The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-31 00:00:00

sense. Has the King the right of appointing his Ministers? The Constitution of these king doms answers in the affirmative ; and then, we ask, where is the dictation in appointing one particular individual to one particular situation ? If the King had not the Constitutional Preroga tive of choosing his own advisers—how came the Treasury Journals to laud with so much eulogy the Monarch's selection of the late Mr. Canning as Premier, and to follow it up with such loud tongued praises of the nomination of Lord Gode rich as his successor ? What greater exercise of power, or prerogative, or constitutional right is there in appointing Mr. Herries, than in the se lection of Lord Goderich to the situation of Pre mier ? In short it is a mere waste of language to argue the matter on any such flimsy, illogical, and unconstitutional pretensions. If Mr. Her ries be nominated by the Premier, and approved of by the King, he must be supported, even though the generous Whigs should be forced to resign their places. To be sure it will be rather .a curious sight to see them march back to their old seats ; but there is a " vaulting ambition" which often o'erleaps itself, and so it has been with the consistent Whigs. That the Whigs are in a state of great consternation must be evident from the tone and language of their principal Journal for the last week or ten days ; and that they have used every effort, and would now make every sacrifice to retain their situations, is some thing more than matter of speculation. What, we ask, have we gained by their accession ? What are we to lose by their dismissal? We answer emphatically—Nothing. On the con trary, the thinking part of the community would hail it as a blessing, and the friends of our Pro testant Constitution as the safeguard of the nation. The Whig Journal has almost in so many words told us, that if Mr. Herries be con firmed in the office of Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Whigs must go out, as a matter of necessity. We should be glad to take them at their word ; but—Timeo Danaos.-31orning ,Post. The country is certainly much indebted to Chief Justice Best, for the impressive manner in which he called attention to the diseased state of our social system. That lie himself is very im perfectly acquainted with the causes of the evil which he deplores, and labours also under great misconception as to the facility with which it is possible to remedy the evil, is no doubt obvious enough. It is much easier to describe the evil, than to discover through a patient analysis the cause of it. Sir Wm. Best assumes that we owe an immense debt of gratitude to the Magistracy, who dispense justice gratuitously throughout the country : and assumes also, that without holding out the bribe of the Game Laws, we could not be in the enjoyment of this blessing. It is again maintained by others, that so long as the peasantry remain in their present state of desti tution, they will pursue poaching, which they do not look on as.a crime, and that poaching ine vitably leads all those who follow it to the com mission of crime in the long run. The people are trepanned as it were, through the instrumen tality of the Game _Laws, into the commission of what they would shrink from in the outset. The order, then, would seem to be this— poverty leads to poaching, and poaching to crime. , But what caused the poverty ? Now, if it can be shown that the Magistracy have reduced the people to poverty, the Magistracy are, of course, the authors of all the consequences which flow from that poverty - that is, are the causes of that appalling demoralization which now presents itself every where ; we should imagine that even Chief Justice Best would pause before he praised them again. Far be it from us to say that the Country Gentlemen of England were aware that the various Acts which they solicited and ob tained from the Legislature for the controul of the poor, would have the ultimate effect of con verting the peasantry into criminals. There are few persons who coolly contemplate the perpetra tion of evil. The Magistracy, like all other men, were fond of power, and never doubted their ability to exercise it beneficially for the community. Even the worst tyrants in History coveted power, for the most part, under the idea that it would enable them to do more extensive good. The country gentlemen were as firmly persuaded as Chief Justice Best is, that in their capacity of Magistrates they were conferring the greatest be nefit on their country, and that they could not possibly interfere with any thing without doing, good. When they destroyed the connection be tween labour and its reward they certainly could not be aware that they were at the same time de stroying the worth of .our agricultural population. When we turn to the accounts of the debates in Parliament, about the period when the system first came into operation which converted la bourers into paupers, we find men of the highest name expressing themselves in language that be trayed a lamentable ignorance of the principles of political science. iliben Mr. Whitbread brought iu a Bill to regulate the wages of labourers in husbandry, Mr. Pitt distinctly advocated the principle, the giving effect to which has caused all the mischief which is now so much deplored. 