The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIM PUBLIC JOTANALS. Every one who had the gratification of read ing the report contained in ye.sterclays paper, of the speeches and proceedings of the Birmingham 'Meeting i on Friday last, would be as much struck by the manly avowal of some gentlemen who took part in the debate; that " their motive for signing the requisition was to give support to the present Ministry." This is as it ought to be. The great--the exclusive interest attached to any meeting of the people of England, is its relation to some important national object. Why should the King's subjects condole with his Majesty on the death of one statesman, or ex press their gratitude for his appointment of another, but because the-dead had been a patriot, 'and because-the living Minister, having avowed his adoption of the same principles, was likely to follow his example ? Who ever thought of ct - public meeting to lament the death of Lord Londonderry, for instance ? The business of mutual condolence there was left to the de pendents on, and relatives of, that unpopular Minister. Had the people met, it would have been to felicitate their Sovereign and themselves on the succession of Mr. Canning to the office of Foreign Affairs ; and any hint about regret for an event which accelerated that succession would have passed for an impudent display Of hypocrisy, even when addressed to the Crown. No ; if Mr. Bird, or other persons at Birmingham, flattered themselves that the friends of liberal principles would feel it a reproach to be told that their pur pose was less to honour Mr. Canning's memory than to assist and ensure a continuance of that po hey which had gained him the hearts 'Allis fellow subjects, and had justified the whole nation in mourning the premature period affixed by Providence to his noble and brilliant career, such men did not reflect on the feelings by which alone a community can be swayed, or on that which constitutes the necessary spring of all po litical action. They were cruelly mortified when the motives of the meeting were avowed, in the same bold consciousness of a fair and upright object, which had distinguished every step in the pro gress of those who called and conducted it, from the measures by which another very recent " ad dress" was preceded, from the manner in which it was prosecuted, and from the end at which it aimed. We . consider it not creditable to Mr. Peel, that his friends at Birmingham *ere not such in character or number, as could dare to meet in the face of day, and challenge a discussion of their sentiments. It appears to us that the ge neral politics attributed .to Mr. Peel by his own supporters, must be of an unpopular and ob noxious kind, when those from whom the ad dress to him proceeded could not promise them selves a victorious or unmolested issue to an at tempt made publicly in his favour. This, in deed, is still the more disreputable to the system of party or factious pelitics—whiCheyer they may be—now embraced by the Right Hon. Gentle man, because some real services to the country are claimed for him as having been rendered dur ing his administration of the Home Department ; and therefore a most. powerful set-off of evil Trin eiples must have been taken for granted by his partisans, where the balance appeared.to them too adverse to bear a public investigation. Mr. Canning had not been a man to require any bol stering up of common-place or ambiguous merits, by the wretched expedient of a hole-and-corner address. Yet this is the " Flash-man" of the Tories—the Captain of their commercial inte rest ; as Sir Thomas Lethbridge, now on a tour of , improvement, is of their .Country Times. In these days, when the diseased state of the social system in England fills all men capable of reflection with alarm for the future, it may reward our pains to look occasionally into the speculations of our Continental neighbours on our own situa tion. We have been struck with the good sense frequently displayed in a, volume, recently pub lished in France, under the title " De L'Aris toeratie consideree dans ses Rapports avec les Progres de la Civilisation ; par M. 13. Passy ;" when contrasting the situations of England and France respectively. The writer observes, that though England is the richest and most civilized country of Europe, yet from, a disease in her organization, which has, at length, gained the ascendancy, the great mass of the population have become pauperized and degraded ; ever since the French Revolution, which de stroyed the causes which retarded the improve ment of France, the situation of the people has become more prosperous. He attributes the evils of England chiefly to the tendency of the law to accumulate property in the hands of a comparatively small number of individuals. At what a singular result," he says, " has Great Britain arrived ! In no country is the soil bet ter cultivated, the arts more advanced, manufac tures more flourishing : nowhere is a nobler and More skilful use made of human strength—no where is there so much opulence, and even luxury ; and yet at the smallest commercial de rangement, cries of distress are heard. It is not enough that a nation be rich and industrious, its means of prosperity must be equitably distri buted : all must share in the advantages.result ing from the progress of civilization ; woe to the nations in which the magnificence of the smaller number is obtained at the expence of the majority. There exists," says M. Passy, 1! between England and other countries, in 'which wealth is equally ill-shared, a differ ence whi c h oug ht to b e k ept cons t ant l y i n v i ew .l In these countries, if the people suffer without murmuring, it is beca use , h av i ng only th e id eas and the habits natural to their condition, they do not experience the evils of retrogradation, and en joy even the advantages resulting from the gradual amelioration of their indust r y. L i E og land, on the other hand, the people have de dined from the effect of laws too favourable to; large properties ; and hence there is a discontent with regard to social order, which it would be , dangerous to allow to break out. The destinies of England