The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our readers will see that we have realized the hope which we held out the day before yester day; of being able at length to lay before them (we believe exclusively) a correct . and' authentic copy of the important treaty, signed on the 6th instant, for the independence of Greece—for such we must call it, notwithstanding the usual, and perhaps unavoidable, diplomatic reserves which accompany such stipulations. If it be recollected what mighty interests the settlement of such a question may bring into collision at a later period, the jealousy of the power of Russia and the fear, under the. name or, humanity 'and religion, of giving that Power.too great a hold in that part of Europe so long the object of. its persevering ambition, we believe it will be seen that this State document is worded with as much precision and firmness as it was pozsible to give to it : if, on the other hand, it be re membered how much England, on her part, had to avoid the reproach of unnecessarily meddling in the internal affairs of other States, after her repeated declarations ; and lastly, that which was required, even with verbal precision, by the ruling party in France, the same conclusion will forcibly recur to the mind of any impartial reader. That the mere agreement among the Allied Powers averts the impending storm ready to burst over Greece, is certain—that it may work out her ultimate independence is not im probable. _ . Ist. Suppose—awl that supposition is the least fa• vourable to the Greeks—the mediation of the three Great Powers be accepted by Turkey. Greece obtains, ipso facts, a national Government, which will he attached to the Porte by so weak a tie, that evidently the least effort in future, with the additional right of interference, or pretence for it, conferred on Russia, will break asunder such remnant of connexion. 2d. ,Admitting that the Greeks should reject such ' mediation, at the mine time that Turkey accepts it, even then the practical effects of the interference of the three Powers will prove a shield to the Greeks, and secure the preservation of what they have already wrested from their oppressors. But almittmg—(and this is the real and prac tical view of the matter) —admitting that Turkey faithful to her constant policy, and to her recent and uniform declarations, should reject such a mediation, then, according to the additional and secret article of this treaty, we learn that mea sures will be immediately taken to stop hostili ties between the contending parties, and to enter into relations of amity with the Greeks, by sending Consular Agents to them, and receiving such officers from them, and thus virtually re cognizing the independence of the now existing Government of Greece'. Upon the whole, then, when we have stripped the above document of the veil which surrounds and envelopes all such state papers, we must congratulate those Govern ments whose Plenipotentiaries have affixed their names to this important treaty, and hail the re appearance of the name of Greece among the states of Euro-ie.—Times. We have ourselves often spoken of the odious nature of the Legacy Duty. A sensible letter, by " An Executor," entering into a detail of some part of the hardship and injustice which that detestable impost inflicts, is inserted in this day's journal, and will, we hope, have its due etect towards procuring the abolition of the law. It was one of those enactments which Pitt made for the support of the late war, and from which the blood-and-guinea-men—the agricultural in t3rest, who then rioted - in the affluence of high itzwava, Tl lja f 4nr.rnpt- Can any thing be more unjust and partial than this— that the little personal property which a husband may leave to a disconsolate widow, perhaps a son to a dependant mother, should be examined, catalogued, and searched, that Government may seize a portion ; whilst the estates of the wealthy, not earned by industry, descend unexamined and untaxed, not only from father to son, but to the next in tail, be his relationship ever so remote ? It may be said, that where the consanguinity is near, in cases to which the legacy-duty does apply, the portion abstrauted from it by Govern ment is small: but not so are the trouble, anXiety, loss of time, and other evils : they are often, as our Correspondent states, enough to drive the survivor distracted, or to make him • wish that his fate had preceded that of his de funct relative.— lbid. We lately explained the constitution and management of the Royal College of Surgeons, and enumerated the complaints which have beet) by a large portion of the member s aga i nst the governing body of the College. General ob servations, however, make less impression on the public than particular instances: we there fore present to our readers an account of what the College has done with respect to midwifery, E . ,: large and important branch of that profession over which they preside. The council elect ;lone to fill up the vacancies in ,their own body, .exeept those who practise surgery only ; and who are, for the most part, surgeons to London hospitals. They thus secure to the small class to which themselves belong all the officers in the College ; and they have the further power, w: councillors, of benetitii.g themselves in their other capacity of hospital surgeons, by framing regulations respecting the education and examin ation of candidates for the diploma—a power =opt freely exercised by them of late years, as we have already explained. The exclusion just alluded to is established by the two following by laws:—" Ist. Every person practising as an Apothecary, ,or as a man-midwife, shall he in elieile to be a member of the Court. 