The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-09 00:00:00

SPIMIT 4 4 THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We recorded yesterday, in a Second Edition of the nines, that melancholy, but not unfore seen event, which has deprived the empire of an accomplished and powerful Statesman, when such a loss could ill be borne. The late Prime Mi nister is the last of five who may be said to have perished at their posts within the last 22 years —all, with the exception of Mr. Perceval, sink ing under the toils and cares of office, or under vexations incidental to it, and operating on al ready shattered constitutions. The names of Pitt, Fox, and Liverpool, and Canning, are warnings to political ambition in.this country, of the end which too often betides it. Elsewhere will be found, in somewhat of the form of a me moir, the successive dates and circumstances which divide the several stages of Mr. Canning's life. These we pass over as milestones on a journey, feeling a far deeper , interest in the per son and character of him.whose rapid course they measured, and in the scene on which we lose sight of a fellow-traveller, who has bidden us an eternal farewell, Mr. Canning evinced over the companions of his boyhood a superiority of quick intelligenc e , to which 'there could not be tliirly kipplieit the usual term " precocious." There wva nothing premature in his early talent—no thing fallacious, forced, or disappointing. The lead which he took when a child, he maintained through the intellectual tilts of youth, and through the sterner struggles of ambitious and unyielding manhood, until, after some partial de feats and vicissitudes, for which he was more to blame than fortune, he reached the ne plus ultra of,a British subject, and fell while the civilized world still cheered him with shouts of applause and felicitation. To the prompt and sensitive excitability of Mr. Canning, may be traced the impediments which retarded his final • success, and which snore than once threatened to frus trate his more aspiring efforts. If Mr. Canning could have subdued for a while the indignation under which he wrought against Lord Castlereagh, by means which afforded his personal enemies a pretext for representing him, though falsely, as an intriguer, the feelings ofother members ofthe Art land Cabinet would have co-operated with-liim and with the public voice, and have expelled, with something like contempt, from office, the incom petent author and director of the ruinous Wal cheren expedition. The issue of this indiscreet quarrel with Lord Castlereagh was, their simul taneous loss of office, and Mr. Canning's long exclusion. The more plausible and measured temperament of Mr. 'Canning's adversary intro duced him again to power under Mr. Perceval in the department of Foreign 'Affairs, in which situation he had the good fortune to inflict on Mr. Canning the deep - disgrace of an overpaid and unnecessary, embassy to Lisbon. This was the real blot on Mi. Canning's political embla zonment—one, indeed, which we are ready to acknowledge that a series of illustrious services hive long since compensated and redeemed, if they have not entirely obliterated ; but which the faith and moral use of history impose upon us the reluctant duty of here affixing to the name of Mr. Canning. That the earlier portions of this statesman's life exhibited no evidence com pared with that which has flowed from every week and hour of its more recent progress, on which could be established any of Mr. Canning's now indefeasible claim to the reputation of a friend of human liberty, may be accounted for by l i the subaltern order of those duties which, until within these three years, and since the overthrow of Buonaparte, he had been called upon to dis charge. An exception of course will be made 1 for the time during which he filled a Cabinet office under Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Portland ; but then the great interests of the war swallowed up all questions on which might hinge the fame of a statesman for his free or despotic principles : so that it was not until his acceptance of the poit of Foreign Minister, after the self-destruc tion of Lord Londonderry, that Mr. Canning had at once the forces wherewith to act, and a field on which to display them. Try the de parted statesman by a testiike this, and then let every Englishman determine how much he gained by Lord, Londonderry's death, and what he has lost in Mr. Canning ! England was disen gaged from the trammels of the Holy Holy Alliance, almost before the familiars of that body could look round them and discover the hand which set her free. An invasion of Spain, which no reasoning could palliate, was rendered by Mr. Canning's dexterity and spirit, little more noxious in its result than it was defensible in its origin : and the world saw contrasted an outrage by France upon the Spaniards, which will bring about its own termination and punishment, with a blessing conferred by England on the Ameri cans, which is at once its own guarantee and re ward. Constitutional P'ortugal has been upheld against the invasions of the House of Bourbon, by diplomatic skill and military energy, so di rected, disposed, and justified, as to protect, ac cording to all reasonable calculation, the civil rights of the people of that kingdom, through the same means and on the same political and international obligations which Mr: Canning has made subservient to the indeperidence of King Pedro's crown. • The spirit through which the whole south of Europe must one day vindicate the liberties which belong to man, has been, though not ostentatiously encouraged, kept alive, and ready for seasonable exercise, by the mere notoriety . that Mr. Canning was Minister of Great Britain. At home, whatever has been at tempted by his Government, has been attempted we ll, though, thanks to his enemies and those of the people of England, it has not been so well accomplished. .The .principl es which he would have realised, had . life. and power been granted, were those under which tbe p oor man ' s food i would have been ncreased,`and the national ex- The . qbestion now , i s he poises economised. tvveen two classes of Successors to this able Mi nister; one of whom would diminish the bread, and perpetuate the t a xes ; while the, other stand s pledged to the system of humanity and economy, consecrated by the dying, breath of Mr. Canning. Of the ornaments and accessories of the de ceased Minister, whether as a member of the Senate or of society, it is not strictly our design to speak. His eloquence—that much and dangerously overvalued art in England— his eloquence was perfect in its peculiar kind ; but that kind was not the most admirable. — Grace and elegance, wit and spirit, copiousness and harmony, were all comprehended in it : they formed its distinctions and its attractions ; but they are characteristics of a secondary rank. In our minds . 