The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Time is the steady friend of truth, and a very little of it frequently serves to expose the most impudent fabrications. The Tory impostors, who have within these two days been sending round a ridiculous tale about the displeasure en- tertained by the Kiag's Government at the oc currences of Navarin, and the intention of Ministers to recall the British Admiral who con- ducted them, ;een; to have taken for granted that their story required confirmation, and forged, accordingly, the collateral falsehood that Admiral de Rigny was disapproved of, and would be dis graced by the French Government, as Sir E. Codrington was to be by this. The English part of the story was fast dying away, since the contradictions which appeared in this and other Journals, when the Paris Papers last night brought us intelligence which disposes with just as little ceremony- of all the speculations as to Admiral De Rigny and his Sovereign. The " fact" so much relied upon by the Opposition prints, viz. that the French King had resolved to mark his discontent with the conduct of the French squadron by withholding every badge of honour and distinction from the officers, turns out to be the same kind of fact as the Minis terial condemnation of Admiral Codring ton,—that is to say, no " fact" at all. — Admiral De Rigny is raised to the rank of Vice-Admiral, his senior Captain, Baron I'lilius, to that of Rear-Admiral, .and all the other French captains have been promoted in the Legion of Honour. The satisfaction of the French Government has likewise overflowed upon the officers of the allied squadrons. Sir Edward Codrington P, n d Count Heiden are presented with the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Louis; Captain Fellowes, of the Dartmouth frigate, is named a Commander of the Legion of Honour ; and an the Captains, English and Russian, are decorated with the Military Order of St. Louis. So much for Tory " . facts. There is still, not a fact, but a distortion of one , rema inin g to be noticed. It was much insisted on by the prints of that congregation, that there must have been felt some serious pique on the part of the Rus sian Admiral against the British, from his not condescending to answer the note of thanks and approbation which Sir Edward addressed to him after the battle was over. Now it so happens, that by the etiquette of the Russian service, no formal return to such a letter could have been made by Count Heiden to his foreign command ing officer, until the pleasure of his Imperial Ma jesty had been taken upon the subject, and offi cially notified from home. This unanswered letter we apprehend to have been the last hope of the miserable Tories ; and it has cost us' a com passionate struggle to rob them of a delusion so consolatory.—Times. Hitherto all has gone on in France as favour ably as the most ardent friends of liberty could wish. The Paris Elections are all liberal ; and the Pro visional Bureaux named by the Government, have in most of the instances of which an ac count has yet been received, been changed. Great fears have been expressed here for the result of the elections on the whole, from the small num ber of the electors compared with the population. We possess no means of forming even a conjec ture on this matter. In a crisis like the present all ordinary calculation is baffled. When the indignation of .a people has been fairly roused, the suggestions of worldly prudence, timidity and caution, are not listened to. The tide of popu lar feeling sweeps. every thing before it ; an'-d--the refinements and subtleties of cunning Machiave liens, which, in periods of calm, might be suc cessful, are found quite unavailing. If even in the most distant provinces the traveller could find in none of the coffee-houses a Journal which was not 'liberal, from the complete ab sence of demand for all others, we may infer that the same feeling which has triumphed so signally at Paris and some other p o p ulous places is universally prevalent. If the Ultra Noblesse in the distant departments possess much (interest, one should think it would have ap peared in the partial circulation of Ultra Journals. But the matter will soon be no longer one of conjecture, for a few days must now bring us the result. Should, however, the majority of Deputies be illiberal, still the number of men of talents, and patriotism, and determination in the Chamber, coupled with the unequivocal mani festations of feeling against the system pursued by the Government, will give a prodigious moral power to the . Opposition, and thereby paralyse and intimidate the Ministry. It is time that nations should no longer be harassed and dis quieted by political quacks, who, instead of con tenting themselves with the proper functions of Government—that is, the protecting the people from external vielence, and "from encroaching on each other—are never happy but when they are busied in making the people something which they are not, and trying experiments on them, — Nations are constantly changing, from changes of circumstances. One stage of civilization is the parent of another. The exertion of indus try, the perfection of mechanical art to which it leads, and the accumulation of capital, are per ceptibly felt in the character and habits of a nation. It is not for Governments to do more than to follow this natural course of develop ment. Whenever they attempt to do vio lence to the inclinations of a people, to impede their activity, to restrain their inclinations, to give them new ways of thinking ,and so forth, they only betray to the world the secret ,of their own weakness. Who, possessed of a par ticle of common sense, would think of dragoon ing a people like the French into an admiration ctf the barbarism of the middle ages; and of communicating to a people, whose literature for a century past has been one continued satire on priesteradft and superstition, from the inexhaus- 1 Bible stores of reasoning and raillery of Bayle, down to the more pointed, though more super ficial, invectives of Voltaire—who, we say, would choose such a peopiq as subjects to which Jesuits' might communicate a sympathy with the