0 , Were the minimum (he said) fixed upon the standard of a large family, it might operate as an encouragement to idleness on one part of the community ; and if it were fixed on the standard of a smell family, those would not enjoy the be nefit of it for whose relief it wa s intended, What measure, then, could be found to supply this defect? Let us (said he) make relief, in cases where there are a number of children, a matter o f right and an honour, .instead of a ground for o pprobrium and contempt. This will make a large fami l y a blessin g , and not a CPTsP ; and this will draw 3 proper line of distinction between those who are atig to provide for themselves by their labour. and .those who, after having enriched their country with a num be r of children, He have a o,r ." claim zipon its assistance f their support afterwards distinctly points to • the .du grailtir,g re lief according to the number of chijdreP, as . e a me asure which would almost proce 3 min nium in England. Mr. Whitbread, whose views seem to have been equal 4 unenlightened, thought that the wisest course for Government, in stead of putting the relief afforded to such on the footing of a charity, supplied, perhaps, from a pre carious find, and dealt with a reluctant hand, would be at once to institute a liberal premium for the encouragement of large families. Mr. ?FPx *steered clear of any positive absurdity, by ex- Pressing himself in a vague and genera l manner, but h e knew just as little of the matter as either of the other two. Had premiums for large fa nimill'itas been instituted, Paddy would ha ve carried on tne Pri • zes to a dead certainty. What a very narrow escape Paddy has had 'of being a Pa triot of the first Order. Unfortunately for him, his prolific powers 'have been called into exercise at a time when the admiration of Mr. Pitt's social philosophy is rathe r on the wane. It is hardly fair, h o wever, to single out Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Whitbread, for animadversion, when a consultation of the Records of Parliamentary e l oquen ce will amply prove that the « wisdom Of Parliament" loses its character almost as ra pidly as ale runs into vinegar in hot weather., ft is some justification of the Country Gentle men, that the course they pursued with such un fortunate effect was recommended to them by a man on whose wisdom they had as much confi dence as a good Catholic has in the infallibility of the Pope. What we complain of is, not that the Country Gentlemen should not on all occasions be distinguished for absolute wisdom, but that they should have the power to try expe riments on the people. Every fresh Act of Parliament clothes them with fresh powers, so that their folly as well as their wisdom has ample scope to display itself in every direction. Their care extends to everything, their controul is un limited. " While the Parish Courts (says Mr. Brereton) were in use, the Justices of the Peace met quarterly, and their pro ceedings were in due course of law; but in modern times, and especially within the last thirty years, the irregular Petty Sessions Court, assuming to itself the powers, and disregarding the forms of the Quarter Sessions, arrogating to itself the rights, and dispensing the duties of the Parish Authorities, has demolished the Court of lower orb,' and left it little more than a useless, or (perhaps, in its present fallen state) mischievous wreck and ruin. This modern Court of Equity, though now iu many parts of the country it meets weekly, though the number of Justices has been multiplied twenty-fold, and though there is no indisposi tion on their part to activity,* yet groans under the weight and pressure of its business. Such is the mode of con ducting business, Or such the nature of the business which the Justices affect to conduct, that at many adjournments, though they exhaust their attention, burn out their candle, and are left in the dark,' there is a residuum of cla mour and insolence, which are not usually practised before rank or fortune or talent. Business is here disposed of by summary convictions, without course of law—with hear ing only one side—without a precedent—without oath of witnesses, or the intervention of a Jury—without a'record, or even a reporter, and on parole authority, by winks, frowniug, and countenance,' and yet the most unremitting , assiduity is baffled by the accumulation of intricate and dif ficult causes. Is it that crime, and misdemeanour, and profligacy, are here at a premium ? or is it that this mo dern Court has no precise boundaries and limitations to its power, or that one Court attempts to discharge the various duties of fifty ? or is it that this Court is the common but tery for a whole neighbourhood—the begging hatch at which the Justices cut and carve for the labouring po pulation reduced, in many districts, through their in tervention, to a solid mass of dependent pauperism?— These are the causes which have contributed to accumulate business, as it is called, at this upstart Court, though the lawless proceedings of congregations of dicasts, converted the industrious labourers of the country, first, into eleemosynary pensioners of the Justices, then into the despised paupers of the parish ; then, of course, into gangs of poachers, pilferers, and fe lons; and lastly, into convicts, transports, penitents, refu gees, and cast-aways, to the scandal of the nation. Alter and amend as you please the Game Laws or Criminal Laws of the country—yet, if you allow a local Court thus con stituted and thus acting, to modify at pleasure the general code, you will have poachers and paupers, and criminals in abundance. This Court has, for the last thirty years and more, been the very essence of rural police and juris prudence ; and however sore a subject of discussion it may be to the thousands of local arbitrators scattered over the face of the country, it would be absurd to attempt any exa mination of the present state of the rural population, with out bringing this Court, its history, its constitution, its proceedings, its usurpation by law and without law, into full operation." The country is to be pitied, which has an in stitution like that of Justices of the Peace, which enables every crotchety, or over active or tyran nical, individual to exercise his powers at the ex pence of the community. Let men once find their way into the Commission, and they will soon carve out work for themselves. We plume ourselves on nothing so much in the course of our Editorial labours, as on having contributed not a little to thwart an attempt of some most worthy Members of Parliament, a few years ago, to favour Scotland with the Sessional powers of English Justices. Would to God that we could assist in liberating England from this malignant excrescence.