The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-15 00:00:00

. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The praeecution of Mr. Shiel is working its effect on the public mind in both countries, and pretty much rfter the manner in which most former prosecutions for political offences were found to operate on behalf of their intended victims, more particularly, since the present Government of Ireland came to the administration of affairs. The Irish Attorney-General has certainly been the most unlucky state prosecutor that ever failed in the castigatory branch of his profession. Orangeman and Catholic, it is all alike to Mr. Plunkett. He attacks them both, and is defeated by both ; because either, unfortunately, the occasion is so ill chosen that no jury ought to convict, or the party feelings of the country such that no jery convict, where the present Government appears as a suitor for justice. If this were the only thing to be considered, the law officers of the Crown in Ireland would show more wisdom in always forbearing, than in always failing. The question with a man of common sense, so far as practical politics are concerned,' is rather what he can do, than what, if he were able, he would do; and after such experience as the last five years have furnished of the utter .unwillingness of juries to receive with favour, perhaps we might say with candour, the appeals which have reached them from the executive power in Ireland, the Attorney-General must have either more confidence in himself, or less reflection upon his own history than belongs to a man of sober un derstanding, to court another trial of the temper of his countrymen, when he might by any human possibility escape from so ominous a risk. With regard to the principle and rectitude of this prosecution, we have twice read over the speech ascribed to Mr. Shiel, and our impression remains, that it was no crime, but a • mere and - manifest folly. There does not appear to us to be evidence in the speech, so explanatory of the speaker's views, and conclusive of the mains animus, as to justify an honest man in saying upon his oath, that the party under prosecution intendedto do more than ad monish the Government of what were likely to be the con sequences if it persisted in refusing civil rights to the Ca tholics. There is no public enemy at this moment. Whom, then, did the Catholic demagogue invite to an invasion of Ireland ? Tone and his adventures, his treason and his death, are matters notorious to all the world, and we know nothing that should deter a British subject from drawing what moral he thinks fit, when the premises are so pregnant with durable interest and with diversified instruction. As for the influence of the prosecution upon Shiel himself, whether it succeeds or falls to the ground, like its prede cessors, lie will in some shape be a gainer. In the last case, his triumph is direct--he becomes the unshaken champion of the people of Ireland : in the other case, he suffers some legal punishment, it is true ; but the pert and loquacious mannikin rises at once into a glorious martyr — all sympathies are his—new hatreds beset the Govern ment—the purse-strings of the whole Catholic body are opened, and an estate will perhaps be purchased, as a na tional dotation, to descend with the name of Shiel, as the record of another grant will adhere through all ages to the memory of Grattan. Would that the Irish Government could, with dignity and security, now retrace their foot steps through the last three weeks. To the consideration of policy we need scarcely add that of magnanimity—it is unworthy of a State, whose 'Ministers profess to feel for the wrongs which they make no sacrifice to redress—it is unworthy of such Ministers to visit severely the somewhat rude complaint of acknowledged injury, in him who suffers under it.—Times. The latest advices received from Lisbon, through France, and stated to be of the 27th ult. mention that the last dispatches from Count de Villa Flor were dated from Trancoso—a circumstance which has occasioned a belief that he had tuade a retrograde movement, as it was well known that he entered Almeida on the 15th; and some of the French Papers, in the interest of the Apostolicals, have since asserted that Almeida subsequently fell into the hands of the refugees. The Commander of the United Constitutional Army, having pursued the fugitives after the battle of the 9th, as far as the Spanish lines, and dis armed the militia regiment of Tondella, which had deli vered Almeida into the hands of the Apostolicals, had com pleted his operations in that quarter, no enemy appearing there to contend against. His being a moveable division, and in such a kind of warfare as that now carrying on in the north of Portugal, Almeida being a place of little consequence, after icising a garrison there, the Count's attention would next be called to those districts where the rebellious bands were still in force. It will be remembered that the Marquis de Chaves, after being foiled at Amarante, crossed the Douro, at Regoa, and proceeded to Lamego, where he assembled the mock Cortes, and called out all the neighbouring militia. He next passed on to Vizeu, armed the militia, and would have marched on Coimbra, hap he not been impeded by the advance of Count de Villa for from Guards, and his subsequent junction with Generals Claudino and Azeredo. By these movements, the Miguelites were compelled to cross the province of Beira in a.slifferent direction, and eventually driven be yond the Spanish frontier, or else into Tray-os-Montes ; but the guerillas acting in the vicinity of Lamego and Vizeu, and in considerable force, were still left unsubdued, whilst the inhabitants devoted to the legit imate Government, in the character of fugitives , were sti ll wandering in the woods and mountains. It was very natural, therefore, for Count de Villa for to return to these disturbed districts, as a pacificator, where h is p resence was the more re q uired, as the Marquess de Angeja, in his advance from Amarante to Regoa, and thence to Villa Real, had met with serious opposition on the part of the local militia, who, he states, were assembled in great numbers. It must not be forgot ten, that the Silveiras are connected with most of the lead ing families in Tras-os-Montcs and Upper Beira, and, out of these families, the officers commanding the Militia Re giments are usually taken. These officers, almost to a mani•were either bribed or seduced, and their men joined the - party their leaders chose to follow. The rebellious troops were left behind by the Marquess de Chaves, in the districts through which he passed; and, altho ug h his late defeat must have had a considerable influence over them, they have yet to be disarmed, and tranquillity re stored. This duty the Marquess de Angeja had already commenced, on the side of Tras-os-Montes; and the troops under his command, by the last accounts,had advanced as far As Villa Real and Chaves; and the same service, most pro bably, now devolves on Count de Villa nor, in the central part fl Beira, and along the southern bank of the Douro. Trancoso is midway between Almeida and Vizeu, on which place, it is very likely, Villa for was marching.—lllorn jag Chronicle. Our readers saw, in our olumns of yesterday, a state ment from a Roman Catholic Correspondent, conveying a hint that it is the intention of Mr. Shell's party, should'he be convicted on the present prosecution, to console him for the consequences by the purchase of an estate. That his friends should 'send forth such a report before the trial Irks as if there was a sort of apprehension among them that the , legal champion wanted more en coura g ement tha n what the mere glory of his cause could give him. It ap prs, ind ee d, as if they had a suspicion, that being a 1 wYee. he conk' not defend even himself without a fee l— ithe deserv ed en estate for failing in his defence, he would certainly merit a greater estate for succeeding, and thereby oalising that modest comp son which he instituted be tween himself and Mr. Plunke tt , of being the little David who was to smite the giga ntic _G. oliah to the earth ! If estates are to be procuredbythis sort of political martyr dom, there will be found Barris ters enough in Ireland, as there might be in other countries, suffer ß at the stake of A state prosecution. In Ireland ' t i!, o , and gowns are absolutel d ar is greatly over stocked —wigs rugs in the market —and therefore it is not at all wonderful ü b l u t s h in at any debating club which promised an extension boates: by an in creased introduction to attorneys, should robe, among its s ome of the gentlemen of h t a h s e b l e o e n n g a sort of Cape members e. In that way the " Catholic Association" of " Good Hope," which a certain number of legal enter prisers think may lead to the golden Indies 'f the pro fession. But it is said there is a precedent for purcha sing an estate for Mr. Shell, in that purchased for the late - Mr. . • Grattan. The two names suggest ideas eo different, that we fear it would prove a hopeless task to attempt to esta blish their historical identity. And in the next place, the substantial gratitude of his country was bestowed upon Grattan, for services not only splendid, but successful— the obtaining what was called the " free trade" for Ire land. Now what has Mr. Sheil done ? He has made several extravagant speeches, tending to injure the cause which he professes to advocate ; but that speech for which he is prosecuted is the roost foolish of all. Nothing could do more mischief to what is called the " Catholic cause," than such a puerile intemperance of declamation. If such be the advocates of this cause, it would be better for its friends to purchase them all estates, on condition of being silent !—Morning Herald. We deem it, at present, a matter of some moment, to ascertain the projects and sentiment cherished and avowed by the Catholic Priesthood towards the Established Church. We have an unexceptionable witness in the no torious J. K. L., alias Dr. Doyle. He has published a letter to Lord Farnha'm, in which he presumes to speak of the Established Church of the country in the following decent and moderate language : " I think the Church Establishment must fall, sooner or later ; it; merits in Ireland are too well known. It has been brought to the light, and its works being such as do not bear the light, it will, it must, suffer loss, as soon as an impartial judgment can be passed upon it. Clamour, bigotry, enthusiasm, and a spirit of selfishness, constitute its present chief support. It derives no aid from reason, justice, or public utility. Its old connexion with the Crown, and that wise aversion to experimental innovation, which characterizes every wise Government, unite to defend it; but, if the passions of the people were calmed, some man, with the spirit and power of Burke, who arranged that chaos, the Civil List,' aml purified, without injuring them, the revenues and prerogatives of the Crown itself—some such man would arise and free the nation from the reproach of the Irish temporal Establish ment ; lie would relieve religion from an incubus, and the land of the country, with its proprietors and cultivators, from an intoler able pressure. " It is monstrous to think of an annual income, amounting to several millions sterling, being appropriated, in such a country as Ireland, to the Pastors of less than one-thirtieth part of the population. A man of reflection, living in Ireland, and coolly observing the workings of the