have been delivered by her institu tions into the hands of a territorial aristocracy. A small number of families excessively rich, and a multitude of poor, have supplanted the classes of which the graduated property formerly pre served harmony in all Parts of the body politic. No doubt without the burden of the public debt, the evil would not have . been of such ,extent but, on the other hand, without the combined! action of an interested. and eiclusive legislation, ; th e debt would not have pressed so heavily ; and j echo knows even if it would have existed ? •For' under another combination . of political elements, , other doctrines might have prevailed, and conse quently another empl oyment of the n ational force. The A ristocratical institutiens are the cause of the woun cle'which-torment England; and to these she must h a i e . the courage fo . apply the iron ; right of - pnmogemture, laws more favourabl e to ale'equalization of fortunes, and a reform raisin g the Democracy, are the only means for assuring to that country a durable prosperity." We ought, in justice tem. gassy , ,_ to °melte, that these observations respecting! England are preceded by a long train of reason ing, in which he displays a familiarity with the , principles of political tronorny, and the history of. European civilisation. We can only at present notice his observations' on the different phenomena which Franc's presents since ' the Revolution :—" Before the Revolution, France could hot furnish the , six hundred mil lions, indispensable for the service of the State. A Budget of a thousand millionS is not bOW beyond her strength. Before' the Revolution distress prevailed - throughofft the country, and all the large toWns Ware filled with a populace as idle as gross and co rru pt : this state of things, no longer exists. Such has - been the growing ascendancy during the last 30 years of industry and of opulence over the progress of population, that prosperity has descended to all ranks ; that the day-labourer has see n hi s sh are ,of prosperity I increased ; and he is more largely supplied with the Comforts of life than at any former period. An industry more active and better regulated ; cultivation extended to several millions of hec tares *Of lands formerly wastes, the produce of farms doubled, manufactures established in all parts of our territory, a population more labori ous and intelligent, deriving from the same sources more' ample m eans o f prosper i ty ; th ese are the ; fruits of equality of rights. Compare Prance and England with each other in the years which followed the peace. Both were un der the necessity of disarming ; both had to support the inconveniencies of 'the 'change , in the direction . of capital and industry in the transition from,war to peace ; but, how :different the violence of the shock. Whilst England, victorious, dictated to her rival, France van- quished, thrown back within her old limits, lost the markets for the produce of her . industry offered by twenty millions of subjects ; to the ex- pence of a change of Government, she had to join the costly support of foreign armies, in the midst of provinces ruined by war, and the Pay ment of the charges imposed by her allies, and yet she made head against all. Agriculture, commerce, manufacturing industry, all followed their habitual course ; capital was not awanting for speculations ; the price of land and rents remained as they were, the people did not want bread . , their taxes were paid, and the public tranquillity was not even compromised.'! —Morning Chronicle. The slight depression which has recently taken place in the Foreign Exchanges has excited the greatest attention, not only in the • mercantile world, but among-that class'of persons—a class comprehending a large prOportion of 'the people of England—who reason, or flatter themselves that they do so, upon questions of political eco nomy, and to whom alMoSt Without "exception the Currency question seems to be the pons asinorzn. The intermixture of paper with the precious metals as the media of exchange in our immense home trade, has introduced a degree of complexity into the subject with which our an cestors had not to contend ; and the frequent commercial vicissitudes and crises. to which this intermixture has contributed, has at the same time attracted towards the subject an in= terest more general and intense than our an cestors could possibly have felt. But we cannot say that the progress of intelligence upon this subject has been commensurate with the increas ed attention it has received. We greatly 'fear that, the flimsy issues of theorists, and the jargon 1 of pretended science, have had an effect upon the circulation of thought analogous to that which paper has produced upon the monetary system of the country—that a vitiated currency has prevailed at once in the interchange of com modities and of ideas—and that perplexity and adulteration have in both cases equally ensued: We incline to think that all the knowledge which is worth, possessing, and all indeed whiCh can be attained' upon the subjects of currency and exchanges, is directly and easily dedu. cible from ' the few and simple princi ples of barter—principles so few and simple, that they were as fully anti familiarly understood by our rudest forefathers as by the most elaborate and ingenious reasoner Of mo dern- thnes. -- The former knew, as well as the latter can know, that whenever any commodity existed in an • excessive or unusual quantity, in any district, a given portion of it would no ion- 1 ger exchange in that district for so great a quan tity of other commodities as it did before. The former knew, as well as the latter can know, that in such ease, the commodity, of which there was an excess, would be sent, if possible, for exchange to some other district where the same disadvan tage was riot apPrehended: We do not hesi tate to say, that all the fine. spun doctrines of ' modern times respecting the currency and the foreign exchanges are strictly analogous to, or rather, we would say, identical with, one or the other of the two foregoing simple and self-evi dent propositions. Gold is a commodity.