The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICE. MODERATION; a TALE; by Mrs. HOFLAND, Author of Infidelity, a Tale; Patience, a Tale; Decision, a Tale; The Son of Genius; Tales of the Priory; Tales of the Manot. We feel much pleasure in noticing a new work from► this agreeable and fertile writer, to whom parents and the rising generation are indebted for many excellent works of amusement and instruc tion. The present work, through the medium of a simple, natural, and interesting story, conveys precepts of pure morality and genuine devotion. The principal persons are three sisters, Harriet, Emma, and Sophia, all of different characters. — Harriet, the eldest, is gay and giddy, and having been introduced into fashionable life at an early period,be comes too much habituated to its follies. Sophia, the youngest, on the contrary, though the daughter of an amiable, wise, and ortho dox clergyman,is inclined to fanaticism, and to be " righteous overmuch." Emma, the second sister who is the ,heroine of the piece, holds forth a pleasing and most interesting portrait of feminine virtues and graces. Mild and forbearing towards others, but vigilant, in watching her own dispo sition and almost rigid towards herself. Active, but unassuming, with great energy she consoles and cheers others, and preserves her equanimity amidst severe domestic trials, supported by her habitual resig►►ation to the divine will, but with. without the least ostentation 'in her piety. By affection and generosity she wins the regard and gratitude of all around her, and, is finally made as happy as our temporary and uncertain state will admit. Her unobtrusive, unpretending, piety, her mild indulgence towards the mental delusions of her younger sister, who is so much inclined to methodistical extravagance, and her generosity towards the eldest, who had been bewildered in the vortex of fa shionable dissipation, present her own cha racter in the most engaging point of view. We are almost disposed to conceive that Mrs. HOF LAND intended to present Emma as an example to her sex, and that the story was-principally de vised for that purpose. It was, however, neces sary to involve the heroine in severe trials, in order to draw her virtues into action, and display her MODERATION, while she possesses the greatest degree of sensibility, yet still keeps within the limits of sound discretion. There are many other characters of a similar clescription, but with dif ferent shades. We regret that the fair Author should find it necessary to kill those amiable cha racters which have excited a high interest, as A nntsom did by Sir Roger de Coverley ; but as such events draw forth the virtues of, her heroine, we must submit to the loss for the sake of the example. One draw-back upon the interest of the work is the introductiln of too many characters who have very little connexion with the main events, and who therefore embarrass the memory, and consequently impede the inte ' rest of the story. We do not think that Mrs. HOFLAND has been happy in the choice of the names of some of her persons, and wish that- they had been more common and fantii:dr. The sen timents throughout are liberal and dignified, and the reflections just and .striking. The language • is easy, pure, and often elegant, and the work altogether is highly creditable to the feelings, principles, and talents of the fair author. There is a weil-engraved frontispiece by ENGLEHEART, representing an incident towards the close of the work, from a design by J. M. WRIGHT. We recommend this Tale to our fair Readers, con vinced that the correct and amiable model which the heroine presents cannot be attentively studied without insensibly operating upon their charac ters, and proportionably contributing to the hap piness of their lives. COMBINATION. At the last Rotheram Sessions, G. Elmsall, C. Musgreave, S. Labron, S. Goodison, T. Wilson, H. Shaw, and W. Nicholson, were charged with a riot, and assaulting J. Whittaker and H. Barrowclough, on the 6th of June last._ There had been a turn-out of the shoemakers of Barnsley, and the prosecutors were in the habit of going from 'Wake field to work at Barnsley for Mr. Dodsworth, who had a shop at either town, every monday morning, and returning, on the Saturday evening. On the morning in question, the prosecutor, in company with a man named Fordham, were met by the defendants anti a number of others, at the Ship Inn, about a mile. from Barnsley, on which the mob set up a shout, calling them B/uck Sheep and Scabs. Whit taker ran off, but was followed by the mob, who, on overtaking him, beat him severely with a bludgeon, broke his head, gave him a black eye, and kicked him dreadfully on the body, threa tening to kill him and pull his liver out, and made him promise never to go to Barnsley again during the turn-out, without a card from the Turn-out ; at the same time observing, that they had set watches at every entrance to the town, •so that they could not go in without being detected. The prosecu tore, Barrowdough and Fodhant, met with similar treatment. The prisoners said the attack was merely made in their own de fence. The Jury, without retiring, found the prisoners Guilty. Wilson, Nicholson, and ntw, the three persons who actually committed the offence, were sentenced to nine months, and Musgreave, Labron, and Gof;dison, to six months' imprison ment in Waktfial House of Correction. Eimsall did not take' his trial along wild the prisoners, but was excused on a sur geon's- certificate. He is to be tried at the next Sheffield Ses sioll.3. BRADFORD COMBER AND WEAVERS. 