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the judgment of his Maesty has never been questioned) could evisr think of weakening his authority, by allowing himself to be drawn from his course by big language. This would carry with it all the appearance of acting under the in fluence of intimidation ; and the commonest pru dence dictates, that every thing which has the appear ance of an attempt to intimidate should be resisted to the utmost. From the moment a parcel of fire brands in both Houses began to threaten they would show up Ministers—that they would destroy them —that they would worry them with a succession of factious motions, and impede the wheels of Go ' vernment, the Royal honour became inseparably bound up with the existence of the Ministry. We have never thought highly of the late Lord Chan cellor. As a politician he has always appeared to us ignorant and narrow-minded; and besides, the disposition he has always manifested has never ap peared to us in a favourable light. But when one sees an old xnan, the moment he quits an Adminis tration, betake himself to the devising factious mo tions for settling (as he calls it) the Catholic Ques tion, the only feeling excited is that of disgust. But the idea involves an absurdity. How can a question be settled for ever in a country in which men are at liberty to express their grievances, and to remonstrate ? If we were to enact a law that no Catholic should be allowed to complain of his situa non, under severe penalties ; in short, if we were to create a Protestant inquisition in Ireland, the ques tion might be settled. It would then be a question whether such a state of things would plunge the Catholics into despair, or agitate them to madness. But, without extreme measures of this kind be adopted, the question cannot be settled. Parliament cannot tie up its own hands.. The people cannot be prevented from complaining and approaching Par liament. The object of the old Chancellor, how ever, is merely one of embarrassment. But we are glad he has shown the cloven foot.-31orning Chronicle. We have seldom seen so complete a demoli tion, as that of the case of the Shipowners last night by Mr. Huskisson. They were driven from eves y position which they occupied, by a plain unvarnished statement of facts. He did not leave'a single point, on which they rested, un explained. The circulation of the speech threugh out the country will be of great benefit ; for though people may be deluded for a time by partial statements, they cannot resist the truth when it is placed before them in a way that all can understand. Of no man can it with more -truth be said than of Mr. Huskisson, that he is distinguished for candour and fairness. You never discover in him any artifice, any disposi tipn to triumph over an opponent, by means 'shich display the speaker's cleverness, rather than his own decided conviction of the truth of what he utters. There is in him no arguing for victory, and it is this character of his own honest mind imprinted on all he says, that renders the effect of it almost irresistible. After perusing the speech on the Shipping Interest, how con temptible do all those individuals appear, who, during his absence from his post on account of sickness, made him the object of their con-' stint attacks ! Good Lord, that such whip sters as Mr. W. Yates Peel and Lord Castle reagh should dare to open their mouths even against such a man. We are no great admirers of the introduction of the wisdom of our ances tors, as a plea for refusing to profit by the expe rience of our own times; but there was one part of the wisdom of our ancestors, which still might be imitated—that of frowning down ignorant strip lings, when they dare to speak contemptuously of men who have prescribed to themselves a life of labour for the good of their countrymen ; and who to great talents and sagacity add the posses sion of the knowledge derived from an. extensive experience. We were particularly pleased with the concluding part of Mr, Huskisson's speech, in which he alludes to the folly of the attempt to impede the progress of improvement in a coun try like England. "It was not (he said) in the power of any set of men whatever to stop the course of civil and commercial improvement.— England could not stand still while any other country in the civilized world *as advancing in improvement, in industry and civilization, and in the possession of all those means which in create the prosperity of a country, and mul tip!v the enjoyments ofthe human kind. While other nations were advancing, England could not stand still, especially so long as a Free Press, and -free discussion of all questions in Parliament, should embody the weight and influ ence of public opinion." It was happily observed by Mr. Canning, in the eulogy which he pronoun ced on his Right Hon. Friend, " Is not the doctrine and spirit of those who persecute my Right Hon. Friend, the same which in former time: stirred up persecution against the best benefactors of mankind Is it cot the same doctrine and spirit which embit tered the life of Turgot ? Is it not a doctrine and spirit such as these which consigned Galileo to the dungeons of the Inquisition ?" It is curious, by the by, that both Galileo and his great contemporary, Lord Bacon, have expressly combated the attempt to preclude inquiry by an allegation of holding the wisdom of our ancestors in reverence. Galileo says (vol. 10, p. 371, Milan edit.). " To maintain that the ancient and inveterate opinions are the best is absurd ; because, as we say of a particular man, that it appears his last de terminations are the most prudent, and that his judgment increases with years, in the same manner it appears reasonable, in speaking of the universality of men, that their last determinations are the truest." The remark of Bacon on the subject is more point ed than that of Galileo, but it is so well known, that we will not trouble our readers with it. We are not advocating changes or innovations without an object. Of course the proof of their necessity and expediency should always be rigorously exacted from him who pro i poses them. We complain only of that brutal outcry against change, however expedient, on the mere ground that that is hest which is esta blished--a principle which would arrest -society in its progress, and have kept man from emerging from the savage state.