The Sun. — London, England, 1825-10-26 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extractqfrom the Morning Papers, 0ct.26, 1825. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Sunday contain, in the shape of news, only some rumours concerning a Mutiny among the Egyptian troops at Navarino. 'We are however disposed to place little reliance on the report. The Austrians complain of the injuries their trade in the Levant suffers from the Greek cruisers. They take so active and undisguised a part in favour of the Ttirks, that we know not how it can happen otherwise. If they will he the carriers of Turkish stores and munitions of war, they have no right to feel ag grieved because they are divested of their false neutrality. Some dispatches have lately been forwarded in great haste from Count Lieven, the Russian Ambassador in this country, to Count Nesselrode, the Minister of the Foreign De partmeht at St. Petersburgh, which dispatches were subsequently sent forward with all Pos sible speed 'to the Emperor, who is on his tour to the southern provinces. The corres pondent of the Moniteur supposes that those dispatches relate to the affairs of Greece. 'We have already stated that we had good reason to believe that the subject was under. the considera. tion of the great powers of Europe. May the result he propitious to the gallant people whose fate is in their hands! According to the Etoile, the Pope's health is still in a very dangerouscon dition. His advanced age must seriously aggra vate his infirmities. We are glad to learn that the capitalists of Amsterdam have resolved to have nothing what ever to do with any loan for the Spanish Govern ment until the bonds of the Cortes are fairly and fully acknowledged. This resolution has been adopted in consequence of the endeavours which, it is understood, have recently been made by M. Tassin to 46 raise the %%ind" for his Catholic Ma jesty in Paris.—(lbid.) [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A variety of concurring circumstances lead us to think that some important changes are about to take place in the Spanish Government, pro miqed by the British and French Ministers at time Court of King Ferdinand. We are, indeed, credibly informed, that an Amnesty-decree has, for some time past, been agreed upon, which has actually received the sanction of the Council of Castile, and its execution, we are further assured, has been withheld by a dread of the formidable attitude the Clergy have recently assumed, as it was feared that the promulgation of such a mea sure would afford them an opportunity to raise a line and cry, and work on the feelings of the people. The British Minister at the Spanish Court, it is said, has been very strenuous in his exertions to obtain from King Ferdinand this wished-for amnesty in behalf of the Spa►►ish Refuges and others implicated by their political opinions, not only as a salu tary measure, but also to prevent the necessity of granting further pecuniary aid to the Spanish emigrants in England. Affairs in Spain have cer tainly, for some time past, been tending towards moderatisrn, and as a proof of this fact, the Mar quess de Compo Sagrado has been appointed to the War Department, and Lieut.-Gen., Giron, better known as the Marquess De Las Amariilas, has been named commander of the King's house hold troops, which places under his immediate orders, at least G,OOO men—a post of great trust at the present moment. Both these Noblemen are Moderates, and pledged to the party in far.)ur of Two Chambers. The latter is nephew to General Castanos. He is a man of consider able military - talents, and was at the head of the War Department for a short tirni after the Revo lution of La Isla—consequently the colleague of Arguelles. Campo Sagrado was Minister in 1817, with Garay, Figuerva, and Lozano Torres. He belongs to one of the oldest families i❑ Astu rias, and is proud of his descent. On his family coat of ar:.ms is a curious motto, truly Asturian : " Despises de Dios, la cash de Quiroz" (After God, the _House of Quiroz). Campo Sagrado was a playmate of King Ferdinand, both are of nearly the same age, and he was always. a great favourite with his Royal Master. He, Figueroa, and Garay, formed a moderate party in the Ministry, under the protection of the Queen, the Portuguese Infanta, which party was supported by the noted Father Cori bo, the head of the Franciscan Monks, and General Vigodet, who had been the negociators of the double mar riage in Brazil, and, at the time, in great favour at Court. The other Alinister, Lozano Torres, known by the name 'of the watchmaker, for he ac tually learnt that trade in England,was always the tool of