mysti cal laws of St. Theresa , or faith of the mira culous powers of St. 1-1 ohenlahe ? The priests themselves feel that the age of hair4irts, and for acquiring immortality by imitating the habits of pigs, is gone for ever ; for, if we trust Sir A. B. Falconer, they every where looked un easy and downcast. And yet how much more easy might it be to govern the French than to govern the people of this Empire ! The French have long been tired of changes, and wish to apply themselves to the acts of peace and in dustry. Th ey are subject to few taxes, and a wise and moderate Government could easily ob tain a sufficiency for the public wants without pressing on the citizens, and thereby creating discontent. Property is very much divided among them,. and no class of men feel sliffi - cteutly .confident in the . ' Government as then s t r ength to claim the one of the rights of prope rt y , and to exercise it for the themselves through Purpose •of enriching t monopoly at the expellee of . t h e people. No junto of individuals dare to think of caballing on the strength of their inte rests against the Government, with the view of compelling it to come to terms. In this coun try, on the other hand, there is a King de jure and an Aristocracy tie facto. The Government, with the best dispositions in the world, cannot conduct the helm of state in a way that shall not provoke animosity. On the one hand there is a numerous and industrious population pressed to the earth with taxation, in censed at seeing their industry rendered una vailing by a cruel monopoly, which the class in possession of power, having the means of giving effect to their separate interests, at the expense of the rest of the community, are determined to retain. On the other hand, we have the Lords of the soil shutting their ears to the cries of the poor, and looking with indifference on the decay with which our industry is threatened, by the departure of capital to other countries in quest of higher profits, urging the results of former extra vagance as the pretext for the continuance of a System which must involve all in one common ruin. We have one division of the Empire no toriously sacrificed to ascendancy views ; a po pulation of seven or eight millions reduced to a state of misery and degradation unexampled in Europe. These are difficulties which no Go vernment in this country can overcome with ease. The French Government need attend only to the wishes of the nation ; the English Govern ment is placed between the nation and those who have a separate interest from the nation.— Morning Chronicle. We are still without any news relative to Greece and Turkel/. The anxiety upon this subjecj in the City is excessive, and this feeling is much increased by an idea which generally prevails that both the English and French Go vernments have received despatches which they will not suffer to transpire. In the absence of any real news, there is of course no lack of ru mours. " - Amongst these we may mention that it is reported the Austrian Government has pro tested against the proceedings at Navarin, which they designate as a violation of thelaw of nations. It is added, that they have expressed their sur prise that the Admirals of the three Powers should have destroyed the Turkish fleet at the very time the Austrian Minister iAs engaged, at the 're quest of all parties, in endeavouring to bring about an adjustment. That Austria should dis approve of the destruction of the Turkish fleet under any circumstances would not be at all im probable ; but that this should be the case in the present instance, when we consider the very equivocal grounds upon which the battle took place, is more than probable. We apprehend. however, that the report of the disapproval of Austria rests upon no other authority than its probability. The Evening Papers of yesterday deny that Vice Admiral Sir John Gore has gone, out to supersede Sir Edward Codrington. One of them goes so far as to say that Sir John is merely gone on a visit to his friend Sir Ed ward, but that the Lord High Admiral has em braced this opportunity of sending important despatches by him to Admiral Codrington, and h as a lso given him (Sir John) full instructions as to-the mode in which the measures, so fully set forth in the Gazette of last night, for the protection of commerce in the Archipelago, are to be carried into effect. Really this is most im portant information, as it shows very clearly that the Ministers have determined to practise the great est economy in all their transactions. Instead of sending their important despatches by a mes cienger of high rank, and at a great expense, we may expect that henceforward they will adopt the plan of careful tradesmen, and intrust them to friends that happen to be going in the direc-. tion they wish to send, carefully writing upon the back of their papers, favoured by Sir John Gore," or Sir or Mister anybody else, who may be good enough to take charge of them. In our opinion, the Funds ought to rise upon this instance of economy ; for, though the saving may wit be great, yet it shows the disposition of the Government; and we all know that those who take care of the pence are seldom unmindful of the pounds. Still, however, notwithstanding this visiting story of our contemporary, the re port of Sir John Gore having been sent out to supersede Sir Edward Codrington has been ;igain prevalent. It is also said that, in order to inalc,e the thing as little disagreeable to Sir Edward as possible, the Government have al leged that they have adopted the measure of superseding him merely to facilitate the negotia tions . with the Turks, who might not feel inclined to negotiate with a Commander that had inflicted upon them so much injury and dis grace. We give this news without wishing that any more importange should be attached to it than to a mere report. It may I.)p remarked here that Sir John Gore is senior officer to Sir E. Codrington ; so that, if Sir John hoist his flag in the MeiJiterranean at all, he must be consi dered as Comin;indenill-Chief.