—lbitl. The recent explanations, by the Members of the late GovemMent, of the transactions which led to the existing anomalous Administration, lava had, we must confess, the effect of much atiightening the minds of the public in regard to the real sentiments and conduct of the seceding party, cnneerning which a good deal of unjust c l amo ur a rineare in the outset to have been care fully raised. We were ourselves somewhat in censed against them, while we thought that they had been engaged in a conspiracy to dictate to the King in the choice of his Minister, and to controul, by aristocratic influence, the exercise of his just prerogative. But it now seems pretty clear that nothing of this kind took place, or was ever attempted or even thought of—and, as cir cumstances daily transpire, we shrewdly snspect that whatever intrigue and manoeuvring (lid take place, was all the other way. At any rate the Protestant Ministers appear to have acted indi vidually irpon a fair and honest principle, and a laudable feeling of personal honour, without cabal of any description, and simply to have resigned their situations when they thought they could not continue to hold them with honour to 'themselves, or to the advancement of those principles which they had always professed. — Assuming this to be their opinion, we are at a Loss to discover what there is in their case to se parate it so widely from that of other persons 0.1 - to have declined to act under particular indivi duals, whose tenets and political chara.er they differed from or mistrusted,—or to participate in Governments of a strong particular tendency. -- 7 It is no answer to their objections to say that they had already acted with Mr. Canning as a colleague, and might therefore continue to act under him as a head ; since it must be obvious to the least reflecting, that there is a wide differ ence between the power and influence of a man who is merely at the head of a particular depart ment, controulled, probably, by equal counter acting influence, habits of personal regard, and all those fetters of hope and fear which keep aspiring men in order while they are in a se-' condary situation, and the power and influence of the same man, possessed of the favourable ear of his Sovereign, presiding over the spirit of the Cabinet, and dispensing the patronage of Govern ment—and this distinction has constantly been drawn by Statesmen upon occasions of forming Administrations. The resolution of Lord Li verpool and his Colleagues in 1812, " not to become part of any Administration formed by Lord Wellesley," as communicated to Lord Wellesley in Lord Liverpool's letter of the 23d of May, was never reproached to them as a con spiracy. What was there in the recent resolu tion of the Duke of Wellington and others not to become part of an Administration formed by Mr. Canning, to distinguish it from the former occasion ? Lord Wellesley himself was at that time professedly in favour of a mixed Cabinet ; yet his refusal to form a junction with the Ad ministration was expressly founded on the fact of the opinions of the Head of that Administra tion respecting the Roman Catholic concessions remaining unchanged ; and Lord Wellesley's expression of his sentiments upon that sub ject is said to " comprise a sufficient reply to the communication received through Lord Liver pool." Does not the same reason which withheld some Catholic advocates from serving in an Admi stration of which Lord Liverpool was the head, apply, a fortiori, as a reason for preventing Pro testants from joining one of which Mr. Canning is the head ? For it is never to be forgotten, that Mr. Canning has gone much further on the Catho lic side than ever did Lord Liverpool on the Pro testant, towards an infringement of neutrality— having recorded his decided conviction that " to become a part of an Administration, with the pre vious knowledge of the unaltered opinions of the head of it, as to the policy of resisting all considera tion of the state of the laws affecting his Ma jesty's Roman Catholic subjects, would, it was felt, be to lend himself to the defeating of his own decla red opinions on that important question, opiniuus which rest on the conviction that it is the duty of the advisers of the Crown, with a view to the peace, tranquillity, and strength of the empire, to take that ouestion into their early and serious consi deration, and earnestly to bring it to a final and sa tisfactory settlement." How could a Protestant party act with confidence and security under a leader of this description ?—more especially when it is remembered that that leader had been, from the mo ment of his becoming their colleague, engaged in the most obvious political coquetry and Parliamen tary dalliance with their avowed adversaries, whom, after the proper proportion of " Bashful coy submission, modest pride, And sweet reluctant amorous delay," he seems to have fairly received into his wanton arms, and with whom we wish him all the charms that constant affection and unblemished pu rity of principle can bestow in the wedded state! —Morning Post. The straight-forward hitting of the Marquis of Londonderry, in the House of Lords, does not at all seem to please his political adversaries. Lord Goderich having set the example of adopt ing a figure of speech from the classic ground of Moulsey Hurst, in saying, that all he asked was " a clear stage and no favour," we may be pardoned for folloup the metaphor, and observing, that the challenge was no sooner given than it was b 7 17 the Noble Marq uis, who A st e pped At once within " the ring, " ready to commence vigorous operations. But, after, this expression about a " clear stage" appears to have been a mere flourish. - Lord Goderich hid gone beyond his instructions—the Premier is a great tactician, and tactics, not regular John Bull fighting, is