2d. Ane member' of the Court, who, while a member thereof, s ii:ll practise as an apoth ecar y, or as a man•midwile f shall be liable to such fine as the Court shall adjudge, not exceeding the sum of 501. for each and every week during which he shall so continue to practise.. The invidious distinction established by these bye-laws does not receive the slightest sanction from the charter : the general practitioners who are thus ignomi niously excluded from all share in the govern ment of the College, are, in their capacity of members, o n a perfect equality w ith t h ose sur g:ons on whom the monopoly is conferred.-- '& he essential distinction between the two de scriptions of members is, that the latter under stand, and practise surgery only , while the former must add to a knowledge of surgery that o f me dicine, pharmacy, and midwifery. The greater extent of knowledge, and the greater power of rendering useful service, are actually made the grounds of disqualification ! The general prac titioners, against whom the doors of the court are thus inexorably closed, constitute about forty-nine fiftieths of the entirebody of members; they are the physicians , surgeons , midwives, and apothecaries, of the great mass of the commu pity, high as well as low : consequently, their professional qualifications and respectability are of the greatest consequence to the W e must either infer from these bye-laws that the study and practice of midwifery involve some thing very degrading, or conclude that those who made and uphold them, in order to. promote the private ends of thernA . eiYes and the little knot to which they belong, have not hesitated to stigmatize unjustly a useful and honourable class of men. The wise doings of the College have not, however; ended here. It has been lately remarked, that no previous test of know ledge is applied to those who practise midwifery, and, inasmuch as midwifery is a branch of sur gery, the College of Surgeons has been looked to for supplying the deficiency. The council, having so effectually provided for its own igno rance of the subject, by the double security of exclusion and heavy fine, could not very decently undertake to examine persons on it ; yet they have thought it necessary to do something, and they have accordingly enacted, that " from and after the first day of January, 1828, every can didate for the diploma of this College will be obliged to produce certificates of having attended two lectures on the obstetric art and science, de livered by competent teachers." Without point ing out, what is very obvious,--that the mere presentation of certificates, unaccompanied by examination, or any other test, affords no secu rity at all for the possession of knowledge and skill,—we merely direct attention to the amusing contradiction between this recent regulation, and the previous prohibitory by-laws. By the former, all surgeons are required to study midwifery ; while the latter prohibits the practical employ ment c: the knowledge thus acquired, under the penalty of forfeiting eligibility to all offlces of honour and trust in the College, or of a heavy fin A pamphlet, just published, has been put into our hands, which advocates the refusal of Eman cipation to the Catholics upon new principles.— Its title is, " A few Philosophical Reasons against Catholic Emancipation,' and it is addressed to Lord Farnham. The writer sets out with an attempt to prove that Catholics are every where in a degraded condition compared with , . Pro testants, owin g t o th e prostrat i on of mind which the Catholic religion inculcates. " The peasantry of Ireland (he says) are wretched in the extreme. They are not, however, as the demagogues tell us, the most miserable people on the face of the earth ; for the people of Spain and Portugal are equally as miserable. The people of Sardinia and the Papal territories are not a whit better off; and, if possible, the condition of the inhabitants of South America is still more deplorable.— Here is a curious fact.—a moral phenomenon ! Cast your Lordship's eyes over the map of the civilized world, and wherever Popery prevails, there ignorance and distress, and superstition predominate ! they are inseparable ; the brood of human miseries still hovers over the march of Catholicism, and wherever society has undergone amelioration—wherever Papists are found less slavish, and less benighted than usual, there we invariably find a large portion of the people Pro testants. . . . . Distress in Ireland has never prevailed to a fearful extent ; it has never been permanent but in those places where Catholicism was the religion of the vast Majority of the inhabitants. The fact is unquestionable— the cause is equally obvious. Popery, in superseding the natural independence of mind, provides amply against the introduction of knowledge; it perpetuates ignorance and its consequences. It does more; it promises heaven, only on condition of the endurance of misery on earth. Agreeably to its tenets, you cannot be happy here and hereafter ; and, in accordance with this precept, it holds up, as objects of veneration and worship, men of the most exceptionable lives. They are taught to bow down before the relics of those whose only merit was an unflinching attachment to filth and idleness. One saint is regarded as super-excellent, because he wore his clothes until they ascended from his back in a living cloud ; another is still more highly esteem ed, because he complained not of, nor removed, the cord which wore its way into his loins; and a third is consi dered equally entitled to admiration for having lived forty years unconscious of the luxury of a clean face I am supported, my Lord, in this conclusion, by facts . . . The Catholic Spaniard dies of thirst in the loaded vineyard ; the Italian subsists, as it were, upon processions end nravers - and the Catholic of South America is the poorest and 'airnesc "urtur -r is ever - zaralaa-ent.cet rrs,r fruitful country These, I may be told, are examples drawn from enslaved nations ; but is the case reversed where the people possess political freedom ? In Switzerland, the inferiority of Papists, when compared to Protestants, is remarkable. Dr. APNevin, the Popish traitor, observed it thirty years ago; and M. de Steel Holstein, within these two years, has borne testimony to the same