The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have just been much amused and grati fled by reading (what we have not had time to read sooner) a little pamphlet of Lord Nugent's, in reply to an abusive one from the pen of a Rev. Dr. Scobell. The Doctor has on this oc casion received, from the hands of the worthy and clever Nobleman whom he offended, a memento, which, if he be a teachable subject, may redound very much to the future advantage of his Reverence. The cause of his ire—the avowed cause, we mean—against the Noble Lord, was simply his publication of an able and most useful pamphlet in support of the Catholic Claims, to which our attention, in common with that of a large proportion of the reading and po litical public, was drawn irresistibly a few months ago. Now, there is a member—a young one (whether quite arrived at years ofdiscretionwe know not) —of Lord Nugent's family, and destined, if he lives, to be some day or other at the head of it, who has taken upon him to deviate widely— or bolt, as half-trained cattle do now and then— from the course of policy which, on that great question of e mancipation, has been pursued with unerring consistency by all the Grenvilles of the last generation and the present—by the late accu rate and honest Marquis of Buckingham—by the sound-headed and virtuous Lord Grenville— by the present Duke, the parent of the young seceder from his race—and by Lord Nugent, as upright and respectable an individual as ally among them. This youthful personage—LordChandos, in short—is a furious enemy oftheCatho lies. He bids fair for the rank of Duke of Buck ingham hereafter—for the enjoyment also, as part of his inheritance, of that church patronage which is to be found in larger or smaller quantities an nexed to most of the grandees of Great Britain. This contingency did not, we suspect, escape the keen but vulgar contemplation of the Reverend Pamphleteer. A fling at the Catholic uncle might propitiate the anti-Catholic and benefice-bestowing nephew : fling he did; therefore, (the Rev. Doctor) with both his hands, as much dirt as he thought would suffice to anoint a circumference even more ample than Lord Nugent's. His Lordship, however, proved no recreant in the business. He has addres sed a letter to his friend, Sir - George Lee, which it seems probable that Dr. Scobell is the only man living who would wish to suppress; though if the Rev. Gentleman should be anxious on the point, we assuredly could not blame him. Lord Nugent's reply is, from first to last, pre-eminently that of a gentleman and man of breeding. His language to the pugnacious pedagogue (Dr. Scobell 's vocation is that of the birchen rod) never sinks below the level of instinctive and graceful delicacy. He never soils Iris own fingers with abuse, nor distorts his features with the slightest emotion of resentment : all is man nerly and easy superiority, but mortal in its exhibi tion of the angry and unhappy Doctor. In the lat ter part of Lord Nugent's pamphlet, he leaves the Reverend Gentleman's person sprawling where it felt, and takes up the general argument with the same force and success as in his Lordship's former publication.—Times. We present in this day's Journal the proceed ings of the Unitarian Dissenters, on receiving the Report of the Committee, at their annual meeting. We are almost loth to make known that the aspect of the affairs of this sect is ob viously not promising, however we may rejoice in the fact, because we are sure that the zeal of • our Clergy of the Church of England is kept most alive and active by competition. There are other sects, however, . whose temporary pro gress may excite their most strenuous exertions; and we have no doubt but that those exertions have, upon every human principle, the most ra tional'eliiisa fa luecess. We stated in Tues day's Journal, that the great body of the Dissen ters bad agreed to postpone their application to Parliament for the repeal of the Test and Cor poration Acts. In this resolution they have acted temperately and discreetly. But some, we hear, have dissented from them, and are most anxious to prosecute their claims forthwith, and in haste. And whom do our readers suppose to be at once their instigators and advocates in this-course? Why, the friends and advocates of the poor plundered Greeks !—the very men who sacked the money" that should have defended Greece ! ! Has Joseph restored the thirteen hun dred pounds, we ask ? And that other person,whom Joseph 'helped to the first slice out of those sacred funds, in • order that himself might have a pretext for taking the second,—has he restored what he so obtained? We can only say for ourselves, that were here any cause for the success of which we were ever so anxious, but of which those men appeared as ilte -movers and advocates, we must retire with shame frun the support of that cause, till it were introduced tinder happier auspices.—/bid. Dr.-Southey-observed, that a Dissenter was but half an Englishman. He would not of course, admit a Catholic to be any fractional part what ever of an Englishman. If we apply this High Church Test to the United Kingdom, and ex clude Catholics in Ireland and England, and al low the Dissenters of both countries to pass mus ter only for half men, it strikes uses not very po litic to keep up laws like the Test and Corpora tion Acts, which serve only to provoke and in sult those who are affected by them, while they lead to very unpleasant and uncomfortable com parisons. It is not wise in the genuine English alien, to force the Dissenters to come forward in the way they now do, and exhibit their strength. At the time of the breaking out of the Civil WarS, the chief strength of the Puritans lay in London and a few of the larger Corporate Towns ; but London alone now cootaans twice the popu lation of all the cities and tow - n.l; in England of that day. But ilium that time, while the popu lation'of mere agricultural districts