The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT. OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The return of Lord Beresford from Poitugal will re move one cause at least of jealous and angry feeling to. wards England, if it effect no othergood. His Lordship's. keen appetite for irresponsible power, and the eagerness with which he pressed for an accumulation in his owr hands, of offices which were no less incompatible witl each other, than with the-- exercise of a salittary contrcul by the Constitutional Government over its own agents, are said to have been the causes of his total rejection by the native members of the Portuguese Administration, slid ‘i4f his subsequent flight to England. ' It is hoped and be lieved by the best informed friends of Portugal in this country, that although excessive and preposterous autho rity has been denied to Lord Beresford, when hits Lord ship was supposed to seek it quite as much for personal aggrandizement or party gratification as from any concern for the public - Interest, yet a due shire of influence over the military measures of the Government, anti over those not strictly military, which bear with a sensible effect upon the War Department, will be cordially extended to Sir William Clinton, who, as an individual, is liked and esteemed for his conciliatory manners and his untainted char ac t er . Without some intimate under standing between the British Commander and the higher departments of the Government in Portugal, it is obvious that much languor and embarrassment Mel- pervade the operations of the Allies, at moments when zeal and energy are most called for. A distinct power of directing public measures, except merely the movements in the field, it might not suit with the dignity . of an independent State, to solicit from our ally, on .behalf of any British subject; but it will be rentierubqed by those who know the secret history of .the war, beginning with 1808, in the Peninsula, that 1 .1 - le Duke of Wellington and Sir Charles Stitar t experienced frepient and considerable difficulty in enforck,g a prompt concurrence by the Forth guest fenctiona;;es with the plans suggested by our dis tinguished r though ' ....itsupport eneral in of the common cause, al- Lord Beresford wasthen the deposit ar y o f a Con ..rated and preponderating power, which he employed with great vigour in- furtherance of the Duke of Welling ton's operations-L—although, besides, there was little or no distraction of party interests in the nation, the priests and absolutists being identified with us in their feelings for the independence of Portugal, and a disputed succession being as little thought of as a quarrel about the principles Of Governtrient. We trust, therefore, that to avert the bad consequences of ill-assorted and uncongenial coun ils, where perfect harmony is so indispensable to a suc cessful management of affairs, a system of certain and un hesitating co-operation will be established from the very 'otits'tt, such as may leave no room for a perverse, luke- V.'rarm, or timid Portuguese Minister to check the force of British policy, or to interfere between the adoption of well-considered measures, and their full and effective exe entibtli Should circumstances require the British army tti be much augmented, and, as on the former occasion, the native troops of Portugal to be attached to its several di visions, it will also be desirable to combine, as far as pos sible, the perfect instruction and discipline of the Portu guese, with a deference for their national predilections, and therefore to employ English officers and serjeants for train ing them only, but not for assuming the command o f th em . The just pride of a res p ec t a bl e nation, which has rejected from its bosom , the man who formed the army of Portu gal a few years ago, chiefly because his harsh and domi neering spirit was odious to them, might now be fatally disgusted and estranged by an attempt to substitute ge nerally subjects of the same country which produced Mar shal Beresford, for native gentlemen and nobles, in the cominand of the Portuguese troops. We. are convinced ibat deference towards the leanings of our allies, mingled with equanimity, dignity, and decision in the conduct of our own public officers, may lead the Portuguese Govern ment and. people, to the required point, while a dicta torial arid overbearing tone. might drive them far away from it. We find, from all our private letters, that an ef ficient reform is wanting among the subalterns of the Portuguese administration in _almost all its branches. And who or what is to blame for this ? Undoubtedly not the Charter, nor he who gave it, nor those who strive to enforce it. The fault has been in the preceding des potism, where no one was responsible, and every one was . corrupt. In a new Government, where arbitrary power is to be got rid of, if the King is the liberator, he must change the great body of his servants—if the people free themselves, they must, as the sine qud non of their se curity, begin by banishing the Monarch. The wretched ending of the Spanish Cortex was, the fruit of their retain- . ing Ferdinand and his incurable dynasty on the throne, — a gangrene in the heart of the Constitution ; and now, un less the bureaux, and lower nests of servile prejudice and corruption be purified, the noble work of Pedro may be speedily overthrown. To escape the vigilance of a free Legislature, and their own. consequent responsibility to the public will, the creatures of the old Court, through their ntttnberless gradations, will intrigue one and all for the revival of the golden age of despotism, which gives impunity to its proper minions, and chastises nobody, but the bulk of the nation itself. With this reform we rejoice to hear that the Chambers, as well as the Ministers, are busied from day to day ; and, sustained and protected from. the fear of violence by the British troops, there is little doubt that they will reap a valuable harvest in the groWing health of their free institutions, and in the acce lerated ease and spirit of their actien.