The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The blustering and malignant blunderer who volunteered an article in a morning paper of yes- . terday on the feelings of Ministers with regard to the late battle, has uttered as many misstate ments as he has risked assertions. It is not true that public opinion has declared itself against the battle of Navarin, as an act of violence and aggression ; but, on the contrary, it is univer sally regarded as an event as unavoidable as it was professionally glorious. It is not true that a shadow of difference has arisen among the Bing's Ministers as to the causes, the conduct, or the consequences of that battle, or on the -propriety of honouring and rewarding the officers who achieved the victory. It is not true, but a most iniquitOtts and disgraceful calumny, to al lege that the despatches of Sir Edward Codring ton were garbled, or in contradiction'to the log books of his fleet,—that any part of them was " erased, lopped, or altered, with the concuir rence of Ministers." These are positive denials of peremptory allegations, let the writer of the article in the morning paper substantiate any one of his " facts," if he can ! The question is now fairly at issue, and with it the character of the individual who raised it. We may add to the list Of mis-statements, the rumour which is reported to have prevailed in the city yesterday, that Sir Edward Codringtoit is to be super seded. So far from it, that his Royal High ness the Lord High Admiral has added to the distinctions already bestowed upon that gallant Admiral, in recompense for his noble intrepidity and skill, by surrendering his own patronage to Sir Edward, and leaving it to the gallant officer to fill the vacancies .occa sioned by the action, from the successor to Capt, Bathurst downwards ; that is, Sir Edward has at his disposal the appointments of a Post Captain, of a Commander, and of a Lieutenant, to be distributed as he shall determine, according to his own knowledge of the merits of the indivi, duals who served under him. This proceeding is no less liberal iii itself than decisive of the feeling of every part of the Government as. to the conduct of this excellent officer.—Times.. We have fulfilled our promise to a Corre spondent signing himself" Africanus," by pub lishing his letter on the two subjects of Sir Neil Canipbell, and of Sierra Leone. In noticing the death of the late Governor of that pestilen tial colony, we felt it a duty to truth and to the own knowledge to state what we knew of our knowledge respecting him—lst. That he was a most intrepid and zealous officer. 2d. That he was a gentleman of a kind and excellent heart. That the anger of this correspondent " Afri canus" has been moved in no small degree, by the article wherein we declared our sentiments of Sir Neil Campbell as a soldier and a gentleman, is sufficiently obvious without our taking the trouble to point it out. He begins his address to us by observing, that our " panegyric upon the character of Sir Neil Campbell affords a striking proof of the little dependence that can be placed on newspaper authority in such cases. " And how does this writer bring put his proof of the fallacy with which he charges us ? He talks of Sir Neil Campbell—whether truly or falsely we are indeed quite ignorant—as " being vio lent and arbitrary in his conduct ever since he entered on his official duties " at Sierra Leone. Now, as we had not said or hinted a single word about the public conduct of the late Governor, but merely praised his private and professional qualities,—how, we should like to ask, does the writer justify the unmannerly sentence with which he has commenced his letter ? Has he ventured to say that Sir Neil Campbell was not brave, or not warm-hearted and holiest ?—that he was not formidable to his enemies, or dear to his friends ? for these were the only points of his character which we had touched upon. By no means. He gives us an extract from a communication written by a mercantile correspondent' of his ewn, where the Governor's qfficial conduct towards military and civil officers, and towards the merchants also, is abused by the lump as harassing and • ruinous to the colony ; and this is to be the ground of an attack on our veracity for uphold ing his personal good name. If the writer had ever received a lesson in the Court of Chancery, he must have known that such an " answer" to our bill would have been dismissed at once as " impertinent." But we have reason to believe that the true gravamen of the case in the eyes of this gentleman is, our strenuous remonstrance with the Government on the cruelty of retaining at all these murderous colonies on the Western Coast of Africa. We lamented the extravagant cost of these charnel-houses—the enormous loss of brave men's lives which they entail every pass ing year upon Great Britain—their absolute inef ficacy as schools of civilization for the Negroes —and their utter worthlessness in every point of view, as -ompared with the blood and treasure of which they require the sacrifice ; and how does " Africanus" meet these arguments ? " Afri canus," who, notwithstanding his assumed name, takes care to keep himself in a temperate atmos phere and a sound skin at home, while he insists on exposing the unfortunate army and navy of the empire to almost inevitable destruction for the sake 'of his lucrative traffic. Does he deny any one of our assertions on the subject of Sierra Leonel—that the officers and soldiers, the regi ment Sand ship's companies, die offlike rotten sheep under the wild -fire pestilence of that intolerable cli mate ? Does he deny that the odious slave trade flourishes along the coast, in spite and in derision of the British Government ?—or that the Negroes of this surrounding country are as barbarous as an?'iAlier Ne g roes ?