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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning. P a p e rs,Jan. 7, 1525. rTHE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The situation of Portugal presents a singular contrast to that of Spain • and whilst the Govern ment of the latter is upheld by foreign bayonets alone, that of Portugal is secure in the affections of the gr e at mass o f the nation, and has nothing to apprehe n d b u t f r om its own army. 'Phis con trast is the more striking, as the same violent change has been effected in both, in opposition to the public interests, and to the wishes of the most enlightened men in each. Yet in one there is an appearance of voluntary submission ; in the other it is forced ; and if the Portuguese were left wholly to themselves, they would probably make no attempt to re-establish the Constitutional system ; whilst Spain, if once delivered from an a pprehension of foreign interference, would im mediately efface every vestige of tyrannical rule. In this view the Spanish national character un doubtedly appears to great advantage, as com pared to that of the Portuguese : yet the apathy of the latter might find an extenuating cause in the character of their Monarch ; whilst the cruelty of Ferdinand renders the pos session of arbitrary rule in his person, a source of unmixed evil to his subjects. Another cause for the opposite feelings with which they two nations submit to their respective des potisms, could perhaps be traced to the influence exercised by the allies of Spain and Portugal.— The ally of the one never interferes but from honest motives and for good purposes; whereas France has furnished no proof as yet of her sincere desire to alleviate the evils to which, by arms and intrigues, she has reduced the Spanish na tion. Her Cabinet, it is true, has the reputation of having repeatedly remonstrated with the Spa nish Authorities on the cruelty of their proceed ings; but these remonstrances must have been very faint or very insincere, to judge from their effects, as well as from the powerful means which that Cabinet has of enforcing its wishes.— With the large army which the French Govern ment has in the heart of Spain, and which is the only stay of the existing mis-rule, it could obviously impose whatever conditions it pleased, particularly if they were of a tendency to sub stitute something like order for the frightful anarchy in that unhappy country. That Govern ment has other means of influence besides its army ; and, as there is not even a prospect of a change, we almost doubt the truth, as well as the sincerity, of its pretended remonstrances. —Such are partly the effects of British and French influence on the lot of two nations, and on the character of their respective Govern ments. Every new account from Spain presents tier situation as more painful than it was be fore ; whilst all the ad vices from Portugal fur nish some fresh proof of returning tranquillity and confidence. There is only one circumstance in the politics of the latter, which still skews the triumph of prejudice and passion over her real interests. But strong hopes are expressed in some of the letters, received yesterday, that the Court of Lisbon would shortly settle its differences with Brazil; and, as all menacing demonstrations have been long since abandoned, it is highly-probable that these hopes will be speedily accomplished. Our own Government no doubt wishes to give' to its " oldest and most faithful ally " all the! advantage of taking the lead in a measure of such I importance ; and this delicacy, which, we trust, will not be defeated, seems to be the only cause why Brazil has not been included in the number of States on that Continent, with which this country enters immediately into political re lations. [THE TIMES.] An official conuoication is said to have been made by this Government to all the other Eu ropean States, of our intention to form treaties of commerce with the trans-Atlantic States, severed from Spain and Portugal. Without such a declaration, we might have beet) charged with stealing a march in advance upon our commercial rivals ; though in any case it is c!ear that we were at liberty to act towards the new American Republics as we pleased, be ing bound by no treaty to the contrary, and be ing no participators in the Holy Alliance. Other states, we think, would now do well to follow our example—not for our good, but their own ; for the longer they hang back, the better for us. It is said also, that the only recognition of the sovereignty of the states in question, which Great Britain will make, will be her treaties of com merce with them. We are not much averse to this process, if the dissatisfaction of the parent kingdom may be soothed by it. Give us but the substance of the advantages result ing from the recognition, and we will not press the formal act. Of this also we are certain, that the solid benefits resulting to the newly emancipated States from a free trade with England, will form a much more powerful ar gument against their returning to their ancient bondage and a fettered commerce, than any parchment recognition of their independence.