is in "marry cases less now than it was at the period in question, the population living in towns is now very great indeed. Nov, wherever men are congregated in large numbers, it will, we suspect, be found, that those who frequent the Established Church are greatly out-numbered by those who frequent the different Dissenting Chapels. In the manufac turing districts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Che ehire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Sze., the Dis senters possess much of the wealth, and they are out of all proportion more numerous than the members of the Establishment. But even in the agricultural districts of the South, go where we will, ,Dissenting Chapels appear is: every village, soost of them, too, of recent erection. lf Dis seoers are' such bad subjects as Dr. Southey and other ,High Churchmen represent them to be, in what a etc to are we at this moment ? And what a w r etched pohey is that which forces so numerous and wealthy and persevering a body to come fors ward in self defence to exhibit the nakedness of the land ? Those who wieh well to the Estab lished Church ought to come voluntarily forward, and propose the repeal of Acts of no conceiv able benefit to it, to prevent the Dissenters - from having a motive for coming forward i n a b o dy. W e remember well the sensation .produced by .th e rising of the Dissenters against the impolitic attempt o f Lord Sidmouth to restrain religious liberty. No one had a conception that the number of Dissentin g Con regatipos e lp so great. It was said, and justly, 4 h - ' 'Sr6 Wth's zeal for the establishment was r iiAdge. But what will be the 01 - llis,senters, now and next Set ._ t.;\ sion, when the question of the removal of the Acts is to be agitated ? We should think the Prelates and Dignitaries of the Church would do well to make a merit of liberality, by agreeing to renounce what is a source of weakness and not of strength to the Establishment, anticipating the Dissenters.with regard to the repeal, by which means they would prevent these simultaneous movements, which will be repeated every year with more and more energy. The blood of the Dissenters is now up. So long as they remained quiescent under the laws, it might admit of controversy whether it was for others to agitate the matter; but the combined movements of the Dissenters leave it no longer a matter of doubt that the offensive laws should instantly be blotted from the Statute Book. The Dissenters contend, too, that it was never intended that they should be affected by the Acts; that they are martyrs to their zeal to the cause for the defence of which these Acts were passed. In the Eclectic Review for June the following account is given of the origin of the Acts, and of the artitice3 practised in order to in clude them within their operation : " The Act, commonly called the Test Act, requires all persons in public trust to receive the sacrament in a parish church, and to carry an attested certificate of the same into Chancery or the County Sessions, and there to make a de claration renouncing transubstantiation in full and positive words. This measure was of course extremely obnoxious to the Court, and great pains were taken to prevent its passing. And when, during the debate in the House of Commons, it was observed, that the Bill had been drawn in such a manner as to comprehend the Protestant Dissen ters, the Court party endeavoured to avail themselves of that circumstance in order to defeat the Bill. 'By this means,' says Bishop Burnet, ' they hoped to have set them and the Church party into new heats ; for now all were united against Popery. Love, who served for the city of London, and was himself a Dissenter, saw what ill effects any such quarrel might have ; so he moved, that an effectual security might be found against Popery, and that nothing might interpose till that was done. When that was over, then they would try to deserve some favour ; bat at present, they were willing to lie under the severity of the laws, rather than clog a inure necessary work with their concerns. The chief friends of the Sects agreed to this. So a vote passed to Jiring in a Bill in favour of Pro testant Dissenters, though there was not time enough, nor unanimity enough, to finish one this Session. For it went no further than a second reading, but was dropped in the Committee." " This last statement is not quite correct. The Bill, which went much further than relieving Dissenters from the consequences of the Test Act, passed the Commons, but was sent down by the Lords with some Amendments ; while these Amendments were being debated, the Parlia ment was suddenly prorogued through the resentment of the Court, and the intended favour to the Dissenters was prevented. And when afterwards, in the year 1680, a Bill in favour of the Dissenters, repealing the 88th Eliz. c. 1. passed both HouQes, and lay ready for the Royal Assent, the Court ventured upon a very extraordinary expedient : the Clerk of the Crown was ordered to con vey away the Bill, and accordingly it was never after wards to be found. " In the same Session (Dec. 1680), a Bill was brought into the Commons, " for uniting his Majesty's Protestant subjects to the Church of England," which repealed the declaration of assent and consent, and some other particu lars usually objected to by the Dissenters. And whereas, it was apprehended this Bill might not comprehend all the Dissenters within the pale of the Church, there was ano ther Bill brought in at the same time, for exempting his Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws, which is the title of the present Toleration Act. Both these Bills were read a second time, and referred to the same Committee.