— Paper, as far as it . is from the credit of the par ties issuing it, deemed an adequate representa tive of gold, is also a commodity Personal credit, even although riot embodied in any ne gotiable or tangible instrument, is also a com modity. Gold alone, of these three commodities, can never be in excess in any country, not be cause its quantity and its value in barter may not increase or diminish, but because it has become, by the common consent of nations, the. ultimate standard of value by means of which all other commodities are compared, and all other kinds of barter negotiated. The efficiency of paper and personal credit must be equal to that of the precious metals in any country where they freely circulate together. But the efficiency of the two former is merely local, while that of the latter is universal. Hence it follows,. that the latter only will seek to escape, by a transit to foreign countries, that disadvantage in barter which it must always participate with the other two, but which the excess of one or both of the latter must wholly have produced.— We will not, at the present moment, pursue this subject further than to deduce the practical and useful corollary from these premises, that when ever the state of the foreign exchanges indicates both, tliat n the England,excess o f paper or personal credit, or has so far enhanced the prices of other commodities as to impair the power of the precious metals, together with their own in barter—that, in other words, whenever the pre cious metals begin to find their way out of the period i s arr i ve d , not per h a ps fa r country, the positiv e ly circumscribed, butpap e fo r r o t r h c e re d i e li a t le t r o be dealers in both to exercise great cau tion, _ watchfulness, and circumspection. Any thing more presumptory than this we should be unwilling to deduce from the circumstances which have yet appeared ; but there is one con sideration, which as it is likely to be a powerful auxiliary to the admonition we have ventured to convey, we think it right to urge, viz.—that the actual state of the exchanges proves beyond the possibility of doubt or question, to every man who understands the bearings of the subject, -that prices in 'England, not the price of this or that particultir commodity, but the average of prices generally, have already reached the highfist point to which they /can possibly attain in otik present condition of tiic commercial vw4liki without the, certainty ofa subsegitent and viain i•evulsion.—Morning Post. It has become the custom with'sonaia,of these who have any doubtful object to attain, to coin mence by putting forth what are called feelers in the newspapers, to try time pulse of the public before the matter is broached in a more fOrmal way. Something of this kind is going forward With reference to some grant of public money to the family of the late Mr. Canning, who, in a strain of miserable cant, we are told, after dedi cating his life to the public service, has died poor. We are exceedingly unwilling, now that Mr. Canning is no more, to say one word that may fall harshly on the ears of his surviving rela tives-and friends ; still more unwilling are we to deal in any way with the private concerns of in dividuals, but when such concerns arc intruded upon the public either by parties themselves or their injudicious advisers, and that for public purposes, we arc reluctantly compelled either to abandon our duty to the public or treat these private concerns with freedom and .publicity. Now, the only proof which is offered of Mr. Canning having died poor is, that his personal effects have been sworn, on taking probate of his will, under 20,000/. ; and it has been since added, will not in the end produce a residue of one-fourth of that sum. This; inded * cl, would be dying poor ; but then it should be re membered that this includes only personal pro perty, and entirely excludes Mrs. Canning's for tune, which was said to amount to 100,000/., and was, we suppose, settled upon her and her children. But, admitting Mr. Canning to . have died poor, to establish a claim to renumeration in his particular case, the rule, to be a just one, should be general ; and if the country undertakes to provide for the families of all who die poor in her service, a prodigious ac cession to the dead weight would take place, and another million a year at least, added to our per manent taxation. Besides, . when particular cases are singled out for this species of national justice and benevolence, it ik fit at,least,• that all the circumstances connected with them should be fairly stated. If this were done in the case of Mr. Canning, we arc inclined to think that he has not been badly remunerated for his services ; and that if 'he has failed to lay up a portion of his earnings for his family, that is 140 concern of the. public. What the exact sums received by Mr. Canning have been we have no exact means of knowing.. A very large sum has been stated, the precise amount or the accuracy of which we have not the means of ascertaining. Let it, however, not be forgotten that Mr. Canning, besides taking pretty good care of hithself, sad dled both his mother and sisters upon the country as life annuitants. In short, the subject is one that had better not have been agitated. The farther it is probed the less tenable it becomes; and we can only say, that if any thing further is to .be done , for Mr. Canning's family, the widows and children of numberless public servants who are now pining in want will be haidly dealt by if theis cases are not at the same tithe sought out and put on a similar footing.