The Sun. — London, England, 1825-10-21 00:00:00

TnE LONDON :JOURNALS. DAILY Iructsfrom the Morning Papers, 4%1.21, 1825: [MORNING POST.] The weather has, we fear, beers severe and tempestuous in the .Channel, for some of our Ex presses. which had regularly arrived for a consi ierttble period, have lately failed. Yesterday indeed proved a day of almost complete separa tion from the Continent ; and since the invention of Steam-boats it is no common agitation of the steep which can prevent communications between the opposite coasts. There have been eras, and they are not long past, when the absence of one slay's Continental news would have proved a source of serious anxiety : but happily we now live in times when weeks might elapse in silence and seclusion, without any chance of our find lug the great world at our return tossed out of the position in which it jogs on, or guilty cif any attempt calculated to alarm our fears. The foundations of peace are so firm ly established, that even those prophecies for years denounced its fragility, have teased to be uttered, and we are allowed to en. joy present rest and prosperity, without being (unanimity threatened with future ruin. Vicious is are the principles'on which the Holy Alliance Us been erected, and hostile as its members iseve shown themselves to the liberties of nations, yet if it be to their unbending determination that this state of security is due, they are not without' alaises to public gratitude. It has been imagined by some, however, that the events which have lately occurred, the recognition of Ilaytian in- Liependence by the French Government, and The offer of Greece to place herself under our - protection, might endanger the general tranquil lity. The recognition of the independence of any State was deemed so abhorrent an act in the eyes of the Holy Alliance, that it was generally expected it would have been visited upon us, when we sinned by acknowledging the Repub lics of the New World ; and it might perhaps have been, had we not been placed beyond the reach of Continental armies. But our guilt was nothing in comparison to that of France. We had recognised communities like our own : men of similar habits and complexions ; but she—she had given independence to revolted slaves, and those slaves negroes ! She had set her seal to the erection of a new State, and that State a Re public! Her King had fraternized with a Black President, and European Diplomatists would h' hare to interchange civilities with . the Statesmen of Hayti! This was an innovation in the politi eal world, nay almost in the natural, which could not be forgiven to a Power, whose frontiers had been proved to he not im. passable by armies. Such were the decla mations of all the Ultras in France, and evin of other Royalists who since they have bPen removed from a share in the Administration have forgotten that they once advocated the re. cognition of Hayti with all their might. These declamations, though unjust, were not entirely empty. There might be some foundation, as far as feeling was concerned, for the expectation of 'displeasure on the part of the Holy Allies ; but policy would not permit France to be air .aten ed, and still less attacked, as the necessary consequence must have been the recal of her troops from Spain, and the certain result of that recal, the immediate return of the whole Pen insula to a Constitutional existence ; an ex ample, which neither Italy, nor many States of Germany, would have viewed with passive indif ference. Besides, France would have been secure of our support, and standing as kite do at the head of the New World, the weight which we should i:aTe brought into the scale could not fail to have proved decisive. The Allied Monarchs may pave privately, and bitterly perhaps, blamed the French Government for its liberal folly in selling emancipation to the already emanci pated ; but they will do nothing more. In their love for peace, they have learned to resign themselves to what they see they cannot pre. vent, or to what it would be difficult to undo. France will consequently persevere in the course which she has adopted, and when the heat of the moment shall have subsided, and she Shall have wholly subdued the feeling of decency towards Spain which still contends with the con sciousness of her own interests, she will extend to the late Spanish Colonies the full recognition of independence which she has granted to her own. The general peace of Europe is therefore now exposed to no perit from the acknowledgment of liaytian independence. [VIC PUBLIC LEI:Mk:R.] Diere are advices in town from Alexandria, of as late a