-----Morning The silly Evening Ministerial Journal which presumed to contradict our statements as to the delusions and tricks attempted, fortunately with out success, to be played off upon the British Nation, with respect to the battle of Navarin, flounders on in hopeless desperation ; and pre fers the despicable and profligate resource of mis quoting flip Gazette Extraordinary, to the honest admission o' the silly blunder it commit ted, in alleging upon pretended official informa tion, that the dispatches of Sir Edwar4 Codring ton were printed verbatim et literatim, as they arrived in England. The words of the Gazette stand, as we r emarked yesterday, in unbending contradiction to the al),egation of the Journal in question. They are as follow Admiralty Office, Nov. It, 182 . 1. " Despatches, of which the following are copies or ex tracts, have been this day received at this office, addressed to John Wilson Poker, Esq. by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, K.C.8., Czkomander in Chief of his Majesty's ships in the Mediterranean." VPut our veritable contemporary will not en dure to be contradicted, even by the Olicial Ga zette of the Gov,ermnent which he labours to support. His reply, not ous so much as to the Gazette, is couched in these very dear and sa tisfvory terms :—, " The' cause of the introduction of the word "extract" might have been easily discovered, if our contemporary would Only baye looked at the Gazette itself. No. 3, to the Admiral's dispatch, is an extract from a letter of Cap tain Hamilton of the Cambria;;, dated the 18th October.' With that accuracy which has always distinguished our • Gazette, this extract' of Captain Hamilton's letter i 3 not • Confounded with the copies which were given of all the other papers, and it is evident from the date of Captain Hamilton's letter, that the parts not published could have nothing to say of the battle of Navarin." Of course we can have no 1110 re to say upon the subject. It would be idle to argue with an antagonist who has not the faculty of distinguish ing between the publication of extracts and a verbatim et literatim publication ; anti who to atone for the want of this faculty, we suppose, claims the right of transmuting the plural into the singular, or vice versa, in quoting an official document, as may be most convenient for his ar- gument. The Ministerial Journals have, indeed, • no less than their patrons, degraded themselves in the estimation of the country upon this occa sion. They unite with one voice in abuse of us, and in contradiction of the faithful and unexag gerated statement of facts which it has been our duty to lay before the public, whilst in some other column of the very same number which contains this abuse and contradiction, they themselves re cord, and many of them without notice or com ment, a fact which fully confirms most of what we have said. This fact is, the mission 0) Sir John Gore to obtain further information and explanations relative to the circumstances which brought on the battle of Navarin. The Ministry which, a short week ago, proceeded with breath less haste to obtain for the services of Sir E. Codrington the stamp of Royal approbation, now thinks it necessary to recede from its too forward position, and would cover its disgraceful retreat under the pretence of inquiry. What can, in so short a time, have recalled this Ministry to its senses? What but the indignation, and the grief, and the alarm, which they found were rapidly extending throughout the country, on, this, the first instance within living memory of the British arms having been employed, and British blood having been shed, in the commission of atrocious injustice ?—Then as to the unanimity of Ministers—whom does this extraordinary mission of one Vice Ad miral to investigate the conduct, and verifij the representations of another, shew to have been right ? Or will the advocates of Ministers still insist that they were perfectly unanimous last week in conferring honour upon Sir E. Co drington, and equally unanimous this week in in flicting disgrace upon that Officer ? For it is indisputable, that by the very mission of Sir John Gore for the alledged purposes, Sir E. Codrington is already disgraced. If the Mi nisterial Journals do so insist, they are more grave accusers of their patrons even than our selves. And in the last place, how strikingly does this unparalleled mission confirm all the statements which from the best authority we have been enabled to lay before the public. Here we leave the subject for the present, with the me lancholy reflection, which the whole train of cir cumstances forces upon us, that the honour and welfare of England have never, at any former period of her history, been committed to the hands of men apparently so incapable of pro tecting or understanding them, as at the present moment.—Morning Post. With respect to the statements which we have published of the circumstances relating imme diately to the battle of Navarin, we have to assure the public that they cannot fail to be com pletely borne out by the result of the investiga tion of that most unfortunate and lamentable aflair ; at the same time that we entertain a con fident hope, that Admiral Codrington will be able to afford a satisfactory explanation of the whole of his conduct, under the untoward cir cumstances in which, by the imbecility of Mini sters, he found himself placed on so very critical and important an occasion. In further elucida tion of this part of the subject, and in corrobo ration of our own accounts, we feel it due from us to the public, to give the following extract of a letter from an officer of the Fleet, dated Na varin, Oct. 22, which we copy from the Paisley Advertiser : " Navarin Harbour, Oct. 22. " Navarin harbour has a narrow entrance, defended by batteries on each side ; but within it is capacious, appa rently nine or ten miles in circumference. We entered it about half-past one o'clock, P.M. Just as we reached the mouth of the port, a Turkish boat came off to acquaint the Admiral that no ships were allowed to enter without permission from Ibrahim, Pacha. The Admiral replied that he came to give orders, not to receive them ; and that if they fired a single shot at any of our ships, he would destroy_ the whole Turkish fleet. On the return of the boat, a blink