14r. Canning was not the foremost, though alio* the foremost, of cotemporary speakers. Brougham is more sarcastic, more impetuous, inure fruitful 'and discursive— Plunkett more logical, more original, more forci ble, and impressive. Nowhere does there now e xist the profound, the terrible, or sublime. In private life and its endearing and sacred relations, Mr. Canning bears the repute of h av i ng b een an ,estimable and Exemplary person. Th e friends vi his youth seem to be attached and devoted to, him, while he is said to have been - gaining ra pidly on his friends of more recent acquisition. Sooner or later, even in this world, justice is rendered to most of us before we die. Let the respective partisans of Canning and Londonderry now meditate for a moment the place which each of these Ministers of the same kingdom fills in the heart of the people. Let, we say, the lesson be studied, and sink deep. The memory of the one is embalmed by his countrymen in unaffected sorrow : the remains of the other were loaded with execrations, and pelted with ordure - at the grave.— Times. Curiosity is extremely active in observing whether any, and what indications may be given, of the manner in which Mr.- Canning splace is to be supplied, but it can as yet fix upon no de cisive facts. Lord Lansdowne's attendance upon his Majesty was of an official character. His situation required that he should report the death of the Prime Minister. But Lord Goderich and Mr. Sturges Bourne have been " sent for." How short a time is it since this expression " sent for" was in full use and em ployment before ? The Marquis-of Lansdowne, though not " sent for," may have conversed with his .Majesty on the subject of some future ar rangement ; and Lord Goderich and Mr. Sturges Bourne are memb ers o f Mr. C a nning's Administration—the latter particularly attached to his person, and the depositary of his confi dence- We merely state these circumstances : let others weigh how far they may be entitled to form the basis of a conjecture.—lbid. Mr. Canning is no more—Peace to his manes ! Never hid he a greater admirer, or a friend more cordial, than we are proud to confess ourselves to hate been towards him, so long as he adhered with apparent sincerity to those principles by which our country under Providence has been saved, and her glory elevated to the highest pitch of human splendour. That he should ever have erred from the fair and open path of rectitude, to entangle himself in the wiles of a faction, whose sinister views and dangerous projects he had so long and so nobly combatted, is a consi deration which has of late weighed heavily upon our mind, and a circumstance which we shall never to cease to regret' and deplore. But, dc niorluis nil nisi bonuni ; and looking for the future only to . his good and splendid qualities, we are sincerely anxious to forget those recent events of his life which have unfortunately cast so deep a shade upon his earlier and better years, when the lustre of his talents shone forth to the admiration of the world, and in some degree to the credit and advantage of his country. Whilst we deeply lament, that for purposes of undue ambition, he should have thrown himself into the arms of the basest revilers of his Sovereign and the worst enemies ,of the Constitution, we cannot at the same time help recollecting with exultation and delight, the success of his brilliant 'exertions in better times, in holding up to public execration the iniquitous views and perfidious designs of tho'se very men with whom in an evil hour he has since been induced to coalesce and make common cause. That portion of Mr. Can ning'g life will cause his memory to be revered by us to the last moment of our existence; nor will the country, we hope, have any cause to entertain a different feeling upon the subject, since the season of error was so brief that no chance was afforded of any materially injurious consequences resulting from it. Mr. Canning, though lately degraded by becoming the colleague of Whiga kand Radicals, it must never be forgotten, was t once the chief expositor of the insidious pur poses of the former, and the treasonable designs , of the latter. The country is,, therefore, in a high degree his debtor for his early services, whilst it has no specific charge of injury to al lege against him for his conduct during his sh( - ' 4 ?ction with the libellers of the K• sort conin _mg and the enemies of the State—the reflection of his unnatural union with whom, we firmly be lieve, sunk deeply in his mind, and cut short a life which, under different circumstances, might have proved valuably lasting to his country.— With this just tribute to the memory of an highly talented and distinguished Statesman, upon whose mortal remains the tomb is now about to close, we conclude, for the present, as we commenced this hasty sketch, with the sin cere and devout offering of our prayer—Peace to his manes.—Morning Post. . Mr. Canning is no more. For this event our readers must have been prepared by the accounts of his hopeless state which we have been under the necessity of publishing for some days past. For full particulars of Mr. Canning's last mo ments we refer them to our subsequent columns ; and from which we will not distract their atten tion by any comments at this moment. That the circumstance is one of great public interest cannot be doubted ; but that it is an event which need give rise to any of those feelings of despair in which some of our contemporaries have in dulged, we do not believe. The country has heretofore weathered greater evils than the loss of Mr. Canning; and will, we have no doubt, sur vive an event which his warmest friends must have all along foreseen.