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THE ARMY. Yl/011 SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE-1 War-Gyfice, *lay 26, 1825. INRegim en: of Dragoon G uards—Lienten ant Fran cis Copland be Captain, by purchase, vice Middleton, promoted in the 72.3" Regiment ; Cornet Thomas Collins to be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Copland. 3d Ditto---;Aylmer Lambert Boneke, Riding Master, to be e,oraet, without pay. 6th Ditto--Lieutenant Robert Hollingworth to be Captain, by purchase,' vice Schreiber, promoted ; Cornet Philip Wiss to be. Lieutenant, by purchase, vice •Hollingwortb. 3tl Regiment of bight Dragoons—Cornet John Andrew lit'Douall, from the half pay of the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Michael Thomas Robert Dillon, who ex clianges: - Ctli Regiment of Dragoons—Hon. John Arbuthnott to be Cornet, by purchase, vice :Heigham, promoted. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Cornet Robert Clifford to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Carmarthen, pro wasted- • - • .42th Ditto--Cornet Hon. Robert Petre to be Lieutenant, by pt chase, vice Micklethwaite, promoted ; Edward Pole, Gent. to be 'Cornet, by purchase, vice Marryatt, promoted. 17th Ditto—Cornet Hon. N. H. C.Massey to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clarke, promoted. 'lst or Grenadier Rt ;iment of Foot Guards—Lieut. Wm. Fhiyder to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Ca . aniton, promoted in the 95th Regiment. , • COldstrearn Regiment of Foot Guards---Colonel James Mac donnell to be _Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase; Lieut.- - Colonel Johh Hamilton, to be Major, without purchase; with the rank of Colonel ; Li eu tenant-Colonel William Henl , . Rakes to be Major, without purchase, with the rank of Colonel, vice Mactionnel.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George Bowles; Bre vet Major Charles A. F. Bentinck ; Lieut. Colonel George Fitz-Clarence, from the half-pay vice Hamilton ; Lieutenant- Colonel Francis Russell, from the half-pay of the 12th Light Dragoons, vice Raikes ; to be Captains and Lieut-Colonels, without purchase. -341 Regiment of Foot--Lieutenant - Samuel Blair to be Cap - taint without purchase, vi:e Rolland. deceased ; Ensign James 'e - flrant to be Lieutenant, vice Blair ; Ensign Ronald Macdonafd froca the 26th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Grant. sth Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Thomas Hall to be Assiitant- Surgeon. 7th Ditto—Lieutenant Samuel Walker, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant, paying the difference, vice Hamilton, appointed to BlsrFoot. - 9th .Ditto—Hospital-Assistant William Bain, M.D. to be Assistant-Surgeon. 10th Ditto—Ensign. George John Crosbie to be .Lieutenant, by-purchase, vice Majendie, promoted ; Thomas Hume Franks, Gent. to be-Ensign, by purchase, vice Crosbie. ---11th Ditto—William Dolphin, Gent. to be Ensign, by put -chase, vice Walker promoted. i2th -Ditto—Surgeon:Romaine Amid, from the 77th Regi men t,eto be-Surgeon, vice O'Halloran, who exchanges. 18th Ditto--Ensign Clairton Lewis Wingfield, vf c.e Bain, de . -ceased ; Ensign James Kershawe, vice O'Shea, killed in action ; -Ensign Warden Flood, vice Darby, killed in action; Ensign Henry- Wilson, vice Petry, killed in action; Ensign Arthur Wilkinson, vice Jones, killed .in action; to be Lihitenants, without purchase.—E.W. Sibley, Gent. vice Wingfield, pro moted,- H. C. Hayes,-Gent. vice Kershaive, promoted; En siorts•j•osim Edward Orange,fr s om the-24th Regiment, vice Flood, promoted"; Arthur Arundel Browne, Gent. vice Wilson; pro moted ; John George Dalhousie Taylor, Gent. vice Wilkinson; to be Ensigns without purchase. 15th ditto—Lieutenant Thomas Bonnor to be Captain, by - purchase, vice Maxwell e .who retires. 17th Di tto--Capt. - Honourable Charles Grey. from the half pay. to be Captain, vice James Jeffries, who exchanges, re ceivingahe difference. 20th Ditto—Lieut. Mark Anthony Stanley to be Captain, by purchase, vice Swinton, who retires; Ensign James Bayley to be Lieutenant; by purchase, vice Stanley ; James Charles Rouse, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice-Bayley, pro. muted ; Assistant-Surgeon Moses Griffiths, from the 47th . Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon. vice Devitt, who exchanges. 21st Ditto—Hospital-Assistant James Davidson to be As sistant-Surgeon. 24th Ditto--4:nsitsn James a reLibeld Campbell to be Lieu tenant; without purchase, vice Baird, deceased; Wm. Gusta vus- P.rown, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Campbell ; Henry Young, Gent. •to be Ensign, by purchase, .vice Orange, ap pointed to the 13th 7 Foot.. 2.lth Ditto—Ensign John Spalding, from-the half-pay of the 134. th 'Regiment, to be-Ensign, repaying the difference. 26th Ditto , — .;---- Vernon,- Gent. -to-be Ensign, without purchase, vice Macdonald, appointed to the 3d Regiment. 27th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant William Williams to be As. sistant-Surro. n. 30th Ditto—Ensign Henry Hartley Lewis to be Lieutenant, without _ purchase, vice Trisidder, deceased ; W. B. Staff, Gent. to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Lewis, promoted. 33d Ditto—John Oliver illunton, Gent. to be Ensign with out purchase. 'ice Forbes, promoted. 34th Ditto—Ensign John Reed, from the half-pay of the 6th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Wm. Peter Taylor Shortt, who -exchanges, receiving the difference. 