—or that the expense which th e trldon submits to annually, and for which it i jceiv es no shadow of advan tage, is so much positive waste of treasure, as the shocking mortality of our poor countrymen is so much gratuitous expenditure of life ? Not one of these facts has ,the Sierra Leone merchant or agent attempted hn invalidate ; but, in the same spirit which led him to accuse us indirectly of falsehood, when we did bare . justice to one of the many victims who had perished there, he in sinuates that we have been the dupes of a cor ruption by which other journalists have been enriched and disgraced, because our opinion has been given broadly upon the true nature and value of the settlements in the West of Africa. ---- " As to your remarks," says his letter, " on the settlement of Sierra Leone, I am not surprised at them, considering the pains that have been taken by the partisans of the West India slave owners to raise aprejudice against the place," (!) " in which they have at length succeeded to an extent that must be highly gratifying to their patrons, and which must entitle them to addi tional reward and favour at their hands."— " Africanus" may fancy that there is force or severity in 'such insinuations as these; but we can assure him that they are nothing better than contemptible. Ministers have acted wisely in withdrawin g from Cape Coast C a stle : they will act more wisely i n abandoning the whole African coast, inasmuch as the liv es of thousands of Englishmen are worthier the paternal care of Government than the profits of a few merchants and the salaries of their clerks.—lbid. • • A contemporary (the Globe) observed very happily the other day, with reference to the Re pbrt of some Irish Meeting, that hi geni4ne oratory it was impossible to know whether any matter was trifling or important. Mr. Fox gave .an equally happy account of oratory, when, on hearing a speech extolled which had been de livered on the previous evening, lie asked if the report of it read well; because, he subjoined, if it read well, it must infallibly have been a bad speech. Eloquence addresses itself to the feel ings, and the imagination—its business is to ex aggerate and distort ; and it tails where it does not produce a sort of mental intoxication, under which the , exercise of the reasoning powers be comes impossible. The prejudiced and the ig norant—those' who love the marvellous, are the fittest subjects for eloquence to operate' on ; and hence, the lower the audience the finer the field lot the orator. We would not, like Plato, banish orators from our commonwealth ; but we would make their trade not worth the following, by dif fusing education, and accustoming the people, as much as possible, to those processes which break the orator's spell. We will venture to say, that an old Judge, whose feelings arc worn out, but whose intellect is still vigorous, looking knowingly in an orator's face, would soon dry Up • the source of his eloquence. We have been led to make these observations, from the annoyance we feel at the flourishing state of oratory in Ire land, and a consideration of the mischievous ef fects produced in that country by the constant appeals to the passions, prejudice, and ignorance of a susceptible people, by its public speakers. If there be one point in politics better established than another, it is the tendency of the popula tion of a country to increase till 'it reach the ex treme limit b of the means of subsistence. To this tendency we owe the rapidity with which new countries are peopled. Ezra Stiles, in a sermon preached before a Convention of the Clergy, at Bristol, in Rhode Island, in 1760, tells us : " Four thousand British Planters settled in New Eng land, and in 120 years their posterity are increased to 500,000 souls. . . . " There are at this present year in New England— Episcopalians 1 1 :600 . Quakers 16,000 Baptists 22,000 Congregationalists 440,000 This is one of many instances which we have of the rapidity with which our species multiply when the means of subsistence are abundant. It is clear that this power cannot be exercised, in all its extent, for any length of time in any given territory ; otherwise, as is very happily observed by an Italian writer, the world could not oontain the inhabitants propagated since the flood, even if they were packed as close as herrings in a bar 7 rel. How absurd is it then to hold out to the Irish people that a country can never have too many inhabitants, and that all attempts to inculcate pru dence in entering on marriage are .impious ! Yet thiswild and mischievous doctrine is address 7 ed every day to the people, to whom of all others it ought not to be addressed, by the Irish orators ! We confess we were surprised that the acute and well informed Editor of the. Dublin Evening Post, whose disposition to analyse ought to have secured him against lapses of such a nature, should have questioned the reality of the ten dency of population to increase beyond the limits of subsistence, and referred us to the Netherlandu and Tuscany for a refutation. With respect to the Netherlands, we can °lily say, that We possess. Mendicity Reports which exhibit a number of poor greater than is to be found in the worst parts of England. In East Flanders, of which the population is a little above 600,000, the poor receiving aid amounted to nearly 70,000 ; and as the causes of this poverty are assigned, as for instance, orphanage, misconduct, accidents, old age, excessive families, &c., we find that the cause of poverty, in 60 out of every 100, is excessive families—that is, a number df children greater than can Ile supported by the wages of the , labourer. With respect to Tuscany, we showed the other day, by comparing a return . two hundred years ago with one in the present . day, that the population was stationary. On looking into a very instructive volume, published in 1801 i by M. Sismondi, who there calls him- . self Simonde, on the agriculture of Tuscany, where he was himself an agriculturist for many years, we find an explanation of the cause of the stationary state of the population. ," We may almost count (he says), among the domestics of the house, not merely the sons and daughters, but also the brothers and sisters of him who is the head.of it. Nothing is more natural than to see the former subject to the pa ternal