gun was breflieotn the Sort, which we considered a signal of peace, and the ships went in quietly and anchored, taking their stations in succession without molestation. We knew that five or six fire-ships were ranged to windward of us across the harbour • the Dart mouth frigate anchored close to o ne on the right side, and the Philomel within 15 or 20 yards of another on the left, All was still for about a quarter of an hour, except the dropping of an anchor, or the rustling of a cable, as the ships came in, when the Dartmouth commenced a dis charge of musquetry on the fire-ship which lay close on her bow. It appeared the Dartmouth had sent a boat to the vessel, whose people would not permit its crew to go on board, but fired upon them with small arms, and killed or wounded the greater part of them. After a little, the fire-ship blew up. ' The French Admiral fired a heavy gun at the fort. The fight then began, and raged furiously from two o'clock until seven. The shot flew like showers of hail in all directions over the harbour, which was agi tated like a caldron of boiling water. The Turks fought dreadfully hard—much harder than we expected. Ibra him Paella's ship, after fighting until she had sunk nearly to the level of the water, blew up, and went clown with her flag flying. Another Paella's ship did the same. The scene became awfully grand. Every gum : ter of an hour a vessel was perceived exploding, and the water co vered with Turks floating on the shattered timbers. The batteries fired some time after the ships had ceased, and night terminated the affair. Next morning we found that about twenty sail had taken refuge at the top of the har bour, but their owners have saved us the trouble by blow ing them up. The Admiral did not intend to capture any of them, but to effect their destruction. We are now lying under the batteries, and they do not fire a shot upon us. A Pacha has been with the Admiral, and asserts that the fire-ships did not belong to their fleet, that they were of Modon, and strangers to them. This I consider false ; we knew they had fire -ships before we entered the port ; we also knew their positions, and the brigs of the squa dron were ordered to secure them in the first instance." We here close our extracts. The letter con tains little else not generally known ; what we have quoted is interesting, from affording some thing like a reasonable explanation of the steps that hastened this most sanguinary contest. Yet, though we have reason to doubt the state mei4, we would gladly have proof that the author of it has been mistaken. The announcement of tile three Admirals, that " the Allied Powers did not enter Navarin with a hostile intention," accords ill with the order to the brigs, " to se cure the fire-ships in the first instance ;" but it must be confessed that such an order is not in consistent with the terms used in Sir Edward Codrington's dispatch, stating that the Dart mouth, the Rose, the Brisk, and the Dart mouth, were to look after six fire vessels at the ent rance If " to secure of the harbour," an d u " to look after" mean the same thing, then the riddle of Navarin is easily r ead. The boat from the Dartmouth was sent to secure" the fire ship, which, refusing to be " secured," gave all that the Admirals appear to have desired, a pretext for battle. These are extraordinary times. Monarchs with no law beyond their sovereign will, without fee or reward fight the battles of freedom. A nation whose life is commerce ge nerously forfeits the repose essential to its pro sperity, for the purpose of establishing insular States that must of necessity become its rivals. Statesmen, grown grey in the iniquities of Courts, draw from religion and humanity the elements of their diplomacy, and writers, regardless of every creed on earth, insinuate the propriety of a holy war !—Aid, We do not recollect a more disingenuous at tempt at sneeking out of a position into which nothing but utter regardlessness of decency could have led him, than has been made by the con- .. temporary whose outrageous insult to Admiral) Codrington we felt compelled to notice vester- ' GUILDHALL.—Joseph Burt, a young man who had day. He said, on Tuesday, in the most dis been articled with Mr. Day, a silver-spoon-maker in Lily fillet and categorical manner, that Sir Edward pot-lane, near Falcon-square, was brought before Mr. Al- Codrington was an equivocator and a liar—that Berman ANSLEY yesterday, char ge d w ith st ea lin g about fiv e i he had fabricated a despatch, which was contra- ' ounces of silver cuttings and shavin g s. dieted by the account in the log-book of his It appeared that he offered this refuse silver for sale at Mr. Sirre I 1 ' s , a refiner, Smith,i . Barbican, ls , . t p.A o lri n itasi la s t, or F eyn r ie i er d b a oh y naed .. followings t rvedee a nat n .y d ,a: :1 1 own ship, and by that of every ship of the s q ua- Fr a il , : s i h d o s a m dd an res d s e , dron. He declared that "he teas authorised" clin i ed ir. ' to impute this infamous conduct to a British that he P might satisfy hims elf iay'n tl ' ia ni t the un Officer. He added, that by an act of supere- true account of himself. Upon inquiry, it proved that g the rogatory baseness, the despatches, which had address was fictitious, and the prisoner omitted to call for his money. Mr. Sirrell then sent the silver round. amon g p been fabricated in oen defiance of truth, and, the spoon-makers, and among others to Messrs. Eley, of where the chances of detection were so sure, of Paternoster-row, who partly identified it, and exhibited it Common sense, had, moreover, " undergone se- to Mr. Day, one of their out-door workers, by whom it veral erasures, loppings, and alterations, with the was at once recognized. The prisoner was then sent to Messrs.. Sirrell's on an errand, and being identified as the Concurrence of the Ministers." To this last p w e a r r s d o s n a who h call d ed d himself Mr. Smith, was shortly after charge, which admitted of direct proof, an an swer was immediately returned—that it was Mr. ra re y said he had missed a considerable quantity of false, and that the despatches were printed in the such silver, and the prisoner had been eight months in his Gazette verbatim et literatim as they arrived. service. And how does the calumniator meet this plain The prisoner, under the advice of his solicitor, did not attempt any defence, and was committed. statement ? "Of the value and importance of this information, we BOW-STREET.