—/bid. Had Mr. Canning lived, we should have seen whether his plans of retrenchment would have been carried into effect, or what his plans were. Our opinion is that he could not have carried any retrenchment plan into effect that would have been of any avail. No man would say that either the army or the navy should be reduced, if they contemplated for a moment, the present relative situation of England with other countries, more particularly her relations with her formidable rivals, France, Russia, and the United States. And as to the retrenchment in the Civil or Cle rical Departments, those who are in possession of the good things in those departments would have taken care that, sooner than he should have lopped off one iota belonging to them they would have shoved him out of his place. Would the Chancery, the Bench, the Court, or the pen sioners, have agreed that he should have fallen foul on either their salaries, their perquisites, or their patronage ? Mr. Canning professed much as to retrenchment, but this, in our opinion, he did in order the more effectually to please, and probably delude, the people. He knew that the only way was to tickle them with honeyed words, but he knew that retrenchment in the quarters that could best bear it was out of the question. But the word retrenchment has become quite hackneyed with us. It signifies nothing, or if it does, it should be construed in a contrary sense to the general acceptation of the word, and mean regular additions to the Civil, Pension, and other Lists.—Morning Herald. The affairs of Portugal are drawing to a rapid crisis, but how that crisis may terminate it is impos sible at present to foresee. An Evening Paper talks of the necessity of obtaining a guarantee from the Royal Absolutist now at Vienna, but we are in clined to think it would be quite as difficult to make him observe good faith as his uncle at Madrid. Should Miguel be once invested with sovereign power, there is every reason to believe that the Constitution would not last a week, and what then is to be the policy of England? Shall we, after being mainly instrumental in giving char tered freedom to the Portuguese, passively see our own system destroyed, or attempt to vindi cate it by an army ? In the one case we might remain at peace with the nations of the continent, but our influence over Portugal would be lost ; • in the other, we could go to war only in viola tion of the principle which we have always pro fessed tQ act upon—that of not interfering in the internal government of any country. The osten sible object of our sending troops to Portugal was to repel invasion, not support the charter. Can we then, with any thing like consistency, employ military force in defence of that Charter, if the Portuguese themselves are disposed to abandon i t ? That collectively they a re not ardent abet tors of the cause of freedom is quite obvious , el se . th er e would not have found arraog those been so many opponents who would seem the most warmly to espouse it. The Princess Regent herself appears and the to be faithless, th e greater part of her Cabinet hostile, people at large ut terly indifferent, or directly opposed to the Con stitution. The course which we ought to pur sue in such a state of things must be a momen tous question with our Ministers. To follow up the policy of Mr. Canning, we must, in all probability, resort to force. To abandon that policy under present circumstances, would be to * The late Mr. Secretary Windham used to observe, that he did not kno w a more mischievous animal in the creation than an active Justice of the Peace. abandon all influence in Portugal. But here it remains to be considered, whether, in support of this influence, it would be expedient or advisable to engage in au extensive and, probably, a long war.—/bid. The affairs of Portugal continue to attract at tention. From the latest information received from Rio de Janeiro, it would appear that the intention of Don Pedro to revisit Europe had been abandoned, contrary to what had been so confidently affirmed. The Treaty of Peace with Buenos Ayres is said to have been hastily con cluded, and the reason assigned was the receipt of intelligence from Europe, and the consequent determination of the Emperor immediately to revisit Portugal. Every preparation was made, and even the royal baggage was embarked, when the news arrived of the illness of the Infanta Re gent, an event which led the Emperor to aban don his intentions, and in order at once to put an end to intrigue in Portugal, and to prove his attachment to the Brazilians, to appoint his brother, Don Miguel, Regent, in case of the In fanta's death or resignation, while be, him self, should remain in America. The only con dition said to be imposed on Don Miguel is the maintenance of the National Charter, except in so far as it may be modified by the Cortes. Such is the news received by private letters. Of the degree of weight to be attached to these state ments we must leave our readers to judge. re h e intelligence seems to be confirmed by the demi official announcements of the Moniteur of the intention of Don Miguel to proceed to Portu gal. We have no fears of the peace of the Peninsula being hazarded by such an event ; on the contrary, it seems eminently calculated to consolidate it. It is not to be supposed that the Prince will assume the supreme power in Portugal without sufficient guarantees that the order of things established by his brother shall not be disturbed in consequence.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.— Thomas Thompson was committed to Bridewell for three months for having a crow-bar in his possession, and not giving a satisfactory account of himself. He seas stopped by Lock, one of the city night patrols, at two o'clock in the morning, in Maidenhead-court, Alders gate-street. _ _ _ John Wheeler, the driver of the hackney-chariot, No. 895, was fined 20s. for (hiving furiously down Holborn hill on Sunday morning. He had completely lost the ma nagement of the horses, who ran upon the pavement in Fleet-market, to the great terror of his fare, a lady taking her first airing after her confinement. BOW-STREET.