The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC, JOURNALS• The Message of any President of the United States to Congress must of necessity contain much useful matter. T hat officer feels himself to be what he really is—the ac countable servant of a free people—a people who will force him to tell them all that it imports the poorest man aironget them to know in relation to their national con cerns. Were a President's Message to be drawn up with the dry and naked precision of an official table, it could not fail, from the unavoidable value of its contents, to invite, at least from political readers, a keen and diligent exami nation. We do not; indeed, pretend to say that much ad ditional interest has been thrown around this voluminous production of the pen of Mr. Adams, by his endeavours, somewhat too manifest in every line, to wrap up the nakedness of fact, and the nerve of argument, in manifold involutions of language. The Message, in that respect, is a monument, we must say, of any thing but good taste in Mr. Adams. As there is current an old remark about dancing masters, that few if any of that skipping tribe can exhibit their, agility like a gentle man, so here we have a proof that professors of theoric cannot always express themselves like Statesmen. But this is a passing remark upon the exterior form of the Pre eident's communication : that within the tawdry-looking shell there may be found much fruit,fruit in some instances of bitter or pungent flavour to every palate which tries it, we are not unwilling to confess on behalf of Mr. Adams. The passages of the speech which address themselves to Great Britain, are of a serious, perhaps a sombre cha racter. The North-Eastern and North-Western boun daries of the United States are still, it seems, in the same eondition of non-adjustment in which they were left by the precious negotiators of the never to-be-forgotten ti eaty of Ghent, when England, with the power of enforcing her rightful claims, and giving the law completely to her antagonist, re ferred every question to future opportunities, when she should be dismantled of her then resistless force, and America sufficiently recovered to put forth a fresh brood of inadmissible pretensions. We are now feeling the effects of that guidance under which the diplomacy of England was contented in 1815. We .have it further, on the authority of Mr. Adams, that the exercise by England crf her own unquestionable right of prescribing the condi tions under which she would permit other States to carry on traffic with her colonies, has given rise to great sore ness—to strong complaint—to disappointment, and even remonstrance, on the part of the Republican Government. We recollect enough of the matter in dispute to aver, that every Englishman was struck with something more than astonishment at the subjection of our ships in the harbours of America to imposts and hardships wholly inconsistent with those promises, under which the British Government had been induced, by that of the Republic, to relax the ; which had impeded her commerce with our colonies. America rests her complaint on this—that the trade she seeks is one for mutual benefit, and she disdains to ask any intercourse with our colonies as a favoine Well, then, England sees no benefit to herself in the unequal species of intercourse which America had expected; and the ad vantage not being judged reciprocal by the party to which it was proposed, there can surely have been 110 ground whatever of just complaint against this country, on the principles which are professed by Mr. Adams. We re eeet these bickerings with a people whom we should be equally desirous of attaching to England by the bands of emestant friendship. Family quarrels, however, arc not the most easy to adjust; and recommending temper and good-nature to Mr. Canning, we shall wait with hope for a favourable issue to these Multifarious differences.—Times. On inquiry, we find that the Mail which arrived on Monday from Lisbon was not brought by the steam veeeel ; it came by a priv ate ship. Some few Papers were eeeeived by the former, which enable the public to judge more correctly of the situation of the Apostolicals in the North of Portugal, the dates they furnish reaching up to the ?4th ult. inclusive, from Lisbon. From them it will he seen, that the great object of the Apostolicals was to force the bridge of Amarante, the movement we always expected they would attempt, as being the only one left them in the peculiar circumstances in which they were placed. They could not long subsist in Tras-os-Montes, this being the poorest province in the whole kingdom, and entirely destitute of resources, besides being deluged at this season of the year by torrents of rain, which render the roads almost impassable. The active exertions of the Mi litary Commanders operating along the line of the Tamega, and the delays of the Marquis de Chaves, who appears to have expended upwards of twenty days in getting from Braganza to Amarante, a distance of about 75 _miles, had allowed the Constitutionalists to complete the !preparations for defence, and when his party attacked On the 15th, they were repulsed with considerable loss. — 'Vile is the ,first trial of strength the Apostolicals have hart in the North of Portugal, since their return from SPain ; and, if we mistake not, the result will be fatal eo their cause. The mercenaries, who had joined the rebellious standard of the Silveiras, were not so much stispoeed to fight as to plunder ; and, besides, they were bed to believe that succours were at hand, and that they would be received w ith o p en arms. The moment of delusion, however, is now past, and their earnest money is also spent, yet no progress has