— On the 24th of Dec. a Bill was ordered into the Commons to repeal the Act 13 Car. H. st. 2, c. I. (calmonly called the Corporation Act), which had been made on purpose to exclude Dissenters from Corporation offices. On Jan. 6, 1691, this Bill. was read a second time, and referred to a Select Committee. In the mean time, on the 3d of January, a Bill came down from the Lords, entitled, "An Act for distinguishing Protestant Dissenters from Popish Recusants ; " which was designed to compre hend a virtual repeat of the Test as to the Protest ant Dissenters. It is remarkable that, so far as ap pears, there was no division upon any one of these Bills. Nevertheless, they were all defeated by the sudden promo gatioa of Parliament on the 16th of January, only four days after the last Bill was sent down by the Lords; the Commons being apprised of the King's intention only time enough to pass in haste a few votes on the state of the na tion, the last of which was in these words :—" That it is the opinion of this House that the prosecution of Pro testant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the subject, a weakening of the Protestant in terest, an encouragement to Popery, and dangerous to the peace of the kingdom." The Parliament was soon after dissolved by proclamation. ' Thus,' adds the writer from whom we copy this statement, the continuance of the Test Act to the present time, and the exclusion of Dis senters from all public offices, is the reward they enjoy for their generous and disinterested patriotism ?'"f—Mornin 9 Chronicle. • Among the on dits which have recently be come current, is one, which we give, not that we assign it implicit credit, but because it is mentioned every where, and may, if untrue, be contradicted. It is this, that a Noble Earl, whose "single speech" -opposition to Mr. Can ning's Ministry, is the most formidable blow it has received, is about to proceed as the new Governor-General to Calcutta. Various circum stances are mentioned, as having retarded, and at length brought about this arrangement, none of which we credit, nor should we therefore feel justified in repeating. We merely give the re port itself, as one which we find extremely cur rent, adding our hope, that it cannot be true, for were such an appointment to take place after such a speech, what degradation is there to which public men will not submit !—Morn. Herald. The inhabitants of Mary-la-bonne, Pancras, and the other parishes on the northern outskirts of the metropolis, have been called upon, we see, by public advertisment, to claim for themselves the vacant representation of Pen ryn. Though we do not see any probability of such claim being attended to upon the present occasion, we agree that there is very good reason for the sug gestion, and that there are few bodies in the kingdom so ill-represented as those persons are, if indeed they can be said to be represented at all. Being at least nineteen-twenti e ths of them only leaseholders, i they have no votes for the county, which is itself little more than a Whig borough, in the hands of two persons, inefficient enough of all conscience, except when called upon to assist in passing Bills at the suggestion of the different Select Vestries. But we think that the inhabitants of those parishes would be much better employed in reforming, or rather entirely new-modelling, their own local legisla tures, than in troubling themselves about ob taining representation in Parliament. It is true that it is through Parliament that the Select Vestry nuisance must be abated; but we trust that there are Members enough there already able and willing to expose and put an end to these juntas of paro chial jobbing, whenever the materials are fairly given to them, and a disposition is shown by the inhabi tants of the different parishes so situated to put their shoulders manfully to the wheel. Much has been lately done in the principal of these parishes, and we have reason to believe that further steps are in progress, both in Nary-la-bonne and elsewhere, to wards the same object, fi-om which we would strongly recommend the parties not to have their attention diverted by a much less important, and, probably, unattainable scheme.—lbid. The account which we gave yesterday of a sale of hops in the Borough must have appeared very extraordinary to all who are not acquainted with the mysteries of the trade. That any class of men should be found to exult in the hopes of a dearth of the commodity in which they deal, may appear strange to those simple-minded peo ple who are hot versed in the arts of modern speculation—or, in other words, are not ac quainted with the tricks of that sort of gambling, Burnet's Own Times. B. iii. 1673. t Furneaux's Letters to Blackstone, p. 171, note. which, under the name of trade and commerce, does more mischief than any other. This sort of gambling is usually carried on by means of confederacies of persons called speculators;whose plan it is, like certain ingenious persons at races and fairs, to occupy people's attention with some absurd and ridiculous story, while some of those in the secret turn the pockets of the credulous public inside out. At present, this game is pretty briskly carried on in the hop trade by persons who spread the most extravagant and unfounded reports of the failure of the present crop, by means of the fly and other calamities. In this way they expect to raise the price of the article so high as to enable them to realize enormouspro fits by the dispOsal of their stock on hand, and as we have been accessary to the exposure of so gross a delusion,we have, in consequence,fallen under the especial indigation of the speculators. At the sale to which we have alluded, it was thought proper, as a precautionary measure, before going into the business of the day, to examine whe ther any Reporter connected with the Morning Herald was in the room—and on the fact being ' ascertained that no such person was present, the discreet and honest speculators felt themselves more comfortable, and ventured to talk big. Even the auctioneer indulged in a tirade against Ithe " unfounded paragraphs," which he said " carried their own