the Clergy, and pledged to time Serviles. Garay w ho had al way's Its longed lothe liberal party, and, whilst Minister, had been able to release the persons forMerly employed under him in the Finance Department, and among them Canga- Arguelles, at a time when Ferdinand was pursu ing his plans of vengeance, was very anxious that an Amnesty should be issued in 1517, and it was agreed that it should be formally laid before the Councii of Ministers, at which the King presides. The measure was proposed by Campo Sagrado, and supported by Garay and Figuerva, with great warmth; and the King saw the necessity of it, and went so far as to give his consent. Lozano Torres opposed it, and stated to his master, that having arrested the Liberals, by virtue of his De cree of 4th May, 1.814, such a step would have the appearance of hawing been an arbitrary act, un less the proposed amnesty was previously sub mitted to the other Councils of the Nation, and re ceived their concurrence. To this step the King agreed, and when laid before the Council of War, at which the Infante Don Carlos sat as President, he opposed it by every means in his power, and dissuaded his brother from carrying it into effect. lie even obtained the dismissal of Campo Sagrado. in so secret and base a manner, that when the latter went next morning to his of fice, at nine o'clock, to his great astonishment he found his seat occupied by General Eguia, and did not receive his own ccoge till he re turned borne, when he also received an order' immediately to quit Madrid. That very same , morning the King had sent him a present of choice fruit from his own garden, and the preceding even ing he had been with him to a late hour, without having even hinted his displeasure. This cir cumstance is mentioned as an additional proof of Ferdinand's duplicity of character, and serves at the same time, as a short historical sketch of the fate of the last Amnesty Decree in Spain, the withholding of which entailed so many miseries on that unfortunate country. The re-appointment, however, of such a man as Campo Sagrado to the Ministry, at the present moment, certainly indi cates a change. E TIMES.] We learn,—anil for our Parts, without any deep regret,—that General Bourke has been ap. pointed, almost two months since, as Lieutenant- Governor to our much-afflicted colony at the Cape of Good Hope. The understood purpose of this appointment is, to supply a vacuum in the Executive Government, which will be caused by the departure of a Noble Lord for England, whose absence from the colony, it is presumed, will excite sensations to which the inhabitants have long been strangers. The residence of the Lieut.-Governor is to be Graham's-Town, in the " heart" of the English settlements—a spot about which the present Governor-in-Chief has never, we must acknowledge, appeared to feel a very lively interest. General Bourke will sail by the Rainbow frigate, if another vessel engaged for his conveyance shall not be ready by the middle of next month. Why the voyage of the Lieutenant-Governor has been so long procrasti nated is another question. We are bound, indeed, to confess that it is impossible to credit the sur mises which are circulated upon this part of the subject. People affect to say, that as Lord Charles Somers,et must not leave the colony until the Lieutenant-Governor shall have arrived there, his Lordship's return to England has been delay ed by the connivance, or even contrivance, of Ministers, that it may not take place until such a period of the Session as would render it impossible to carry into immediate ef fect a Parliamentary notice of the Noble Lord's case, who might thus have the in terval of another year to blunt the edge of public recollection and resentment, to shelter himself in oblivion, and, finally, to escape from retribution. We repeat, that it is impossible to credit such a tale—the King's Government can not be so weak—it cannot be so borough-ridden, as to favour such ignoble subterfuges. But if the Ministers should capitulate on these terms with the Beaufort, Rutland, and Stafford oligar chy, the rest of the English Nobility, we are sure, must feel what is due to the honour of their own caste ; and Parliament will not be wanting to the demands of the British nation for justice. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 24th and the Etoile of Monday, reached us by Express last night. It appears by the intelligence contained in the lat ter, that the Chair of St. Peter is likely to be come soon again vacant. The health, or rather the illness of the Pope, had assumed an appear ance which had filled his faithful subjects with se rious alarm, and prayers had been put up in all churches, with his own permission, for his reco very. Spitting of blood, and a tendency to dropsy, were among the symptoms which created a belief that his life was in danger. The news from Greece continues to be of a cheerful and encouraging description. Accounts from Napoli di Romania, dated the 17th ult., state that the garrison of Alissolonghi had at last seen its gal lant efforts crowned with complete success, and that the first bulwark of Greece, as that place is justly called, was then wholly out of danger, the besiegers having disappeared from before its ‘lalls,and retired in disorder out of the province. Eastern Greece was entirely freed from the pre sence of the enemy, end a few remains of the Turkish army, surrounded by the Greeks at Salona were expected to surrender at discretion. In the Morea, Ibrahim Pectin having failed in forcing his way through the defiles of Tegea to Navarino, had thrown himself into Laconia, which had been left undefended by the removal of ail its troops to act with Colocotroni. Ile was marching upon Misitra, but was closely pursued by several Greek corps detached from Tegea, so that al though he might have time to ravage and deso late, he would be unable to retain any acquisi tion which he might make. His chief object, however, was supposed to be to effect his retreat through Kitries to Coron, as the advanced state of the season and time diminished strength of his army compelled him to think of nothing else than of taking up winter quarters. The whole amount of the reinforcements expected from Alexandria did not exceed 5,000 men, who were likely to be intercepted in their passage by the fleet under Sachtouris, and who, even if they were landed in the Morea, would not restore the original force of Ibrahim's army. The insurrection in Camila was making a rapid progress. Another place, called Selina, had been taken by the Pa triots, and they were preparing to invest the principal fortress of the island, Carmel'. One thousand troops dispatched from the isles of the Archipelago had arrived to assist the In surgents, and more were expected. Letters from Trieste, dated the Bth instant, speak of serious troubles said to have taken place at Navarino and in the environs, and of a state of complete anarchy existing among the Musselmen troops that had inundated the INlorea. It was affirmed that the Plague has not manifested itself at Na varin, but that it continued to ravage Motion, Coron, and the environs.—Mercantile letters, and the reports of the Captains of vessels from the Archipelago, are full of details of the vexations which the Austrian trade . suffered from the Greeks, who, justly considering the Austrians as the allies of the Turks, did them all the injury they were able. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] / Our foreign news of to-day possesses a very moderate share of interest, which the lovers of tranquillity will not be apt to lament. In. the absence of present attractive matter, one of the foreign Journals (the Belgian of the t lst), which arrived yesterday, has set before its readers a part of the correspondence which took place be tween our Cabinet and that of Madrid, relative to the establishment of political relations be tween this country and some of the New States of America. The Spanish Government flings hard epithets at ours, for want of more sub stantial missiles, and charges the British Ca binet with violating the laws of nations, and with a breach of a positive convention. The reply of Mr. Canning to this tirade, as far as it is given, is calm, dignified, and argumentative—such a one, as a man, conscious of his strength, as well as of the justice of his cause, would make to a weak and angry disputant. The interest, howe. ver, is now gone by ; and a decision, which threa tened to convulse all Europe, has not left a ves tage of irritation behind. Even the Spanish Go vernment, notwithstanding its proverbial obsti nacy, seems to be reconciled to it; and in this change—there is unquestionably a noble homage —either to the power of England, or to the poli tical talents of her rulers. Before the recognition of independence, it had been long a subject of intense speculation, whether it would not occa sion an incurable schism between this country and the Great Powers of the Continent ; and a general belief certainly prevailed that it would produce this effect. This shews how little trust ought to be placed in appearances and probabi lities, when great political interests are at stake ; and particularly when one party in the contro versy can oppose reason to prejudice, and has the means, as well as the firmness, to maintain this ground. Our