—Times. We stated the other day that the Corporation of North ampton had voted One Thousand Pounds of the Corpo rate Funds, to defray in part the expences of their can didate; since which, the Editor of the Times has com municated the particulars of the vote, and made a most proper comment on this extraordinary transaction; and we trust the Press throughout the empire will not fail to ex pose whatever may be done in this business contrary to the interest of the community of Northampton. We un derstand Mr. Alderman Hols proposed it; but, to the honour of some of the Corporation, we learn, it was most strenuously opposed by Messrs. Aldermen Freeman and Brown; and that a petition is in preparation from the in habitants to Parliament, requesting an inquiry, which will be sent up to the members (Sir George Robinson and Col. Maberly) urging them to exert themselves for the interest of the great body of their constituents against such a breach of trust (as they consider it) on the part of the Corporation. We congratulate this town most sin cerely in having independent and able Members. who can support (and, we believe, well support) their cause.— .3forning Chronicle. We strongly suspect, that by - the time Parliament meets not a few of those who were driven headlong by Mr. Can ning's lEolian breeze, will be exceedingly anxious to back out of an enterprise, in which, in common with the pro jector, they have embarked with too little consideration. As far as the honour of the country is embarked (foolishly and unnecessarily enough), so far it must be maintained ; but that beyoad that we are to be drawn into the adoption and maintenance of objects in which we have no interest or concern, is what, we believe, the reflection and good sense of the country is not likely to connive at. This Portuguese treaty seems, in Mr. Canning's Bath phra seology, to be an " adstriction" which this country has no great reason to be proud of ; for we are bound by treaty to furnish assistance to an ally, in the event of foreign invasion. The case is supposed to arise.—The aid is furnished with a promptitude unparalleled ; and all that we hear of in return is, that our troops are not only re ceived with. coldness, .but that the very nam e of an Eng iishinail is held in execration by th e priest-;ridden people for whose geliverance we are called bpon to exert dtir selves. This may be fulfilling the faith of treatiesl theon ouraid part; but unless such faith be reciprocal— u that is required be really wanted and accept a bl e, we should say that it had better have been withheld. The whole of this matter, if calmly viewed, is not, we fear, calculated to raise-the character of modern statesmen very high i n the eyes of posterity. A kind of every day, from hand to-mouth-policy, is not that which we are accustomed to expect from those who wield the destiny of empires. —A Minister who lays claim to the name and 'cha racter of a statesman should look beyond the pre sent moment—should be indifferent to momentary censure or applause, and should direct his views to the grand paramount interests of his country, and rely for fame, not on the cheers which a fervid and impas sioned harangue may excite, but on the judgment which impartial posterity will pass upon motives and actions which are too apt to be misconceived and misunderstood by those who are too near the scene of action to be im partial judges. Posterity, we suspect, will say of Mr. Canning's Portuguese crusade; that it was begot in heat and brought forth in passion; that the " nec _Deus inter sit" had not occurred even to his classical mind ; but that he was all on a sudden inoculated with an itch for glory where no glory was to be obtained; and that, at a moment when the preservation of peace was every thing to his country, he has gone out of his way to seek a war, in which nothing but debt and cost is to be obtained. This, we are inclined to think, is the view which the country will very soon take of the matter; and if it be so, the sooner it expresses its opinion the better. The wild en thusiasm with which Mr. Canning's flowery harangue in spired the House of Commons, has, we suspect, by thi s time ve►y materially subsided. The country itself never \vas so wild upon the subject as its Representatives. The )ong adjournment of the House, injudicious as it has been in other respects, has been so far advantageous, that it has giien time for reflection and infOrmation upon a subject of so-much importance ; and we shall be greatly deceived if, when Parliament meets again, we do not find many per- Sonsinclined to doubt, upon reflection, the propriety of the too hasty acquiescence which they.fell into, with the ardent, inconsiderate views of an able but indiscreet Mi iiister.