been made, Their abettors in their rear, on the Spanish frontiers, begin to art against them; whilst at the same time they see none of those popular commotions in their favour, which they and the Quotidienne had been told were prepared and ready to break out, and they moreover find that their hero and header, although loaded with the benedictions of the &Church, is not invincible. This defeat in their hopes will make them pause, more particularly when they hear of the British aid so promptly sent in support of the legitimate government. Under all these combined circumstances, Aiesertions must necessarily commence in the ranks of the Apostolicals, from the moment that the success of their enterprise becomes even dubious. The small party of re gulars they have with them are men who have already sold themselves several times, having no further interest in the issue of the present attempt than as it may afford them the 'means of plunder, revenge, or advancement. As readily would they turn against their present leaders as they have done egainsisthe Constituted Authorities of their country. The enthiesiasm with which the Count de Villa Flor, raid other noblemen of high rank, have joined the army, and already distinguished themselves, will also give confidence to the other portions of the regular limy w hi c h h a d co ntinued faithful, and fix the wavering or disaffected offi ce rs in their duty. The Count de Villa Flor, till very recently, resided in England, having absent ed himself from the Court of Lisbon in consequence of some cabal raised against him. lie is a handsome and noble youth, spoken of as the pride of the Portuguese Nobility, and a great favourite of the Princess Regent. To his countrymen he must have endeared himself, by the very prompt and efficient manner in which he has liberated the South of Portugal from the presence of rebels; and the emulation which must necessarily follow among the young Nobles, fro m such a trium p h, will be of great see- Vice in the consolidation of the new order of things. Not withstanding the temporary confusion and loss occasioned by the mad project of the Apostolicals, one great advan tage will eventually be derived from it ; namely, that Por tugal will be purged and fieed from a great number of dis affected iuldrambitious men, scattefed throughout the coun try, who have long been preying on the credulity of the people and fanning the embers of discord. The removal of these individuals will be of a public benefit; and tine l e ss the present events had unmasked them, they might have gone on for some time with t heir p lots and deceptions, stna thus retarded the consolidation of the C o nstitution, as well as the consequent moral and physical improvements of which Portugal stands in such great nee, after so many years of deso lation and anarchy. The next curious topic that inte rests the public is, to learn what positions our troops take up on the Portuguese territory. The immediate cause which carried them to the old theatre of their glories has, some measure, ceased, since the aggression now no longer wears an alarming aspect. The capital has never been in any thing like danger—for not the slightest dis affe,lion showed itself, during the few days it was guarded by only a handful of local volunteers and a few Bri tish marines. The duty of our countrymen will not, consequently, be confined to the capital ; nor can it be expected they will be employed to dear the pro vince of Tras-os-lontes from the bands of rebel guerillas, who, for some time, sheltered by the mountains, may wan der about almost unmolested. This is a service in which the native troops may be employed with greater advantage. We arc, therefore, of the same opinion we before express ed, viz., that our troops will take up positions along the line of the Spartish frontiers, and their setting off for this their eventual destination will materially depend on the state of the negociations now carrying on at Madrid. — Morning Chronicle. It is distressing to every friend of humanity to see the means resorted to by certain individuals to excite the people of England and France against one another.—Though some writers and speakers in this country are not free of blame, it must be admitted that the French outstrip them far in those appeals to the passions, to national honour and national vanity, which are calculated to raise a spirit of ani mosity, and revive those deadly feuds which had become nearly forgotten. Not only the High Church party and those opposed to liberal principles of Government, but some of thOse men who are the enemies of bigotry and tyranny, who have written or fought in defence of popular rights, seem glad of an opportunity to stir up the dying embers, and of adding to that flame wh ich the Cler gy have kindled. They avoid all allnsion to the cause which the Apostolical party defend, because they know that 19 out of 20 in France are decidedly hostile to it ; but they make a sort of appeal to the people, as if we had called their bra very or honour in question. Such a mode of proceeding is quite unjustifiable. If any in this country have been foolish enough to make use of expressions that will admit of such a meaning, they are but few in number; and it shows a most malignant spirit *to hold them up to the people for the purpose of exciting a war between two na tions, which, in the end, must range, on one side or the other, the whole of Europe. France and England have been at peace for more than eleven years; the national antipathies, owing to the intercourse between the two people, haver, during that time, almost entirely disap peared ; intermarriages have taken place, and a com munity of feeling has arisen which every friend of peace. and