Cabinet is in the predicament of the prophets, whose gifts are no where so little valued as at home ; and this accounts for the disposition, so prevalent amongst us, tel under rate its influence. Yet that influence, under valued as it k, is the lever, by which the politi cal world is chiefly raised ; and, if that world 'now enjoys a settled calm, it is due in a great mea sure to the wisdom and energy of our councils. [NEW TIMES.] The English Funds were very heavy yester day, which, in a great measure, has been ac counted for by the alarm created by the failure of Monday, and which yesterday was generally circulated : the reports of the amount have, as too often is the case in these unfortunate occur rences, been amazingly exaggerated. That the amount is very considerable is beyond doubt, and must be expected from the extensive credit and transactions of the house ; in several quarters we have been informed it will be near half a mil lion. Consols for the AccOunt closed on Monday at 8714, and were the whole of yesterday at the same quotation, with a very heavy appearance ; exchequer Bills were from par to 4s. premium for all descriptioni. In the Foreign Market there was very little business doing, the prices much the same as Monday. Mexican Scrip 88 to dis. ; Brazil Scrip, 8 dis. ; Colombian, 748 ; Peruvian Bonds, 611 ; Guatemala Scrip, 5 dis.; Greek Bonds remained at about dis., with but few purchasers; Spanish Bonds, 17 ; French Rentes, 5 per Cent. 100 f. 25c.; French .Rentes, 3 per Cent. 721.; Ex change, 26f..15c.—1n the Share Market several sales were effected at a considerable decline in some of the Companies. Anglo Mexican Mining Shares have fallen to 25 pm.; United Mexican to 10 and 11 pm. ; Real del Monte were done at 170 pm., but towards the close of the day were quoted at 200 pm.; Anglo Chiller), 1 dis.; Cas tellos, 5 pm.; Potosi, 4 dis.; Pasco Peruvian, 3 pm. ; Bolivar, , 18 pm. ; Alliance British and Foreign Assurance Company, 34 pm.; Ditto Marine, 4 pm.; British Iron, 5 dis. ; British Rock and Patent Salt, 41 pm.; GemTal Stearn Navigation, par ; General Dyeing and Printing, i t pm. ; Imperial Plate Glass, 1 pm. ; Mexican Company, 4 dis.; West India Company, 2 dis.— The alarm in the Share Market yesterday was considerable, and all faith in the different Secu rities seemed to be on the wane, even in those Companies which have been esteemed highly. LMORNING HERALp.] There is something amusing in the idle perti nacity and folly, with which nonsensical stric tures are passed daily upon the criminal law of this country—especially the Law of Evidence in criminal cases. Scotland, France—these are the countries in which to look for sound prac tice in the administration of penal justice ! The scorners of our domestic way of managing these things, might go farther upon their own principles —if principles they should be called : they might refer. for examples to Turkey and Algiers. —A cause occurred recently at Paris, of a per son, whose guilt was, or professed to be, esta blished by written evidence in this manner : The Judge held in his hand a certain written paper, and dictated its contents to -the accus ed, who accordingly wrote them down. Both papers were now placed in the hands of persons versed in discerning the identity or diversity of hands, and sworn to give true evidence. The prisoner's writing; it turned out, resembled the written paper in evidence, even to the faults of spelling ; and the experts--so these examiners are called, pronounced both written in the same hand. There are no bounds to the commen dation of this clever device for obtaining f rom an accused person the evidence of his. own guilt. Let us see, in the first place, whether this proof be quite so certain. Suppose a cle ver forgery of the hand-writing of an honest man -- evento his faults of orthography which obviously possible—and suppose him placed at the bar, with the pen in his hand, writ ing under the dictation of the Judge. The inno cent mall will write in his usual mannerthe resemblance will be complete—and the experts., or examiners, will pronounce his doom! Sup pose, on the other hand, an ingenious, practised, and cautious offender in the same situation—he varies his hand and his mode of spelling, and from the faintness, .or total want of resemblance, he escapes detection. But this mode of snaring- a. person into self-conviction leads to the discovery of truth, and the detection of guilt. So do many' other practices which . are not. yet admitted into . English Criminal Courts. Some schoolmasters, b e re garded fur i nst ance—and schoolmasters may as the modern depositories of patriarchal legisla tion—will not scruple to promise an urchin im punity, if he tells truth, and discovers his accom plices. lie does so—and the ingenious judge has no sooner obtained the truth from the culprit, than he flogs him soundly. James 11. practised this very artifice upon his Nephew—the young and unhappy Duke of Monmouth, and having thus obtained the necessary evidence, sent him to the scaffold. It was also used by the Inquisition.