antidote along with•them." Now this Cicero of the rostrum ought to have known that it is quite a superfluous task to set about refuting statements which refute: them selves, but at the close of his speech he showed how closely folly and cunning tread on each others heels, for he let out the whole secret which it was his intention to conceal. After declaring that our paragraphs with respect to the. speculations now going on in the hop trade were unfounded, he exclaimed that " the dealers in hops had as much right to speculate as other persons." In order to show that he would avail himself of this privilege, he went on to state that " all the accounts from Kent were most unfavour able, notwithstanding the assertions of the Editor of the Herald, and a gentleman just arrived from Kent, now in the room, told him the fly was extending its ravages in a very dreadful manner." Now, admit ting that all the dealers in hops have a right to spe culate in the article, surely they can with no show of reason deny that we have a right to expose their speculations, if we please. If they, in aid of their speculations, tell the public that the fly is ravag ing the hop-bins in every direction, we have a right to tell the public not to believe them. If they will tell extravagant fictions to delude people and to raise the market, we have a right to tell sober truths, which may put unsuspecting people on their guard. We observe that on this occasion, there was a person of the name of Philip Wood (stated to be a brother of the Alderman), who having, with great prudence and foresight, ascertained that no person belonging to the Morning Herald was in the room, took occasion indirectly to compliment us by the bitterness of his censure. Whether he is himself a speculator in hops, we cannot say; or whether he acts for another—but this we know, that until Mr. Philip Wood can conjure over a flight of * locusts from the Desart, to feed upon the hop plantations of Kent, he had better not ,calculate upon the exorbi.;. tant profit of the fly apcnlation. We do not believe Mr. Philip Wood to' be a conjuror, any more than Mr. Humble, who said that if the speculation in hops were prevented, 'the." Stock-Exchange might as well be shut up t " 'lf these sapient gentlemen hold shares in any of the - Water Companies, we fear that after consuming every "green thing" in Kent,_ they may,. 4.)Y 7 -watof speculation, set the Thames on • . What is tolre doite for Ireland ? For a solu tion to this queAion, Which has been put until it grates on the ear of patience, the greater part of the public look with somewhat - -of the • same degree of hope, that they (19 Idt The discovery of the longitude, or the squaring of the circle. The introduction of a few of her Barons, and a few more of her Commoners, who profess the popu lar faith, to seats in high places,: i'nay soothe the irritated feelings of her arisoeritcymay lull the noise of her orators-y. break .up her Ca tholic Boards, and distilWitS r{.6-4 ; but will her ignorance—her lawless "fiabits--,-her naked ness—and her misery—belessened by the pro cess ? To Protestantise her children—to win the ragged tenants of the Bog .of Allen from the Pope to the Parson—to banish the Priests, the Mass, the Crucifixes, and the Confession—may afford much matter of thankfulness to the Mis sionaries and Methodists; but will conversion give capital or confidence to her merchants, or food and clothing to her labourers ? And, in the constant warfare of poverty. against wealth, and hunger against abundance, will the struggle be less violent beeause of any change in the abstrac tions of a creed ? What, then, is to be. done for Ireland ? We fear that the best measures that can be proposed must be alterative rather than remedial ; and that it is not by one act, nor in one season, that causes, which have been cen turies in operation, are to be subdued. In reasoning on the mode of bettering the condition of a kingdom—a task which demands no small prudence, and no small wisdom—too much care cannot possibly be used in the exclusion of every thing hypothetical. The subject is of too vast importance, the interests at stake too great, and the consequences of rashly theorising too grave. Experience, the teacher of the wise, is, in such a case, more especially to be consulted. If there be any nation whose history may be ac curately traced, which, at one period of that history, presented a picture similar to that pre sented by Ireland now, and which at this present moment exhibits a picture of tranquillity and order nearly unexampled—such a nation will furnish us with precisely that species of expe rience that the concoction of measures for the relief of Ireland demands. Now, it so happens that there is such a kingdom, and that it is nei ther distant in place, nor foreign in manners, but forms a part, and no small part, of ourselves— we allude to Scotland. Let usgo back some cen tury and a half, and what was the condition of that country ? Her feuds were as numerous and as deadly as those of Ireland—her religious dissen sions burnt with even fiercer zeal—thefts, rob beries, murders, acts of open violence, and of secret wrong, were ripe in every corner of the land—capital she had none, commerce none, agriculture of the lowest and most wretched description. According to a statement made by a writer of most unimpeachable honesty, there were not less than 200,000 of her inhabitants who gained their living by beggary and plunder ; and, to compl e t e th e p ara llel, such, with a few far-distant and brief intervals, had been her con dition for several centues. So desperate, in deed, did the condition of Scotland appear, that Fletcher, of Saltoun, the steadiest and sternest o f patriots, in giving the above-mentioned state ment of the number of sturdy beggars, so indi cative of the poverty and lawlessness of his coun trymen, to whom, notwithstanding, no man was ever s o enthusiastically attached, could think