35th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Charles Clarke Hughes, :>.r. to be -A ssistan t-Snrgeon. , 37th Ditto—Captain John Rutledge Kell, from the half-pay -of the 16th Foot, to be Captain, vice Charles Lionel Fitzgerald, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 41st Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Lewis Pellichody, - from the 49th Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice O'Reilly, pro moted ; Lieut; Robert Hamilton, from fllst Regiment, fct be Lieutenant, vice Wm. Armstrong, who retires upon half-pay,. receiving the cliff, rence. 42d Ditto—Lieut. Lawrence Fyfe, from the 58th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Fraser, who exchanges. 47th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Mitchell Devitt, M.D. from the2oth Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Griffith, who exchanges. _ - _ • _ b2d Ditto—Thomas Edmund Campbell, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gunning, promoted. Ditto—Ensign Burton Daveney to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Le. - Merchant, promoted ; William Welbore Harlington Benson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice DaVeney. 59th Ditto—Lieutenant Robert Whittle to be Captain, with out purchase.. vice Butler, deceased; Ensign John M'Gregor to be Lie.utenaut, without purchase, vice Whittle; W. S. Marley, Gent-to be Ensign ; -without purchase, vice lll‘Gregor. 60th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Samuel Es Goodman, from the Royal Military College, to be Second Lieutenant, without pm... chase, vice Siapleton, promoted; Hospital-Assistant Robert Leslie to be Assistant-surgeon. • . 65th Ditto—Ensign William Mackay to be Lieutenant, with o•it purchase; .Ensign William Amsincloto be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Andros, promoted in the 31st Regiment ; Chas. Wise, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ainsinck ; Wm. Tucker, Gent. to be, Ensign, without purchase, vice Mackay ; Lieutenant John George Young to be Adjutant, vice Farqu, hartion, promoted. eGth Ditto—Lieutenant Frederick Field; from the half-pay of the 88th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, rice Kenneth Tomline Ross, who exchanges. 68th Ditto—Hcspital-Assistant James Crawford, M.D. to be Assistant-surgeon.. 71st Ditto—Ensign William Denny to be Lieutenant, by Tntrchitsc, vitt! St. Gcorse, promoted ; Thomas lie Merchant 7Sauntrarzz, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Denny, pro. _ _ 77th Ditto , —Surgeon Thomas O'Halloran, from the. 12th Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Amiel, who exchanges. 73th Ditto—W. Henry Lance, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase., vice Cameron, promoted. • Ellsti!titto—Lieutenant James John Hamilton, from the 7th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Hamilton, ,appointed to the 4lst Regiment ; ilospitaLAssistant :olin Bell to be As eistant-sorgeoi. 83d Ditto , —Ensign James Ball, from the hqlf-pay to be En oho. Robbins, 4V11() exchanges. 84th. Eitto--Serjant-Major Thomas Nelson to be Adjutant ( with the rank of Ensign), vice Worth, promoted. . 85th Ditto__Gentletnan Cadet .Frederick Rudolph - Blake,. froze the 1161"al Military College, to Le Ensign, by purchase, Berkeley, promoted. 89th Ditto—Ensign Thomas C. :Forbes to be Lieutenant, witboat ptirdiase, vice Kennedy, deceased ; C. Ithacan, Gent. to without purchase, vice Forbes. 93d Dlfte—flosiAtal-Assistant John Squ:tir, M.D. to be As sistant-spigeon. 95th Ditto—Ma]or Wm. Gordon Cameron, from:the Ist or isr.nadier Regiment of Not Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purcliase; vice Brown, who retires ; .Lieutenant-Colonel, Alexander Campbell, NVyrly, 'from the half-pay, to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, vice Wm. Gordon Cameron, who exchanges. . 4th Ditto--Jtospital-Asisistant James Wilson,.M.D. to h Assistant-Surteon. !).th Ditto.—Ensign Simon William Mayne to be Lieute nant, by purchase,.viee Burke, promoted ; l.ieutenant Wm. Fleming M'Kenzie, to be Adjutant, vice Burke,.promoted. Cape. Corps (Cavalry.)—Petex Tooke Robinson, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Macdonald, promoted. . The undermentioned Officers have • been allowed to,dispose of their half-pay Commissionat—Lieutenant-Coloncl Francis William Grant (Brevet Colonel), half-pay 2d Argyll Yencibles;. Major James Sullivan, hair-pay 83d Foot; Captain George James'Riddell, half-pay 130th Foot; Captain Pon sonby Christopher Whine, half-pay 53th. Foot ; Captain John _Ferrier, half-pay beat Regimen: ; Captain Thomas Edwardes Tucker, half-pay 44th Foot ; Captain Henry Brown, half-pay 59th Foot; Captain Frederick Temple, half-pay 7th Foot; Captain William Frederick Hamilton, half-pay 47th Foot ; Captain John Hext, half-pay Independents; - Captain William Flack, half-pay 88th Foot; Captain Alexander Andrews, half pay 43d Foot; Lieutenant Charles Butler Stevenson, half-pay 2d Dragoons; Lieutenant William Henry Krause, half-pay 51st Foot ; Lieutenant John Streatfield, half-pay 91st Foot ; Lieutenant Richard Josias Routledge, half-pay 35th Foot; En sign Benjamin Pratt, half-pay Steel's Corps; Ensirrn Frederick Croker, half-pay 74th Foot.4‘ Ensign William Aranley,. half pay Bth Foot ; Cornet JohnTonikyns, - half-pay Ist Dragoons. UNATTACHED.