---Yesterday Frances Clifton, who were enabled to jud g e, when, in referring to the Gazette has been charged with abstracting a b/. note from a letter itself, we found that what it professed to publish were not committed to her charge as post - mistress of a house for re merely copi e s, b ut e x tracts also from the despatches of the ceiving General Post letters, in Hou g hton-street, Clare- Gallant Admiral." market, was brou g ht up and fully committed for trial on charge. i‘ It must be remembered that the assertion to the a bove Mr. William Union-hall Worship - street j un.,ett, irrs et h ave d ec ide d h ,ga s i t n r s e t whom thTeidtrnn o n apg7 a i ke s which th e above answer was made, was said to trates of i ' n be put forth by authority. Our contemporary was point which he raised relatin g to the collection of Mr. authorized, he said, to state, that Ministers had tolls, contrary, as he alleged, to the proviaions of certain made s e veral erasures, loppings, and alterations. Acts of Parliament, appeared yesterday at this office in sup- All that he now retends that he meant by those Port of andsumnorres obtained by him a g ainst the same par p .tieon Bicknell, a similar grounds. varied f orms o f expression—blotting out words-- solicitor, attended on behalf of the turn truncating s en tences—changing phrases and facts pike „trusts, and the point in dispute was argued at consider nnghalletaarnnedd,Whowieyer, that his brother consider -was, that Ministers had not published the de-' able length by that gentleman and Mr. Cobbett. spatches entire, but had given them in extract ; m l‘r t . ra il te A s L a l t s Unio n-hall I p d - n st o r t ee w t i ta i d decided and as to his authority, he derived it, it appears, ag ainst a Mr. Cobbett, said, that he cou ld from the Gazette itself, which, in giving the de- entertain the question, which ought to he set at proprie t yres e spatches,used the following words:—"Despatches, Court of law. of which the following are copies or extracts.”-- that having taken out summonses at this h. t office t pri h or to the decision although Mr. Broughton at Wor- Mr. Cobbett said, Now, we beg the attention of our readers for one moment to the utter folly of this reference to the stratslireade:leciededvagagaainexsitohuism, , and oue be that ed wo o rthy Magis t say he had Gazette for a justification of the charge against a hi g h respect for his decision, to have the case brought Ministers. The portion of the Gazette given under the notice of the Magistrates of this office. in extract,forms no part of the despatches which Mr. HALLS said he was taken by surprise, and if Mr. Cobbett wanted must give him time to look describe the battle. It is a fragment of a let - into the Acts hisdecisio n, ofParliament he thatihad been q n ot ed ' hi g her ile ter dated two days before the battle took wished, however, that Mr. Cobbett had applied to a place ! Admiral Codrington states a fact, and tribunal. the extract from Captain Hamilton's letter, It was then decided that the case should stand over until in which that fact is im l detailed, is üblished. 11 on r d e s a s y i 0 n n e w x t a , s but t . 11 ;i ft d % l HALy.S t in A t i ima co ted bb that his present er.' p despatch of Admiral Codrington, the t ) When about to with y dr again Air. Cobbett. tt '[lie intimated that only one mentioned by our contemporary on his witnesses were insulted in the Court, by some persons Tuesday, and that despatch which the Ad- connected with the toll-keepers, and he begged the protee miral was stated " on authority " to have tion of the Magistrate. uhe sid, that any person so offending should be d fabricated, and which the Ministers, on autho s e v e AZT.r l Hsms a rity also, were stated to have erased, lopped, and The y p P arties then withdrew in peace, although not with altered, was given in the Gazette, as we yester- any show of good-will towards each other. day affirmed, verbatim et literatim. But what MARLBOROUGH-STREET. —A young man of re says our contemporary, who thus attempts to spectable appearance, named Frederick _Needham An slink from the minor charge of vilifying Mini- drews, a native of Sheffield, in Yorkshire, where his con nexions ar e understood fl to be also respectable, was yester sters, to the grave and serious accusation of d ay falsely and scandalously traducing the character upon b roug h t b e f ore of forgery, fraud, and d fo r r ob a be tal examination of Admiral Codrington ? Does he pretend to The prisoner had been confidentially ' emp loyed for some explain away the foul libel upon that ga llant time in the establishment of Mr. Aldous, an upholsterer, officer by paltry, quibbling, misinterpretations of &c. in Oxford-street; but Mr Aldous having reason to a plain word ? Was his authority for attri- S a l I w s p e e e e k t h ag ' o, i a n n te dgb ri r t o y u , i h it ad t i to m takenoffioe into custody about buting falsehood and equivocation to Sir Ed- The charge of for g ery was for uttering a bill of exchange ward, in narrating the events of the 20th, de- for 201., purportin g to be the acceptance of Mr. Aldous, rived from the Gazette ? Does he seek his j us- which, in fact, it was not. tification also fr om th e extract from Ca twin The charge of fraud was for not accounting to Mr. Al p dons for a sum of 141. received by him of a Mr. Baker, of Hamilton's letter Of the 18th ? He attempts Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, one of Mr. Aldous's neither reply nor explanation. But this silence customers. cannot be continued. The truth must be ad- The charge of robbery arose from the officer who mitted, however reluctantly. The authority se arched the prisoner's lodgings, findin g a number of pieces carpeting, bed-ticking, &c. the property of must be given,lip, and the gratuitous falsehood oAflrßArulroulss. which has been imposed on our too credulous Since the first examination of the prisoner, Mr. Harmer contemporary must be retracted and apologised has been employed by his attorney, and some of the pri for. Nothing less is expected, and nothing less -e--.. of the bill has receiv e d the amount, will- be received.