— They will not argue, 66 How can we plunge again into our ancient thraldom, when England 66 6 has written us down ' free?" but they will both feet and argue, " How can we replunge into " servitude and poverty, when we see our streets " thronged, and our citizens enriched, by British " commerce?" [NEW TIM ESJ We yesterday gave a general view of the pro perous state of the Finances ; and this day we enter at large into the details. Of these the Ex cise affords the most interesting results. The in crease on the Quarter, which we stated to ex ceed 600,0001. does in fact approach 800,0001. Of this sum na less than 386,6591. arises from Spirits British and Foreign, 130,1551. from Malt, a " 9 94271. from Tobacco and Snuff, all articles of luxury orcomfort to the lowest classes of the com munity. • W i ••t u -out enterint be taken into calculation gintoa sta tementkof the cir eurnstance w hich-sho in comparing the result tii c 1823 and 1824, sect, as of the R e venue for the year as the Receipts from Aus tria, the Repeal of Taxes and Duties, and the time of such Repeal coming into operation— the following statement is made in reference to the Estimates of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in forming which all such circumstances were of course duly considered, and it is presumed that the increase on those Estimates may be considered as the real surplus and improvement. By the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Speech on 23d February 1324, the produce for 1824 was estimated at - - £57,385,000 And at the same time he proposed to repeal Duties on Rum, Coals,Wool, and Silk, equal to an annual decrease of 1,063,000 Estimated Produce £56,323,000 The Revenue for Great Britain ac tually produced, is 50,546,092 The Revenue for Ireland, taken only at the produce of 1823 - - - 3,508,545 The Trustees of Pensions - 4,620,000 58,674,637 Surplus for 1824, beyond the amount expected and required according to the views and plans 2,351,637 of the Chancellor of the Exchequer - --To this there should be an addition of 2,351,6371. for the surplus of Ireland for 1824, compared with 1823, the above calculation hav ing assumed no increase, although the Revenue of Ireland is known to have improved. [BRITISH PRESS. The official returns of the late Quarter's Re venue are now before the public. They will be found as favourable as the most sanguine could expect them to be. The total amount of the Revenue for the year ending on the sth of Ja nuary, 1824, was 49,478,401/. ; that for the year ending on the same day this year, was 50,546,0921.; the actual increase on the year being 1,067,6911. In those branches of the Revenue in which no duties were lowered or re pealed, the increase was very considerable. In the Excise it amounted to 1,156,8161., and in Stamps to 590,476/. We accounted yesterday for the seeming decrease of the Customs, and ex plained that, allowing for repayments on account of silk on hand, and remissions of duties, there was, in fact, a very large increase on the re maining items of Revenue. The duties remitted in the Customs yielded 1,150,0001., yet the net produce of this year is only 166,7911. less than that of the year preceding. The returns for the quarter are still more satisfactory. Every branch of the Revenue is improving. On the Customs alone there appears to be a decrease, from the causes we have above stated ; but it will be ob served that even that decrease is itself propor tionately decreasing ; this quarter it amounts but to 38,5041. The Excise, compared with the cor responding quarter of last year, exhibits an aug mentation of 793,4311. In Stamps the increase is 79,2221., notwithstanding the repeal of the Law Stamp Duties. The Assessed Taxes have also produced an additional sum of 41,9641. The total increase of the net revenue on the late quar ter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of the year before, amounts, according to the of ficial statement, to 146,0001. But if, as we ought in fairness, we deduct the re-payment by Austria, which is included in the corresponding quarter of last year, we shall find that the increase on the quarter just ended really amounts to 912,667. — This result is indeed calculated to make us feel proud and happy ; and taking into consideration all the circumstances of the empire, civil and po litical, never was there an era, in the brightest days of its history, when its power and pros perity were at a higher