order had fondly hoped would long secure them against war and bloodshed. What a responsibility must rest with those men who, for mere punctilios or unguard ed expressions, would put an end to this happy state of things, and reduce the two countries to that dreadful al. ternative which, in the end, must be calamitous to both They can have no object but war; they know that whet the people are once excited, an imaginary insult—a cause even so trifling as that so ludicrously described by Swift, would be sufficient to drive them to arms. No man can seriously believe for a moment that the people of England doubt either the bravery or the national spirit of the French, or that any such opinion with regard to this coun try prevails in France. Perhaps no two nations more wil lingly do justice to one another in that respect. A war of twenty-five years, carried on with the most unrelenting hostility, convinced both, that no new trial was wanting to establish their mutual claims. Yet some men —men, too, that boast of their philosophy and regard for the hap piness of mankind, are taking the most likely means to incite them again to the contest. If they succeed, what will be the result ? Another war, perhaps, of twenty five years—an indescribable scene of individual suffering, of private and public calamities, and a conclusion some what like the last, when both nations were losers, and the Americans the gainers. Which will lose moat it is impossible to say. If we may judge from experience, however, that pasty which is most hostile to this country will gain nothing by the trial. The world, we trust, are now too wise to submit again - to the yoke of bigotry and false religion, or lend themselves to support a faction whose great object is to render mankind slaves and them selves masters. The Spanish Ambassador, in the reign of James 11. had the good sense to see that the Priests were too busy at Court, and to advise the King not to assent with too great facility to their dangerous counsels. "Is it not the custom in Spain," said James, " for the King to consult with his confessor." " Yes," replied the Am bassador," and it is for that very reason our affairs succeed so ill." The same may be said of the Government of that country at the present moment; and we believe there is but one opinion among all enlightened men, as to the causes which have kept it, at least, a century behind the other states of Europe. With this, however, we have no wish to interfere. Let confessors advise their Kings, or take any share in the internal administration of their re spective countries, but let them not stop the progress of civilization in other states, or incite them to war a g ainst one another. We have all along been convinced of the impolicy of saying or doing any thing that could tend, in the smallest degree, to revive the antipathies, or national jealousies, of France and England. All men of sense and disinterested motives, in botl countries, are, undoubtedly, of the same opinion, and we sincerely trust that their in fluence, and the prudent conduct of the respective Govern ments, will be sufficient to check the ebullition of the war ike party, and preserve a peace which is so advantageous, o both.—Morning Herald. The joy with which the arrival of our troops has been hailed in Lisbon proves that the population of the capital, at least, have no partiality for the cause of the insurgents. It would be ridiculous to expect that a change of political system could be introduced into any country without pro ducing considerable discontent, and furnishing materials for civil disturbances. Some prejudices must be wounded —some interests must be injured--all who are, or suppose themselves to be, losers by the change, will be inclined to take the chance of what the abolition of the new system, under the pretext of an attempt to restore the old, may bring ; and, when an. army has been debauched, as that of Portugal has been, two or three times, within the course of as many years, there cannot fail to be abundance of restless spirits, who have the materials of insurrection ready prepar ed to their hands, and who see neither much danger, nor any thing very extraordinary, in taking up arms against legitimate authority. On the other hand, the means which a Government, situated as that of Portugal has been, can employ for its own preservation, are not such as can be- depended upon. The introduction of a new con stitution is accompanied with a fresh organization of the different official departments—with new' modes of trans acting public business—with the dismissal of many old functionaries, and the substitution of persons who have not that practical skill, rendered confident in itself by habits of long exercise, without which the details of the administration of a country cannot he conducted success fully. These circumstances tend to produce slowness and want of energy in employing the resources which the State has at its disposal; a .result which is further pro moted by that consciousness of weakness which belongs to all newly formed Governments, until they ascertain their strength by its successf►d exertion. The people, though they may not dislike the change, can hare no rooted attachment to—no prejudices in favour of, that which has been substituted for their ancient forms. It can not excite in them any of those feelings which lead men to make personal sacrifices; and, however much it may be qualified to promote their welfare, the blessings which it is fitted to confer, are such as do not manifest themselves im mediately, but require a series of years for their develop ment. If, under such circumstances, a few turbulent men, with the aid of the off-scourings of society, rise against the new