—it'lorning Herald. There is an old proverb- which says, that we should not do ill, and think good will come of it. The present condition of Spain is a very striking exemplification of the truth of this adage. The troops of France were sent into that country 'after a series of acts of disguised hostility, most disgraceful to the parties practising them, with a view to put down disturbances, which nothing hut the covert assistance of France had rendered formidable. The party which they supported was . triumphant ; and the Dauphin, without..a foe to encounter, Or an obstacle to overconie, was hailed on his return as a second Alexander. Foe a time the calm which it was the object of French interference to procure continued ; but the. materials of convulsion were too abundant, and too widely .spread, to be kept down for ever ; and, as might .have been expected, the very victories, as they were called, of the French, were the causes of commotion. The King hav ing put down' every thing in the shape of free dom at home, began to aspire,to the fame of his Gallic auxiliaries, by putting down freedom abroad also. Hence came the scandalous pro tection given to the Portuguese insurgents—a protection which Ferdinand durst not, and could not have given, had not the presence of a French army supported him in his pride and his poweis The result of that protection has been, it is well known, all the expence.of . a war, without its honours—taxes imposed, which there are no means of realizing—an unpaid soldiery—a ruined commerce 7 --bankrupt finances—and a rebellion of a much more serious character than that which the French led on, raging in the bowels of the State. Had there been the slightest warrant for those anti-republican fears which France pre tended to entertain, and, stimulated by which, she was guilty of as gross a breach of national rights as any that has disgraced modern tunes, the dan ger now experienced would have sprung from a very different motive, and from very different men. But instead of the poor persecuted rem nant of the adherents of the Cortes offering any resistance to the laws or the Crown, we find all the disturbances of Spain, ever since the French entered it, originating with the monarchical party ; that very party whose re-establishment was, according to the French politicians, to re store peace and order to the 'Peninsula. That the Cortes did "many fooliSh things, and said many more, is universally allowed, and that their plans were neither relished nor approved by the great mass of the country, seems pretty well as certained ; but force e t in a d reason isu was p t t h e e , interference of • a foreign uncalled purely and a a d nd s e p x a c in lu b si e v e e n ly le d ft om to es it ti e c r , se u i t f terly , she would, in all human probability, long ere this time have settled down into such a sober system of regulat ed freedom as was fitted to the wants and the wishes of her population. But although she had not, can we for a moment imagine that lie mischief, would have bheeerncowndoirtsieont,hhaand so le T ft unfortunately, which the French invasion has produced, is not yet exhausted, and that in terference has placed France in a position, from which it is extremely difficult to recede; and where to advance or stand still is yet a more ar duous task. Were wisdom to be looked for in the - Councils of such a King as Ferdinand, there is, indeed, a way by which he might perhaps— we should not like to speak more positively— restore peace and prosperity to Spain, and by which he might, at all events, redeem the elia 4 racter of his Government. That vay unques tionably would be, by restoring the Government of the Cortes, with such modifications as the evident defects of the system, when last tried, require, and by recognising, even if he should not for some years be able to liquidate, the debts which he and the Cortes openly incurred. Without the latter, he can never restore to Spain the character :of honour, and honesty which she has forfeited, and without - the former, or some thing approaching to it, he will never restore to her that repose, of which she has been so long de privcd, and the continued denial of which is daily sinking her into more hopeless and helpless in significance among the nations.—Nctu Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.---Simon Moses, Abraham Woolf, Catherine Elias, and Rosetta Phillips, appeared to answer the complaint of one Phoebe Moses. It appears that Simon and Phoebe are man and wife, but, like many other men and their wives, they cannot manage to go on in that smooth way that they ought to do, and no longer since than last Tuesday, Phoebe cited Simon before his Lordship for giving her a black eye, and calling her an. adultress, and so forth, and Simon defended that charge by stating that Phoebe was an adultress, and that she,got the black eye in attempting to sluice him (Simon) with the contents of a can of milk, but his Loldship then Ordered Simon to find bail and keep . .the , peace, as also his son, who was accused of assisting Simon m the said assault, and Simon did find•bail to keep the peace, and was allowed to depart home ; but the Lord Mayor recommended at the time, that Simon and Phoebe would consent to be parted, as his Lordship thought there was not any chance of keep ing the peace if they remained together, and so they under took to get a mutual friend to interfere between them, and arrange their differences; and thereupon they did depart, but on the next day but One Phoebe applied again against Simon her spouse, and also against Abraham, and Cathe rine, and Rosetta, his near relations, charging them with assaulting, her on the very same Tuesday that Simon had found bail to keep the peach, and yesterday Simon, Abra ham, Catherine, and Rosetta, appeared to answer the charge, attended by a great quantity of friends and relations and Mr. Harmer at the head of them, as their legal ad viser; nor was Phoebe at all backwards, for she appeared attended by a pretty numerous list of friend. and accom panied by Mr. Isaacs, as her solicitor. The precise charge now made against Simon was, that on the very day that he was last before the Lord Mayor, after they departed, he caused his wife Phoebe to be crushed between the do6r and the door-post, and that Abraham, Catherine, and Rosetta assisted him in performing the said crushing. Phoebe deposed, that on the day of the last hearing she went quietly home to her husband's house in Duke's-place, to claim her rights as a wife, when the four defendants ob structed her and stopped her entering the house and crush ed her between the door and the door-post until her life was in danger. A Mr. Lazarus, and other witnesses, confirmed this statement. Mr. Harmer cross-examined the witnesses, in order to show that Phoebe