authority, coMpensating by their labour for the fatigues and expence which their edtteation haS caused to their parents ; but on the death of the father, it is impossible not to be astonished at seeing the oldest of the family become the master, keep the purse, without rendering any account to his brothers, dispose of their labour and of its fruits without consulting them, feed them and clothe them without ever giving them any money ; and yet all these brothers live oil the best terms, without complaining of a distri bution which appears so singular, and without even envying the lot of their elder brother. I shall.long bear in remembrance a family of pea sants in the environs of Pescia, composed of four brothers and their children, in all twenty-two Men and eight women, all married, or of an age to Be married, who lived in perfect harmony on their common purse, and whom their very great fortune bad never been able to disunite. It is rare, however, to see so many women under the same roof; because, unless the possessor requires a great number Cif hands, the eldest alone of the family marries, and the father and mother would be very much displeased if another of their sons, by taking a wife, were to deprive the heir of the house of the hopes which he might found on his uncles. A lady of my ae .quaintance, speaking in praise of a female peasant of the neighbourhood, said never was there a wife more generous, or a mother more kind, more tender and devoted td the interests of her family ; undoubtedly, she added, if her second son were to many, she would die of chagrin. Why ? I asked with astonishment. What ! do not you know, she replied, that he is born the heritage of the elder ?" So much for confident appeals to countries, without know ing anything of their domestic economy. But these peasants have not the misfortune of living under a heartless Aristocracy. The same family has lived on the same little famfor a series of generations. No brute in human shape in that country coolly talks of his right to drive the people from his estate, and the hardship of being obliged to give anything to the. assistance of those whom he has detruded, and thrown with , out resources on the world, as the law enables him to sentence them to annihilation. The con duct of the landlords of those parts of this Em pire, where the poor laws do not compel the higher orders to look, into the condition of the lower, has always- excited horror in the rest of Europe. Niebuhr, in the second volume of the first edition of his Roman History, observes in a note—" In the Highlands of Scotland, the in ! habitants of many villages have , been forced to emigrate, because the landlords_ found sheep cul tivation more profitable : eleven hundred went from one estate to Canada. Woe to a nation, when the old feudal pride having become extinct, and yielded to the love of gain, all is . considered only as a speculation ; love and the attachment inherited from generation to generation have no longer any attraction, and estates become the property of every Jew—if in such a case the re- . lations between the peasant and the laridlord, a nd his possession, are not firmly .secured to him. A beggarly liberty will not be of much avail to him." But what would this celebrated historian say, were he to hear the landlords of a country coolly calculating on the destruction of two mil lions of human beings, to make it comfortable to themselves, and proposing the abandonment of it to military execution, if plague and famine did not anticipate the sword ? Poor Laws, with Laws of Settlement, will alone secure the lower orders from the caprice of cold-blooded aristo cratical tyrants. This was the opinion of Lord' Liverpool, and every page of the domestic his tory of England proves the'wisdom of giving the people a local habitation, and of throwing the responsibility, of regulating their numbers on those who are legally bound to support them. Half savages, like the lower Irish or Scotch Highlanders, cannot be expected to act with the prudence'of the highly civilized Tuscan peasant ; but were the higher orders responsible for their support, it would be their' interest to attend to their improvement. The misery of the labourers ! of England began with . the violation of the Laws of Settlement, and the introduction of the paying wages out of Poor Rates, one of the many evils which we owe to Pitt, who caught the alarm of Dr. Price, that the population was diminishing. If the land of Ireland be made liable for the poor of that country, as justice and humanity demand, and the Law of Settlement be restored to what it was, we shall soon cease to hear of a surplus population. We will trust the Landholders with the inculcation of sound views, when their own subsistence depends on it.--Morning Chronicle. The opinion.is fast gaining ground in the City that his Majesty's Ministers are far from approv ing the conduct of Sir Edward Codrington, re lathe to the attack upon, and the destruction of, the Egyptian fleet.. A correspondent in the Morning Herald has stated this to be the fact, and he is borne out in his assertion by an Even ing Paper of yesterday, which is known to be in the confidence of Ministers. The paper alluded to says—" We have reason to believe, that, with every admiration of the gallantry and skill exhibited by Sir Edward Codrington in the -destruction of the Turkish fleet, his Ma jesty's Ministers, on the scanty ilformation they possess of the circumstances which led to actual hostilities, will not entirely approve of the gallant Admiral's proceedings until they re ceive from him some further information and explanation, to obtain which a distinguished Officer, of high naval rank, will proceed forth with to his flag-ship." This statement, which comes from a paper of much greater character than the old Evening Ministerial hack, is re markably corroborated by the conduct of the French Government, who, it will be recollected, have not approved, in any way, of the conduct of their Admiral. Indeed the French Papers openly declare that De Rigny has acted contrary to the wishes of the