—In the Chronicle of Wednesday ap peared an account of some proceedings at Bow-street, arising out of a charge of Mr. Humphreys, Riding-master, at Lambeth, against Mr. Henry Parr Pope, relative to a gig and gig harness. We have since been waited on by Mr. Pope, who complains that the account is partial and incor rect in the extreme, and calculated, if not corrected, to in jure him. Mr. P. has left with us the following statement of the transaction. Not a word was said of his being a traveller for the Sun Newspaper, which he has not been for a considerable time, and no admonition was delivered to him by the Magistrate : MR. POPE'S STATEMENT. " A horse and gig were hired from Mr. Humphreys, and the horse not answering the purpose was sent back, with 101. on account, and with an offer to purchase the gig. No debt was contracted at the inn at Woburn, the horse belonging to Mr. P. himself (which was worth 40 guineas) and the gig were left at Woburn, and Mr. P. wrote to his partner in town, saying where they were left, and requesting they might be seat for, as he pursued his journey by coach. This letter was never received ; and the horse and gig were sold five weeks afterwards, to defray the expences incurred, and sold for less than a fourth of their actual value. On Mr. P.'s return to town, Mr. Humphreys refused to take the sum Mr. P. had offered, and would insist on having so much per week, from_the the hired time _ gi g was up to Cho star - erry:',...- arrived town. This Mr. P. refused ; and after a lapse of a year and a half, Mr. H. took out a summons. No conversa tion whatever took place as represented between Mr. P.'s father and Bond, Mr. P.'s father being out of town. In fact, Bond never spoke during the time the investigation was going on. Mr. Halls said, there was nothing whatever to substantiate the case, and told Mr. P. he was discharged." ,Sir Gregor Gregor, as we stated yesterday, has not as yet been able to procure the required bail. Messrs. Williams and Perrin, the two gentlemen named as his sure ties, and who were willing on Monday last to come forward in his behalf, have, we understand, declined to appear in the business, although we believe that the objections raised by the solicitor of Lieutenant Spong, with respect to the competency of Mr. Perrin to become responsible for so large a sum as that which the - Magistrate required, exist no longer. The General, in the meantime, has shifted his quarters in the prison, from " the Cadgers'-yard " to a small paved passage, surrounded on all sides by walls of immense height and thickness. The place is allotted for the exercise of mis conducted apprentices, to whom the punishment of solitary confinement might serve as a warning for their future con duct. In the centre of the massive door that leads from this passage is a wooden grating, through which the pri soner may catch a partial glimpse of passing objects. In all other respects the place is perfectly solitary. The Gene ral, however, prefers the loneliness of his present situation to the coarse and noisy merriment of the " Cadgers'-yard," where the increasing familiarity of his companions began to get somewhat troublesome; added to which, the greasy rogu e s having learned that their new associate was a Gene ral and also a Prince, made all sorts of extravagant demands upon his pocket, and even took to their old vocation of prizing, in order to obtain some relic to remind them of him whose society they once enjoyed. In fact, they looked upon the General's arrival among them in the light of a " God-send," vnd as long as lie remained with them they took special care, on all occasions, to profit by the circum stance. The General, however, desiring to be " left alone to his glory," was accommodated with the place we have described ; and here the Prince of Poyais may be seen, stripped of the inciimbrance of a coat, walking to and fro within the narrow limits of " the Apprentices'-yard," from the ringing of the first bell in the morning until it sounds for the last time at night, as a summons to " turn in." THE PRIG AND HIS PALS—F. Pitt, a notorious cracks man, who returned a short time ago from transportation, was brought before Sir. HALLS, charged by Elizabeth Townshend with committing a violent assault upon her person. It appeared that Townshend had lived with Pitt, but h e h a d left her, and was now cohabiting with a female named Margaret Reynolds ; and the latter, who is one of the m o s t d es p era t e of he r sex-- a perfect virago, as the sequel will show, came forward to give evidence for Pitt. Pitt, it appeared, had se duced Townshend from the protection of her father, who is a respectable tradesman ; and a few days ago, wishing to house, itt mcsahee in as beat her s evere ly, w u about to remove her goret sn into a her cart,father's 1 n p e and locked 'up the apartments. —The Magistrate ordered Pitt to find bail, and Ford , the officer, Cainea up t o hi m t o remove him to the lock-up room. At that moment Reynolds clenched her fist, and sprang towards T owns h en d with the fury of a tigress, and said, " Curse yo u , if h e i s sent down, we will both go down together, and she struck Townsheml a tremendous blow under the eye, and drove her head within a short distance of the face of the Magistrate.— Mr. HALLS ordered the " fury" to be placed immediately at the bar, and Townshend having given evidenc e of the assault, Mr. Halls ordered Reynolds to be locked up till she found bail to answer the charge at the Sessions.— As she was leaving the office, she turned round, an d said to Townshend, " By heavens I'll do for you; if I don't stab you, and run a knife into your heart's blood, may I be struck dead'." She was dragged to the lock-up room, cursing and swearing. She , had not been locked up many minutes, before a tall gaunt-looking woman, named Isabella Harwood, was conveyed into the same cell, on a charge of assault, and soon afterwards the office was again thrown into confusion by loud cries of " Murder !" Ford, the gaoler, instantly proceeded to learn the cause, and lie found Harwood bleeding very profusely from her eyes an d c h ee k s ; an d sh e said that she had been used in that dreadful manner by Margaret Reynolds.— The face of the poor wretched woman was in a most deplorable state, and Reynolds avowed that she had done it because Harwood had abused her. Mr. HALLS told F or d t h at l ie oug ht no t t o .h ave pu t the woman in the same room with Reynolds ; but the officer said that Harwood was very desponding, and had threatened to hang herself, and he thought it prudent to put her in a room where there was another prisoner, to prevent her pu tting her threat into execution.—Reynolds was hand . cuffed, by order of the Magistrate, and placed at the bar; she was committed upon this charge also, and ordered to find bail, herself in 1001. and two sureties in 50/. and to give 48 hours' notice of the bail.