—They promised pardon—obtained a confession—and then the lloly Fathers re warded the penitent with a san Benito, and Auto dafe—or in plain terms, they bedeviled and burned him. Still it must be admitted that truth may, and often has been obtained in this way. But the same may be said of the torture. The collection called Causes Celebres is full of cases in which the detection of guilt and the discovery of malefactors was made by the rack. In truth every formula, however fair iu seeming, by which it is sought to put the accused personally upon the proof of his own innocence, whether by ordeal, by the rack, or by forced interrogatory, is re ducible to a common principle, that of the tor ture. So identical in principle are forced inter rogatories and the torture, that the judicial de signation of the torture was " the question." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, 0cr.25. ROBINSON V. WARD. This was an action by Mr. Robinson, a clergyman, of Hamp shire, against Mr. Ward, an attorney, practising in London, to recover a large sum of money, received by Mr. Ward, on be half of his client, Mr. Robinson, and by him deposited in the hands of Marsh and Co. just before their failure. The circum stances of the case, which were admitted or undisputed, were shortly these :—ln August, 1824, Mr. Robinson sold a small estate for 5,3001., and directed that the price should be paid to his attorney, Mr. Ward, who was instructed to invest the pro ceeds in the funds, in the name of trustees. Before, however, they could be thus invested, there were some charges, a sur veyor's bill, and other bills, amounting to about 100/., which Mr. Robinson was authorized to pay. The money was receiv ed by Mr. Ward, on the 28th of August, in bank-notes, and he kept them at first in his own house, waiting to hear from Mr. Corfield, a surveyor, and from Mr. Robinson, as to its disposal. On the 3d of September, as he was going out of town for the benefit of his health, and was fearful of taking so large a sum with him, or retaining it in his house, he paid it into the hands of Marsh and Co., who were his own bankers, and in his own name, Mr. Robinson's bankers being Messrs. Hoare, of Fleet-street. On his return to town, he inquired for Mr. Corfield, but could not see him till Friday, when he as certained the amount of his bill, and paid it, and also was made acquainted with the other deductions to be made from the sum which he was directed to invest. As Saturday was not a transfer clay, he allowed the money to remain in the hands of Marsh and Co., and on Monday they stopped payment pre paratory to their bankruptcy. At the time when the notes were deposited, and also when the bank stopped, Mr. Ward had himself a balance in their hands of 6,905/ : _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, tin. the plaintiff', contended that he had clearly a right to recover, as Mr. Ward, against whom there was no imputation except that of a little careless ness, had no authority to place this money in the hands of his own bankers, or in his own name, but ought to have kept it in his house, or have paid it to Messrs. Hoare, who were the bankers to his client. Mr. SCARLETT, for the defendant, conceded that if he had paid this money into his own bankers with the least idea of making use of it or of obtaining credit by the deposit, he would be liable for the consequences of his act. But there was no possibility of the operation of such motives in the present case ; for he had at the time a large balance and the reason why he did not pay in the money in Mr. Robinson's name, or to his banker's, was, that if did so, he could not draw it out when it should be wanted, but must wait fur an order from Mr. Robin son. who was at a distance. If he had kept the money in his house, and it had been taken by robbers, surely he would not have been liable for the loss ; and a banking house was usually considered a safer depository than a private residence. Under these circumstances, Mr. Ward, who had taken as much care of his client's money as of bis own, and had acted as prudent men usually acted, ought not be held responsible for an un foreseen misfortune. The Lo RD CHIEF JUSIICE said, there were three courses which a person with whom money was deposited might pursue: he might retain