of no remedy for the evils that prevailed among them, but a recurrenc e to the ancient system of " villeinage, the conversion of all labourers into adscripli glebae ! This is one picture of Scot land. Is that of Ireland worse ? With all its aggravations we think it is immensely better, The - introduction of our 'admirable system of jurisprudence has given :the balance in its fa vour. It has good laws wisely administered. Look to Scotland now ! • Where is there a more sedate, regular, church-going population, in the world.? •Was the change ; effected by mi racle, and at once ? Did the recognition of Presby terianism—the Emancipation Question of our northern neighbours—effect it ? To answer this, we have only to recollect the rebellion of 1715—the Porteus mob of 1735—and the rebellion again in 1745. These, especially the last, snfficiently show how long it is before national habits are changed, and by how slow and imperceptible degrees. Was it the peculiarities of their faith that made Scotch men good, plain, plodding, careful subjects, inste a d of wild, revengeful, reckless reivers? By no means. Presbyterianism had been planted in the country during Mary's reign, was recognised by James 1., and maintained its hold over the people, though not over their rulers, with strong and undivided power, until it was triumphantly settled by the Parliament of England and Scotland in 1707. It was by no sudden political enfranchisement, still less by any re ligious conversion, then, that the condition of the Scotch was ameliorated ; neither was it by the adoption of Poor Laws, which have been recom mended for Ireland, for Scotland has none to this day. It was Education. To the Act of William, of 1696, who, in that respect, may well be styled " of glorious memory," the improvement of Scotland Is solely to be attributed. Learning, which, as the Poet has truly said— " Emollit mores nee sinit esse feros ;" which not only humanizes the manners, but is in compatible with ruggedness of manners, converted the Scotsman from a stern assertor of the doctrines, into a devout practiser of the precepts of religion ; it pointed out his subordinate, as well as his highest interests, and, showing the necessary connection be tween peace and prosperity, changed the riotous breaker of the law into its most active supporter. These changes were, as we have said, gradual; and in those regions precisely whither education was latest introduced—the Highlands—did the remains of former disorder latest remain, but light came there at last; and where no man durst have trusted himself without a safe convoy from a feudal laird, a Cockney may now go a simpling with as little fear as on Primrose Hill. He will find himself as secure, perhaps more so, amongst the wilds of Lochaber, as he would in Kensington Gardens. What remains then ? Is the question with which we begun an swered ? We think it is. And we add, that not only is the remedy made known, but the form in which, and the instruments by which, it should be administered. !lutatis mutandis, the Scots Act of Parliament would almost serve the purpose. A very few modifications, perhaps a few amendments, are all that is necessary.—New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JUNE 6. AITIEN V. BEDWELL. The plaintiff was a common sailor on board the Symmetry, a merchant vessel, of which the defend ant was the Captain. This was an action of trespass for an assault, battery, and false imprisonment. The case of the plaintiff, who sued in forma pauperis, was conducted by Mr. PLATT alone. In March, 1825, the defendant engaged the plaintiff to go on board his vessel as a mariner, and they arrived on the 25th of April at Constantinople, where a part of their cargo was discharged. They proceeded thence to Odessa, and, whilst lying there, the Cap tain of a merchant vessel wanted assistance, and some of the crew of the Symmetry were sent to him. On sending them back he gave them a dollar, which was laid out in wine. This was on the 11th of June. About nine in the evening, the plaintiff and several of the crew, who had brought the wine on board their own vessel, were drinking the wine and singing sea songs, when the Captain suddenly made his appearance, and desired him to put out the candle. The sailors begged leave to keep it alight until their Winiper was over. The Captain returned in a quarter of an hour afterwards, and finding that the candle was still alight, kicked it out, knocked down the wine, beat the plaintiff, and ordered his mate to go on shore and fetch the Russian soldiers. About twelve o'clock the soldiers came on board, and, by the direction of the defendant, took the plaintiff and two more of the crew on shore, and put j l them in a dungeon, where they remained four days, without having any thing to eat until the third day, when the Captain of the Russian Guard gave them a loaf of black bread. The men remained in prison, in nearly the same state of destitution, until the 20th of June, when a barbarous tragedy wes performed. On the morning of that day the plaintiff and the two other prisoners were dragged from their prison by Russian soldiers and placed across a cask. They expostulated to the defendant, their Captain, and to the British Consul, who was there, but in vain.