circumstance." The reasoning Nought to bear against the Catholic Religion is the same as that which Machiavel urged against Christianity, as com pared with Paganism ; that is, men made men cowardly and slavish by placing the chief merit in suffering patiently here, referring them for their reward to another world, and thus giving an advantage to the knaves, who take advantage of their disposition to endure. Mr. Hume, in one of his Essays, points out very ingeniously the error into which the Florentine Philosopher fell on this point. The Protestant, as well as the Catholic, who reads his Bible, sees in it that it is as impossible for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, as for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. But does this text in the least dispose any Protestant to prefer po verty to wealth, or prevent him from exerting himself to become rich ? It is true a lazy man may urge this text as a justification of his con duct ; but the text was not the cause of his la ziness, though it serves as flue apology for it.— Father Labat tells us, that when he was in Spain, The Peres de la Mercy and myself, when pro= menading, were always accosted by officers, who after demanding news or snuff, asked alms from us. I sometimes expressed my astonishment that an officer should descend to such a degradation ; and I told them, that if an officer in France were to do the like, he would be broken, and ruined in reputation for ever. They answered, that every country had its customs ; but that they were persuaded that there was no dishonour in demanding alms, as in that they only imitated our Saviour, Jesus Christ, who set the example of it when he was on earth. He was assisted in his necessities by the holy women spoken of in the Gospel, Ministrabant ei de facultatibus suis." A variety of causes have concurred to make the Spaniards indolent, and they are glad of any decent pretext as an excuse for it. We agree with the author, that many of the books put into the hands of Catholics by their instruc tors, are not adapted to the meridian of a manu facturing population ; nay more, that the head of the Catholic Church, and his Court of Car dinals, sanction writings which are a disgrace to the age. We have just now before us a large quarto, splendidly printed at Rome in 1749, being an account of the canonization of five Saints, by Benedict the Fourteenth ; and the me rit of one of these Saints held up as an example by the Pope is, that " he carried mortification so far, that he for the most part supported him• self on mouldy bread and stinking water (pu trescentibus aquis) ; that he never took a cup of wine without corrupting it with ashes, and half-burnt, putrid, and.filthy vegetables."— The punishment we would have inflicted on the Pope and Cardinals for such trash, would have been to confin e them for a month or two to this diet. But though Popes and Priests have done much to corrupt mankind, they have not succeeded to the extent alleged by this writer. In " The Annals of Agriculture," there are se veral essays, by skilful agriculturiats, showing that the peasantry of Lombardy work harder than the English ; and that the Swiss, who de scend from their mountains to assist them in summe r and- harvest, are unable to keep pace with the natives: The people of the . mountainous parts of the Protestant Canton of 13en l , in Swit. zerland (the Oberland, for instance), are not more advanced than the Catholics of the Ferest Cantons. The Tyrolese are as industrious as any of the Swiss. The peasantry of Austria Proper are said by Lord Normanby to be better off than any peasantry he ever saw; - Mr. Hum-' phreys, in the Preface to the Second Edition of his invaluable work on Real Property, says he has left out the comparison between Primogeni ture and Equal Partibility, because, " since the former publication, he has perused the Civil Code of the Netherlands, and has traversed the country in almost every direction. The one establishes equal partibility, the other exhibits a country cultivatedrlike a garden, with a peasantry thoroughly at its -ease." It• is • not ; therefore,' true that Catholics in Europe are every - where less industrious than Protestants. Having established that Catholics are inferior to Pro testants, he next endeavours to prove that men are not converted from one religion to another by arguments. " Truth, my Lord, of itself — unassisted by adscititious circumstances—is not sufficient to obtain a victory , over igno rance and prejudice ; if it were, the principles of the Reformation had been more largely dif fused than they are." These adscititious circum stances he finds in the keeping the Catholics in a constant state of uneasiness, so as to force the advantages of Protestantism on their attention on the one hand, and to force their Priests to compete in liberality with the Protestants. " But then I may be asked, can things continue as.they are? My answer is decidedly in the negative; things cannot remain as they are ; weighty principles are in ope ration, which if not retarded by unwise legidation, Ireland becomes almost immediately emancipated.. Ske becomes, my Lord, a bona fide Protestant country. She is ad vancing towards this happy consummation with giant strides, while every step she makes forward tends to extin guish life in that spiritual monster which has sat for ages, incubus-like, upon the mental and physical energies of the people. I. for one, rejoice in the agitation of the Catholic Question—it gives animpulse to thought, and purifies that stagnation of intellect into which Popery had thrown its worshippers ; it provokes discussion, leads •to investiga tion, and forces the priest from between the bigot and his flock. Al rea dy, my Lord, it hu done much ;it h as ma de Popery in Ireland, bad as it is, a very different thing from what it is in Spain sad Italy—it has forced an appearance of libetality upon the Catholic Diguitaries--it has rendered it necessary that they should disavow tenets which were taught thirty years since to be true as holy writ. My Lord, Dr. Doyle has endeavoured to smoothen over the doctrine of exclusive salvation. This looks well," ke. This is amusing--injustice need never want an apology on these principles.