it in his house; he might pay it into a banker's in his own name ; or he might pay it into a banker's in the name of his principal, or might offer an account specifically for the purpose, and then give an ear-mark to the money which might preserve it in case of his own bankruptcy. By this last means, also, be might protect himself ; but if he, how ever innocently, anti with honourable intention, mixed the mo ney with his own, he became debtor for the amount, and must abide the loss. The case was certainly a hard one ; but he bad no doubt, in point of law, that the plaintiff was entiled to recover. Mr. SCARLETT said, that he was chiefly anxious to make it distinctly appear that there was no imputation on Mr. Ward's character. The LonD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that none could be cast, and that he was himself ready to say that, from all he knew or heard of Mr. Ward, he believed him to be a gentleman of high integrity and honour. The Jury then returned a verdict for the plaintiff, credit being given for the deductions and the law charges of the con veyance—Damages 5,1361. Gs. 3d. LORD MAYOR'S COURT, OCT. 25. TUE CITY OF LONDON V. COVINGER. In this case a . Special Jury was summoned to assess the da mages due to Mr. Covinger, as compensation for the good-will and premises situate at No. 3d, Shoe-lane. The COMMON-SEIIJEANT opened the case for the City. It was requisite to take down the premises, in order to make room for the intended new Fleet-market. He called the City Sur veyor, Mr. Montague, and Mr. Smith, who valued the pre mises, the lease and goodwill at 750/., which included the com pensation for the ineonvenience of removing, &c. The pre mises were occupied by the claimant as a coal-shed, and he was also the occupier of a coal-wharf in the Adelphi. The compensation claimed by him was 6271. for the lease of his house, and 1,2281. for the good-will, &c. Serjeant WILDE, in reply on behalf of the claimant, deprecated, in strong terms • the mode of proceeding. He com plained again of the great disadvantages under which his client came forward, and of the severity with which he could not but expect to be treated by a Court so constituted. The pro cess was one in Which the Corporation of the City of London was deeply interested, and from which it expected to derive benefits of nn ordinary kind ; and yet the case was tried before its own Judge, in its own Court, and supported by the high talents of the principal barristers, its own officers ! This was the very reverse of fair or equitable. What would the Jury think, if in a case in which the East India House, or Bank, wal required to give compensation for buildings to be pulled down for its accommodation, its own Chairman . was ap pointed Judge to decide upon the merits ? Just such was this transaction. The whole course of the proceeding was di rectly partial. The City not only wrested to itself all the ad= vantages and enormous privileges enumerated; but prevented the claimant from that of a reply —a most baztfrdous denial in the present instance, particularly as the Common-Sergeant was necessarily employed on the stron ger s id e. Th e only resource of the claimant, therefore, against this combina tton of circumstances and privileges, lay in the unbiassed de termination of a Jury. The Learned Sergeant then called wit nesses to prove that the claimant's business,- that of selling coals, was flourishing. The business was retail amongst the lodgers in the neighbourhood, and was considerable. The l ea se was to run 25 years. The brother-in-law of the claimant produced a book, which be swore contained - the accounts of the daily business, from 1819 to 1824, which he had himself entered. The COMMON-SERGEANT said; the ink appeared to be the 'same all through, and look rather suspiciously at the book, which was handed to the Jury, who, upon looking through a leaf of it, found that it had the water-mark of 1823. This was rattier a staggering discovery, and the witness was called again, and asked to explain the inconsistency. He • hesitated, evi dently in great terror, and said he believed it was the book.