date as the 15th ult. A letter of this date expresses itself in terms of great admiration, in speaking of the preparations of the Pacha to reinforce his son in the Mores. Another letter, in noticrig the same subject, says, that the arms . meat wilt - not he able to sail before the end of Oct*4er. The Captain Pacha tits arrived at that port, for the purpose, it was supposed, of .conveying the troops to their •destination: but should they escape the vigilance of - the Greek squadron, which was cruizing in the neighbour hood with the design of interceptingthern, they would arrive much too late to assist In thr pre sent campaign, tints from the which must terminate shoat this mere force of natural c Ircumstances. One of the French Generals,. , ' ho had been employed in t ra i n i ng th e new,ljviesr had/ shortly before left Alexandria for F -4 fice ; but, whether from disgust, or with the view of heating up on the prolific soil of 11;. , native country, for auxi •liaries in the traintig line, is not mentioned. In he mean time, r.te singular personage, who go -Vriis Egypt, 4emetl to be as intent on his miii 'tl-y preparkions, as if he had , no other occupa i•-• • , and .tie. superintended them in person with as inch . ardour as if his existence depended on thee-subjection of the Greeks to the intolerable yok, which, in spite of this circumstance, We hoPithey have cast off for ever. It is difficult to atount for the teal, with which the Pacha has s,tered into the views of the Porte ; but the .faeLielf is undeniable; and if we .were to ascribe it to mere ardour of temperament, such a suppol sitiou would not accord with his wily, calcula ting, and highly ambitious character. That he is not actuated by religious fanaticism, is proved by the full measure of protection which the,Greeks enjoy in his Pachalick ; but, whatever may be the cause, the effects, we fear, will operate long to the disadvantage of the Greeks, and render their final deliverance, if not problematical, at least a work of protracted exertions, sacrifices, and bloodshed on their part. However, there are many things which - may divert him from the pursuit ; and his present policy is of so artifi cial a character, and so inconsistent with the inde pendent position in which he has so long placed himself, with respect to the Turkish Councils at Constantinople, that it would be hazardous to cal culate upon his steady adherence to the same line. If his object were to extend his power, by annex ing the Morel and the most valuable of the Greek islands to his present possessions, his motive for the costly exertions lie is making would be intel ligible enough ; but other parts of his conduct are at variance with this supposition ; and, upon the whole, his efforts to put down the Greek in surrection are a perfect riddle. It is fortunate, however, that his zeal and activity are subject to the controul of the elements; and aided by the rigours of the approaching season, the Greeks may, for six months at least, laugh at his arma ments. [NEW TimEs.] The bad weather about the coast continues to deprive us of the French Papers. We must con fess that we think their want just now a rather unimportant circumstance, for they have of late been engaged with nothing but an uninterrupted babbling about Spain and Greece, mixed up with prosing speculations on affairs among them selves of little more than parochial importance. With regard to the two first of these topics, we believe all - well-tkinking men in this country are agreed ; and as for the domestic affairs of France, no one but those whose official duty compels them to get through the French papers on the subject, can form any idea of their utter jejuneness. People about Mechanics Institutes here, would be disgraced by the tenor of the arguments which figure in the best informed of the French Journals on the subject which came before them. rTHE TIMES.] We have said from the first, with regard to combinations, that as there is but one rational or effectual mode of dealing with a bully—namely, that of setting him at defiance—so is there no other chance of putting down the ambitious and turbulent desperadoes who have placed them selves at the head of the several Unions of jour neymen throughout the kingdom, but by showing them that the masters are resolved inexorably to break with them and their mulish followers, to discard them, one and all, from their em ployment, and to hire no workman who will not be satisfied to obey his master, instead of presuming to command him. Common sense might have suggested this plain rule to every master manufacturer in the Empire, had not experience