The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Gazelle of last night Contains some diplo matic appointments, of which the chief are, that of Sir William A'Court from Portugal to St. Peters burgh, and that of Sir Frederick Lamb, with a step in rank, from Spain to Portugal. Whatever may be the direction sought to be given or impressed on foreign affairs here in England, it will, we presume, be acknowledged by all, that more powerful and pru dent persons could not have been selected for con ducting tly,t designs of their Government to a happy issue. Of their personal qualities we of course know only, or chiefly, by report; but we know also, thrAt affability of manners, and a kind disposition, are powerful instruments in the management of public business, and that the gentlemen whose promotion we now announce, in addition to their more solid accomplishments, are reputed to be eminently dis tinguished by all the ami.obl,t qualities which adorn high stations. The sagacity and vigour with which Sir Frederick Lamb has detected and frustrated all the plotS of the Apostolic party at Madrid have ren dered him, exclusive of his general talents, a most appropriate person tOr the Embassy to Lisbon. Sir Wm. A'Court's experience and practised ability have made him equal to the most difficult diplo matic station, and such may that to Russia prove. —Mmes. Our city article contains the essence of the etni cable arrangement between the Russians and Per sians,—an arrangement peculiarly 'favourable to the efficacy of our propositions to ? I'urkey, if her Go vernment will either listen to reason or bend to circumstances. The same article states, that the Austrians were endeavouring to preectire a medifica eion in the treaty of July, with a view to procure further indulgence for the Turks. The fact is, that time has already operated a modification of that treaty; and yet what does it threaten, even in the freshness of its originality, to the Turks ? Only. that in case they will not accept our mediation," the high contracting Powers will continue to prosecute the work of pacification on the basin agreed upon between them ;" that is, "bx preventing all colli sion between the contending parties." The state of the case between the Turk and the Allied Powers is simply this at the present moment, We have prevented him from destroying the Greeks, we shall continue to prevent him from destroying the Greeks, restraining, at the same time, the Greeks from annoying him. If he will not bear this inter vention, he must declare war against us : the war in ' that case will be aggressive and offensive on his part, and we shall not then rest satisfied with merely stopping his attacks upon Greece. With respect to the situation of affairs at Constantinople itself, it is only certain that the embargo has been reimposed, and that the Ambassadors have declared that they would quit the place, with or without passports, if the deliberations of the next Divan did not termi nate in submission to the terms proposed by the Allied Powers.—lbid. Our readers will find hi our Union-Hall report, a curious expose. A gentleman, who is the or of several houses in Beresford-street, stated to Mr. Swabey, that gangs of burglars infested that neigh bourhood ; that scarcely a night passed in which houses were not broken into and robbed; that the robbers were so daring, that if they were driven away one night from a house, they returned again the next ; that his tenants suffered so much from this state of things, that they were determined to leave the place, and had given him notice to quit; and he applied to Mr. Swabey to give directions to some of his officers to endeavonr to discover and break up the gangs. Mr. Swabey very frankly in formed the gentleman, that he could render him no assistance; that he would repeat to him what he had already said to a gentleman who made a similar application to him---apply to the Secretary of State. There was, he added, a population of 300,000 in the Union-Hall division, and there were only twelve officers attached to the office to perform the various duties; and it could not be expected that these twelve men could be employed every night by all who might require their aid. Magistrates and offi cers have a multiplicity of duties to discharge. Some of these duties are pleasant and profitable to themselves and some beneficial only to the public. Those duties which are pleasant and profitable to themselves, will, always be discharged in preference to those which are beneficial only to the public. We never yet heard of a Magistrate who could not find time to job in public-house licenses, to shut up rights of way, to dispose of contracts, or to do any one of the many things which procure money or money's worth to relations or friends, or extend in terest with powerful connections. In like manner, an officer will always find time to hang about saloons :tad oyster-rooms and coffee-rooms, to perform the important duty of tasting what the gentlemen and ladies choose to drink in such places. But watch ing for burglars in a damp, cold, Or wet night, is by no means so very pleasant an occupation ; and a sen sible police-officer is not such a fool, any more than his betters, as to prefer a hungry out-of-doors night job for the more pleasant one of tasting wine and liquors in a warm and comfortable room, with the privilege of being insolent into the bargain. It is an understood matter in this country, that the business of a police is .not to prevent or detect crime; and Mr. Swabe y very properly re f ers t h e su ff erers to t h e Secretary of State. The Secretary of State svill in return send to Mr. Sivahev a return of all the complaints of sufferers at the other offices, so that he may be able to communicate to the complainants at Union Hall, that they are not worse off than their neighbours. The business of Government in Eng land has hitherto been to raise as much money as possible from the people arid to spend it in a way as little profiteble for them as possible. Whether Lord Lansdowne will be able to depart from this system, and introduce some effective improvements in the Law and Police of the country, remains to be seen. The great objection to our Police System is that there is no responsibilitv,—that no one is an swerable for anything. Neither' vanity, nor ambi tion, nor the love of money, is.enlisted in behalf of the public interest. It is impossible that, under the present system of anarchy of Magistrates, and interest of Officers in the prevalence of crime in stead of its diminution, any natural improvement can take place.