The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The long official .document from Madrid, which we published yesterday, has provoked, as was natural, a voluminous, body of observations,. both from individuals andathe press. Insurrec tion is, at all times, an interesting subject. Spanish insurrection has, for Englishmen, at this time a peculiar interest.. -But the rebellious movement now described by the _Minister of Fer dinand is not exactly of that class which, if our countrymen had a .choice upon `.the matter, they would have preferredaeas an exercise for his Ex cellency's descriptive powers.. Catalonia; we arc told is in open;rebellion-4 rebellion, the growth of two long yearn of!seditious practieese Towns are taken, contributions levied, a. large space of country occupied by the:rebels ; whosheye. twice railed : their audacious views to the possession of the irriportantfortress,of .Tortosaa,and hoe ap peared in. arms almost at the gates of Barcelona, , where ._is a garrison of some 8,000. air 10,000 French troops Thia is formidable, or appears to be so: We take for granted that the forneof the rebels, and, the weakness of , the King's offi cial _ government, are such as they have been painted by the Minister at War—such as they have been, we might say, ostentatiously,displayed and lamented by him : then the next thing one feels inclined to' ask is, what may be the de clared object and purpose of this insurrection Why—astonishing as such a. fact will bethought by any reasonable being-L--it is not a rebellisaa by the people to.procure more liberty, but by a .fac tion, to give the people less liberty, or rather to show them less mercy, and to make .Ferdinand • more despotic, than he.,was tendered, by the in vasion of the French army, or than lie continues to be by their protracted occupancyaof :Spain. This is the professed purpose of the new rebel lion ; and that there may he many, antong its executive officers and partisans who really medi tate the ends which they avow, there, can be little question. However, we may be permitted, to repeat one or two of those: perverse and cu rious Commentaries which,break out from. Eng lishmen (a free-spoken race),in talking over this extraordinary Spanish -insurrection. It .was re marked, as a piece of political, drollery, between three and four years ago, when Ferdinand did the Duke of Angouleme the honour of meet ing him for the first time after the fall of Cadiz, that during their interview violent shouts were heard throughout the town, (St. Mary's.; ,if we recollect right), and under the King's windows, of « Long live the absolute King !" " Your Highness hears," quoth Ferdinand, with much gravity, " how my subjects detest the very name of a constitutional Sovereign !" The shouts of the populace were well-timed shouts, and they were united to good account by Don Ferdinand, who, though at the moment Constitutional, King of Spain, was not much offended, to all appear ance, by these anti-constitutional and disloyal outcries. At present, it is pretty generally un derstood there are on foot, and have been for a considerable period, negotiations on two most important questions—viz. - Whether King Fer dinand shall follow the example of the Emperor Pedro, and of his other relative Louis XVIII., by giving some sort of a Constitution to his people; and whether the French army shall eve- • cuate Spain or not. Now, protesting quite as ceremoniously as, can be required of us, against any false and scandalous imputations upon the Courts of Madrid and of the Tuileries, and ad mitting that this is a most serious and most bowl fide rebellion of Spaniards, because , they feel themselves too free, against King: Ferdinand, be cause he is not sufficiently absolute, let ,us give way to a slight sentiment of wonder, at the apti tude of the said rebellion to furnish Ferdinand with arguments against granting any possible Constitution, and Charles X. : . with protests against consenting to an immediate evacuation. In these respects it must be considered an op portune--and, as we may call it, a lucky hit a --on the part of the apostolical insurgents. Passing over the oddity of a Minister at War addressing a long paper to a Captain-General•for no seeming object but to tell the Captain over again a long string of circumstances which he .had already told the Minister of War himself, we shall only venture to observe that. there is no bitterness of tone or spirit apparent. throughout. the .despatch, or more properly manifesto, in speaking ,of these C a t a lan rebels. They are complained oh; they are eompassionated ; but they are not to holier seemed or proscribed. They march almost. to the gates of Barcelona, but the French garrison never think of attacking them : on the contrary, it is stated in many letters from the neighbour hood, that the. orders of .the French Generals to their subalterns, are, net to molest the insurgents. It was not so when Valdes landedwithadiandful of insurgent Spaniards- at. iu f 1824 a but they were" on the Constitutional side, and, - of course experieizeed - no mercy. The:French gar rison of Cadiz—die French sqUadron,in the. bay —were ready enough Men to interfere.. All this • may be' odd. It is certainly alittle odd to see a legitimate rebellion raging, and ,the auxiliary forces of 'a constitutional , neighbour; like Charles X., looking quietly 'on. Should the rebellion, indeed, change its charactera and from °despotic become c onstitutional, the troops of France ,will be. told, unquestionably, that it is their duty to undergo a converse change, and, instead.of re maining tranquil spectators of vioience, to mane use of t violence AS " the only.means of preserving the public peace."-- Times. In a subsequent part of the paper will be found a letter from a correspondent, deprecating the ignominy and insult to which common informers Are continually exposed. In our correspondent's v iew of the matter: we entirely agree. 