proved its immediate and signal efficacy in the case of the iron-masters near Glas gow. At the Calder works, except those of Car. ron, the greatest in Scotland, the spirit and wis dom of the Messrs. Dixon have all but extirpated the combination. These gentlemen have dis charged the tyrants who had been eating their bread, and trampling on their rights and property. They have assembled large numbers of labouring men, who have set to work joyfully, side by side, with, and under the tuition of, the colliers who re mained faithful to their duty ; the chiefs of the mutineers are consequently in despair. With a view to counteract the good effect of the increar.e thus added to the produce of the Calder coal-mines, these incendiaries have issued an ordinance to the miserable followers who still adhere to them in other pits, to reduce the quantity of coal brought to the surface ; but this device is success fully met by a still more vigorous prosecution of their salutary policy by the masters ; so much so, Om the heart of the confederacy is in a great measure broken. What must the nation think of the " operatives," who raise this unnatural rebellion against the public interest and their own, when it is acknowledged that a collier can earn from ls. 3d. to Is. 6d. per hour ! The effect of such extravagant wages is, that they only work for three or four days in a week, and seldom for so many as six hours in a day and that when there are more colliers than one in the same fa. wily, only half of them will go to work at once, the remainder looking on or drinking. The high wages have in this last respect been of in finite injury to the workmen themselves and to their families. Instead of saving any money, the men have but indulged more shameful ha bits of intoxication, and their wives and children have been worse off than ever.—The mischief al ready brought upon the iron-trade of Scotland by these unprincipled and disgusting transactions, is most sensibly felt throughout the country. Dur ing the present year there is stated to have been made one-fourth less iron in that part of the king dom than the usual quantity, owing to the want of coals ! At Brighton, too, it seems, the conta gion has recently been spreading ; the worthy Chairman of the Mechanic Meeting there, was of opinion that every journeyman and labourer ought " to demand such wages as would support C` his wife and family, without their working " at all ; and those who could obtain employ " ment for three months only, ought also " to demand as much for that time as would maintain thian and their families in idle -44 ness all the rest of the year!" So that the less work there is, the higher must be the rate of wages. At the Brighton meeting, wo are told by the Gazette. that The Times was called for to suppiart some reasonings employed by Mr. Philips, who strove to bring the " operatives" to their senses ; but The Times was found to contradict so flatly the statements of the " Trades' News paper"—God forbid it should not—that they would not listen to us. They have got, we fear, some Gusts among them—fellows who, like Gast, the destroyer of the Thames shipping trade, have been acquainted formerly with the Thistlereood Reformers, and have regularly harangued at their meetings. They must be put down,we say—with a strong hand put down by the masters—or there is an end of peace and property in Eng land; for all these leagues are but embryo con spiracies, to be converted, when occasion serves ) to politics, and politics of no honest end or cha racter. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.3 Mr. Moore, in his Life of Sheridan, quotes an observation of Mr. Fox respecting a speech which had been described to him in terms of praise,— that if the Report read well It must have been a bad speech. This observation sounds somewhat paradoxical, but we suspect it will be found perfectly just. To produce a strong impres sion on auy ''popular assembly, the orator should ,never presume much on the capacity of hii 'audience, and consequently the more common place his ideas are, the more they are likely to be generally acceptable. It would ap pear that the leading orators of the Legislature dur ing the last century were all aware of the truth of the observation, for, with the exception of Burke, who displays r e s e a r ch a nd knowledg e , and who, in consequence, was deemed a bore by all the Country Gentlemen, they seldom, if ever, even by accident, stumbled on any remarks which deserved to be remembered after the occa sion that called them forth was past. Nothing is so fatiguing as the perusal of the Parliamentary debates of a period