'The " personal discussions" between the masters and the mien at Bradford seem, as we apprehend, to have led to no sa tisfactory results. The dialogue, indeed, between Mr. Rand, one of the firm with whom Tester worked, and this operative agitator, is instructive, foi he exposes some of the objects of the Unions. The primary one, he says, is an advance of wages ; the next, an equalization, or that all artisans and me. charles should have the same. He also declares that the " Unions" are so connected, that the workmen in one _town can effect a turn tr.'t for an advance of wages , in another; and lie adds, after declining to state how this effect may be produced, that it is the determination of workmen to attempt an equali zation of wages in all towns in this part of the country. There is every reason to believe that this attempt will be made; and that the subscriptions received by the Bradford turn-outs are referable to such an understandings among the different trades.. Upon the ultiniate consequences of pursuing a ge neral system of combination, Tester is exceedingly cavalier.— According to him, " Manufacturers, must only now give up one sort of manufactures, and turn to another," then they must only " lose their capital," and last they must only " rest still," so that war between the masters and men is to be carried on Dui internecionem. The tailors at Bradford,' we have been in. formed, boasted when the combers and weavers struck, that they should hereafter follow their example, and obtain 21. per week, for working ten hours a-day. It is, however, bnt fair to mention, that many of the combers and weavers have long since repented of the course they adopted, but still have held out through great privations, rather than yield the principle contended for. When these proceedings shall end, we cannot conceive. The follow ink letter from our correspondent gives small hope of a speedy reconciliation " BRADFORD, AUG. 24.—0 alteration has taken place t since last week in the affairs of the masters and workmen. The masters have had no further meetings, hut the men met, as usual, on Monday last, at Fairweather.green, and the weekly allowance to the men was increased from 6s. to 75., and by this it appears that their fund* improve progressively......(Leeds Juteiligencer.) THE GREEK CHIEFTAIN, COLOCOTRONI. COLOCOTRONI, one of the most spirited and ce lebrated of the present Greek Chieftains, is the son of a famous leader of mountain Keftis (or robbers), as the Turks call them, who avenged upon the Albanians the atrocities which that savage people inflicted on the unfortunate Greeks, when the latter were deserted by the Russians in 1779. To avoid the loss of Greece, the Turks, who were then warmly en gaged in carrying on the war against Russia in another quarter, let in upon the Morea 70,000 Albanians, who carried fire and sword wherever they went ; all the inha bitants who could not gain the mountains were massacred. Being deserted, and left defenceless by the Russians who had incited them to revolt, the Greeks were hunted like wild beasts, and threatened with utter extermination. Cities were overthroWn, and the Turks, perceiving the loss which they would sustain by this devastation, endeavoured to check the fury of the Albanian hordes, but the latter refused submission to the mandate, and revolted. The famous Hassan Pacha, when sent to reduce them, found that it would be impossible to conquer such redoubtable bands without the aid of the other mountaineers, and he called to arms the Greeks who had es caped to the mountains, furnished them with ammunition, and swore to pardon their last revolt, on condition of their join ing him against the Albanians. It was then that Colocotroni the elder the most famous of the Greek mountaineers, made the summits of Menelaus resound with the cry of war, and that the Keftis burst forth from their rocky fastnesses, and sought vengeance on the " Albanian wolves." They exterminated whole races of that savage people. A song still extant repre sents the suffering and terror of the Albanians, when pursued by the indefatigable Colocotroni ; sinking with exhaustion, and a prey to despair, they stopped on the banks of the Erynites, and exclaimed, " 0, terrible Christians, let the brave drink, and kill them afterwards." The victorious Colocotroni was invited by the Turks to a feast. He had saved the finest of their provinces, and in the midst of thefestivity he reminded them of the brilliant promises which they had made in the time of danger, and by so doing he roused their jealousy. He was perfidiously seized, loaded with irons, and put to death with the most horrible tortures. His three sons, of whom Theodore, the Greek Chieftain, was one, being then a youth, escaped to the mountains, and soon became leaders of a daring mountain band, which hurled vengeance on their father's murderers. Theodore was the most daring and enterprising, and he frequently executed the Most dreadful and indiscriminate retaliation ; he surprised and massacred all the Turkish inhabitants of whole villages. He had never been taught pity or mercy by . the Turks, and he never practised either. His warfare was particularly directed against the petty district ty rants; he surprised the agas of the villages, and the governors of small towns, whom he put to the sword, nor did he spare their families, or any of that race which he so much hated. Af ter having given up the place to plunder, he usually reduced it to ashes, and then returned to the mountain fastnesses with his spoil before any of the Turkish soldiery could arrive.