came with a number of her friends in order to break into the house, and that Simon only resisted force by force, and upon this point there was much con flicting testimony; but it was admitted . on both sides that the door of the house was broken, and that it was a ques tion of strength between the parties within side and those without, as to which should carry the day; and in trying this question of strength, Phcebe got herself between the door and the door-post, and thus the keeping the peace was violated, and the Lord Mayor's recommendation forgotten, and murder likely to have been committed. . _ . . After a vast deal of noise and disturbance, in the courso of which very little in the shape of truth could be elicited, his Lordship directed that Simon should find hail to try if he could endeavour to keep the peace in future; and his Lordship recommended that some arrangement should be entered into, so as in future to keep a stronger barrier be tween him and Phcebe than the door of the house. Mr. Isaacs said, that an arrangement had been made for a separation, but Simon had broken it ; and it was in con sequence of this that the last disturbance had taken place. Mr. Harmer said, that it had been broken off in con sequence of Mr. Isaacs demanding nine pounds for prepar ing some deed, which poor Simon was not able to raise. Mr. Isaacs said he would give time for that, and produced the deed,. and at length all the parties, at the suggestion of the Lord Mayor, retired to see if they could arrange their differences, otherwise the defendants were to find hail. The Loan MAYOR rose before the parties had come to any arrangement. BOW-STREET.—SIR GREGOR MeGurnoa.—Yes terday morning two gentlemen, named Williams and Per rin, presented themselves before Sir RICHARD BiaNiz and Mr. HALL., the Sitting Magistrates, cod stated that they appeared for the purpose of entering into sureties on behalf of Sir Gregor M'Gregor, who was in custody on a charge of sending a challenge to a gentleman named Spong, to tight a duel. It will be recollected that Mr. Minsh'ull, on Saturday evening, gave directions that 24 hours' notice of bail should be given, and that the notice should be served upon Mr. Spong, as well as the Office. Notice had been served upon Mr. Spong, in pursuance of the Magistrate's order, and that gentleman was consequently in attendance with his solicitor. The Officer presented the book to Messrs. Perrin and Williams, for the purpose of admini stering the oath in the usual manner ; hut they declined being sworn, stating as a reason for their refusal, that the legal adviser of Sir Gregor M'Gregor was not in attend ance, and as Mr. Spong had a solicitor with him, questions might be asked which they might not think proper to answer, and they wished to be protected from being called upon to answer impertinent questions. The gentlemen withdrew for a time, and Sir Gregor M‘Gregor was sent for from the watch-house, and ap peared before the Magistrates. Mr. Ilat.r.s informed Sir Gregor M'Gregor that the persons who had appeared to give bail for him had refused to be sworn, and, therefore, he should direct his commit ment to be made out. Sir Gregor 11I'Gregor said, that he understood the par ties had no objection to bail him. Mr. Haas directed the clerk to read the evidence, and when that was done, he directed the clerk to make out a warrant of commitment. Sir Gregor M'Gregor said he thought he was treated with some degree of harshness under the, particular circum stances of the case. Mr. Spong.—The Magistrates will observe, that this challenge was written after it had been intimated to Mr. M'Gregor that he would not be treated upon the footing of a gentleman. Mr. HAMS asked if the defendant had any thing to say why he should not be committed in default of bail ? Sir Gregor M'Gregor replied, that hie friends were ready to bail him, and there was no danger of his ever . being out of the way to answer any complaint. Mr. Spong replied, that he had been for weeks endea vouring to find him. Sir Gregor M'Gregor admitted having written the chal lenge with the intention which had been imputed to him. The complainant had gone about the city using expressions calculated to injure his reputation, and also the reputation of his friends; and being so calumniated, he called upon the propagator of the slander to give him a meeting. The reason he addressed tl►e note to Mr. Eden was, because - he could not find Mr. Spong. Mr. Spong said he was - always to be found, but Mr. M'Gregor could not be found, notwithstanding the most active search for several weeks pasts - Sir R. litaxtE. , --That is strange, because he is a man of rank—he is a General I. Mr. Spong.-1 do not know by whom he was appointed. Sir Gregor M'Gregor.—l am a General in the Colom bian service, under a Government which has been recog nised by the British Government, and I have my commis sion to produce, if the Magistrates doubt my assertion. The accused was ultimately committed to prison, and the Magistrates informed him that he must give 24 hours' notice of bail to the Office, and also to Mr. Wild, solici tor for Mr. Spong, at No. 64,:Lincoln's-Inn-fields. The unfortunate Prince of Poyais was then conveyed in a coach to prison. About an hour afterwards Mr. Apor.ruus appeared before the Magistrates on behalf of Sir Gregor McGregor, and stated the reason why the bail had declined being sworn. It was not because they were not competent to enter into the required sureties; but they wished to have Counsel present. Messrs. Williams and Perrin were then called in, and gave their respective addresses. Mr. Adolphus said he could not ask the Magistrates to retrace their steps and set aside the order they had given for 24 hours' notice of bail, and he now gave notice that these gentlemen would attend to-morrow to put in bail. Sir R. Blame said that no objection could he taken to Mr. Williams, but he had not the honour of knowing the other gentleman. The parties will therefore attend this day to put in bail. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday Charles .Downes, Thos. Wheeler, and Thos. Sorrel, all of them about 18 or 19 years of age, were charged with committing a high way robbery in Hare-street, Bethnal-green, nearly on the spot where the outrage WAS perpetrated upon Mr. Fuller, for which Thomas Norton was yesterday executed. A young man, named Joseph Singleton, a fishing-tackle maker, stated, that about two o'clock on Sunday morning, three weeks ago, he and two companions were in Hare-street ; they were going a fishing ; nine or ten young men crossed the road, and coming up to him, seized the basket which 4e had on his shoulder, and endeavoured to Wrest it from 'him ; he hallooed out for the watch, but was knocked down and beaten by' the gang, who robbed him of his hat and handkerchief.—Several other witnesses swore to Wheeler being one of those who committed the assault, but could not identify the other prisoners.—Wheeler was there ' fore committed for trial. . QUEEN-QUARE. 7 —, Georg . c Webb was charged with sending a threatening letter to Mr. Egg, the guninaker, of the Opera COlonnade. It appeared from the statement of Mr. Egg;. that he had engaged the prisoner, who was a tailor, to be . his Porter and gardener at Knightsbridge, and having discharged bhn be demanded money of him which he considered due, and had summoned him for the amount. The Magistrates who heard the complaint, had dismissed it, and last week he received the following threatening,letter : The SOLICITOa here read to the Magistrate that part of the letter which contained the threat, " Be it known unto thee, that thou art the sole cause of bringing me and my family to the greatest distress and want, and as I now liveth, I am resolved to have some satisfaction of thee; if thou wilt not give it me in money, thou shall give it me by spilling my blood, or I will spill thine: I will in no wise act unmanly or secretly. am well aware that thou' art well armed, always ; I will 'be the same ; and will,meet;thee or any other enemy of mine or my country. Take this as the determined intention of one to- whom thou halt proved the greatest injury, and it shall soon be put in execution, for I would sooner die by ball than see my children perish.—Thine determined, "Mill-buildings, Knightsbridge. " GEO. WEBB." Mr. GREGOXIE, after reading the letter, inquired of the prisoner if he was a Quaker ? The prisoner said he was not, but his forefathers were. He then began to tell a long story about Mr. Egg having promised him work twenty years ago ; but, as that had nothing to do with the present charge, the Magistrates ordered him to find bail. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI ARY.—Txustsway, Auo. 30.—(At the Court of CommissioNers, Basinghall-street.) Davison, J., Crown street, I Marsh and Co., Berners-st. Westminster 6 Priestley, R., Holborn COUNTRY DJARY. , -..FRIDAY. Am. 21 Beardmore, W., I.ev - enshuline, near Manchester—Star, , Manchester lO Chadwick, J., Smallbridge—White Lion, Halifax lO Courtney, J., Bristol—Bush, Bristol . 10 Dixon, W, Horncastle—Bull, Horncastle ll English, F., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham ll Jalland, C., Mansfield—Swan, Mansfield ll Laight, R., Worcester—Shakespeare tavern, Worcester l2 Levett, J., Rowley Regis—Royal hotel, Birmingham l2 Metcalfe, ~ Bristol—Mr. Saunders, Bristol I Oates, .1., Glossop—Commercial inn, Sheffield l2 Partridge, H., Birmingham—Office of Tyndall and Co., Bir mingham lO Percival, W., Leicester—White Hart, Leicester ll Probert, J., Crickhowell—Ram, Gloucester 5 Riley, E., Huddersfield—Court-house, Huddersfield 2 Sheath, 'l'. jun., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham Spiking, A., Tetford—Red Lion, Horncastle 9 Stocker, T. jun., Devonport—Elliott's hotel, Devonport ll Turner, W., Whitchurch—Red Lion, Newport ll Vaughan, S., Poole—Oak inn, Poole l2 Wainhouse, J., Halifax,—Magistrate's office,, Halifax lO INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, COUNTRY.---At the Guildhall, at 'Haverfordwest, Sept. 1, at Ten o'clock. Edwards, W., Bridgewater 'Griffiths, J., Cubb Jones, J., Milford SEDUCTION AND EXTRAORDINARY REVENGE. We have just heard of a singular occurrence which has taken place within the last week not 100 miles from Londob-bridge, and in which the atrocity of the crime is only to be equalled by the whimsicality of the revenge taken by the victim. A young man paid for some months past marked attentions to a respectable young lady, who lived with her mother, the widow of a tradesman who formerly carried on business within the distance specified above, and he finally succeeded in creating a deep interest in her heart. The mother was not opposed to his ad vances, which she believed were of an honour able description, and being less guarded than was prudent, too many opportunities were given, of which the sedticer took advantage, and the un fortunate girl fell a victim. To cover her dis grace, she repeatedly pressed him to have the marriage ceremony performed, for he had given her a solemn promise to that effect before she gave way to his solicitation, These intreaties were so far disagreable, that his visits became gradually less frequent, and the poor girl at last resolved to watch his movements. The result was dreadful to her feelings. She discovered he was a married man, and had been married for a long time previous to his first meeting with her self. She also ascertained that his wife was a perfect shrew—one who, in the words of a certain fashionable gentleman, could on occasion " play Hell and. Tommy" if any thing displeased her. Her mother was still ignorant of her disgrace, and in ignorance the unhappy girl resolved she should remain, but she was equally resolved to be revenged on the base destroyer of her honour. Having arranged her plans, she appointed a meeting %ith him at a place of assignation, where they had passed some few happy hours on former occasions, and such an endearing tone pervaded her letter, that he willingly obeyed. They were both unknown there, but she took especial care that a party interested should have access to the apartment. An anonymous letter informed the wife of the infidelity of her husband, and she caught the parties in each other's arms. The fair damsel had so arranged matters that on the entrance of the wife, and as soon as her husband's infidelity was exposed to ocular demonstration, she sprung from the bed, and by means of a door on the opposite side of the room, effected her escape, leaving the villainous seducer exposed to all the rage of an infuriated and jealous woman. He did escape at last, but not until his cheeks bore ample testimony that his lady-bird had the talons of an eagle. His misfortunes do not end here ; his wife has commenced a suit for a di vorce, on the ground of adultery ; and the young lady's mother has intimated her intention of commencing an action for the seduction and lose of services of her daughter ; and the latter, we are informed, intends to proceed against him for breach of promise. We have every reason to think this case will be one of the most curious that ever came before the public:—Sunday Paper. A boy only seven years of .age was transported for life at the Preston Sessions, last week, for theft.