—/lforning Herald. From the commencement of the present state of things in Portugal, there has never been any doubt, that Ferdi nand entertained the strongest hatred towards Don Pedro's Constitution. This was the necessary result both of the character and situation of the man : and in secretly pro tecting and assisting the Portuguese rebels; he adopted a course to which he was prompted by all his immediate in terests and prevalent feelings. There was, to be sure, the danger of rousing England into action : but this was a danger, which, as he must have thougkt, would not pro bably be converted into a reality. Our ignorant quid nunc:, always loud and solemn, and dogmatic and pre sumptuous, in proportion as they sink deeper into stupi idity, and plunge further into error, had been busy for months in teaching the world, that we were in the last `stage of political decrepitude—that we could scarcely exist even in peace, and that the mere attempt to exert any force abroad, would lay us prostrate in helpless imbecility. The Continental world believed what our own praters told them : for though the worthlessness of the creatures we speak of, is notorious at home, th eir character is little known abroad : and foreigners, who can scarcely conceive that 'good subjects should take a Pleasure in depreciat ing their own country, believed that our situation was such as our own self-lauding oracles had proclaimed it to be. — They had, apparently, good and conclusive evidence of that which jealousy and envy would have inclined them to be lieve without strict inquiry. Ferdinand would gladly che rish the error into which he was thus led; and, under the influence of it, he and his Apostolical emissaries adopted a 'course which they would probably have shrunk from had they been aware of the energy which animated the Councils of Britain, and of the force which those Councils were ready :to put into immediate action. The course of events—the struggle which the Portuguese- rebels have been able to make, even under actual circumstances, is to us" satisfac tory proof, that, had our interference been less prompt and 'decided and substantial than it was, Portugal must have fallen beneath the intrigues of the Apostolicals. Had we Pnegociated—had we amused ourselves with blustering !declarations—had we- stopped to threaten on the one hand, lor to promise on the other, the game would hare been jet an end—Mr. Canning, with a great confidence in the spirit and resources of the country, took his resolution instantly, - and followed up that resolution by imme diate action. "On Friday night," said Mr. Can ning, in that speech which produced a greater effect "throughout a wider sphere than any other speech that was ever delivered—" Qn Friday night the infor mation arrived—on Saturday his Majesty's confiden tial servants came to a decision—on Sunday that de cision received the sanction of his Majesty—on Mon day,. it was communicated to Parliament ; and at this, hour, on Tuesday, the troops are on their march for embarkation." The promptitude of this policy— a promptitude unequalled in the history of mingled diplomacy and war, was any_ thing but what Fer dinand had anticipated. It disconcerted schemes, which, otherwise, in all human probability, must have succeeded; and Ferdinand has now to regulate his con duct according to circumstances very different from those which were contemplated by his Councillors, when they first took a part in the intrigues of the Portuguese rebels. All that the wretched monarch proposed to himself, was, to deceive England or to afford her a plausible pretext for affecting to have been deceived. He now finds, that she will not be deceived, and that what he has now to deter mine is—whether he will venture to resist her by force. Some months ago,- the mere statement of such a question would have made him start back with terror; but he has advanced into a situation, between England on the one hand, and the Apostolical faction on the other, where dan ger threatens him on every side, arid desperation has some times made cowards bold.--New Times. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. I trust it will not be thought presumptuous in a bumble indi vidual, to suggest the propriety of a national fast, at the prevent critical season, for the purpose of imploring the Disposer of all events to ward off the dreadful calamity of war, with which the nation is at present threatened. I have often heard, and taken pleasure in reflecting, that the leading branches of the Royal Family, are sincerely attached to the interests of religion in general, and more particularly to those of the English Episcopalian Church. The venerable and pious George 111., seems to have gloried in appearing as the head of the nation before the Throne of the Almighty; nor has.our present illustrious sovereign, been backward in following the footsteps of his saintly parent, in this and other sacred duties. __ If we revert to earlier periods of our history, we find numerous instances of national humiliation and thanksgiving. The. glorious Duke of Marlborough, used to proclaim days of thanks giving in General Orders to his army, after every great and im portant victory ; and the Government at home, at that time, did the same. But since it has pleased Divine Providence to carry this nation forward in a course of increasin g greatness, se asons o f hu miliation do not occur so frequently There are, however, suffi cient precedents to support the practice ; and its propriety and moral beauty, as well as its beneficial effect on the lives of indi viduals, are, I think self-apparent; and surely if fists during the existence of actual war, are consistent with propriety, then it cannot be less so to proclaim them on the eve of war, or under a well-grounded expectation of it. The war with which we are now threatened, is surely of a very terrible character; it will be directed against the very principles of our national existence, those principles which constitute our distinctive rank in the scale of nations; a rank which we have attained, not by the extent of our territory, not by the numerousness of our population, not by our commercial wealth, nor by the bravery of our fleets and armies ; not, I say, by one or all these alone, but by the steady operation of a system of liberty which has called forth the army, or the navy, or the money, or the talent, which the occasion demanded. I say that we may regard this colossal power with. feelings of gratitude, and found on it a just expectation of a glorious result, in any contest to which we may be exposed ; while, _at the same time, we recollect that the issues of battles are in the hands of the Almighty, and that war, successful or unsuccessful, is attended with calamities to mankind, which every Christian mind must wish' to avoid. THEODOSIUS. On Sunday last, 36 Roman Catholics, 15 men and 21 women, read their recantation in the church of Cavan.