Ministers. The greater part of the English would-be-ministerial papers ap pear to us to have made sad work in their defence of the battle of Navarin. A Moining contem porary, writing upon this subject, observes, that " men give starting room to deer, but not to wolves;" of course meaning thereby, that Admi ral Codrington has done right in . considering and treating the Turks as beasts of prey. With-, out stopping to inquire whether these pe o pl e ought to be so considered or so treated,, it will be sufficient for our purpose to observe, that our Government has never (unless we consider the late battle an exception) so considered or so treated them. Nay, so far from this be ing the case, it is quite clear that in the docu ment called the Greek treaty, and throughout the whole of the subsequent negotiations, the Allied Powers have expressed the greatest concern for their interests, and have over and over again declared that they feel an " in violable friendship" for them. In the second note presented by the three Ambassadors, on the positive refusal of the Sultan to accept the intervention, we find these Ministers thus ex pressing the sentiments of their respective Go vernments. They declare that whatever mea sures they may . find it necessary to take to, en force the armistice, their Governments are de termined, that they shall not be of such a nature as in any manner to interrupt the friendly rela tions which subsist between the high Allied Powers and the Sublime Porte, and that, the Sublime Porte will find in those measures a fresh proof of the inviolable friendship and re gard which they feel for his Highness. Such is the substance of the note which, according to the Austrian Observer, was presented to the Reis Effendi on the Ist of September ; and yet, in little more than a month, these same high Allied Powers attack and destroy the fleet of their dear friend, consisting of more than one hundred and fifty ships, and containing more than five thousand souls, the greater part of whom fell in the battle. Now, though it may be sometimes expedient to treat men, according to our contemporary, as beasts of prey, yet we apprehend it never can be just to lead such men to believe, when we intend thus to treat them, 'that we have the highest regard and respect for 'them. For our parts, we have no doubt that 'the Government, notwithstanding what some of their scribes may say to the contrary, are heartily sorry for what has occurred, and that they will use their best endeavour to repair the mischief. Indeed it is confidently reported that Admiral Sir John Gore, who left town for Malta yester day, accompanied by Lord Ingestrie and a [Vb. Codrington, is gone out to supersede Sir Ed ard Codrington, and not, as the Ministeria l Paper before alluded to asserts, to obtain further information relative to the battle of Navarin.— r6rning Herald. The Ministerial Papers take upon them, u n a ce, to contradict the statement which, from the 4ery best authority, we were yesterday enabled to lay before the public. To these contradictions +e reply, in the first place, by re-affirming all t e important particulars of our statement: ;t is true that Ministers have been thrown into sprious agitation and alarm by the manner in v thich the good sense of the people of England has led them to receive the accounts of the battle of Navarin. It is true that the consequences of this victory have been dissentions among our Wading rulers, which the examination of Lord • , Ingcstrie has not teided to moderate. It is true that a difference of epiuion prevailed, and pre vails still, in the Calinet, as to the expediency of conferring, withoih' further information, any mark of Royal fa/our upon Sir E. Codringt6, It is true that the despatch, as published in the Gazette, contains s, representation of the circum stances immediately leading to the battle, which is not in accordance with the log-books of the different vessels of the squadron. And lastly; it is true that the Gazette does not contain the despatch as it actually arrived in England, with out erasure or ►mutilation. These are:. the facts which we stated yesterday ; and from the au thentic source whence they were derived, we can now have no hesitation in repeating, with tl►e utmost confidence, that the seve►al statements Are substantially correct. Our assertions are strongly corroborated indeed by the confessions we have extorted from the most respectable and best informed of the Evening Ministerial Jou nals. The SUN would willingly be thought to contradict us. The value of its contradiction may be estimated, however, by the following article, to which it assigns a leadi►ig place in its columns, and which it professes to have written before our statement had attracted its notice : " Our rea7lers may have observed that we have cau tiously abstained from entering into the discussions which our cotemporaries have indulged in on the propriety of the measures pursued by the Admirals of the Allied squadrons, which brought on the action terminating in the destruc tion of the Turkish and Egyptian fleets. We considered that it would be indelicate to snake any allusions on this subject, at the moment when the skill and gallantry of the .Commander-in-Chief of our squadron, and that of - the Officers under his orders, had received honourable marks of their Sovereign's approbation, and when his Majesty's Ministers were weighing and considering all the circum stances under which Sir Edward Codrington had adopted a course which could hardly fail to lead to the result which actually ensued. The time, however, is now arrived when, without impropriety, we may say, we have reason to be lieve that, with every admiration of the gallantry and skill exhibited by Sir E. Codrington in the destruction of the Turkish fleet, his Majesty's Ministers, on the scanty infor mation they possess of the circumstances which led to ac tual hostilities, will not entirely approve of the Gallant Admiral's proceedings, until they receive from him some further information and explanation, to obtain which, a distinguished Officer of high