—Pottery Gazette. On Sunday last, two Police-officers from Dublin, arrived in Carlisle, on their way to Gretna, to apprehend some fair delinquents, who had entered into a conspiracy for the purpose of carrying off a youth from school, and conveying him to the temple of Hymen in the North, where they got him entangled in the noose of matrimony with one of them—a young lady named Miss Richards. It appears, from what has been gathered from the parties themselves, that the youth, who is the son of an eminent Irish Barister, is only 15 years of age. He was at school in the vicinity of Dublin, when the lady's mother and some female friends had con spired to convey him away, for the purpose of getting him married to Miss Richards, of whom he seemed very fond. The parties left the vici nity of Dublin last Wednesday week, and arrived safely at Gretna, but dreading a pursuit, they had brought two male companions along with them. The, officers apprehended the two females, and brought them to Carlisle ; from whence they again returned to Gretna and apprehended the two male conspirators, whom they also conveyed to Car lisle, and the youth came along with them. Miss Richards is only 18 years of age, and seemed quite delighted with the success of her stratagem. The parties left Carlisle on Tuesday morning last, in high spirits, for Dublin, in custody of the officers,-- Carlisle Patriot. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metrodolis is Nd, far the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d, to 23 below that price WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Aug. 25. Hay —w— 755. Od. to :15s. Od. I Clover —loos. Od. tOl4O B . vt" Straw _ 4os. Od. to 465. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—Aug. 27. Kent 3/, 128. 4/. Os. to Sussex. Ditto ris. 31. I2s. to ESE4IX Ditto 10s. 3/. Farnham Ditto, Fine Seconds —.,-,... 01. os. 01. Os. 4/, 3/. 3s. al. 21. les. 3/. 31. Os. 3/. Old Duty laid at £lOB.OOO. Kent Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto., 18s. to 4/. 108. 41. I*. 41. 4s. N. Os. 51. ss. 4/. Vs 3/. 10s. 31. 16i. 12s. to 4s to 15s. to :3s. to IM, to PRICE OF POTATOES.—Aug. 27. New Ware PRIGS OF Per lb. ii. to d. Butts 50 to 561 b... Ditto.—.-60 to 661 b.. Drccsing 13 1 16 Cine Coach Hides 16 18 rop Hides, 35 to 401 b. Hi 17 Ditto 45 to 501 b. 17 19 Ditto lBe 2 0 i LEATHER. Per lb. d. to Tanned Horse Hides... 12 15 Spanish Ditto 15 20 Per dozen. Calf Skins,,., 96 to 40/b. 113 2 3 nit to 50 to 701 b. 24 2 6 Ditto i 0 to 80Ib. 21 25 Small Seals, Greenland 18 113 HIDES. • Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. 's. d. to s. d. Best Heifers.% Steers 3 0 3 4 Ordinary 2 0 2 g Middlings .2 4 2 10 Market Calf-. 7 0 catch. Downs RAW SHEEP SKINS. Os. Od. to 08. Od. Lambs Is. 6d. to 2*. 3 4 . 1 . 013. 12d. to Os. led. Adair's COAL MAR -3%. ficl. —..... 3'2 0 —....-- 30 0 .ET.—A.ig. 27. Walls End Newmarch. Beaumont Ditto Russell's ~....--.... Eighton Main Heaton Ditto Walker .—. Liddell's Trader—...... HolynetL _. Kilimgworth Ord's Redhugh Pelaw Percy East—.— Usworth TOW Willington Wylam WalisEnd Flew icke&Co. Ditto Bell Robson & Co. Ditto Carr and - 37 0 22 9 31 9 .-- 32 0 Tanfiel i Trader :13 0' Londonderry small 19 6 Helton small --- 17 0 RusselPsHetton'ssmall 17 0 Eileen small 17 0 Fordel 35 6 Llangeuneth 40 0 Eden Main - Nesham 37 0 Lambton's Primrose 36 o'. Russell's High 33 Cr Walls End 40 0 Ditto Cramlington-- Ditto Hilda Ditto Eden's -.,.-- Ditto Llmbton Ditto Northumberland :15 ti Ditto Lyon, Ditto Peareth 35 3 Ditto Stobart'g Ditto Riddell's. 38 3 Ditto Stewart•s - 10 (t, Ships at market, 14134--ShiP9 sold, 40%--Unsold, 66 3 4. WAKEFIELD CORN MA,RKET.—Auc. 24. The supply of English Wheat to this day's market is short ; fine fresh qualities are not plentiful, yet the sale has been very dull, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quarter , and up to the close of the market very little business done. There is little or no demand for inferior sorts of English, or for Foreign to-day. The supply of Oats is very large, and they are dull sale, at a decline of id. per stone. There is very little doing in Foreign Barley; the best malting sorts go off at 345. to 355. per quarter. Beans very scarce, and Is. per quarter dearer. Rapeseed is flat, although the last quotations at Hainhurgh is 241. per last , Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, Red Ms. to 60s. fine White.... 555. to 625. fine 645., Yorkshire, Lincoln, &c. Red ... 555. to 595. fine 60s. White 575. to 61s. fine 625. Foreign, Red l.9s. to 535. fine 565. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk Lincolnshire —s. to —s. tine —s. • Wold —s. to —s. fine Beans, Small s4s. to 565. fine Vs. -- Tick sos. to 51s. fine 526. Oats, Poland and Potato 26s. to 30s. tine 325-- --- Friezland and Small 2ls. to 275. fine 225. —!-- Mealing l3d. to Isd. per Stone. Shelling 34s. to 36.5. —s. to —s. per Load. Malt 36s. 465. fine 4Ss. per Load. Rapeseed 2Ol. O. 221. Os. 241. 10s. per Last IRISH MA DUBLIN MARKET NO .RKETS. )TE.-FRIDAY, Aug. 21. From To 'l. r. • 23 0 38 • 0 r 21 I 9 0 15 0 10 3Ya 1,616 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 1,217 Bel ---. 16 stone ' 1 Barley ,16 stone 18 0 0 0 4,651 Oats -14 stone 10 0 20 0 13 o,t , 9,665 Cwt. F10ur—,..... 