— The plaintiff was stretched across the cask, his arms and feet were held by four men, his clothes were torn off his back ; and in that state he received, by the hands of two Russian soldiers, 100 stripes with a rope. This British Captain, the defendant, had the audacity to subject a British sailor to a foreign rope. After the 100 lashes were inflicted, the plain tiff was carried back senseless to the dungeon, and was left there for days and nights afterwards, with nothing to subsist on but black bread and dirty wa ter. The flesh of his back hung over in lumps, but no medical assistance was sent to him. On the 2d of July the plaintiff was brought from the prison to the defendant, who discharged him from his ship and gave him four dollars and a half for his wages. The plaintiff remonstrated against being left in a fo reign country, but to no purpose; and after his dis charge he was again taken back to prison, where he remained for many days, until he beard that a Cap tain Atkinson, with whom he had formerly sailed, had come to Odessa. To this gentleman he applied, and by his means was carried a prisoner to Smyrna, where the Consul procured his discharge, and he worked his passage to Bristol, where he arrived in so exhausted a state that he was forced to go into the hospital, where he remained some weeks. As soon as he was well enough to leave the hospital, he brought this action. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the defendant, begged the Jury to lay aside all matters of inflam mation, and to judge upon the facts. The defendant finds his men drinking wine and singing songs, and he desires them to put out the light; and a quarter of an hour afterwards he finds the light not put out, and to put it out he jumped down the forecastle. You are then told, that a great many blows . 'were heard, and are required to infer that all those blows were given by the defendant; but I shall show that he received a black eye, and had his shirt torn. What ever was done after the men were taken from the ship, was done by legal authority under the Russian laws, which are certainly not consistent with our forms of proceeding; but for that the defendant ought not to be made answerable.- It is also con trary to common sense to call it the trespass of the defendant ; for how could he make the authorities of another country subservient to his influence ? As men of common sense, can you believe it is in the power of the captain of an English brig to order the officers of the Russian Government to take three of his men, to imprison them, to flog them, and to keep them as long as he pleases ? Besides, all that the Russians did on shore was upon a complaint duly made ; and I do not now say whether it was truly and properly made or not. The de fendant was compelled to send for assistance. The probability is, that the defendant, in the exercise of his duty, whilst he was putting out the candle, re ceived the first blow ; at all events, the crew dis obeyed his commands, and the defendant was not bound to submit to what ignominious treatment they might think fit to subject him to, because he was c aptain of a British vessel ; nor was he, therefore, precluded from sending for assistance. Mr. PLATT replied. Lord TENTERDEN, in summing up, observed, that nothing that took place after the plaintiff left Odessa could be received in evidence in this form of action. The defendant had a right, in point of law, to order the light to be put out, and it was a breach of the plaiiitiff's duty in delaying to put it out. For what was done on board the ship, if it arose from the disobedience of the plaintiff, the defendant is entitled to your verdict. The Jury retired, and found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 251. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.--One John Bateman was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yesterday, charged with having furiously assaulted Mr. Ferdinand Clarke, an apothecary, residing at Walworth. John Bateman lives in White-street, Finsbury, and is a shoemaker; and, like most other members of " the gentle craft," he is constitutionally un gentle. His wife being ill, in consequence, it was said, of his oppressive treatment, Mr. Clarke was called in to attend her_professionally by her mother, he being a relative of their's, and they having great faith in his skill as an apothecary. Accordingly he went to their house,but he had not been three minutes in consultation with his patient before J. Bateman came into the room, and asked him how he dared to prescribe for his wife without having first obtained his per Mission ? Mr. Clarke would have replied, by stating the why and the wherefore, but before he could utter a syllable John Bateman told him he was both a villain and a scoundrel, and ordered him to quit his premises instantly upon pain of death ! Thus awfully menaced, Mr. Clarke thought it was high time to depart, but before he could reach his hat from the peg on which he had hung it, John Bateman made a lunge at him with a shoemaker's knife. Fortunately for Mr. Clarke, and as fortu nately for John Bateman, the landlord of the house came in just in time to prevent this lunge from taking effect; and he and John Bateman had then a struggle together—the landlord attempting to wrest the knife from his hand, and he endea vouring to retain it. In this struggle they fell to gether upon the bed in which lay John Bateman's sick wife ; and there, whilst the landlord held him, the knife was taken from his hand by the wife's mother ; but she received a blow on her side, the while, that fractured one of her ribs. Then, finding himself at liberty again, he 'again rushed at Mr- Clarke, the apothecary, and with cuffs and kicks drove him from the premises—some of which kicks, as Mr. Clarke avowed, 'were very atrociously direct ed, with intent to do him a very serious personal injury. In consequence of all this, both the wife and the mother were now very dangerously ill, and quite unable to attend before the Magistrate. The above were the facts as stated by Mr. Clarke and the landlord ; and Sir PETER LAURIE, very na turally supposing that John Bateman must have some extraordinary cause for such violence, put a question calculated to ascertain that fact; but John Bateman had nothing of the kind to complain of. " I had desired and directed that Mr. Clarke should not attendher (said he) and I felt angry atfinding him there !" He then admitted that he had nothing to say against the skill and ability of Mr. Clarke, and said his sole reason for objecting to him was, that another gentleman, " a Dispensary Doctor," was attending