pitch than at the com mencement of the sixth year of the reign of George I V. [MORNING POST.] We gave yesterday a general outline of the im proved state of the Revenue according to the Re turns for the Quarter. We this day publish the accounts for the whole year, from which it will he seen that notwithstanding the large remission of duties which took place during the last twelve months, the public income has continued progres sively to increase, so as not only to cover the amount of those remissions, but to surpass it by upwards of a million. The total produce of the Revenue for 1823 was 49,478,4011., that of 1824 is 50,546,0921., making a net increase of 1,067,6911. On comparing the various items the result is still more gratifying, for the augmenta tion in various branches of the Revenue during the course of the year is 2,570,9581., and this would be the surplus on the whole, had not Duties been remitted to the amount of 1,503,2671. which being deducted from the increase reduce it, as we stated before, to 1,067,6911. The produce of the Revenue for the Quarter ending the sth of Janu ary, 1824, was 13,425,0551. that for the Quarter ending on Wednesday, 13,571,055/. being an aug mentation on the Quarter of 146,000/. The in crease in the Excise for the Quarter just ended, is 793,4311. (or at the rate of more than three mil lions a year.) On the Stamps (notwithstanding the repeal of duties on law stamps) there is an increase of 79,222/.; the Post-office has produced 5,0001. more ; the Taxes 41,9641., and the Miscel laneous 31,5541. The only deficiency is in the Customs, 38,5041. and has been occasioned by the remission of Silk Duties, and the repeal of taxes on Wood, Silk, Coal, &c. to the amount, within the year, of 1,150,0001. The increase in the Excise, for the quarter just ended, is on Auctions, 14,6521. ; Beer, 57,7811. ; Bricks and Tiles, 48,2131. ; Candles, 4,637/.; Glass, 12,422/. ; Hops, 34,593/. ; Malt, 130,155/. ; Paper, 31,2951.; Printed Goods, 44,5671. ; Soap, 11,6781.; Spirits, British, 310,2081. ; Fo reign, 76,4511.; Tobacco and Snuff, 90,7291.; Tea, 1,5581. The articles on which there is a decrease are 67,187/. on Licenses, 16,9281. on Salt (owing to repealed duties) and about 2,000/. on Cyder, •Perry, Starch, Sweets, and Wire.— The Income of the Consolidated Fund, for the Quarter ending the sth January, 1824, was 13,484,7781. and the Charge, 10,367,2461. leaving a surplus of 3,117,5281. The Income of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ending on Wednesday, is, 13,571,0131., and the charge 10,475,0001., leaving a surplus of 3,517,196/. These are not evidences of a mo mentary increase in our income produced by ac cidental circumstances. They are of a nature which proves that the prosperity which they dis play is permanent. They arise from the im proved condition of the humbLer classes of so ciety, which enables them to consume a greater quantity of produce and to become larger pur chasers of manufactured goods. As there is nothing to check further improvement in the condition of the lower orders, but, on the contrary, as it is likely to continue to a vast extent in the midst of peace, reduced taxes, revived agriculture, in creased manufacturing activity, and expanding commerce, so there is nothing to set bounds to our prosperity. Its basis is not the luxurious ness of the rich, or the fickleness of fashion ; it is the general comfort and ease of the people. It is therefore founded upon a rock, and shall not fall, as long as the affairs of the Country shall be managed with that wisdom, and her dearest interests consulted with that attention and zeal, that have brought her to her present pinnacle of unrivalled strength and greatness. [MORNING HERALD.] One of the most remarkable moral phenomena in the history of society, is undoubtedly the rapid extension of education and knowledge in this country among the people at the present day. The vast increase not merely of publications of various kinds sent forth from the Press, and espe cially of periodical publications and newspapers, incalculably exceeding the increase of population, within a few years, proves how that the habit as well as the faculty of reading has gained upon what may be called the multitude. A new impulse has recently been given to the popular intellect, by the establishment of schools of Science and the useful Arts.