—Morning Chronicle. Although the public expectation has been wound up to the highest state of excitement relative to the result of the unfortunate victory of Navarin, still, we regret to say, nothing of a decisive character has yet transpired from any official or trust-worthy au thority. An attempt has been made, and is still daily making, to justify our aggression upon an an cient Ally—and perhaps had the Allied Powers dealt by Greece as they have dealt by Turkey, there might be found some persons who would he sitate before they pronounced upon the wantonness of our attack. But we cannot regard this matter merely as applicable to the Turks—their name is odious throughout Europe, and is, even in liberal England to this very day, used to signify something unworthy of consideration, in the nicest sense of the term. It is the nursery phrase to frighten child ren—it it is the common household phrase to denote barbarism--the absence of all manliness and feel ing—and to say of any man that he ought to be treated like a Turk, is to treat him worse than the beast of the field, and consider him before hand as only worthy of the fate of the murderer or assassin. Whether this mode of considering the subject he just or unjust, there can be little diffi culty in determining, and that a prevailing belief in the former has stimulated some of our contem poraries in the course they have pursued, cannot, we think, be questioned. Day after day they have been exciting every possible prejudice against the Ottoman Porte—they decry the Turks—the infidel Turks ---as if all principle were to be lost sight of in the clamour, and as if all sense of justice was to be violated in oar dealings with the Turks. How far such conduct can square with the principles of sound pol . cy or ge nu i ne Christianity, the public have to decide, as well as to pass judgment on those who, to promote the cause of inva4e, the very national ri bt sanctuary of ce' - Ai lice have • • - ~ r ~ l~,~i often had occasion to state, so we reiterate it, that we can have no possible partiality for the Government of the Porte, as it either has been or is now consti tuted. If it could be altered without prejudice to our essential interests, we should be heartily glad to promote such a measure;—but let us not, be cause we cannot accomplish so desirable an object, be guilty of a wanton breach of faith, and commit a foul and worse than Turkish aggression upon an Ally; we say--=let our interference be tried upon principle; Russia has discontented subjects—Aus tria has discontented subjects—France, aye, and England too, can find she is not without them ; well, but Turkey is the Ally of each and every of them,—and suppose the discontented of either ap plied to her Government for assistance, or which is the case exactly in point here, that the Turkish Go vernment interfered and said, if you persecute your dependent subjects, we shall make you answerable, —we shall send a fleet to Brest, or to Portsmouth, or Trieste, or Odessa, or Archangel,—and upon our refusal to meet her terms she encounters our fleet, — that fleet suppose again destroyed,—what in such a case, we ask, would be the feelings of the insulted and debased Government and people who would submit to such bitter humiliation ? The answer is in the heart of every civilized being in Europe ;—it would not be endured ; it would be resented, — and the last drop of a freeman's blood would be shed in vindicating his degraded honour and that of his country. This is the fair way to state the matter,—this is the test by which to try the principle; and if such unfounded interference would be treated by European nations, as we firmly believe it would, why should we expect that men in Turkey will either think, or feel, or act otherwise than either of the Allied Powers would have done ? The truth however seems to be, that in the total absence of all justification for the attack, " Turk, Turk," is gratingly sounded in every ear— ns if forsooth a wise or Christian Government should have been actuated with a hope that such an outcry could sanction the infraction of international law and the violation of universal justice !—When the Spaniards first visited South America, they openly stated that the natives were unworthy of be ing treated as men or Christians, and they brutally treated them accordingly :—the falsehood was wisely propagated ; but thank God there is a retributive and just Providence, who has now-a-days taught the Spaniards a very different lesson. If the cru saders of old had undertaken such a Quixotic mis sion as the Allied Powers have nowdone, we should not have been much astonished at it, for at that pe riod a mistaken sense of religion led to the most diabolical proceedings; but that in this " age of in tellect" such things should have come to pass, does we own excite ' our special wonder."—ilforning Post. We gave some curious extracts yesterday from • Chinese Papers, of the 24th and 27th of January. From these it appears that the Tartar rebels had excited no small anxiety in the mind of his Imperial Majesty, and that he had been obliged to send to ' the borders of Tartary two of his greatest Generals, Chang-sing and Yang-yu-chun, in order to oppose that nation, which, in 1614, conquered China, and placed a Prince of their own on the Chinese throne. We are not informed of the cause of the rebellion, or the means or intentions of the rebels, but it is not at all improbable that they wish to repeat the inroad which was made in the 17th century; and if they once pass the grand boundary, and attack the enervated natives of the South, we should not be surprised at their ultimate success. The seat of war is at present fully 1,500 miles from Pekin, the capital; and the expense consequently, of sending troops and supplies to such a distance, must be felt severely by a Government so little accustomed to war. Ac cording to their own accounts, the resources of the Chinese are enormous—they have a population of more than 300,000,000 of souls, an annual revenue of 70,000,0001., and an army of 1,000,000 infantry and 800,000 cavalry. If numbers were every thing, the Chinese army would, of course, he the most powerful in the world ; but all history shows that numerous armies, without experience or bravery, have no chance with even a handful of determined opponents who have been accustomed from their youth to the fatigues of marching and all the hardships of war. Such, in fact, is the character of the Tartars. Many of the tribes live entirely on plunder, and are almost con ;tautly engaged in war with their neighbours. They are addicted to ardent spirits, live chiefly in tents, Ind