'To Us it teens in the highe4 degree absurd;" that laws s h ou ld !)e pessed—rightly it is' to be Presumed — to pun i s h offences s and that the moment they are to be carriedinto effect, these through whose means they are brought into action are to be treated with ten thousand times more - severity than any which is felt towards the offenders themselves, or their offences.999 cases out of 1 , 000 , the public at large is too indolcn d a . . too much otherwise occupied , or , too m iffer , ent, i to rose cute ; and therefore, fit were n 0,,, for n ; formers, who take the matter lip for the, sake o. the penalties, many of the most valuable laws, and useful correctives, would be of n . o use •, ins therefore, to hunt persons out of society—or, as against them , is a it were, " to run a muck" species of barbarous inhumanity, as well as of impolicv, which we wonder can so generally prevail. But it may perhaps be said, and . not untruly, that the prejudice in this case arises, not s o much from the 'dislike which people have to see th e laws put in force, as against the little judgment w hi c h i s use d by , informers in the se ection of cages - for prosecution, and the too ready eqnselence, or rather no-conscience, with which inform e rs and.their Witneses are too often ready to make the facts meet the object they have view; general impression, we believe; prevails, and that not farmed Without reason, that these people will, for the most part, swear any thing; and that therefore no man's person or property is safe where the sanctity of an oath is so little binding. Another source of freir un popularity is, that they are often not satisfied with taking up bona fide cases, but are conti nually making business for themselves, by tempt ing people to commit the very offences they pro lege to complain of. This, we believe, is also but too well founded. It is monstrous that an informer is to jump up behind a coach, and then proceed for the penalty for carrying an extra passenger ; or that, during the hours of Divine Service, - he should make a circuit of public houses, and by drinking at each himself; tempt the owners to commit the very offence he wishes to see committed. Such things occur every day ; and no wonder that tjjose who themselves thus abuse the laws should not be looked upon with a very favourable eye as the means of putting them in force. But even here the evil produces anti increases itself for while informers are looked upon with so much odium, no wonder that none but the very scum of the earth be found to take up the occupation. In fact, we .all like the laws very well till they come to hit our own proper parsons. We deem it highly proper that stage coa4imen, publicans, and others should be kept from offending against the law, because we are neither publicans nor stage-coachmen ; but the gentleman who buys game, or shoots without a lieence, , or the fair lady who smuggles a little, either from the love of novelty, or to make her person still more engaging, are quite scandalized if the law or the informer visits their offence. As the only remedy for the evil, if it be one, the laws themselves should be better known then they are, and rendered less vexatious. There are a hundred penalties in the Statute-books .which those who make them hardly know the existence of ; and informers would be of no small use, if they would now and then bring home to law makers themselves a few of the inconveniences they tacitly, and often unconsciously, inflict upon others.—Morning -Herald. Our Cotemporary of the Courier has the fol lowing observations on a subject which has lately attracted some attention : " PRISONERS' CONFESSIONt.--The French system of examining prisoners when in custody, and afterwards using their answers against them on their trial, has been justly reprobated in England. The distinction, however, between the course adopted in France and in this country, is really without a difference, so lone- as the English Police Officers are allowed to question and cr oss-examine the persons they arrest, and afterwards swear to a confession thus obtained. Several of the Judges have lately taken occasion to repro bate this practice in the strongest terms ; and Mr. Justice Geselee, in particular, during the pres , :ot nbi Bailey Ses sions, has availed himself of every opportunity of caution ing the Officers not to interrogate prisoners whom they may have in their custody, without first apprising them that their answers will be given in evidence against them on their trial. During the Sessions there have been many statements or ' confessions,' as they are called, sworn to by the Officers—confessions which the unhappy prisoners have no means whatever of contradicting, inasmuch as it is al most always sworn that no third person was present. The acquittal of a prisoner thins circumstanced is next to im possible. We would really submit to those whiill . Ave the controul of the poliCe, that each case should be allowed to rest on its own merits; and that interrogation, by the Officers, of the unfortunate prisoners, on whose minds hope sod fear (no matter whether excited unduly or not) must, to a certain degree, operate, should not be tolerated. If the system is permitted, it would be better at once to avow it, as they do in France, and no longer boast an advantage which does not in fact exist". Before proceeding to make any remarks on the above paragraph, we may observe, that by the Acts Ist and 2d Philip and Mary, cap. is enacted, " And that the said Justices, or one of them, being of the Quorum, when any such prisoner is brought before them for any man slaughter or felony, befbre any bailment or main prize, shall take the examination .rd the said prisoner, and information of them that bring him of the facts and circumstances thereof, and the . same, or as much thereof as shall be material to prove the felony, shall be put in writing before they make the said bailment ; which said examination, together with the said bailment, the said Justices shall certify at the next General Gaol Delivery to be holden within the limits of their commission." This Act of