some years anterior to that when they are read. During the days when the House of Commons was most. celebrated for elo quence, the leading speakers seem to have care fully abstained from the perusal even of works from which any thing like a knowledge of any particular science might have been derived. She ridan's ignorance was notorious. Though Smith's immortal work had been hailed by the learned of every country of Europe, shortly after its appear ance, as one of the most valuable gifts ever be stowed by science on mankind, we find that Mr. Fox was utterly a stranger to it. ' General positions of all kinds (he observed) ought to be very cautiously admitted ; indeed on sub jects so infinitely complex and mutable as politics and commerce, a wise man hesitates at giving too implicit a credit to any general maxim of any denomination." This determination not even to inquire whether there were any rules of general application in the matters above alluded to, is certainly calculated to excite surprise in the present day. But whatever may be thought of the determination, it will be allowed that the state of vagueness and uncertainty which result ed from the exclusion of all positive science, left the orator a boundless field for debate. The mea sure which he reprobated one year, he could ad vocate the next, without at all being inconsistent with himself. [MORNING HERALD.] The British Annuity Market still continues in a state of languor, with little business doing, but an opinion seems to be vet) , generally prevalent, that the stagnation will terminate in a decline. As far as yesterday's quotations can be taken in proof, this opinion is borne out ; Consols for Ac count having opened at 88/, and closed at 874, and for Money 87 1 . The scarcity of money in creases daily, and out of doors nothing but first , rate commercial paper is discountable. It was reported yesterday that the Bank Directors had resolved to discontinue making advances on %ae posits of their own Annuities, by which means it is calculated nearly another half million of their paper will be withdrawn from circulation. If this measure be carried into effect, it is be.: lieved that it will put a number of the Stock Exchange gamblers to their shifts. It is said that many of these crafty gentry contrived to get possession of Bank Annuities, for the sole pur. pose of borrowing upon them when they could no longer obtain advances on Consols and Foreign Bonds. There was no movement of consequence in Trans-atlantics, but it was pretty evident, from the general appearance of the Market, that if Consols recede, most of them will speedily fol low. There was some more dabbling in Mining Shares, and a new one, called the Royal Sisters, was brought out ; but so ungallant were the gamblers to these ladies, that it is said not even a solitary 1001. bit of paper was disposed of. Another Account.—Throughout yesterday the Market exhibited a very melancholy appearance ; the want of money was severely felt, and every description of Security in consequence declined in value. There was a considerable quan tity of Money Stock thrown on the Market for sale; neverthe less Consols kept up their price much better than might have been expected; for, after the Bears had strained every nerve to send Consols down, they did not succeed in lowering them more than I per cent., their last price being 88k.—The various Fo reign Funds remained in a very steady state ; in fact, the busi- ness doing in them was very trifling, and the fluctuations were upon a very small scale. A more dull week than the present was perhaps never known on the Money Market. The Scheme mongers were very unhappy yesterday. A new thing called the Sisters was produced, but they did not attract, and there fore no premium could be got for them. From the state of the Market it would appear that the Sisters must confer their fa. yours gratis, if at the prices of Shares were nominal. It is supposed that most of the schemes will be extinct before this day three months, John Bull having set his face so com pletely against them. The lawyers are in a terrible pucker lest they should not get their hills for concocting these iniquitous thing% paid. They are terribly afraid that the secretaries will pocket all the loose money. The stock brokers say that the law yers are much to be pitied, for that they really will be out of pocket, so far as the deed stamps are concerned. [BRITISH PR I.:SS.] The Paris Papers of Sunday have been re ceived ; but their contents, with the exception of the financial article from the illoniteur, of which we have given the substance in another column, are entirely