—Captain John H. J. Stapleton, from the 3d Regiment of Foot, Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase; Captain James Alfred Scliriber; from - the 6th-Dra goon Guards, to be Major, by purchase—Lieutenant Stepney St: George, from the 71st Foot; Lieutenant Jacob Meek, from the 14th - Foot; Lieutenant John Gospard be Merchant, from 57th Foot ; Lieutenant Arthur Sullivan, from 4th Light Dra goon ; Lieut. J. Roudedge Majendie, from 10th Foot; - Lieu tenant Henry John Ramsden, from 15th Light Dragoons; Lieutenant Alexander St. Leger M'Mahon, from 16th Light Dragoons; Lieutenant James Burke, from the 99th Regiment; Lieutenant John Micklethwaite, from 12th Light Dragoons; Lieutenant George Frederick Clarke, .from 17th Light Dra goons; to be Captains, by purchase.—Cornet Alexander Mac donald, from the Cape Corps ; Cornet Henry J. Warde, from 'the 7th Light Dragoons; Ensign Nathaniel Cameron, from the 79th Regiment; Ensign the Hon. Craven F. Berkeley, from 85th Ree,lmetit.; to be Lieutenants, by purchase.—Rclph Hall Manley, Gent.; William Cowper Rochfort, Gent. ; John Edward White, Gent.; William John Hooper, Gent.; to be Ensigns ; by purchase. BREVET.—To be Aides-de-Camp to his Majesty, with the rank 'of Colonel in the Army, from the 27th May. 1825—Lieu tenant-Colonel Robert Cotton St. John Lord Clinton,'on the half-pay of the Bth Garrison Battalion ; Lieutenant-Colonel . Charles Morland, of the 9th Light Dragoons; Captain Donald, Urquhart, of the 39th Regiment, to be Major in the Army. Commission in the Inverness, Banff, Elgin, and Nairn Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the comity of Inverue•s. Alexander Macdonald, Gait. to be Ensign, vice William !Johan, promoted. Commission in the Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Berwiek. William Hickman; Gent. to be Adjdtant. MUSTER Ol.' .CHE HOUSEII - OT.D Tnoors.—The 2d Bat talion of the Grenadier Guards was mustered on Saturday morning in the Tower. The other Battalions of the Guards, and thellousehold Cavalry, will be mustered this day and to morrow: Detachments belonging to Regiments in Ireland marched on Saturday morning from IVestrninster for Bristol. ROYAL NAVY, &c. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16, 1825. On Wednesday, 'the. Egeria,. 24, Captain S. Roberts, C.R., returned to Plymouth, .from Vera Cruz. last from Havannali, bringing Mr. Morier, late -British Commissioner in Mexico.— She left Vera Cruz on the 25th of .May, arrived at Havannah Bth June, and sailed thence for England on the 12th,.bringing abOut 200,000 dollars, and a quantity of coeltineal,on merchants' acchunt. The following - extract troin a letter which we have received from an officer on board, affords the Other information she brings : • 7 ‘ EGERIA. PLYMOUTH SOUND, JULY 13.—We left the Lively, 42 ' Capt. W. Elliott, C . . II:, at Havannah, }laving re lieved the Isis, Capt. T. Forrest, C. 8., which ship had been cruising six weeks off the coast of Cuba, during which her boats were Very actively employed- against the pirates which still infest the entrances to that island, though not in Strong parties. The unremitted activity and exertions of our small crafts and boats had in - a great measure dispersed, as well as - suppressed the pirates; butat is absolutely impossible to put a stop to so lucrative a system of plunder, unless the Spanish au thorities take sonie . means to prevent the. facilities - which are forded the pirates, in the equipment of vessels,-as well as in the sale of their plunder. -There were two Spanish frigates and-se veral smaller vessels at the Havannah ; but they were very hi active, and their crews ahnoSt in a state of mutiny. The town itself, and . indeed. the - whole of 'Cuba; is ripe for a _revolt, and which nothine; has preVented • but the re cent large accession of military 'force arrived oat from Spain. , -, The , boats„ of the Icarus had completely searched .the- Laguira de Zerminos (to leeward of CampeChie), and the pirates had disappeared.; . and she had just sent her .boats awarto another haunt, 'near Bayo Honda; The Isis had left Havannah for Chagres.. to' take a large freight ; the Dartmouth and Valorous for Port Royal ; the Primrose an Renegade mere at Vera Cruz. The officers and ship's company of the Lively were attacked with fever off tlie-Caymena, and Lietit.• Cock and Mr. Smith, Mate, with several of the crew, had fallen victims to the disease. Lieutenants Crozier. of the Lively, and Buchanan, of the Icarus, came passengers in this ship." This .morning arrived the Fly sloop of war, Captaio W. Fan shawe Martin, from the South American station, last from Rio Janeiro, whence she sailed. on. the Bth May. She does not bring so late news by a fortnight, as ou last paper contains. About One million of dams have been transmitted by her to per. chants in London. The Spartiate (Rear-AdMiral Sir Geo. Eyre). and Blanche, were left at Rio. On Thursday night. his Impee.al Russian Majesty*s . frigite - Kruizer, of 44 guns, commanded by Captain - I.azamir, arrived liere•from the North Pacific Ocean, and a visit to the Russian Settlements on the North.west coast of America.. This shin sailed from Spithead in November, 1822, with a Government store-ship in company, proceeded to Rio Janeiro,, Van Dierhen's Land (and was - the first Ituattian flag that ever visited that quarter), Otaheite, and P,ort Francisco, in-California, at which latter place she and her consort landed a large _quantity of Stores. They then proceeded to Mount .Edgecombe Sound, a harbour in the vicinity of Cook's Inlet, where the Russians have a garrison and a trading fur-post. Here more stores were landed, and the store-ship parted company, with -supplies for the Aleutian Islands, and