— On the same day 12 persons abandoned the Roman Catholic faith in the church of Ballyhaise, and four in the churches of Kille sandra and Ballybay. On Sunday, the 7th instant, two Roman Catholics publicly renounced the errors of Popery in the church of Gorey, in the presence of a numerous and highly r especta b le congregation. We have reason to think that this is but the " first fruits of a more abundant harye3t.—Dublin Correspon -1 dint. POLICE INTET;LIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.— William Myngard, William Green, and Mary Ann Myngard, were charged by Mr. Timothy, an up holsterer, of Aldgate, with robbing him of a considerable quantity of feathers. From the testimony, it appeared that the prisoner Green was in the prosecutor's employ, and the other two prisoners are hus band and wife. On Saturday the female prisoner called upon the prosecutor and produced a sample of feathers, and stated that she had a quantity of them for sale, which she had purchased that morning of the poulterers in Leadenhall-market. The prosecutor immediately suspected that these were some of his own feathers, because they were of a peculiar description, and he put several questions to the woman, who replied it was useless for her to say what was not true—that, in fact, she had been sent by her hus band, who received them from Green, the prosecutor's servant, for the purpose of selling them, and her husband was waiting at a public-house in the neighbourhood, with • the lot. An officer was sent for, and the husband and Green were apprehended, and upon search, it was discovered that about the same quantity of feathers as those tendered to be sold, precisely of the same peculiar sort, were found deficient from one of the prosecutor's bins, he hav ing purchased a lot of them a short time since. It was also proved that the female prisoner had offered for sale these same feathers, on the previous evening, at the shop of the brother of the prosecutor, in Barbican. Myngard denied that he knew that the feathers were stolen ; and Green said that he would produce the man from whom he bought them. The prisoners were remanded for further examination. Frederick Jones was committed for trial, for picking the pocket of Mr. Thomas Whitehead Reed, of Bull's Wharf, of a silk handkerchief, just as be was going into SpoOner, Attwood, and Co.'s banking-house, yesterday evening. John Sibley was charged with endeavouring to commit a felony at the shop of Mr. Barker, a silversmith, in Aldgate High-street. On the 17th inst., the shop window of Mr. Barker was cut, and five dollars were taken out, and the prisoner was seen lurking about the shop on that day. On Saturday last he was seen lurk ing about the shop, and was watched, when he was seen to give a signal to a little boy, who was in company with him, and the little boy, upon the signal, proceeded to " star the glaze" (to nse the professional phrase—that is, to cut the square of glass), when the shopman came out and seized the prisoner, but the boy ran away. The felony not being completed, the prisoner vas sent to Bride well for three months, as a rogue and vagabond. 514A31 ATTORNIES AND SNAIL CLERKS.—The poor people who have business to do at the Sessions are cruelly imposed upon by men, who act as attornies, or as clerks for attornies, but who are, in every respect, as unqualified as they are rapacious. The Surrey, Middlesex, and London Sessions, are constantly attended by them. The sufferers are not aware of any available remedy against them. It should be known, however, that the Act of the 22d of Geo. 11. cap. 46, see. 12, declares, that no person can lawfully conduct business, prosecuting or defending at any General or Quarter Ses sions, unless he be an attorney sworn and admitted of his Majesty's Courts of Westminster, under a penalty of 50/. for each offence, recoverable within twelve months ; and any attorney allowing any person, not an attorney, in his name to carry on Sessions business, incurs a penalty of 50/. This provision has slept in the Statute Book, and an idea is commonly entertained, that persons are not bound to be admitted attornies of the Courts of Westminster, to enable them to conduct Sessions business. GUILDHALL.— Thomas Tuffs, a horse dealer, was charged before Mr. Alderman GAnasrr yesterday, with his knowingly littering a forged cheque for the sum of eight guineas, upon the house of Sir Peter Pole and Co. - The prosecutor stated, that on the 17th of October he sold a horse to the prisoner in Smithfield for V. 10s. The prisoner gave in payment a cheque on the house of Pole and Co. for eight guineas. The cheque bore the name of Edward Smith, as the ilrawer. The prosecutor gave the prisoner his address, and told him to call on him the next day for - the change. The prisoner (lid not call on him the next day, and the prosecutor, on inquir ing, found that the house of Sir Peter Pole had stopped payment some mouths before, and that they never had a customer of the name of Edward Smith. The prisoner was apprehended by the police in consequence of the prosecutor's description of him. The prisoner in his defence, stated that he had received the cheque on the morning of the 17th of October, in payment for a a pony which he sold to a man in, Smithfield. He did not know who this man was.—The prisoner was remanded. BOW-STREET.