—This in famous woman has had three of her " fancy men" banged, and several have been transported.—The prisoner, Pitt, is the husband of the woman who, it will be recollected, was some years ago charged with murdering a sailor, by throwing him out of her bed-room window. HATTON-GARDEN.--Yesterday, in consequence of the publicity given to the fact of an immense quantity of jewellery, consisting of gold and silver watches, trinkets of great value, gold rings, &c., together with other property, such as lace, silks, and crapes, having been found at the house of the wife of the notorious lkey Solomons, in Pet ticoat-lane, a vast number of tradesmen, who have re cently been robbed, came to this office to see if they could identify any of the property thus strangely brought to light. Amongst the number was a Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, re siding in Wood-street, Spitalfields, who, on Saturday night last was robbed of 14 gold and silver watches, gold rings, seals, brooches, &c. Limbrick, the officer, in obedience to the orders of the Magistrates, took every pains to gratify the wishes of the various visitants by an exposition, as far as practicable under present circumstances, of the heterogeneous mass of goods; but, from their multiplicity and variety, it was found impossible to give satisfiction, when this day was appointed for a general inspection, against which time the goods were to be arranged in regular order. Three pieces of lace and a few articles of jewellery were, however, re cognized by a tradesnian whose name did not transpire, as his property, and stolen from his house within the last Week only. The base coin found upon the premises of 3lrs. Solomon's, consisting entirely of sovereigns, amounted to the sum of 600. It will be recollected, that to get at the base coin, watches, and trinkets, it was found necessary to break up the ground-floor. Of this circumstance Mri. Solomons takes advantage, and declares that she was totally ignorant of any property being concealed in her house, until it was exhibited by the officers; but amongst the watches thus found was one actually going when Kirby, the officer, took it into possession. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---Yesterday Captain John Jebb, late of the 16th 1-4;ht Dragoons, was brought to this office upon a warrant, granted at the instance of Col. Lygon, of the same regiment, upon the charge of endeavouring to provoke the Colonel to fight a duel. Colonel Lygon said that he was compelled to take the present proceedings in consequence of the hostile feeling Captain Jebb entertained against him, arising from a court-martial held in 1822 on Captain Jebb; since which period the defendant had taken every opportunity of in sulting him in public. On the 27th April last he was passing down St. James's-street, when the Captain came to him, and nourishing a large stick over his head, said he should insult him wherever he met him. The Colonel in consequence, applied for a warrant or► the following clay, but the officer had not been able to meet with Capt. Jebb until yesterday. A Mr. Coventry, a friend of the Colonel's, bore testi mony to the conduct of Captain Jebb, which was evidently intended to produce a breach of the peace. Captain Jebb said that when he met Colonel Lygon he only repeated the sentiment of the whole army as regarded Col. Lygon's conduct at the court-martial, when the laws of his country were violated. Colonel Lygon replied that he acted as President of the court-martial, and did no more than his duty. Captain Jebb said that his Majesty had been pleased to direct that the sentence of that court-martial should be re considered. The Magistrate said that he had nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the proceedings at the court-martial; but it was his duty, from the facts brought before him, to order the Captain to find securities to keep the peace. He required two sureties in 6001. each, and the Captain himself in 1200/. _ Captain Jebb complained of the hardship of being called upon to find securities, when most of his friends were from town, and for an offence committed so far back as last April. Here Colonel Lygon said something to the Magistrate in an under tone. Captain Jebb—Ah, that's the way he whispered Sir Herbert Taylor at the court-martial. He is a coward, and no gentleman. The Magistrate said that the Captain's conduct there was such as to compel him to demand heavier securities, and he must therefore find two responsible persons as bail for his keeping the peace towards Colonel ,Lygon in 10001. each, and enter into recognizances himself to the amount of 2,0001. Captain Jebb remained in custody at the time the office closed. QUEEN-SQUARE.--For the last fortnight the neigh bourhood of Little College-street and Ward-street, near Westminster Abbey, has been a scene of considerable tumult, owing to the following circumstances :—lt ap peared from the statement of Mr. Thomas, a solicitor, in Gray's-inn-lane, who made an application yesterday morn ing to G. W. MARRIOTT, Esq., to grant him a peace officer, that a number of houses in those streets had be longed originally to General Baker, but bad latterly come into the possession of C. N. Pallmer, Esq., the Member for Surrey. The leases of the houses had expired about a fortnight ago, and the tenants bad quitted. The property was incumbered when it came into Mr. Pallmer's posses sion, who had paid off the mortgages, and was in posses sion of the title-deeds; but a number of persons had within the last few days broken into the houses, and for cibly kept possession. He had been empowered by Mr. Pallmer to act as his agent ; and he now wished for a peace-officer to eject the parties in possession. Mr. MA It R lorr instantly granted the request; and Wood berry and 'Neale, two officers of this establishment, were despatched with Mr. Thomas, to take possession of the houses. Some of these usurpers forcibly resisted, and it was no easy matter to throw the furniture into the street. A large mob of persons collected, but the officers contrived to effect their object without any serious obstacle. Those persons who surrendered up quiet poistssion were allowed a few days to remove their