—Morning Herald. In a Second Edition of the New Times, yes terday, we announced the death of Mr. Can ning; an event, for which our readers musehave been fully prepared, by the tenor of our previous observations. For all the melancholy details connected with this national calamity, we must refer to another part of our paper. They will be read with deep interest. Thus have the hopes of Mr. Canning's enemies been realized—thus has perished, at an early age, one of the most ,gifted Ministers ever entrusted with the destinies :of nations. For the Government of England is not that of an individual people. The mag nitude of her empire, and the events and wis dom which have raised her to the rank which she ioccupies, have rendered her Administration cos inopolite. Every principle which it puts forth— every act which it performs--are felt, in their ;consequences, throughout the earth ; and her ' , policy bec omes , i n a greater or a l ess d egree , at a later or earlier period, the rule by which States 'and Monarchies are guided, and nations exalted or depressed, in the scale of public freedom and prosperity. In the hands of Mr. Canning that policy added to its cosmopolitan character, the still nobler feature of patriotic, united with universal, beneficence. It dropped those an cient prejudices, the offspring of misdirected egotism, which, under the name of protection, arrested and injured the best interests of the country. It established as an active principle, that which was a law of nature, and a condition . of the improvement of mankind—the free reci procity of commercial intercourse; it threw open the wealth of nature, and the fruits of man's in dustry, under every clime and every social and political modification, to the enjoyment of all ; fnd it laid for future and not distant ages the oundation of a system calculated to mingle all interests into one, and thus to put an end to those jealousies from which wars have hitherto arisen, with all the calamities- of nations. - The, sole guide of Mr. Canning's political life! Was patriotism, or, in less suspicious lan-: gunge, the - sincere love of his country. — That was the living principle within him. It inspired him at his political birth, and broke forth in the incoherent expression of' his last earthly struggles. If it ever 'moved in more paths than it never changed its nature; and what rivals or enemies degraded into incon sistency, was a due regard to the danger or inte rests of the State, which, under altered circum stances, required the bold or the softened asser tion of the same principles, the use or the laying down of the same powers, and the pursuit or abandonment of the, same policy. Tus, when France was in flames, and the Co titient in blood—when Revolution thundered at our gates, . and thousands stood ready to welcome her with in—Mr. Canning sprung in his might, and, with the omnipotence of patriotism, wit, and genius, dashed invading jacobinism to the earth, and sent back its crest-fallen votaries and allies howling to their dens. When, at a later period, the distresses of the times, artfully turned by demagogues into weapons of rebellion, had laid open the industrious classes to seduction, and they were taught to consummate their own rum, by destroying the lives and resources of their employers, Mr. Canning again stood forth, the repressor of outrage, the protector of property, and, however misrepresented and abused, the real friend of the people ; but when external and internal danger had passed away—when the Giant, who had raised the world against us, was in his grave, and the very name of disaffection and Radicalism had lost its meaning in the land— was it inconsistent in Mr. Canning to think that by a more liberal policy abroad, and an entire confidence in the loyalty of the people at home, tke interests of the country would be best pro moted, and her peace and prosperity best se cured ? \Vas it inconsistent in him to act upon this conception—to enforce it by every power of mind and eloquence—to devote his life to its establishment, as the policy of his country, and to perish in its support ? If, in the course of his struggles with ancient prejudices or party jea lousies, when deprived of the valuable co-opera tion of his faithful friend, the Earl of Liverpool, and when deserted, at the utmost need, by the pre tended friends of the King, he refused to follow their example, and to desert his Sovereign and his country—if, in consequence of his fidelity and his patriotism, and in, order to prevent the degradation of the Throne, and the overthrow of all the political relations, of the State, he obeyed the Royal mandate, and mingled his la bours with those whom his Monarch found alone able and willing to stand by him at the most trying hour, where is the inconsistency of his conduet ? Did he depart from that principle of duty to his King and love to his country which had been his first and sole guide through thirty years of difficulties and dangers,? His boldest calumniator cannot say that he did. " But he served with the Whigs !" Yes, he repudiated party, when fidelity to party would have been high treason to the Crown. He did not fling office back into the face of his Sovereign and his 1 benefactor, to compel him to abdicate his Royal Prerogative, and do the imperious biddings of a faction. He obeyed, where others would coin mand ; and by obedience preserved the inde pendence of the Throne, at the cost of his health —his life! Let such obedience be called in consistency, nay, " infamy," (for it has been so termed by his former flatterers). The King, whose rights it secured, and the country, whom it rescued from the sway of an ambitious oli garchy, know how to appreciate the devotion which ends in death, and to embalm it for pos terity in their deepest and most lasting grati tude. In this general sketch of Mr. Canning's policy and ruling principle, we have not thought it necessary to advert to those extraordinary powers which, though they could not disarm, and even created, hostility, yet crushed it with instant stroke whenever it ventured to raise it self openly—nor to those brighter qualities of mind which imparted, to the most trite or in tricate subject, a portion of their own efful gence. Too short a time has elapsed since the country rung with the echo of his varied and commanding eloquence=and the superiority of his intellect is too imperishably recorded in the matchless State Paperoostlch have, at different times issued from his pen—to require, or even to allow of, an incentive to memory, or to ad miration. His measures are before the world, and have controuled the world. An emancipat ed hemisphere bears testiniony to their wisdom-- the progress of constitutional principles among Continental States proves their efficacy—whilst the staunching of Christian blood in the East has surrounded the death-bed of the expiring Minister with the prayers and blessings of an half exterminated people.