=I-ItoBw .ATRo.rsEatzs,—Yesterday Mary Smith and James Barnes, two smartly dressed, robust coun .trymen, both under - 20 years of age, were charged, before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, with being concerned in several highway rob beries which hare been recently committed in the neighbourhood of Finchley. Robert Dockerell deposed that he is a gardener at Finchley. On Friday night last, about 20 minutes past seven o'clock, he was near Colney Hatch, on the road leading from Whetstone to Finchley, and was stopped by two men, who knocked him down, and told him to deliver his money. He informed them that he had no money about his person; but he had a watch, which he gave to them. The two robbers crossed the road, after cautioning him to be silent, and escaped into a field. He had seen the prisoner Smith going up the 'lane a few minutes before, and had no doubt that he was the man who knocked him down. James Carter, of Finchley Common, farmer, deposed, that on Friday evening last, between 7 and 8 o'clock, he was going along the- road, near Colney Hatch-Jane, intending to visit a Mr. Wells, and saw two men, who appeared to be in a state of intoxi cation, come out of the lane. One of the men was dressed in a light jacket, and the other man in a dark coat. The man in the light jacket came up to him, presented a blunderbuss at his head, and demanded his money. He was alarmed and hesitated, when the man said, " Deliver, or I will blow your brains out." Having collected his thoughts, he determined to resist, knowing that there were two waggons which te had passed shortly before coming tip. The man who had presented the blun derbuss at his head, repeated his former threat, accompanied-with an oath, when he closed with him, and they scuffled for some time. The man with the dark coat assisted his companion, and kicked his (witness's) shins, while the other robber attempted to " throttle" him, and swore, if he spoke a word, he would blow his brains out. At that moment the two waggons were heard f. on the road, and he m a d e a d es p era t e s t rugg le to free himself the graSp of the robbers, and having in some degree effected his object, he said to them, .‘ I'll soon settle you, there some gons m s e tp d o , and ran " of and patrol fast as He believed . that Smith g." was the man dressed in the light jacket, who presented the blun thc m a n e l and ri Thee pursuedrobicallede robbers u the became thieves. urd ae lra—r derbuss at his head. Mr. Carter, the landlord of the New Swan Tavern, at Finehley, deposed, that both the prisoners came to his house, which is situate about half a mile from the spot where the robbery was attempted, at six o'clock on Friday night. They drank three pints pots of beer, and left his house about seven o'clock. The prisoner Smith had a bundle in his possession at the time. Smith being taken out of the office, Barnes was asked what he had to say? He admitted that he was at the Swan public-house at the time stated by the last witness, and when he left he went as far as Lore's Walk, Nether-street, Finehley ; and Smith told him he eould go to his brother's, at Mill Hill, and sleep there ; and they parted. He got home a quarter of an hour before eight o'clock; he had a bundle with him, and was dressed in a dark coat. Smith was then asked what he had to say, and he confirmed Barnes's statement, except that instead of going to Mill Hill to sleep, he said that he went to see a girl he courted at Finchley, and returned to his own lodgings at Finchley. He also stated that he and Barnes both lodged at the house of a person named Clarke, at Finchley ; he was an orphan, and had been brought up by the Clarkes. It appeared that the prisoner, Smith was apprehended shortly after the p rosecutor was stopped ; and was taken to a public house, but was permitted to go; and, on the following day, he and Barnes were both apprehended. The prisoners were remanded. They answer the description of persons who have committed several other highway robberies in that neighbourhood. William Clarke was charged with stealing a trunk and its con tents in the hous e o f Costar Alsop, Esq. t h e A mer i can Consul, residing in Surr ey - street, Strand. The pr i soner had taken the opportunity of gett i ng into the house at the time the dustm an was removing the as h es from the cellar.— H e was f u ll y committed. M ARLB Op O UGH-STREET.—Yesterday the greater num ber of the inhabitant householders of Hanover-square were sum moned to this office before Mr. Ror, the Sitting Magistrate, to answer a charge under the Street Aet, of neglecting to have the foot-pavement in front of their respective houses swept and cleared of dirt before the hour of ten o'clock in the morning, as the Act directs. The offence as charged, was cl ear l y proved by the street-keepers, who w ere the complainants, and all the de fendants were fined ss. each and costs. Some of the defendants appeared in person, but for the most part they were represented by their butlers. Amongst the number thus fined w ere , t h e Earl of Harewood, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir S. C. Jo nes , Ad m i ral Sotheron, Dr. Outram, Sir Simon Clarke, Sir Geo. Nayler, One gentleman amongst the defendants said that he hoped they might he Aned every day until they made their servants attend to the state of the foot-way before their doors. On Saturday evening one of Mr. Harmer's clerks came to this office in a violent hurry, to inquire if the report in that morning's Times under the head of this office, of what was stated. by a young man named Waddilove and his father respecting a public-house called " the Harp," was not an untrue and false report. He was informed in reply to his inquiries, that the report, as far as it went, was perfectly correct; but that it fell far short of the bad character and description which yodbg Waddilove and his friends gave of the house. Just at this moment, Waddilove, his father, and uncle, happened to . enter the office, when Mr. Harmer's clerk was referred to them, and they soon satisfied him how subdued the report was, as compared with their representations. His spe culation of course was at an end. UNION-HALL.