furniture, on a promise to quit. No sooner bad Mr. Thomas quitted the office with the officers, when a barber, named James Roberts, was brought up charged by a Mrs. Champ, residing in' some of the houses, with an assault and battery on the previous evening. This was a very long case, and occupied the Magistrate a considerable time. It appeared that the parties, the witnesses, &c. had all conceived an opinion that there was no owner to the houses And that having once got possession they had a right to keep it. One of the houses had been stormed, and an opposite party got in. There was an acrimonious dispute between the parties about " my door" and " my passage ;" some yards belonged to two families, but it was quite im possible to make head or tail of the dispute; suffice it to say, that the assault was distinctly proved. A person mined Fell, who had got possession of two of the houses, and had actually put a tenant into one of them, deposed that Roberts bad only pushed the complainant. Another witness, on being questioned by the Magistrate as to what business he had in the house, said that his solicitor had recommended him not to give up the key until the rightful owner came. The Barber in his defence made a very long speech, de clared it was all a piece of spite : he never could have done such an hact, he only pushed her, and sitivated as be vas, be scorned to strike a woman. A respectable gentleman here stepped forward, and stated to the Magistrate, that the disturbance which had lately taken place in that neighbourhood, was increasing in a most alarming degree, and the defendant was one of the most riotous. Mrs. Champ was a very peaceable woman. The defendant was ordered to find bail, and give 24 hours' notice : he was then removed to take possess►on of another kind of residence much against his inclination. WORSHIP-STREET.—A decently-dressed mechanic complained of the termagancy of his better half, who by his instrumentality was placed at the bar to answer for her numberless misdeeds.—Benedict detailed, his story with a countenance and tone of the most woe-begone description. He was told there was no help.—But he had taken his fair rib " for better—for worse !" and, therefore, the case was discharged. HEAD POLICE OFFlCE„—Tuesday, three ra kish-looking personages, namely Paddy _Kelly, Bridget (his wife), and Terence 0' Flyn, the latter a KerrYrnan, but apparently as if he had been last on Palmerstown-green, ushered themselves, sans ceremonie, into the Board-room before the Bench, all prepared to swear most devoutly to the veracity of the contents of the following elegant speci men of Terence's orthographical and legal acquirements:— County of the Sity of Dublin, Path Kelly came be to With fore me on of his Ma - jeesties Justicis of the race and rnaketh oat on the Holy Evangelist that he will never strek or imprison his wife unlest in case of drunki ness, as they are both prone to it Biddy Kelly, or evor spoke to Terence Flinne and his wife, and he further saith that he has never committed any breach of his mattrimo nol vows against Mary Kelly his wife since he Was marred. Terence Flinne has accused Biddy Kelly of keepin a cull Terence Flinn acknollegges he does not knoe nothing im prudent of Brigget Kelly. The whole trio being evidently in the state which two of them were ready to swear they were prone to, were in stantly expelled the office,....Dublin Evening POSt. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. Among the letters sold at the recent sale of Autographs by Mr. Sotheby, were the following, which we have translated from the French, in which they were originally written. The first is by James 11. when Duke of York, to Mar shal Turenne, and its contents establish, beyond controversy, the share which Lord Clarendon (then Chancellor) had in the sale of Dunkirk. It is a valuable historical document, and has not ever been made public : " St. James's, Sept. 13, 1662. " I cannot refrain from writing to acquaint you, that the desire I entertain for the termina tion of this affair about Dunkirk, obliges me to seek with the Lord Chancellor every expedient imaginable for its completion, and that he desires it as ardently as myself. Nothing interferes on our part but the want of money, which the King, my brother, cannot procure in the present pos ture of his affairs ; and we know of no other means to procure it except to issue our com mands to the city of London to negociate a loan for relieving us in our present state. In accept ing the terms which the King of France offers, I can assure you that in this pressing necessity the King, my brother, would have accepted all the conditions the King of France could have wished, it being my greatest desire, and that of the Chancellor, to cement a bond of the closest friendship with him—which I flatter myself you will at once acknowledge, from the resolution which the King, my brother, has taken to part with Dunkirk--a step to which I would never have consented, if it had not been for a King whom I regard next to the interests of the King, my brother. I beseech you to exert yourself as much as you can to bring about the conclusion of this affair. I likewise recommend to your at tention the affair of my regiment, and pray you to write no more to me with any ceremony, for you may look upon me as entertaining for you much friendship. " A. mon Cousin le Visconte de Turenne." This letter is without a signature, but it car ries internal evidence of its authenticity, and is in James's well-known hand-writing. The following is from Marshal d'Estrades, the French Ambassador at London, to the same (M. de Turenne), to whom the former letter is addressed. It is dated London, Feb. 20, 1662. It is curious, from recent events with respect to Portugal, to read the French Ambassador's com plaint of the apathy of the British Monarch with respect to that country. " I have received your letters of the Bth and 11th of this month at the same time. I have spoken to the King of England (Charles IL) with respect to the officers and soldiers which could be sent to him if he pleased to give them employment, or to defray the expetices of their embarkation. He told me that he could not do so : that he had destined for this service three thousand Scotch soldiers with their own officers, and