without interest. The contrary winds have prevented the arrival of the Papers of Mon day and Tuesday, which ought to have reached us last night by our usual express. Thera was a great langour in Consols almost the whole of yesterday morning. They opened for the Novem ber Account at 88k, and there were alternately buyers and sel lers at that price for the first hour of the Market. The price afterwards was 88, buyers; and that, at the close of the day, was 8 71 8 8. The causes assigned for this depression were, that the Equitable Assurance Company, in fulfilment of certain in ternal arrangements, was selling stock to a large amount, and that the Bank was calling in their advances on Bank Stock. — These reasons operated powerfully upon the Market, and heavy sales were made during the middle and latter part of the day. — The Foreign Market had verylittle business doing in it, and the price in m os t o f th e Securities drooped. Greek Bonds were 29 i, and Colombian Bonds 741 i 5. Mexican Scrip was 81 dis count; Brazilian ditto, Bif discount; and Guatemala ditto, 54f discount. Danish Bonds were 66h, and Old Spanish Bonds were 17} 4. The Share Market transactions were very .unimportant. Bolivar Shares were 29, Ang l o -Mexican ditto 36, and those of the Br a zilian Company 1 premium.—The Colonial Market was very dull. There were sca rcely any Shares of Sug ar , C o ff ee , or Rum- The accounts from the manufac turing districts continue fovousable,—(lbid.) POLICE INTELLIGENGE. INFORMERS AND COAL MERCHANTS. HATTON-GARDEN.—A case of very considerable interest to persons in the coal trade, and indeed to the public in ge neral, came on to be heard, yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant SSLLON. Mr. Henry Dunkin, a respectable coal merchant, residing in Upper Thames-street, appeared to a summons, issued on the complaint of Thomas Little, for having delivered coals from a waggon, without being provided with a regular bushel mea sure, agreeable to the 112th section of the 47th George 111., commonly called " The Coal Act." Mr. Dunkin was accompanied by his Solicitor, and in an. swer to the charge alleged in the information, a general plea of " Not Guilty" was put in. Thomas Little was then sworn, and was proceeding to state the points of his case from his common-place-book, or diary of observations, when Mr. Dunkin's Solicitor objected to the reading of any me moranda as legal evidence. Sergeant SELLON (to the witness)—When did you make those notes from Which you are reading ? Little—l made them at the time, your Worship, merely to assist my memory. Sergeant SELLON—if made at the time, they are admissible. Little then went ors with his evidence. On the 12th October, he saw a waggon of coals coming from Bridge-street, Black friars, without any bushel measure being annexed to it ; he fol. lowed it, and saw the coals fully delivered at No. 8, Gray's. Inn-terrace, Gray'-Inn-lane. He then asked the driver where was his bushel, and the man said he had not got one, but that his master told him if he could to getone on the way, and if not to manage without it. On the head of the waggon was painted, " Henry Dunkin, Shad Thames, No, 102,142." William I'odger, (the informer) corroborated the statement of his worthy colleague in every particular. The Solicitor then took an objection to the form of the sum mons, which in general terms expressed the offence as being contrary to the Statute, &c., without specifying under what particular Act the information was laid, and therefore his client was quite at large as to his defence. The informer observed that it would be found that it was the same in form as directed by Act of Parliament. Serjeant SELLON, on referring to the Act, said that it was not necessary to rely on any technical objection, when a better ground of defence was presented on the broad principles of the case. The words of the Act were very explicit upon this point —they required that it should be proved in evidence that the party accused was either a " vender, dealer, or carrier of coals for sale." Now, so far as the complainant and informant had gone, they had not shown Mr. Dunkin in any of those capacities ; had the information been laid against the carman, it might have been sustained, because he was actually the carrier, and would have been liable to a penalty of 10/. if convicted, whilst the owner or principal was subject to a penalty of 20/. But in the present in. stance, it was not enough to say that the name of Henry Dunkin was on the waggon, to prove that the coals were either vended or carried by him, because it was quite possible that a man en gaged in any other profession or calling, who had a waggon at command, might have lent it to another person for the trans fer of coals. Mr. Dunkin's Solicitor said he would Undertake to prove that Mr. Dunkin was a corn dealer, and had never sold a coal in his life, and that the waggon had actually been lent for the very purpose stated by his Worship. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said that if the informant could not bring further evidence on this point, the case should be die missed. This information had a paralytic effect on the faculties of these worthies—they were dumbfoundered, and the information was accordingly quashed. CRUELTY TO AN ASS. LINIoN-Ham..—Yesterday, a man named Turner was brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. BALLAXTYNE, charged with cruelty to an ass, his property. A Mr. Gom pertz proved the case. lie stated, that on the 17th inst., as he was passing along Clayton-street, Kennington, he observed the defendant beating an ass, which was heavily laden, and which he was the driver of, in a brutal manner. The poor ass seemed to be getting along with his heavy load as well as he could, without exhibiting any fits . of stubbornness ; but notwithstand ing, the defendant, who carried a long and thick stick, more resembling a bludgeon than the proper instrument for quick ening its pace, kept beating the poor animal over the head and shoulders in a very scandalous manner, although he (Mr. Gompertz) could discover no visible reason, more than the mere gratification of punishing his ass. Johns, the officer, who executed the warrant on the de fendant, said, that upon inquiry in the neighbourhood where Turner resided, he ascertained that he bore a most excellent character, and had always shown the greatest attachment for his ass, and treated it, in fact, more like a Christian than a dumb animal. The defendant, he added, bad also a wife and a large family to support. Mr. Gompertz, upon hearing the character given of the de fendant, interceded with the Magistrate to have the warrant dismissed altogether; this, however, the Magistrate refused to accede to, observing that the ease of cruelty had been com pletely made out against the defendant, hut under the circum stances he would mitigate the penalty to 10s. Mr. BALLANTYNE took an opportunity of expressing the impropriety of persons bringing charges of the description be. fore Magistrates, proving them, and afterwards either paying the fine levied upon the offenders themselves, or interceding for their discharge ; it was a practice that did mischief, and he de clared that nothing should induce him to relax his convictions in cases which were proved to his satisfaction. Gurt.nitaLt.—Joseph Ginger was charged with detaining a 501. note. The complainant, Mr. W. Furnell, an ostrich feather manufacturer, residing in Noble-street, stated, that happening to call in at the Sun public-house, in London Wall, on Wed nesday night, he found some persons playing at dominoes ; in the course of conversation, as to their skill in the game, he offered to play any man in England for a sovereign. At that moment the prisoner entered, and haVing suspected him of cheating him upon a former night, he added to his challenge an exception against Ginger. t length, however, he said he would play with Ginger for 501. a-side, when the latter imme diately cried out that he would bet him (Furnell), a sovereign that he was unable to produce SCI. Each then placed a sove reign in the hand of a third person, and he (witness) exhibited a 50/. note to the persons present, from one of whom the pri soner snatched it, and then declared he would keep it until his sovereign, which he had fairly lost, was returned to him. Mr. Alderman VENABLES—WeII, who has the note now? Mr. Furnell—The officer. Mr. Alderman VENABLE9—Let the prisoner look at it, and say if it is the same he took from Mr. Furnell. Ginger—lt is the same, Sir. Mr. Alderman VEtfanuEs—Then give it to Mr. Furnell; you are discharged, and let me hear no more now about this public-house gambling-bet ; but let the landlord be summoned for permitting dominoes to be played in his house. The Stakeholder then applied to know how he should dis pose of the sovereigns ? The Alderman, lOwever, declined making any order. EXPLOSION OF A POWDER.MLLL.—Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, the neighbourllood of Hounslow Heath, Hatton, and its vicinity, were dreadfully alarmed by the explosion of a powder-mill, belonging to Mr. Taylor, the report of which was extremely loud : many persons rose from their beds, and hurried to the spot, and on their arrival, the powder-mill was discovered to be completely unroofed, and all the wood-work shattered to pieces. It was known that a man named Young was at work in the mill alone, during the night, and great apprehension being felt for his safety, instant search was made after him. The lifeless boa) , of the poor fellow was soon found blown a considerable distance from the mill, and presented a shocking spectacle. It appears that the quan tity of composition at which he was at work was not very great, or the consequences might have been still:more dreadful. The means by which the explosion took place can only be conjectur ed. The unfortunate sufferer has left a wife and large family. AMERICAN SPIDER.—There exists in America whose half long) lo nsize (the body alone ) enables it to at tackrds. M. M OREAU DE Jog abnei enormous ea rm vne o int u i c s shm s p aa i ni d ld e r ba , ; NES, has furnished a memoir ou its manners, 'as observed by him at Martinique. It spins no we b, but lodges in the crevices of the rocks, and throws itself with main force upon its prey ; it kills humming-birds, fly-birds, and small lizards, taking care to seize them by the nape of the neck, k be killed with the greatestiowinleag that thusse.lt Its strong they tr must be jau%ssst seem to infuse a poison into the wounds which they more inflict, dangerousf for such tthan a nthey wounds at: would considered uidbe by 043 much itsdbee depth tohf fecundity, ail:ogieo. i s t oo n n ot ca a u c s ti e v( t , baletenacity of f white life, si k; wouldan and tio l o e eo n do v t:o l i o ni P tas es its eggs, to the num haendisliannndumtoerbaebleoveenrermunieswiitalt h the ad d 'ants which destroy the greater part of the young *spiders, OLD PARLIAMENTS. The following extracts, showing the unidel di° l course of ancient P ar li aments, are taken fr ntat " , , Parliament toll, No. 16, and Sir Robert Cotton" mons granted to the King a subsidy, Abridgment :-- " In the 7th year of Richard 11., the C° 111 " to the tenour df a schedule delivered in Plan a " merit, requiring it may be enrolled i n the Pu t.- nals of that Parliament ; in which schedule if the following explanation, viz., that it is not the meaning of the Commons to give the said sub' sidy, without the King's granting t he following conditions:— " Ist. That the clergy, having the third Pti rt . of the kingdom in their hands, shall, propore tion, grant the like subsidy. '" 2d. That the Bishop of Norwich and others be compelled to answer and repqY a ll such sort s as he and they have received for the service hY them undertaken and not performed. And that the King remove from his resence such persons as the Commons look upo n to be pernicious t s here to be noted, that the clergy according the public.' To which the King assented. It i ! e xcepted against the first con di t i on , an d sa id they wer e not to be taxed by th e Cornmons, but drat t he Y would use their o wn di scre ti on . To which th e _ Commons replied, ' Th a t if th e clergy wou ld not condescend t o p a y a t hi r d par t o f the subs id l i that as they insi s t e d upon ecclesiastical p rivi-, leges, so they should no t h ave a share in temp oral matters in Parliament.' Up o n which the bi sho p s went out of the h ou s e , for that time. di • " In the 29th of H enr y VI., the Commons Et . 1 dressed the Ki ng t o b an i s h a ll persons of el t fame and evilly thought of by the CofrimonS' viz., Edward Duke of Somerset, Mice Duche ss of Suffolk, William Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of London, the Abbot of St. Peter's, Glocester; the Baron of Dudley, Thomas Lord Hastings; Thomas Pulford, Esq.; Sir John Sutton, S t i , Thomas Hung..rford, and 27 more persons Yilj/ are called' of the King's retinue, attendants an d favourites : all of them upon the bare desk* It,1 t, : the Commons, without any accusa tion, by Ic or : or article exhibited, only upon common ill f au l,'. were compelled in that Parliament to /cave tn: King's presence, and never to come within ten miles of the Court, during their lives. The l ( P,f t seemed unwilling to part with some, leave them to be punished by law according 01: their demerits, and to be moved from his Per She for one year; but the Commons insisted, and t King was obliged to yield. '‘ At a Parliament held at Westminster, Her/ next day after St. Hilary, in the sth of IV. On Monday, the 14th of January, beirlt the first day of that Parliament, the King acco r ea. ed that four special persons should be removn: from his person, at the request of the Com l , ll° e ' r viz., the K Confessor, the Abbot of l' e o t r b : Mr. Richard Durham, and Mr. Crosby, but svul 3 L Chamber : whereupon Saturday, the 9th dr e.. the said Confessor, Durham ro °la , and Crosby, g, into the Parliament, before the King and then where the King excused them, saying, tha t ed, he knew no cause why they should be real , an d but because they were hated of the peo r house, therefore charged them to begone from h is , like according to the Commons' desire : and the li ke sentence was pronounced against t h " though then absent." yesterday morning at the shop ~,,n den t DARING R OBBERY.