Parliament; which is constantly referred to in practice, ex pressly authorises the receiving the confessions of prisoners, and, in fact, on all occasions where it has.been wished by men in power to obtain a conviction, the prisoner has been examined with a view to the extraction of evidence from him against himself. In the trial of Jobn.the Painter, for instance, who burnt the rope-house at Ports mouth, the conviction was grounded principally On the prisoner's confession, as reported by one Baldwin, for of the other evidence the greater part consisted in confirmatory statements of other facts, in themselves immaterial, but stated by the prisoner in his confession. The Advocate for the prosecution dwelt strongly on the importance of this confession. If, therefore, the practice of examining prisoners when. in custody has been reprobated, the law has been reprobated, for the law expressly authorises it. But a great. latitude is allowed to time Magistrate in England which . never is allowed in other countries, for in Eng land. the Magistrate . may. either exert. himself ,to;! obtain evidence from the prisoner himself, or he' may exert himself to prevent the prisoner fur nishing such .evidence) When an English. Magi strate hates a man, or wishes to have him hanged or transported, ..he has only to give a hint to a gaoler,. a police officer, or other subordinate, and the evidence will be obtained in a much better way. than he himself could extract it, be cause these low individuals, being more on a level with the prisoner, are more likely to engage Isis confidence, and to seize the moment for at tacking him when his conscience may be awake or his feelings strongly excited. If; on the other hand, a Magistrate wishes to bring off a prisoner, he can caution him against opening his heart to others, and impress on him the importance of wrapping himself up in secrecy, in order not to furnish evidence by which-his conviction may be furthered. There is - a diji!renee, therefore, between the English practice and the practice of other countries, as our contemporary cannot fail to see, and it is a difference, quite in accordance with the spirit of the Emiglish law, which delights in falsehood and fiction, in throwing dust in the eyes of the multitude, in laying down a positive maxim, and getting the better of justice indirectly. The great object of the English law is to favour the rich and the powerful, to enable them to elude justice by means of friends or the aid, which lawyers can supply. A decla ration from a Judge, delivered with a grave face, deludes the multitude, for, it is necessary there should be some screen. When justice was de feated lately in the case of a Baionet, and two or three other - marked occasions, the Judges, with a gravity which Liston could not equal, proceeded to express their wonderment that the trial should go off for want of a prosecutor, just as if they, trained from their youth to all the tricks of a tricking profession, had not the least idea how such a thing should be done. The poor man cannot afford to indemnify sureties or prosecutors, so justice must be done on him ; and the multitude are stupid enough to deem; it equal justice, because there Is an equal binding over in the case of rich and poor. Mr. Justice Gaselee's admonitions will have about as much effect on, officers and turnkeys, as .a Methodist sermon on a petty-fogging attorney. It has-been observed, that the subterfuges which it is neces sary to resort to in England, afford an evidence of the existence of a certain amount of popular influence. In Turkey, at present, as in Eng land, when it resembled Turkey (which is not so long ago as some people suppose), men in power can do what they like without recurring to any subterfuge. Any one who is read in the French Memoirs knows, that when a rich or powerful magi was convicted, a relation had only to throw himself at the feet of the Grand Mo narque, or pay court to one of his Mistresses, or the Mistress of one of his Ministers, and all was arranged. In such a state of things, it was not necessary that Judges and Magistrates should be enabled, by the latitude allowerthem, of effecting through the instrumentality of law, .without loss of character, what could be so. well done by Court favour. Nay, the Monarch might even wish to tie down the subordinates, in order to have the monopoly of cqnferring favour. We have often had occasion to observe, that the practice of our Courts having been the creation of law yers, has necessarily had for object the benefit of the profession. It often happens that the benefit of the profession and the advantage of the , com munity are directly opposed to each other. There can be no question, for instance, that the greater the facility for promoting the escape of guilt, the more; the importance of the profession rises, and the profession therefore have an obvious interest in multiplying the means for enabling guilt to escape. Hence lawyers have always laboured to make Courts arenas for the display of skill which would make the issue, independent of truth, and for the practice of a science, the chief merit of which is the exclusion of truth. " Under the technical system," says Mr. Bentham, in his lately published great work on Evidence, " the interests and ends of judication being, from first to last, opposite and hostile to the interests and ends of justice ; whatever exertion and ingenuity has been bestowed, is applied not to the disco very of truth, but to the finding of pretences for not discovering it ; not to the administering - of justice, but to the finding of occasions and pre tences for administering injustice in its stead. Governed, if not by sinister reason, by blind ca price, under the mask of tenderness, English lawyers admitting sa.slfsdisserving evidence when. supposed to hare been extrajudicially deliver 4 or extracted, forbid it to be judicially extraetß. _ or received Tenderness ! to whom ? To the innocent in dividual, maliciously, or erroneously accused ? No ; what it does for