Government, it might find itself without defenders, even though the great majority of the Nation were inclined to be satisfied with it ; and still more likely would this be to happen, where, as has been the case in Portugal, there have been three or four revolutions within the last six years. It is one of the curses of frequent political changes that they produce in the minds of men,an utter distrust in the stability of what exists. Nothing is regarded as per manent ; every thing is looked upon as merely introductory to something else ; the mass of the community can find .:« nothing fixed, in which it can repose its trust ; there ceases to be any general confidence in the ability of the Govern ment to protect itself, or to crush its assailants. A Govern ment which is believed by its subjects to be Weak, can scarcely be otherwise than weak it will find many who, from the worst of motives, will defy it; while few, will be disposed to run the risk of identifying their own interest with its support. This, we apprehend, has been the situation of Portugal ; and, therefore, without taking into the account the mischievous effects of Spanish treachery and intrigue, we see, in the insurrection which has broken out on so many points of the Portuguese fron tier, and in the apprehensions- of the Cortes and the Prin cess Regent, nothing but what might naturally arise out of the actual circumstances of the country, even though there were no general dissatisfaction with the Constitution, but, on the contrary, a general disposition to prefer and retain it. The appearance of our troops on the shores of the Tagus, will enable the Portuguese people to make a trial of the new Constitution. Unless it is a system such as they dislike on its own account, they know now that they may look to it with some assurance of its continuance ; for no hands but their own can subvert it. Experience has taught them the strength of England to protect; and her conduct now has shown, that she will not he slow to put that strength into action. Conspiracy, military insur rection, foreign cabal—which might have proved an over match for an infant Government—will not venture to attack a system, which is guarded from such assailants by the presence of English regiments.—Nen , Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT-JAN. 2. IN THE MATTER OF COLONEL GEORGE. AUGUSTUS LOW. ILEHEARI)IO. The insolvent was before the Court in June last, when he was remanded for eight calendar months within the walls of the Mar shalsea prison, for having . Fraudulently contracted a debt with Mr. Stephen Cox, by the purchase of a horse for SO guineas. Since the insolvent was originally before the Court, Mr. Cooke obtained a rule nisi for the insolvent to show cause why he should not be brought up to be re-examined touching his estate and effects, on the alleged ground of having concealed considerable property. This day the insolvent was brought up for rehearing, and se veral witnesses were examined, particularly Mr. D. Ramsay and his wife, at whose house the Colonel and his lady had apartments, in Tunbridge-street, New-road, St. Pancras. The broker who made the distress for rent, produced the Co lonel's military hat and a list of duplicates of valuable property, which bore date about the time the insolvent went to prison.— Witness had traced and examined some of the articles. _ _ • The Colonel bad not lived with Mrs. Low regularly for many years, but only paid occasional visits on account of the children. He was placed in a painful situation to answer to things of which he was entirely ignorant. Mrs. Low was in the habit of receiv ing presents from her family and friends. Among all the articles specified, lie had no knowledge of any, except the gold watch chain and seals, which were presented to his son in 1819, by Gen. English, while he was on a foreign station. He would solemnly swear that he never pledged or knew of any article being pledged in his -name up to the date of the latest duplicate. The two large books sworn to as valuable, were only journals of his travels abroad, which he intends some day to publish—they are now in his possession; his finances are veryscanty, and his health impaired ; indeed, at present he is greatly distressed.—(This was quite apparent, for he is reduced to nearly half the size he was at his original hearing.)—Rule discharged. COURT OF REQUESTS, Kingegate-street, Dec. 28. UNPARALLELED ORFENCII.-.—BROWN V. PEARCE. In this case Mr. Brown, a respectable licensed victualler, sough. to recover the sum of Bs. due to him by the defendant. A number of worthless fellows had, it appeared, contrived to run up a score in the plaintiff's house, and nothing but compulsory means would answer in bringing them to a settlement. The defendant was one of the most unconscionable of those debtors. Mr. Pearce having appeared in propria pereonn to answer to the demand, Mr. Brown stated that the debt in question had been contracted so long as nine years a g o. The CH ...IRMA N —I am afraid, then, that the statute of limita tion will interfere with the power of this Court in this instance. Mr. Brown.—No, Sir; for God knows I have often enough asked for it within the period of the operation of the act. The CHA MAlS.—Then prove your case—produce your books. Mr. Brown produced two or three hooks, which contained proof of his credulity ; but, upon looking into them, he disco vered that the debt in question had not been entered in any one of them. He was about, therefore, to apply for an adjournment of the case for the purpose of preparing himself better, when The defendant stood forward, and said that it was really of no use to postpone the case, as he had a defence of the strongest legal character to make to the action—the best defence iu the world. The Cu A IRM AN —What defence have you to the demand? Defendant —Why I was sentenced to be hanged. (Upon hear ing this awful acknowledgment. the crowd by which Pearce was surrounded shrunk hack from him in horror.) The CHAlRMA N—Sentenced to be hanged? Defendant (attempting in vain to shed tears).