— To guard against these incursions of the Keftis, the Turks erected in each town and village a sort of• citadel, which is called a Pyrgos, on the same plan as the ancient baronial castles, having moats, drawbridges, and loop-holes, from which they could fire on the assailants ; some of these pyrgos are so strongly built, as to withstand artillery. They were invariably the abodes of the Pacha, and the depositaries of his treasures. The Turks, however, in such places, were often in a state of siege; communication was cut off between district and district, or could only be kept up by a very strong force, which was fre quently harassed by a handful of mountaineers, who lay in wait for it, scattered death amongseehe Ottoman ranks, as they wound through the defiles, and sometimes obliged them to abandon their baggage. At length the Turks found it necessary to make everysacrifice of blood and treasure to reducethese mountaineers, of whom the Colocotronis were the leaders, and a number of dreadful conflicts took place, in which the Turks were un successful. What they could not gain by force, they at last partially obtained by bribery and treachery. They promised pardon and rewards to the Colocotronis', and two of them, having ventured to rely on these promises, were treacherously seized and beheaded. Theodore, who escaped, got away to the island of Zente, where he enteral into the British service, and served nearly 4 years as a Lieutenant, and subsequently as Captain of an Albanian regiment. It is related of him, that from that island he often turned his fierce aspect towar ds the blue tops of the mountains of Menelaus, and sorrowfully ex_ claimed, Will the days of battle never return ? shall the gun of Colocotroni no more make the caverns of the Peloponnesus resound with the echo of its thunder ?" He acquired additional military knowledge in the English service, and appeared destined to perform a principal part in the scenes which were preparing in Greece. Towards the latter end of 1020, he landed at the port of Karacos, with seven men from Zante, and gained the mountains. The celebrity of his name induced the bravest of the mountuineers to join his stand ', and and they soon spread revolt throughout the whole country, in conjunction with the agents of the Greek priesthood, who had spread themselves abroad for that purpose. Colocotroni is now fifty-nine years of age , and he has pre served all the activity which is necessary flir the leader of a band of mountaineers. In person he is tall and well-made; he has a haggard and sun-burnt visage sunken-eyes, with a fixed piercing, and determined lcole, a large sharp aquiline nose, an enormous pair of black mustachios, black hair, hanging in long lank locks from under a small blood-red cap, which covers one side of his head. Ile wears the mountain dress of Greece, the " snowy camese, and shaggy capote," (i. e. a white kilt, and a white ftir cloak), with pistols and a sabre, and always marches with his hand upon one of the pistols in his belt: He is one of the most remarkable characters racters that modern times have produced. His mind in some measure corresponds with his exterior ; he inherits all the daring and indefatigable bravery of his father, with a rooted sense of his wrongs, and a hatred of tyranny. He is impatient of controul, unhesitating in the expression of his sentiments, and, independently of ail command, has generally fought with his band. Colocotroni has been generally at the head of nearly 3,000 men, who have fought bravely, though irregularly, against the enemies of their country. They frequently would not concede to the regular troops the post of honour in mounting the breach when a tower was to be taken by storm. But it must be con. fessed, that this right .was marts - frequently claimed from the hopes of being first to share the plunder, than from their being ambitious of the glory to be derived frOm it. Colocotroni, like most others of his countrymen, is tainted with the vice of ava rice, but his passion fur gold has never counteracted his love for his country. When the Greeks besieged Tripolizza, several Turkish Officers came out of that city and went to his tent with pre sents. Two of them advanced, and threw themselves on their knees to kiss the earth at his feet, according to the orien. tal custom. " What means this to me ?" said lie; " keep these degrading marks of slavery for y our Pachas, hut speak to me standing, like men." The Envoys then placed be. fore him vases of precious stones, which they had brought with them for his acceptance. " See these asses' heads, who scarcely give themselves the trouble of shaving," said the rough Chieftain to them, in derision. "What, infidels ! do you expect to move me by your gifts ? Know that this is not an affair of Keftis (banditti); we fight for the safety and happiness of millions of men, whose fate we are about to decide. Take back your presents, then : I love money (why should I disown it ?) yes, I love it, but I will gain it with my sabre—l will take these riches in Tripolizza." —After the dreadful scene of the . storming of that place, where few who were of the Turkish race escaped the vengeance of the Greeks, not less than 50 mules were laden with his share of the ' spoil. He is not like others of the Greeks, implicitly submissive to the Clergy. On one occasion, when a debate took place be. tween the Leaders of the Army, the Bishop of Patras inter posed, but was speedily silenced by Colocotroni, who bade him confine himself to the affairs of his Church, and sent him out of the tent. A female once begged of Colocotroni to perform some favour, and throwing herself at his feet, said, " My Lord, render me that service, and I will be your slave." " Weak woman," cried lie, starting up, " we fight for liberty, and thou would'st be my slave !" After he had acquired considerable riches at the capture of Tripolizza, his views enlarged with his success, and from being, on his first arrival in the Peloponnesus, the dreaded Captain of the most numerous band, with