9 stone 7 0 24 0 — 0,, 1,032 Oatmeal 11 stone 9 0 20 0 13 10 , 1 Sold to Bakers only. 7,218 Cwt. Flour - 14 0 2/ 0 18 4 3 a Average price of Wheat and Flour 15s. tkl, per sack. Receipts of Flour, 7,392 ~., Fasts, ......—... from 225. Od. to 245. 00 „,' 1 a „,, Seconds, from 15s. Od. to 20s. 1 - 1 9' Sales °I . D °. 9, "" Third 5,..,.,.... from 7s. Od. to 136. 0a• PRICE OF BREAD. 850. I Half-quartern, 211,. 20z.--4'/FA 38 3 94 3 376.90. 39 3 39 32 a Quartern Loaf, 41b. Wheat, Barley. Oats. I Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel r —_...i.-----+' 20 stone. 16 stone. 11 stone. Ist. 2d. --.---- s.d.as.d. s.d. as.d. s.d. as.d. s. d. ab. d. s. d.a b. -• d. Cork -- 25 6-27 3 12 6-14 0 104-17 0 17 0-20 0 16 0- 11 Limerick 24 4 0 0 160-- 0 0 164 0 0 18 6-- 0 0 0 o. 0 0 , Waterford 25 6 0 0 14 0— 0 0 17 0— 0 0 , 13 0-17 0 0 0— 0., 0 Clonmel '25 0— 0 0 12 0— 0 0 11 8— 0 0 0 0— 0 0 17 0-- (' g Belfast....._ 30 7-31 3 18 0— 0 0 16 4 0 0 15 0-22 0 0 0— 0 a Derry 00-00 148-00 11 1-120 00 --00 00—.1.1;. Crarlcrw ......—. 254 0— 0 0 00— 0 0 IS 0— 0 0 18 0— 017 - 0 0 v Tralee oo— 0 0 00— 0 0 00— 0 0 0 o— 0 0 0 o—. 0 ° Beef, Mutton; Pork, Butter. per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. ad. 4th. 5tE . . --- — 7 d. a d. d. a d. s. d. as. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 6 . a_.' Cork 5—75 7 0 o. 00820800 76 0 72 0 i" „," Limerick— 4 —5 .1 i 44 , 0 0— 0 084 078 072 066 0 60 0 Waterford 31 —1 4i —6i 00 oono 80 0 0 '''' g Cloinnel —4 si —54320—00820 0 0 0 -- 0 Belfast 4 —5 0 —0 00— 00830 79 0 .19 019 0 --' a Derry —.— 6 —0 6 0 00— 00—0— 0 0 0 --- a Carlow— ti —7 6i '7 23 0— 0 089 OSi 074 064 0-- 0 Tralee ......... 0 —0 ,0 0 00— 00846 0 oi—o— SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oatrnak Aberdeen 56 62 124 27 20 24 —— 36 Berwick-- 42 41 26 28 21 25 46 v" Coldstream 40 45 26 28 18 21 Cupar 28 29 23 25 Dundee 29 30 27 28 21 26 2S 26 Elgin.. 30 32 29 31 29 32 —•-•• I nverness-- 30 31) 23 56 52 Kelso 43 45 21 27 17 20 38 40 Kirkaldy---- 28 31 25 31 28 30 32 Perth ---- 27 30 27 29 24 27 21 '26 At Berwick, Coldstream, Kelso, and Wheat at Aberdeen, th e , price is given per quarter. The other prices are per boll, excel , ' Oatmeal, which is per sack of 2801bs. At Berwick, Coldstr, price is given per gnarli Oatmeal, which is per sal CUTHBERT ELLISON, Esq. M.P. for New aaatle-upon-Tyne, and his lady, left their, seat at Hebbitro Hall, last week, on a tour to the Continent. On Friday last, between nine and ten thou' sand quarters of foreign wheat were taken out of bond 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the duty upon which amounted ° nearly 11,0001. The recent rains and frosty nights have coo tributed greatly towards ripening the grain. Harvest now becoming very general in the North ; the weathec truly delightful.—Carlisle Patriot. - - VALUE OF THE BIBLE.—In the year 12747 the price of a small Bible, neatly written, was SOL It said that the building of two arches of London Bridge CO only 251. being 5/ss than a copy of the Bible man,' years afterwards.—Elgin Courier. BIRTHS. On Sunday, in Bernard-street, Russell-square, the ladl of Thomas Griffith, Esq., of a son. On the 27th, at Camberwell, Mrs. Fowlis, of a son. e On the 26th inst. in Upp er G owe r-street, the lady 01 Charles Green, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 21st inst. at St. Mary's, Dover, by tbe Rev. Maule, Joseph, eldest son of Joseph Lightfoot, Esq., (11 Walworth, to Sernira, only child of R. H. Jags, Esq. On the 23d inst. at Kingston, by the Rev. W. Cool` m i n gs, Major Hartley, of Deganwy, North Wales, to go , Clark, of Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. On the 25th inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, by the Ref' Mr. Marshall, Mr. Richard Gardner Mathews, of Noti Broad-street, city, to Amelia; second daughter of W. Bale.' Esq. of Falcon-square. On the 21st inst. at Greenwich, by the Rev. J. Dania , W. Clement, Esq. of Alton, Hants, to Miss Docker. On Tuesday, the 21st, at St. Mary Magdalen's, Oxfords by the Rev. 11. S. Cox, Daniel Wood, Esq. of Bruton , , Somersetshire, to Miss Marian Johnson, second daughter 0 the late Rev. Henry Johnson, of Shrewsbury. On the 224 inst. at Dorking, Mr. Thomas Turner, 01 Croydon, ve terinary-surgeon, to Miss Walter, of Dorking> DIED. On the 25th inst. Mrs. Susanna Coope, of the Grove , Hackney, aged 66. On the 26th inst. at Brixton, aged 12, Charles, third I son of Mr. John Ody, of the Strand. On the 24th inst. at Cheltenham, Elizabetk Bode? aged 19, daughter of the late Colonel. Joseph Boden, of tile Bombay establishment. On the 26th inst. Miss Mary Sarah Blasson, aged 2 only surviving daughter of the late Robert Blasson, Esq. 0) Park-place, Islington. On the 21st inst. at Mapperton-house, Dorset, Elias, Emily, second daughter of Sir Molyneux Hyde NepeOt Bart. aged 7 years. On the 25th inst. Ellen, the wife of Mr. W. 1 -1011 Rosser, solicitor, Pentonville. On the 24th inst. at Kingston, near Portsmo uth, after an intensely painful illness of five months , Anne, the wife of Major Albert d'Alton, aged forty-one year& On the 26th inst. at Spital-square, Robert Browning , eldest son of Mr. Thomas Browning, of Whitstable, Kent , in the 25th year of his age. Pam= And PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, it the Sux-Orricr, No. 112, Strand. 32 3 32 9 37 0 33 3 39 3 36 9 36 0 33 6 P 5 6 vrci TH' on WEnt receive T supply of One 1-1 Ten T Twelv, One T 1 Fifty The who Stores, of Septer next. Sat: p 1 quarts ea earn pl e o The c Office. Each, ' and be di and the his behal l T": ENGLA give Nol That said CO; HALL 4 T~iyllont, NOW I. p Bart, befor e f explain 2 • A Ron. W price 6d 3. RI and ou t Jacob ; with an Average Countri. 4. A the YE, Import, a.Series and the earliest pkte Vi ceSeary 5. CI Land-0' tart. M 6. 0 Edition, 7. A LAWS. 8• T 1 Right H Proscrib 9. m ROBE' &c. &e. 10. the c at and the C. C. 11. RENC , the pres Edition, 12. RENO. 13. , NESE sod Sco Stops p i Which I Filth 14. WATT lay a L 15. ] the EA] E. G. J 16. ' Relative TRAD] with ac 17. . upward N. B highly e lIOPE, I,AWS Warden Second 20. . by ON' 21. i GUAR GEO. COUN the Go! 22. TION 23. 24. 'CIO;; a Prac Maturi Car►ke► IL w London County Prietor qa lit of :30 6 , 40 0' 37 0, 32 CP