— It is unnecessary to point out to any person who has at all attended to what is going on in the world the rapid progress of these institutions, and the progress especially of scientific education among the working artisans in the large towns of England and Scotland. But the working people are not merely acquiring knowledge—they are communicating it, and to those in a condition above them. Look at the cheap publications, conveying knowledge of science and the use ful arts, published in London ; and look at the merit and character of their contents. They not only have the merit of ingenuity, and of useful and curious information, but are distin guished by a grace of style and a propriety of tone which shames and rebukes works and au thors of much higher pretension. In fact, the common people are rapidly usurping that know ledge which used to be the prerogative of those who are regarded as not of the common people. We find the working artisans appropriating the theory and practice of arithmetic, geometry, mechanics, physics, and chemistry—and what remains after this but poetry, speculation, and the mere luxuries of literature ? Upon this aspect of society we shall offer but one remark. Social superiority is not maintainable without a certain superiority of knowledge and intellect.— It is therefore clearly incumbent upon the upper classes, or those who are above manual labour, to look about them, or they will be pushed from their pre-eminence. The alarm has already been taken in France. A committee of the Deputies, in the last summer, advised the suppression of schools of Arts supported by the Government, from an avow ed apprehension of the mischiefs of education among the working people. [MORNING CIIRONICLE-] The unfortunate turn which affairs have lately taken in the East Indies, arising, in a great measure, out of the inability of the individual at the head of the Government to plan and direct extensive military operations, has naturally led to considerable dissatisfaction with the appointment of Lord Amherst. In the case of Lord Charles Somerset, it was con sidered that the worst that could happen was the destruction of a thousand or two of Englishmen, by the irruption of Kafres, or location in districts unsuited to ,cultivation ; and as the its fair of Beaufort, in virtue of its bo roug h s , h a s a ri g ht to fair share of colonial misgovernment, the Cape was deemed as convenient a field for the exercise of the talents of a Lord Charles as any that could be chosen. But the magnitude of the stake at issue in India, it was thought, ought to have se cured for that portion of our dominions, an exemption from the evils of a mere parliamentary appointment, without reference to talents or fitness. We hardly, however, think the censure of Ministers which this implies, fair. We are neither disposed to give them much credit for the appointment of a clever man, nor to revile them for the appointment of an inefficient ,man. By the nature of our Government, certain families must be provided for, and if the possessor of a certain number of votes has the power of giving himself, or his relations and friends, certain offices, it would be very odd if he, of all men, should start any objection on the score of qualification. It is very easy to say that Ministers ought not to name an unfit person, just as it is very easy to say that Mr. Barrow - of the Admiralty, who succeeded in making the important discovery, that the drifted ice from Greenland prevented the Kentish wheat from ripening some summers ago, and who discovered so many things at the Cape which no man ever discovered be fore or since, ought once more to cultivate the acquaintance of some witch, and ascend by her aid to the moon, to ascertain whether the cities in that planet are really so magnificent as M. Gruithausen, of Munich, alleges they are. Men in all situations must be governed by circumstances, and it would be just as unreasonable in us to demand that Ministers should, in spite of the circumstances by which they are governed, dis cover virtue or fitness to command, through any other specta cles than those of Lord Lonsdale, the Duke of Beaufort, &c., as it would be in an American Journalist to complain that we do not subscribe to his opinion that a Republic is preferable to a Monarchy. Reason is very well in its way; but reason, when matched against powor, is very often beaten. To contend with arguments against power, is rowing against a rapid stream. You might as well hope to persuade an Alderman to abjure turtle, and conform to the dietics of Cornaro, as to persuade men who have the power to do mischief that they ought to re linquish it. We have been ourselves Don-Quixoting it a little, by endeavouring to satisfy our unpaid Magistrates, that it is better to have few criminals than. large prisons, and that.some ten thousand commitments every 3rear more than would other wise be necessary, me re ly t o familiarize Country' Squires with the praCtice of the Criminal Law, is not absolutely ne cessary to the existence of the country. We question if there is one of them, even Socrates himself, were he to rise from the dead, would succeed in persuading that any amount of power to their own body i s too great , or t h at ever s i nce a Justice