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.--A respectable-looking young man, named Wm. Reid, was yesterday brought before the LORD MAYOR. on a charge of having fraudulently con verted to his own use a promissory -note, the property of George Wilson, for 1001. which had been intrusted to the prisoner's care for the purpose of recovering a balance of 201. due on it from one William Winton, the drawer of it. Previous to the charge being entered into, Mr. Reid asked the Lord Mayor if be could not he indulged with a private hearing. The LORD MAYOR.—Pray on what ground do you make that application? Mr. Reid, in an embarrassed manner; replied that be did not well know, for he was quite unacquainted with matters of that description. The LORD Alavoa repeated his question, and Dlr. Reid then said the transaction was one which had taken place betiveen himself and a friend whom he had long known, and whom he had thought would never have treated him in thiS manner; besides, being himseelf in respectable way of business, he did not wish the matter to be made public. The LORD MAYOR replied that was no reason why he should depart from his usual course of subjecting all suc h matters to public examination. 'the case was then gone into. George Wilson resides at 11, Brunswick-terrace, Isling ton. He stated that he is now out of business. H e h a d had many transaction with Mr. Reid, and amongst others he gave him the promissory note in question, which was dated in May, 1823, and upon which there remained 201. due. He gave it to Mr. Reid for the purpose of recovering that sum, and desiredlim to arrest the party, as he did not like to do it himself. He then indorsed the note to Reid fir that purpose. The LORD Klima here inquired what Reid was? The complainant replied, a watch-maker. Mr. Hobler asked, how it happened that he gave a promissory -note to a watchmaker to recover the balance of it? The complainant replied, that not expecting to recover it himself, he - thought he might employ whom he pleased to do it. He applied to Mr. Reid, to know what he bad done with the note, who said that he bad employed Mr. Rush, an attorney, to whom all the mosey had been paid, with the exception of six pounds, which was the amount of the interest due upon it, and which Winton re fused to pay. He had frequently applied to Reid for the money, but had never been able to get it, or to get back his note. The Loan MAroa. asked Reid what he had to say in reply to this charge ? Mr. Reid asked leave to put a question to Mr. Wilson, and was told he might put what gamic= he pleased. He then Asked Mr. Wilson, whether it was not his intention to lend him the money if he recovered it? Mr. Wilson replied, that'•he did once say he would per haps lend him this money, but denied any specific promise to lend it him. Mr. Reid replied, that he could not arrest Winton, as he (Reid) had never given any value for the note to Wilson, and therefore he was obliged to' hand it over to another per son to arrest him. The LORD MAYOR--I shall say nothing . as to the credit due to this transaction on the part of Mr. Reid ; but this is not a case of embezzlement of which I can take cogniz ance. Mr.' Wilson had certainly given Mr. Reid a pro perty in the note, by indorsing it to him, and I must there fore dismiss the complaint. The parties then retired. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Simmonds, the assistant vestry clerk of Cripplegate, appeared with the Inquest of the Ward, to take the Magistrate's opinion relative to a seizure they had made in' the shop of a baker, who was not named. They found the scales accurate, and also the weights, but if the 41b. weight was put in the proper scale, it would be balanced by placing only•a 31b. loaf in the opposite one, in consequence of some machinery concealed beneath the latter which was acted upon by merely throwing the weight in the weight scale. The difficulty was, that the weights and scales were in themselves 'perfectly honest. The Alderman at first sug gested the baker should be brought before him in custody ; but afterwards recommended that it should be first ascer tained how lie might_ best be punished,—whether by the general law or some peculiar jurisdiction attaching to the city, or to the Inquest as body. BOW-STREET.--DESPERiTE OUTRAGE.-Last ni g ht a Powerful -looking young man, n the dress of a mechanic, named James Myttahon, was brought to this Office, fol lowed by an immense concourse of people, and examined, on the charge of having forced his wife, Hannah INl'Malion, out of a second-floor window, and severely in jured her. _ _ _ Mary Parker, of Printing-house-yard, Coleman-street, the wife of a printer, deposed that she was passing through Nottingham-court, near Long-acre, that afternoon, when she heard cries of murder" proceeding from a room on the second floor of No. 8, and, looking up, saw the pri soner having hold of a woman's head by the hair, and beat it with great violence against the sill of the window. He had hold of the hair in front, and was beating the back part of her head against the wood. She was crying out dreadfully. He let her go for a moment, and she suddenly sprung out of the window, and fell upon the pavement, and broke her leg. Witness saw her put upon a shutter, and conveyed to the hospital. Anne, the wife of John Wood, a tailor, and several others, corroborated this evidence. . Jennings, a patrol, stated, that on seeing the woman come out of the •window, he ran up stairs and found the prisoner coming out of the room. He stopped him, and on examining the room, found all the plates, &c. broken, and every thing in confusion. He found the poker in the middle of the room. The prisoner in his defence said, that be went home to dinner at the usual hour yesterday, and found that his wife . was out. He was told she was gone to a public house at the corner of Plumtree-street, with another man. He went there and found that she had gone. He returned home, and finding her there, asked for his dinner ; but she said there was none, and he might go elsewhere and find a dinner. He said he would, and was leaving the room when she abused him, and he turned back and gave her " a slap." He was again going down stairs, when she again abused him, and he returned once more and gave her another " slap," and she all at once jumped out of the window. He had not the least idea that she was going to do such a thing. Mr. HALLS.