—A man named Alexander, who described himself as a French Jew, was charged with having committed the following fraud on a poor weaver of Bethnal Green :—A few days ago the prisoner called upon the complainant, with whom he had been previously acquainted, and said that a parcel, containing a variety of valuable articles of French manufacture, had arrived in this country for him (prisoner), but that they were in the hands of a woman in Petticoat-lane, and who refused to deliver them to him unless he paid her a debt he owed her; he .therefore requested the loan of 21. 165., and he promised to repay it when he received the goods, and also to present the complainant's wife with a crape shawl and a piece of Brussels lace. The poor weaver raised the money by pledging his wife's clothes, and then ac companied the prisoner to the house of the woman in Petti coat-lane. . There a brown paper parcel was. exhibited to them, carefully tied up and sealed, and the only obstacle to ite being delivered up was the sum of 21. 16s. claimed by, the female, who asserted she had been at that expenee herself in pay ing the carriage, &e. from a distant part of the south of France. The complainant then gave the 2/. 165., and the prisoner went out under pretence of procuring a receipt, but did not return._ The parcel, which was produced, contained nothing but old rags and straw. The prisoner was apprehended on Saturday, at the time he was endeavouring to play off the same trick upon a poor shoemaker.— The turnkey of Brixton House of Correction said, the prisoner had recently been liberated from that gaol, after having suffered twelve months' imprisonment. - Mr. Staples, the clerk, said, the prisoner had been brought to the office at least twenty times. Macsey, the constable who apprehended the prisoner, said, that he paid for his dinner on Sunday, and his breakfast that morning; he hoped that he should be reimbursed. The prisoner (imptil?ntly)—Well, that shews what a fool you were—you knew that I had more money in my pocket than you were ever possessed of. Then addressing the complainant, he said, " As for you, Mr. Weaver, you must go to school again to learn common sense. Take me where you will; I don't care; fur I know that you will never be able to make a ease against me." Mr. CHAMBERS..-. 4 only regret that the circumstances did not take place in this district; otherwise I should certainly commit.you. The Magistrate then directed the constable to take the prisoner into the city where the case occurred. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, FRIDAY, FEB. 2. Bailey, W., Belper—Flying Horse, Nottingham—:ll Bore, J. jun., Kidderminster—Royal Hotel, Birmingham—l Bridge, W., Deerhuret, Gloueestershire--Spread Eagle, Glou cester-11 Cavenagh and Co., Bath—York-house, Bath-11 Chase, J. W., Eastington, Gloucestershire—Ram inn, Glou cester-4 Cooke, G., London—Union, Birmingham -2 Cox, E., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury-11 Cox, E., Wednesburv—Roebuck, Oxford-11 Dunn, W., Lonth:—.king's Head, Louth-11 Elsworth, J., Bowling, Bradford—Office of Messrs. Alexander, Halifax-11 Eld, J., Walsall—George, Bewdley-11 Fussell, J., Stoke-lane—Somerset Hotel, Wells-12 Gay, J., Bristol—Rummer, Bristol-12 Giblett, S., Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire—George, Shepton Mallet—l 1 Harris, J., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol-1 Harvey, W., Launceston—White Hart, Launceston-10 Jalland, C., Mansfield—Swan, Mansfield-10 James, T., Nottingham—George IV., Nottingham-11 James, S., Nottingham George IV., Nottingham-11 Leech, J., Barnsley—Public office, Barnsley-11 Aloorhouse, T., Sheffield—Tontine, Sheffield-2 Penny, J., Lymington, Hants—Greyhound inn, Blandforcl Forum-6 Pollard, T., Brighton—New Inn, Brighton—I 0 Shepherd and Bricker. Southampton—Crown, Southampton-4 Stallard, J., Sapley Farm—Crown, Shepton Mallett-12 Wesson, J., Dudley—George, Bewdley—l 1 Wynn and Wyke, Manchester—White's, Manchester-10 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, FEE. 2, AT NINE. Arnold, C., Exeter, lace -manufacturer Bloor, J., Somer's town, brush-maker Clark, W., Northampton, shoemaker Dockerill, J., Leather•lane, carpenter Fragar, R., 111ileend, labourer Grant, John G., London Kinaber, T., Burlington Arcade, agent Lockett, S., Burslem, hatter Paradise, F., Clerkenwell, jeweller Read, J., Uxbridge, turner Robinson 11., Gutter-lane, clerk Snow, J., Billericay, castrator Unite, R., Southwark, oilman Wallis, W., Carlisle-street, perfumer Wild, T., T o o ley-street, labourer COUNTRY. --At the at Cou Tennty-h'clock. all, Beaumaris, F e b ruary 3, o Moran, T., Holyhead, innholder BtJONAPAItTE'S OPINION OF SIIAKSPEARE AND MILTON.--" The same infatuation of the French for what is English, without knowing why or wherefore, is carried into the Belles Lettres. Shakspeare was forgotten for , two hundred years, even in England, when it pleased Voltaire, then at Geneva, where he saw a great many English, to make his court to them, by lauding that author ; and soon after Shakspeare was cried up as the first writer the world ever produced. I have read hhn, and have found nothing in him that approaches Corneille or Ra cine. It is not possible to read one of his pieces through; they are pitiable (elks soot pitie). • As to Milton, after his invocation to the sun, and two or three other passages, all the rest is a rhap sody. I prefer Vely to Hume. France has nothing to envy in England—a country which its inhabitants desert as soon as they find an opportunity. There are at present 40,000 English upon the Continent."