him, is, where misrepre sentations have taken place, tending to his un just conviction, to refuse him an opportunity of clearing them up. To the guilty ? No ; not even to the guilty considered in the aggregate. — By the promise it gives of escape, it augments the number; the number being so great, thence .comes the pretended necessity for excessive pu nishment ; the deficiencies in certainty must be made up in magnitude. Death is the English Judge's universal remedy : higher he eannot screw up the exertions of blind barbarity. It is part of the same man, the same natural and implacable, enemy of justice, on the one hand to keep watch and ward in favour of the murderer, charging him not to let drop any the least hint from which justice may receive the least assis tance, not to say any thing by which his guilt may be brought to light : and, on the other hand to be no less active in his exertions to extend the demesnes of death. .1, . To the profit of cold barbarity, he adds the praise of tenderness. The manly dictates of public utility are sacrificed to the cant of - hypocritical or childish sentimen talism. The excess of the punishment becomes a sufficient warrant for not executing it. Ex tending the demesnes of death, he thus extends the map of his own despotism ; of that prepos terous state of things, by which every year the lives of men by dozens and by scores, are laid at the feet of every English Judge.—Morning Chronicle. It has lately been justly observed, that the bail system, while it affects to mend a mall, in many cases creates a great evil. In fact, and we do not say this for the first time, the system of Lail is radically defective. It inflicts a severe injury on the poor and unprotected, and it inflicts rio injury at all on the rich, and those who have friends. We do not see how it can be•dispen sed with in all cases, but there can be no doubt that it may be most easily and most be neficially dispensed with in small ones.— Why the Police Magistrate, who is held to be sufficiently acquainted with law to decide when a man ought and when he ought not, to be tried for murder or felony, should not be held suffi ciently skilled_ to try him-when he incurs a pe-: nalty of some ten or twenty shillings, would per haps puzzle a casuist to discover. Hope defer red, the wise man says, makes the heart sick, and delay of justice, in petty eases, is equiva lent to the denial, of it. A man must be more than ordinary zealous in pursuit of compensation for - a small injury, who can wait weeks, and sub ject himself to great personal inconvenience, in order to gain it. A law, indeed, which calls on a person aggrieved for such a sacrifice holds out a premium to settled hatred. But in what ever way the public may see fit to view the law as it at present stands, in respect to two citizens, there surely can be but ono opinion of its incon venience, to say the least, where the dispute is between a citizen and one who, from his office, is a servant of the court. The stronger reason why the law should be altered in respect to the latter case is , that it is one of daily, or rather passenger, g b s o l y i nightly occurrence, • and involves in it what ap pears idle surditr. A s im a ' nd idler drunken watchman, without reason or rhyme, prima facie to be . an ab amidst watch-house, locks him up for twelve men, to the watc t a i r l r e es la ts uer a hs ha a rn n i d les i hours with half a dozen ;pickpockets, an d when s next day the charge:is enquired into, has no charge o o P t a i s n B g e s " 'to make. What says the magistrate, what can he say, in such an every-day case, to the party aggrieved ? Why, he tells him that he i s di s , charged, and. that he may seek his remedy at the Sessions. • • It might be conceived a trench ing on the liberty of the subject, were the Mit gistrate to be empowered to set one of two parties who come voluntarily before him to the tread-mill for a fortnight, and we should be the last to wish him possessed Of such a power ; but we can see no possible harm in allowing , him to send ' a wa t c h man there when convicted, as they are in four disputed cases out of five, of their having used their power of protecting to injure the community. What in the present system, the public complain og and most justly, is, that the injury - sustained from the officers of police is i n its nature immediate, and_ the re medy remote and eircuitouS- 4 hat the officer, by his own authority, can inflict 'an injury,,and that the injured party must seek redress through means which bring to a. man that loves hiS ease even more annoyance than a night in the watch housei It is a most contradictory arrangement, that the Magistrate, who is, pro Canto, a repre sentatiVe of the supreme executive authority, should yet have no direct controul over men who hold no power that is not derived from him. The other day a constable—in this case it was not a watchman—dragged a decent man to prison, because he would not move on. The man was standing at his own door ! Had the order been « move in," we should not have de fended his disobedience ; but it is singularly hard that a man should, under pain of passing the night in the watch-house, be ordered to de sert his own house. While we may pause ere we concede to a Police Magistrate the power of deciding between two ordinary members of the community, we do, therefore, most heartily wish that the law allowed him to decide summarily in respect of the delinquency of those who are de facto his own emplolfis, and we are persuaded that nothing like diligence or attention, on the part of these subordinates, will ever be secured until he be possessed of such a power.—New Times. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—A young man named Josiah Lucius Benbow, a son of the notorious Benbow, the publisher, was brought in custody of Bond, sen., charged under the Wilful Damage Act with braking, destroying, and carrying away various fixtures, &c., attached to the lower part of the house, No. 255, Holborn, let to the defendant's father by Mr. Watts, the landlord, at the yearly rent of 70 guineas. A warrant has been issued against a brother of the prisoner, for aiding and assisting in the said damage. Mr. Watts stated, that Benbow's object was to compel 16m to pay a scm of money to induce him (Bcubow) to give up poSsession. Mr: liliNsuett. having referred to Air. Peel's new Act (the ease of wilful damage being proved), found that he had power.to inflict on the prisoner a tine of 51. and costs, in default of paying which the prisoner was ordered to be committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for two months. He begged, however, to be allowed time until evening, to send to his father for the amount of the penalty ; and the Magistrate ordered him to be locked up in the interval. Reuben Josephs, the Jew dealer, was brought up for a re-examination, and the various article% found at his house %ming exposed for inspection, Mr. Matthew Waller, whose premises were robbed of a considerable quantity of sloth in June last, swore, that to the beet of his belief, four pieces of the cloth now produced were part of the property, so stolen. He begged for further time, however, to produce his ahopman, and also the manufacturer of the.eloth, who could swear to its identity. On this evidence the prisoner was remanded until Friday, but- he was told that good bail would be taken for his ap pearance in the mean time. _ The Magistrates have ordered the various articles to he advertised. ATTON- G ARDE --Yesterd ay, Thomas Knight, driver of the hackney-coach No. 11', wbo stood remanded on a charge of Stealing the trunk of John fienrich Hase, Esq., from No.' 8, Anne-street, Pentonville, was brought up for final examination, before W. L. ROGE ILS, Esq., the sitting Magistrate. Mr. Rounts committed him for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-A .man named Enwright, • a shoemaker, residing in Oxford-buildings, Oxford-street, was brought forward to answer the com plaint of a Mrs. Ostiff, a respectable elderly lady living at No. 73, Davies-street, Berkeley-square. Mrs. Ostliff, who appeared in a state of great agitation and alarm, stated that on 'Monday night last, about nine o'clock; the defendant came to . her houtigand demanded to see a little do; belonging to her, which he said had bitten t his wife thaday in the foot, and she, -Mrs. Ostia, not doubting but his object was merely to examine the dog, and satisfy himself and his wife that it was_not mad, did not hesitate to produce it, and : brought, it up ,from the kitchen in bar arms to the. passage, where she presented it to the defendant to be examined by him ; but, instead of doing so, he tore it from her arms, dashed it upon the ground, and jumping with both his heels upon its head, killed the creature on the spot. As soon as she could recover from the shock, Mrs. Ostliff remonstrated, but the defendant,. instead of offering any explanation, abused her in the foulest, anguage, and swore that if she said another word he would crush her head in the same manner. Her hand was severely lace rated by the furious violence of the defendant ire dragging the animal from her arms. • Mrs. Ostliff gave directions that the body of the dog should be buried the next day in some hole, but before there was time to do this, the defendant came again to the house, and insisted upon having the body of the dog given to him ; and so much alarmed was - she by his threats and manner, that she ordered the body to be delivered to him, upon which he took out a knife from his pocket, cut the animal open in her presence, and dissecting out the heart from it, clapped it into his pocket, and walked off with it i❑ triumph. After this act, Mrs. Ostl►ff said, that she did not know what the defendant might take it into his head to do next, and her alarm became so great that she was coin= pelled to apply to the Magistrate for protection. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said, that he con sidered himself perfectly justified in all he had done, for that the dog had bitten his wife in the instep, and lest it should go mad, if not so already, he thought it necessary to kill it, to save his wife from going mad also, and it was in case the animal should have been mad at the time, that he cut out its heart to give it to his wife to eat, as he under stood it was an infallible preservative apinst hydrophobia, and added, that his wife had eaten the heart, since when she found herself much more comfortable. The Magistrate ordered the defendant to find good bail, to Answer at the sessions for assaulting Mrs. Ostliff, and lacerating her band in the manner it appeared. • After the defendant had been locked up in default of bail, Mrs. Ostliff very humanely interceded for him, and said, that as he was a working man, and had a family to support by his labour, she should be very sorry to have him sent to prison, and begged the Magistrate to discharge him. The Magistrate told Mrs. Ostliff that the defendant was very undeserving of her intercession, but, as she wished it, he should be discharged, on entering into his own recog nizance of 507. to appear ,at the Sessions. . MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—. 