naval rank will proceed forth with to his flag ship." So that, according to our contemporary, who expressly contradicts our assertion of there having existed a difference of opinion upon the subject of the honour bestowed upon Sir E. Codring ton, among the Members of Administration, this extraordinary body is perfectly unanimous—first, in conferring these honours upon Sir Edward— and secondly, in sending a distinguished Officer, of high naval rank to his flag-ship, in order to ascertain whether he had really merited reward or punishment. The Officer of high rank here alluded to (Sir John Gore, K. C. B.), it will be seen by a paragraph in another part of our Paper, departed yesterday on his important mission, ac companied by the son of Admiral Codrington. —Another Evening Ministerial Journal, dis- ; anguished only for its ignorance and its vulgarity, and which has of late lost all the respectability it formerly possessed, pre-' sumes to contradict our statement upon pretended information, that " Admiral Codring ton's despatch was printed in the Gazette, ver batim et literati;n, as it was received in Eng land !" Of the . value and importance of this ilformatipn, we were enabled to judge, when, in referring. to the Gazette itself, we found that what .it professed to publish were not merely copies, but extracts also from the dispatches of the gallant Admiral. We cannot, of course, attempt after this to esta blish the accuracy of our own intelligence, in opposition to that of so well-informed an assailant. Th e facts are as we have stated them. And in what a disgraceful and Government deplorablend of condition England d they place the actual The flagrant. injustice and gross impolicy of the Treaty of Intervention • are unquestionably the' chief cause of all the. embarrassment, and con fusion, and calamity . , which have ensued'. Clear instructions to avoid injustice would have mili tated against the spirit and objects of the Treaty. land would in effect have placed England in op position to Russia. Clear instructions to com mit injustice Government had not the courage to give. 'Thus Admiral Codrington has been left, without any precise instructions, to govern himself according to his own view and that of the Admirals acting in 'conjunction with him, of what the Treaty permitted and required in any circumstances which might arise ; and Govern ment is left in the deplorable and humiliating predicament of not knowing whether to avow or disavow, to censure or to praise him, for the ex ploit he has atehieyed.—Morning Post. Our readers will find, in another part of our Paper of to-day, an account of a highly interest ing Meeting of the Shareholders of the far famed Thames Tunnel. We are exceedingly highly gratified to find, in the first place, that so small a sum, comparatively speaking, is necessary to complete that stupendous undertaking; and, in the second place, that the Shareholders are so unanimous in wishing for its completion. The whole sum that will be required to carry the Tunnel to Wapping is, estimated at seventy eight thousand pounds ; and from this there is a well-grounded expectation that considerable de ductions will be made. The approaches on each side will require about sixty thousand pounds more ; so that the whole work will only cost about three hundred thousand pounds, not more than a fourth part of the cost of Waterloo bridge, which is the only thing in England, we might say in the world, that can look to rival it as a monument of genius and art. The damage sustained by the bursting in of th e water has cost less to repair it than we could have possibly expected. Twelve thousand pounds were found sufficient ; a large sum no doubt, but trifling when compared to the magni tude of the evil and its anticipated consequences. From this it will appear, that had no such unto ward accident happened, the call for a sum very little less than what is now asked must have been made in a very short time. We most ardently hope that no second mishap will occur to damp the hopes of its most ingenious and able projec tor, but that he will see the labour of his hands prosper until he lay the top stone of it with joy. We look on it with the same intensity of interest with which we survey every plan and project which is calculated to raise the character and enhance the reputation of Englishmen. Whether it pay the shareholders may be questionable, though even on that head there seems no room for despundency ; but that it will do honour to the country of which they are children is indu bitable.—New Times. We hear that it is intended to establish a Lite rary and Philosophical Society in this city.—Carlisle Patriot. PENIBROKESIIIRE HUNT MEETING.—This annual scene of gaiety and festivity commenced on Monday, the sth of November, under the most favourable auspices ; t h e weather continued during the whole week to be every thing which could be wished fur, and the sports of the field Were great beyond any former example.--Cambrian. ~. .i POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GITILDHALL.-drohat. Grover, an assistant to a Sheriff's Officer, was charged with stabbing John Willis s, a taylor. The prisoner,'who is .about 50' years of age, ad been married twelve yeitrs, but his 'wife had not borne him any children. Williams, of whom he had become jealous; is . not above 40 years old, and.;keeps a house in Mae's-pldce, Greystoke-place, Fetter-lane, where the prisoner resided. On Monday evening, the prisoner quarrelled with his wife, and pursued her from one house to analier. The cotn plainant came out of his house to see the cause of the dis turbance, and the prisoner stabbed him in the arm, and threatened to kill him. Complainant also said that Elie prisoner had several times threatened to murder MM. —The prisoner said that the complainant had seduced his wife and ruined his peace of mind for ever.—The com plainant said there was no foundation for the prisoner's jealousy, and the prisoner. was committed for trial. BOW-STREET.—DAnixo HIGHWAY ROBBERY..