remove from one encampment to another with all the facility and regularity of disciplined troops. Independent of these advantages, the na ture of their climate, which lies chiefly between the 40th and 55th degree of north latitude, must give them a great superiority over the natives of the South. We need not wonder, then, that the Em peror had taken alarm, and shed tears of joy on learn ing that Cashgar had been taken, and in one en gagement 3,000 of the " rebel thieves had been washed clean from the face of the earth." We are 'not told, however, by the Chinese, what loss they had sustained, though it appears, by their own ad mission, tbat the rebels, on one point, dispersed the Emperor's troops. The Gazette Extraordinary of the Tartars, however—if they publish such a Go vernment paper—would, most probably, put th 9 present state of affairs in a very different light. It is amusing to reflect how little interest the commo tions of such a vast empire, and the great slaugh ter which must ensue, excites among Euro peans. But self-interest gives impulse to most of the feelings of the great body of man kind. We are apt to think that the disturbances in that country cannot affect as—and that, though a body of Tartars were to make their way to Pekin, there would be only a change of dynasty—some thousands slain—and that the three hundred millions of Chinese would go on in the monotonous course which they have pursued from time immemorial. " Suppose," said Adam Smith, " that the great empire of China, with all its myriads of inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake—and let us consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of connection with that part of the world, would be affected upon receiving intelligence of this dreadful calamity. He would, I suppose, first of all, express very strongly his sorrow for the mis fortune of that unhappy people—he would make many reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and the vanity of all the labours of man, which could thus be annihilated in a moment; and when all this fine philosophy was over—when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly uttered—he would pursue his business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the same ease and tran quillity, as if no such accident had happened. The most frivolous disaster which could befal himself would occasion a more real disturbance. If he was to lose his little finger to-morrow, he would not sleep to-night; but provided he never saw them, he will snore with the most profound security over the ruin of a hundred millions of his brethren—and the de struction of that immense multitude seems, plainly, less interesting to him than this paltry misfortune of his own."—Mo rning Herald. The great and opulent town of Liverpool is just now suffering, it would seem, under one of those severe and vexatious visitations, an over-zealons In spector of Taxes, who is making surcharges, almost without end, upon persons employing occasional porters, and other servants, in their business, who have never hitherto been supposed to come within the fair meaning of the Assessed Tax Acts. This is, probably, done by orders from head-quarters; or, at any rate, is, we dure say, done by the individual from a conscientious .discharge of what he conceives to be' his duty. On question able matters, however, it would be a much wiser course, we should think, to get the point in ques tion decided on one or two separate cases, and should the decision be in favour of the Crown, make it known to all whom it may affect. None but those who have experienced it can conceive the trouble, expense, and vexation, which the system of sur charging and appealing causes, to people in business especially, many of whom would almost rather sub mit to any exaction, however unjust, than be subject to the harrassing process which universally occurs on such occasions, and that principally from the whole sale way in which such things are generally . done. To the credit of the Inspectors of Taxes in the Metropolis, they, we believe, for the most part at least, adopt a milder course. If they discover, or think they have discovered, any error in an individual's return under the As sessed Taxes, they send him a civil notification, pointing out the error; and adding that, if it is ad mitted, the single duty alone will be added to the party's other taxes, and he hears no more of the mat ter till the day of payment. This seems a much more just and politic course than that of poun cing upon the teazing people with surcharges, more especially, as in the Liverpool case, where the subjects of such surcharges are of a questionable description. We are far from saying that all persons should not be made to bear their fair and equal share of the public burdens. At the same time, considering how heavy those burdens are, and with what weight they too often fall upon those least able to bear them, it should be the study of those who have this odious task of en forcing tnem to render the pill as little unpalatable as may be. The Government had even better lose a little than press for doubtful matters in a harsh and unpopular manner. If, however, it be true that Mr. Herries has in store a Property Tax as part of his first Budget, the surest way to make such an impost endurable would be to sweep away at the same time these Assessed Taxes, and the whole train of In spectors, surcharges, &c. One evil substituted for another will be far less onerous than a second added to the first.--Bil. To the application of the Ambassadors at Con stantinople for passports, the Reis Effendi has, it is said, returned a direct refusal. This refusal may be interpreted in two ways. It may either be given by the Porte because it wishes not, by any direct act, to become a party to the commencement of hostilities, of which the departure of the Ambassadors may be supposed to be a precursor; or it may be received as a proof of the desire which the Porte feels to pro voke hostiliries. Looking to the whole of its con duct, the latter interpretation is certainly the fairer. A passport, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, is a paper giving permission to the bearer, generally a stranger, to travel for a certain time, or to pass through certain places, undisturbed by the resident authority. If an Englishman were to land at Calais without a passport, the utmost punishment would be to return him to Dover. If an Englishman were to leave Paris for Calais without a passport, the utmost punishment would be to send him to Dover ender a guard. The mere fact of not having that necessary paper would