4 . charge of assault upon a female was heard in private at the above office, on Mon day, by Mr. Hosturrs. The defendant, a man of fashion and of fortune, is up wards of 60, and lives in E— place. The complainant is a delicate and modest-looking girl, of 17, and the follow ing are the particulars of her statement. She was hired by the defendant as housemaid and her mother took her to his house at noon on the 4th of this month, where no other servant was at the time; but a fresh cook was ex pected that day. As soon as her mother was gone, the defendant ordered her to,follow. him into the drawing, room, and take a seat by his side on the sofa, that he might tell her what she was to do. He took off her collar, and tuinwistiin n_ned he t r i go g w s; n I will have t s i a l i e d m , " a y ll ott off, sha a ll n n d ot el w ot e l a ie r you throughout. If you. will take 5 (meaning him self) by the hand, you shall have a friend and protector for ever." She said she came to be his housemaid, and did not expect such indecent behaviour. He said he took her with no intention to make her his servant; he fell in love with her the first moment he saw her, and then ordered her to follow him up stairs. He un locked his bed-room door, and threw open the next door, which wag a bed-room. " There, Madam," said he, "is my bed-room, and there is you rs ; I think it proper that you should sleep in the next room to me because I may want something i n .the night." He went into his bed-room and ordered her to come in and get a tumbler of water. There was no water in the jug. She went to fetch some; he followed her down stairs and up again, and some one rung at the street door. She asked if she should answer it; he said, " No, I will go down myself;" and while he was gone, she made•his bed. He came up, shut the window, pulled , down the blind, and shut the door. He then took her by the itaylad. s ins. h oh o owe u mge l rsa d hodk e soo r :u s ol nai insulted no . ed: sat sa tn h kt e ie r ddiotoi upon the bed, and treated her with great indecency. She cried, " for God's sake don't ; ld y y let me go." And after she had struggled with him some time, he desisted. She followed him down stairs, to the draw emn;retd°uapollneidetnrh s t e o h i a . e g i "ochheiiaeitinrotg.htleifeandHionrteta:we shutfannhg: room. She refused, and he pushed her into a corner, and er svoefray, muchit d a asked k e f d ri h g s h e t the door, Pulled down the blind, and made her go to the . c h o i t ; o n f t want She was He committed , a er . ac made her .go q ow „ with him to dinner. He placed her close to his side (in ?indeSchenecysa,i,an‘dg No." the kitchen), put pickles and beef in ritellnagezdarien tat: her plate, made, her go with hint to the cellar for bottled beer, and endeavoured to persuade her to drink some. At this time the bell rang a second time, lie looked up the area, and said it was the new cook; he insisted upon opening 'the door himself; he took the cook up to the drawing room, and while he was doing so, the complainant made her escape by the area-door, which happened to be open. This statement was followed by the evidence of her mother, that the girl was engaged to go to the place at ten in the morning, but could not. When Mr. .8. found that to be the case, he said if she did not come by 12, he would not have her at all, for he was going to take a ride, and had no one to leave in the house. The defendant said the charge was untrue, and treated it lightly. Mr. IrosirtNs told him it was likely to prove more im portant than he'expected, and held hint to bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday a young woman, with her hair dishevelled, bare-footed, and only clad with an old gown and shawl, was brought up from Chelsea watch house, having attempted to destroy herself in the Five fields,. Chelsea. The appearance of the miserable young woman . was truly pitiable, and excited commiseration from every one pre sent : her manner and looks showed evident symptoms of a total aberration of intellect. " My name is Emma Matilda Montgomery," said the poor maniac : " if you wish to know where I was born, it was at Virginia-water; and 1 could tell you more, but I have done nothing,—make haste, for I am faint, very faint indeed, and want some brandy and water to support me." The poor ereiture now ran on in a most incoherent way, and Mr. Mattaxorr, the Magistrate, inquired whether any person knew any thing of her. Vorley said ho understood that she was related to a family of rank and fortune. She had once' before been in the watch-house, when a servant of that family, he tm derstood from a con: table, had been down and relieved her. Mr. MARRIOTT directed her to be taken cars of for the present, until something could be done. THAMES POLlCE.—Yesterday Captain Allen, the Commander of the United States ship Nimrod,, was brought before the sitting Magistrate on a warrant 'charg ing him with haring assaulted and falsely imprisoned James Robson, a British subject, on the high seas. Hobson entered as a seaman on board the Nimrod, and some weeks since, when they were off the Scilly Islands, he had charge of the helm. He was compelled to quit it , for one minute on a pressing occasion, and in the mean time leave it to another. ° The defendant, without any provocation whatever, knocked him down elan to the wheel, and drove hiss back. At another tia4e he did not pertOrm some work in such a manner as to please the de fendant, who put him into irons, and for a long time kept him in close confinement. The defendant's conduct, the complainant represented, was generally exceedingly tyran nous towards him. The defendant begged to submit thit this was not ti case withiu the Magistrate's jurisdiction, inasmuch as the com plainant was an American citizen, or had entered the ship as such, and all matters between them were cognizable only by their own Government. Some surprise had been expressed by the Consul for the United States that the Magistrates had issued the warrant. The ship's articles, attested by. a notary public of the United States, were here handed in to the Magistrate, who declared it certainly appeared, from the complainant's sig nature, that he had entered himself as an American citizen of New York. The complainant, who Lad a northern accent, which proclaimed him at least to have been born a British sub ject, acknowledged his signature. • Mr. BALLANTINE said this act of the complainant's un doubtedly put the case out of their juriadiction. Redwe s must he sought from the Consul of the United States for whatever wrong, if ally, had been committed. UNION-HALL.