Church Establishment, would seek for some likeness to it only amongst the Priests of Juggernaut, who sa crifice the poor naked human victims to their impure and detest able idols." These, let it be remembered, are not the words of an O'Connell or Shiel, willing to purchase notoriety by any extravagance of nonsense; they are the deliberate expres sion of the sentiments of a Priest, who affects to take a leading part among the Catholics. We are not surprised that a Catholic Priest should burn with intense hatred towards the Protestant faith; but when we find that he deems it both safe and prudent to avow his hatred in lan guage unmeasured, we think it time to bid the warders of the State take good heed what they do. It is clear that the Catholics regard the subversion of the Protestant Church of Ireland as an object which they will, ere long, be able to accomplish. If they can accomplish it, we shall have our own supineness and short-sightedness to blame. Let no man delude himself with the vain fancy that the Protestant Monarchy, or the Protestant Aristo cracy, can survive, for a single twelvemonth, the Protestant Church.—New Times. LONDON SESSIONS, FEB. 14. Mr. Bell, of Catherine-street, Trinity-square, was indicted for assaulting Catherine Mathews, his maid servant. The prose cutrix stated that after some altercation with Mr. Beil, the de fendant refused to allow her to quit the house, or to take away her clothes, without she first paid him a month's wages; that he also "punched" her in the side, and would not let her have her clothes for some time afterwards. Mr. BOLLAND, for the defendant, complained of great insolence on the part of the servant, and mistake on the part of the master in detaining the clothes. The Jury returned a verdict of " Not Guilty." RIOT IN WIIITECROSS-STREET PRISON. William Martin, William Sprigging, Henry Burrell, Sa muel Simmonds, Fisher .Alderton, Edward Hannan:, George Smith, and Peter :Martin, were put to the bar on a charge of having been guilty of riot in the Whitecross-street Prison, and as saulting a prisoner named Mapleston. The first witness for the prosecution was Valentine Musson, a prisoner in Whitecross-street Prison. On the 20th of Naember there had been an election of a " twelver"---that was, a person whose duty it was to make the beds, clean the rooms, and empty utensils. There was great noise then, for there was 'ltch party spirit in favour of the respective candidates. Mapleston was a prisoner. " Catting" was a punishment inflicted on those who did not pay the fees of the ward. It was chiefly performed by the parties, with their faces blaclfened, and disguised with rugs, going and taking the bed clothes from the offender, and otherwise maltreating him. The fees were appropriated to keep the ward clean, provide coals and candles, and other things for general comfort. The witness described an attack made by a number of prisoners, who went disguised, armed with brooms and sticks, to the bed of Mapleston ; they made a noise in imitation of the mew ing of cats, from which the practice derives its name. Mapleston resisted desperately. Witness saw the chamber utensils with their contents flying from his room ; one of the assailants was knocked down, and they retreated ; they afterwards returned again, when Mapleston set up cries of " Murder." He was dreadfully beaten, and they left him with the blood flowing profusely from his wounds. _ _ The RECORDER asked the witness who dispensed the money? Witness—The steward. The RECORDER—Who chooses the steward ?—He is chosen by the voice of the ward. Every thing is done there by election. The RECORDER—Then it is a Parliament, which imposes taxes ?—Exactly so, my Lord. The RECORDER—I never beard before of more than one Par lament in this realm, and I never knew it to enforce taxes in :his manner. Mr. Spencer, the Governor of the prison, was called ; and he stated that he heard a noise in the prison. He thought it was the election of the " twelver." When he went, all was silent, and he could not tell from what ward the noise came. The RECORDER censured him with great severity for, not hav ing acted with more energy, and said the Court expected that he would be more vigilant in future. Mr. Spencer—l will use my utmost endeavours, my Lord ; but it was a custom, and --- The RZCORDER.—A custom, Sir ! No, do not let the Court hear of such a defence. Robbery on the highway and picking pockets have been customary from time immemorial. You must put a stop to it, Sir, and cause notices to that effect to be given to those under your care. Mr. Spencer.—l will, my Lord ; I have done The Recoanan.—Done, Sir! You have done nothing; do your duty by putting an end to the practice. Mr. PRENDKRCAT, in behalf of one of the prisoners, said, that the practice of receiving what was called garnish was an ancient observance, anciently enforced by the practice now complained of. The RECORDER, in his charge to the jury, said, that a volun tary contribution for mutual comfort might be but a forced tax could never be tolerated in the prison. The Jury found W. Martin, W. Spriggins, H. Burrell, and G. Smith, otiiitY hut acquitted the other defendants. One of the Jury—We recommend the prisoners to a lenient punishment, in consideration of the practice having been an esta blished custom there. Another Juryman—That is our unanimous opinion. The RECoRDER, after consulting with the Magistrates on the . bench, said, that the Court thought it their duty to sentence the defendants to be imprisoned for six months each, to hard labour, in Giltspur-street Compter. AWFUL VISITATION.--Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman named Kirk, residing in the Horse ferry-road, near the Westminster Gas Works, was proceeding along Parliament -street, arm-in-arm with another Gentleman, when opposite the Admiralty, Mr. Kirk suddenly exclaimed, " Oh God !" and instantly fell on the pavement a lifeless corpse. The unfortunate gentleman was picked up and carried to the house of a medical man, who endeavoured to restore animation, but all attempts were fruitless. Mr. Kirk has left a wife and family to bewail his loss. DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT AT DEVIZES.--On Thursday morning, about four o'clock, a large beam, the chief supporter of an extensive corn loft at the Crown Inn, broke, whereby several quarters of corn were precipitated into the stable beneath, by which three valuable cart-horses were killed, another so much injured as to require being killed soon after, and two others were slightly injured. Two lads were in the stable when the corn fell : and both miraculously escaped. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, F. 14 cAminGF. v. ALLENBY. This case, which was argued at length before the Judges, has decided a point of much consequence to the public.—The plaintiff sold to the defendant corn at York market, on the 10th of Feb. last, at three o'clock in the day, for which the defendant paid him in bank notes of the Huddersfield bank of Mess. Dobson and Co. —The Huddersfield bank had, in fact, stopped payment on that morning at twelve o'clock, but the stoppage was unknown both to the plaintiff and defendant.—The plaintiff hearing of the stop page soon after did not think it necessary to send the notes to Huddersfield, which is forty miles from York, for presentment, but he met the defendant on the 17th of February, the following Saturday, at York, and then called upon him to pay for the corn, and offered to return the notes, which had become useless, in con sequence of the stoppage.—The defendant refused, and the plain tiff brought his action, which was tritd at York, subject to the opinion of the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Donn, • for the plaintiff, argued that the plaintiff was not bound to present the notes, since the bank had actually stopped before he received them, and bad never resumed their payments; and, consequently, a presentment would have been useless and nugatory—and he had done all he was required to do in offering to return thein the following market-day to the defendant. Mr. CRESSWELL, for the defendant, contended that the plain tiff had been guilty of laches, in not presenting the notes to the bankers, and giving due notice to the defendant that they were not paid.—The defendant had a right to have them returned as FOOD as the plaintiff learned that the bank had stopped—in order that the defendant, if he chose, might proceed against the hankers immediately. The case was like an indorser of a bill of exchange, who was entitled to due notice of the dishonour of the bill. The Learned JtTnGrs delivered their opinion, that the plaintiff had been guilty of negligence in not presenting the notes, or, at least, in not returning them sooner, and, consequently, the pay ment was a good payment of the price of the corn, and a nonsuit must be entered: CONSISTORY COURT.-FEB. 14. NOGG AGAINST NOGG. Dr. JENNEI stated that this was a suit for a divorce promoted by Mr. Hogg against Susan Hogg his wife, on the ground of various acts of adultery committed by her with divers persons, at houses of ill fame. Dr. ARNOLD, on behalf of the wife, could not deny the acts of adultery, but should contend that the conduct of the husband had been such as did not entitle him to relief. (A discussion here took place as to the reading of the evidence, which, it was intimated, was of too disgusting a nature to be he publicly exposed. It was decided with the consent of all parties that the evidence should be taken as read, and that the counsel might refer to such parts as they pleased.) Dr. AalloLn observed, the outset of the history was this:— His client, the child of humble parents, described as a poor, un educated, ignorant girl, was prevailed upon by the plaintiff to leave her home and parents, when only 14 or 15 years of age, under a promise of marriage. The plaintiff carried her to a no torious brothel, where he lodged her. He made this place her home, where she was exposed to continual scenes of the vilest pro fligacy. If her principles became corrupt, who was the corrupter? If she was polluted, who was the author of her pollution? The husband himself was the cause of all the subsequent mischief of Which he complained, and was not entitled to lay it to her charge, or to ask the Court to remedy what he had occasioned. Af4er cohabiting with this female for some indefinite time (for there was little information on these points), the Court found her turned adrift, and living with a young woman in a }tense where the most profligate conduct took place. In July, 182% the par ties married. In ordinary circumstances it might be said, that this fact put an end to what preceded it; and that when the plain tiff became her husband, he must be supposed to have taken her to a different kind of place, and exacted from her that modesty and chastity, and those duties, due from a wife. But the facts which transpired in this cue, stated by the plaintiff's witnesses, proved that he took her, on returning from church, to the very house of Griggs, in Eagle-street, where she had lodged; and the character of that house was shown by the shameless, unblushing admissions of the owners. Here then was a sanction given to her for an acquaintance with the persons and scenes at that place.