of Peace, could flog a peasant at a cart's tail, the whip was ever improperly applied. If we succeed in satisfying others, that the peculiar glory of England, an unpaid Ma ! gistracy, has, like many other descriptions of glory, been very dearly bought, we shall be satisfied. .Hume thought the world had not had sufficient experience in political matters to be able to speculate with any chance of a satisfactory re sult. If we had not had experience, however, we have had abundance of writing ; of stupid factious writing; loud rail ing against imaginary evils, whil e rea l ev il s were overloo k e d . At one time luxury was driving the nation, post haste, to ruin, and one would have imagined British virtue was inse parably bound up with the use of linsey woolsey. At another, a Dr. Brown succeeded in persuading the nation that English courage was quite extinct among us, and that the island was ready for the first invader who thought it worth his while to take charge of it. Doctor Price gave a turn to the apprehen sion of calamity, for, in the midst of the Norfolk and Essex agricultural improvements, he saw nothing but a rapid decay of people, and being unaware of the ability of our neighbours the Irish, to assist us in a strait of this kind, he contemplat ed the extinction of the British name in no long period of time, from the inability of our propagators to find mouths for the food. Among the amusing discoveries made in the last century, was that of a majority of the House of Commons, that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. When we call to mind this vote, and at the same time the lectures read by the House of Commons to his present Majesty, the Dukes of Cumberland, Clarence, &c., we are tempted to think of the Hindoos, who, when their gods do 'not prove so pliable as they wish them to be, give them a whipping now and then.. Th er e wa s a time, and that not very remote, when the Crown was really powerful in England.-- The Duke de Rohan, who visited this island in 1660, was struck with the immense difference between the power of the King of England, with reference to the Aristocracy, compared with that of the King of France, with reference to his.—" I confess," he says, " that the people of England are more happy than the people of France, for when civil wars are kindled among them, they are terminated by battles, whence they do not last so long, and, besides, the cruelty is exercised against the great, and not against the people. In time of peace, also, they are not so oppressed with taxes and impositions as our people. But as to nobility, that of France, in my judgment, is far more fortunate than the English, both because the English pay taxes, like the people, and also for the rigour of justice, which is so ordinarily exercised against them, that there are some who deem it an honour, and estimate the gran deur of their houses by the number of their predecessors, who have had their heads cut off, while that is very rare among us, and therefore we consider it a great ignominy when it hap pens, except it be for the name of God (the Duke was a Cal vinist). And besides that the privileges of the nobility in France, the liberty, the familiarity of the King with them, in stead of the superstitious reverence w hi c h th e E ng li s h render to theirs, would lead, no doubt, any stranger to prefer the French nobility to the English." Such were the relative situations of the Kings of France and England two centuries, ago, and such the superior power of the French Aristocr The French Aristocracy now are upheld merely by r . 7:• , 655 ins ; while the English are the masters of thei- .id perhaps of the world. Amidst the stophl "i 3 _ ( 7s7lllets and treatises which issued in such — 3 '4; ', e press, during the 50 or 60 years before 3,1)63 .ution ' there are several in which the autho' aye had glimpses of the real state of things. " An Essay on Republican 13,049 Principles, and 4 ;n t' %; - eniencies of a Commonwealth in a large Countr7,4= - Nation," by Dr. John Andrews, p u bli s h e d in 1784, the principle that Kings are often ze a lo us f or th e happiness of the lower orders, but a pure aristocracy never, and that the greatest danger to a country arises from the increase of the power of the aristocracy, is distinctly laid down.