that he has kept them in pay for the last three months, waiting to embark, which he is making every exertion to hasten, in order to pre pare against the bad news which I have commu nicated to him from your letter of the 11th. He does not at all relish the proposition I have made of withdrawing 2,000 men from Tanjer (Tan giers) and ordering them to join the 3,000 that are about to leave this country. He appears to me to prefer the preservation of Tangier to that of Portugal. I doubt if after this succour he will trouble himself about sending more troops out, and unless some more close treaty be en tered into between the two Kings, to make them exert themselves with greater energy in the com mon cause, the affairs of Portugal will be but feebly supported. You will find ill the in closed all that I have communicated regarding the reports which are circulated here about the guarantee ; and they are followed by the many advices I have given the King of England on that subject. He thinks he ought to be held in greater estimation by the King (of France) than the Dutch, and I have found him rather delicate in that point, and lie waits, apparently, to see its result before he comes to any determination. He continues in his speech and actions very moderate, and desires passionately the friendship of the King. " D'ESTRADES." The following letter is from Devereux, Earl of Essex, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, to the Duke de Bouillon, dated December 10, 1598, and is at once a specimen of his epistolary powers, in the original French, whence it is translated, and a proof of the ardour of the writer in the cause of the Reformed Religion : " By the paper* which accompanies this, you will see what we think of the state ofyour affairs, and the conversations we hold in matters gene rally. Explain to me, I beseech you, what you think of both. If you think us in error, put us in the right road, and if we be not there already, let not your scruples or partiality prevent you from telling us so. I exhort the Duke and Marshal de Bouillon, to conduct this affair with the greatest caution and prudence ; and I like wise exhort him, as my dearest brother and most honoured friend, to assist in strengthening the cause of our (the Protestant) religion, and as far as may be in his power, to unite with us in maintaining it. Let no one see this letter but yourself, and permit no person to decypher the accompanying but your most confidential Se cretary. " ESSEX." * A letter in cypher, since lost, accompanied this letter. A woman named Ballinamallard, in this county, not forty years of age, and not twenty married, was put to bed last week of her 25th child.—Enniskillen Reporter. ACCIDENT AT THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE. e —Yesterday, at one o'clock, Mill er , a wor kman to watch the works, f e ll i n t o one of the coffer-dams, a depth of 25 feet, and was im mediately buried in the mud at the bottom ; although the accident was perceived by other men it was som e t i me b e f ore th e poor fellow could be extri cate d, an d un f or t u nately too late. CO RONER'S lNQUEsT,Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was h e ld a t t h e Queen's Head, Gr een Arbour -court, Golden-lane, on the body of Ro bert Tilley, before J. W. Unwin, Esq. It ap peared that the deceased entered the house on Monday evening, about half-past seven, accom panied by two females ; after remaining there som e time, he fell on the floor, where he was left by the women who accompanied him. The landlord, on going. into the tap-room, observed the deceased, who appeared to be in a lifeless state. He sent for a surgeon of the name of Jackson, living in the neighbourhood, but before he arrived the unfortunate man had ceased to breathe. The surgeon, on being examined, gave i t as his opinion that the cause of his death was apoplexy. Several other witnesses were exa mined, but their evidence led to the same con clusion. The Coroner summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visita tion of God." Lynn SHERIFF OF SURREY's COURT, HORSE- MONGER-LANE. TRESPASS.......PEA RCE V. CARPENTER, &C. Yesterday a Jury was empanelled before Mr. ABBOTT, Under-Sheriff of Surrey, and Mr. BARNE-. WALL, his assessor, to determine the•amount of da mages which the plaintiff in this cause was entitled to, for a trespass committed by the defendants. Mr. CHITTY opened the pleadings. The decla ration stated, that this was an action of trespass, committed by the defendants, who unlawfully en tered the plaintiff's timber-yard, on the 15th of February, seized his stock in trade, of which, to gether with his account-books, papers, &c. they kept possession until the 28th April following, to his great loss and injury, &c. An action had been brought to recover compensation in the Court of King's Bench, when the defendants suffered judg ment to go by default. Damages laid at 2,0001. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE stated the case. The plaintiff, Mr. Mark Pearce, was a respectable young man, who had lately commenced business as a tim ber-merchant, in New Park-street, in the parish of St. Saviour. The defendants were also gentlemen of respectable rank in life; one of them, Mr. Car penter, possessed considerable property, and resided near Paddington; another of them, Mr. Hugh Thomas, was an attorney ; and a third, Mr. Dyson, was also an attorney. The injury for which Mr. Pearce now sought compensation was for a trespass, committed by them, and other persons acting under their immediate direction. The Jury, after consulting a few minutes, return ed a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5004 THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Aug. 'A. At this day's market which was moderately well sup-- plied, and rather numerously attended. by buyers ; each kind of meat met with a steady sale, at the following prices per stone of Bib. to sink the offals : Beef. 3s. M. to 4s. Bd. Veal 4s. 9d.'to ss. 4d. Mutton 3 6 46 I Pork 4 2 5 4 Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. 2d The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutton, the best Lamh,„ Pork, and Veal, 2d. per stone higher than those of this day se'n night ; in prices of inferior Lamb no alteration. Some of the Sheep, Lambs, and Beasts, but not a great many, lett the mar ket unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—Aug. 29. Beef 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. 