her. Mr. Clarke, in reply, said this was not the fact; for though his wife was ha a dangerous state, there Wag no professional person attending her until he went there, and he had even broke the phials and spilled the medicine which he had previously sent for her use. Mr. C. added, that on the very morn ing on which the affray happened, Bateman went out early under pretence of fetching a doctor, and instead of doing so, he came home drunk, late in the afternoon, and conducted himself in the outrageous manner above described. Sir PETER LAURIE observed that he should find good and sufficient bail to answer Mr. Clarke's com plaint before a Jury; and, not having bail ready, he was locked up. Mrs. Hannah Bolt, an ancient and somewhat bibulous matron of St. Martin's-le-Grand, was brought up by William, otherwise Sergeant Taylor, the learned and very Worshipful beadle of the Ward of Alderagute. " Well, Mr. Taylor," said Sir PETER LAURIE, as this exact prototype of the - renowned constable of Messina took up his position, staff in hand, by the side of his prisoner—" what business have you with us to-day ?" " Sir Peter," replied Mr. Taylor; in his very best and most syllabical style,—" last night, a leetle before twenty minutes to nine—just as the Park and Tower guns were firing in honour of the arrival of her Majesty the Queen of Wurtemberg, whom God preserve !—at that very moment this woman was lying right across the pavement, drunk, please your Worship ; whereupon I west up to her, and endeavoured to instil some little reason into her, in the way of remonstrance. Mother Bott (says I), you know I know you for an old customer—by reason of your intolerable drinkings, and drouthy ness, and such like, whereby I have many times had much trouble; and here you are, in breach of the peace again ! says I. To all which she returned me not a word; for the drink had taken away from her the gift of speech, please your Worship ; and therefore I considered it my duty to have her locked up." " You always do your duty very well, Mr. Tay lor," said Sir PETER LAURIE; ," is it, a long time since you were troubled with her before ?" " Not a very long time, Sir Peter—not more than nine months, I believe—though, for her, that is a long time—so long, indeed, that I was in good hope she was gone to Heaven !—not but what I think she is quite oqfit for such a place, please your Worship." Mother Bott had nothing to say in her excuse, but that she had " been out a-chairing," and meet ing with some friends on her way home, they had given her so many glasses of gin, "one atop of t'Other," that they " quite overgot her," and she was fain to lie down and rest herself; but she pro mised, if his Worship would let her off this once, she would go down to her friends in Coventry, and never trouble Mr. Taylor again. Sir P. LAURIE said, " I think, Mr. Taylor, we can't do better than send her to Coventry?" " Certainly not, your Worship," replied Mr. Tay lor; "it is the best place for her; and I hope your Worship will instnitt her to stick there two years, at the least." Mother Bott went beyond this, for she promised she would never come back again ; and thereupon she was discharged. BOW-STREET.—The street keepers brought up two lads for selling political squibs in the Strand, and exposing to public inspection several placards, containing illustrative drawings of their subject matter. A great captain was represented sitting in deep despondency upon a fragment of some sort or other, underneath a gallows, from which a cord was suspended, with a noose at the end, which the aforesaid captain had in his hand, but seemed in a state of great irresolution as to how he was to dis pose of it. Old Nick, a worthy who is planted at every body's elbow who is about to do mischief, appeared peeping out of a corner, with the other end of the cord in his hand, waiting anxiously ,for the noose to be adjusted. The boys, however, received their pamphlets back again, but the placards were detained; and they were informed that if they should be caught under like circumstances again, they would be fined 40s. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.— Yesterday Mr. Currie's coachman, of Wimpole-street, came before Mr. RAWLINSON to answer the charge laid against him, of refusing to fulfil a sporting engagement. John Lydell repeated the statement given on Monday night, of having walked GO miles, and ab stained from food and drink for 72 hours, to decide a wager of ten sovereigns between this coachman and a groom, for which, he said, they promised to remunerate him with five of them ; and fearing the worthy magistrate might have forgotten the circum stance, he particularly reminded him, that a little " beaker, and a pipe like," were not prohibited. " Why don't you give the man his money, (said Mr. RAWLINSON to the Coachman ;) surely you don't l mean to let him walk 60 miles, and not pay hits it ? " II I did not know that he was gone, ) 40 ( worship," :replied the coachman, " until he coon back; and I don't know that he has been Mr. RAWLINsON.—Why, surely, this is not a Pori nufactured story ? (Looking at Lydell.). Lydell.--", The landlord of the Packhorse can prove, your wok' , ship, that I have been there; he wanted me to titst a bit, but I told him I was doing it for a wager. Mr. RAWLINSON.—Come, come, pay him the money, and don't play the fool with him. Coachman.—l have nothing to do with it, yo it ',. worship : there was no money down, and I may ne et a get it ; and besides he went of his own accord, an without my knowing any thing about it. " Ohl that won't do with me," said Mr. IZO, ; • LttisoN; " you can't make me believe that this p 0 fellow walked 60 miles, and fasted 72 hours, to please himself." Lydell.—Your worship, I seed two sovereigil put down, when the bet was made; and afore started I says to the coachman and to Tom (t he groom), Now I've got half an ounce of bakker , I'm off." You know I did, (addressing the coach; man), and Tom was on a grey horse in the yard Al , the time, and if they a'nt satisfi e d th at I die, it, do it again. Mr. RAWLINSON.