— He did not think there was any other. The CoMMONSEIIGEANT in reply, said, they had a speci men of the effects which were produced upon the vulgar by such a tone of invective as was indulged in so frequently 'l4 his Learned Friend against the Judge and the practice 'of that Court: The representation that he had made that the learned Judge was biassed, was totally unfounded, and he should scarce ly have thought it possible for a person to conceive that any gentleman coming out of the Inns of Court, and taking upon_ him such a situation,. could be a c tuated such motives as had been imputed. The Recorder had tio such interest tii_ a a s : tl3_ l,3l. B t ' , P° 7.,, r li i e. sessed by the Governor of the Bank of Engl:md,.or the Ci e l e . I n of the East India ouse, and the comparison va s comP ta ' nt, I rt y hi fallacious. gehrtet actipo Iny ,i Were therehweeor(oetlhd produce s u m c ho would os b t ei i a ld s e e ba n en t e tg) r r t: a i . t n e e r ,ittlojr o its ace d e ain,,in,:ton. With one part of his learned friend's obseivation's, as Lu r ,. o '' n3 - the gree of injustice done to the defendant by preventingllinl"-frt it op4t9f w henr a eaee s enh, i t a lafilaocd- h rec a oncg r nia so c et l dn s eou h e pertioappt was lool c orybf o tft. emaensnmui Amongst p o yf n ep olot witnessesrto t t h h e e p r a other c o C i o a u n t ( r i t t t s , l , l : s a 1 : 2 1 ( r t ; * e l' i , o the e r u ; 0 tits' English'-was w hich might be made in our courts of justice, he thoug ht rr h e de ft ndant's counsel, if he was compelled to cali Ivitnes ses hd sot prejudiceknow, a onefirs first that impression wa s contend k now known. 13° I 1 a n d , had all sidered, to be remedi h i w e s a d , i a shte f a.elld h wi s a is v ftuhr i ci n ecil g ieledr t d l .s t e o ; s si. e r points iri.dTte)ha in which h e In every • instance where the contrary practice prevaite t _ e st peared to him that justice was not done • ii question was a dry question of figures and facts, and it side, scarcely be supposed that the speeches of counsel on elthe!Li on however forcible, could have any injurious eeect with's CO,, don Special Jury. When he spoke ' j of the effects of the ar ' . of invective adopted by his Learned Friend upon the vu ton he might well point out the peculiar circumstance theyion that day witnessed as an instance. When they hear d the continually declaiming upon the injustice done to t hem,: or vulgar (he did not mean the word in an offensive sense) i,, t those who did not require much force to .convince theni.lf:, _ uttrteiii:CerdirpidCricoi:aar: their interests were invaded, were naturally led to think tr.r,, selves entitled to resort to artifice, in order to counteract i-ro; injustice they were led to think was Ilene to them• l' be fa ll bril duction of the book was a disgusting instance —a gross have U cation, of which he regretted to say the claimant mus t d t be ;oaatunhngdt a ed es h t s i d ni l l. o ,, Ig abs e w rhh uy . siegtsni .31torrwoalitftieihitnrivtisneenduiei'llriob's(lesistepileoense(wun'itichtilitilsnideYobri.rjseeca dain:atabt)niasit the while been cognizant. But he (the Common Serjeant) w is" be Jury to decide independently of that. The, body for whont ...A aeared would say, " Let the compensation be fair, fun , ar et cases added liberal, and in carrying the great improvement into effe et h ' o id us not have a single act of injustice with which W ' ll3 ' ourselves." °R greatlyDE uththe°3l°: i t o i n , h ihis labours ci : arge' producing the slighte clamant to him. santifi tioni , The Jury gave the 8501. as a total cornpen being 100/. more than the City offered, and upwards of 1 ; less than he claimed. without 0 t t i l t i , e h Jury ur) assuredlat DREADFUL FIRE. DESTRUC'TION OF CASTLE FORBES! (Front the Dublin Correspondent of Saturday) of We regret to state, that a great porti°.,"..ncg e Castle Forbes, in the county of Longford, the an cient teslell'o of the Earl of Granard, w,s destroyed on Thur sda y n to p.v . by fire. Our Correspondent informs us, that the fire P t 7 . 8 %, nated in the kitchen chimney, and at three o'clock, Nvith eu ,„ of alarm having been given communicated to the beel4.6eio7 Lord Forbes. His Lordsl;ip must inevitably have P er ;.,,%in, were it not that a spaniel, which invariably slep t in his ' fortunately awoke him, before the flames had reached llisii7pnt but not before a great portion of the furniture in the aPar t had been destroyed. The fire was princially confined to the valuable library, paintings, and family plate, ancient part of the Castle ; and we are glad to learn dist LONGFORD,OCT. ACCOUXT. ~orning, OCT. 20.