—Morning Chro nicle. Letters received in town yesterday, mention the arrival at Cork, of the Arcturus, of Whitby, the Eliza, of Belfast, and the Retrieve, of Liver pool, three vessels of between three and four hundred tons burthen each, for the purpose of conveying emigrants to Brazil. These letters also state, that one ship of 550, and another of 300 tons, are speedily expected for the same pur pose. Whatever opinions may be entertained of the propriety of Government's interfering to facilitate emigration, or of laws to encourage it, there can be but one opinion respecting it, when originating in the unconstrained wishes of the community itself. Nor do we' think that there is muck cause to regret, that the stream should be occasionally diverted, either by caprice or convenience, to different parts. The native of Great Britain, who goes to Brazil, is likely to become the progenitor of a race, which will long keep in kindly remembrance, the birth-place of their fathers. He is thus creating a tie of sympathy between two distant naticals._ far _mare. _ t iowarcui _than , any which interest or policy can supply: As he carries with him to South America more active habits, faculties more exercised, and an under standing better cultivated than most of the inha bitants there can be supposed to possess,- we may naturally look, from such emigrants,' to the in troduction, in the ratio of their numbers, of more liberal and enlightened ideas, in the spot where they settle. All that is requisite is, that their number shall not be so small as that they shall melt unnoticed into the mass with which they are destined to mingle. This is not, however, an event very likely to occur in the thinly peopled regions of South America. Some re ports say, those emigrants are engaged as sol diers by the Emperor Don Pedro. This is, probably, only a report ; but whether true or false, their emigration will not be less important to those they leave, nor, probably, less influential to those to whom they are going.—Netv Ti P 1 es. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WzormixsTEß, Jutt 11. THI KING v. GRIFFITH. In our report of the proceedings that took place in the Court of King's Bench on the last day of term, Wednesday, the 4th of July, we omitted to state that a rule for a criminal informatiott against the defendant, who is the proprietor of the Chelten ham Chronicle, which was obtained in Easter Term at the instance of Mr. Prince, an attorney of Chel tenham, for a letter addressed by the defendant to the prosecutor, tending to provoke a breach of the peace, was discharged with costs, upon affidstvits, in which the letter was not denied, but -circumstances of provocation were stated. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 11. PALIALR. V. DUGARD. Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated, that in this case the plaintiff sought to recover compensation for the loss of the services of one of his sons, who was about eleven years of age, and who had been injured in consequence of the neglect of the defendant, in the following distressing manner. In the month of December last he was sent out with some go ods in a truck belonging to his father, who w as a sug ar re finer, carrying on business somewhere in •the neigh bourhood of the Islington-road. On the same flaY the defendant, who is a jeweller, having a house at Pentonville, and carrying on business in Clerken well, had been driving in a single-horse chaise; which he had left in the charge of an old woman. It ap peared, however, that she bad either neglected or was unable to manage the horse , as he shortly after wards broke away from her, and , galloping off at ifnullcosnpteaecdt, within e hi d m ir :t c h t r io e n w o l f ii t in he d p o l w ai i, andnitilrs broke his aon,,came leg, and tore the membrane from the bone in such a shocking manner, that it can never be restored, leav ing the poor lad a cripple for life, and in every re spect a most pitiable object. It was but fair, how ever, to Mr. Dugard to say, that he had paid the expenses attending the cure of the leg, and had sent a surgeon expressly to see that the lad was treated in a proper manner; hut the father had sustained a considerable loss in consequence of the inability of his son to 'resume his former labours, and as Mr. Dugard had refused to allow any thing for this con sideration, he was compelled to bring the case be fore a jury, who, he trusted, would make him some reparation in damages for the loss he had sustained, having keen obliged to employ another lad in his son's place. • Arthur Palmer, the lad whose leg was broken, was then called.-.._1 am the son of Richard Palmer, who is a sngar-refiner, living near Bagnigge-wells. I wa s employed in his business, and was - in the habit of going out with goods in the truck.' My brother Thomas also goes out with the truck. On the 4th January last, I went out to the New-road with the truck. I was to deliver some goods at Mr. Pasmere's. I never saw a horse in a gig until it ran 'over me and broke my leg. I was carried' into a shop, and in about fire minutes was carried borne. The wheel passed over my leg. I was confined for about two or area months.... My brother William and.a hired boy have done, the work I:used previ ously to ._thawbeeniame, ever since, one leg being shorter than the other, ,and have never been+ able to work since I recovered. I was on the left hand of the street going towards Clerkenwell-close, when the accident happened. Cross-examined.