the port of St. Peter and St. Paul, in Kamschatka. The Kruizsr, during thiS progress, and in her - homeward passage, made a few trifling surveys, but effected no discoveries : she did not go to the northward of 87. She:again touched at California, anti made her passage thence co 'Pio Janeiro in 92 days, and in 72 days from Rio to Spit head, on her way to St. Petersburgh. On Thursday, the Duchess of York transport, Lieutenant Green, arrived from the Leeward Islands, having on board his Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Warde, Governor of Bar badoes, Lady Warde, Miss Warde. and the whole of his Excel dency's staff-Officers; also 109 rove ids, 14. woriien, and 16 chil dren. The Duchess of York sailed from Barbadoes 26th of May, leaving there his'Majesty's ship Eden, Capt. John Law. mace, C. 8., and his Majesty's sloop Scout, Capt. Wigstori.— The ships of war on the Leeward Island station were.perfectly healthy. The Bellette, Captain Leith, was-at St. Thomas's; the Ringdove, Captain E. 1,. Rich, at Demerara. • The Eden was to sail on the Ist of June, with the Lord Bishop of Barba does, to visit the, difFent islands of his diocese. . On Tuesday the Ranger, 23, Captain Lord Hen. Fred. Thynne, arrived from Chatham, to fit for the South American . station, and will sail in about ten. days for Callao, taking Chas. Ricketts, Esq. Consul General in Peru. On. Wednesday, the 'Brazen, 28, Captain George Willes, came in from Plymouth, 'and landed the Right lion. Lord Yarborough, Commodore of the itoyal. Yacht Squadron, who went on the experimental "cruise between the Pandora and Harlequin, to witness the va rious points of sailing of the vessels. item in at Spithead_ Romney, Brazen, Henget, Fly, Camelion, Jasper, Brazilian frigate, Piranoo ; Russian Kruizers On Thursday, June ,13, the Ottowa, Douglas, Master, ar. rived here from Quebec ire 27 days, bringing Captain Ker and Lieutenants Blood and Poynter, .R.A., Major Dighton (late of. the Colombian Service), a few invalided soldiers, and others whose terms of service had expired. All was tranquil and pros. peroUs in the Cariadas, which also presented the cheering pros. pect of a plentiful harvest. The,law whieh permits Canadian cora to he imported into-this country, upon payment of a small duty isseper-quarters, will i. :lace the agriculotrists to put more ground into tillage. The - pre-eminently large timber ship was to be launched at Quebec on the 18th of June. She is 301 feet long, 50 feet. broad, 35 feet depth of held, and admeasures 5001 torts (being 1400 tons more than the lase Colombus). She is to carry 8000 tons of timber s her builder be ing a native of Ren frew, has named her in hairour of his Majesty," Baron of Ren frew," She may be expected to arrive in about a month ; she is bound to the River Clyde. The American Navy on the Lakes is cowyletely done away with by the natural decay of the ships ; their establishment in Sackett's Harbour is entirely removed.— It is expected, therefore, that our officers on the Lake Ser vice will shortlybe ordered home, as our ships which had been sunk to preserve them, ore now ascertained to he rotten,. the nature of the green wood of which they were built .being such as not to allow of snore than ten years'. service. Dating the recent stay of:the Navy Board at this Dock yard, his Majesty's ship Bellerophon (lately called thn Wa terloo), was subjected to a moat minute and rigorous exa s mination, in order to- ascertain, beyond all possible dtaubt, whether or not there were any reasonable grounds for the alarm which had been excited, by representations made in Parliament, and- in sonic of the Public Journals, as to her Materials being in a state of decay. Probably no ship ever ,before.underovent so thorough and trying a scrutiny—in the progress of which not any Fart of the vast fabric was left un explored, and .we have the satisfaction to state that, after the use of every means by which decay,. if' it existed, must have been detected,- not -a single vestige, or . even' symptom, ,of deterioration,. was discovered throughout the ship. NV; may safely !mle our readers to draw their owls inference as to the. credit to be given to the evil reports so industricnisly circulated with regard to the state of our navy, which we know to be in a condition both Of order and effective preservation that was never surpassed. There were present at the survey of the Bellero phon, besides the members .of the Navy Board and Pock-yard Officers, Admiral Sir George Martin, Sir James A. Gordon; Capt Charles Inglis, and a considerable number of other dis tinguisecl officers. The Navy Board also inspected- the state of experiments made on the capper of the Manly brig, by the in genious and scientific Sit Humphrey Davy; attended an experiment as to whether -oak or teak tree nails are of the• greater strength, when the•latter proved the strongest, by as two to three. • ;ommissloner Lewis rernoves from Malta Dock-yard, to a place at the Navy lioard.at Home, vice Commissioner who retires; after a long period of feithful service, with the rank of RearAdmiral.—Commissione- Charles Itoss,C.lL, removes f r om Jamaica to -Malta._ It is said a well-known Officer of ac knowledged distinguished reputation will be appointed a Com missioner of the Navy at Port Royal. lion. Mr. Bathurst (son of Lord Bathurst), is appointed a CoinmiSsinber of the Vic tualling Board, in therooin of Air. it. W.Jlay (formerly pri vate Secretary to Viscount Melville), who is appointed under Secretary of State is the Colonial Department. A . ;SI Z 1 NTELLIGENCE. WINCHESTER, JULY 16.