—A man named William Matthews, a coal-porter in the employment of Mr. Burradaile, a coal merchant, of Rutland-wharf, was summoned before M. SwAuEv, 1114, on an information charging him with having refused to measure certain sacks of coals which were delivered tea customer, and which were suspected of having been deficient in measure. The defendant having pleaded " not guilty," Mr. Jemmett, the barrister, whd attended in support of the conviction, observed, that he should be enabled to prove the ease satisfactorily against the de fendant. lie had refused •to re-measure sir al sacks of coals bent from his master's wharf to the pre es of a gen tleman named Morris, all of which were susiected of being grossly deficient in measure ; and although perhaps the de fendant was not the chief aggressor, yet the present pro ceeding was adopted as the best means of pttufshing an of fence of such magnitude, and which was calculated to be of such injurious tendency to the public at large. Mr. Morris was then called. He stated that in the month of August last he purchased SO clialdrons of coal, pool measure, of J. Borradaile, the employer of the de fendant. Thomas Pook, servant to the last witness, at the period above mentioned, recollected the defendant coming to his master's house with a waggon load of coals, containing 34 sacks. Witness requested him to measure one of the sacks, which he did, and it was discovered to be one peck deficient in the meistire,' upon which witness expressed his determi nation of having the remainder measured, but the defendant positively refused. The defendant declared that the evidence given against hint was greatly exaggerated. The aggregate would have been found to contain the legal quantity. • Magistrate.---Then why did you. refuse to measure them. I am bound to ballets those two men who are upon' their oaths, and shall therefore inflict a penalty of 10/. and costs on yon, for the offence: Iu coerce of the day William Cobbdtt, jun., applied for a summons against Thomas Whitehead, collector at the King's Bench-gate, to answer to his complaint, for having on Sunday, the 16th inst., on two different occasions, taken from William Wells, each time for a hackney coach, the sum of 6d., under the name of Sunday toll, the same not being authorized by „, law, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 51. and costs for each offence. The applicant . also applied for a summons for CAarles Rousell, clerk to the trustees of the said roads, to attend the hearing of the complaints, and to produce the 'counter-part of the lease by which the tolls are held to farm by the trustees. A TURKISH CEMETRY..:=Our return was through the Turkish cemetery, which is situated nearly at the top of the hill ; it is marked by pe culiar neatness rather than by great extent, and its groves of lonely cypresses, each at the head of its marble-turbaned- tomb, produce an effect . of ,melancholy sadness and repose, much more affecting than the gaudy monuments and frippery decorations .of Pere la,Chase,. or the " storied urn. and animated bust" of Westminster and Santa Croce. It is in those spots that one feels truly in the East, where all around reigns the stillness of death, and the only gaudy objects to allure the eye are the calm cloudless heaven and the glittering sea—where' the, hum of the bee, amid the thyme-covered graves, and the stately which the waving of the funereal cypresses , alone disturb the solitary grief of the mourners who frequent them, and who are .seen in melancholy gr ou p s too,e d a fr l o rd anotheri hand, e flower s proof o f seated in tears beside some fresh-mad e grave , or spring above some earlier ten an t o f the tomb.— watering,These scenes, t h superior gentleness of heart an d fervent affection i friendly ha of woman. It is seldOm they visited by are mita men, and I never remember to leave entered one of them without seeing sth ne sorrowing fe ma l e scat . ed by the green m oun d or marble shrine, which sheltered some Once loved and still dearly che rished being, to whom she fancied she had already bade an eternal farewell, the precepts of her religion debarring her from ally hope of a re-union in another world with those on whom the portals of the tomb had closed in this. Nor are the Turks by any means divested of domes tic afThction either ; but national cu - stoin, and 'a fostered feeling of male superiority, have taught them that it is unmanly to make a womanish display of sentiment. With a Greek, who seems to copy all the gaudy exterior without the solid virtues of the Mussulman, this idea of male su periority surmounts every suggestion of love or lasting attachment. The Osnianlee teaches the inferiority of woman in another world, yet grants her her due sphere in - this ; the Greek, On' the con t r ary, inflicts present degradation, as if in culcating submission here as the purchase of happiness hereafter ; with the one it is' an error of the head—with the other a tyrannical theory of the heartem.,Letters.ftonZ the Levatit. NEW LONDON BRIDGE. The Builders who have contracted for the New London Bridge are Mr. William Joliffe, and Sir Edward Banks ; the original amount of whose contract was 426,0001. and 90,000/. for making alterations in the present structure: the whole to be completed in six years, from March 2, 1824 • which contract is now incre a sed to 506,000 i. by the addition of 8,0001. for a new set of centering for the fourth arch ; and 42,0001. granted by the Treasury in 1825, for making the Bridge six feet wider, namely, two feet in each foot-path, and two feet in the carriage way. The exterior of the edifice will be of three sorts of granite ; the eastern side being of purple Aberdeen ; the western, of the light-grey De vonshire Haytor, and the arch-stones of both, united with the red-brown of Peterhead ; the heartings of the piers, being of hard Brambley- Fall, Derby, and Whitby stone. These mate rials are roughly shaped at the quarries ; and after having been carefully wrought at the Isle of Dogs, are finally dressed and fitted to their places at the Bridge. The pier foundations are formed of piles, chiefly beech, pointed with iron, and driven about 20 feet into the blue clay of the ri ver, about four feet apart, having two rows of sills, each averaging a foot square, and