—l was first able to get about in the beginning of. March. I had gone out with the truck for my father about two years. The -other boy, whose name was James Sanby, came about March. He does not now live with my father, nor , was he ever regularly in his service, but was sent for when wanted. He was sent for about , twelve times, and is 16 years olds. 1 Mr. Jackson—l am a.surgeon by profession, but not a member of the Royal -College. .I attended this lad from the third week after the accident. I have no Claim for any assistance I rendered. He will always be lame; from a shortness in the leg. Elizabeth Crisp, had frequently attended , the lad during his confinement, and proved that another boy had been employed in his place. Thomas Palmer proved that James Saxby had been repeatedly employed, in consequence of his bro ther's illness. Miss Palmer—Mr. Dugard called after the acci dent, and said that when it happened he was gone into the house to change some of his clothes, and had left only an old washerwoman to take charge of his horse and chaise. Wlien he came out, he found neither horse, chaise, nor woman, and the latter he complained of in very strong terms for her negli gence in allowing the horse to run away. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, with whom was Mr. F. Pomocx, addressed the Jury for the defendant.— He regretted that an action of such a description as the present should ever have been brought ; it could be alone from mercenary feelings, being merely to recover compensation for what must have been a very trifling loss—the loss of a child's services, who was only 11 years old. Had the action been brought by the eon to recover compensation for the injury he had sustained, and the suffering he had under gone, it would have been widely different, but the Learned Sergeant supposed that would be reserved for another occasion. The jury would, therefore, have merely to assess the loss the plaintiff had-sus tained from his son's illness,-provided his Lordship should be of opinion that the • defendant had been guilty of negligence, which the Learned Sergeant.did not think had been proved, but on that point they would have his Lordship's opinion, with which he should rest satisfied. • _ The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that he certainly thought the defendant had been. guilty of negligence, as an old woman did not appear to him to be a pro per person to have the care of a horse d and therefore the plaintiff was entitled to recover. It would, however, have looked much better had this action been brought by the son for the injury he had sus• tained, than by the father, for the trifling loss proved to have accrued to him. The only question for the jury was, what amount would be sufficient to com pensate the plaintiff for the loss of his son's , services. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 51. SUMMER ASSIZE CIRCUITS. MID] LORD TENTRRDIN ♦: Northampton Saturday, July El Oakhara Friday Lincoln ' Saturday 28 Nottingham Wednea. Aug. 1 NOR] ,AND. 411111/1 BARON LABIA/40 Buckingham Monday July 23 Bedford Thursday Huntingdon Sahaday •28 HO JUSTICit PARK AND Hertford Wednes. July 35 Chelmsford Monday 30 Croydon Monday Aug. 6I ID JUSTICH XOLROYD. Derby Tuee. Aug. '7 Leicester Friday . 10 Coventry and War 4►ick %Ones. IS FOLK. itit AND lARUN aaaaow. _ _ _ 1 Cambridge Monday July 20 s►try ' Thurs. Aug. 2 Norwich Tuesday 7 , Art. ANTIC. GAMER. Lewes Saturday Aug. 11 Maidstone Thursday Id WESTERN. CHIEF JUSTICE BEST AND JUSTICE 111S1ROUGE. Winchester Monday July £3 Bodmin Monday Aug. 13 New Sarum Saturday 28 Bridgewater Saturday - 1@! Dorchester Thursday Aug. 2 Bristol Saturday S Exeter Monday 6 OXFORD. JurricaTrs.oaas isPIDIBMILOS vamaimpr. Abingdon Julz Shrinrsbury iFrida,7 Aut. 10 Oxford Wednesday 25 Herbrord Saturday is Worcester Sattirday 28 Monmouth Monday 27 Stafford Thursday Aug. 2 Gloucester Thursday 30 NORTHERN.. NC JUSTICE BAYLEY AKD XL BARON MULLOCE, York Saturday July 28 I Carlisle Monday Aug. 20 Durham Saturday Aug. 11 Appleby Saturday 25 Nericastle Wednyiday 15 Lancaster Wednesday 29 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. , LONDON D1A11.Y...-FRIDAY, JULY 13.—(At the Court of Commissioners, Basing,hall-street.) Avery, J., Chelan,— l2iElmley arid Co., Nicholas- Berker, S., and Co„ Bunter lane ll square ll irrhigton, G., Lower ltd. Corbyn, 0., Tokenhouse mouton yard ll Gregory, G., Sun-street ... 10 Crantield, J., Newington- Regnaudin, A., Great Win. causeway Crokat and Co. Lawrence- Plaw, T., Fulham pountney-place lO ' COUNTRY DlARY.—Moxnav, JULY 16. Burch, J., Downham..-Crown, Lynn.,......... 9 Edge, T., Burslem—Albion, Shelton 4 Jones, E. Tewkesbury—Swan, Tewkesbury ll Keeling, E. and Co., Hanley—Roebuck, Newcastle-under Lyme ll Nichols, S., Liverpool—Court-house, Leeds ll Prior, W., Kemerton—Hop-pols, Tewkesbury Roberts, J., Newport—Red Lion, Newport. Sillitoe, J., Stafford—Red Lion, Newport.. ll Spencer W. Bristol—Bush, Bristol., 'Whitehead, J.and Co., Denshaw—Star, Manchester INSOLVENTS APPLYIN( Petittong to be heard at Partugi G TO BE DISCHARGED, gal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fi•his, AT NIXII. 'Smith, R., Strand I Spokes, J., Ironmonger-row, St. Jvi.v Jones, J., Lorier Brook street,' Grosvenor-square Marks, P., Newington Payne, W,, Leicester Pimlett, it. Union-street, Black friars'-road Ragell„ J• Bannister's buildings, Kent-road Luke's Todd, H., Green-street, Mile end-road Wild, J., Manchester Young, J., Brix ton -house, at Exeter, July 16, at clock. Pardon, G., Plymouth Payne, J., Waycroft Turnpike, near Axminster Pope, J., Shelton Pope, J., Tormoham Rowe, J., Earl's-terrace, Ken singtou Rude, W., Barnstaple Smith, H., Plymouth Smith, W., leybridge Smith, W., Plymouth Snell, W., St. Thomas the Apostle Snell, R., Kilmington Summers, R., Oakford Taylor, J., Tawton Team M., High-street, Shad well Tripe, T. Dawlish Veneer, T., Barnstaple White, E., Kilmisigton COUNTRY.---At the Court-1 Ten o' Arnm, J. Stonehouse Bawden, 1., Totneu Bell, 0., Exeter Brooking, J., Plymstock Brownson, J., Plymouth Cbannon, R. Ottery Channon, V/., Otter)' Chugg, W., Barnstaple Clarke R., Newport Devonport Dowdall W. and J. Rew, Barn staple Fowler, W., Teignmouth Greenslade, W., Kilmington Hook, R., Axminster How, J., Exeter Jaunsen, S., Llannelly, Car marthenshire Lane, W., Stonehouse Moore, J., Trowleigh Orchard, M., Exeter Palmer, J., Bideford Same day, at King Register, At Berwick-upon-Tw Phillips, A is Lynn, at Nine. S., Lynn ved, July 17, at Ten , ~, Berwick THE MARKETS. COAL MARI 30s. 3d• Heaton 34 0 Hebburn Main 32 9 31 6 Killingworth 32 4 Ord's Waugh 27 6 Pelaw. 