-CIVII. SIDE. (Before Mr. Ju , tLe Igivr LEDA LE and a Special Jury.) CASE OF THE ItOuOUGH OF STOCKEHIDUE. REX V. COOPER. This was an information filed by the Attorney-General, ex officio, against the defendant Cooper, who claimed to discharge the office of Bailiff of the Borough of Stockbridge : the object of the information was to call upon the defendant to shew by whatrright or authority he sought to fill the office. Some years back the Bornogli of Stockbridge had been pur chased froM the Crown by Mr. Barham, the present Member., who claiming under that purchase, and as Lord of the Manor, the right of nominating the bailiff of that borough, had ap pointed the defendant, Cooper, to that office. The claim of the Lord of the Manor was denied upon the part of the. Crown, and the present trial was ,directed in order to determine the question. The evidence adduced for the defence was meant to shew , that it had been the custom in. the borough for the constable of one year to' be appointed bailiff in the ensuing year; and . it . was further alleged that such practice had sub sisted from' the year 16136 to the year 1716 ; and again, from 1797 to 1823, that the same usage had prevailed. The next point attempted to be established was, that the right of appointing the bailiff of the borough was vested in the Lord of the .Imtnor. This was sought to be proved by Means of documentary evidence of a very curious character: The first document produced set forth that the bailiff was " elected and sworn ; ". in the next heWas said to have been' " presented and returned by the .lury," and, by the last species of doctunen la Which were put in in evidence, it appeared that for th two years immediately preceding, the entry had been made in the - Court books in this form :—" A. B. was chosen and sworn to serve the office of bailiff for the year ensuing." This was the nature of the docunientary evidence: Witnesses were brought to prove, that for the last two years. the right of nomination had been enjoyed and exercised by the present Lord of the Mancha but there appeared to exist some difficulty and inconclusiveness in the nature of the evidence, as .far as it was meant to establish this fact. It was proved that the Lord was in the habit of giving a dinner to the Jury of the Manor, and that on. occasion of that dinner it was customary for the bord to drink the health of the person whom he was desirous of being choSen .to the office-Of ' But it afterwarwards ap peared in evidence, that the Jiffy of the Manor, when they were reqhired to make their election, were previously acqtrainted with the person whom it was intended to present for their op-, probation ; and also that previous to time dinner it was costa. many for' the candidates to s olicit the electors; in order to secure their election. Proof was adduced of this. and that a canVass had taken place among the inhabitants of the borough_ for that ramose. . • • . • . • site was then 'argued by Counsel for the defendant, that the documentary evidence west to prove that the nomination vested • itself in the Lord. of the - Manor, -and that the entries ii; the hooksestabliehed the fact of the Jury having only concurred in the appointment, for the ourpoeeof placing it as matter -a re cord on the borough hooks. -.• .•- • - • .The CourisehfordheCrown contended, in opposition to this, that .the terns of the entries clearly demonstrated that therioht y in the Jury Of the Manor, arid that if they had been resorted to. men ly to.put the nomination on record, :a diffhrent course wouid have been adopted. The fact ofcanvassing the .Jury on behalf of the caudidlo,es was relied on. to prove that the eke tion- Wes inaheir hands ; and it further was.urged, that on two several oecasions_•the inimahitauts had passed by-laws for the purpose of regulating the right of voting fer the .appointment of Bailiff.; •The bye.iaws referred to were .to the effect of - pre venting any per - Soh:a who shoold come to live in the borough and not poasess an adeqoate prooertei. froM. voting ; and it was maintained that such limitations of the rights of voting would not have been Made if the right ofelectiondid notexist and - was not possessed by the ihhabitants of the borough. 'l ll r. Jilitict LITTLEDALE went theough the whole of the . eaidence, anti s t i r :wood era the case in hischarge to the Jury, in doing - whiclohe said he should principally direct their attention to two points; which it was fur them 4o determine. .The first point for their consideration WaS,whetherit had been customary for the constable of one year to be the bailiff of the next year, and whether that custom stood established on the basis of a usage from time immemorial. lie was of opinion the immemorial usage had been fairly established. It Woo proved to have existed for two periods of thirty years each, from 16116 tal7l6Ound from 1797 to the present time ; anti as no evidence was given to p: eve that in the interval between those two periods, frOm 1716 to 1797, a contrary peactieehad subsisted, they Were . to assume it had been - continued uninterruhtedlyeand fihd in the affirmative upon that point. The second.point; and indeed the main one to be considered, was the right of the Lord of the Manor to elect to the office of bailiff, and this involVed a question of more difficulty,- and, as he had said, wail the important circumstance on the deci sion of which the case depended. There was a remarkable va riance in the tennis of the documents