whom riches were apparently th e soleobject, his ambition aspired to the office of Generalis s i mo o f t h e P e l o p on n e sus, which was also claimed by illavrocordato. The new government, embarrassed by their conflicting interests, tried to balance them. Coloco troni openly expressed his discontent at finding his services, as be conceived, not duly appreciated, and from that time fought a s an independent chieftain. In a conversation which he had with an European Officer, lie said to hint, " Who are these new men arrived to-day in Greece, who have engrossed all power, and who would give us laws ? What are their rights to command us ? T s it because they have gained in Europe knowledge that is refused -to the inhabitants of this unfortunate land It is not with choice language, and softer manners, that we shall free ourselves. It is by steel, and by that bravery and expe rience which we have acquired through severe trials in our mountains, in times when they were enjoying all the refine ments of civilization." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ADULTERATED SUGAR. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—The investigations which have lately taken place at the Mansion-house, and the publication of Mr. Clarke's very satisfactory and decisive analysis of salted sugars, seems to have put the consumers of that favourite ar ticle of food upon the qui rive in the West End of the town, as well as in the City. Yesterday two men, employed in the copper-manufactory of Mr. Munyard, No. 90, Wardour-street, Soho, came to this Office, and stated to Mr. (.o.wANT, the Sitting Magistrate, that the greater number of the men who work at Mr. Munyard's, about 25 persons, have been for some time in the habit of pur chasing sugar for their breakfasts, at the shop of a certain gro cer in Broad-street, and frequently after the use of it many of 1 ' them have been severely afflicted in the bowels, and sometimes i so much so, that they have been obliged to go iome from their work, and remain away for three days together ; they have also, . after breakfast, been subject to extreme thirst, for which they have been totally at a loss to account, until within these few days that they have seen in the papers the opinion of Mr. Clarke, the chemist, as to the component parts of the generality of soft sugar now on sale. This at once flashed conviction on their minds as to the cause of their thirst and illness, and yes terday morning the applicants went to the same shop, and pur chased the sugar they now produced (here a basin of very fine looking sparkling sugar was handed to the Magistrate), and took it direct to .Mr. Joyce, an operative chemist, the successor to Mr. Accum, in Compton-street, Soho; and this gentleman, after analyzing a part of the sugar, declared it to contain a large portion of salt, which indeed, he said, was quite evident to the taste even. Mr. Conant and many other persons in the Office now tasted this sugar, which to the eye had a very inviting ap pearance, and found almost instantaneously that some very strong saline matter was mixed with it, and the applicants said they had often.perceived that sort of taste, but could never sus pect salt to be mixed with sugar until it had been proved by Mr. Clarke. _ . Mr. CONANT said, it was clear that there was salt mixed with the sugar, fpr it was not only evident by the taste. but the particles of salt could actually be picked out of it ; (Here the Magistrate produced several particles of salt, which he had that moment selected from the mass of sugar). He said, however, that although he did not doubt but the chymist had given the opinion of the sugar which they had heard stated; yet before he would do so serious an injury to a tradesman as the publicity of a charge like this must inflict upon his interests, he should pre fer hearing from Mr. Joyce (the chymist) himself, his judg ment as to the quality of this sugar, and he should therefore send to request the attendance of that gentleman. Mr. CoNAwr accordingly wrote a note to request Mr..loyce would come for a few minutes to the office, and at the same time sent one of the messengers of the office to purchase some of the sugar at the shop in question, and to desire the attendance also of the shopkeeper. In a few minutes Mr. Joyce attended, and the messenger who purchased the sugar, but the shopkeeper was not at home, but he was expected in in a short time, and as soon as he returned, his young man would send him down. All the parties waited some time, but the shopkeeper not ap pearing, and it not being convenient to Mr. Joyce to stay longer, the Magistrate requested his opinion of the sugar which he had sent to purchase. Mr. Joyce said, on tasting it, that it was precisely the same as he had analysed that morning by the desire of the two young men present, and it contained, undoubtedly, a large proportion of salt. -.-.. Mr.. CONANT.—HOW much salt, in proportion to sugar, do you believe it contains, Mr. Joyce ?—Mr. Joyce.—l do not like to say exactly. Mr. CONAN T.—Does it contain one-fifth part of salt ?—Mr. Joyce.-011, more than that. Does it contain one-fourth ?