—Memoirs stir le Consulat. EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF ENTHUSIASTIC FEELING TOR THE GRANT) EFFECTS OF NATURE.-In the year 1820, Captain Hastings, then on a voyage between the island of Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope, was overtaken by a violent storm. The furious turmoil of the ocean,—the mighti ness of 'the Burging waves,—the blackness of the water,—and the vivid effects of the lightning coming athwart the dark curtain of the heavens, he beheld with an intensity of feeling, that almost entirely absorbed every consideration of personal safety. H av i ng taken the necessary means for the security of his vessel, and anxious to contemplate the grandeur of the scene, he ordered him self to be lashed to an elevated part of his ship, that, during the raging of the tempest, he might not only study, but actually sketch the terrific appearances around him. Collected amidst the uproar of the elements, and regardless of danger, he produced a faithful and spirited drawing of a storm at sea, full of all the fury and sublimity of his subject. This drawing he sent to the Royal Academy, where it was exhibited the following year, and attracted peculiar attention.—Rhodes's Yorkshire Scenery. MURDER AT WOLVERHANIFTON.—Information has reached us that a barbarous murder was committed in the night of Wednesday on a public way in the immediate vicinity of Wolverhampton. The reported particulars of this tragical event are as follow :—A man, not quite sober, had been displaying some bank notes in a public-house in that town, on Wednesday even ing, and on the following morning his corpse was found in the neighbourhood, a wound having been inflicted on the side of the head ; there were traces of blood where the unfortunate victim had walked or crawled after being hurt, and the pockets of his clothes were empty and inverted. Upon an active search being made by the police, a very suspicious party, of both sexes, was found in a house of ill fame, in the midst of their carousals; they were feasting, and had wine and many dainties. On the entrance of the officers great confusion and alarm ensued ; one woman fainted, and whilst Lining, it is said, pointed to a man who was present, and exclaimed " That's him !!' The man was taken into custody. We. cannot vouch for the entire truth of this statement, but we have no reason whatever to doubt its accuracy.—Stafford shire Advertiser. THE ARMY. A Detachment belonging to the East India Company's Service will embark, to• day, on board a steam-vessel in the River, for Gravesend, on route to Chatham. A large Detachment of Recruits arrived in town, yesterday, from Coventry, and received orders to embark, this day, on board a steam-vessel in the River, for Gravesend, on route to join their respective Corps and Depots, at Chatham and Canterbury. A Detachment belonging to the 52d Regiment of Infantry, ar rived in town, yesterday, from Coventry, on route to Brighton. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 91(1. for the 4.1 b. Loaf—There are others who sell from a halfpenny to two pence halfpenny below that priee. PRICE OF SEEDS.--Tan. 29. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.)---. 635. Old Ditto Ditto _ g3s. New Foreign Ditto Old Ditto Ditto— 2fls. New White Clover---- 2Ss. Old Ditto—. New Trefoil Old Ditto-- English Corrawvy seQ - Foreign Ditto ---. Coriander 2155. -3. 263. -S. 255. 363. St. Foin (per Quarter), Linseed ; for 11 Ditto, Rir cmshiO; Canary Seed, Neiir...9os. 1053. tine 1103. —5. White MnEtard Seed ----(per Brown Ditto Tamil Round —s. 445. 465. One —s. A'ares, Old 7s. Oci. Ps. 6d. tine a.. Od. --New .—€. Os. tine 12s. I3e. Raze Seed, English, tine (per Last) .241. to Foreign. 22/. to 23/. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 311. O. Refined 6 Linseed Oil_ Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton WHITECHA.PEL HAY MARKET.--Jan. 27. Hay------ 7N. Od. to 105 s. Od. Straw Od. 3S. Clover Ons. Od. to 1265. Od. I PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-Jan. 29. • Pockets. rigs. Kent 41. N. 41. 15 3 . t o 61. N. Kent _.3/. Bs. 4/. N. Sussex 31. 16s. 41. 4s. to 4/. 10s. Sussex Si. 3s. 31. 10s. &max_ 41. Os. 41. 153. to W. 54. Essex - 31 . cs. 8/. 140. Farnham, fine (Pockets) 71. 7s. to 61 125.-Seconds, 61. N. _ _ to 51. 03. to al. 103. to 41. 103. to 74 Os. PRICE OF P OTATOES.—Jan. 20. Yorkshire Kidneys St Os. to 01. Os. per Ton. Scotch llPds di. 10s. to N. Os. ditto. Oanobles arid Shaws 31. b s . to N. 103. ditto. Marsh Champions---..---- 41. Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. PRIG. LEATHER: Per 11). d. d. .i tlsso to 5603•..... 20 to 21 Ditto—GO to 6611)....... 22 to 23 Dressing Hides IS to 15 Pine Coach Hides -- 15 to IS Crop Hides. 35 to 4010. in to 15 Dttto, ,45 to 501 b.— 15 to 17 Ditto — 17 to 19 d. d Tanned Horse Hides 19 to. 15 Spanish - Is to la l'er dozen.. Calf Skins— 36 to 401 h. 10 to 2f Ditto --.. 50 to 701 b. 22 to 27 Ditto 70 to BM. 20 to 92 Small Seals, Greenland— 18 to 90 HIDES. Per Stone. P. d.R A s. d W . Best Heifers and Steers 2 10 to 3 Middlings 2 6 to 2 8 Per Stone. 6. d. 6. d. Ordinary 6 to 2 2 Market Calf 7 0 esteti.;.: reen . and Red Ditto. 735. flue 71s. 765. 445. fine Ms. 61s. 60s. fine:63s. 665. 408. fine 428. 455. 575. fine 61g. 66g. 43e. tine 46a. 501. 355. tine Ws. 365. 12s. fine 10g. !4e. 2fis. fine 325. 355. 37e. 31r)s. tine -s. 303. 325. fine -s. 30. new 333. 40e. 428. 445. tine -s. 510 s. new 365. 40s. 4es. new 40s. 455. 3Sls. 41e. the Ms. 345. 38s. fine 3P.. -s. 12s. Hs. fine 16s. 20s. fine 22. , . Sfis. 4a. fine --s 14 14 8 () Downs 2.5. CA. SHEEP SKINS. .to 3s. 2d. Lambs— 01.0 d. to Os. Od. I Polled— 44. Ott to !is. COAL MARKET.