relative to the mode in which it had been customary to apnoint the bailiff: In one the bailiff was tleaCribed as " elected and sworn ;" in .another the wordy ,were, " A B was pr esen t e d a nd returned to serve the o ffice of bailiff;" anti in the third lie was said to be " chosen and sworn." Surely a word imati been caught,up from each of the former and inserted in this latter document ; the words " elected" and " chosen" being • synonymous and of similar signification. Now the question the Jury had to try was, whether, upon the face and from the terms of these douments, I it appeared that the right of ;ip - ointment lay in the Lord of the . Manor, the appointment being merely recorded or confirmed by • 1 the .Jury, or Whether the &et:meats did not rather demonstrate I that the election vested in the Jury itself. When be mentioned' the right of'appointment, he Meant the fact, - the former 'being . dependent upon the latter in this ca. Se. For hils part, he inclined to think. that the Jury possessed the Tight; and had exercised the power, of electing the bailiff, as, if they had, not, he could" not perceive the utilitycf the documents that had been produced. If the Jury thought time custom of the Borough had been for the Lord or time Manor to appoint the bailiff,. they would find for the defendant; but if they believed the contrary to be ,the fact, and that the jury had been the parties who were in the habit of electing that officer, their verdict must be for the Crown. The Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the Crown. RIDGE v. iii`KAY l‘lr. CARTER opened the pleadings, and • .111r.ERSxfsirt stated the car, to the Jury, and said that the question for their consideration was, whether or not the defend.:' ant had acted as a trustee to the turnpike-roads leading from• Basingstoke to Stockbridge, without having previously qua lified himself by taking the oaths as by law appointed; and , if he had done, so what amount of penalty he had incurred, or in other words, how often he had committed those acts which sub jected him to penalties under the existing Statutes. The Acts of Parliament which appointed those penalties were first passed in the . 2ath of Geo. 11., an d- co ntin ue d flown from 'thence to the present time. In thefirst Act, trustees cf roads were nominated ......some of them becoming so by, virtue of, their office, among whom was the Bailiff' of the Borough of Stockbridge. By a Statute passed in th e 4 t h year o f 'the' present reign, the quali fications appointed in the former Acts were confirmed, and it was further enacted, "' That .no person shall ret 'as Trustee or Commissioners of Roads until he has taken an oath in the pre settee of another Trustee, or the Treasurer or Secretary to the trust, that he will, to the best of his power and ability, disharge the duty devolving on him in his capacity of Trustee; and it is farther provided, that any person acting as Trustee, without having duly taken the oath above recited, shall forfeit a sum of 501. for each and every act he shall sr. perform, without having observed the necessary qualificatiols." All that mas necessary, on the part of the prosecution, Was to prove these two facts, that , .the defendant had acted as a Trustee, and that he lied not qua lified himself so to.do by taking the necessary oaths; -and if he could establish those facts, he should expect a verdict in favour of the plaintiff. Ssrjeant WrI.DE admitted, that the defendant had serv ed the office of Bailiff of Stockbridge in 1324. - Mr. Henry Attwood—i am clerk of the trustees of the Basingstoke road, by Popham to Stockbridge, and have seetr -- ,the books in which the proceedings of the trustees are entered, I was present when the defendant was sworn into office as bailiff of Stockbridge, for the year 1824. [lt was here intimated, by Air. Sergeant Wilde, that .the defendant could not have been sworn, as, being of the Quaker persuasion, he _lsad an objection-to taking an oath. lii r. -.ll`Kay did not dress lit' / it'( uAer; I have seen hiM fit, cur church. I can tell by Y lt lIP S L SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM ..4UDEfir LONDON, 11.10NDIY EVENING, JULY 18 7 1825. The French Paper's of Friday arrived last night : their contents are not important : FRENCH FUNDS.—P4 - 11IS, JU-LY 15.—(From the Etoik.) —Five per Cents. 103 f. 35c. ; Three per Cents. 76f. 25c.—The Cours Authentique not received. • The Dutch. a►►d Pamburgh Mails have reached us-this morning, bringing Ham burgh and Haar. lem Papers to the 13th and 16th July. They do not contain much news of importance, but we haVe seleCted the subjoined extracts. An article dated Milan contains a Sovereign 'declaration relative to the nobility and titles belongitur, to the Provinces of the late Republic of Venice, which is now part of the Austrtan 'States. These title: are to he confirmed on due proof of possession, in, the same manner' as they were conferred, if the confirmation is applied for within the space of one year from ale date of the declaration. The Milan Gazette contains the narrative of the Emperor's tour, of his visits to the public institutions, and the rejoicings of the people. His Majesty tsas at Bergamo the Ist July. HANONE n, JULY 4. - -We learn from good authority that part of the mines of the Hartz has been let by the Government to a Mining Association in England, for the space of ten years, for the sum of 800,000 Rix Dollars. Two Agents of the Com pany have arrived for the purpose of regulating this business. The Hanoverian Army has lately lost, by death, General Hake. . _ _ ST. PETERSBUIiGiI, JUNE 29.