-1 should think it does at least full one-fourth. Mr, CONANT said, that it tasted as,if pickle had been poured upon it. The applicants said that perhaps there had, for the person of whom they bought it sold bacon, pickled pork, &c., as well as sugar. Mr. Joyce, after smiling at the idea of the sugar-carte being impregnated with salt in any thing like the proportion discover ed to be in this mixture, retired. He had not long left the office, when Mr. Blake, of Broad street, the retailer of the sugar in question, entered, and being told by the Magistrate that there was a complaint against some sugar purchased of him, as having salt mixed with it. Mr. Blake smiled in apparent security, and with the utmost confidence in what he had to say, observed, oh, this is the old affair. I should have thought that the satisfactory explana tion given by. on extensive sugar merchant the.day before yes terday would Alive satisfied every body, when he cleae:y proved that this saltish taste arises from the land on which the sugar 'is grown. I know that some of my sugar has a little of a salt taste, and that, is exactly the cause of it. This sugar (tasting it) has a little Of that brakish taste, but to talk of salt being mixed with it, the thing is ridiculous. " Softly, softly," said Mr. CoarasiT, " not quite so ridicu lous as you may imagine ; perhaps you are not aware that this sugar of your's has been analysed this morning by a chy mist, and found to contain one-quarter part of pure salt." . " Oh ! has it indeed," said Mr. Blake, " I did not know that ; but I can only say that if it was all salt, I purchased it from the people I deal with in the city precisely as it is." Mr. CONANT inquired who it was in the city he purchased his sugar of, or at least this sugar ? Mr. Blake said this was a mixed sugar. 44 Yes, indeed," said Mr. CONANT, " I believe it is." " I mean," said Mr. Blake, " it is of two kinds of sugar mixed together, one of which is so dark coloured and heavy a sugar that it is scarcely salelable by itself, and that sugar it is, I believe, which gives the saline taste. It is a sort of sugar that comes from China, and has only very lately been at all imported to this country, and is a very convenient sugar for retailers."—(A laugh.) " 1 believe it is very convenient, indeed," said Mr. CONANT. " I see no cause at all to sneer or laugh," said Mr. Blake, looking at one of the complainants. "I do believe that it is nothing more, after all, than the taste of the matting in which this sugar is brought from China, for it is not, like other sugar, imported either in hogsheads or bags, but in rnatts."—(A laugh.) " Then you say," said Mr. CONANT, " that you sell this sugar as you purchase it in the city." " Most certainly I do ; " said Mr. Blake. 44 Then," said 111 r. CONANT, " I think you are bound to inform the public who it is that sells you sugar containing one quarter salt; and before you name any respectable house in the sugar trade, you should recollect well whether this sugar is precisely in the same state now, in point of salt, as when you purchased it." Mr. Blake declared that it was exactly in the same state, 1 except having mixed one sugar with another. He said that he purchases all his sugars .of Messrs. Sewell and Gillard, in Lower-Thanieti-street ; of Mr. Powell, .57, Bishopsgate-street without ; of Mr. Gray, in the same street ; and of Messrs. Fox and Price. The greater part of the sugar now complained of, he believed, lie had of Mr. Powell, for there were complaints made of it before. " Then," said Mr. Coreasur " this is not the first time that you .have heard complaints made of your sugar, and yet you go 1 on selling it, instead of returning it to the person of whom you purchased it, stating the complaint to li , r i." • Mr. Blake said, that all the complaint lie ever heard was, that it was a little selfish in the taste ; and he did mention that complaint to Mr. Powell, even so late as Monday last ; hut lie attributed it to the real cause—the ground on which the sugar cane was grown. " Then," answered Mr. CONANT, " you seem still of opi nion that there is no salt at all mixed with it." ‘4 That is my opinion," said Mr Blake, " because I say.it is impossible for salt and sugar to' co-operate together.' Only just think of a man mixing salt and sugar together—the thing could not be done--the salt would be salt, and the sugar would be sugar." " And so salt is salt," said Mr. Cosrawr, " as I shall just prove it to be." Here the Magistrate, without any difficulty, picked out a large crystal of salt from the sugar, in his pre. sence, and asked Mr. Blake to taste; which he did, and, dis charging it very soon from his mouth said, "That bit certain ly has rath er a sa lti s h s o r t of a taste, I must own." Mr. CONANT said, that Mr. Blake and every one else must be convinced, from the experiment of Mr. Joyce, that the su gar did, in fact, contain one-fourth of salt mixed With it. It was true, to be sure, that Mr. Joyce said the salt he found was of the bens quality; but, . independently of the injury 1 to the health of the people, this was a dreadful fraud upon the public, occurring somewhere, the weight of salt being so very considerable, as compared with sugar, and purchase able at three farthing a pound. It was therefore most discre ditable to any tradesman to sell such an article ; and the least Mr. Blake could do would be to return the money to these young men, and - return the rest of the sugar to the person of whom he bought it. The young men who complained said, they cared nothing about die money—it was for the public good they brought the case forward. Mr. Blake said, he would certainly send back to Mr. Powell and the others all he had left 'of this sugar, and sell no more of it ; and he was obliged to the Magistrate for sending for him to explain, as lie hoped he had done satisfactorily. LOVE ANDDESPAI,R. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday F,inilius Brandam, a French man of the Jewish persuasion, who described himself as a teacher of languages, was brought before Sir B. BIRNIE, charged with attempting to shoot Miss Jane Brown, a young lady of considerable personal attractions, who attended in pro. prig persona, accompanied by her friends, to prefer the com , . plaint. It appeared that the fair prosecutrix is residing with the Revd. Hallifield Gascoyne O'Donaghoo and his lady, at their house in Lordship-lane, Tottenham, and that the defend ant having occasionally called to give her instructions in French, he became enamoured of her, and latterly he was received with encouragement in the character of an avowed lover. His attentions to her were ardent and unremitting ; his vows of unalterable love and adoration equally fervent and unceasing ; and, if his own account of himself was to be implicitly be lieved, he was all that was just - and honourable. Both par ties were looking forward in eager anticipation of the bliss that was to attend them when their destines should be eternally united, when, all at once—it did not appear how—Miss Brown made the dreadful discovery that _Monsieur limilius Brandam was already married to another, and that other was still in the land of the living. This discovery was communicated to l:im without delay. He was thunderstruck, but denied the fact " upon his honour." He said that to be sure he had form ed a sort of a contract with another lady at Jersey, but that he considered that contract not at all binding, and that he was at liberty to enter into the marriage-state with any lady at any time. The Jersey lady, however, was found out, and her ac count of the " contract," as Monsieur Brandam termed it, was such as, leaving the moral obligation out of the question, convinced the Reverend Mr. Donaghoo, Miss Brown's protec tor, that a second marriage would be decidedly illegal. She therefore dismissed him altogether, and on Thursday last some books and other matters which she had received from him as presents were returned to him. In the afternoon of the same day, the defendant made his appearance at Mr. Donaghoo's house, and requested an interview with Miss Brown. The request was complied with, and he was ushered into a par lour in which that young lady was sitting with Mr. and Mrs. Donaghoo. He conversed for some moments on indifferent subjects, and with apparent coolness, but Miss Brown, who observed him very attentively, thought she saw " mischief in his eye," and moreover she perceived that he kept one hand under lis coat, as if concealing something there. She became alarmed, and ran up stairs, followed Mrs. Donaghoo. The de fendant then became enraged, and Mr. Donaghoo found it ne cessary to endeavour to get him out of the house. With some per suasion he consented to go, and left the parlour, as Mr. Donag. hoo supposed, to quit the house, but he turned sharply round and ran up stairs. He there obtruded himself into the bed-room where Mrs. Donaghoo anti Miss Brown had retreated, and drawing a double-barrelled pistol from his coat, he presented it at the breast of the latter lady. Mrs. Donaghoo, uttering a loud scream, sprang forward, and dashed the pistol aside, and Miss Brown escaped from the room, and ran up another flight of stairs. Mr. Donaghoo, on hearing the noise, hastened up stairs, and found his wife holding the defendant by the arms. He seized him, and with the assistance of a female servant, got him upon the ground, and after a desperate struggle, suc ceeded in wresting the pistol from him. Mr. Donaghoo, with very good judgment, kept Monsieur Brandam on the floor with the full weight of his own portly person upon him until the servant fetched a horse patrol, living hard by, to whom the defendant was given in charge. The pistol was found to have both barrels loaded with ball, and primed. The pa trol searched him, and found on him two letters, one ad dressed " To the Coroner of the County of Middlesex ;" and the other " To Madame Brandam, Manchester-place, Chel tenham" (understood to be the defendant's mother). The pa trol simply enough gave back the letters to the defendant, and suffered him to tear in pieces the one to the Coroner, and put it in the fire. The defendant, in answer to the charge, began by assuring the Magistrate how ardently and sincerely he loved Miss Brown, and went on to declare that he had no intention what ever to hurt her in the smallest degree. It was hiMself he wished to destroy, and not her ; so tenderly did he love her, that he would sooner die ten thousand times over than hurt so much as her little finger nail. Sir It. BIRNIE.—If you intended' only to shoot yourself, why did you procure a double-barrelled pistol, and load both barrels too ? The defendant replied, that he purchased a double-barrelled pistol, in order that, if he failed in killing himself with one fire, he might have a second in reserve. The defendant here, and at several other times during the examination, turned towards Miss Brown, and in a melancholy tone said. " Miss Brown ! my dear Miss Brown, as I could not live Er you, I was determined to die for you!" Sir K. lintNiE asked him what he had to say to his first marriage ? The defendant denied that he had ever been legally married according to the law of England. He said he was living in the Isle of.lersey, when he formed an acquaintance with a native of the Island, who, fancyin ,, he had plenty of money, prevailed on him one morning to send for a priest, and they were joined together at a priVate house after the forms of the old Norman law. This he contended was no marriage, the ceremony of the English Church being the only one that could be legally re cognized in an island under the British Government. There was no time for any conversation upon Monsieur Brandam's construction of the law of marriage, for his declara tion brought forward the Lady who claimed to be Madame Brandam, and who declared she was his lawful and proper wife, and upbraided him in no measured terms with his trai torous conduct. A very amusing dialogue ensued between this happy pair, in the course of which a ludicrous fact