—AII that you have stated cannot be true. You seem to make very light of the matter ; but let me tell you, that if any thing happens to this woman, you will be in a situation of a very awkward kind. Nothing that you have said is any excuse for your conduct. Prisoner.—l must bear the smart of it. Mr. HALLS ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a week, and directed the officer to procure a certificate this morning from the surgeon of the hospital (Middlesex.) HATTON-GARDEN.—John Taylor and Mary Dea kin were again brought up yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant SELLON. Maria Caldwell, the daughter of ‘ Mrs. Caldwell, one of the witnesses who was examined yesterday, stated, that she was eleven years old. Before her mother removed, in June last, from the house in Brigiston-street, Where the prisoners lodged, she frequently looked through the key hole in the kitchen-door, and saw the child, James Peter Taylor, tied in a chair. The prisoners were nut at home on these occasions when she looked through the keyhole. She beard the child cry for bread several times, and she went to her'nother and got bread and butter from her, which she (witness) put under the door, and the child al ways took the bread and butter, except when it was tied in the chair. On one occasion, she saw the female prisoner beat the child with a rope, or strap, and the child moaned dreadfully. She knows nothing of what happened since her mother left the house. Mrs. Deakin begged to say a few words. She said she had been deserted by her husband about six years ago, and she went to live with . the prisoner about fifteen months since, and continued to live with him up to this time. She denied beating the child, and repeated, that she did not use a hand-broom, as stated on Tuesday by one of the wit nesses.—(lt was only,said by the witness alluded to (Mrs. Caldwell), that the father of the child said that Mrs. Deakin had beat it with a hand-broom, and not that the witness said she saw her do so.)—She confesSed that she had neglected the child ; but, in extenuation, said she had taken to drinking, which caused her to neglect the child. The prisoners were soon after removed to Clerkenwell prison, but they were taken out of the office separately, and by different doors, for the purpose of avoiding the notice of the people. They were recognised, notwith standing, on their way to a hackney-coach that was wait ing in Cross-street to receive them, and tuiey were hooted and groaned at, in a similar manner as they were on the previous days. It was not generally known that the pri soners were to be brought up yesterday, so that the crowds were not so great as on Tuesday. When the prisoners were removed on Tuesday evening in a hackney-coach the coach broke down on their way to the prison. The peo ple fol)owed the coach with dreadful yelling and shouting, and at the breaking down of the coach, the officers who were in charge of the prisoners were apprehensive that the people would wreak their vengeance on the unfortunate creatures. In such a situation, being nearer the prison than the office, they thought it more prudent to take the prisoners to Clerkenwell at once than to return to the office, and then be obliged to go over the same ground again. At all hazards the officers took them through the crowd, and reached the prison with much difficulty, not, however, without being very much knocked about, and re ceiving a great portion of the peltings of the mud and dirt intended for the prisoners. Such a scene has been seldom witnessed in this part of the town ; and it must have struck terror into the minds of the unfortunate persons who were the cause of it. MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday a man, named Eaves, appeared to answer the complaint of a poor woman, named Mary Ann Ansel', residing in Princes-street, Lisson-grove. —lt appeared that the complainant, on the 9th July, pi o ceeded to the Sessions. House, Clerkenwell, for the purpose of withdrawing her recognizances, and on the steps of the Sessions House she was met by the defendant, who intro- duced himself as a Bow-street officer, and told her that he was empowered to withdraw her recognizances, on paying him Bs. 6d. She gave him half-a-crown, and on the following Sunday he called upon her, and brought her two bits of paper, one of which was his bill, amounting to 90. 4d., part of which sum was stated to.have been paid out of his own pocket, and upon his representation, that her recog nizances were withdrawn, she paid him 7s. 6d. more, for which he gave her a receipt. In the following week she received a notice from the office of the Clerk of the Peace, that her recognizances were forfeited; and she was obliged to pay 14s. 6d. to get one of them withdrawn, and the other was in force at the present time. The defendant said he was a surveyor, and denied hav ing represented himself as a Bow-street officer, and he would have withdrawn the recognizances had he not been prevented by severe indisposition. Mr. RAWLINSON remarked that a number of persons subsisted by plundering the unwary, under the pretence of withdrawing their recognizances ; and ordered the defend ant to find good bail, as he should, undoubtedly, be pro • secuted. UNION-HALL.—ConnyrT AND THE TOLL CoL "Lrcroas.