—Yes ; five years ago I was sentenced to be hanged at the Old Bailey. A COMMISSIONER—For what offence, in the name of Goa ? Defendant (who appeared to be perfectly aware of the form of law under which he was indicted)—For burglariously breaking into and entering a dwelling-house in the night time. The CHAIRMAN—Whose dwelling house? Defendant (again endeavo urin g to drop a tear)—My father's. (It would be impossible to describe the feeling of the auditory upon hearing this acknowledgment. ) Defendant (in continuation) —Yes, Sir, five years ago I was tried, and sentenced to be hanged by the neck, by the late worthy Recorder, who, however, was doomed to go before me. The Court changed my sentence to transportation, and I was confined two years and a half in the House of Correction ; so that what ever money or goods I had were, I believe, forfeited to the King, and, of course, Mr. Brown has no claim upon me. The CHA I aNrex—Well, Mr. Brown, this defence is very hor rible to he sure ; but I believe it is fatal to your demand. He pleads that lie bad purged himself by the crime he committed, and the penalty attached to it, of the debt, and I believe that he is not in a condition to sue and be sued. Mr. Brown bowed to the decision of the Court, and one of the Commissioners gave a hint to the defendant about the escape he had had, and the necessity of reforming—a change to which the Court seemed to look forward, to without any very sanguine hope. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. --Henry Shenley, a boy 13 years of age, after having undergone two private examinations, was brought up on Saturday for public examination, on a charge of having ut tered a forged bill of exchange, for the sum of 420/., at the bank ing-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith. The evidence givki privately , before his Lordship, proved that on the 20th ult. the prisoner presented a bill of exchange for 4201., drawn by a Thomas Lane, and purporting to be accepted by Messrs. Cowley and Sancton, a respectable firm in Cateaton street. The forged acceptance was exceedingly well executed, but Mr.. Sancton, the former partner, is dead, and the firm now stands " Cowley and Hewitson." The forgery was, of course, imme diately detested. The prisoner was secured. The account Ise then gave of himself was, thus lie was in the employment of Mr. Rus sel, a professional gentleman in Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, who had sent him to present the bill. He bad, he said, lived there for more than a week, and was occupied in writing as Mr• Russel's clerk. On inquiry, it was ascertained that there is a Mr. W. Russel, living there, who is a gentleman of high re spetability, belonging to the Victualling-office. He knew no thing of the prisoner. The latter then confessed that his state ment was false, and he declared that he had been hired from an advertising-office for iervants, by a man whom he did not know. Word was left at the advertising-office for him to go to Mr. Rus sel's, and he went accordingly ; but did not get there during the time. On the following day he was taken from his home, which is in the Seven Dials, by ti man who wore a shade over his eye. This man took him to the door of Mr. Russel, and said, 4, You see the name Russel, my counting-house is there," and gave him the bill, with instructions to present it. He told him to make the statement, if questioned, as to his employment on the premises, which be gave when apprehended. The bill was given him in a regular commercial bill-case, with the name ," Russel, Verulam buildings, Gray's Inn," written upon it. Upon investigation it was found that the prisoner had been at the advertising shop in the Strand, and that lie bad been engaged from thence by a man at the time lie had stated. The prisoner's family also corroborated his statement as to the man with the shade over his eye fetching him. Mr. Gates wished to put some questions to the prisoner. The LORD MAYOR refused to permit him to be questioned, and di,iebarged him, with an admonition to beware of his future conduct. His Lordship considered that he was evidently the in strument of the forger. The case was attended by a singularly lamentable occurrence. The boy's father is an old Greenwich out-pensioner. He had been out of employment, and went to Greenwich on the morning of the day on which his son was apprehended, and made a last effort to obtain an asylum there, as an in-pensioner of the esta blishment, and he failed. In the morning his son had behaved in an outrageous manner towards lain;, and, in the course of a quarrel, thrown something at him which struck him. The feel ingi of the old man were much hurt by this circumstance. In the evening, when the officers entered the house to investigate the prisoner's statement, they were surprised to find a woman with whom the old man cohabited as his wife, and others of the fa mily, in tears. It was at first thought that the misery was occa sioned by some news which had reached them of the son's appre hension, but, on investigation, it turned out that they were la menting the death of the old man, who had, in the course of the afternoon, soon after his return, hung himself in a fit of despair, attributed to the occurrence of the morning and his rejection at the College. GUILDHALL.