- , -One of IfIP most .--r ti a robberies that has lately come to our knowledge wag coloolltoted jeweller, in Fleet-street. Between the hours of eight and to o'clock, soon after the shutters had been taken down, •"lila were observed looking through the window where theie w t he is generally displayed : after some time, they went int ° 0 shop, and asked the young man in attendance to show thee'o4 of Mr. Grant, vratchuntket ini reasonable priced watch which he could warrant to ke,ePl: r s, time. The watch was produced, and the pretended Purr'"„7oet affecting to examine It, kept the shopman in waiting per,o"iffre able time: at length, however, they said it would an,;bod warranted it, for twelve months : the man replied, th Bt ".00 not the slightest objection to do so ; and in order the ": o f effectually to lull suspicion, if any them, who was dressed like a gentleman's groom, end ear to cheapen the price, alleging, that he was only a poor It ie a to could not afford more than a certain sum, though he /1. ',40 get a good watch, if possible. The shopman stated the ft ': co o , price at which he could sell, and a bargain was fin a lot of, were entertained, one eluded. The mock groom then laid down ss. as W I : 0 1M purchase, desiring that the watch might be laic\ aside , ro of would call for it in the course of the day. They went t 35 : 1 , 0 ,10 the door, but es though suddenly attracted by soni c _ r od, which hung in a glass ca se behind the counter, they rettrict, and asked to see one ? The shopman, not perceiving the...,.0 turned about to get it, and the fellows watching their oP_lf:a.l nity, snatched up a small counter glass-case, containingir'll th gold watches, to the value of 300 guineas or upwar a Z wa,e which they made off: When the young man returned,,,, ot. surprised to find his customers had disappeared, bu_t if t t hi prise was coverteti into dismay, when he discovered t t e t! di ve giass-case lad disappeared with them. fie imtnetliaol_tro alarm of robbery, but the thieves got clear off, no e d. •tn, o at turning up the contigious alleys. Information of th _!; t i c ei given soon Mier to Lee, the resident officer at flattorre.to: stance at all the other offices in the metropolir, giving ~,11 0 , scription of the property. Up to last evening no trace . who recommended the informant to communicate the CO; ads' ever had been obtained of these daring offenders. • _..------ BIRTHS. v.. WO On Tuesday, the 11th inst., in Stamford -street, DOC Mrs. William Smith, of a daughter. On the 19th inst. in Northumberland -street, Strsza) lady of Charles Hertsiet, Esq., of daughter. ofOßnois,Tathet.tirosddagev,lsalstts„::::.l%sipAecßiaßl li E ee D n ' cc, at Wytharv, vc the 4116 . d,, of o _ the Earl of Abingdon, John flodgete Flagete Politil 1 :0 4 to r Preatwood.house, Staffordshire, and Member for Protiol., Charlotte Margare t, second daughter of John ag e ? P' On the 18th inst., at Bognor, the Bev. Willistn P I , 6 14 rector of liteventon, Hants, fourth eon of Edward Knig ht ' _,,„7,,,. of s Gotimersha m-park, in sent, and Chawto-house, in Ir.'''re' _lj r i e re, to Caroline, eldest daughter of John Portal, A q ' if efolk.house, in the same couuty. he ster , The Rev. M. a Taylor, of Great Boughton, near. rel., of Eriviatt, y ou ngest daughter of the late John Foolk It I Eriviatt, 10enbighshire. On Thurntlay, the 20th inst., in the 17th DIEM f hi/ g i e l Sophia 'Weatlake eldest daughter of Alr. James /111,it:90, of Bridge-strelt Ill'ackrria ' rs and niece of William WO" Stockwell-cornmon i's ' ~,,bbef, On the 18th i n st 'ill 11{angham16-hill, Waldo' Essex, Robert Sharp 'Colvin, E 59.7 aged flo. rO lO, ,of goofieid4 On the 10th inst., Edward Knipe, E sq., Epsom, aged 81. f Sr . °I. the wife o On Wednesday, the 19th inst., Susan , ward Bailey, of Holborn. f 00 Louisa Wife °' PP At Bromyard on the 15th ist., ~, Arket, ' Howell, Esq and' youngest daughter of Nirdham r , younge of Worcester ' : 74 13 t hl I" ' On the Isth inst., at 'Cells, in GAIIO,OI, •-• " year 0 _AA William Gillespie, minister of that parish. the PI( Printed an d OFFICE, rio• 112, Strod, bl J• J 3. WOW,