—New Times. soner's relations have come to London. The consequence has been, that all the charges are abandoned ; the holder , and pat the bi i the fire; Mr. Aldous has been•paid the 141 . , and th e rob ,•i bery is explained away by the suppos iti on th a t th e pr i s on er mi g ht have taken the articles by mistake. The MAGISTRATE warmly expressed his indignation at the conduct of all parties in the affair, and discharged the prisoner only on his procuring good bail for his appearance again if required. The prisoner, it seems, has been living for some time past in a style far beyond what the nature of his situation could warrant. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.— George Ford, a charity boy, was charged with knocking down John Nightingale, an errand-boy, employed by Mr. Blumer, g rocer, of 23, Park-street, Dorset-square, in the New-road, at eleven o'clock yesterday mornin g , and stealin g a paper of mustard 'rom his basket, worth 4d., belong ing to his master. He was committed to the New Prison for trial. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. W h ea t. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. £. to a. Abingdon..---- 54 66 35 42 35 42 62 Andover 56 64 34 39 30 36 Birmingham 18 62 30 34 24 40 62 Rridport . 52 56 32 39 26 28 56 Cirencester 49 60 29 36 26 32 61 Paringclon—. 48 51 36 33 24 34 46 Guildford ..........—. 44 64 36 45 26 37 58 Henley 50 6(1 32 43 26 34 60 Hereford ..... - 61 66 46 50 42 72 Maidenhead 60 68 38 42 28 38 GO Newbury 40 66 28 32 20 36 68 Oakingham 56 60 30 40 28 36 53 Reading ' 5O 68 28 35 20 37 60 Salisbury. . 49 60 28 34 21 26 64 Southampton 52 56 37 40 30 32 58 Stroud Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 33 38 66 Uxbridge 66 74 30 34 24 32 54 53 '7O 33 45 30 40 60 Warminster 50 63 30 36 24 34 62 58 64 30 36 24 32 60 Worcester—....... G 2 64 40 32 40 60 LEWES MARKET.—Nov. 20. White Wheat (per quarter)..........£2 16 0 to .£ 1 0 Red ditto 2 13 0 16 0 Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1 1 Pease 2 2 0 0 0 0 Oil Cake, New HATTON-GARDEN.—A gentleman named Cook, living in Camden-street, Camden-town, yesterday applied to the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. ROGERS, for a warrant to bring up J. Gilbert, driver of the hackney-coach No. 442, for having made upon him an overcharge. Mr. Cook stated, that at 20 minutes to 11 o'clock on the Right of the 30th of October, his servant called the coach in Wilsted-street, New-road, Somers' 4own. The driver agreed to charge according to time, and drove, as Mr. Cook expressed it, " with a snail's pace." When the coach arrived, at the door of Mr. Cook's residence in Camden-street, it was nearly 20 minutes to one, which made the time two hours. The driver demanded 6s. for the time, and Is. for back fare, but Mr. Cook conceiv ing that his legal fare was only ss. remonstrated with him, and said if he insisted on more, fie would certainly have him brought to justice. The driver persisted in his de mand, and was accordingly paid the Is. Mr. Cook summoned the owner of the coach, John Ed monds, whose wife only attended ; but she seemed to know nothing of the man who drove on the 30th of October, and against whom the warrant was now issued. The case stands over for Friday. Thomas Nicholls, pawnbroker, Gray's Inn-lane, was fined in the mitigated penalty of 40s. and costs, for charg ing illegal interest. Anne Browne deposed, that on the 9th of October, she pawned a gold ring with the defendant for 3s. 6d. and that on the following day, the 10th of the same month, she re deemed it,' and was charged one penny interest for one months, whereas the law gives but three farthings. Upon this an information was filed against Nicholls, who came attended by Mr. Harmer. Mr. Harmer thought to ground an objection to the pro secution upon a want of formality in the information. He said the words "gold ring" were set forth in the informa tion to have been pledged, whereas upon the duplicate there appeared only the unqualified word "ring." Mr. ROGERS thought there could be no valid or reason able objection in the use of the epithet "gold," as Mr. Nicholls could not be supposed to.have lent 3s. 6d. upon a brass ring. Whether the quality of the ring was ex pressed. or not, did not, in his opinion, signify three straws; . .he would, therefore, convict the defendant in the mitigated fine of 40s. By the advice of his solicitor, Mr. Nicholls appealed from this decision of the Magistrate, and accordingly en tered bail. UNION-HALL.—Some days ago six informations were exhibited at this Office against the Proprietors of the Circus and the Rotunda wine and concert-rooms, situate in Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars-toad, on the complaint of some of the inhabitants of the adjacent houses, who considered the performances at each place of amusement illegal, and not sanctioned by the 10th Geo. H. c. 28, which enacts that any proprietor of a theatre suffering to be performed therein an entertainment of the stage which comprises a comedy, tragedy, farce, burletta, &c. without a licence front the Lord Chamberlain, shall be 'liable to a penalty of 501. on conviction of each offence. Yesterday was appointed for the hearing of the "_infor mations. Mr. Thesiger attended to support the informations, and Mr. Adolphus on the part of the defence. The first information having been 'read, charging the defendant, Mr. John Cook, the proprietor of the Circtis, with having represented , a certain entertainment of the s tage, called Paul Pry, cr the Whimsicalities of Pun chinello and Judith, without a licence, whereby he had in curred a penalty of 501. on conviction of such offence, he pleaded not guilty to the'information. We have no room for the evidence or the argument. The Magistrates, M.'SWAritty and J. T . . Norm, Esqrs„ pronounced that the exhibition of Paul ,Pry, as performed 4f A RKET.