-- Yesterday William Keeling was charged with being one of a gang of. robbers who, on the night of the 2d. inst., assaulted Mr. Frederick Henry Dowling, on the highway, and stole from his person a watch chain, seals; key, &c. Mr. Dowling is a gentleman usually residing at Sidbury, in Devonshire. He came to London on business a few weeks ago, and on Friday, the 2d inst. was walking along Goswell-street, with a party of ladies, on their way to the theatre. One of the ladies was walking arm-in-arm with him, and the other two followed close behind. When they had rived within a few yards of a place called Bell alley, he o bserved the prisoner standing .by the side oia post at the end of Bell-alley. Theiwisonei fixed his eye upon him so steadfastly, that his attention was particularly attracted by that Circumstance to the general appearance. of the prisoner's person. On arriving at the entrance of Bell-alley, the prisoner rushed against him with such violence that it shook his whole frame, and nearly upset him ; before he coold recover his equilibrium, the pri soner, with his riglo.band, had pounced upon his watch chain, and seats, and snatched them with such force, that the chain was detached from the pendant of the watch.— The prisoner ran off instantly with the seals and chain, but the watch remained in his fob-pocket. He cried,— " Stop thief!" and the prisoner ran down Bell-alley.— On attempting to pursue him, five or six fellows Surroun ded Mr. Dowling, and impeded his progress, so that he was actually compelled to fight his way through.— He continued the pursuit for some time, and the pri soner at last fell over a heap of rubbish, and be (prosecu tor) also fell from a similar cause. As soon as he got up, he observed that the gang of thieves who had previously attempted to prevent his pursuing the prisoner were fol lowing him. He again made pursuit after the prisoner, who turned up Great Arthur.street, and entered a house. He followed into the house in less than a minute, and saw two females leaning over the bannisters of the stairs, who said that he had no right to enter the house, without a warrant. A mob of about thirty. persons collected round the front of the house, and a man entered soon afterwards, who came out again in company, with the prisoner: He instantly seized the prisoner by the collar, and said that he was the man who had robbed him. The mob, chiefly consisting of men and boys, pushed violently against him ; trod upon his toes, and jostled him about in such a manner that they finally rescued the prisoner from him, and he escaped. He gave a description of the prisoner to Thomp son, a constable, and a warrant was issued 'on the same night for his apprehension, in consequence of learning from two boys, that the man who had robbed him was com monly called " Bill Keeling." Being compelled to return on urgent business to Devonshire, before the prisoner was apprehended, he entrusted the warrant with a constable ; and on arriving again in London on Monday, he went to Clerienwell Prison, where the prisoner was in custody, and pointed him out among above forty others, as the man who had robbed him. Two boys, in confirmation of the above statement, de posed that the prisoner was the man who ran into the house, pursued by the prosecutor, and was afterwards rescued from him by the mob. A blind gentleman informed the Magistrates, that he was jostled and robbed of his watch, &c. by some thieves, in the open day, on Sunday last, as he was on his way to Church, near the same sFot where Mr. Dowling was robbed. A constable stated to Sir Richard Birnie, that a ye, y de sperate gang of organized street thieves existed in that neigh bourhood-; and they had been so daring in their lawless attacks upon .porsons walking in that Vicinity, that eight robberies had been committed by them within the last ten days. Sir R. BIRNIE-We must unkennel the villains. The prisoner was committed to Newgate. The owner and driver of the coach No. 662, and Wyley, a cad, were charged with riotous and disorderly conduct. Bean, a watchman, stated, that on Monday, about half tanred e u p a inside i u . half past four, the coach in question drove into Pickett-street, andthe coachman,were eso rio t o w u were r tehaaltl the li n e toxicated, got out and began insulting the poor market womenna g n s d t themselves, w ll With en their way to Covent-garden. They then began rleleidamiut:P near the Angel Inn. Three cads, who witness sprung his rattle, and having procured assistance, took the prisoners into custody. Their companions escaped. The watchman added, the cads, who were in the habit of following coaches, were a complete nuisance. Mr. HALLS said, that it was high time to (leek the proceedings , of this class of persons, for which purpose lie should punish the prisoners as far as the law allowed him. MARYLEBONE.--Blc KM Y. —An old woman, named Hannah Gates, was charged with bigamy. Thomas Taylor, a pensioner with 1 a wooden leg, appeared as the prosecutor, and said, that about two years ago he married the woman at Ealing Church. She then told him that she was a widow, but he had since discovered that her first husband, Wm. Gates, was living. An elderly woman proved that the prisoner was married to Gates in 1809, at Peterborough, and that she had seen Gates in London a few months ago. lea,TcheLopris London n r in sa e id y , ea t rs ha a t g l o i 7 er s fi l i i - e st h hu ad sb n and was o otseenhi l m dige si , n l e t e o , and believed he was dead. The prosecutor here said be wished to make it up with the prisoner; he did not wish to have her imprisoned any longer. Mr. GRIFFITH said he would not permit any compro mise, and committed the prisoner for trial. An elderly woman, named Phipps, was summoned by Mr. W. A. Smith, of Argyll-street, for having detained 201. his property. It appeared that in August last, the defendant found four 51. Bank of England notes in Bryan stone-square, and having advertised them three times with out an answer having appeared; converted the money to her own use. A few days ago Mr. Smith called upon her for the money; but she having declared that the money was exhausted, he