1 Veal*. 4s. 841. to ss. Od. blutten 4 0 4 6 I Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb A great supply, and a dull trade, at drooping prices. STEYNING MARKET.—Aug. 27. Beef ...—...—.-- 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Vea1 .,,..,,.,.,..... Os. Od. to Os. Od. :Mutton ......... 310 4 8 I Pork -- 0 0 0 0 Lamb A good supply, and a sluggish trade. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Aug. 28. Beef..--- 4s. Od. to 4s. Bd. 48. Od. to ss. 2d. I Mutton 310 4 8 0 0 0 0 Lamb 2d. to ss. ed. A good supply, and a sluggish trade. CHICHESTER MARKET.—Aug. 29. Beef 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. 4s. 4d. to ss. al. Mutton --... 3 10 4 S 0 0 0 U Lamb Od. to 4s. 10d. Supply of both Fat and Lean Stock tolerably good, and trade with every thing but Store Pigs, which were in demand, dull, at drooping prices. RUMFORD MARKET.-Aug. 29. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef 3 6 4 8 1 Veal Mutton 3 6 410 Pork 4 0 5 2 , Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. Od. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 36s ; Quarter old PigelOs. to 15s. each. ' Supply moderate, and trade somewhat brisk. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Per Quarter. Blandford --- Brigg..... .. Cambridge,........ Chard WNW VOYMPOOM. Huntingdon —.,.... Louth .—,---..,. Newark Norwich Nottingham —,— Peterborough „ Plymouth .„,..,..... Sherborne „,........., Uppingham „........ Wisbech —,,,......., York—..----„.... 1 Wheat. S. to S. 54 60 56 76 58 63 58 64 59 64 53 61 61 66 58 60 56 66 Barley. s. to s. 40 3t 38 33 44 35 38 34 40 38 40 34 38 Oats. S. to 8. 25 32 - 25 24 32 24 30 22 28 25 28 27 37 23 26 30 40 30 34 25 28 38 46 Beans. S. to S. 58 61 52 61 56 64 37 38 :30 36 44 48 30 35 24 •l 9 25 30 45 48 46 50 62 56 50 52 52 61 39 40 54 .59 54 65 48 • bt) 56 60 32 36 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Aug. 28. There was a good supply of Wheat, a large arr i va l o f • Oats, and a fair quantity of other Grain. The weather being fine caused the trade to rule extremely dull for all kinds of Grain ; fine Wheat was 2s. per quarter lower, and other descriptions were almost unsaleable. Oats and Shelling were both rather cheaper. English Beans were scarce, and obtained more money, but Egyptian Beans continued very dull sale. In Rapeseed very little doing, and prices muds the same. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Healing, Foreign 14d. to 15d....English 151 d. to IGd. per et' Shelling 33s. to 355. per load. Rapeseed, English, 201. to 241. Foreign, —l. to —/. per last. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.--Aug. 29. At per lb. sinking the offal. 4,014 Sheep...—. 44,d. to 6d. 33 Calves. 51d. to 7d. 503 Cattle 31 , 6 150 Pigs --- 4 5k 1,007 Lambs 41d. to 6d. MANCHESTER POTATOE MA Rl{ ET—Aug. 29. Potatoes, ss. Od., ss. 6d. and 6s. Od. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, Us. Od., Os. Od., and Os. per ditto ; Turnips. is. Od. '76.6d. and Bs. Od. per load of 16 pecks ; Onions, 15s. Od., 15s. fice., and 16s. per 12 score. - MANCHESTER YAR. No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20..11 to 12 30 121 13t 40...17 18 MulecopTwist} 30 11; 121 for warp 40.~14 15 50 17 19 tiO 20 22 70 —24 26 80..28 31 MARK r. —A ug. 28. 'SO— 11 to le 40 12 13 50 16 17 60 174 181) 70 ...—,.— 912 SO 24 26 100 .-- 30 22 .120 34 36 '10._.., 8 9 14 911 18 9i 10 2▪ 4 .---. 10 11 Mule Cop Weft.. Weft from waste .... BIRTH. On thee 30th inst. at Great St. Helens, Mrs. John Meadows White, of a son. ➢TARRIED. On the 30th inst. Mr. George Westlake, solicitor, of Chelsea, to Augusta, third daughter of Mr. Carter Drapers solicitor. _ _ On the 30th inst. at St. Dionis Backchurch, London, Frederick Harrison, of Bow Church-yard, to Marianne, third daughter of the late John Lashbrooke, Esq. of Trinity-square. On - the3oth inst. at Hampstead, by the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, Mr. Wm. Pownall, of Staple Inn, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Henry White, Esq. of the Mount, Hampstead. On the 28th inst. by the Rev. Neville White, the Rev. Benjamin Cubitt, of Sloley, in the county of Norfolk, to Miss White, of Bracondale-hill, near Norwich. On the 28th inst. at St. Martin's•in-the-Fields, by the Rev. David Morgan, Wm. Dallas, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Louisa, only daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Barnes, of Bishopagate-street. On the 80th inst. at Compton, Berks, by the Rev. Head Pottinger, Mr. Wm. Knight, of Reading, to Dorothea Eliza, second daughter of Wm. Clarke, Esq. of the former place. DIED. On the 29th inst. at Peckham, Ann, wife of Mr. Ful brook, of Fenchurch-street. On the 29th inst. of apoplexy, Mr. W. Bampton of the firm of Peacock and Bampton, Salisbury-square, Fleet street, in the 48th year of his age. On the 29th inst. at the residence of his daughter, High-street, Shadwell, Charles Brenan, Esq. after a short illness of eight days only. On the 26th inst. at West Cowes, Carolina, daughter of John M. Winter, Esq. of Shenley, in the county nf Herts. On the 21st inst. Octavius Frederick, the infant son of Mr. W. B. Diamond, surgeon, Weston-house, St. Pancras. On the 27th inst. at Hampstead, John Robert, the eldest son of Henry Rodolph Wigley, of Essex-street, Strand, Esq. On the 28th inst. Mrs. Parr, wife:of Thomas Parr, Esq. Appleton, Cheshire. At Llandovery, after a few hours' illness, aged 80, the Rev. Morgan Jones, late of Bludbury, in the county of Berks. This venerable clergyman bad never been elevated above a Curacy, which he diligently served for half a century. By real economy, he had increased his paternal fortune to the amount of 18,0001. which he has left by his will to his relatives and next of kin, Messrs. Jones, the grand-children of D. Jones, Esq. banker, of the said town. On the 28th inst. at Hastings, the Honourable Orlando Bridgeman. On the 27th inst. at Langley Park, Jeminla Jane, the wife of Robert Harvey, aged 29. PRINTED and PUBLISH= by M. YOUNG, at the Sol-Onus, Nth M o Stand. 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