operate only to exclude him from France. He might, on suspicion of some offence, be exposed to confinement, and his not possessing a passport might be taken in proof; but the non-possession is no offence in itself. A British resident in Constantinople may have a soldier to at tend him while there; he may have an escort when travelling through the country; or he may have a firmest, or general letter of introduction to the local authorities in his route, but any thing in the nature of an European passport he cannot have, for no such thing exists. When, therefore, we hear of the Ambassadors demanding their passports, they, in reality, desire something of much more importance —a letter of protection—without which, should they happen to fall in with a Turkish cruizer, or to land at a Turkish village, they might be exposed to very serious risk. It is quite true that they went to Constantinople without any such protection. Those who went by sea, were conveyed thither by vessels of war of their own nation—those who went by land, were escorted by a Turkish guard of honour, from the moment of their passing the frontier. In such cases there was no need of &mans, and none were asked. They do not return under similar cir cumstances. Still, if all the opposition that the Porte offers to the removal of the Ambassadors is of that passive kind, which consists merely in not facilitating it—whatever lack of courtesy there may be in such a proceedure—there seems no such ground of complaint, as, in treating with a semi. barbarous State like Turkey, we might not expect. If. the Porte, not content with this, should oppose any obstacle to the Ambassadors removing freely and openly, such opposition, according to their own in variable customs, may be received as a declaration of war. In fact, they have never made use of any other than the detention of the Ambassador of the Power against which they were about to commence hostilities. This is evidently a very different case from that contemplated by the Treaty of the 6th of July, and one which will necessarily call for different conduct en the part of the Allies. That Treaty provides most amply for th• case of the Turks refusing to keep peace with Greece; but it does not eves con template the ease of its refusing to keep peace with the Allies. If, by any act, Turkey shall place itself in the latter predicament, the Allies will treat Turkey precisely as they would treat any other Power with which they might happen to be jointly at war. And it ought to be observed, that a declaration of war by the Porte, not only places it in a new position, but completely absolves the Allies from all those condi tions to which they have seen fit to subject themselves. We think it the more necessary to make these ob servations, because it seems to be argued by some of those who are averse from a war with the Porte, that the Allies must regulate their conduct by the letter of the Treaty, however Turkey may see fit to act. An Evening Contemporary of yesterday goes even farther. It. says, " there is in fact at present no warfare in Greece, if we except the offensive opera tions on the part of the Greeks." And it adds, " if those were put down, there would remain nothing for the Allies to do." Now, if all that the Allies proposed to themselves was merely to reduce the combatants in the Morea to a state of inactivity, leaving three-fourths of it in the possession of the Turks, and leaving it, of course, in their power, as soon as the Allies had withdrawn, to complete their conquest by the subjugation of the remain der—if this were the peace which the Allies were to establish, and if all their preparations were to conclude in so lame and impotent a way, then cer tainly a more silly Treaty never was formed than that of the 6th July. So far from such a state of things being that which the Allies have engaged them selves to establish, they expressly declare, not that the armies of Turkey shall depart from the plains and her navies from the ports of Greece, but that every Turkish inhabitant shall remove. " To pre vent the collisions which are the inevitable conse quence of so long a struggle," says the Treaty, " the Greeks shall enter upon possession of the Turkish property, situated either on the Continent, or in the Isles of Greece. We conceive, therefore, that as long—not as Ibrahim and Redschid remain in Greece with their forces, but were they or their men withdrawn or destroyed—as long as a single Turk remains on the Continent, or in the Isles, so long does the Porte deny that settlement of the affairs of the Levant which it is the object of the Allies to procure. The manner of the allied inter ference seems to be as much the subject of misin terpretation as the object of it. It is true that the contracting Powers declare that their endeavours to bring about the armistice, which is the ob ject of the Treaty, shall not interfere with the hostilities between the contending parties, but this expression, in the nature of things, can only apply to preliminary measures, for if the Allies are merely to look on while the Greeks and Turks continue to fight, to what purpose did they seek to interfere ? And how could they complain of the evils of a warfare of six years, while, by their con duct, they gave to it every chance of continuing for sixty ? That the refraining from mingling in the hostilities of the parties, was, indeed, a preliminary only to more energetic measures for restoring peace to the Levant, is obvious from the mere words of the Treaty, the third private article of which' expressly provides, that if those measures—namely, the measures of advice and exhortation, unbacked by active interference—do not suffice to induce the Porte to accede to the propositions of the Allies, in such case the representatives of the latter in London, shall determine the ulterior measures to which it may be necessary to resort ; so that the ulterior !measures are not determined by the Treaty of July, and therefore ought not to be judged by it. The Al lies are placed in the predicament of a sober, honest, broad-shouldered yeoman, who happens to reside between two noisy, riotous, and ricketty tai lors, who destroy his rest, threaten his property, and expose him. to . perpetual danger by their inveterate bickerings. The man, in such a case, if good na tured withal, we may suppose to address the frae tions in terms of neighbourly admonition; %to repre sent to them the absurdity of their perpetual quar rels, the ruinous effects to themselves, and the troublesome consequences to him. If they heard him with ready ears, and shook hands, and each betook