came out—namely, that Madame Brandam's supposition that Monsieur had plenty of money when she married him, arose from her having seen in his possession a quantity of the papers issued by Macalpine, the Threadneedle-street hair-dresser, beginning " I promise to cut, &c." These, as most people know, are printed something in the form of a Bank of England note, and have the words " One thousand pounds," the amount of the barber's chal lenge, in very prominent characters at the top in one corner. These the lady, in her very imperfect acquaintance with the English language, took to be genuine Bank of England notes. The defendant bad no more to say in answer to the charge, than that he had no intention to inflict the least injury on Miss Brown. He complained, however, of bruises which he re ceived on his chest and belly, from having " de fat parson" so long upon him ; and further declared that he could have done mischief, had he been so inclined ; for he cocked his pistol four times while " de fat parson" was kneeling upon his tomach. Sir H. BIRNIE said he was too dangerous a person to be suf fered to go at large without security for his good behaviour, and ordered him to find bail, himself in 1001., and two sureties in .50/. each, to keep the peace for 12 months ; and meanwhile to appear at the next sessions to answer to any charge that might be exhibited against him. He was unprepared with bail, and was therefore consigned to the care of the gaoler. DEALERS ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. MAN siox-HousE.—A foreign Gentleman, who has been dabbling in shares with the success which usually awaits those who are determined to make a rapid fortune by dealings on the Stock Exchange, applied yesterday to the LORD MAYon for assistance in reclaiming his property from one of the members. He stated that he had some time ago purchased forty shares in the Manchester Equitable Loan Company, having received assurances from those who were immediately interested that, it would be a good thing-. This valuable purchase be made at s half per cent. premium, and he thought that it would he well worked, and wonid yield to him as much as would make him comfortable for life. He kept them for some months in this expectation, without regarding the fluctuations which they experienced in the market. His patience could not, however, last to eternity. He found that companies which came out with every whit as high a character as the Manchester Equi table Loan Company were daily worked up to a premium, after which they suddenly dropped to a discount; and he as certained that they were not likely to rise to the high elevation which ite had been so frequently contemplating. He there fore resolved to sell out, without intending to venture in any other of the speculations which daily made their appearance, and authorized his broker, who is a Jew, to let his shares go at a quarter discount. The broker went into the market, but instead of selling the stock at a quarter, he disposed of it at three quarters discount. The applicant, who had given his di rections very distinctly, refused to take that price, as the broker in such cases was always saddled with the dif ference between the prices put upon them by the owner, and that_at which they have been sold. " Very well," said the broker, " I'll get you your shares again." Ile soon after wards delivered to the applicant forty shares in the Man chester Equitable Loan Company, but • as they were not transferable shares, they were not convertible to any profitable use in his hands. He accordingly refused to keep them ; but his broker reined to supply hint with others, or to pay him at the rate of a quarter .per share discount. Under these circum stances, it had been thought necessary to submit to the la ri Mayor the particulars of the transaction, as the applicant cc - n ceived the character of the broker was concerned, and as he supposed it would be useless to ask the interference of the com mittee in a case of the kind. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the broker was one of the twelve appointed for the city ? The applicant believed he was. His Lordship said the conduct of the broker, if it had been correctly represented, was disgraceful in the extreme, and,no doubt would be investigated and punished. He advised the applicant to write, if the defendant proved to be one of the twelve, an account of the transaction to the Court of Aldermen who, he had no doubt, would summon him before them and demand an explanation ; and if it proved not satisfactory, dismiss him altogether. The applicant said he should not wish to do any injury to his broker, and that lie would think no more of the matter, it he succeeded in getting back his own shares,• or the price for which he had intended to part with them. The LORD MAYOR told him, that if the broker's conduct did not come within the cognizance of the Court of Alderrneu, a complaint to the Committee of the Stock Exchange would, he doubted not, be attended with proper effect. His Lords recommended an immediate statement of the facts to the Coca' mittee by letter. or Some gentlemen who were acquainted with the sys tem Company-making, told his Lordship, that a curious detal.blifc the plans and proceedings of those who favoured the puuld with so many ways of amassing inexhaustible wealth iv° probably be laid before him in a few days. neWs" His Lordship declared, that he could not take ul paper without bursting into laughter at the extraordinary t, titude of new speculations. When the rage was at its hei t , he had received as many as five or six applications a- day to cu-to sent to become a director. At length he found it nece ssarY, i, answer the projectors by handing to every one who solicit name to any new scheme a letter for admission to St• Lu. ,as as he could not in a more pointed manner express his opm ,as of the mania with which they were afflicted. That ma nia ' now, he believed, nearly at an end. ()AY AT ONE O'CL°C6. Old Annuities ............... New Ditto ..................... Ex. Bills 10001.1 Ad. 15 17 141 $ Ditto 500/. ..... 