to be the order of the day. It was by superior tactics that Mr. Canning got in advance of all his late colleagues—his brother pupils of the Pitt school ; and, as management has done so much for him already, he deems it best .to put confidence in it for the future. It is true, that the celestial aid which is reported to favour his natural genius, might make a man very bold without the imputation of temerity ; but Mr. Canning is a man of classical recollections, and his poetic studies must teach him not to place too implicit a reliance even upon a deified patroness, if he should look up to any such, even with the devotion of a good believer. He must remember that when Paris, whose intrigues kin dled the Trojan war, encountered Menelaus in single combat, he nearly forfeited his life, and it cost the Queen of Beauty,who had become his stead fast guardian:angel, on account of the golden ap ple which he had given her, a very extraordinary effort to rescue him out of the hands of his enraged assailant. We are quite sure, from his readiness at classical quotation, that such instructive fictions are not lost upon him. He therefore rather evades all invitations at present to take the field, than pro vokes them. In vain does the Marquis of London derry endeavour to bring some of his Provisional Government to close quarters. He even made statements on Monday night seriously implicating Mr. Canning in the charge of cabal with certain other persons, previously to breaking with his late colleagues, but no one appeared as Champion for the Premier in the House of Lords, to vindicate him from the imputation. He also stated that the Pre mier had taken good care of himself, whatever might become of the country, by securing a pension of 3,0001. a year, as a very solid consolation to his feelings In the evert of a check to his ambition. Truly, in these days, patriotism, like charity, begins at home. The constellation of virtues, which a lmost the whole of the Daily Press has lately discovered in Mr. Canning, must be greatly improved in this instance of crowning wisdom, It must be exceed ingly gratifying to those papers that did all in their power to set afloat the golden bubbles of the Joint Stock schemers, to find that the Premiership must at all events, turn out a lucrative speculation. Some portion of the Press has lost all temper and decency in alluding to the speech of the Marquis of Londonderry, but we were always of opinion that it is better to answer a statement than to abuse its author.—Herald.. The circumstances connected with the disso lution GI the late Administration, which have been disclosed in the course of the last week, have come out so much in piece-meal—have been se much varied, by corrections of the ori ginal statements—and have been so separated from each other, and so lost in angry comment and disquisition—that we think we shall do a service to truth, if we give a simple, connected, narrative of facts, so far as they have been hitherto admitted Dr ascertained. The illness of Lord Liverpool having made it necessary to re-construct the Ministry, the first point consi dered seems to have been, whether a Ministry could be formed, which would avowedly exert its influence against concession to the Catholics. Mr. Canning appears to have advised his Ma jesty (advice which, he tells us, was not what he would have offered, if he had been guided by his own opinion), to form such a Government, if there were materials for it. This counsel, he tells us, necessarily involved his own retirement from office, and that result he did not conceal ; neither did he disguise the difficulty of forming such an Administration, though he did not pro nounce it to be a work of impracticability. Thus, Mr. Canning's first act (to use his own words), after Lord Liverpool's illness, " was an expression of his wish to withdraw from the Ad ministration." Ultimately, it was deemed im practicable to form an exclusive Administration. In other words, the members of the Cabinet would not venture to go on without Mr. Can ning's aid. The next proposal was, to re-con struct the Government, all the old members re taining their offices, by placing at its head some Peer, who was known to entertain Anti-Catho lic sentiments. To this plan Mr. Canning re fused to accede ; and he refused upon this prin ciple—that to have acted under an Anti-Catho lic Peer as Premier, would have been to sanction the principle, that his own opinions on that question were a disqualification fir holding the highest office in the State. Mr. Canning, how ever, seems to have been far from insisting on being himself Premier : for early in April, he stated to the Duke of Wellington, that one of the schemes which had occurred to him, in case the King should desire him to re-construct the G overnment, was, to make the present Lord Goderich First Lord of the Treasury. In the meantime, Mr. Peel had expressed a fixed purpose of re tiring, if any change took place favourable to the Catholics. This purpose he had long enter tained ; and, when the Catholic Question was last discussed, it had been his intention to resign immediately, if he had, on that occasion, been, (as was his anticipation) in a minority in the House of Commons. His resolution to resign was communicated, on the 29th of March, to Mr. Canning, who endeavoured, but in vain, to persuade him to depart from it. On the 10th of April, Mr. Canning, having been commanded by the King to form a plan of a Ministry, in which the' preponderating influence should be against the Catholics, wrote to the Duke of Wellington, re questing him to continue his services in the new Cabinet. That led to the correspondence between his Grace and Mr. Canning, on the 10th and 11th of April, which is already before the public, and in which (notwithstanding the com ments that have been made upon it) we can dis cover nothing which an impartial judge could find fault with, or which either party can impute as matter of blame to the !other. The grounds of the separation of Mr. Canning and the Duke of Wellington must be sought for elsewhere than in that correspondence. On