himself to his dwelling, the task of our ar biter would be at an end; bat if they would not listen to him, what resource had he but to give them a hearty shake, by way of a specimen of his powers, and bind over their hands to their good behaviour ? If the neighbours, ad mitting all the while that the honest man had a right to sleep in quiet, and seeing that his admoni tions were given to no purpose, should yet blame him for having recourse to a more vigorous mode of reducing the combatants to their senses, he might,we think, justly tell them that they .were a set of very unreasonable personages. That, according to every principle of the law of nature and nations, the Allies had a right to interfere as they have done, has been proved until demonstration was wearied. The cuckoo opposers of Ministers continue, however, to sing over their dornal note as if not a word had ever been said on the subject. Among the questions which have been asked about five hundred times, and in five hundred shapes, is the following : —" How would the English behave were the Russians and French, and any third Power, to enter Portsmouth as the Allied fleets en tered Navarin ?" This is evidently put as a clincher, and we doubt not that the small logician who first hit upon it imagined that he had got the defendants of Admiral Codrington in a pretty cleft stick. We give him his answer in plain English. If any such an attempt were made by Pagan, Turk, Jew, or Christian, we hope there will never cease to be the will, any more than the power, in Englishmen, to sink them to the bottom for their insolence. To the reasoners who think they can build an argument on such an admission, we grant most cheerfully all the advantage of it, as well as of the utter contempt to which those are entitled who dare to institute a parallel so insulting to Old England between cases so utterly different.—New Tinzes. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Thomas Mosey was charged before the Loan MAY OIL, by Henry Slade, a driver of a hackney-coach, with having a quantity of goods in his pos session under very suspicious circumstances. Henry Slade said, that on Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, the prisoner and another person hired him, and he took them to the King's Arms-yard, in Tooley.street ; that when he got there, the prisoner and his companion said, that they wanted to convey some goods to Petticoat lane ; he accordingly put the goods in his coach, and drove the prisoner and his friend half-way down Petticoat-lane; his friend went into a house, and returned, saying, " that the person who was to purchase the goods would not he at Lome for an hour," and requested the witness to drive them again to Tooley-street ; he did so, and after some time they requested him again to drive to Petticoat-lane. Their second visit proved equally unsuccessful, and he was again requested to drive them to Aldersgate-street ; driving down Cornhill, the other man get out of the coach. The witness suspected that " all was not right," and com municated his suspicion to Roberts, a constable, who im mediately took the prisoner and the goods to the watch house. Roberts, a constable, said that he took the prisoner in custody, and searched him in the watch-house, and found a duplicate of three pair of blankets; that the prisoner stated the goods to belong to his sister ; but, after some further inquiry, he ascertained that the property belonged to Emanuel Moses, a broker. Emanuel Moses, of Bunhill-row, deposed that the pro perty belonged to him. Be purchased it at Eddes's sale rooms, Vere-street, Clare-market, last Wednesday ; that he was in the habit of employing the prisoner to carry goods for him ; hut, instead. of conveying them to Bunhill-row, agreeably to the instruction., he kept them. He was not aware of the goods being removed from the sale-rooms, until the constable called upon him yesterday morning, and inquired if he had lost any goods, and made him acquainted with the detention of the prisoner, and the goods in ques tion, which consisted of a feather-bed, carpet, table-cloths, blankets; &c. Robert Meredith, clerk to Mr. Eddes, auctioneer, de posed that the prisoner called at the sale-rooms, and re ceived the goods to convey to Emanuel Moses's residence. W. Ivey, assistant to Mr. Reeve, the pawnbroker, of Snow-hill, proved that three pair of blankets were pawned by a young woman the previous evening. E. Moses identified the blankets as his property.—The prisoner was fully committed. The coachman, who had by his honest conduct lost his fare, and a great deal of time, asked the Jew for compensa tion, as be was indebted to him for the restoration of his property; the Jew declined, and referred him to the " gentlemen" who employed him. The LOUD MAYOR recommended the Jew to compen sate the young man for his time, and desired the latter to call upon his Lordship to-morrow if he was not re munerated. A porter of the Flower Pot booking-office, in Bishops gate-street, was summoned to answer a charge preferred by Mr. Gilleneaux, of Pope's Head-alley, Cornhill, for charg ing ls. 2d. for the carriage of a pheasant from Norwich. A gentleman who attended on behalf of Mr. Gilleneaux stated that lost Sunday the porter brought a pheasant to Mr. Gilleneaux's office, in Pope's Head-alley, and demanded and received Is. ed., which was Is. for carriage and 2d. for booking; it was the latter charge that was disputed, it was an imposition, as the booking was always paid in the country. This system of fraud was carried on to such an extent that the profit arising from charging booking amounted in some coach and parcel offices to 1,2001. a year, and it was with a view to check such an ab*se that induced Mr. Gilleneaux to appear. The porter had only complied with the instructions re ceived from his master. The LORD MAYOR inquired his master's name, to which he replied, George Kitchen. He then ordered a summons to be served upon him to attend at the Mansion-house to answer the complaint of Mr. Gilleneaux. James Pearce, who was remanded the day before, being found upon the top of Mr. Clock's house, Bishopsgate-street, was placed at the bar. He said his friends were present to give him a character. Robert Cook, shoemaker, of Whitecross-place, Moor fields, said that the prisoner lodged with him ; that he was also a shoemaker ; that he believed him to be an honest man, as he always paid his rent regular. The Loan MAYOR, upon learning that the prisoner was a shoemaker, expressed his surprise at his climbing up a ladder, and asked Mr. Cook whether the prisoner was ac customed to walk in his sleep. Mr. Hobler asked the prisoner if he had ever been at sea ?