—Nov. 10. Per lb. d. to d. Bcef --• 6 8 Mutton Veal Lamb• 0 0 Pork 6 81 10!.. to 51. per ton. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI 241. Od. Heaton 38 6 35 0 Killingworth 37 3 Liddell's 32 6 34 35 0 Wallbottle -- 32 6 Wallalkidßewieke&Co. 40 3 Ditto Brown'. 36 6 Ditto Carr and 35 0 Ditto Crarolington- 34 6 Ditto Hilda Ditto Perkins and Co. 40 0 Ships at market, 40V2-Ship COUNTRY CORN MARK} ET.—Nov. 21. Walls bndNewnutrch,.. 395. Od. Ditto 38 6 Ditto Ittissell's 40 6 Ditto 38 6 Ditto Henderson.----- 32 6 -......-. 33 6 Inverkeithing Splint .- 32 0 Ward's Llanolly--.-.. 36 0 Eden Main 37 0 I , lchani 37 9 Walls End Lambton— 41 0 Ditto Lyons. -.._ 38 0 Ditto Stewart's —4l 3 Russell's Hetton's W. E. 40 3 >s sold, 27. i —Unsold, TS DUItING Tx WIiEK. CHELTENHAM y Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat 6 0 8 0 Barley Oats Beans 7 9 8 0 Pease 5O 80. Hay 4/. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Nov. 20. At this morning's market there was only a thin at tendance of country dealers, but having few samples of Irish New Wheat offering, an advance of Id. to 2d. per 701 b. was realised. .Fine Oats, of which the market is now bare, were in request, and all qualities may be noted fully ld. per 451bs. dearer. Barley was also more free of sale, at a similar improvement. Oatmeal is 6d. to ls. per load higher ; but there is no variation in Flour. } OLD. _ NEW. _ Wheat, English, per 701 b. -- Irish (red) ------ Ditto ----- Scotch - Canada (free) , -- Foreign cfree) --,. Foreign (in bond) Barley, English, per 601bs. ----- Irish - ----- Scotch - Foreign Beans, English, per Imp. Oats, English, per 451 b. --- Irish - _ s. d. s. d.l S 0 a 9 0, 7 0 a '7 31 0 0a 0 0 7 6a 8 0 8 0a 8 3 7 0 a 8 6 3 0a 3 0 4 0a 4 2 s. tl. s. d. '7 :3 a 8 6 6 6a 1 1 , 6 10 a 710 ' O 0 a 0 0 O 0a 0 0 O 0a 0 0 O 0a 0 0 O 0 a 0 0 2 9a 4 0 0 0a 9 0 O 0 a 0 0 53 0 a 67 0 2 10 a 3 1 2 10 a 3 1 3 0a 3 4 2 10 a 3 1 Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr.. 0 0 a 69 0 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 50 0 0 0 a 0 0 Flour, Amer., duty paid, per 32 0 a 34 0 0 0 a 0 0 sour 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 Canadian Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 130Ib. 30 0 a 32 0 0 0 a 0 0 red 30 0 a3l 0— 0 a 0 Pease, English white, per Imp. qr..... 48 0 a 53 0 0 0 a 0 0 Rye 34 0 a 36 0 0 0 a 0 0 Oatmeal, English, per 21 0Ibs. 0 0 a 0 0126 0 a 27 0 Irish .---.. Scotch looao 0— 0 a 0 0 6 a 0 3 10 a 4 01 a 4 01 0 0 a 0 0' 3 0 a 3 41 3 1 a 3 ?I REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. — AS the gamekeeper of the Hon, HENny BUTLER, was out last week in Carlton Woods, near Nun-Monkton, his eye was attracted by a fine eock pheasant, at a little distance, perched on a branch about three yards from the ground, when, to his great surprise, just as he was going to fire, a large snake, about a y ar d and a half long, raised its head within a foot from the pheasant's tail, the reptile having its tail wrapped roand the bough of a tree., The game keeper had the presence of mind to check his fire, and tak ing a second aim, brought both the pheasant and the snake to the ground at one shot. The attitude of the snake, and the season when it made its appearance, are alike unusual in this country...._ York Courant. at the Circus, did not come within the meaning of the est: they therefore discharged the information. f o r el - The next information against the defendant was hibiting an entertainment of the stage, called the Advep tures of William Button, Esq., the amusing Brend. Tailor. get instant, on which occasion the above performanc e, Mr. Jolly said, that he attended the Circus on the t ' with various feats of horsemanship, were displayed. I.:e were three characters in the first piece, namely— Ir ilb ,4 Button, Esq., the tailor, Jerry Snip, and the Late of the Horse and Groom. The dialogue between tliete. lasted, witness should think, about half an hour, few 1 :1' nutes before the conclusion of which, a horse is introdu on whose back, after a variety of fun, Button at levg; manages to mount, but is soon tossed off'. The witne' s , that the tailor was dressed in character ; so was Sidi ), 1-„ „i tattered garment; and the Landlord of the Horse °- Groom was clothed as publicans usually are. Mr. Adolphus (to witness).—Now relate a little o f dialogue that passed between the persons you speak °l" ,,bett show how closely, forsooth, such an exhibition aplOg to the regular drama. tise The witness then proceeded to relate some pe ti t :A hi dialogue. Snip enters the kide, when he is 10 `,bise Button his qualifications ; he replies, " I can do all' 0 0' and every thing." Button then asks him whether i ll o t;" clean a horse ? Snip says, he can do any thing b ut ,, whereupon Button asks him whether he can clean l e st and forks? Snip says, no, but that he can dirt,' with any body. to Mr. Adolphus.—This is ,a specimen of how nea r su ch ja exhibition approaches the drama. The Learned dun b ill a speech fraught with humour, contended that th e e tien in this case also did not come within the statute. Magistrates dismissed the information. w ith The next information against the defendant tho 9l ' drawn by the parties who laid it, and the hearing against Mr. Ford was postponed. COUNT CAPO D'ISTRIA. - -01° core or A LETTER FROM JOHN COUNT CAPO 4 s; THE GREEK, NATION. " London, August 0 6 , i , At the moment of quitting the Russian CaliL" I have received, through my brother, the Ines ", 0 ( which your Excellency did me the honour toad mor to me, conjointly with the representatives of the o f tion, to communicate to me two decrees, :W e i r which places me at the head of the Greek O oh - ment, and the other invests me with power to op, ciate a loan. Ever since the month of Nit'Y' r ipto since my arrival at St. Petersburgh, the public Poe and private letters made me acquainted W it hie) proof of confidence so flattering and so solemn ,° I the Greek nation had just given in my ficv °ll ;; ; ble will not express to you; Excellency and you . ; ', r eef colleagues, either the sentiments which the " f e- o ger now before me inspire, or the prayers which . 