; it has been proved false by four witnesses, and 1 hope Mr. Matthews will no longer keep you in his employ ; you will not add much to his respectability." The business having been arranged, Mr. Matthews stepped forward and addressed the Magistrate:—" Your Worship, as this unpleasant transaction was principally owing to Mr. Davis, I trust you will' interfere to prevent the publication of it in the newspapers." _ Mi...4.lderman SMITH replied, "Sir, I cannot accede to your request by interfering with the gentlemen of the press, tad dressing himself to our Reporter.) It is my partici:4er desire that every facility be given to them, for however respectable the situation in life of an individual, if he IPas acted right he need not fear the insertion of his name in the public papers." [We are gratified to add that Mt. Matthews seems entirely ashamed of his conduct in this respect. He made other at tempts to prevent the publication of this report, which the in. tegrity a our Reporter frustrated.] Thomas Ealey, who a few days ago was remanded on a charge of stealing two candlesticks from the parlour of Mr. Bowler, the Red Lion in the Maze, was put to the bar in a state of stupidity, having, it is supposed, swallowed poison,:— Through the indefatigable exertions of Kinsey, the officer, it was discovered that the unfortunate man was no other than Grange, the ci-devant landlord of the Barley_ Mow, in the Strand. His wife, an interesting young woman, who appeared to be in the greatest affliction, stated, that about half an hour before she had seen him take a paper containing somethin g out of one of his boots. A surgeon was sent for, who examined him in the private room, and advised his immediate removal to the hospital, and the application of the stomach 7 punrd, whether with success or not we have not yet been able to learn. The theft cannot be ac counted for, as he had on his person 14 sovereigns, some silver, watch, seal, and key. Since this, however, we have learnt that the unfortunate man is likely to recover. WEST INDIA DOCKS. STOCK ACCOUNT for the Week ending Saturday, the 3d of December, 1825. Articles. • { Hhds West India Trs Ills Sugar Brazil - Chests II avanah East India & 1 B n oxes Mauritius f " a g s - Casks ( Pits - - Olds. f Pm; - 1 Hds ( Pns • 1 Hils - Casks ( Pipes - 1. lids • Irks • Bls Bags Casks . . 1 Bags 1 Casks • . 1 Bags ( Cagks - 1 Bags ( Cash - . 1 Bags Cotton f Bales - -. ' i Bags Molasses - Brandy floliatads . Arrack - Wine Coffee• Cocoa Pimento Ginger - • Pepper - _ . Aloes Gourds Arrow Root _ Casks Boxes Balsam Boxes - Jar's (Serom Casks Bark Bills Bags Cassia Fistula - C as k s Chives Bs _ .{ Casks Jae Cochineal - - Bags Elephants' Teeth No. Gum 4 Casks poxes Henlp Tons Hides - No. Horns - No. Indigo - Seront. Ipecacttanha - .1 Casks t Bags Jalap ' Bales Whale - Oil Castor - C as k s Coco Nut Casks Palm - Casks Pearl Shell - f Casks . s, heron: Pine Apple - Casks Rice and Paddy j Casks A Bags Sago -- Boxes Sarsaparilla - Bales 'fallow - Casks Tortoise iell. (-; " 1 " Boxes Turtle - Casks Tapioca - - Casks WOOD. Logs Mahogany . {Pieces Plks & Bdt , - f Logs A Pcs & Plks A Ced fri a c r a ' n Timber 1 ( Lo g s Pieces Santa Maria • { Lo g s Pieces Ebony _ Tons Lig. Vitro - Tons Box' Wood Tons I,og Wood Tons Fustic - Tons Nicaragua Wood Tons Cam Wood- Tons Bar Wood 1 . Tons • 1 Pieces Brazilletto Tons Saunders Wood -Pieces Lancewood Spars No. Staves - . No. .33 9,9j4 * British Plantation Coffee {Casks 13, Barrels I,i Bags 2,4 East India Coffee - . Bags ( St. Eomingo, Brazil, and Ha. {Casks f Hvannah Coffee . _ Barrels f Bags 81,11 1 Home Con sumption. 1,076 178 Exporta tion. Stock on Hand. 42,390 3,089 P 97 1,58 4,372 13,041 950 24,138 1,346 1,285 994 14,257 1,789 85,060 1,551 5,186 5 2,486 425 16,291 922 513 9 - 20 171 443,4 3,786 8,455 Rum OA 191- PRICE OF STOCKS Tnis Bank Stock 215 / 141 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 3A per Cent 9O 1 90 Ditto Red.... 89i 90 09/ 901 4 per Cent. New Bank Long Ann. l9 20 India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN F Austrian Brls, 5 per cent Brazilian Bds 1825 ----- Scrip - 13 dis. I;uenos Ayres Bds Chilian, Bds, 6 per cent — Colombian lids Do. do. 1324 ... '62 Danish, 6 per cent. Do. 1823 6l Greek Bds Do. 1825 Guathnala M exican Bds Do. 1825 63 4i PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLocli• SO/ per 40 Anglo-Mexican Mining Company Colombian Mining Company Haytian Mining Company Hibernian Mining Company ......................... _ ....... Pasco Peruvian dining Company ........................ Nevr.United Mexic a n Minin g Company 16 141 ' British Iron Company Br*Jish, Irish, and Colonial Silk Company ........... ........ ........ • ..... F'OrtEIGN DIAII.S. 1) 15./. Ann TvEl). Guernsey and Jersey Gottenhurgh . Hamburgh - Holland France America - • /1%1% • --....-- „ ) ,{IN , „ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO- 3 " ",41 e r Morning, 4t3 minutes after 11.1 Evening, G , i' ijult' ' T , g _ r SOLEAI QUIS DICEI2E FiILSUJI .4Uag LONDON. 1 g 110' TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER Madras Papers to the 29th July ar rived amasscoMlN o f day, but app ear d evo id o f an y intellig ence ttli moment. de nt We have be en f avoure d by a CorresP ea a ,w,iltvhethheavefolalcocwoiunigasexfrtormactßoafngooalleitter rec eive . this day from M a d ras , d a t e d th e 30th July Its" ii to the /Bt 4 ' 4 C June, at which time all operations had ceas e " on account of the Monsoon having set ill/ be `rand peac e w i t h t h e B urm ese appear s t° , "as distant as ever . Th e troops, however' " are healthy. In this Presidency all I,s V ie The expences of the war have been so en°r' ~ s m e o n u d s, si t x h t a y t l o a n e r s G o f over rui t i t e m e s en t o t has been oblige d t° Bengal, CC ifi " supposed th a t th e S u preme Governn llendt iiiiiit‘l ei t -- " have recourse to a new Loan. Sir (1111°21 to Eng' " Stanley, our lat e Chief Justice, goe s " land in the General Palmer, and his dePs rture " is mucia regretted by all parti‘.s." to , This mode of protracting the contest seeM have been most judiciously adopted by th e °lir ; h Ce °' mese, as it has given them the only c ha nce he success they can have against the trium' pbs uf t • British ite)d a up lrn o s. n If,co consideration, d w e e r a h t a i o y have ,it is ci 1 all ado hopes of p ea c e mus t b e a b an doned ui , ( : l: i srthe jir Golden Monarch should in his wisdom . , cover that a protracted warfare, eve " '11 : 0 11 conquest at the end, has no advantagesa ht offer in opposition to those which th e peace is might obtain on easy and honourable terms littl e calculated to conf e r. There is ho wevel ; h will ground to hop e th a t this portion of 14.1' penetrate to ,the heart of the KING ) by the designing awn by he doubtless is by his late defeats, and infl uenc ,t, whom he is burr° nude" nuri trf A protracted contest is therefore what thee" w heth er has to look to, and the point at issue is, p % ten• the patience of -the Golden King is c ore -' ite, sive than the resources of the. British ri lli P it Injurious and expensive as the war has bee") n oar has hitherto been attended with s uccess °- . e , movil l " side, and as we have nothing on ° the Per forward, or even by the capture of the to gain b. 7 1 the Monarch himself, it does appear to us to ti le Company's resources were fully adequate trial, especially as patience r t a e l lanle ll irritatet!eads the necessity which compelled the A 10' time a royal virtue. %%e mustw,alstowneevveec'r:oolo; A tages , to go to war against its own a. ~, .van in dica ,- obliged the Indian Governmen t to v cm e• the integrity of its territory, and its oi cn cop _ he b b° r b i a o r ri t a y r ,0 barbarous s a againstid 1 i l theinroads aughtyp eopanfr.d arro ga nce oft i unexpected nddt u°•- 'l'lie French Papers of Saturday, in addiu"; to those received yesterday morning, arrived lase night, and bring us the important and sonlewhil Constitationnel. The Courier Francais no w re' mains, and that we suppose will meet wit h intelligence of the acquittal of th similar fate. bringing arr ived L " The Hamburgh and D utch Mails a the 21st Novembr nd Ha e m burgha 3d Decem ber. llre and Dutch Pp day, ers t° 3,321 -64 140 5,685 14,757 0,838 11,952 46,720 DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK 0141 Annuities ............... New Ditto . ................ Ex. Bills 10 00 /. 1 0 . 108 1 8 0 (1 11 . Ditto 500/. ....... 10 Ditto Small 10. 10 7d' itt() Advertiied ............ Irank for Acct. ............... •-• riulia for Acct. ............... Cons. for Acct. ...... -83VM NDS AT ONE o'cLOCK• Mexican Scrip ............... --- Neapolitan, 5 per cent. Neapolitan do. 1824•••••.'..5 1 Peruvian Bonds ........ Do. Scrip .................. Portuguese Bonds ......... Prussian, 5 per cent. ...... Ditto New ................ Russian, New, 5 p. ct.ls Sp a nish 1821, 5 per ct. 15.1 f 1823 te r. French Rentes,s p. c. ----- Exchange ... 3 per cent. i• Exchange ... Deli . •ered. US 5,137 112 313 1 34 230 4T5 9,222 4 29 111 411 1,432 3,725 5,229 225