—1 n consequence of the kesolution of a Provisional Committee of May 3, the duty on several erticleJ of importation has been considerably diati-, fished in the provinces of New Russia in order to encourage , the trade of that part of the Empire ; thus a duty on a 80rk)... witz of potashes is reduced from 1 Ruble 25 Copecs in silver to 75 Copecs ; on a rood of raw hides, from 00 Copecs to 40; since the opening of the navigation, up to the 12th of thin month; 353 foreign ships had arrived at Riga sailed 211: EXCIIANGEs ON LONDON: • IIAMBURGII; JULY 12.-36. O. 2 Us., 35. 9. . PETEKSISURCH, JUNE 28.-9. 7-16. I.EIPsIG, JU LY 3.—Three montig, 6. U. BERLIN, JULY 9.—Three mont , 6.20 i. VIENNA, JULY 2.—Three months, 9. 37. AMSTERDAM, JULY 15.-39. 7.; two months, 39 lIREstEN, JULY 11.—Two months, 590. The Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics or . .. Ireland took place on W e dn es d a y l as i, when the Committee of 21, specially instructed to evade the statute of the last session, made their . Report. For its contents we refer our Readers to the ' : account,of the Meeting, which will be found in another part-of our Paper. , . If the• purposes of the New Association. are confined to the . objects developed in the Re' port aforesaid, _we feel bound to state they er pear to us perfectly without the law. They are not indeed evasions, for the , statute so • much abused, never "contemplated meetings. of „ • such a nature r and for such purposes as the New .. Association professes to aim at. The Govern' meat never felt for an instant the slightest wish to',, restrain meetings sirictly confined to the promo . • . tion of the avowed objects of the new. Associa .- Elan. lt did not indeed require a Committed , of 21 to make this. grand discovery, and hav" . tog, made it, we cannot .see how it: helps theol• - 1 A legal•inception will not make an illegal s.ct . good, and if therefore, in a meeting of the nef . Association, any thing shall be done which trenches upon the provisions of the late Act, '.'. ' apprehend the actors will find themselves as muck amenable to the new law• as they Were before this notable CoMmittee made this no less nota' ble Report. To say their professed objec t is legal would in such case be no-answer, and ID the minds of all honest men to profess one thiOP and under cover thereof to ,do another, is, rathe r an aggravation than a defence, and places the actors before society in an odious point of view' But what is that to the Leaders of the Catholi c . , • faction ? what is it to them h o w odious they crak e their friends ? what care they_ for others if wh - a t others do will promote their interested viov 6 : and put within their grasp that power they '° ardently, so vehemently desire.. Is any man de" - ceived with their cry ? &hies any Mari belie" the attainment of constitutional rights, as o' l , are pleased to call them, is their sole o bject that admission to seats in the Legislature Is . 0 „, 1 they want. If there is s uc h a man , l et him as' hinmSelf how many out of the . boasted six •Mipiq u of Catholics would .benefit by such a 1 06 ' sure ? how 'many are in a situation to take 0 7 . vantage of the concession, supposing it we t ! made, and then say if it be poisitile that slit. Millions of people. who cannot, by the r e- _ • mutest •possibility, be benefited, by the r e : . mov - al• of Catholic disabilities, would conse7 to he' Made to o ls f or the advancement U: , r some dozen of their brethren, unless they hope' t ! for or lo o ked forward to something they dare n ot utter, but to the attainment of which. all othe r considerations tnust . give way, unless Indeed thef expected the full restitution of the ancient P . 5 Sessions of the Catholic. Church i her L uneualtho • re-establishment, with all her ft glits, polf‘ o , .and abilities, or unless (if that hope is too exi l4 o , ' gant) undue influence had been employed ovi' r ir, minds. of the Catholic popUl a i i on 'to:excite tit if fearsOrstheir cupidity, and urge them into actio ll. 4 thisis not al'ready,sutficiently ph.in let : he m?' 1 , 1 1 , of Wednesday sp'ak for us, and we do'assert ° t ot is enough there - to spew that a some thi ng beY. ° , o; . the mere acquirement of nciliticai rights e" l .' c . a something which anim a te s a ll th e i r h o p e s, g l t 1 0 15 energy to all 'their: actions, a nd. results ill a i c .t , constant restlessness, that incapability of q t " ioo . which: has for years distinguished the poput u in Ireland. ' -.: °it' I The fi rst act of this meeting w a s to. re- app ft, it, Mr. O'GOlthli:4 their SecretaSecretary. From the b est ness of the heart the month s n e a ked ) , n 0....,, • what (ids gentleman said in returning thank s ,pro " Independent of their (th e Ministers) internal di's e i T u glr i . " which he hoped, O od Almi g hty', would i ncrea se (gre'thr, (itl'. " ter), their finances were in rather - aticklish state. Jo ao , D e " Was beginning to g et uneasy, an d a - cloud appeale, s ap!. " gatherin ,, in time mirth ; and there was no knowing; o, (' „hirls "it wouleburst. Russia had 1,300,01)0 ° in arms. i iloinen " at thesecheering prospects, i t wa s sufli c ientto inspire • " with hope." • Fins" Internal dissensions in the Ministry—'7 w ho ticklish—England- threatened by R.uSsi 3 cti had 1,300,000 in arms, are •cireering Pru s l i w n to . for the Irish CatholicS. The prospect Of r u 0 ,01 ' Great Britain is a !natter of congratulatio 9 . o f the increase of time ' internal dissensi o n or 4. the Administration is the subject of the r a' l ss o'• of the Secretary of the N ew Catholic 'ye 1 ciation.