—Before six o'dock this t ie nearly the entire of that ancient and magnificent building, Forbes, the residence of Lord Viscount Forbes, f°, ine a county, was reduced to ashes. It is not precisely nscerions how the calamity originated • but it was discovered bY means r 1 of a favourite night; which his ' Lordship generally keeps Li v . s lvs leeping room at by pulling the clothes offhis bed, and making the most Pl ope a cries. When his Lordship stepped out of bed he was envhconse in smoke ;he gave the alarm, and by the'exertions of _and hold. and the neighbouring people the whole of the furniture Wo the library (which is one of the most valuable in Ireland/ saved. or 11° EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN -•- VICINITY. WIC the " Thursday morning, between two and three o'e e „own have been sa'w• wind blowing very . strong at N.W. the funnel of th " s l eyerf il chimney, which, it is now supposed, must have been f or o f die days on fire unobserved, burst at the very top story Z fie house into the room where Lord Forbes was fast asleep;e mo t flames forced in with such violence and rapidity tha t i t y of* have b?en inevitably burnt in his bed, had not the saga,e next favourite spaniel clog of the poodle kind, that lay in t " ro ta room to his Lordship, and of which the d oo r was fortn_onli open, jumped upon him, and by exertions the most e:(L . " ljo rti nary awoke him ! The story is miraculous, but tale • Oyler to Forbes had the presence of mind first to fire a shot in F gos - arouse and alarm toe servants; then to remove 251 b!,• o per e . powder, and afterwards secure a large chest of faninlot - &c. Much of the smaller furniture has bee n save t " v a p aint' larger, with a great many valuable bookS, pictures, ore, inks, of which there was a rare and magnificent collectl d v for i,es I fear, destroyed. I was there yesterday morning• iier! caule hi was cool and manly. I was, I confess, so affected that, k 11 hardly speak to him. He seemed sensible of it, and :nv u _ ri d re most cordially by the hand. Of that noble spectable old building, or rather pile, which gallandf be against the Irish in the Rebtllion of 1641, nothing rei' re irre' the walls. It was of great magnitudethe fury of the vet sistible. It was little more than 12 o'clock when 1 s%i tt itie had it not been for the various occupations of the.llAej for venerable,held out around, it-would have appeared to have been uninn,..o"tve half a century. The loss must be immense, and in e %j, an° spects irreparable. We are all here exceedingly distr so indeed is every individual in the country. - -- COUNSE OF EXCHANGE, 0bt.,25. le 3 12 0 A mitet dam Ditto, at Sight kiot;rnlani 4 44 t'' s 7 0 4 i Els, ...• .... a 5 5i • ..... 0 t ....... e 5 55 ....... thro e r ....... Antwerp Eltunburgii .............. Altona Paris,3 I),ty's sight ......... Ditto Bonnie:nix, ditto .............. Berlin .................... Ft anis fin t• on the 1.1 . 111 ........... • Pe lei sburgh ......................... VICII11:1 Trieste !Owl rid ................... •-• • • Cadiz ............................ ..... Ilarctiona ..... Gibraltar ......................... Let,:liorn ................. ....... . . Gen,,a Nlaltit Palermo ............................... ..... , I ,• 10 0 0 frect i co et.O. Flfective 6 i • • '''''''' 36f 31 ........... 7 • 491 I,i3hon ... .......... - ()Polk' ................................ 51 Rio Janeiro ......... , ............ 49 Bahia ...................................... . 51 Buenos A ores .......................... 43i Dal.iliit .:, . Di 0 , 11; .. . .... fq ref Co. fit BULLION. 401 .r Os. e=2 l't Portugal Go Cojo . ....... 0 0 rt l Foreign Gold, in this ............. .3 17 S. New Doubloons ... • ......................... .. o ° . New Dollars. ..... . ... ••.. . • ........... . 0 4 Silver Standard in .. ........ .• •. ....... 5 I B IRTH. C oberoll' On the 22d inst., at th e ItcWat, Alhany-road, tae lady of Mr. R. W. Dickinson. 0 4' a Son. --------- DIA mota). hi , oi At the palace at Ludwia's-bust, in the Grand Pa,e,rince Mecklenburgh, on the Bth instant; his Serene Ilighne r leidet George o f saxe-Hildburgshausen,to the :Duchess 3.!',lmck• daughter of the late Hereditary. Grand Puke Lewis , ol lenhurgh-Seliwerin ! . 0n,,, wls, dau'thterl'hu o r f s t d i a )e y the 20th inst. at St. Christ Major ti. L• s' t* • ,:; Chutroclavosor,. tlraetaetHeialrrd,yuktrii;ley,B47tlqi . regiment, Lately at Krageroe, Dlapcitalm;;le).Buchliolnl, r .„a sist er Northern Poet. of William Stivenson, tin:bet..merchant, Prince so-nmSi're-Plaec' (-41/ Saturday, the 22d ins.., Mrs. Henrietta ..S!iv_er,,--t:,Felic• On Sunday, the 23d inst., at her house in Veir ~,„,, . or Mrs. L au tour, widow of the Franis.Lautc!ur, lf , wi fe . On the 22d ' of Wenlyss and I ll n l s ar t" eh t . he 14''clY hterot the -- Captain John Wildman, 7tli fluSsars, Lin d d' ul " ~,e l e, , verly,C,' . /1 r On 'rn d hor h wldenly, 8 t P e fct at P es y, e ...it inst., s • , 4 , 00 , re , utney-bottorn Surrey Mrs. Sarah Philip C sto ' • :„ a ge• • ' aw n in the (Mb year of her g Margaret Wirldu ‘_., Lori ,h, 10' the celebratcil ................."..........s mousaar ------- l - 5 --_—_— _ s. st _ ,, Printed and Published for the PnoPutfill'orrAill! OrricE, No. 112, Strand, by J. .