— George Wate was charged by Premio Gon doter, an Italian, living in Shoe-lane, and carrying on the busi ness of a looking-glass-maker, with assaulting and ill-treating him.—Ordered to find bail. Elizabeth Tinlay and David Reading were charged by a per son of the name of Durwen, with behaving in a most indecent manner in the street. On Saturday night last, Mr. Durwen was going down Durham-yard, West-street, he saw the two prisoners in the indecent situation, and he directly gave them in charge to the watchman. The woman he knew to be a notoriously bad character ; the young man 1w did not know. The young man said he was drunk, and did not know what he did. The ALDZRMAN wished to know whether the woman had ever been in Bridewell, and was answered in the negative. He ob served, it was very lucky for her that she had not ; because, if she had ever been there, he should have had power to have sent her to Bridewell for three months; as it was, he should send her there for one month, anti the young man was ordered to find bail. MARLBOROUGH STREET.—It seems that the affairs of Mr. Long Wellesley and Mrs. Helena Bligh are not to be con fined exclusively to the higher Courts, for yesterday Mr. Conant was occupied for a considerable portion of his time in hearing• a case which immediately involved the names of those two conspicu ous personages. It will be recollected, that in the case of Mr. Long Wellesley and his children, at present before the Court of Chancery, a female named Susannah Scott, lately in the service of Mrs. Bligh, made an affidavit as to certain circumstances strongly bearing against the claim of Mr. Wellesley and the character of Mrs. Bligh, and it will also be remembered that a man named John Randal, describing himself as the coachman of Mr. Long Wellesley, made another affidavit favourable to his master's inte rests in the case. Since the retiring of the female Scott from the service of Mrs. Bligh, it appears that her clothes and other things belonging to her have been detained at the house of Mrs. Bligh, who refuses to let them be removed, without assigning any proper reason for such refusal. On Monday George Scott, the husband of the female in question, went to the house of Mrs. Bligh, Nu. 10, St. John's-wood-road, where he requested the servant who opened the door to inform Mrs. Bligh that he wanted to see her ; the servant, however, refused to deliver any message to her mistress from him, while still urging hie request that Mrs. Nigh should he informed that he wished to see her, and leave it to that lady herself to ray whether she would comply or not, John Randal, the coachman of Mr. LongWellealey, suddenly made his appearance from some part of the house, and seizing Scott, thrust him neck and heels into the street. For this treatment, Scott came to this office, and ap plied for redress, and a summons was issued by the Magistrate for Randal to appear and account for his interference in Mrs. Bligh's house and concerns. Just as the ease was about to be gone into, one of the police officers from Marylebone Office made his appearance, with a warrant against Scott, at the instance of Mrs. Helena Bligh, who, it seemed, went expeditiously to Marylebene-Office, and swore that she considered her life in danger from Scott, who had called at her house. The officer also brought a letter from the Magistrate, Mr. Griffith, we believe, to the sitting Magistrate here, requesting that the whole affair, as between Scott, Randal, and Mrs. Thigh, should be left in the hands of him, the said Mary lebone Magistrate; but Mr. Conant said that he saw no reason at all why the case of Scott against Randal should be so disposed of, but that when that was over, Scott could go with the officer to Marylebone Office, and there meet Mrs. Nigh. Scott now stated the circumstances of his complaint against Randall. Mr. CONAavT asked Scott if there was evidence besides his own to violence used towards him by Randal. Scott said there was a man named Mills who had accom panied him to Mrs. Bligh's house, but that person was not now present. Mr. CONANT then ordered that the case should stand over un til Mills should be present, and it was accordingly adjourned, and all the parties started off to meet Mrs. Bligh before Mr. Griffith, the Magistrate, at Rlarylebone Office. By the way, Mrs. Bligh has a solicitor, we believe, of the name of Griffith,• MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday George Scott was brought to the office of Mr. Hewett, the chief constable, at the instance of Mrs. Helena Nigh. Mrs. Bligh was in attendance, accompanied by Mr. Harmer and another gentleman. She was dressed in the first style, and wore a tight blue silk cloak lined throughout and trimmed with ermine, and a pink silk bonnet.— She stated, that the defendant had broken into her house (No. $5, Baker-street,) the other day : the housekeeper.44l received orders not to admit him, but he forced his way into the hall, and declared lie would not go out until he had an interview with her (Mrs. Bligh) : his determination to remain was so resolute, that it was necessary to send to the stables for the coachman, who by her orders took him by the shoulders and turned him out into the street. Mr. Harmer requested Mrs. Bligh to make the Magistrate acquainted with who the man was, and what he was. He was the husband of a female who a short time since lived with her as lady's maid, and whom she discharged for " very great impropriety of conduct." She understood the man had made an affidavit in the Court of Chancery to her prejudice, which was every word false. "In consequence of that affidavit," said Mrs. Illigh, " I believe him capable of any violence towards tie, and I apprehend my person to be in great danger." 