--" The Emperor, the Kings of Prussia and Sweden," he says, " have given illustrious proofs of their just concern for the happiness of the lower ranks of their subjects, and of their earnest desire to protect them front the ill-treatment of their superiors. But we cannot dismiss this subject without ob serving, that notwithstanding the known benevolence and hu manity of the present King of Poland, it is utterly out of his power to imitate them. Ile may exercise these virtues as much as he pleases towards those who dwell on his he reditary lands and estates ; but he must not dare to extend them beyond his own patrimony ; lie would exas perate a Nobility, which, however humbld on all sides, through means of its internal divisions, is, nevertheless, re solutely bent on the unhappy preservation of that tyran nical and tempestuous aristocracy which has been, and will in all probability continue to be, the bane of that nation till it has totally subverted it sively govern, their rank anti prerogatives are ascertained and are inserted and exercised in a manner explicit and avowed ; but when the people have an indiscriminate right to rule, and no distinction of families and hereditary dignity is allowed, such persons as have through dint of artifice found means to engross the direction of affairs, and to confine it with in the circle of their associations and relations, are obliged to do it in a surreptitious and indirect manner. Not that thy are able to disguise it to the public ; their cunning and contri vances are always seen through ; but such is the temper of men, that while the authority thus acquired is acknowledged to be accidental, and as much their own right to obtain as that of such as possess it, they are usually falsified ; and please themselves by feeding their expectation, that they may, in their turn, make part of their number: thus, by degrees, the management of the State centers at length in a fixed and limited rotation of families, who become as jealous of in truders as if they had an hereditary claim to the places they fill, and as if' it were a real injury to give them new Associates. Let us on this occasion advert to what passes among ourselves ; and learn to be vigilant in guarding against that monopolizing spirit of power which steals imperceptibly even on men of the best and most upright intentions. It has been of late years a very common complaint among the ancient families of the gentry throughout England, that they have lost much of their Parliamentary Interest, as it is called ; that strange innovation have taken place in the choice of Members. What is this ' but an implied avowal that they would, if possible, exclude all representation but of themselves? Nothing being clearer than that he whose influence is such as always to be sure of his election, cannot, in the strictness of truth, be said to re p resen t any body but himself. So far, therefore, as any man pos sesses a seat in Parliament, founded upon such a tenure, he is to every essential purpose, title alone excepted, a Peer of the realm, and contributes as much as in him lies to convert the Democracy of this kingdom into an Aristocracy." We do not mean to say that the Illinisters of the Crown ought not to be controuled; but when we see them opposed by the ignorant selfishness of the Aristocracy in their liberal views respecting trade, and determined that the industry of the country shall languish, rather than that the people should import corn, from people who have nothing else to give us for our manufactures, we say that the Aristocracy require to be controuled still more. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. TRIAL and CONVICTION of the NOTED Ci-devuut CAPTAIN PATTEN otherwise O'IIARRA. At a late hour yesterday, the Jury returned into Court with the respective Bills of Indiitmcnt; amongst which was one against the above individual, who was immediately put to the Bar. Mr Allen read over the indictment, which charged him with fraudulently putting away to Mr. Isaac Wm. Argent, of the King's Arms, James-street, Covent-garden, a certain paper purporting to be a promissory note for 201. of the Bank com monly called the " Weald of Kent Bank," well knowing the said Bank to have stopped payment at the time. Mr. Argent stated, that on the 28th of October, in his ab sence, the prisoner came to his house in James -street, Covent garden, which he had since left, and now kept the Rainbow Tavern, in fleet-street, and tendered the note in question. On witness's return home he asked the prisoner if the note was a good one, to which he answered, " Good 1 to be sure it is; do you think I would give you a bad one ?" His only reason for asking was, that he did not like country notes. Witness then gave him 51. in part, observing, he had not enough to give him the full change. The prisoner was satisfied, and said lie would call for the rest the next day. Witness subsequently applied to the banking-house of Messrs. Masterman and Co. and found that the notes of the Weald of Kent were not of the least value. Witness, in consequence, refused tá pay the balance, and gave the prisoner into custody. The note was now examined, when it was found that the date had been altered in the most ingenious manner; by making the year 1814 appear 1823 ; over which a name was written, that, from the