—On Friday last Mr. Cobbett attended at this Office, for the purpose of obtaining ninety-seven sum mouses, under the 3d of Geo. IV. cap. 112, sec. 30 and *3l ; also under another Clause in the same Act, cap. 126, 'sec. fiS, against 17 toll-collectors stationed in the county of 'Surrey. Yesterday was appointed for the attendance of all the parties concerned, but soon after the snivel of the Magistrates, it was amounted that Mr. Cobbett bad arranged the matter with the lessees ; and thus the affair ended. Mr. ABBOTT, who is the Director of the new and splendid English Theatre, in Paris, it is said, has offered Miss Poore fifty Napoleons per night, for twenty nights, to. commence the - first week in October. She will (to use a theatrical phrase) .be an immense hit with the Pariiia DEVON HAYTOR GRANITE COMPANY. . _ A meeting.of the Shareholders of this Company was held yesterday at the London. Coffee-house, Ludgate-bill, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the Committee of Shareholders, appointed at the last meeting to investigate the Company's affairs generally. Sir FELIX AGAR having' been called to the chair, stated the object of the meeting, and observed, at the last meeting there was an opinion that some errors had been committed in the Company's affairs, and therefore the Directors at that time spoke with caution on the subject. They had now however, the satisfaction to state, that .what was considered wrong arose from an error in the ac counts which had been since discovered and corrected, and that the Company's affairs* were in a much more prosperous condition than bad been expected. The Directors had also to inform the proprietors, that an advantageous settlement had been come to with the house of Jolliffe and Banks, by which the Company were now enabled to make a dividend of 6 per cent. The report of the Committee was now read. It took a very extensive review of the Company's af fairs from the commencement. From this it ap peared that 11,0001. had been paid for the interest now possessed by the Company in the granite quar ries, and ,that that sum could at the present moment, be very easily obtained for them. For the gear and implements on the property, the sum of 9,3021. had been paid, but as the Company was at that time short of cash, an arrangement was made with Messrs. Jolliffe and Banks, who advanced the sum through the intervention of Mr. Henfrey, who , was one of the proprietors, and had been ap pointed managing director. The report went on to observe, that great irregularities had ensued on Mr. Henfrey's appointment to that situation, and that two persons employed by him had been dismi 3sed for their improper conduct. From one of those parties (a Mr. Whittaker) Mr. Henfrey got the books, but Whittaker contrived again to possess himself of them. They were, however, recovered from him by means of a magistrate's warrant, and it was then found that they had been interpolated in several places. A discrepancy, it was added, ap peared in the accounts of lgessrs. Jolliffe and Banks, and those of the Company with them. That discrepancy could be explained only by Mr. Henfrey, bnt that gentleman died before it could be made. The Committee had an interview with those- gentlemen (Jolliffe and Banks),who, without admitting any errors in their accounts, consented to a very considerable abatement of the balance due to them. In conse quence of this very liberal and handsome conduct, the proprietors were now able to partake of a divi dend of six per cent. .The report then went on to review the state of the Company's affairs, which it described as likely to be very prosperous, with per severance, care, and economy. It recommended that a sum of 2 per cent. should be laid aside as a sort of sinking fund for the payment of the original capital, and that a managing Director be appointed to superin tend the affairs of the Company, under the controul of the Directors; and that such managing Director should, for the present, have a salary of 1501. a year. On the motion of a Shareholder, the report was received and agreed to ; and in pursuance of its recommendation, a managing Director was ap pointed. Captain Fullarton was then proposed, and unani mously elected the managing Director. Mr. FULLARTON returned thanks for this mark of the Company's confidence, and expressed his intention of doing his best for the interests of the Company. In answer to a question from a Shareholder, The CHAIRMAN stated, that the proposition laying aside a fund of two per cent. was prospective. He believed, however, that there would be found sufficient to do that at present after paying six per cent. dividend. Thanks were then voted to the Committee of Shareholders for their valuable labours, and to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair; after which the meeting adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AUG. 8. WAKEFIELD V. TEDIPLEK. Mr. BICKF.RSTETH, for the defendant in this cause, the plaintiff in which is Edward Gibbon Wakefield, applied to the Court for an order, awarding to his client the costs to which he had been put by the frivolous and expensive opposition of the plaintiff,— The course which the suit had taken, according to the Learned Gentleman's statement, was this ; the Court were proceeding to execute the bequests of a will, and bad already dispensed a portion of the tes tator's property in legacies, when, in 1819, the plaintiff, and a lady of the name of Patten, applied to the Court to impound the whole fund in the cause, upon the allegation that the will was forged, and that the testator died intestate. The Court com plied with the request, in order to afford the plain tiffs an opportunity of trying the validity of the will in the Ecclesiastical Courts. As, however, the .plaintiffs applied late in the cause, the Court, taking into consideration the hardship of depriving those who were then enjoying the fund of all participation in it during a tedious y course of litigation in the Ec clesiastical Courts, admitted the defendant to enjoy the interest of the fund upon security given. The result of the suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts was, that the plaintiffs entirely failed, and the validity of the will, which they had thus vexatiously disputed, was completely established. The plaintiffs, there fore, having thus, upon false and frivolous allegations, induced the Court to impound the fund, and put the *defendant to great and unnecessary expense, in giv ing security and otherwise, he submitted that the Court would not inflict upon the defendant the ex penses thus frivolously and falsely incurred. Mr. HEALD, Mr. HORNE, and Mr. WAKEFIELD, were for the plaintiff. They