'Mr. HOSKINS asked whether she really apprehended personal violence frcm him ? she replied strongly in the affirmative. A gentleman who attended professionally for Mr. Scott rose, and said he was sorry to trouble the lady with a few questions. Mrs. Bligh—May I ask your name ? Yes, Madam, my name is Hutchinson. " Then I claim the protection of the Magistrate," said Mrs. Bligh, with great energy, " for I have before been insulted by you." Mr. Hostcnis told her Mr. Hutehinson was entitled to ask questions in behalf of his client, and if they were relative to the case, they must be answered. Mr. Hutchinson—Did you discharge the lady's maid you speak of ? Mrs. Bligh—l did upon my oath ; I discharged her for theft, and for great improprieties of conduct with one of the Men-. .servants. • Mr. Hutehinson—Do you swear you have no articles in your house belonging to her or her husband ? Mrs. Bligh—Upon my oath I declare I have not one single ar ticle there belonging t() either of them. Mr. Scott said, his wife left property in Mrs. Bligh's house when she left, and his only motive in calling was to get possession of it again. Mr. HOSKINS (to Mrs. Bligh)—Have you caused a search to be made ? Mrs. Bligh—l have caused a search, and I can further say, she had scarce a thing to her back when she came into my service. Mr. Hutchinson--The only thing which justified Mr. Scott in going to the house was, a positive belief that some of his property was there, and I feel an impression that if a more minute search is made it will be found. Mrs. Bligh--I claim protection of the magistrate, for I have already received insults froM you (weeping) I have no one to protect me. Mr. Harmer—lle would not go away, although he was re peatedly and repeatedly desired to leave the house. Mr. Hutchinson —The wife and husband declare that they have goods remaining in Mrs. Bligh's house of the value of 301. Mrs. Bligh--What will the magistrate think .of Mr. Scott being protected by Mr.. Hutchinson, the solicitor (Mrs. Bligh stood by the magistrate's side, at some distance from the're porter, and that word was not heard distinctly.) Mr. HOSKINS said the parties were going into particulars not connected with the case before him, and (addressing Mr. Scott) asked him if lie would engage that there should be no further die turbance at the lady's house. Mr. Scott—l never will disturb Mrs. high in any but a legal way. Mr. H u tchinson —Certainly he will not ; be only wishes to obtain his property. Mr. Harmer to Mr. Scott—And will you promise not to set another to do it? Mr. Hosiciss (to Mr. Harmer)—You hare no right to sup pose that be will. Mr. Scott--I am certain my wife left property behind her ; The Magistrate's son. . and when she was in her service, Mrs. Bligh repeatedly wore her clothes, and went out in them. Mrs. Bligh—Am 1 to have no protection from his violence' 1 do not believe his promise. Mr. Scott—l auras worthy of belief as you. Mrs. Bligh—l do not beline you. Mr. HOSKINS (to Mr. Scott)—l understand you promiie not to go to Mrs. Bligh's house again, nor to excite others. _ _ Mr. Scott—l will proceed in a legal way. Mr. Harmer was content, and hoped this case would not be mixed up with another before the Magistrates at Marlborougll - in which Mr. Scott had charged Mrs. Bligh's coachrusn with an assault, in putting him out of the house. A warm altercation was commencing between the 'parties, which Mr. HOSKINS put au end to by dismissing the charge. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a man, named James Platineaar, was brought up to this office in sustody, before the sitting Ma gistrate, H. J. CHAMBERS, Esq., charged with having committed so serious an assault upon a woman, named Elizabeth Jacks, that she is not expected to live. A watchman, named Keir, between one and two o'clock that morning, hearing shouts of murder proseed from a house in Castle court, Southwark, demanded admittance, and having at length obtained an entrance into the dwelling, be observed an elderly female lying across some chairs in the parlour, bleeding profusely from the head ; from the quantity of blood that was about the room, and that which flowed down the face and clothes of the wounded woman, he thought she was in a dying state. He also observed the prisoner in another room ; he appeared to be in a state of great excitement, four men having been engaged in holding him, for the purpose of preventing his doing further injury. The prisoner was remanded. THE MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of Tuesdty.) SUGAII.—The Market for Muscovadee was shut all the last week. The deliveries from the warehouse the preceding week— For home consumption, 2,560 hhds, 256 tierces and barrels ; for exportation, 332 hhds, 28 tierces and barrels; stock re maining in oaks, 44,521 hhds, 3,541 tierces and barrels. The buyers of Muscovades did not come to business till a late hour to-. day, the request then increased considerably, and we estimate the sales at 1,600 casks; the prices are a shade higher. The de liveries from the warehouse continue extensive, showing a great increase in the consumption during the last two weeks ; 2,500 casks more than the corresponding period of last year were de livered from the West India warehouses. The refined market was in a very depressed state all last week, and as the export demand had ceased, all low goods were offered at a small reduction. Fine goods and Molasses were unvaried. There appears to be a ma terial improvement in the demand for refined goods this morning, both for home consumption and for export, particularly for the latter ; the shippers have selected Lumps and crushed Sugars, of which considerable parcels are reported sold, the prices are little varied. Molasses are 6d. lower. In Foreign or East India Sugars no sales