—To which be replied, that he had been on board of a frigate for some time . . - Loan MAYOR—Oh, that is accounting for your ac tivity. His Lordship addressed Mr. Cook, and desired him to take the prisoner home, as he was a good lodger, and not allow him to roost upon the top of a house. — (A laugh.) Hurdsfield, the officer, informed the LORD MAYOR that he had been at St. Thomas's Hospital to see the un fortunate young man, James Smith, who had been so se verely cut with a razor, and he was in suck a state that the surgeon of the Hospital had expressed as his opinion, that it would be judicious to have Smith's depositions immedi ately taken. The Loan Maxon immediately despatched a messenger, with a letter to Alderman SMITH, to take the young man's depositions. HATTON-GARDEN. —John Gallaher, a super numerary watchman of Gray's-inn-lane, was charged before Mr. Sergeant SELLON with disturbing the peace, and in decently exposing his person. Mr. Sergeant SELLON.—You shall find bail for the of fence. MARYLEI3ONE-OFFICE.—Thomas Allen, a dust- Man, was charged with ringing a bell in Portland-place. In the 3d of Geo. IV. eap. 84, it is enacted, " That if any person shall within the boundaries and limits of St. Afarylebone, blow any born. or trumpet, or use any other noisy instrument, for the purpose of trade and profit, and shall be convicted, they shall for every such offence forfeit and pay not exceeding 405., and not less than 10s., or be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for any time not exceeding 14 days, ncr less than 24 hours. Air. Hosicnis ordered him to pay the lowest penalty, with costs.. Seven pie, paupers in Marylebone workhotee, were charged by Mr. Palmer, the steward, with mutinous I,behaviour. As soon as their cases had been disposed of, Mr. Watson, another officer, brought Thomas Porter, a pauper boy, who IS ringleader of a refractory party in the same establishment of his sex. The boaid had ordered him to be flogged for 'his misconduct, but ha declare,l, that he would plunge a ,lnife into the heart of him who laid hands upon him. He said nothing in his defence, and was also committed to the House of Correction for 28 days. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, a powerful young man, named Thomas Floodgate, who stood remanded on a charge of burglary at No. 9, Plumber-street, City-road, on the 28th of November, was brought up for final ex amination before Mr. BRoucnToti. From the statement of T. Haylock, a constable of St. Luke's parish, it appeared, that about seven o'clock in the evening of the 25th of November, while walking through Featherstone -street, in cornpauy with another constable, named Ike, they met they met the prisoner carrying two bonnet-boxes tied up in handkerchiefs, and stopped him on suspicion. On examination of the bundles, and search of his person, they found two Leghorn bonnets, two silk shawls the skirt of a silk gown, a diamond brooch, two gold watch keys, a pair of gold ear-rings, a Queen Anne half-crown, and some ether curious coin, the handle part of a broken chisel, and a phosphorus.box, In answer to questions put to him, he cavalierly confessed how he became possessed of the property, and that the spot was not far off, in the vicinity of City-road turnpike-gate. Having locked the prisoner up, witness and his fellow constable went round that neighbourhood, and shortly found that the burglary had been committed at the house in question where all the room-doors, drawers, &c. were forced open, and the place rifled of every portable article of value, even to the pictures off the walls. In one of the rosin door posts, the point of a chisel was found broken, which, on being matched with the other part found on the prisoner, and with the marks of violence o❑ the drawers, &c. in ,the house, were found to correspond. This statement was confirmed by the evidence of the coastabls Bee. Daring the taking of the depositions, the prisoner, who displayed the most depraved hardihood, took frequent op portunities grossly to insult the Magistrate, an threaten the females who appeared for the prosecution. He was fully committed for trial. • UNION-HALL.--A gentleman, the proprietor of seve ral houses in Beresford-street, near the Walworth turn pike, attended foi the purpose of applying for the aid of the police in suppressing the nightly depredations com mitted in the above neighbourhood. The applicant stated, that zeveral of his tenants had given him notice to quit his houses in Beresford-street, in consequence of the gangs of burglars and thieves of all descriptions, that infested that immediate neighbourhood. Scarcely a night passes that houses were not broken into and robbed ; and, in fact, the occupiers were kept in such constant terror, that they one and all had come to a reso lution of leaving the place altogether rather than live in a street under such perpetual apprehension of being plun dered. Under these circumstances, the applicant added that the object of Isis attendance was to request that some of the officers might be directed to visit Beresford-street, as it was in the district, of a night. Mr. Swanitv.—An application of a similar nature was made at this office a short time ago, by a gentleman resid ing in the neighbourhood of South Lambeth, and I ad vised him, as I shall advise you, to make application for the assistance you require of the Secretary of State. The applicant said, that the burglars in Beresford-street, were so daring, that if foiled in breaking open a house one night, they returned to the attack on the following day, and only retired on hearing the inmates were about. The applicant then withdrew, thanking the Magistrate for the information relative to his application. Lieut. Potter, of the navy, was charged with having assaulted a constable named Berwick. The Lieutenant, who has all the 'characteristics of a sailor, stated, that a friend of his sent him from the coun try', a hare, a pheasant, a brace of partridges, and a couple of rabbits as a Christmas present. On the evening in question he called at the Gloucester coffee-house, where the parcel was directed, and having stopped rather late, in tak ing a glass of grog with a friend, he intended to be economi cal, as lie was on half-pay, and save porterage by carrying the parcel himself. He proceeded along unmolested, until he ar rived in the Kent-road, when the complainant stopped him and insisted on seeing the contents of the basket. " asked him," said the Lieutenant, " to show his authority, but he refused to do so, and, .as I did not like my present to be overhauled, by whom I did not know, I refused to comply, at the came time describing my address and rank in the navy. This explanation, however, was useless, and I was most unceremoniously dragged off to the watch-house I deny having assaulted him, for had I struck him a blow it would have annihilated him. I defy him to show the slightest mark. The constable still persisted that he had been assaulted, upon which the Magistrate told him he might indict the Lieutenant at the sessions, but that it was not a case de manding bail. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 28. Mrs. Ann Stubbs, formerly the proprietor of a public-house called by the name of " The Robin Hood," was opposed by Mr. Burnett, of Cromer street, Brunswick-square, a creditor for 401. Mr. HEATH supported the petition. The petitioner' succeeded the opposing creditor in the public-house a considerable time ago, when the " transfer" amounted to 1401., out of which she paid 100/.; the balance was the cause of the opposition now made to her discharge. Mr. Bur nett having arrested her, in consequence of which, before her confinement, she had paid 71. law ex penses. In We course of the insolvent's examination by Mr. Burnett, who appeared in propria persona, the latter asked her whether she was living with her servant, which question he put several times. Mrs. Stubbs replied in the negative. Mr. HEATH submitted to the Court that those questions were not put in a proper ,manner. Mr. Burnett—l say the were, Sir; I know you, and am as much a gentleman as you are. lam not to be browbeaten by counsel— Mr. Commissioner HARRIS interfered, and said— " Sir, we will put an end to this case, if you do not conduct yourself with propriety." The opposing creditor then proceeded to address the Court ; and while doing so, he referred to a paper which contained memorandums, in order to refresh his memory. Mr. HEATH told him, that he must not look at any paper while making a statement on his oath. Mr. Burnett—You have no right to interfere, and I tell you again, that I'll not be browbeaten by any counsel. d b e ucT d e i h s oe c r h CO order, and again nfdori exercised hltwimitabt.ei yorde it r s ed au th th e o i r n it s y oly to po entrto height, t o r a f o t t n l a o r w y For the last two two or three days the spring flooded e l d lav a e g ri r s e e a i e l t r o o a r n tio c t x l and lands. The parapet wall of the pier building at Sea-field, County Clare, for the protection of the Fishery, was c arried away to the extent of 860 feet— stones, two or three tons weight each, were re moved by the waves.—Limerick Paper. STATE OP BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES.—The number of Banking institutions in the United States, of all kinds, good, bad, and indifferent, is 450, to which add their vari ous branches, and they will amount to 600 ; of this number 80 are on the list of Brokers' banks. The themis about number of 240 yearly. persons y. The m with a forgeries ount on of forged paper put in circulation for the same period, is about two millions of dollars, the loss attendant on which generally falls on the lower classes of society. We have great pleasure in announcing that the smallpox, which for many months has been prevalent in Sherborne, is now rapidly dis appearing. The mortality caused by this pesti lent disorder has been most severe, and the at mosphere, highly impregnated with the conta gion, has communicated it in many instances to individuals who had been previously vaccinated ; but it is most worthy of remark, that not a single patient so situated has died in consequence of the disease, and that a great majority of cases were extremely slight and unimportant.—Dorset Chronicle. GENEALOGY OF THE EARL OF HARROWBY. The family of Ryther, or Rider (as at different periods it was " spelled') is of Yorkshire, and 0, name is derived from Ryther, in the hundred . Barkston, in that county. Nathaniel Ryder, Esq., only son of Lord L i Justice Sir Dudley Ryder, Knt. (for whom his far: jest) , had signed a warrant elevating him to 6 1 Peerage the day before his demise, in . 1756-7vrh i ' event, however, prevented the completion of tb intended honour), was created Baron Harrowby , of Harrowby, in Lincolnshire , by letters pitteiii;: (l ,, at ti the 20th of May, 1776. His Lordship marrie u f : A .- 1762, Elizabeth, daughter of the Right Rev erew; Richard (Terrick) Lord Bishop of L o ndon, bi, whom he had Dudley, th e p resent E ar l, ands 6 ! l i f other children, of whom Hen r y ( t h e s i x th soni,lS holy orders, and is now Lord Bishop of Litcu' and Coventry. mei Duey d o l f s R a 1. 3; d d o e n r : Earlin theof H c a o r ti r o n ‘tvyby, of Vsi ta oournde, don, And of Baron Harrowby, of Harrowby, in the Or tf ar.' Lincoln, was born th e 22d D ecem b er , 1167Anier ried, in 179.5, Susannah Levison, daughter 0 ' sue ville, first Marquis o f St a ff or d, by w h om he has l- 0 , —Dudley, Viscount S an d on , b orn the 7 t 1 , 1 , .; o f 1797, married, in 1823, Fr ances , on ly daug o t 6 , o John, first Marquis of Bute; another son, and of. daughters; the eld es t of the latter is the Yr" Hugh, Viscount Ebrington. Lord Harrowby was Lord President of the C b . O.; cil, succeeded to the Barony upon the demise of father, on the 20th June, 1803, and was athin e f., to the Viscoulty and Earldom on the 9th of 1809. ATROCIOUS MURDER. (FROM A CORRESPDXDINT.) , x 7 0 BISHOPS WALSHAM, DEC. 27. vr• the melancholy duty of adding the followifl t t : the list of barbarous murders which hale 0 „- f i r i p: been perpetrated in various parts of the e ll " en , On Saturday evening last about half-past 0 161 ' 4 the body of a young man named Harinsw°"Cd was found on the road side between Titchfilie and Fareham, in Hampshire, most barbsi° l • l6 'i mangled. Several stabs appeared in varil parts of the body, one of his ears was cut and the head nearly severed from the trun k ' After the most diligent search for the m urdel' the following particulars have transpired :--- 1.1 1 unfortunate young man was of the most S Ol l, and inoffensive habits, and worked as 3 jo,l' a neyman bricklayer at Gosport. His master,",, i lt found it necessary, owing to the scarcity 0 1 ,7; ployment during the winter, to discharge al l a workmen, with the exception of the dece ase ; who, on account of his excellent charaCter, w e , retained in full work. It appears that thi s Pf se, ference on the part of the master, had given s , to the most bitter animosity towards g ar° worth, in the breasts of his fellow-workm en ' On Saturday evening last, they vowed Yeng ean d' and one of them, it