summoned her before the Magistrate. Mrs. Phipps admitted having found the money, and said, that having made every inquiry for the owner, with out effect, she thought she had a right to 'convey it to her Own use. Mr. HOSKINS said she had no such right. If any pro perty was found in the streets, it did not become the pro.. perty of the finder. Whenever the owner claimed the property it must he given up, after deducting the expellees that had been incurred. Mrs. Phipps declared she had not the means of so doing. Mr. HOSKINS said, if Mr. Smith chose to proceed another way, it mi,;lit become a very serious matter. She certainly had no right to the money; it was a mistaken,' notion, that if no person caerie,forward after an advertise ment, the party finding had nil , right over the property. He would adjourn the case *.o give her an opportunity of settling the matter.. The Magistrate ordered the prisoner to be remanded, arid the case to stand over till this day week. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. BROUGIITGN gave his decision at considerable length, on a point reserved for consideration, as to the right of the trustees e' the me tropolitan roads to demand a toll under the general turn pike Acts, and not specified in the schedules of 7th Geo. IV. cap. 142, passed expressly for the regulation of the metropolitan roads. The question arose on a summons by Mr. Cobbett, jun. against a collector or'llie Stamford roads, who had taken a toll of 6d. on a Ira l ith four wheels, and drawn by one horse, being an additional toll of one half, under the general act 8d Geo. IV., cap. 126, charged 'wank the felloes of the wheels being less than i inches broad. TNIg The Magistrate said that the object in making this dis tinction in the tolls chargeable on the broad and narrow wheels was clearly to encourage the use of the former in preference to the latter, because by the latter the roads were more liable to be worn and cut up ; and in a subsequent Act, 4th George IV., it was expressly stated in the sth Section, that where such additional tolls had been previ ously taken by the trustees of roads, they should still con tinue to be taken, notwithstanding the passing of the Act. It was here admitted that the toll had been previously taken, and the only question that remained was, whether or not the additional toll under the former Act was super seded by the operation of the Metropolitan Act, 7 George c. 142, which continued the provisions of the general acts in cases where they .were not expressly varied by that Act. Referring to the 84th Section, he found it enacted that the tolls in the schedules appended were to lie taken, ci s ubject to the restrictions and exceptions in this Act, and also in the general turnpike acts." By the Metropolitan Act the toll in this case would have been bat 4d., for the it schedule said nothing with respect to the breadth of there was, however, under the general acts , an ad"t toll on narrow wheels, for the reasons he ha d state"l that regulation was to be considered as if re-enacted bl later Act. The summons was therefore dismissed. The room was crowded with parties intere sted 3ecisiori. HATTON-GARDEN.— George Wallington, A r.:l man, who lives at Somers-town, was yesterday b rougl l tinder a warrant, before Mr. Sergeant Szntort, ch William Thomp son, brush-manufacturer, New-toad, ur.m. inn -lane, with the embezzlement of monies to a con" able amount. 0 0 ' 3r. The prisoner who is about 22 years of age, and 0 of • ried, was in the service of Mr. Thompson about five yep ago, and conducted himself with unimpeachable ;a l l ! until he voluntarily withdrew and entered the en' `tlili Day and Martin, at their establishment in Holborn. 401 left this also with a good character, but was uns uca in his endeavours to procure a permanent situatio it, was thereby reduced to the must distressing privationog? such a time, and, without any resource, or even P r ieta il , before him, lie addressed a letter to Mr. Thompson, ';l5 Por ing his sufferings, and soliciting to be reinstated i n h ' e dto mer employment. Mr. Thompson humanely atter' ,oie his solicitations, and generously restored him some tlet,ive the month of August last, to collect his debts (nil rofric orders, at a salary of 1001. per annum. No boe' s v the counts were kept,between them, except a docket , be r prisoner of what sums. he received, and a ledger 11' :fail' secutor, wherein were posted the receipts of the day' l . e , 0 Neither were those dockets compared with the en tr bor the ledger since . August. • They were, however, for come to a settlement yesterday, and the prisoner P r° te d to do so satisfactorily, but since Saturday he neg je ; : t hdr3 l. o b u u t si o n f ess ti , m a c n , d ,un m t a r n y. ifes u t p ed on a tdiiisispoAsiirti.oTnisetocmrpetsloyntiossr:": card in arresting him, and took him out of his bed a t - hour yesterday.merning. MARLBOROUG H-STREET. —A groom be 101 3.-„ se Major Goulburn, brother of Mr. Goulburn, th e 13 5 c1 cretary of State for Ireland, was fitted 40s. under the / JO of Parliament 57th George HI. for exercising one master's horses in the street,. Major Goulburn atv„ o g and undertook for the man's future appearance, or tu,epee the penalty, if pressed by the parish m which the ° ttiok place. toe A young man,: named James Ymens, residing 1 :: ce ol Hampstead-road, was ordered to give 24 hours n°lllo bail on a charge of threatening the life of his SiS ter 'oo seine dispute that arose about a will made by their who is now in a dying state.. as Tios A very respectable-looking youth, name(' Murray, was remanded for a future examinatissPo the charge of stealing a book called the "Blue Book, f r ,: t reet' shop of Mr. Sykes, a bookseller, in Great Eussebyin Bloomsbury, and which he contrived to put into his r while pretending to bargain for Lord Byron's Wor'.giont Four young thieves, named John Smith, i rt C Oor Burgess, John Flood, and James Sullivan, wer e or ), mitted, on the . evidence of two of the Bow-strest P p eoS , who detected them in the act of stealing pieces ',": 0 10 01 ' cheese, &c. from the shop of Mr. John Ellis, in street, Soho. Cer e ' Three tnore young depredators, named / 0 " - C Or Henry Dignum, and. George Connelley, were al' tl , o o mitted to Newgate, for picking the pocket of a g,.,e%der named Philby, residing at No. 27, Park-street, e tr):i town, of his handkerchief tine night before, in de ter' street, Haymarket, and which offence they wer e in by one of the Bow-street patrol. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY, CORN MARKETS DURINd THE 5. > - I fel Wheat. Barlay. Oats. -------- - s. to 6 9 Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. s. to s. 4 2 / I Boston Grantham Grimsby 5O 51 29 32 26 ~,7 0 4-fo liorncastle...---... 44 49 27 32 18 24 40 56 Hull— 42 54 26 33 16 , DO 50 Lincoln ~....M-«.,..-.41 53 30 38 21. ~,5 , 40 15 Spilsby .„ 44 48 28 34 IS . o k 59 60 Stamford.,---. .. 40 59 27 31 22 ' 3 " 0 York 44 60 ,28 36 20 5° COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXD IMPORTED. me - This nod las pe t year. year. &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 705,a3(1 4(11,255 London 65,878 58,854 Glasgow 56,519 22,448 Total exported in 1827 I Y.or• 1340614 Bags, 1, 0 0 66 1 0 49 , it 4,9 70,0" MEETINGS OF CRED T o gs. COUNTRY DlARY.—Fainta, Nov. ... ~'" Bidmead, J., Cheltenham—Ram, Gloucester Birkctt, W., 'Whitehaven—Black Lion Wh it ............. Cox; C., Newcastle—Roebuck, NewcastlF . :::,;;Zi ............. Curwen, J., Liverpool—Messrs. Lake, .................. Etheredge, Norwich—Swan, N..g o itingh-an ............. Gee, J., Nottingham—Punch-bowl's, a lifax ............... ..• Heaton, M., Bradford—Union CrYfif ti ngs, Liverpool ......... .•• Lax, J. Liverpool—Clarendo , rc i a l rooms, Bristol ............ Roich, 'J. Gloucester—ConVLster ............................... Taylor,Stone,S Thompson,. J , . Derby— hv e n t : r or l vT : ). ; .:t.kc. sisi.;. Arms,. a. .n ; , : ih a . ae. n .gs c . s h e.tr : r..a s .. t .t. .......... ........................................ Turner, E., Warrington Halifax.; .................. ,-, 4,1 w idi, ' , PLYING TO BE DISCI! , fig Petitions to be - , 0 ,, ~ lid - Nov. 40, AT :NINE. ti, Att‘ T.,5....-- APPLYING at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn lid- Phillips, M. Sou . o ccot" Searles, Horn er 55 C street ~s t ., ' Liverpool. Berocr:fr ~ . , s _fields, Ber. Rawlings, 8., NOD V . Bliss, N., Snow INSOLVENTS . garden _.,tic, MOndiey , J ., Savory, A., C ai " tt ~,..strce Goodman's-fields Mary Axe Marris, H., Leicester Taskef, W., 1 ,0 7.,,art Morris, }I.; Bethnal-green Smith, R , M itrc i s es Page, J., Bishop Waltham, Walters, R. Che Hampshire Brown, co t i, r e ' .7 ii , n34 Great -mi' dr:rae:oi Britannia-street, e t t , . - COUNTRY.—At the Court-house at .lilendal, r °s' ,enal'e Hamitton, at , Je A n p o' pi c e l b oc y k . . innkeeper il §ton e Northampton, *lnv. 22,"at 'refl. Tiar aioo- ' Allen, C., Wefti o n (Norton, R., ", 0 1 Capell, J., Denton Norton, J., Da ve BIRTHS. lacif of On the 13th inst., at Westhatn, Essex, th°jr.. -, o d f lieeit James Webster, Esq., of Balmure, Forfarshire, '" 14 a son. °O r On the 20th inst., in New Park-street, Solt Mrs. Thomas Saunders, of a son. MARRIED. r l3 / 4 On the 20th inst., at Dailey, in the County of r ‘ e iv rti by the Rev. Thos. A. Rickards, M. A., the Rev. b 94' o G f eo H rg ar e b S or im ne c , ex s , t 3 a l m . Affd.sszoe,ndtosonm t i el'' t be daughter of John Gisborne, Esq. of Dailey in I tin e On the 20th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fiell g oo 0 ' Andrew Jopp, Esq., of Elmhill, near Aberdeen' t° t eri re ' daughter Of Alexander Aunand, Esq., of they3l - R Acdsva e lfilit ev(r.ly.jr.niDtutootslifph,•:.ie, Christopher Richards,coruetmieiaoitinhi sy,t.E, the A sail l t e .; x isa a otp n ip d H: e t rp aitdt ,T ioe o iEs p l_ p egf , Cat rht E doucinfoo d e hiee, s l,T s , : et i t : Adelphi. t ,so.: r d v ivilla, daughter ut w o i f n J e a h m m e o s i. e ll h r i c t:li l iu, a e y Ar, , yriß E ,dse,d s: l. i tN.s . , Ceo N xhi ti.a o rn . leg ,9 6ll s Bp , itto l:e e a to;:flfe.irepoot,,brgvet, let, On the 20th just , at All Souls Church, by the, ' - p i' reb e ",,f i o c l a tt r hw of el S l, t. Caius College, Cambridge, third son of the late P r ' I,e Bishop of Clogher, to Penelope, eldest daughter of t of Robert Fleetwood, Esq. LOP r On the 19th inst., at Arundel, Lieut.-Colonel --, Af tli ti the Grenadier Guards, to Sidney, eldest daughtel;„„,,, Atherley, Esq. „, Bi r ,, i. DIED. GeorgeCh Saii-Inlotcte°':' tilie,i'll On Tuesday, the 13th inst., at Tunbridge-oe"-', ' Margaret Delancey, relict of the late James Delanre;" On Thursday, the 15th inst., at Brixton, Sa riluel Esq. of Southend, Essex. 5 011 " cr On the 17th inst., Mr. Joseph Cabe% of Roa d ' P ee in tile setshire. On the 16th inst., at his house in Coburg-iost• Old Kent-road, Mr. Joseph Mullings, in his 66 t 6 On the 18th inst., at Pingsworth Houser ,/0OP" 01, 11 :., smith, Mrs. Price, in the 81st year of her age, b e so respected by all who knew by. She had b eep' bitant of the above hamlet f 0,30 years. Pr.- f o On the 10th inst., suddenly , a t Gravesend, Mr°. beth Dufaur, aged 66. osir 00' On the 19th inst., much lamented, Biro. 014 1 London-street, Greenwich. h,pl4ell' On the 17th inst., at his house , Marlboroug Kent-road, Anthony Kirwan, jun., Esq. • of On the 15th inst., Mr. Thomas String w ~, street, Bloomsbury, aged 68, deeply reg retted bY by,, and friends. • NiTith l%l4 On the 19th inst., at B roadatairs, Francis late of Montagu-street, Russell-square. Poarmsn and Pußusmin by MTI M. N G, •t Abe Sux-Orytcr, Na 112, fitol3** TEA T] tier LAMPS LOVERS, P 1 Metal VENISi J. EVANS, respectl de bas just eon useful Articles, Workmanship, per Cent. unlit STOVE OR) FIRE IR to b e LONDON $ *4.* gi 111PORTAN of Parks, P 1. AN PL settee of I sail and, situat 2. PANT: Owners' Asei nagemeut of use, ornamei With Plates, 3. PANT: Treatise on Objects us a ranee, and ranks of eoci The wiatl i Planter and. Bedford. Publ PA TRADIN G tajuing those Inlttee ofth e SYSteto of Ij a , 2 . 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