were reported. By public sale this forenoon, 1,231 bags White Siam went off at very full prices, good 365., ordinary 335. a 355. COFFEE—There were no transactions in Coffee last week of any extent. The deliveries from the West India Warehouses for the preceding week, were—for borne consumption 161 hhds. and trs., 61 bags and brls. ; for exportation 58 hhds. and trs., 118 hags and brls. ; stock 10,920 hhds. and trs., 78,470 bags and brie. There were no public sales to-day, but there is evidently an in crease in the request for Coffee, about 300 bags St. Domingo were sold by private contract about 51s. ; in the other descrip tions we believe no sales have been effected. &Ices—There were no Sales of Spices last week to any ex tent ; the prices remained nearly nominal. Deliveries from the West India Warehouses the preceding week : Pimento for home consumption 63 barrels, ditto for exportation 64 barrels ; Ginger for home consumption 65 casks Q barrels, ditto far export ation 6 casks. Tna..—Twankay Teas bear a small premium on the sale prices. Boheas continue in good request ; the quantity of. Tea cleared from the warehouses lately is uncommonly large. Rum, Basmyr, and HOLLANDS—The Rum Market was very firm last week; the only sales, inconsiderable parcels of proofs. The delivei ies from the West India Warehouses the preceding week, were—for home consumption 437 puns. 24 hhds., for ex portation 218 puns. 33 hhds., stock 17,246 puns. 1,033 hhds., Brandies of 1925 have been told in small parcels at the highest price inserted.—,Geneva is at nominal quotations. Tonacco—The demand for the new Tobacco for the London trade has been considerable; about 200 or 300 hogsheads have been taken, and about 50 for the country trade, chiefly strips at sid. a 6th - - - - - - - - - RISH PROVLSIONS.—Pork and Beef are held for higher prices, _ the latter particularly ; but there •is little progress made in the sales of the new arrivals. Bacon is dull. 'The request for Butter appears increasing. The advance lately is, India Beef from 71. to '7l. '7s., Mess from 51. ss. ; Pork has nearly fallen to the former price. The trade believe that the Imports of Foreign Provisions will be extensive, and. that they will remain in bond ready for shipment. _ INorco.—The approaching Sale at the India House prevents all business ; the qaantity is now stated about 7,500 chests, which is considerably more than what had been generally anticipated. COTTON. —The Market is firm with n prospect of some im provement, on account of the very favourable reports from Liver pool and from Manchester. The sales here for the week ending last night inclusive, are about 1,000 bags ; prices unvaried. Ous.—The Oil Market, which had lately been heavy, has again aSsunied a very firm appearance; the demand has increased considerably. Fat/Ir.—There was little doing in Fruit last week; some new Figs reported sold at 655., and the holders were so confident of higher prices, that a great proportion has been withdrawn from sale; 70s. was asked for large and small, and 755. for small only. New Currants are very scarce. Haste, FLAX, Axu TA LIONV. —The Tallow Market last week was subject to some fluctuation, on account of a considerable quan tity having been thrown upon the Market by itcontract for delivery not being taken ; it was cold about 385., since which the Mar ket has gradually improved, and with a greater degree of firmness. Tallow for delivery i❑ February and March 6d. higher. Hemp is rather heavy ; Flax without alteration ; Hemp for shipment, on or before the 31st of August, 401. The accounts from Peters -1 burgh are of the 18th ult. ; the weather generally mild, and the last vessel of the season loaded and about to sail. Exchange 94 18-16ths.—Stock of Tallow in London 31st Dec. 1825, 62,000 1 casks ; Slat Dec. 1826, 47,600 casks. WINE.—la consequence of the late political events, Wine meets a more ready sale ; there is little alteration in the prices. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPORTED. I X PORTED. Same pc- PreYlo.- This riod last ! ly this year. year. 1. year. Bags, &e. Bags, &c. r 703,26/. 180 81,623 4() 29,533 . Bags, &c. Bags, &c. tiverpool .., . 487,162 708,2811 Londoss 65,226 81,623 Glasgow 22,923 29,53.3 Total exported in 1826 102,688. Bap, akc. ,853 BIRTHS. On the let instant, "Mrs. G. Stuart Bruce, Trinity-square, of a daughter. On the :30th ult. in Manchester-street, the lady of Captain .1. C. Whiteman, H. C. S. of a daughter. On the let instant, at Ascot Lodge, the lady of John Bishop, Esq. of a (laughter. MARRIED._ On the Ist inst., at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, Mr. Frederick Snee, of Bartlett's-buildings, to Elizabeth, second daughter of tke late William Cordell, Esq., of Dalby House, Is. lington. Oh the 28th ult., at Worcester, John Wing, Esq., of Wis hed', to Sarah, third daughter of the late John Henry Maw, Esq., of Belle Vue, near Doncaster. On the 2d instant, at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Lieut. Henn Hope Johnstone, R.N. to Maria Grace, third daughter of the let, Henry Castleman, Esq. On the 2d instant, at St. Pancras new church, Alfred G. Gil fiat, Esq. to Caroline, third surviving daughter of the late Job] Gilliat, Esq. of Clapham-ten ace. On the Ist instant, the Rev. Francis Demainhray, Fellow c Pembroke College, Oxford, to Mary, only daughter of the lat Francis Findon, Esq. of Shipston-on-Stour, Worcestershire. DIED. On the Ist instant, Mrs. Bunn, of County-terrace, Kent-roac relict of the late Captain Bunn, of the Hon. East India Corn pany's service. On the 2d instant, at his house in Lincoln's-inn-fields, Hem Cline, Esq. in the 77th year of his age. Printed and Published by M. Tornio, at *lse kietc-Orno N. 112, *MANIA.