1 5 :f Ditto small ......... 2 0 Ditto Commercial ....••••"' Bank for Act. ............... India for Acct. ............... Cons. for Opening ... NDS AT ONE o'ctacg• Neapolitan Scrip ............ Peruvian Bonds ............ Do. Scrip ................. Guatimala ...... ..... .. ...... .. •!"' Portuguese Bonds ............ Prussian, 5 per cent. . .... Ditto New ................... Russian, New, 5 per et. 9 6 i Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. 1823 .................. -*** French Rentes, 5 p.ct. Exchange ...—"f; 3 per cent. .. 721. 2. " Exchange ... 231'. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS Barak Stock 3 per Cent. Red B9i 90 1 3 per Cent. Cons B9 34 per Cent. Ditto Red. 4 per Cent. New lO2l Bank Long Ann. 22 3-16 1-1 India Stock Ditto Bonds ' South Sea Stock PRICES OF FOREIGN F' Austrian lids, 5 per cent 98 Brazilian Bds 1825 6 ?Ai dis. Buenos Ayres lids Civilian, Bds, 6 per cent..., Colombian Ms. 6 per ct. 834 Do. do. 1824 Danish, 5 per cent. 1008 101 Do. Scrip Greek lids Do. Scrip, 1825 Mexican lid s — Do. Scrip 1825 Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK• rs „ per So (1 Anglo_Mexican Mining Company ..................... 114 Castello an:l Espirito Santo Brazil Mining Company ••• 21 Colombian Mining Company .............................. 161 Pasco Peruvian Mining Company ..................... Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Mining Association ......... vin• Royal Irish Mining Company ....................... New United Mexican Mining Company .............. 16i British Iron Company ....................................... 11 Columbian Agricultural Company ..................... 4 Droitwich Patent Salt Company .•. General Steam Navigation Company ~ ..~.. F0111:IGN MAILS. ARRIVED. P". Buenos Ayres - - 0 1 ,' 410 II WA TER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-111080:;;.,' Morning, .56 minutes after 1. 1 Evening, 18 rninutf. j>. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUIJI LONDON, 0.2 b SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27 Our French Papers, which arrived WI 11.164 ; do not contain much intelligence beyond °:/43 which we extracted yesterday from the dated Thursday, Aug. 25. We have, holVfvel' selected a few extracts. The' news from Greece given in these Papers, is utterly at varianche from that received from quarters nearer to l ti l t g seat of war; and we cannot help imegit'li; the French Editors amuse themselves by fabrication of articles to suit their -},at views and purposes. Thus the Etoi le 511P' y " BRAM:II has burnt and ravaged al l the con about Argos." The Oriental Spectot° . 011 4 . ai d contrary (extracts from which will be e tv elsewhere), represents IBRAIII3I as lis tenii° ha d extinguish the fires the Greeks theinselves cy kindled. We yield to none in the nrdello of our wishes for the success of the Greelo9 bilteop. do not see that any good or wise purpose that bi be answered by misrepresenting th e trail', 'lwo, fabricating articles which have no foun" SIDI MAnmoun, the Envoy of the Be97ee°39 to from Toulon on the 9th instant. fie have taken a very reluctant farewell• anp (From the Etoile, dated Thursday, Aur al 25.) 9 4 ' • The Eylau of the line, Repi..AdMiral PrrileO) I : llthe. .,;n je6 d: B N ar rn t, h ßear-Admiral Grivel ; the frigates Venus , C1411 " -- iso The G e l : ze E ll he e nmis' in those seas for g se la h n e d en o e i r i t is he th lem Y Emer die, the brig Curieux, the schooners Antelope) Il i° fr on regulations, e i has a is s de, and Topaze were to sail on the 26th of Jiln a _ uc ry i t n b g e'ro at a a N n ds of Port Royal, Martinique, to return to Brest, tv Ma . gicienne, and "Medea ; the corvette 4 : 06 way. rem only King's ship tchic- h rere'i°4 the winter. It is announced r dtVi r 17( that. there will appear in the .1 1 .° 7- ~f oe to-mo rrow , a ver y long Ordinance on the Administration v_iept Colon' fromin order, he said, Members Th of the Council of State, Ministers of State , 3at/ fa si:eiednt hparteptharisedohrdyinaacnecme,mfjosusinednecle:sis7r.rietoor, Lisee e frigate La Galathee, commanded by CaPtaili maw a sidi The conduct of the Government This Envo y whom it carries back to Tunis. to il bt South America is beginni night, • recedeah ewreil4lll:sveettreieeFillitil 'day adds to the relations between Holland end never loss the remembrance." f n i t:d t the hi s e otßir 9 nee t csy h t oi f ohf r na o admakneidxnToulon,gkingdom r e kindness ds ue d a v i n o g f wonil ibcobar s3tporrioaelsii.mU r Ttylinmsl sailed marks olnre3kld.eso of (From tiseegrnonotmoot it,ebornirettinarogpfFerir.othiarennethcceiNsgoe;oiheae:feirurria.:iss:tisoco.ovitise.:4s:l): thes e ° r oar frigate Maria Reigensberg, and the brig n est 1 Po l l u x, arrived, says the Brussels Journa., at Glierius7;6oijo Lima, on the Ist April. These two ships went t° V otu ca t n h t e on Te o x f el ß . a li f rst th r e (EXTRACT produce e d ra i e n o:FArronßityhAeTCro/ItertiTta.rtiornane.)...../.) Av a, li• 0 Tile d e . c e l3r ::c which i nation thas amongmay that part of the Swiss population; l a ob. everhappen, it does not seem disposed to Y ie the g oad out resistance. Thus, at Brig, in the Aralg%thetnri4 fathers ha v e surrounded their convent with a 1/411111 WO A 4 CO • and a kind of bastion at the four oges, ''' tb atghaehlPstietth:haj:;:riptj:dl::unled:":tcor: tiooterici: SUMS.