the evening of the 10th of April, a meeting seems to have taken place, at which, at least, Lord Eldon, Mr. Can ning, and Mr. Peel, were present ; and, at that meeting, (as Mr. Peel states), Lord Eldon an nounced his determination to resign. Mr. Canning, however, did not understand his resolution to have been finally and irre vocably made. On , the 11th of April, Lord Bathurst and Lord Westmoreland deter mined to resign ; because they thought that a Cabinet, from which the Duke of Wel lington, Lord Eldon, and Mr. Peel, had with drawn, could not carry on the Government in a manner of which these Noble Lords could approve. Mr. Canning received the formal resignations of Mr. Peel and of Lord Westmoreland on the I Ith of April : those of the Duke of Wellington and of Lord Bexley (who had, also, from different motives founded in mistake, determined to resign) were re ceived by him on the following morning, about half past ten. Mr. Canning had left the Foreign Office on that forenoon, before the resignations of Lord Eldon and Lord Bathurst arrived, but he gave directions that they should be sent after him, in case of their ar rival. They were forwarded to him to St. James's. There Mr. Canning informed his Sovereign of these resignations, which rendered it impossible for him to construct the Cabinet as he had originally in tended. He could no longer form a Ministry with a preponderating, Anti-Catholic interest; and the only alternative left him was, either to declare him self unable to frame a Ministry, or to form it of in dividuals who, though entertaining opinions favour able to the Catholics, were willing not to make that question a Cabinet measure. His Majesty was pleased to think, that the circumstances which had occurred afforded no sufficient reason for withdraw ing from Mr. Canning the confidence previously re posed in him. He, therefore, commanded him to proceed with the formation of a Ministry. Mr. Can ning accepted, the office of First Lord of the Treasury ; and, on the same day, this event was an nounced to Parliament by the motion for a new writ. Such is an accurate outline of the facts which have excited so general an interest throughout Europe, and the details and connection of which are often lost sight of in the angry discussions to which they have given rise. The only observation we shall make upon them, at present, is, that they exculpate both Mr. Canning and the Ex-Ministers from every suspicion of cabal and intrigue.—New Times. It may be within the recollection of our readers, that when petitions were first presented to the House of Commons, representingthe Reciprocity laws as injurious to the interests of the Ship owners, we placed before them a statement which went very far to disprove such assertion ; and we confess that it was with much satisfaction we found the President of the Board of Trade on Monday evening, so completely confirming the opinions we had advanced. But, say the Ship owners, it cannot be denied that distress does exist, even at the present moment, and if it may not be ascribed to these laws, where are we to look for its source ?" In reply to this, we have only to bring forward another fact, which, however much to be regretted, in one point of view, satisfac torily refutes the charges brought against these enactments. In the quarter, ending the sth of April, 1827, the quantity of coals brought into the port of London, was less by about 100,000 chaldrons, than in the corresponding period of 1826. This, at a moderate computation, must have thrown, in a period of three months, about 100,000 tons of shipping out of the Coasting Trade, the owners of which have been neces sarily compelled to seek employment in the Fo reign Trade, thus creating a supply more than adequate to the demand. Let it be remem bered, also, that during the last year, the supplies of some descriptions of Corn, for the London Market, instead of being drawn from the various outports, and conveyed exclusively in British vessels, have been, to a great extent, re ceived from foreign countries, the carrying trade of which has always been shared in large proportions, by vessels belonging to the States from whence the importation was made, In proof of this we may mention further, that a number of vessels hitherto employed in the coasting trade, have, within a very recent period, left this country in bal last, to proceed to the Baltic for cargoes; thus affording strong evidence, that the carrying trade is by no means likely to be engrossed by the northern nations. The Right lion, Gentltman, in the course of his speech, while deprecating the clamour with which this question has been assailed, alluded to a similar outcry that was raised when the Silk Acts passed into a law; and it may not be wholly uninteresting, if we place the result of that measure before our readers, by stating that in the first four months of 1826, the quantity of the raw material taken home for consumption did not exceed 320,0001b5., while, in the present year, the duty has been pz.ri on 1,240,0001b5. during the same period. —lbid. LOVAT CLAIM OF PEERACtE. This claim is now in progress of prosecution before the House of Lords. Owing to the state of health of some of the witnesses they have been examined in Scotland; and their evidence is just returned to the House. The following are extracts : Alexander Fraser asked (7th question)—Have you, or not, ever heard from any member of the family, and if so, from which in particular, who was reputed to be the father of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the year 1747; if yea, set forth what you have so heard from them, or any of them, relative to the matters inquired after by this question, according to the best of your remembrance and belief? After replying to the 6th question, that he was well acquainted with different members of the family of Fraser of Lovat, who are now deceased: that he was gamekeeper to General Simon Fraser of Lovat, from the time that the estate of Lovat was restored to him till his death; that he was born in this place, which is situated within half a mile of Beaufort Castle, and has