contended that it was for the defendant to show,' by good and sufficient proof, that the plaintiffs bad proceeded upon false ''and frivolous allegations. Mr. BICKERSTETII, in reply, said, that the juris diction of the Court was not to be ousted, because in former stages of the suit costs had not been re served. The whole proceeding of the plaintiffs hav ing proved nugatory, the onus probundi to show that their conduct was not frivolous was upon them. It was not incumbent on the defendants to prove the affirmative, when facts spoke so plainly for themselves. • The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, the only difficulty he felt was, that the costs had not been reserved ; and, if he could find no authority to overcome that difficulty, he feared he should be unable to grant the prayer of this petition. He would read all the affi davits carefully before he gave judgment. [The tolling of the bell for two hours in the morning, from eleven to one, imparted a feeling of melancholy to all persons in the Court.] COURT OF REQUESTS, OSBORNE-STREET. DOUBLE BURIAL FEES.... , WILDMAN V. PUGH. - - A ease of considerable importance to the public, and one of great local interest to the parishioners of St. Mary, Whitechapel, inasmuch as, on its decision depended their future liability to the payment of double dues, claimed by the Rector, the Rev. Daniel Matthias, on the burial of the parishioners, should the hand of death unfortunately strike them out of their own parish (though these parishioners may have lived in it, and paid scot, and lot, rent and taxes, for near a quarter of a cent u ry), came on for hearing in this Court, before the Commissioners, Messrs. Membray and Harris. The persons whose names we have stated were the ostensible parties to the suit, the plaintiff being the parochial sexton, and the defendant, a respectable undertaker, in Church street, Mile End New Town. The real ones, as admitted by the sexton, were the Reverend Gentle man, by whose commands he acted in issuing the summons, and Mr. Bookless, jun., the son of the late Thomas Bookless, of Rosbnary-lane. The short facts of the case are thew—Mr. tookless, on the performance of whose funeral rites this unprecedented demand was made, was a res pectable inhabitant of the parish of St. Mary's, for the last 23" years„ and during that period occupied a house, and was proverbial for the punctuality With which he discharged all parochial and legal demand:S. Some time since, his health becoming impaired, by the advice of his' physicians, he took lodgings at Upton-place, in Essex. His health became gradually worse, and some days since he at length expired at his temporary lodgings. Previously, however, he gave the most explicit directions to his son, as to what were his wishes in the event of his death; he mentioned to -him the name of the undertaker by whom he desired to be buried—told him that as soon as he ceased to oreatue, to convey him to his own house in town,. and desired that he : should be interred alongside his wife, in the burial ground of St. Mary's. All his orders were religiously observed—his body was, re moved from Upton-place, and arrived at his own house on men's shoulders, in a few hours after his decease, and. Mr: Pugh, the undertaker, made every arrangement for the funeral, and paid the customary burial dues, which amounted to 11. Ils. He thought; all was right, as he had every reason to think, but on the day on which the interment took place, he was called on, previous to the funeral arriving, by Chapman, the clerk, for extra fees, as the deceased, though 'a parishioner, and at the time of his death having an establishment in the parish, died out of it. Mr., Pugh demurred, and on consulting young Mr. Brdokless, - they determined to resist the demand. The-consequence was, a summons to the Court of Requests for 145., the double dues, and ss. for over time, the body not arriving at the church yard to a minute. The merits were gone into before the gen tlemen we have mentioned, and the nominal plaintiff was closely examined. In reply to the Commissioners, he said that he supposed the deceased had an esta blishment in Essex; his supposition was not satis factory, and, when pressed, he thought he might have only a room. During his examination, he proved, though extremely costive, and it was with some ma nagement that the Commissioners succeeded in extracting it from him, that the deceased had been a parishioner for over 20 years, and that this was the first attempt ever made to obtain double fees, because a parishioner expired out of the parish. Mr. Pugh said, that he refused the payment of this demand for two reasons—first, because it was the wish of the friends of the deceased ; and the next, because he was unwilling to be -the instrument of furnishing a precedent. . • The COMMISSIONERS said he did perfectly right. and unhesitatiugly scouted. the demand as unjust arid uncalled for. The Sexton, Wildman, retired quite discomfited, declaring that the Parson would take it to another Court. This, however, fortunately, he cannot do, as the Courts of Request admit of no appeal, and are more binding in their decisions than Chancery itself. Had the effect, succeeded, the following would have been the division of the spoil :—The Rector, 45.; the Churchwardens, 65.; the Clerk, Is. 6d.; the Sexton, Is. 10d.; the Grave-digger, Bd.; and, in addition, the Rector would have had ss. for over time. Messrs. Membray and Harris, by their decision on this occasion, have done a good deal to remove the accusation of partiality, which generally attaches to those minor Courts. THE MARKETS. COAL MARKET.—Aug. 8. • Adair's ...T,. .-.... 325. Od. Walls End Newmarch- 345. 3d Beaumont 36 0 Ditto Northumberland 33 3 Heaton ... 35 6 Ditto Pearcth . 32 6 Holywell,.. , 33 0 Ditto 11idde11'5........---;.. 35 0 Killingworth -.. 33 6 Ditto Russell's —36 0 Ord's Redhugh ..--....-... 29 0 Ditto Walker ....------ 33 3 Pelaw Percy East.---.--..-- 23 9 Tanfield Trader.-----. 31 6 PontopWindsor, 30 3 Lambton small ------- 17 0 Tanfield Moor--. ... 32 0 Elgin Main -,.....,,......,.... 34 6 Townley... 3l 0 Hartley ..................----...- 29 0 Willington .. 3.1 9 Marquis Main —.."-- 26 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 35 0 Fawcett Main ---- 30 0 Dittoßewickeand Co.- 36 3 Nesham Main.....,... 