—Jan. 29. a. d. s. d. veiling Main 27 1/ I W allsEndßewicke36 0 I Lambton sr PontopWindsor— lg. 26 6 W. Green's— 33 0 Nosham Ships at Market, 495(--.....whips sold, 2N—Unsold, I. A. Is n 3/ 6 IRISH MARK . DUBLIN MARKET NOTE. ETS. . - -Fitioas, Jan. 26. From To 30A sa o o 0 10 0 20 0 13 0 2C 0 • 7 0 28 0 16 0 22 0 727 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone —....— Bere 16 stone 181 8ar1ey....,....,.--. 16 stone 1,914 Oats -- 14 stone 8,694 Cwt. Flour.--.. 9 stone 170 Oatmeal ......--- 11 stone Sold to Bakers only. 4,301 Cwt. Flour --- I 14 0 Average price of Wheat and ft 46s om . I 2 ------ Receipts of Flour, 9,916 Firsts, onds from 1 from • Sales of Do. 8 ° Sec s, 34 / Third ' PIUCK 0? Quartern Loaf, 41b. Sot. ITL EA f-qu n. artern M. P. 26 0 1 17 per sack. 205.. Od. to 255. Od. Od. to *Os. Od. 7s. Od. to 13s. Od. Loaf, 91b. Yoz. —44 d - . Wheat, Barley. Oats. I Flour, per ewt. per barrel per barrel per b a r r el, 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. lit. 2d. 3d. --- ----- --- g. d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s.d. ag. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. Cork 24 0-28 0 18 3-19 0 14 6-15 8 190-20 0 160-18 0 8 0-13 0 limerick 96 8-80 017 8-18 015 0-15 9 180— 00 14 0-16 6 80-100 Waterford 26 0-28 615 6-18 13 9-15 016 6-17 618 0-15 100-126 Belfast 26 3-28 915 6-16 6 1:4 7-14 0 160-160 136-140 105-100 Clonmel _ 27 6-29 7 16 6-18 0 14 0-15 5 170-17 6 146-15 0 116-12 0 Tralee-- (10— 00 00— 00 00 . 00 00— 00 00— 00 00— 00 Carlow-- 28 0-30 0 16 0-19 0 15 0-16 8 0 o— , 90 17 0-- 00 14'0-450 p P er o e ric:: —'— , r. Galway _ 00— 0 0 0 0-- 0 0 00— 00 00— 00 00— 00 00-- 00 • Ist. id. uttejr----'‘-'-- M. .4th. Stis. _ --- -- per lb. pMutton,erlb. per Veal,lb. d. a d. d. a cl. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. 3, cl, s, d. s. d. g. d. ~. ci. Cork .o—oo—o 0 —0 25 0-28 05t0780660 56 0 46 0 Limerick... si —0 4 5 0 —0 24 0-94 684 0 76.0 65 056 0146 0 Waterford 0 —0 0 —0 0 —0 24 O—M3 089 01— 0 0— 0 0 Belfast .....4 —S 4 —5 4 —5 28 0-22 B—o 0 0— (1— 0 Clonmel —:4 —4 4 —s S —s}3o 0-33 9336 0 0— 0 0 S—CBsaOrlivelye.-113 101-IaAtB9.:KE9BT::::,. 078 064 4 p. 9 9 " Tralee .0 —0 0 0 o—o —0—0082074 0 01 0 SO 0400 Carlow— ti Wheat. Gahvay o—o 0 —0 o—o —o 00 0— 0-0— o—B [.. --- ----- --- Aberdeen ~ 25 29 25 30 Berwick.-- 37 40 26 27 25 29 80 38 53 2 , 5 1 Coldstream 28 25 26 95 2 4 3 ST 88 Cupar 26 29 23 26 __— 1 4 Oatmeal. m Dumfries 76 79 4B 50 40 46 Dundee.,,,,,, 30 52 23 30 27 31 24 26 24 26 Falkirk ......... 27 28 29 SI 24 30 29 32 97 v 9 4R s 2 Kelso -,..... 99 40 25 27 25 28 -- 36 83 Kirkaldy-- 25 29 23 28 P 6 29 Perth -- 27 29 26 9 7 96 90 25 26 25 26 At Dumfries the price is given per Bushel. The other prices above are per 8011, except Oatmeal at Aberdeen, which is per Seek of 9801bs. A shoemaker, in Calton, some years ago, hit upon a novel expedient to render more cheerful that sedentary occupa tion: He placed several thorn-bushes in his work-room, and in troduced some pairs of canaries. The birds soon became recon ciled to their new habitation ; and picking up leather shavings, and other materials, formed nests on the hushes—and there was, in due time, a thriving colony. The birds, not in the least dis turbed by the noisy operations of the workmen, flew about the room with the greatest confidence, picked out of the paste-horn, and occasionally perched on the workmen, with whom they be came very familiar. They all partake of food in common, and go at pleasfire to the seed-box, suspended from the roof ; fhey also quench their thirst out of the same vessel. The calls of cus tomers give.thern no alarm, nor stop their various manoeuvres. No strangers have been added to the progeny —they are all de scendants of the first founders of the colony.—From this cause, they are considered to have rather degenerated in breed, as often happens with the proud aristocracy from the Caine cause.— Glas gow Chronicle, BIRTHS. On the 27th inst., at the Vicarage ; Sonthwell, Notts, of a daughter, Mrs. Fowler, wife of the Rev. R. H. Fowler, and daughter of Mr. Bish, of London. On the 29th inst., St. Agnes-place, the lady of Mr. Charles Beaven, solicitor, of a son. On the 27th inst., Mrs. Frederick Le Mann, of a daughter. ➢TARRIED. On the 27th inst., at Northwood, Isle of Wight, by the Rev, John Hatchard, M.A., Vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, Lieut. Thomas Williams, R.N., to Juliana, only child of John Drink water, Esq., of Queen Ann-cottage, Plymouth. At St. Bride's Chureh, Mr. Adolphus Dodd, to Miss E. Jack son, of the Dublin and Dover Theatres. DIED. On the 21st inst., at Rotterdam, in the 63d year of his age, Rear-Admiral I. S. May, Naval Commissioner and Port Admiral there, Knight of the Third Class of the Royal Military Order of William, Grand Cross of the Russian Order of St. Ann, and Member of several Learned Societies. On the £Bth inst., in New-street, Spring-gardens, Edward Harvey Delatield, Esq. On . the 27th inst., Jane Elizabeth Brodie, aged 29, wife of John Brodie, second daughter of the late Wm. Harden, of Lloyd's Coffee-house, and niece to Nathaniel Harden, Esq., Hadley. On the 27th inst., in Keppel-street, Russell-square, Mrs. Ann Day. On the 26th inst., at the Hon. Mrs. Cadogan's, Grosvenor street West, Lieut. Wm. Milner Slade, R.N., aged 30. On the 26th inst., Sarah, wife of Mr. John Gadsden, of Ox ford -street. At Bath, in her 67th year, Mary, relict of the late Martin Dempsey, Esq., of Clarges-street. On the 26th inst., Mary, the wife of Mr. Thomas Flockton, of Horselplown. On the 24th inst. in Trinity-square, Christina, the , wife of Gilbert Stuart Bruce, Esq. Printed and Published by M. 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