resided here all his lifetime. De pones, that the deponent's father was a servant to Simon -Lord Lovat, and also lived at this place all his lifetime. Depones, that the deponent recollects Simon Lord Lovat, and remembers his Lordship being at a christening near this place, when, after the ceremony was over, he took the deponent into his coach, and that this was about three years before the battle of Culloden. Depones, that he was also well acquainted with Alexander Fraser, second son of Simon Lord Lovat, commonly called the Briga dier, who resided many years in the deponent's near neighbourhood, and that the deponent knew the said Brigadier from the period of the battle of Cullo den till the time of his death. Depones, that he was also very well acquainted with the late Col. Archi bald Campbell Fraser of Lovat, youngest son of Simon Lord Lovat, for a great many years, and for at least upwards of 30 years; and that he also knew the children of the said Colonel Archibald Campbell Fraser, viz., Simon, Archibald, and William, and there was one who died in London, whose name he does not...know. He answered to the 7th question —That he has heard that the father of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the year 1747, was called Thomas Fraser of Beaufort, and that the deponent received this information from his own father • and that the said Thomas Fraser of Beau fort lived at Tomicli in the parish of Urray. To the Bth question, he answered that Alexander Simon Lord Lovat and John Fraser were all the sons c.r children of Thomas Fraser of Beaufort; that Alexander killed a fiddler for playing the Highland air of " Ha Pitag er iliac Thomash," which the said Alexander conceived to be in derision of him, and he never heard that the said Alexander was married; that Simon succeeded to the property and title of Lovat, and that John, the youngest son of Thomas of Beau fort, was killed at the battle of Glenshiel, a young man unmarried ; that he learned these particulars about the family or Lovat from his own father and the neighbours. He adds, that he never heard from any member of the Lovat family, nor from any other person, that Simon Lord Lovat was reputed in the family to have had any uncle or uncles by the father's side. That lie cannot sign his name, owing to a great tremor in his hand. All which is truth, as he shall answer to God. Hugh Maclean depones, that he was eigh`y-one years of age on the 30th of October last. That he took a farm on the forfeited estate of• Lovat, and possessed the same for fifty-one years, during which long period he was intimate with the successive pro prietors of the estate of Lovat, &c. That in 1757, he got acquainted with the said General Simon Fraser, the eldest son and heir of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the year 1747; and the deponent's relations wished the deponent to accept of a commission in a Highland regiment, which the said General Simon Fraser was then raising, &c. That he was well acquainted with Alexander Fraser, called the Brigadier (the only brother-german of General Simon Fraser aforesaid), who often visited the deponent's father, and upon some of those occasions the said Brigadier Alexander Fraser passed the night in the deponent's father's house, and upon such occasions the deponent, then a boy, used to leave a bottle of whiskey at the Briga dier's bedside, to be drunk by him during the night, and which he generally finished before morning. De pones,that the said Alex. Fraser died unmarried in the year 1762, and the deponent accompanied his funeral to Kirkhill, in the county of Inverness, and saw his coffin ef: ? osited in the family tomb in the church of Kirkhill. Depones that the deponent also knew, intimately, the late Colonel Archibald Campbell Fraser, of Lovat, who was the only brother of the said General Fraser, having been the only son of the said Simon Lord Lovat's second marriage ; and the deponent knows very well that the said Colonel Archibald Campbell Fraser survived all his five sons, who all died unmarried, and without lawful issue, and he was particularly well acquainted with Simon the eldest of the said five sons. That in his early years he was told by the late General Simon Fraser, of Lovat, or the said Brigadier Alexander Fraser, his brother, that Thomas Fraser, of Beau fort, commonly called the Lord Lovat's son, was the father of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the year 1747, and that he was their grandfather. that he was also told, either by the said General Simon Fraser, or by the said Brigadier Alexander Fraser, and the tradition is still current in the High lands, that the Gaelic song " Ha Pitag, er Mac Thonta,sh" was composed in derision of the said Alexander Thomas of Beaufort's eldest son. Miss M. Mackenzie deponed, that from what she has heard her grandmother and other relations men tion, she firmly believes that there are now no male descendants of the said Sir Simon Fraser of Inve rallochy, second son of Lord Lovat, in existence ; and deponcs, that she has often heard her grand mother lament the total extinction of all the males of thebranch of Inverallochy, as thereby opening up the succession to the estate of Lovat, under Gene ral Fraser's entail in 1771, to another and more dis tant branch of the house of Lovat, which she knows and heard her grandmother mention to be that of Fraser of Stricken. Miss M. Fraser depones that she was very well acquainted with several members of the family of the Frasers of Lovat, who are now deceased; that the deponent has a perfect recollection of having, when a child, seen Simon Lord LoVat, who was beheaded in 1747; that she was particularly well acquainted, and of habits of intimacy, with Alex. Fraser, commonly called the Brigadier, second son of the said Simon Lord Lovat ; that the deponent was also acquainted with General Simon Fraser, late of Lovat, the eldest son of the said Simon Lord Lovat, &c. That the deponent always understood from the family of Lovat, and the different members thereof, as well as from the members of her own family (and particularly from her father, John Fraser of Farraline) which she always considered a branch of the Lovat family, that Thomas Fraser of Beau fort, a younger son of Hugh the ninth Lord Lovat, was the father of Simon Lord Lovat, who was beheaded in the year 1747, &c. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. W. H. Inglis wished to make affidavit in regard to an application which be bad made to the Secretary of State in favour of the Vauxhall Coiner. who were lately executed in HorFemonger-lane. The LORD MAYOR refused to take the proposed affidavit as it might tend to the prejudice of a gentleman of high character who probably could not be aware that any pro ceeding so irregular as the present was likely to take place. GUILDHALL—James Jesse Beresford was again placed at the bar, yesterday, charged with having fraudu lently obtained money from divers persons, by falsely repre senting himself to be an authorised agent for receiving newspaper advertisements. Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER observed that he had reminded the prisoner in order that he might consider hit case; and he was of opinion that he could not take cognizance of any of those cases in which the prisoner was alleged to have obtained money by representing himself as the agent of the John Bull Sunday paper;—because it was admitted that at one time he actually was the accredited agent of that paper. But if it could he proved that he had obtained money by falsely representing himself as the agent of any newspaper-office which never did employ him, he should have no hesitation in bolding him to bail to take his trial for the misdemeanour. Evidence was then given of his having obtained seven shillings from Mr. George Henry Der Wort, by falsely re presenting himself a.s authorised to receive advertisements for the Morning Chronicle newspaper, as detailed in our paper of yesterday. The prisoner repeated that he had no fraudulent intent; and asked the Clerk of that newspaper, whether it was-not a common practice with newsmen to receive advertisements for the newspapers ?—" Yes,—hut not to put the money in their own pockets." " Have you not frequently received advertisements from me ?'—" Yes, but not as our appointed agent." Sir CLAunius HUNTICR.-.." In fact he never was autho rised or appointed to take or receive advertisements for your paper ?"—" Never." " And he never brought Mr. Der Wort's advertisement to your office?".—.." He never did." Sir CLAUDITIS then said he thought this a very fit case to go to a Jury, and directed that the prisoner should give bail, himself in 401., and two sureties in 201. each, for his ap pearance to auswer it at the Sessions. Mr. John Crump was charged with having been disor derly at two o'clock in the morning: " Please your Worship, Sir,";said the accusing watch man, " I found him settin asleep at the door of a vine vault*, without ere a bat. 14insidered, in ray own mind, as he was stupid drunk, sot lays hold of him, and gives him a bit of a shake, and 'hallo ' says I, ' where's your hat?' and then he jumps up quite sensible, and calls me a rascal, and tells me I'd stole his hat, and I'd picked his pockets, and I don't know what all." " My good friend," said Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, " you are telling me a very crooked story ! First, you say he was stupidly drunk—then he became sober—then he jumped up like a man of sense, and called you a rascal 1 Now, what am Ito understand by all this? Was he stupidly drunk—or was he sober—or was he a man of sense?"— " Why, your Worship," replied the Watchman, " it's a hard matter for me to say purcisaly what he was—in a manner of speaking, but if I was called upon to speak my mind partickler, 1 should say he was--sensible in drink." " Very well," said Sir CLaunitls ' " now I understand you—you mean, he was insensibly drunk ?"—" Exactly so, your Worship ;" replied the watchman ; and thereupon Mr. John Crump was called upon for his defence. " And please you, my Worship," said Mr. John Crump, " I'm a carpenter; whereby I'd been out drinking with a foo friends—hut I hadn't drinkt myself drunk—l deny that. I had been robbed, and knocked ahout, and very much ill-treated, your Worship ; by which means I eat down upon the step to consider about it ; and when I felt the watchman pulling at me, I naturally thought it was the rascal that hail robbed me. But if I was wrong and I dare say I was, now I come to think of it, I ask the watchman ten thousand pardons." " Then satisfy him for the trouble you have given him, and go about your business," said the Alderman : of which order Mr. John Crump instantly availed himself, and there the matter ended. A very comely personage, tightly buttoned up in blue broad-cloth, was next placed at the bar, charged with har ing been disorderly at the Guildhall Coffee-house; and Mr. Ivatts, the proprietor thereof, appeared to substantiate that charge. " This gentleman," said he, "came into my coffee-room last night, very drunk, and called for a bottle of wine. Tile waiter, not perceiving he was drunk, gave him the wine ; but the moment I discovered it, I had it taken from him ; he had no money to pay for it, your Worship." " A very good reason for taking it from him, certainly," said Sir CLAunms. " Well, Sir, go on." Mr. Ivatts added, that the gentleman was so angry at having his wioe taken from him, that he refused to quit the house, and made such a disturbance that it be came necessary to hand him over to the watch; and the watch, having exhausted all their eloquence in vainly en deavouring to prevail upon him to go home, took him to the Compter. " Now, Sir, I will hear what you have to say," said Sir CLAUDIUS to the wine-bibbing gentleman. The gentleman looked as though he would willingly have said something if he could. He moved hie lips a little—a fine claret-coloured blush overspread his counte nance, and he remained silent. .‘ Really all this is very stupid," said Sir CLAUDIUS ; and the gentleman having nothing to say to the contrary, was directed to pay his discharge fee, and go away.