30 0 Tanfield 32 3 31 0 Willington 34 0 Wylam 31 9 WallsEndßewickeScCo. 35 3 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 6 Ditto Brown's 31 . 6 Ditto Carr and Co--- 30 0 Ditto Cramlingtori........ 22 6 Ditto Northumberland 30 6 Ships at market, 65%—.Shi ET.—.July 11. Walls End Newmareb... 335. Od. Ditto 33 9 Ditto Russell's 3 5 Ditto 34 LondoncleltY small 18 0 Hebbuni small Li 8 .Larnbton small 17 0 Elgin Main - 34 0 Hartley. 3O 0 Henderson 28 6 Walls End Elgin 34 , 6 Nesham 33 3 Russell's Lyon's 32 3 Walls End Hett0n........ 36 e Ditto Lyons....**-- 32 6 Ditto Stewart's 36 6 sold, 34%.....-11Psold, SON. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. --July 10. The imports of all Grain continue light ; but the release of the Foreign has caused a much greater supply than is required to meet the present demand, and prices are, con sequently, rapidly reducing.—To-day's market was well attended by country dealers, who, together with our own millers, were induced, by the great reduction; to purchase pretty freely of Foreign Wheats, and we have to report a very good sale for all descriptions, at a decline, since this day week, of 2d. to 3d. per 701 b. Oats were again very 'difficult to dispose If, and are fully Id. per 451 b. cheaper. Several small parcels of Grinding Barley were sold at 4s. 6d. to 4s. 11d per 601 b. Pease brought previous rates, and some quantity met purchasers. Beans were also more in quired for. Flour was Is. to 25., and Oatmeal% la. per sac k cheaper. The Irish demand for Indian Corn haying nearly ceased," prices are , still 'looking dostn ;• a parcel of fair United States Yellow Corn, however,- brought 375. 6d . per 4801 b. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.--Jamse Lamb, a man dressed is a white ,outside.*mock; aint.hayinr -altogether the ap pearsoce of' (that whiek 'he Wasiet) 1 huebandmani was put forward,' charged 'wl . th "running away-with eleven rude of calico, which were hanging outside the shop of a person named Perry, in Sun-street, Bishopsgate-street...L. The shop-boy of Perry proved the fast of the goods hiving been found on the prisoner, but said his master having heard his story, was unwilling to prosecute him, as he ap peared to have committed the theft from distress. The prisoner, in answer to the Loan MAYOR'S gum tions, said, he was a sailer ; had been discharged from his ship two months back, and could not since get another ; he had applied to the parish officers of the places where he had slept, and they had all refused to pass him home' to Liverpool,,and it was from'went alone that hi was obliged to do what he had done'. The LORD MAYOS, having ascertained frorn the offiCer who had the prisoner in custody, that his story was cor rect, said ht hoped, in acceiting to the' &tire of the prose cutor in thisoase, not, to commit the prisoner, that the ends of justice did not require it. His Lordship, after ad verting to the practice of shopkeepers exposing goods out side their , shops, and thus affording a tencptation to the needy, that few of them could resist, desired the prisoner to be taken care of, and if employment were not found here for him, that he should be rent, by the waggon, to Liverpool. Mr. Nobler asked the prisoner If he had applied at the Tower, to enter the King's service, and be replied that he bad, but would not be Wren, as he had been wounded by a bullet in the thigh. The prisoner , was removed, deeply affected with the change in his circlunstances, from absolute poverty and despair, to the prospect of being restored to society. James M'Henry, a pensioner, on 91. 4s. per annum ; Jane Donovan, an ugly ferocious-looking creature, and Ann Cox, ditto, only some inches taller, and consequently more formidable in appearance, were placed at the bar, on the joint, charge of being idle and disorderly, in some of the streets of Candlewick Ward, on Tuesday, about two o'clock, When the charge came to be analysed through the evidence of the street-keeper, boodle, and parish con stable, it resolved into this :—They were all drunk; one woman accused the other of robbing ,the pensioner, who WAS in , that happy state of existence denominated "far gone indeed." The women began to abuse each other, and, say; the beadle, dressed pp in 6nery, and puffing with each word almost as loudly as the wheels of a steamer, " They called one another all sorts of hard names, that I would not mention in this company 'at present. I advised them to be quret, and they would not, so 'I took them all tb the watch-house. ' • . The Loan MAYOR to the male prisoner—How mush is your pension? WHenry—Two pounds six shillings a quarter, Sir. - ' The Loen Ma-roe—When did yon naive it ?—Yes terday. • And how much of it, continued his Lordship, have you now :—One pound four, your Worship. His Lordship continued his interrogatories--Whs is the prisoner Donovan ?—Oh, my Lord, she's .an old friend of mine, that dun a great deal of things for me, when I was young, and she the same poor crather, and all out of the good nether, and , why shoal/Vitt I share all I have with het' now that she's ould. • Then you think she did not intend to rob you, pursued the Loan Maroa ?—No, your Worship, I'd gin her the keeping of the city of London, barren it Was all my own. And who, said his Lordship, is the other prisoner ?