filled in with large blocks of stone, upon which is laid a six-inch beech planking, bearing the first course of masonry. The proposed form of the bridge is a very flat segment, the rise not being more than seven feet ; and it is to consist of five elliptical arches, having plain rectangular buttresses, standing upon Plinths, and Ctitwaters ; with two straight flights of stairs, 22 feet wide, at each end. That on the western side at the City end, will, however, cut so deeply into. Fish mongers' Hall, that it is to be taken down, the Corporation paying 20,000/. to the Company. The dimensions from high-water line are as follow : Feet Ft. In. Centre arch of. the new London Bridge Piers to ditto, 24 feet Secongi and fourth arches . Piers to ditto, 22 feet. Land arches 140 27 6 130 24 6 Abutments, at the base, '73 feet. Total width of the water-way, 690 feet ; length of the bridge, including the abutments, 928. feet ; length within the abutments, 782 feet ; width of the bridge from outside to outside. of the para pet, 56 fret ; width of the carriage-way, 36 feet, and of each footpath 9 feet ; and the total height of the bridge on the eastern side, from low water 60 feet.—Chronides of London Bridge. On Saturday, the Bth inst., no less than 131 snakes were destroyed by one man in a small field of not more than two acres, at Stoke, Wilts. On Saturday last a hen pheasant, about three parts, grown, flew into the bed-room window of Mr. Gallop, an ironmonger at Exeter,' and was easily secured. PRICE OF LABOUR IN. THE REIGN 05' HENRY VIII. —We extract the following para graph . f ; om relates l 'iie hr t o o us t e h h e o" pric e ' B 0 0 0 f k . l of abou r.yll it should be observed, in order to compare these Henry t expenses with those of the present day, .each sum should be multiplied by about tell. The p oun d wn' d a as tthen difference double the bet present ween theweightvalue o s6ff articles 'silv er ; at that' time and the present may be estimated 'to be about one to five. "Of the price of labour, the best evidence besides the wages of servants, which will be more particularly noticed, are the sums paid for the different articles purchased. We learn also, that two men, in July, 1530, were paid 13s. 4d, for ten days' work in mow ing, i. e. Bd. a day each. In February, 1532, the hire of seven horses, and the expenses of the same number of men for sixteen days, sent into Wales, and other places, at is. Bd. per day for each man, amounted to 9/. 6s. Bd. ; and in July, in the same year, 1/. was paid for the hire of ten men for three days, in drawing the fish ponds at Ampthill, at Bd. a day each. . The wages of servants differed of course according to their si tuations; those of a falconer were generally 0 groat a day, and he was allowed one penny S day for the food of each hawk entrusted to his care ; but those of Nicholas Clamp, one of the principal falconers, were 101. per annum. i t huntsman received 355. sd. a quarter, and, es well as most of the other servants, he had 4d. il. day for his board wages. The allowance for the board of the boys of the stable, was is. Bd. per week each ; and of the boys that ' run the king geldings,' or as they are sometimes called , t ile king's riding boys,' 2s. a week each, whilst, op one occasion, we find six days' meals - for them paid for, at the rate for each of them five pence a day. 'rise keeper of the Barbary horse was all Owed ls. Bd. per week for his board, his wages being 4/. a year : the hentaker was, however , better paid, as he received 455. 7d. a quarter. or New l a . rd a hardeners of The regular wages of the king's watermeP were they gardener a O r s d . e a n e quarterr ot.Windsor : bu t . I% it a w \ i o l u r a l i d : a t e p ha p ed e appear that were paid extra upon every occasioyi when they were employed. Sexton, the foOl'S servant's s York Suffolk 0 1 E , I , a cree,c received v n e d d Hall, ill wages, were 15s. a quarter. per annum ; the gardener o f Greenwich 20/. a year ; and the Manchester Mercury. * o a f b about u i l i eil. 13IRTIIS. On the 19th inst., the wife of Peter Hunter, Esq. Of 4 daughter. lici O to n r, t u he pp l o 7 r it s t i i t n im sta ou n t t fi_ t s l t le ree w t i , fe of of a lf da r u . g J h o t s e i:h t .. Towne, so of O c a F th . e .w l i s s t e l: E in s s q t . a , n o t f , H at al lli t L oo o r d e g Pc o rk f , a F io a n rnhara, the lady On the 19th instant, at his house in Russell-place, the lady of Rogers Ruding, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th instant, at St. George the Martyr, Queen' square, Joseph Blunt, jun., Esq. of Liverpool-street, Broad street, to Violette, youngest daughter oflohn Booth, Esq. of. Red Lion-square. On The 18th instant, at Kingston, Portsea, by the RI R. H. Cumyns, John Weyrnouth, Esq., ALD., of Portsel' to Miss Spicer, sister of the late Sir Samuel Spicer, of the same town. On the 17th instant, at Cromer, by the Venerable Arch' deacon Glover, the Rev. George Whitefoord, second via of Sir John K. Whitefoord, to Arabella, ucoond daughter of the late G. Wyndham, Esq., of Cromer-hall, Norfolk. • DIED. On the 12th instant, at his house in Kensington•square• John Edison, Esq. late of Cooper's-hall. On the 10th instant, at Chiswick, wF!re he was on Tues day last interred, !Igo Foscolo. On the 18th instant, at the house of his sister on Stara- ford-hill, Lieut N. Bell, R. N. • .'On the 14th instant, at hiahouse.at Banstead, S u rrey, after a long and distressing illness; endured with Christian ) resignation,' Humphrey Howorth, Esq., aged 76. On the 19th instant, in the lSth year of her age, nistr• Beth, eldest daughter of Mr. J. S. Bray, o f t h e G re ve, Hackney. On the 18th instant, Sarah, the Wife of Mr. Will, King, Pall-mall. On the 30th July last, in Jamaica, after a few days' ill ness, Alfred Broom, Esq., second son of John Broom, FA: of Broomfield; n ear Kidder minster, and Lieutenant in 11 " - Majesty's 84th Regiment. Pnilivsp and POHL/still) by M. YOUNG, 0 Ile SUN-Orrunt, No. 112, strand. ( .1 fly au atl