has since been Gospor e i by name Sheppard, followed him from towards his home near Titehfield, with oaths ire imprecations. Sheppard has been lodged.fe gaol, on suspicion of . being the murderer• entered a public-house in the road, on the nigh in question, and borrowed a knife for the pu r i: pose of eating provisions he had with him, whic" knife was found lodged in the throat of the ( 1 5 ceased, and has been identified by the land 191:" jog as the one furnished by him to Sheppard. hands, when he was taken into custody, It found• covered with tar; but . the surgeon disc vered, beneath the finger nails, remains of b l° ,„o and gore. His shirt-sleeves also had been c o , washed. The prisoner's agitation was excess The occurrence has occasioned an extraore a , disco/ere t,. sensation in this part of Hainpshire, as the der seems to have proceeded from a most di ll , o - c i lical spirit of revenge and a thirst fo r th e bf t - he of the victim. Harmswerth was the son 0' " s r gardener of Mr. Purvis, of Blackbrook, p ho Titehfield, and was much respected by all 1/ knew him.—Morning Paper. G. 4 bulpolit T IIE F;) 11Ar 1 21 i ° le i A 1 48 Is o Rift _w L s ITtkfT " l ti % d : Gr r 114 134: and . e tSi i ter r ek j Mein bePalitl / 4 th 1501 1 1 sat t h e t t l ar to b, ate fro % a _ ape that xo w ' e t ;lay Vita ' 41. .4144 am 114'3r ti.a. ez , ieuei 8. t e . ya cre 'Ol g ale. 7n etatalcigue 11111 Peat p a , f t tl A t 2 60 1., ;:° ll l. 4,111 r 7:4;1 and 1 ) WE 44tie % that 14447 11 *1d, "ti t at ti Ti t rOb".'t the -m f or tt kb e lladia e Q UN r . N a h l _.bEN . '44.41 TH E n TAE m Lo RD T ra m 8. Ilea Con9l Si r Nr ge koa ° ,, 41 ' l'hard Thes Pr thin qt I a r% Pt'e t Tea, t t he I:. Per t Ir' 41 1 1)1 : } he ho th t ti .°4 y hale we til bee l oit e Lif % I : 11 3'n Pc " r~altisa red) Ile 4,oaf t 4r 4.1) ecw ha ve e la to 'lltaxy ?ti! l'r "ual ;; arc pet rlner 1 . 1 4i1 1° y " rei 4 7!•mi ; 4 1 44 4 Per I ; i 9ta 41 4 , 1 Mto t ► tn' for Poi tau Versa Y diaaolv' al i , h out any the p r i ne T vAL E f C . 'tvp fr°ll . l Surid 1 1 144 Pto n aA ` .‘llrc s ' , te,, nb, T. s t :' ll lmi t ,l 2 ' it ty stra ti c c tli sT° ihL I ' ISL % k4,151* 'E ALAI '44 lIE Ro T ZOU 14 4 g0r. 4 41s: 111 ' f 140 111 1 11 e °ll ;t s fell I C 61,13' th kNotj le h, 'nth a , Nbt. tiv b,r.,„ut "1)001 8 1 st, P C' A „ tet , ItrightZ: N antorbo i k Sarliale ai "qtre Four. l*P"bn °re Four, for Qille gow, lore f t r i skoat, ?Ou r teh Aatti , . I GO an ' lb g ni lirj 4 ; 4ll , ' T wa t . Nr ttol li • k ht4 lle S ,re -• h tt 7;i t: i„ burg !hest' i st befoi 1 4 (1444 :Z 4 i ge r MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—TuEsoar, JAN.'I. 1 0 Ashwin, W. Redditch—Swan, Alcester ........................... 1! Bolderston, W., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool ... ........ 1 ,1 Cooper, W., Chelt e nh am —R o y a l H ote l, Ch e lt en h a m ..••' ": 7, Copley, G., Wakefi e ld—A nge l, Ferrybridge ... . ............ ...! ,l; Creese, W., Gloucester—Fleece, Gloucester ... ........ : ... ; Grossman, T. Bristol—Swan, Bristol .0 it , Fraley, N., Trowbridge—Castle, Bath Goldsmid, H. Linton—George, Cranbrook o' j 0: lt Graham, J., Li verpool— Angel, Liverpool . . 4 Hughes, J., Cheltenham—Yearsley's, Cheltenham ":::. i t Neale, P., Norwich—Norfolk hotel, Norwich .....„ Percival, W., Leicester—White Hart, Leicester ....... ••••"- _.,s 00 15 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCIffr -1 ' 4 44 in Petitions to be hoard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's JR.' — Jan. 2, at Nine o'clock. Buzeville, M., Lambeth Pigram, T., Hilline n Carrington, W., Fore-street Read, T., Portsea ~. Davis, Lambeth Roffe, T., Wandswo_t.; Gordon, J 4.,., Claines Smith, J., Itotherhiwisey Greatbatch, W.; Newcastle Warorne, W., liPr Hatten, W. Astwood Wa ke N., Newilliurst Knox, W., Water-lane Wright, D., Brio% Nornlohn, T., 'Power-hill CHARLES 11. passing through B°°m da h" el OL'r served that it was the politest town eared to be seen, as one half of the houses app bowing, and the other half uncovered . he e BIRTH. . On the 27th inst. at the hous S e of her father, the Ilef• hire . , ''' J. B. Ferrers, the Rector of Reddington , the la d y of Fran. Gregg, Esq. of Bedford-row, o f a daughter. . . r a rt On the 23(1 inst. at Th an i stone - house, g er. lia ' the Hon. Lady Forbes, of Crai ievar, of a ds-Argh On the 25th i ns t. at Cla p h am, the W I Y Hanley, Esq. of a son . woo' ksbank, Doughty of Thome On the 24th inst. Mrs. Tho street, of a daughter. __-•-• _- On the 26th inst. at St - John's, Manchester, by the R. Dallas, John Wow'', Esq. of Herne-hill, Surrey , 7 1 - to citor, to Anne Hay wood, the only daughter of tbe Edward Peace Walker, Esq. of Balby, Yorkshire. no. On the 27th inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, by tl3e t he Mr. Marshall, Mr. William Tucker, Commander of East India ship Lady Raffles, to Miss Caroline Filbl * ,b. On the 27th inst. at St. Pancras New Church, bf Rev. Thomas White, Rector of Hertford, George 1 3111 ,1 — '' Esq. to Charlotte Catherine , the youngest daughter of ward Coleman, Esq. On the 25th inst. at St. Paul's, Deptford, Mr. T. ss. nett, to Hannah, second daughter of Mr. R. T. Porrell'„, On the 27th i nst. at St. Augustine s, Watling-street, in the Rev. J. H. Vivian, rector, Mr. Strinfield, of Dok street, Bloomsbury, to Anna, eldest daughter o f the 1 0 George Frickelton, Esq. DIED. t On the 27th inst. after a long and painful illness, ' ll ll• 47th year of her age, Eliza Rooke, wife of Mr. Pc/ Twigg, of Richard-street, Islington, and eldest daugh ter the late Rev. Wm. Wilkins, of Bury-fields, Gloucestersh ire ; On the 27th inst. at the house of her eldest soot t Maidenhead-bridge, Berke, Ann, the widow of Nichol"" Pocock, Esq. late of Great George -street, Westroinswr aged 76. On the 26th inst. at his residence, Totteridgr Thomas Corpe, Esq. in the 66th year of his age. On the 26th inst. at Hammersmith, Richard Esq. in the 66th year of his age. On the 27th inst. at Boyington-green, Herta, Lieut.-General Wm. l'linet. On the 26th inst. Frances, wife of Henry-S -laston, Esq. late of Clapton. h SL On the 27th inst. at Folkestone, Josef in his 92d year. On the 24th inst. at Christ's College, Cambric Beckford Long, of Langley Hall, marks. On the 26th inst. at Cusworth, in th e 76th age, William. Wrightson, E. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by M. YOUN SUN OFFICE) No. 112, Strand. g o p , ar;744:11", 3, a go; b$ g lk,h, ( 14 , ‘, H. 1011, befo,, Q 1 . 4 44 1 , laden, 011) . liTtb (l • tbut id g e, Robe g ; o. wt Te° r - , • , 0 0 7 11 ; .el Ith qtor, Lid • *).