—• Why, in case yoUr Lordship will know the whole story, I must tell it—and he, coughed three introductory hems— she lives with me, and cooks the bit of "'Wale for me, and there's the whole truth of it now for ye all. The Loan Maros. ordered the discharge of all the pri soners, and the instant he did so, the male commenced sharing his money with hie two enamoratas in the most good humoured manner possible. A young smart looking sailor boy, with a countenance in which a Mexican sun had deeply bronzed a set of fine manly features, applied to the . Lord-Mayor for relief. It was with . difficulty his story could be made out, from the very bad English he 'poke. It appeared that he was a native of Vera Cruz, had been captpred by the. Spaniards, and had contrived to effect his (*cape to this eountry,where be was, as he said, thrown on the generosity of "de English nation," and as he turned his countenance towards the Lord Mayor, in which might be seen mingled gratitude and hope, it was easy to trace the feelings which ran through his mi,ad,.aod to know that the character of the strangers in the far country was not unknown to him. - The Loan Mayor ordered care to be telcen of him until anquixiia shou,l4,l?a snack of the Nexicskft, Consul, on, the MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A young woman of colour, named Emilia Francis, was yesterday brought to this office, charged with collecting a mob and creating a riot, at the house of Earl Powis, in Berkeley-square. She has frequently before been committed to prison for similar conduct at- his Lordship's residence, and it is only three days ago that she was liberated, after her last sojourn of a month in Tothill-fields gaol. • Information having been given yesterday morning to Plank, the chief officer of this office, that the black woman was again playing off her pranks at Lord Powia's house, the officer went there to remove her. Ide found. her with a crowd'of 100 persons at least about' the door; and in.. dulging herself in the use of the most gross and obscene language. Plank remonstrated with her, and endeavoured to remove her, quietly ; but he no sooner laid his hand on her, than she struck him a tremendous blow on the nose, which made the blood spurt all _over the mob. Sh e w as then, after a violent- resistance, with the assistance of a beadle whom she also assaulted desperately, forced into a hackney-coach, (which she purposely defiled in a-shocking manner,) and brought to the office, where she took all pos sible pains publicly to expose her person. She was com mitted to prison, in default of bail, for .the assault onPlank and the beadle. The history of this young woman is u curious as her in gratitude is remarkable. It seems that several years ago, when Earl Powis stopped at St. Helena, on his return from the Government of India, •this: young woman, who a native of that island, then a child, was taken on board the ship in which his Lordship was coming home, byname person, who brought her to England. On. the passage, his Lordship was pleased with the child, and on their arrival home, he directed that she should be properly educated, and brought up for the situation of a servio in a respectable family, and when she grew up, his Lordship had several situations provided for her • but she began to conduct her self so ill, and sheaved such a disposition to vice, that, to save her from ruin, his Lordship provided a passage for her to St. Helena, and sent her back there to her friends. She soon contrived, however, to conceal herself in the hold of a vessel coming to England, where she remained undis covered until they were a long distance at sea, and thus she once more reached this counter; and she has ever since been an annoyance at Lord Powis's house, although his Lordship has still very humanely- offered to pay the parish officers for her support, if she will go under their care ; but this she refuses. ' There is a great majestic oak in Lord Roden's demesne (Dundalk) which, at the height of two feet from its enormous base, measures nearly 14 feet in circumfbrence. For this single tree 601. has been offered and refused ; the 'bark alone is valued at 131.—Dublin Morning Poe. On Saturday the body of a man, in a State of putridity, was discovered in a corn ,field, adjoin= ing the eastern road to Leith, and brought to the Police Office. From its appearance it seemed to have lain there ten or twelve days; but there were' no marks of violence, or robbery, as a silver watch and pocket-book was found upon it. The body was afterwards identified by some of the re sident Jews, to which .persuasion the deceased belonged, and by whom her-was buried yesterday. Caledonian Mercury. 'MELANCIfoLY ACCIDENT.---On Friday eve ning last, about nine o'clock, as a gentleman was passing in his gig through the turnpike-gate, leading to Blackfriar's-bridge, his horse took fright and ran off'. The gentleman's attempts to pull him in were ineffectual ; the , reins broke, and the gig was soon after dashed to pieces. The horse taking the pavement, knocked down every .person and ,thing that stood in , his way. —A Mrs. Smith, of • Stamford.street, had her arm broken, while the face of her servant was much injured. A poor woman, far advanced - in pregnancy, was very seriously hurt ; and her child, who was walking by her side, had her arm or leg broken. Several other persons-were more Or Ices hurt by the terrified animal. -We-have not heard the name of the gentleinan;or 'what became claim. APPALLING CASE OF MISER? AND 1,0 It is not without feelings of horror and indig ,nation.that we are compelled to- lay before our readers the following incidents of wretchedness which‘were yesterday divulged to a coronces quest , held at the Queen's Head inn, Skirbeck, before C. Mastin, Gent. Coroner. An unfortu nate girl named Lucy Palmer, who had long wandered about without a home, a wretched prostitute, applied about a month ago to an. old man named Walker, who occupies a hut in the parish of Skirbeek, for • temporary lodgings, which the old , man agreed to.