1 . ' O , l , to the Almighty that he may bestow tiP n i , e / olr gentlemen, and upon me strength to attain the ject of the long and bloody sacrifices to wh ic ". Greek people have submitted, and to which "for submits in the hope of a final restoration• you the present, I shall confine myself to givi n g st ir an account, in a few words, of what I hav e you ceeded in doing up to this time, and in giv'ni for the assurance of my entire devotion to the caus the future. s - " On hearing of the catastrophe of At he l o 'osi ,0 • the pecuniary v embarrassment Of the Proviltli Greek Government, and of the sad necessity 11 , s as, forced it to contract a loan in the lonian isfosr which could only have sufficed for a few days, . 1 poi to my brother, as my only answer, the remnant °•or moderate fortune. I instructed him to take i l l,. t° tion of that loan, if it had been negotiatedr..ent deposit in the hands of the Provisional Goverlicit the sum of two thousand pounds sterling, on e I have placed at his disposal. At the same t j rv es o'ca proceeded to call on the Greeks, who PI sfol wealth in foreign lands, to follow this exloav'ehau. to afford you some assistance. These measur e ' eent, in some success, and the Provisional Gover° m ost consequence, is in a condition to meet It-e m°' urgent wants, for the moment; I say for th e and ment, for I flatter myself that by the aid of o°, ce ive your wisdom, the Greek nation will shortly more important succour. . " a ce, i n " In the present state of things, this ass ist bie r, o u rd o e u r g t h o t b t e o e d ff ra e w ctiv G e r , e o e u c g e h f t ro t m o i h ts asz ta a l to o S n i;a e u re l i I I put it in contact with the Great Europe It ought to procure for it the means of siti stene Atic e of defending itself, till its Government can int v ; of something like order into the external concer c l ie for the nation, and put it in a situation to Pl i v a i t isio, itself. It is with those two greattere:a now exclusively occupied, s° ...l v sv i ay to you I et ° still occupy myself when through Paris. Should 0 0 " n them up to this dal' my efforts, as it has blessed. der th a at ud it that rill dare indulge the hope the °l- powers c: v h h t i i c n hti el to o be you some consolation, offers me, all the necessitj:i;eo - legal exercise of the hailet - s t , regulate, in the will not refuse w me rangements with the Courts which interest selves in its behalf. s fro m " I will not lose a moment, for time pres se n f life m G e i r e it ek t;o t o to day to day, to decide for Greece the questioilLis of or death. Doubtless, the event is in the l i T ep eisi s God; but let us not dissemble, that muc h "ile on you, Gentlemen, to render it propitious• i nint r functions which it sured, such it will 'prove, if, faithful to th e i i a boor table principles of our holy religion, r ti , n os° unanimously, and w i t h goo d f a i t h , f o r our c h ° ,ter safety, some in carry i ng arms, not only wit:i.nari°° tion and cou rage , b ut w i t h a per f ec t suboru? t ea to the orders of your Chiefs ; others in a droin ls d set the affairs of th e coun t r y, f or the country , ', ll i c all' t for or agai ns t p ar ticular individuals or lA interests. to Y. " I pause here, and I resign, Gentlemen, ino wisdom and your patriotism, the car e of `+ be ad ; the immense responsibility which falls on your "bot I shall ,have the honour to share it with You,hstel hesitate not to repeat here, that I c annot with you, till after you shall have heard m eso n ' that I myself shall have obtained fro m y ou the fidence which I wish to inspire.—Receive, 8c54 . 0 (Signed) CAPO por On the 19th inst., at the Hey. Brooke 13ridge'' of bury, the lady of William Henry 131aamv, daughter. On the 20th inst. , in Wigniore-street, Cavertaislimi" the lady of Edwin Briggs, Esq., of a son and heir' id le P o On the 15th inst., at Shanklin P a rsonag i11 ,.,e , of Wight, the lady of the Venerable Archdea con t he daughter. o e, On the 2 0 th inst., in Bernard-street, Russell -4'l" lady of Edmund Dawson Legli, Esq., of a son. cool° On the 19th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady of '‘. Wm. Henry Foy, of a daughter. AI A R lE. 1/Q r ' On the 20th inst., by the Rev. D John Woodrootielobel gan, Rector of St. Giles's, Colchester, Edwar d l isq Porter, Esq., of Guilford .street, to Anna Maria GOcl. Gepp, eldest daughter of Thomas Frost Geo), Chelmsford. Eds44t.ti On the 20th inst., at St. Pancras Church, nrg, William Tuson, of Howland-street, Esq. , to Gie-plert: Maria, youngest (laughter of the late Thomas tip Esq., Consul at Ostend, author of a celebrated Tr ea 1 , A Commrce, &c. a 9' On the 21st inst., at Hemel Hempstead, J°ll,sre,; hay Hill, Esq., of Gressenhall-hall , No rfolk, to Joni second daughter of E. J. Collett, Esq., M.P./ °f Iron ,e, Herts. iv DIED. 0 14' , On the 13th lust., at the Vicarag e House, P ° re ttet, the 65th year of his age, universally beloved an d re l , oo , the Rev. John Hildyard, Vicar of Boo b y and 11ok5:31, the county of Lincoln, and upwar ds of Welty Y active Magistrate for the Division of Lindsey. , , f id°" On the 17th inst., at Canonhurv, 11Ira. I(n i g dt ' c, of the late W. Knight, Esq., of Goswell-street. On the 19th inst., at Kilburn, a ged 32( I , i 0 0 , Wiltshire, of Fenchurch-street, youngest son of P a r fr i e ov shire, of Cornhill, deeply lamented by his familY oife On the 19th inst., at Great Surrey-Street, Charles Holehouse, Esq., aged 68. oif. o On the 1h inst., - suddenly, Mrs. Pa mother-in-law 9t of John Hillman, Esq., Manor -11°' ford, Kent. th unn. and Ptanassinby M. YOUNG, Stratil SuN-©FtiCE, Nd. 112, Has gr r HEFir A l. J 150 Tone. L Poop, and v, Steerage Passel For Freight STER, and 13 lo ti,‘ l s . roel a iti n ot,f ‘ o A . v r i sd i et i i b n t e out N°Tiel provision s of a of his prese nt SOLIDATI N TURNPIKE OF THE An THAMES," 1 hoo*Lof the Iti from the Mett of Saint Mare ham, %WIC] Brentford), I Teddington S (containing ' tl 4 thling the .T H anover-squ E ,; -11 valP, Vil "on,' Kingst Islington. Sa Old-street,. S tenham, Enf several Parisi and also the and Layto n , of. Essex. made to va t : granted by ti By Ord er pike Roads, Np v . 110 ST E] No No Bit Eight f 3.3 Eighl Put -, ef befor a Ilivi Uti a~ past SeV