—And he did. John .Reading, a pure Emerald, was charged with har ing been drunk at twelve o'clock at night, and in that state kicking the shine of Thomas Ap Rice, a Welsh watchman' of the parish of St. Sepulchre. "Hur was full of drink, ant disturbing the neighbourhood; and when bur told hur to go home to bed, hur kick'd hur shine quite cruel, and it was a mercy bur didn't kick bur somewhere else, above," said the watchman. " What are you, Reading ?" inquired Sir CLAUDIUS of the prisoner. " A poor man, Sir—a bricklayer's labourer, your Honour, with a wife and three email childer at the foot of her, your Honour, Sir," was the melancholy reply. " And how came you to be drunk at that time of night?"—" It was in Gray's-inu-lane, to a wake I'd been, your Honour." " A wake !—what do you mean by a wake t"—" It was a corpse lay dead, your Honour." " Well ?—go on !"—" An we was waking it, your Honour." " What, by getting drunk ?"-.—" We wasn't gettin dthrunk all the time, your Honour." " What then were you doing ?"—" We smoked, between whiles, your Honour." " And what else did you do ?"—" We cried, a good bit, now and then, your Honour." " And then you got more drunk r.-" Indeed an we did, your Honour." " And bow many were there of you ?"—" 06, there wa• a power o' people, your Honour." " What you were watching the corpse before the fu neral ?"—" Indeed, we was watching it, intirelb your Honour." " And was the corpse any relation to you?"—" It was my own cousin's brother, your Honour, laid out mighty dacint, and every thing plinty that time, your Honour." " Really it is a shocking thing that a parcel of people should get tog e th er a bo u t a d ea d body—to laugh, and to sing, and to get drunk, and to smoke, and to cry," oh served Sir CLAUDIUS." I have read of such things in books, ages ago; but we have heard so much about Ireland of late, that I thought they were quite done away with !" " Not a bit of 'em your Honour ;.—it's the custom of the country intirely, and always will be_plaze God !" replied the melancholy defendant. " Well, but what had all this to do with your kicking the watchman's shins?" asked Sir CLAUDIVS. " I didn't know I kick'd his shins at all, your Honour—an sorry I am that I did, but I hadn't my rinses about me at that 'time, sure, or I wouldn't any how, by reason of the wife and 'three small cliilder at home plaza the parties your Honou r, retired,said tindeed,he the viru co a n roiro n is ey heard 4 l Alderman n o u o t r more o ' r w e o ; o r f k at . n ' h ' d em . M Then go aside, and see if you can make y o ur p eace hwavithin A hgir o RYLEBONE.—Yesterday Mrs. Jane Evers, of No. 63, King-street, in the Borough, was charged with threatening to shoot Miss Ann Mallison, of No. 8, Devon shire-street, Lisaon-grove. " What is all this about," said Mr. GRIFFITH to the fair complainant, after he had read the warrant..—Miss Mallison—Jealousy, Sir. Mr. GRIFFITH—Who is she jealous of?—Miss Mal lison—My uncle, Sir. Mr. GRIFFITH-Your uncle ! Who is your uncle?-..- Miss Mallison—Mr. Evers, Sir. Mr. GRIFFITH-What, is she your aunt?—Miss Mal lison—Yes, Sir. Mr. GRIFFITH-Has she done any thing to you? Miss Mallison—She has not had it in her power, but she threatens to blow my brains out. Mr. GRIFFITH-What, with a pistol?-.,.Miss Mallisoa —Yes, Sir; she carries one in her pocket for that pur pose ; I have seen it. Mr. GRIFFITH-But she has not attempted to do it ? Miss Mallison— She has not had an opportunity ; the lodgers in her house tell me she is determined to do it, and my life is in danger. " It's all false, your Worship," said Mrs. Evers, without being asked the question; and added very emphatically,---- " I caught that young lady in bed with my own husband. I have iistols; but not in a state that they could act in any way." Mr. GAIFTITH—Were they loaded /—Mrs. Ewers— Never. A person, calling himself a peace-officer, said he could explain the whole proceeding, if his evidence was heard : Last week, your Worship, I was employed by Mr. Evers, who is assistant clerk to the vestry clerk of St. Saviour's parish, to apprehend Mrs. Evers on a charge of bigamy. The case was heard on Saturday at Union-hall, and die missed by Mr. Swabsy for want of living evidence. 14r Evers then told me, if Le could not bring home that chef',, against his wife, An n s h ou ld procee d an d swear her against her. He has formed an attachment with his this Ann Mallison. After hearing this, Mr. GRIFFITH dismissed the charge, and desired the parties to go about their business. Thomas Smith, alias Miles, a carter, was finally eo.' mined on a charge of stealing hay, the property of t master, Mr. William W e l c h, a f armer an d sa l esm an, ' Southall, and was committed to Newgate for trial, together with Christopher Sewell, the ostler of the Swan leo, Bayswater, charged with having received the same With 0 knowledge of its having been stolen. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesasy.) SuGAR—At the close of the market last wee k nearly all the show rooms were cleared of Musco vades, except in one instance, where there was plentiful supply of Montserrats, the holders having, kept back their Sugars from sale in anticipation 0f the short supply and the continuance of the demand' the strong Sugars realis e d an a d vance o f 2s. t'e other descriptions were Is. higher. The deliveries of Sugar last Meek are more considerable than the corresponding one of last year, and the comparativ e stock is now 3,000 casks less ; our present stock 15 , below 9,000 casks, being little more than two weeks consumption, and of this supply the great proportion is in the hands of the trade, who have purchased the Sugars but not yet cleared them. This morning scarcely any good Sugars were on show, as the . late arrivals were not in time for this Day's Market , where a board or two of good Sugars appeared, they were immediataly cleared off at the advance we have stated. About 500 hhd s . so ld to -d ay, an d accor ding to our estimate there is about 2,000 hhds. left u nsola in the Market. The goods suitable for the Mediterry nean Markets were in great demand last week, and prices were Is. higher. There was nearly the same itn" pro vement in the prices of goods for the home trade, for which the request also was general and e xten• sive. The reports of the Markets from Northern Europe' were unfavourable; there was, in conse quence, a very limited demand for goods to the or posite coast. Molasses advanced 6d. last week.