manner in which it was written, would have deceived 19 out of 20 persons. _ _ _ _ _ _ A gentleman from Messrs. Masterman proved, that in 1814 that firm ceased to pay any notes of the Weald of Kent Bank. Witness could not swear that there was no London house that would pay them, but he knew that there were a great many of those notes afloat, and that they, as far as his general know.. ledge went, never would be paid. George Avis, the officer, proved searching the prisoner; he found nothing on his person that he was not justified in return. ing to him. He, however, in the course of inquiry, found that a week before the prisoner had passed a similar note to Mr. Barnes, of Panton-street, pawnbroker. George Sedges, assistant to Mr. Barnes, proved receiving the note last alluded to from the prisoner. e had a perfect know.. ledge of him, from the fact of his using Mr. Barnes' shop. The prisoner cross-examined the first and last witness with an ingenuity that in a better cause would have reflected some credit on him. in his defence he laboured hard to induce a belief that he had received the note from a person at a gambling houSe, which he was known to attend; but the fact of his hav ing previously passed the note at the House of Mr. Barnes, completely set this aside. As a proof of the cunning evinced by him, he objected that it was not proved that the Bank itself had failed, as the Gentleman from the house of Messrs. Mas. terman merely proved that that house ceased to cash the notes of the Weald of Kent Bank in 1814. He called no witness as to his character. The CHAIR MAN summed up the evidence to the Jury; and the Jury, after a few minutes consultation, found the prisoner Guilty. The Court sentenced him to be transported for seven years. Murray, the person apprehended on suspicion of robbing the Stirling mail, was removed on Friday from the Police Office to the Calton hill Gaol, where he is committed for trial. We understand that Murray declined to answer par ticular questions. The other parties suspected have hitherto eluded the officers, although a keen pursuit is still kept up, and, we learn, with great hopes of success.—(Scotch Paper.) A man who was last week committed for trial at Cheltenham, charged with theft, on being appre hended, actually, swallowed three half-crowns ! PARISH OF ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS. The Committee of Management having pre sented the MEMORIAL to the Rev. Archdeacon POTT Y have now the honour to present a Copy' of the ADDRESS, together with the Archdeacon's ANSWER. (By Order bf the Committee,) R. THOMAS, Jun. Secretary. Hungerford Coffee-House, Dec. 24, 1824. ~' ADDRESS. To the Venerable JOSEPH HOLDEN POTT, A.M. Arch deacon of London, and Vicar of Kensington. REv. Sin—Several Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Martin. , p AI in-the-Fields, having long enjoyed the heartfelt satisfaction of Fri witnessing your unremitted exertions and kind soli c it u d e " promoting the Temporal and Spiritual Welfare of all those A committed to your Pastoral care, desire on your preferment,' which removes you . from th e m, to testify th e i r S en ti men t s of to to Veneration towards you, and to present a Memorial, however read imperfect, of their person a l Attachment and G ra tit u d e . At of ti the same time, they beg to assure you, Sir, that deeply as they Chri feel, and sincerely as they regret, the loss of a Guide and has rence to whom they have looked up with unfei g ned reve.. rence and affection, they cannot but rejoice in a change which Sect promises to prolong so valuable a life, exclusively devoted to the promotion of true religion, and consequently to the ad- c vancement of the best interests of their fellow-creatures. HENRY HAKE SEWARD, Chairman. Dec. 22, 1824. ANSWER TO TIIE ADDRESS. I must intreat the Gentlemen by whose hands I have re ceived so munificent a proof of kindness and esteem, to express in my behalf to all to whom I stand so much obliged, the lively sense which I entertain of the token of regard with which I am thus honoured. I cannot entirely conceal from my much valued friends what my own mind suggests with reference to those services which / are marked with such distinguished approbation ; b u t w h e n „,* ' expressions of gratitude and satisfaction may seem to be more proper, I will not press my fears upon them, nor describe the tiir reluctance I should feel, if I were bidden to accept this gift, and the testimony by which it is so much enhanced in value, upon any claim of adequate desert. I dare not, however, view what they have written, or record it in my own breast as the subject of my future recollections, without professing my conviction, that they have weighed my past labours with a kind but par tial hand. The defects which I have found in them have not, I