—Soch sentiments . could find. a i ) r Od e • only in a heart perverted 'and 'an . ee of standing enslaved by the. fatal 'Mille ° ille - i ,' 1 which we speak, and worked uP" . , 1 1; 0 0}P' ! shocking:- doctrines • of the : JeSuitical P e co n' We, therefore, pity the man as much as "'e", ' tenth the thri•at, and we refer to if With e e l Ot t mice. But we are more conc e rned when 4w .00 , 1 t re at s r ap t that a large promiscuous assembly conks ril sentiments with levity. If such -language viv a se(i condemned, it should at least have beef" r e i for over in silence,-and not have formed a se j . iejet ;a n§ laughter. We cannot perceive haw 0 jo . disSe lls ifti' of time King's Ministry (if t hey barrassed -Finances amid tim e invasion, would afford a , ' • m ereiu l Fe ,nbject f or id g i i and bad indeed must dr- gt man lie who 0 1 a cif way to such - a feeihr, - ,.. Ott the prospect o - 0 01' war, or .the subj"agation of a tvhole - colia and that count r y : hi s andof t the man own . W e are a° .this, t hig h ; iyi e : ; . t e s e te t c e l) f , a bu f : r tif: conduct, ' t nv o ea is to impute air langht e r rif m ., 1 .1)e• Catholics so bad 1 r so c " , but the suiy -exense 'we - can find ' o- thie' of affairs both at home rt ° le' %vimo an c d ou a l .b d toa s d o , :I I e o: a l f palpable irht lit ; . „l absurdities t] e tt r ie res e oe : l t t : s p ti lo te l.. . , h. i, from - I •PhecY 'silt:4 tremeridom and oveiwhelt n " ' b d twe -P • ‘l?. ealways thougtg the cqntest ' - nrYtbefs"lolll;: reference to ray liti4s that the defendant attended a meeting of the trustees of - the Basingstoke-road, on the lath of Septem ber last; after the business of the day, had concluded,. I saw him sign his name to the memorandum of the proceedings of the meeting, as was customary with the attending trustees. He also signed the -minutes of - • the proceedings of the trus tees on the 27th of September ; hi did so on the 16th of No vember last.-- I saw him attend the meeting of the trustees on the-27th of January in this year, but 4 lie did not then sign his name to the minutes. 'J can swear'iiire - is no' entry in the books Of 111 r. baring Liken the trusteo' oath as re quired by the statute. - Mr.'Ju . stice IaTtLtDALE charged the Jitry,and recapitn- - lated the facts of the cage. His Lordship expressed himself of .opinion . that the statutes should be construed in a liberal man ner, for even if the - Plaintiff - v. 7 6re 20 - be Tionsuited it would only occasion further litigation. With respect to the act of trustee ship alleged to have been committed on the 27th of January, it was not.clearly made out. The points tin the consideration of the Jury were, whether the defendant took the oath required by the statute, and, secondly, whether he performed acts of trusteeship within the time specified in the Act. • The Jury. found that 'the defendant not take the oath of trustee, and that he - acted in that capacity on the l'lth of November. • _ CHOWN SIDE.—CHARGE OF -MURDER. On Friday Lieutenant James Pullen, an officer in the Pre ventive Service, and Wm.' Young, an extra man in the same service, were tried for the murder of James Meade, .who .was killed by a pistol-shot. A great number of witnesses were examined, by whose evidence it appeared that the Lieutenant having information of an intended to land smuggled goods on . the coast, went out at night with a party to prevent it, and met 40 or 50 men together, whb were probably collected for the purpose. Some violence having taken place at 'each side, the Lieutenant ordered his men to lire ' and one of the other party, whowas unarmed, was killed. The Lieutenant was found Guilty of Manslaughter ; Young was acquitted. A point of law being made in the Lieutenant's favour, it was rtserval for the opinion of the Judges, and he was admitted to bail, to come up to re ceive judgment; if necessary. James Pitman, charged with having in the nigh.. of 3d June last, at the parish of ',Tilton, with other persons at present un known, assembled together arid obstructed Lieut. James Pul ling,. Wm. Young, an others in his Majesty's Preventive Ser. vice'm the execution of their duty, was sentenced to six calen dar months hard labour in the House of, Correction. HERTFORD ASSIZES, JULY 16: At half-past ..ten - o'clock this evening, the Assizes for the County terminated. Thomas-Rees, a shoemaker, aged 22, ,wies indic.=.l for mali ciously setting fire to a house and premises at Bishop's Stortford, on Sunday, the 17th of April, aid also for sending threatening letters to the parish vestry. Upon the charge of arson, he was acquitted ; but ppon the separate charge of sending threatening letters, he was found Guilty, and sentenced to be transported for lifer. • OA Y AT- ONE O-CI.OOK. PIIICE OF STOCKS THIS Balt k Stock 3 per Cent. lied. 3 per ( Sent. Cons• £l9i 9t) ex thy. 3.k per Cent. Ditto Red 93gi 4 per Cent. New 10343 ex titv. Bank bong Ann. 22 346 5-16 India mock Ditto Bond:, ... 35 . 33 34 pm. South Sea Stuck • ritirrs or PO ItEldN Austrian ltds, 5 per cent.... Brazilian I.lds B2i --=—'1825... 14 2 tillerios Ayr6 !Ids ' s l .9i Cilitian; Ilds, 6 per cent. 79 Coiouthinn lids. 6 per cent. .88 Do. do. :18.24. Danish, s.per cent. Do. dis. 4i reek tsds Do. Scrip 1823... 1` -411.%. _Mexican - 11 sis scrip 1825 dis. Neapolitnn, 5 pcc cent. 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