- let - her-, hays. There she was attacked 'with the rneaslesoind suffered also from 'other disorders; and lingered" fora fortnight in a state which beggars desCrip tion, until the friendly hand of death put a period to her mortal sufferings. The unfeeling okl wretch who harboured the poor creature, not only neglected himself to attend to her -wants, but refused 'to allow some more humane-neigh bours to administer those little comforts which beguile the racking moments of pain, and even solace expiring nature. How dreadful must have been the agony of the suffering girl, racked as -she was by pain and want, to feel that she was amid unpitying strangers ; and when fever had wasted her ema ciated frame for four days, to be denied not only proper sustenance, but even a draught of, water to cool her parched mouth ! But here her miseries had not reached their climax, for she afterwards heard the cruel old wretch refuse admission to some neighbours who volunteered to provide for her those necessaries he had him. self refused to procure. On Saturday morning last, however, a humane woman, named Maddison, determinately persisted in seeing the dying girl, and found her laying upon a bundle of rushes, nearly destitrite•'of clothing, having only an old pair of stays on; and' lying in this miserake condition in the same room in which the old man slept. Mrs. M*ddi- . son very naturally asked Walker for some cloth ing from his bed, to cover the poor girl with. He at first refused, but afterwards gave her an old horse rug. In consequence of the filthy state of the body and the heat of the weather, maggots were en gendered, and were actually crawling over the poor sufferer before she died ! Mrs. Maddison humanely washed and cleaned the 'body, -and made the poor girl as comfortable as circum stances would permit. On Sunday morning the deceased requested Mrs. Maddison to get some person to pray with her, but before the arrival of any one-for that purpose, the wretched sufferer << had breathed her last. The , parish officer granted relief immediately on being made acquainted with the case, and directed Mr. Parsons, surgeon, to attend her. Mr. Parsons stated, on,beang examined by the Coroner,, that he found the deceased dreadfully diseased, and in a state of ulceration. He believed her death was accelerated. by neglect and want. Verdict --" Died from neglect, and want of the common necessaries of life.—Boston Gazette. BURGLARIES IN THE CITY.—OR Friday night, the house of Mr. Lodge, No. 9, Little Tower -street, was broken into and robbed of a pier glass; three beds, with mattresses and bed ding, tiro pair of top boots, two hams, quart and an b d ro o k a e nnd open Co., pint decanters, about a dozen and a' half of sherry, a quantity of bottled stout, a clock of French manufacture, &c. &c. ; with all of, which the robbers got clear off. On the -following residence : f t c 3 41 :a m p r , 8 was D hatters,night' thil Little E and robbed of property to a considerable amount ; and at the same time the adjoining premises of Mr. Wood, a spice dealer, were also broken into and robbed. : . . The funeral of his Grace the late Duke of Gordon' arrived at Dunbar on Saturday after noon. The procession consisted of a hearse, drawn by six beautiful black horses richly capa risoned, two mourning coaches ; drawn by four horses, containing his Grace's suite, followed by five out-riders. A person on foot carried his Grace's coronet, and another a plume of feathers. The procession was met at the end' of the town by the Magistrates and Town Council, and some of - the 'most respectable inhabitants, in .deep mourning, who, headed by the burgh officers, preceded the cavalcade to the inn. Here they formed a line, and stood uncovered, until the coffin passed to be .deposited in one of the rooms which had been suitably fitted up.. They then retired to another room,. and after an appropriate address from the Provost, and an expression of deep respect for the memory of the deceaged noble man, and of good wishes for the health and hap piness of the present Duke, retired., Cakdoniag Mercury. AN AMERICAN Ica-BOAT.—On board one of them I saw what is called an ice-boat. It is about 23 feet in length, resting on three skates; one attached to each end of a strong cross-bar, fixed under the fore-part, and the remaining one to the bottom of the rudder, which supports the stern of the vessel. Her mast and sail are simi lar to those of a common boat. Being placed on the ice, when the lake is sufficiently frozen over, she is brought into play. ifer properties are wonderful, and .her motion. is fearfully rapid. She can not only sail before the wind, but is ac tually capable of beating to windward. It re quires an experienced hand to manage her, par ticularly in tacking, as her extreme velocity ren ders the least' motion of the rudder of the utmost consequence. A friend of mine, a lientenant in the navy, assured me that he himself last year had gone a distance of 23 miles in an hour ; and he knew an instance of an ice-boat having crossed from York to Fort Niagara (a distance o f 40 miles) in little more than three-quarter s of an hour. This will be readily believed, when we reflect On the velocity which such a vessel must acquire when driven on skates before a gale of wind. These boats are necessarily peculiar to the lakes of Canada.—De Roos's Travels. BIRTH. On the 7th inst., Lady Georgina Granville Ryder, of Park-street, Grosvenor-square, uf a daughter. ' MARRIED• Wm. the . n m Marshal I Sh i h t iti nit A .m . , at St. Henry r ll;!a i ri's oi m , Islington , , Esqyoung est th u ng ti e Ret sou l of John Holmes, of Tivetsball-hall, in the County of Nor folk, Esq., to Elizabeth Clara, third daughter of the jaw Robert,Lee, Esq., of Walthamata, Essex. On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Mr. George Wright, of the Strand, to Christian Mary Jen kins, of the Strand also. DIED. On the 10th inst., at 1 1 .VOrthiani, Sussex, after a linger• ing illness, Charlotte, the youngest daughter of the late Ai r . Geo. Suomi, of Dean Court, in the County of Kent. On the 7th inst., at Appleshaw, Hants, Walter Blunt, Esq., in the 66th year of his age. On the 6th inst., at Masham, Yorkshire, Joseph Bol land, Esq., aged 67. On the 10th inst., in the 51st year of her age, Eliza beth, the wife of Mr. James Tillyer, of Harmondswortb, Middlesex. ' ' PRINTED &Dd. PUILISIOD by. M. :Y.°UNO, lq„tike Sii-07711114 WO. 112 1 MIMI* r