trust, arisen from a careless spirit, or from any want of ear nest inclination, or of anxious efforts to discharge the duties of my place among them. If they have added to good inclina tions and to anxious pains, more than I can find myself en titled to, I must refer it to their own liberal and candid tem per, which would not take a strict standard for the measure of a gift. The comprehensive nature of this concurrent grant, which embodies so large a number of my much esteemed parishioners, adds greatly to the honour so conferred. I have only to assure them, that in every future day of life my best wishes will at them, and that my most grateful remembrance of their good will never be far distant from my thoughts. Will you, Gentlemen, who have favoured me with this visit, allow me to convey this Answer by your hands ? in treating you to accept my warmest thanks for the part you have so kindly taken upon this account, I remain, Gentlenien, with sincere regard, and with earnest prayers for your welfare, Your much obliged add faithful Servant, JOS. HOLDEN PO TT. Vicarage, Kensington, Dec. 22, 1824. Yesterday the several prisoners confined in the Borough Compter, in addition to the annual bounty of the Right Hon. the Lonn and Sheriffs, on Christmas and New Year's-day, partook each of a most ample provision of good old English fare, roast beef and plum-pudding, together with a quantum sufficit of Barclay's entire, in which they drank to the founder of the feast, JoHN HOLMES, Esq. from whom this act of benevolence emanated on his election to the high office of Bailiff of Southwark : the conclu sion of the feast was marked by repeated huzzas, and hearty wishes for the prosperity of the donor. The turnkeys shared in the general banquet. A genteelly-dressed middle-aged man called a coach off the stand at Newington, on Tuesday evening, and desired the coachman to drive him to Oxford-road, and after he entered it from Tottenham-court-road, he would tell him where to stop. The coachman, not (hiding the check string move, stopped to inquire where he should set down his fare, thinking he was asleep, but receiving no answer, he opened the coach d o or and found his fare a corpse, he having cut his throat from ear to ear with a case knife. A let ter was found in the pocket of the deceased, stating his distress, dated from Kennington, to a Mr. M-, in Wigmore-street, which was, it would seem, an answer to one refusing farther aid. The name of the deceased is Legatt. He was an Italian, and taught languages at a school at Sunbury, which he had left some time.-- He had a shilling and some halfpence only hi his pockets. Sir Ha as res ye, FIRE.—On New Year's morning, about three o'clock, a fire broke out in the concerns of Mr. Price, printing-ink-manufacturer, situate in Lin coln-lane. Owing to the inflammable nature of the goods stored in the premises, and the great want of water, the buildings were completely consumed before any effectual assistance could be rendered. The engines and firemen of the Royal Irish, National, Royal Exchange, Im perial, and Commercial Insurance Companies, were on the spot soon after the fire was dis— covered, but owing to the cause already men tioned, the shameful want of water, they were delayed a considerable length of time before they could get to work with effect. Their united exertions, however, contributed to subdue the flames, and save the surrounding premises from ruin. —(Dublin Paper.) BIRTHS. At the Batalha, Oporto, on the 21st ult., the lady of Wil-` Liam Richard Harris, Esq., of a daughter. At Coventry, on the 28th ult., the lady of J. Constant, Esq.,' 3d Light Dragoons, a son. MARRIED. On the sth inst., at All Saints church, Southampton, Mr. John Sabine, of Bury St. Edmund's, to Adelaide lsharn, younger daughter of the late William Isham Eppes, Esq., of Salem, Massachussets. On 'the 6th inst., at West Ham, Charles Frederick Biggs, Esq., of Blackheath, to Frances, second daughter of John Gray, Esq., of the Grove, Stratford, Essex. At St. George's church, Bloomsbury, Mr. George Vernon Jackson, of Little Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, to Frances Anne, only daughter of the late John Le Gay, Esq., of this city DIED. On Monday night, the 3d inst., at Chistlehurst, the Right, Hon. Lady Bayning. On Tuesday, the 4th inst., at his house on the Green, Rich-" mond, Surrey, aged 73, Adam Bell, Esq., late of his Ma-' jesty's Victualling Department, Deptford. On Wednesday, the sth inst., John Sivewright, Esq., of Tavistock-square. At Hackney, on the 2d inst., Eleanora, only daughter of Mr. Stephen Curtis, aged 16. On Saturday last, at his house at Liddia r d, n ear Wootton- Basset, Mr. William Kibblewhite, aged 75. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the SYN.' OFFICE,, No: 112, strand, by J. B. CAUSTAIRs.