— Here was a case, not of connivance merely, but of open en couragement given to a wife to be acquainted with persons of infamous character. The consequences were the necessary fruits of the husband's sanction, thus given. The parties after wards went to Norfolk, and subsequently to Tenby. No charge of any thing criminal was alleged against the wife, until the end of 1824, when the parties were living at Ramsgate. The hus band then, for some cause not stated, quitted her, and informed her he did not mean to return to cohabitation; and that she was at liberty to go where she pleased. She was at that period ut terly destitute. After a time, a miserable pittance of 255. a week was allowed her ; but no care, no feeling, was evinced by him respecting her. Application having been made to him for payment of a debt incurred for lodging her, he had resourse to this Court to release him from the burden of maintaining her, on account of her misconduct. Dr. JEssE ADAMS, on the same side, made a few observations in addition. The husband, at the time of marriage in 18'22, was between 40 and 50 ; the wife between IS and 19 ; a son was horn in 1823. The wife had been treated with great cruelty by her husband, having been flogged by his orders, as stated by his own witness. Dr. JENNER, on behalf of the husband, urged that the facts charged in the answers to interrogatories ought to have been pleaded, in order that the husband might answer and refute the allegations. There was nothing but the vague statement of a witness connected with the wife, to show that she was seduced .by Mr. Hogg, or that he cohabited with her before marriage. He had no reason to know the character of the house he took his wife from on the day of marriage. He conceived she was re siding with her brother, whilst she was acting the profligate at Griggs' ; and, when he knew the fact, he commenced the present suit. Dr. LUSNINGTON, on the same side, remarked, that what had occurred previous to the marriage could not be admitted in plea. Sir C. ROBINSON said, the fact of adultery was fully proved ; but the Court could not throw out of consideration the conse quences of separation to the unfortunate woman. After referring to the early connexion of the parties, to the circumstances of the marriage, to the manner in which they separated at Ramsgate, and to the conduct of the plaintiff in leaving his wife in London, where such a woman would be sure to fall into evil, and resort to her old habits, the Learned Judge said, that the only question for the Court to consider was, whether it had any moral discretion ; no person could doubt, that in such cases as this the Court had a moral discretion, under which, and looking also to the conse quences of separation, he must pronounce that the husband was not entitled to the relief he prayed. MA RYLEBONE PARISIL—On Saturday came on the appointment of a Sunday Evening Lecturer, to the Parish Church, vacant by the resignation of Dr. Bustleld. The appoint ment is in the Vestry. The Rev. Mr. Scobell, 56—The Rev. Mr. Birdwood, 26. Majority in favour of Mr. Scobell, 30. N.B.—Mr. Scobell has been many years a Vestryman ! On Tuesday last, Mr. Burchell resigned his office of Clerk to the Commissioners of Land and As.;essed Taxes for the division of St. Marylebone; when the Commissioners appointed Monday, the 2d April, for the election of his successor. The candidates are—Mr. Burgoyne (a Commissioner); Mr. Hall; Mr. Lord (son of a Commissioner); Mr. Tilton. The appointment is in the Com missioners 1 ! Does not this smell of a job ?—Morning Paper. On the news of the birth of a son and heir to the ancient family of Stobs, reaching the Barony of Hadden, one of the family estates, the tenants, Messrs. Brodie, and nearly the whole population of the Barony, proceeded to the highest point of Hadden-rigg, where a large bonfire was lighted in honour of the occasion, and the healths of the young heir, and of Sir William and Lady Elliott, were drunk with every demonstration of kindly feel ing. The rustic party afterwards enjoyed a cheerful dance at one of the farm-steadings, and spent the evening in high glee.—Kelso Nail. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE.—Last week, as a party , of carbineers, stationed at Nottingham , were escorting a de serter to Loughborough, a young shoemaker prevailed on them to stop, that he might take a glass of ale with the prisoner, whom he recognised to be an old friend. At parting, the deserter told the corporal that the shoemaker was a deserter from the same regi ment. The corporal attempted to take him, but the shoemaker extricated himself from the party, and ran through a field next a river, into which he dashed, and swam towards the opposite bank. Three of the soldiers ran along a bridge which was close by, but observing he w as little chance of i ntercept i ng hi m , they fired their carbin es a t th e gaining the opposit e bank, a nd that they had unfortunate man. Two of the balls missed him altogether, the third struck him in the fleshy part of the arm, and he was ob served to turn upon his back. By dint of exerting himself, how ever, he gained the opposite bank, and landed on the wharf. Three men who were at work upon the wharf advanced to seize him, when a liberator appeared in the person of his shopmate, who kiiicked down the three men one after the other. The two shoe makers then jumped into the canal, crossed into a meadow, and succeeded in escaping into town,—Zreter ,Alfred. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—John Thacker was charged with ut tering as true a certain forged cheque at the banking-house of Messrs. Williams, Moffatt, and Burgess, of Birchin-lane, purport ing to be drawn by " James and France," for the payment of 151. Ss. 6d. to a Mr. Jones " for rent." Messrs. Williams and Co.'s clerk stated, their firm had no ac count with any such persons as " James and France," nor did they know any such persons were in existence. The Officer stated, that when he was sent for to take the pri soner into custody, the prisoner stated, that he had received the cheque from a gentleman to get cashed, and that be was to meet him in Cornhill ; he also stated, that he was a store-house man in the Ordnance-Office in the Tower, which latter assertion proved to be correct. The officer accompanied him to the spot, where he was to meet the gentleman who gave him the cheque, but he was not to be found, and after the prisoner was brought to the Mansion House, he said that he had received the cheque from a man named Peters, who lived in Tureer-street, Com mercial-road. The officer waited on Peters, who stated that he received the cheque that morning from a man named Green, who lived in Ivy-lane, Houton, and Peters promised to attend be• fore the Lord Mayor, but he did not do so ; after the prisoner was apprehended, a man came over to the Mansion House, and he stated that his name was Green, and that he was the man who had paid the bill to Peters. The officer in consequence de tained Green, and he was now placed at the bar with the man who uttered the cheque atthebankiug-house. Thacker admitted that he had told a falsehood regarding the mode he came by the cheque, but denied that he had any guilty knowledge of it, or that he intended any fraud. Green gave an account of himself, and said that he had picked the cheque up near the London Apprentice Turnpike, in the Old street-road, Shoreditch, and that he had paid it away to Peters, for what lie owed him. Both prisoners were remanded until Saturday. A man named Richard Oakley was next charged with pre senting at the same banking-house a cheque for 101. ss. under similar circumstances : this cheque purported to be signed by a " George Manning," and payable to a Mr. Young. This prisoner also pleaded, that he had picked up the cheque iu Old-street. The prisoner was remanded until Saturday. There appears to be hut little doubt, but that some mischievous persons have been filling up blank cheques, and dropping them in the street by way of joke, to impose upon the ignorant. GUILDHALL.—In the case of the old woman who was run over in Skinner-street, by Mr. Goodchild's carriage, Mr. Alder man Lucas noticed that Mr. Goodchild had sent her 5/., and he ordered the City Solicitor to move at the Visions that prisoner's recognizance should be respited until the following Session. The gentleman of Gray's-inn, who had come forward from humanity, ought not, the Alderman said, to be put to any expence in the pro secution, which would, therefore, be taken up by the City. The affidavit of Mr. Wise, the house-surgeon at the Hospital, upon which the motion was to be founded, set forth that she would be unable to attend at the present Sessions. He stated that the fever increased in the course of Tuesday, and he considered her to be then in danger. A gentleman of the name of Scott tendered his evidence for the prosecution ; but it was not deemed necessary at present. BOW-STREET.—John Oliver alias Johnson Edward Lay cork and John Laycock, were yesterday re-examined on a charge of horse-stealing. • •••-•• • William Crocom, landlord of the Three Keys, Thomas-street, Bristol, deposed, that on the Ist of February last, the prisoners Howard and Laycock came into the stable-yard with four horses, fin• which Oliver, who soon after arrived, ordered corn and paid for it. He also ordered stabling for the horses, and paid for the keep of the other two prisoners, who appeared as his servants. Howard and Laycock had been to his house on other occasions along with Oliver, when they had horses with them. Oliver al ways paid for whatever refreshments his men consumed. The two geldings claimed by Mr. Walker were two of the four horses which the prisoners had with them. Ou the 17th of Jan. last, Howard came to hie house with a mare, which Oliver offered for sale at 271., but told witness he might sell her for 24/. The mare thus offered for sale was the same which Mr. Maides had claimed. James Morgan was servant to Mr. Maides, and proved that he left the mare safe in his master's stables on the night she was stolen. He did not discover the robbery until morning. John Grant, coachman to Isaac Walker, Esq., of Palmer's green, Edmonton, sworn.—Last Monday fortnight, in the night, his master's two geldings were safe in the stables, and at six o'clock on the following morning they were gone. The stables had been broken into, a piece baying been cut out of the window, and the lock wrenched from the door, L. consequence of information be received, witness proceeded to Bristol last Sunday week, and brought back the two geldings so stolen. Other eases against the prisoners were ready to be brought forward, but it was considered that the evidence already taken would he suffeeient. The witnesses were accordingly bound over, and the prisoners were fully committed for trial. Charles Preseot, alias the Jumper, who stood charged with robbing a gentleman in a coach while in a state of inebriety, was discharged for want of evidence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—At the evening sitting yes terday, a young female of prepoasing appearance, named Harrison, residing in Seymour-crescent, applied to Mr. Cunantsfoohroh_sqisua4.e, ad vice under the foll ow i ng nove l c ircumst a nces : About a fortnight ago, she was proceeding across when she was robbed of her reticule, containing some silver, &c. by two fellows, one of whom snatched it from her hands, while how ever,ing at the time, and he succeeded in apprehending the fellow, who the other favoured his escape. A person named Dovey eworffieasbeepoataisnnsdd ocnov. a me s rnitoi t accessary tg eid,.give evidence ~t , to i rdi the ea ,1;c ea,rnoadbtb3teiye., Old Bailey. B h ya e ia w lne • y a d. s ago,t b b t e - A ou a g pfe h pwl t ica to dna t yt h sw il c i o 0n the wq King'stienti consequently e h t e i c was prisonas unablet o t t o a take benefitthheefo:e the of Grand Jury at "en'etCnAtlerkenwell, and the applicant now attended in e h re Dove}'t looksord o n l o v w how she was to proceed to save her recognizances, she having been hound over in the sum of 401. to prosecute. Mr. CONANT said, the only way Dovey could be brought up, was by writ of Habeas Corpus, but that would be an expense of 51. to some party—she, applicant, must indict the prisoner herself to save her own recognizances; but, in consequence of Mr. Dovey being a material witness, the bill would probably he thrown out if he did not appear, and then he was liable to forfeit his recog nizances. The Judges were the only persons who could authorize the removal of llovey by Habeas Corpus. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Baxter, the constable of Cam berwell, was summoned by a hackney-coach driver, for refusing to pay the hire of his coach in conveying the two young men, Faux and Goring, who, it will be recollected, were charged with. uttering two counterfeit sovereigns, on Friday last, at this office. The coachman stated, that on Friday last he was called off the coach-stand by Baxter, who, together with two other persons, got into his coach, and the former desired to be driven to this office. On setting them down an altercation took place betweed the par ties, relative to which of them should pay the fare, the two young men (Vaux and Goring) refusing, on the ground of their having been illegally taken into custody by Baxter, and the latter contending that they were the persons to look to for the hire of the vehicle, as it was for their accommodation and not his that it was engaged. He (the coachman) tried hard to obtain his fare, but could not ; and, as the constable was the responsible person, he having called him off the stand, to him, of course, he looked for the fare, and therefore obtained a summons against him for re fusing to pay it. Baxter said he considered it a very hard case that he should be summoned for refusing to pay the hire of a coach under such circumstances. The day on which lie brought down Messrs. Vaux and Goring to the office in custody, they expressed a desire to be taken from the watch-house at Camberwell to the Police office in a coach, observing that they did not relish the degrada tion of being publicly walked through the streets as felons ; he at once, far from wishing to put them to any inconvenience, com plied with their request, and they were accordingly indulged with a coach, on the understanding that as it was for their accommo dation they would settle the fare. Baxter added that he did not call the coach off the stand himself, some friend of the young men's having performed that task. The Magistrate observed that he should defer deciding .on the merits of the case until the other parties were present. The Prince de Ligne, older than me by twenty, years, continually astonished me by the vivacity of his imagina tion, and the youthful activity of his mind. At an early hour in the morning, knocking at the partition that divided his bed from mine, he awoke me to listen to a song or some impromptu verses that he had composed ; and; a short time after, his chasseur brought me a letter of four or six pages, in which wisdom, folly, politics, gallantry, military anecdotes, and philosophical epigrams, were blended together in the most original manner. As he re quired a speedy answer, nothing could be more continuous or exact than this strange species of daily correspondence between an . Austrian General and a French Ambassador, lying alongside one another in the same galley, not far from the Empress of the North, and floating on the Borysthenes, through a country of Cossacks, on a visit to the Tartars..—Seuur's Memoirs. Printed and Published by M. YOUNG, at the SUN-OFFICE, No. 11t, STRAND. MIDDLESEX' SESSIONS, FEB. 14. John Kendrick, a street-keeper, was indicted for assaulting a poor Irishman, of the name of Barrey, who swore, that as he was proceeding to a different parish from that to which the defendant belonged, with a basket of figs suspended from his neck, the de fendant came behind him, and throwing either a rope or the thong of a whip over his head and across his breast, pulled him hack, and scattered his figs in the mud. The defendant was found Guilty, and sentenced to pay a tine of 5/., with liberty to speak to the prosecutor. Samuel Hicks was indicted, at the instance of the Governors of the London Hospital, whose servant he had been, for assaulting Ann Miller, with intent to violate her person. The defendant, upon the offer of the proaecutors not to press for a heavy punish ment, pleaded Guilty. The COURT ordered the defendant to give security to come up for udgnient when called upon. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY. FRB. 16. —(A t the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall_street. ) Blood, M., Bath, surgeon-11 Boulter, D., Reading, draper-12 Clarke, J., Lambeth, boot-maker-1 Cronshey, S., Putney, cheesemongez —2 Deacon, T., Trowbridge, clothier-12 Durrant, J., Maidstone, tailor--12 Heath, R., Chelsea, ironmonger-11 James, J., Vauxhall, tailor-11 Matthews, A., Chatham, tailor-10 Smith, 3., Lambeth, brewer-1 Thomas, J., Stepney, mariner-10 Walker, R., Oxford-street, butcher-10 Wilkinson, H., Billiter-lane, merchant-11 Woods, J., Hastings, grocer-10 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, FEB. 19, AT NINE. Allan, A., Margate, lodging-house-keeper Ashton, J., City-road, farmer Atkinson, R., Kirton, Lincolnshire, butcher Brown, H., Silver-street, Golden-square, oilman Dyson, J., Halifax, paper manufacturer Fletcher, E., Swadlingcoat, Derbyshire, farmer Garnbam, A., Ratcliffe Highway, oilman Hoiwill, T., Battersea, carpenter Hyam, M., Russell -court, glass -cutter Johnson, M., Quarndon, joiner Lister, W., Hoxton, undertaker Peek, J. Ratcliffe Highway, oilman Rogers, R., City road, cooper Sadler, W., Weit Mersea, Essex, farmer Sinderbo, G., Wotton-under-Edge, farmer Turner, E., New Cut, hair-dresser Warner, J., Shoreditch, carpenter Yandell, W., Camden Town, painter Yates, W., Gower-place, plumber COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Lincoln, February 19, at Ten o'clock. Clarkson, R., Welton le Marsh, publican Dawkins, 11., Market Rasen, publican Faunt, J., Fishtoft, farmer Howitt, W., Thorpe, farmer Hudson, M., Swineshead, school-mistress Hurton, J., Thurlby, stonemason Kitchin, 8., Skegness, grocer Jessap, R., Holdingham, farmer Kerr, T., Spalding, draper Roberts, R., New Sleaford, attorney Sheardown, S., Grimsby, linen draper Singleton, D., Market Rasen, shoemaker Walker, P., Spalding, drover IAL MARKET.—Feb. Adair, - .33 3 Beauniowt..„--..30 0 Charlotte 32 9 Heaton , „ 35 6 Hebburn Main— 34 0 Killingworth 35 0 Liddell's Main.— 23 0 PontopWindsor— 28 0 Shipeote---- 29 0 Tanfleld Moor— SS 0 fownley---- 33 0 Ships at Market s. d. WallsEndßewickess 9 W. E Brown's.,.. 34 0 W. E. Carr & Co. 33 0 W. E. Green's......, 33 3 W. E. Hilda 33 0 W. E. Newmarch 95 0 W. E. Riddell's —9 0 W. E. Russell's— 37 0 W. E. Walker.— 34. 3 Tanfteld Trader... 33 0 Lambtou smalL.— 19 0 ips sold, 29! s. d. 33 0 SteneCoalCliristte4o Eden 21, Fawcett Main.— 81 0 LarnbtonPrimrose 33 Russell's Lyon's Mal. 34 0 Walla FAullietton 38 0 W. E. Luabton 27 0 Walls End Lyons 35 6 W. E. Stewart's«, 97 0 42. On Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, a daring robbery was committed by two fellows, dressed as sailors, on the person of Mr. Jones (a gentleman residing at Islington), on that part of Spa-fields leading from Bak e r-str ee t t o A mwe ll- s t ree t, Pentonville. He was first knocked down by a severe blow on the head, which completely stunned him ; and, on recovering him self, he found both his hands tied together with a strong cord, and his pockets completely ransacked of their contents, which, amongst other articles, contained his pocket-hook and 10/. in gold. A gentleman residing in Baker-street, passing by just afterwards, assisted Mr. Jones to disentangle his hands from the cords,:wbich were severely injured by the tightness of the pressure. :No traces of the thieves have been discovered. A number of robberies of a similar description have been committed during the winter within a few yards of the same spot. There appears to be a regularly organized band of house-breakers at present committing depredations between Wa terloo and Blackfriars-bridges, on the Surrey side of the river.— In addition to the burglary which was committed in the house of Mr. Taylor, surgeon, of Stamford-street, and another in a house in Hatfield-street, from both of which a good deal of property was taken, several attempts have been made in other houses in that vicinity. The thieves are most daring in their proceedings. On Sunday week, about dusk, an inmate of one of the houses in the Commercial-road, on proceeding to the yard, discovered a man attempting to enter the first-floor window by means of a lad der. The thief made hie escape, leaving the ladder behind.—A second attempt was made on the same house a few evenings since, when a female, on opening the yard-door perceived another lad der placed against the bed-room window, and a man in the act of entering the room. She was so terrified that she fainted, and in the confusion the robber again made good his escape by jump ing over the wall.—The second ladder appeared to have been bor rowed for the purpose from some of the new houses at pr esen t being built in the neighbourhood. The robbers, in all these in stances, appear to have acted in such a manner as evinces how little they fear interruption from the watchmen. BIRTH. On the 11th inst., Mrs. R., Reilly, of the Lawn, South Lambeth, of a sou. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at St. Mary's,Bryanstone-square, Henry Burn, Esq. of Great Queheo-street, youngest son of the late Major-General William Burn, of the Honourable East India Com• pany's Service, to Eliza Maria, widow of the late Henry Belling ham, Esq. and daughter of the late Charles Rowlls, of Kingston, Surrey. On the 14th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Chandler, George Smith, Esq. to Harriett, daughter of the late C. Garston, Esq. of the Stock Exchange. On the 10th inst., at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. L. Bradstreet, of Hackney, to Mary Ann, third (laughter of Mr. R. Smith, of Lower Thames-street. On the 13th inst., Charles Clarke, Esq. of Gray's Inn, to Catherine Spence, eldest daughter of Thomas Davison, Esq. of Bedford row. DIED. On the 12th inst., Mary, the wife of Mr. James Swan, printer, of 76, Fleet-street, in her 72d year ; after a lingering illness of twelve months, and suffering a deprivation of sight for upwards of 23 years. On the 14th inst., him Lucy Marriott, relict of the late T. Marriott, Esq., Old Broad -st reet. On Monday the 13th i ns t., at U pper Kennington Green, H. Pilleau, Esq, On the 12th inst., at Studley Priory, Oxon, Le Blount, fourth son of Sir Alexander Croke. On the 13th inst., Mr. Henry Johnston, son of W. Johnston, Esq., of Muswell-hill, Middlesex, aged 31. On the 13th inst., at Gunnersbury House, aged 24, Captain George.agooti.rn Nixon Ra msa y, o f th e 6th Enniskillen Regim en t o f Dragoons. On the 14th inst., in his 22d year, John, eldest son of John Moore, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn. At Lincoln, on the flth inst., Mrs. Lophia Sill, sister to the late J. Sill, Esq. of Bath, and of the Viscountess.de Tagoahy, of Piccadilly. On the II th inst. at Durham, Mr. D. Taylor, aged 80.