33 9 Ditto Brown's --......- 33 0 Russell's Lyon's. * 33 6 Ditto Carr and Cu.-~ 3l 'it waits End iletton 37 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0..... 31 fi Ditto Lyons 43A , _ _ Ditto Eramlington.,--- 30 6 Ditto 30 6 Ditto Ida Ditto Hotspur. 32 9 I Russell's Hetton'sW. E. 36 9 Ships at market,.lo3--Ships sold, 66 -Unsold, 36%. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE-Aug. 7. There was a very slender attendance of country dealers at this morning's market, and the transactions were almost entirely confined to our own millers, who, however, bought with extreme caution. The superior descriptions of Wheat must be quoted 1(1., and other kinds fully 2d.5 per 701 h. lower. Oats were in very limited request, and even the finest qualities ld. per 451 b. cheaper; inferior were quite neglected. Barley was also very dull of sale, and declined in value 2d. per 601 b. Indian Corn was Is. per 4801 b., and Oatmeal and IFlour each ls. per 2401 b. below the currency of last Tnesday. OM NEW. e. d. s. d. s. d. s. d• O Oft 0 08 4a Q 0 Ooa 0 Q ` 7 8a 8 1 O Oa 0 0,0 Oa 0 0 O Oa 0 0 1 8 2 a 8 8 i, 0 0a 0 o'B la 8 3 O 0a 0 0 7 6a 8 8 O Oa 0 0 4 Oa 5 3 56a54 6 a 5 0 O Ca 0 0 4 3a 4 8 O Oa 9 0 4 3a 1 8 O Oa 0 0 310 a 1 9 O Oa 0 049 0a56 0 005003 L&ea 3 1 0 0. 0a 0 0 3 24a 3 8 O Oa 0 0 1 3 8a 910 0 Oa 0 062 01167 0 O Oa () 046'0a59 0 O Oa 0 033 0a36 0 O 0 a 0 OE4 0a33 0 O o , a 0 0— Oa— 0 O Oa 0 019 0521 0 O Oa 0 32 0535 0 O Oa 0 040 0 a 46 0 O Oa 0 34 0a36 0 O Oa 0 34 Oa 36 0 O Oa 0 31 Oa 35 0 O Oa 0 Oa— 8 Wheat, English, per 701 b. ------- Irish (red) i Ditto (white)....,. Scotch - Canada (free),..... - Foreign (free) www....w....vy - Foreign (in bond) Barley, English, per Olbs. ---- Irish Foreign ' Beans English , per Imp. qr.-. Oats, English, per 1.51 b.. - - Scotch Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr. - Middling Flour, Amer., duty paid, per bd.,...-. sour - Canadian Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 480Ib, red Pease, English white, per Imp. qr. Rye Oatmeal, English, per 24451b5. Irish Scotch IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weea ending Aug. 6. Wheat. Oats. rarleyralt. 'Beans." Pease. Rye. I Oatml , Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads. %v s 1. n 3 110 1,0'20 2,990 46 1,516 Flour, sacks, 2,586 barrels. EXPORTS.—Indian Corn, 2,365 quarters—Flour, 047 barrels. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., at Brighton, at the house of her father► Lord John Townshend, Mrs. Ridsdale, the wife of the Rev. Robert Ridsdale, of a son. On the 30th ult. at Marseilles, the lady of Alexander Turnbull, Esq. his Majesty's Consul at that place, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at Millbank-street, Mrs. W. Freeman, of a son. MARRIED. On the 26th of July, at Edinburgh, by th e R ev . R o b er t Brown, Lieut.-General Durham, of Largo, to Miss Ans truther, eldest daughter of the late Colonel John Anstruthert of the 6211 regiment, second son of the late Sir Phelyn Anstruther, Bad. of Baleakree.. _ . . On the Bth inst., at St. Luke's, Middlesex, by the Rev- D. Wilson, M.A., Vicar of Islington, Mr. T. Piper, of Eastcheap, to Eliza, eldest daughter of W. Bateman, Esq. of Bunhill-row. On Tuesday, the 7th inst. Mr. William Simkins Hitch man, wine-merchant, Chipping Norton, to Isabella A n ne Spence, eldest daughter of Mr. William Spence, of Sunder land, Durham. On the Bth inst., at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Mr. R. Y. Clarke, of Watling-street, to Louisa, daughter of the late James Holden, Esq. of Halifax, Yorkshire. DIED. . On the 3d inst.,. at Margate, in the, 55th year of her age► Mrs. Elizabeth Catherwood, of Charles-square, Hoxton, relict of the late Mr. Nathaniel Catherwood, formerly partner in the Caslon Letter Foundry, London. On the Ist inst., at Croydon, Rebecca, wife of Thoin3 o James, Esq., of that place. On the 28th ult., at Edinburgh, in her 97th year, Mrs. Janet :Beckwith, relict of the late Major-General Jehn Beckwith, and daughter of the late Dr. George Wisha►t , Dean of the Chapel Royal. On Tuesday, the 7th inst., at Bedford -terrace, Streat ham, Elizabeth Syms James, wife of Thomas. James, Esq• aged 71. On the 7th inst., at Islington, aged 79, Nr., Richard Lowcock, many years a member of the Stock Exchange. Ou the sth inst., deeply lamented, after a very short OP ness, Jobs Vaillant, Esq., of Montague-street, Bussed square, and the Middle Temple, London, aged 63. On the 7th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Hancox, of Great Or ,, mond-street. Panivw and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the sus-Onus ) No. 112 3 Strand. VICTU. T HE Makes On WEDNESI receive Tend' One Thousan Four Hundre Forty Tons o .To be deli Deptford, on tnainder by t' Samples of will be requi article. The Condi Each Tenc and be delivei and the Pere( on his' behalf T HE TAU the London I been made TEACH the bege to infori French Lan about 150. taught by th the teacher's thousands al system is, th of its progrei above useful that opportu chanics' Inst Applicatio tarp at ti Chancery-lai BR] 64, WET UPTO facto! established PAINT, at dark Choco fore, peculis the Weather -Sluice. gates, also a cure Vermin. I more than Grass Greet Anti-corrosi 30s. for P Paints, viz. Lead, Slate, Bright Red, These Paint quire only t per gallon. The Rect all Lamps fading light N. B. IA to be heated T( BY Order c on the 14 o'clock p Rornford THE 13UE " (6 . 11 g , gii tening, staff and ridge t adapted for and others. Catalogu Office, 67, Office, at t The Lot Office of Aug. DE SIRA The Estate month o named, burgh, i T HE of ti beautiful d and most for residen lands of Si nearly cqi bounded o Alnese, an southern e ducing eat other cm] About fot i 5 situate( both the desirable s With Chau The gn session of Lion, and interspers, Mansion 1 public roc Bed-room Hot, and other cow age, and c houses, su Shrubber are Bunco of choice county. Th cessary cc shore. Distillery Kilns, ca be extend supplied, lent Malt tensive P - finery be ing and built on of excelle greasively The E tain abou and 177 wards of gross reo hug, beef thinning the Malt the garde that 35( be let at Plans conclude, the Prop or to Ro T x years, b' tfrected i Scurvey ny A cures been atu by this innumei benefit vomplet given it Sold St. Pau 54 ) Sae market 150; ( Venden prop. , by this