—:" There is no alteration in the Refined Market this forenoon ; the demand for goods to Hamburgh, &C.? continues very languid; the purchases for the Home trade and for the Mediterranean are continued. --- Molasses are brisk at 2.58. In the Foreign Sugar few purchases are reported. The East India de scriptions of the late sales are held at ls. a is. 6d. advance. COFFEE—The prices of Foreign Coffee gave waY Is. 6d. towards the conclusion of the Market lot week ; very good ordinary St. Domingo 181 bag. sold at 435. a 435. 6d., and very good ordinary maka sold at 495. 6d.; since then some ordinary St. Domingo is reported at 435. by private contract' but we think yesterday the inquiries appeared cow siderably to increase, and it is generally believed the fall of the prices will facilitate sales to some e xtent. The public sale this forenoon consisted of 80 casks Jamaica, nearly all ordinary and unclean, only one or two lots sold. The demand for Coffee by private contract continues, some good ordinary Brazil sold at 445.; the inquiries for St. Domingo are consi derable, ordinary 335. 6d., an d f or goo d t h e h o lders are still asking 455., and appear not anxious to sell. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS—There are fes v purchases in Rum to report ; a small parcel of 6 9 1 Jamaica nearly 33 over, so ld at 4 5.; an d a parcel Leewards averaging proofs at 2s. 2d. Brandy i 5 very heavy and offered on lower terms without fa" cilitating sales. Geneva may also be purchase° lower. At a late hour a parcel of Jamaica 27 over , sold at 3s. 6d. HOPS—The accounts from the Plantations are still unfavourable, the plant came forward weakly covered with fleas ; there is not, however, so Intl' doing in the market, the estimated duty is 115,0001: HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW—The deliveries 0 1 Tallow for home consumption continue extensive, the consequence is a further reduction in the cow" partitive stock ; the late advance in prices is main tained. The recent letters from Petersburg'', 20th ult., give an alteration in the Exchange, 10d, 1-32C1 the prices of Tallow were a shade higher. In Hemp or Flax there is no alteration worth noticing. OILS—In Greenland Oil there is little variation. Seed Oils are in demand; Linseed at the a dvance of Ios. ; Rape 20s. higher. Sperm advanced Si. to 41. per tun, but the extensive arrivals have aggi u checked the improvement ; it is, however, stated th e great proportion of the imports are already sold for arrival. Covrox— , Surat Cottons last week were shod id. lower; there was no alteration in the other do' criptions. The accounts from Liverpool and the manufaeturing districts, state the business doing in Cottons is on the most extensive sale. The pur chases here for the week ending last night are about 700 bags. INDIGO—The market remains quiet, but no re duction in prices can be stated; some inconsiderab le picked parcels have been sold at 7d. to 9d. advance; but the general premium on sale prices is about 3d• per lb. By public sale last week about 69 serous Caraccas Indigo were offered. but only 6 serons sold; the trade appeared determined not to buy, the with drawing price was about Is. per lb. under the les t public sales. FRUIT--The stocks of Smyrna Fruit are reduce d to about 150 packages, 495. was yesterday realised;„ we have not heard of any consider a bl e purc hases 01 Currants—there are more arrivals. COAL MAR . Od 131 Adair's owoovvre•••••••• ~•• ...... ~ Burdon Charlotte— - 33 0 Eighton Main 31 6 Heaton 35 6 Elebburn Main 34 0 34 8 Killingworth :25 6 Liddell's Main.. 31 0 tiewburn 32 9 Ord's nedhugh . 30 3 Pelaw 32. 0 Percy . 29 6 Pontop Windsor 31 3 33 Willington Oj TDDDL:Di Vv E tvaiiiu i ttat a r trnnsttttl i fisooool l bes s etßdlL: E El i d i u n id a ii, d d. v etn; ti la : a.id_........e wn : arch 12:326 :; Ditto Hotspur 33 ", Ditto Peareth _ 3:3 7, 6 D l NH. .i e:t n irth d tioa o e n y derry - small 1 3 ; flussell'eFietton'ssmall 16 Cannel (per Cowpen 29 ‘.; Culin Cox 29 7', Scotch --- 34 Eden Main 34 " ft Lyon's Main 34 TinlysnmoMdnib;Hsytionoennt Alainl: ! IS ; j ?" ( -2 Ditto Stewart's :37 ;I Russell's Hetton'aW. E. 36 S sold, 68 4--. Unsold, '7914• WylaitV Walls End Bell and Co. 35 6 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 35 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 3d 6 Ditto 8r0wn'5....,.-- 3i 6 Ditto Burraton Ditto Carr and Co.-- 33 6 Ditto Cramlington_ 32 6 Ships at Market, 144-Mk COUNTRY CORN MARK TS DURING THE WEEK' Wheat. --- a. to S. 35 54 64 56 59 57 63 54 544 54 58 5I 62 =fo ,oy 54 58 ra. . 46 56 Barley. Oats. IL to a. 1. t° A 26 - 40 S I 37 44 0 32 42 58 345 •28 A 6 0 30 ss d o st 38 Ss 66 0 27 0 30 34 54 Per Quarter. Boston Canterbury Grantham Lincoln .....- Maidstone SOlab- e. to s. 36 43 40 43 40 44 40 43 40 46 42 44 40 49 40 42 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Tref l- 6 tb yes!:_„, IMPORTED. Same pe. l . • • This rod last year. year. - 112 ---- -.....--• M -----1; .- Bags, &c. Bags, &c. , Bags, &c Bag"il Liverpool '2'26,595 110,568 4 4 .7 ir. London 18,151 27,689 1,46 e 710 Glasgow 18,366 6,448 --- Total exported in 1827 21,153. BIRTH. On the lit inst., the lady of Robert Scott, Esq., 134che lor's-walk, Dublin, of a son and heir. MARRIED. ,„ n . bY On the Bth instant, at St. Mary's Stoke Newins— q , g , the Rev. G. C. Gorham, D.D., Thomas Mills, -L' i _ l # l;" eldest son of S. Mills, Esq. of Russell-square, to Elisa' n : eldest daughter of F. B. King, Esq. of Stoke Dievil264°- On the 7th instant, at t DIE he D . house of ber mother. if. Bloomsbury-place, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the George Burley, Esq. go er On the 7th instant, Robert Stephen, nig' o f ""`" Thames-street, aged 74. PRINTED and Pi. IIILISMID by M. YOUNG, at 0 . Sun-Oirics, Ne. 112, . &wand.