—And let this time go in r, nothing. take two sovereigns and a half IV this time, and two sovereigns and a half for the net " Well, that's a fair offer," said Mr. R A WLINSUr t to the coachman, " and if y o h r mas t er lik e s to le b you spend your time in that wa y, y ou ma y go Wi t , him and see it done."—[The coachman made II" reply, and Mr. Rawlinson continued.]—" It will, a monstrous shabby thin g if y ou d o no t give "r e something; the best way i s t o c h ange pl a ces, th i ! r t is nothing like that in all concerns of life, should you expect under his circumstances ?" . The coachman remained silent. Mr. RAWLINSON.—I wish I could ou t • ou he to do something, and not c h ouse hi m out of wha t ~le was entitled to expect. You don't suppose& fellot would smoke a dry pipe for 72 hours by way amusement ? " I don't mind giving him a shilling', said the coachman. " A shilling !" replied Mr. R.twur4soN. you 'give him a shilling a mile ?" Coachman." What 605., your worship ? Mr. RAWLINSON.—Yes, to be sure; and thell b e loses 2/. Coachman.—l can't do th a t. Mr. RAWLINSON.—Come, then, he'll take 6d . mile. Won't you ? (to Lydell.) Lydell.-- 1 ,„ ' " take any thing your Worship pleases. I did it put something upon my back. These terms were also rejected by the coachnoo and a Mr. RAWLINSON told Lydell to come to him eg li t ,, at one o'clock on Saturday, if, in the mean time, tir parties did not satisfy him. OLD BAILEY-JUNE 6. (Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.) Jan Haynes, aged 23, and Benjamin Bachil,""". aged 20, were indicted for burglariously brek° , into the dwelling house of John Prince , at Wl!: mersmith, merstnith, and stealing a w a t c h, va l ue 71., and Ar ti des of jewellery to a considerable amount. For Backstay an alibi was att em pt e d t o be prover, by a female • but when closely pressed by e , Adolphus, she sunk, under her feelings, a nd r mained in an hysterical fit for some time. The Jury found both the prisoners. GuiltY Death. The trial occupied the Court near six hours. NEW COURT. tIO Richard Taylor, a youth app a rently n ot more 18 years of age, was placed at the bar on a chi of highway robbery. The indictment stated, on the 2d of April last, the prisoner snatched Jr° ll, the person of Mr. William Helder, a gold wa tc o d value 201., a chain, value .5/., a ring value 1 5 °.1 8 three seals, value 101.—Verdict Guilty. Condell, Geo. Plummer, and Elizabeth Ha; man, stood indicted for a burglary committed on t,t, premises of Mr. James Woods, a pawnbroker ;1 1 St. John-street-road, on the night of the 2d AP last, from whence they had conveyed propertY t the value of about 1001. ~ t he To this charge Condell pleaded " guilty, • two others "not guilty." The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty agai'll Condell and Plummer. Elizabeth Harman Wt/ Acquitted. the' Elizabeth Harman was again placed at t 136 charged as an accessary after a burglary. Mr. ANDREWS stated that in this case thebur had been effected by the same parties in a 01911 : t o precisely similar. Cond e ll a nd Pl ummer broke l l the house of Mr. Balfour, a pawn-br o k er i n Charf o f street, as they had done. at Mr. Wood's, by Ine a fi e l an adjoining empty=house, throu g h w hi c h they P7ilie and effected an entry at the garret w i n d ow °' prosecutor's house, from whence they carriefl 0 0 l goods to the value of 60/. or 70/. A q uantil these goods were received and pledged by the P. soner, as would be proved by many witnesses. „ti Mr. Balfour proved the loss of the goods, 9 their value. g j s o• Mary Ann Vandivald was called in this case and her testimony fully convicted the prisoner . t he Many pawnbrokers and others deposed tlifit h o prisoner had brought goods t o th em to p l e d ge , W were now produced and identified. The prisoner had nothing to say in her dere ace' and the J r. Ser ge ant found her Guilty. She Mr. ARABIN then informed her tha t would be transported for 14 years. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI Adair's 3h. Od. Beaumont 3O 8 Eighton Main 27 8 Hebburn Main 33 0 3t 6 Killingworth 33 0 Ord's Redhugh 28 Pelaw SO 2 Pontop Windsor 30 0 Tanfleld 33 0 31 0 Willington 33 1) Wylam - 32 0 WallsEndßewieke&Co, 31 9 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 34 6 Ditto Carr and Co, 29 0 Ditto Cramlington,.......- 29 6 Ditto Hilda 30 3 Ditto H0t5pur........ 31 0 Ditto Northumberland 32 3 Ships at Market, 10935-fili KET.-June 6. sp. Ir Walla End Newman)lb... 0 Ditto Veareth................... si, 9 Ditto Riddell'a.„...--,.. , . s o Ditto Russell's ..................40 Ditto Walker —........... - -is y, Tanfield Trader.-......•• I / ?, Londonderry small .....•••• V, N Hebburn Bean ...........-^ 0 r i Hetton Foreign..."" 16 6 -- Lambton small --"""'"'"' 29 6 . Co apen .............---*-*" 29 '7 Hartley .---.-.....,......".- 29 i j Harraton Main "-"^"".".9 6 -... 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Tabor, E° 4 " rf same place. l c fv ftt o street, the Lady Ile On the 27th March, in Caraccas, by Sir R. .-- er pi.....,'' his Britannic Majesty's Consul, &c., Thomas Co kirillir" of London, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter Ackers, Esq., merchant, of Liverpool and Caraeca DIED. ~fter s Henry, eldest son of Sir Robert Wilson, M.P.' long illness, contracted on service in the East Intlil'ai,,slit On the 2 d inst., aged two years and a half , Eacorsi' youngest daughter of John Illidge, of Wes t 13rixtoa, I tote r On Tuesday, the 6th inst., Sarah, the wife of Fossick, of Park - place, Islington , aged '7O. Ilan)l3s • • oaf On the sth inst., at his house, Nor th-End, F A T.), after a short but most severe illne ss, Captain lier4l of the East India ship Aurora. t t ile PRWTSO and PUBLIIIHND by M. YOUN— n f a Surf-On-Ica, re. 112, Strand.