The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A brief statement, on respectable authority, of our pre sent relations with the Court of Persia, is given in ano ther column. The only question of immediate urgency on this subject, viz. whether, in virtue of any obligation contracted by Great Britain with the Cabinet of Teheran, a prospect might arise of embroiling her in the military contest now carried on between the Schah and the Russian Government, may, we think, be fairly answered in tlie negative. Where express and definite contributions in men or money, for the succour of a friendly state, are undertaken by its ally, and provided for by a treaty, the objects of which are purely defensive, there can be no just offence conceived by any foreign Court, which after wards goes to war with the first-mentioned power, at the fulfilment of such stipulations by the other. A general engagement to give aid in men and money to Persia, would no doubt, in case of her attacking, or being attack ed, by the Russian Emperor, be justly construed into a consent on the part of England to embark in general hos tilities against Russia, whenever she might make or find an enemy in the Schah. But. the present treaty entails no such contingency on Great Britain. It merely binds her to- pay to Persia a subsidy of 200,000 tomans annually, in the event of her being attacked by any State at war with his Britannic Majesty ; but in case of an attack upon Persia by any Power at peace with England, then is Eng land, in the first instance, to interpose her good - offices as a mediatrix, and failing these, to pay the subsidy as before. --The former of these conditions, it is rumoured, the Tiritish Government has already used its best endeavours execute; but should the Court of St. Pctersburgh not think fit to accept an adjustment on such terms as Eng land may consider equitable, it is certain that the Russian Cabinet can take no exception to the alternative which will then be imposed upon this country by the faith which she has plighted.---Tinzes. We do not recollect any public occasion on which such general, and apparently too well-grounded dissatisfaction has been expressed, as at the arrangement, or rather want of arrangement, at the funeral and previous lying-in-state of the remains of the late Duke of York. Not only does public expectation appear to have been trifled with and disappointed in the most reprehensible meaner; but, in addition to this, it no* seems that the lives of some of the first persons in the state have been actually endangered, and that of a venerable and highly-respected Prelate pre maturely shortened, by the inattention, or something worse, of some of ttie persons on whom some part of these ar angem,:rnts devolved. Could we single out the parties on mom the blame actually attaches, we should not hesitate to do so, even at the peril of offending a Learned Judge, who wisely avoided encountering the danger himself; but this we avoid for the present, even so much as conjectur ing, lest we should lay a charge so serious as that of en dangering the lives of the most eminent persons in the state at the wrong door. But we would respectfully sug gest to those who have the means of ascertaining the truth upon the subject, whether it is not absolutely incumbent `llpon them to set on foot an inquiry which may show who :t was that caused a pageant on which so much public in terest rested, to become so complete a failure, as it appears to have been, as well as preventing in future the recur rence of similar complaints and mischief. We dare s a y the main chance will not be overlooked upon the occasion, that the charges will be quite as,high as if the arrange ments had been perfect. This Ivill be bad enough ; .but the expende) were it ten times what it is, is as nothing compared with the absolute cruelty and insult of expo s i ng tlie lives of any persons, more especially of such persons as those whose lives appear to have been exposed to immi nent danger upon this melancholy occasion. The country has a right to know how this could happen, and we trust will not remain satisfied till it does know.—Morning Herald. It is universally admitted that the Lord Chancellor possesses an extraordinary memory, and his admirers are incessantly putting forward the peculiar strength of this faculty in Iris Lordship as one of the best of all proofs of his superiority as a Judge. How wonderful, they say, that one head should be able to carry such a multitude of Minute particulars as were detailed in the affidavits of the Wellesley case ! Even the phrase in a letter " Play Hell and Tommy," he deemed of so much consequence, that having substituted Jcmmy for Twenty, he deemed the cor tection by one of the Counsel of so much consequence, that he thanked him eordially for it. These eulogists of his Lordship are not, perhaps, aware, that those who have occupied themselves with the study of the human understanding, are very generally agreed, that an extra ordinary memory for minute particulars and strength of judgment are seldom possessed by the same individual. " It is a noted observation (says Lord Kames), that a great or comprehensive memory is seldom connected with is good judgment." In ordinary life, we constantly meet with men, well known by the title of prosers, who mer cilessly inflict on their audience all the particulars of the transactions in which they have been concerned, or of which they have been witnesses. We question whether the Chan cellor can be adduced as a pregnant instance of an indivi dual, who falsifies the ordinary notion, by combining a strong judgment with a strong memory. That he frequently sees circumstances which elude the observation of others, and that unconnected observations of great subtlety occa sionally escape from him, will hardly be disputed. But he seems incapable of a lucid disposition of his ideas. He is like a man wandering through a level and tangled forest—he sees distinctly the bushes which surround him for the time, but his vision is limited to these objects, and he cannot tell the relation which they bear to the whole. To be able to take in the whole, a man must gain an ele vation, from whence the more minute features of objects escape observation. In like manner in intellectual pro cesses, it is only by confining ourselves to certain essen tial points, that we can take comprehensive views.— In the decision of the Chancellor in the Wellesley case, there was great indistinctness in the outset in the exposi tion of the law on the subject. The jurisdiction had been contested, at least it had been contended, that this was not a case which came within the limits of the jurisdiction of the Court. His brother, Lord Stowell, whose judicial faculties are universally admitted to be of the highest character, would first have established the authority of tile pis -ass in general, and then Court to the jurisdiction in su he would have i„,:,eu whether the pa r ti cu l ar ques ti on raiXPri ..uat case, namely, wheth e r i mmora li ty i n a fa crier, if proved, ought to deprive him of the guardianship of his own children. Having determined that immorality might justify such a deprivation, the next point for inquiry was, the particular kind of immorality, and the amount of commission, either of one or more species of immorality, which would form the justification— whether, for instance, adultery taken singly, or adul tery with swearing, or adultery with swearing- or false /100(1i or whether one, two, three, four, five, or six acts of adultery alone, or coupled with a plurality of other vices. Having now cleared his ground, he would have proceeded to consider whether the facts and circumstances established amounted to what had been so laid down as the justification; and all that thea remained would have been to lairs sentenc e in accordance with what had been AO ascertained- :`Some such course as this would have been pursued by a Judge, in which the reasoning faculties were what they ought to be. But instead of this, a vague and confused account of the jurisdiction of the Court was given at the outset, from all that could be gathered .was, that in many cases with regard to infants, the Chancellor had interfered to secure their property and due education. The particular principle involved in the Wellesley case — namely, the immorality of the father —was not made the subject of inquiry, to that no man can tell whether there is any principle which would warrant the entering at ail into the evidence taken in this case. Having evaded al together the settling this most important point, he pro ceeded to recapitulate what had been proved, but h av i ng done so, he made no earthly use of it, but decided on a point foreign altogether to the inquiry, —nal nelY, the merits of Mrs. Bligh. This may be judicial perfection, but to us it appears to merit a very different character. For the public guidance, it 'is hardly possible to conceive a more useless decision. Nothing is ascertained, _nothing is de termined, from whi c h individuals can derive the slightest benefit. All that can be said of the proceedings is, that the Lawyers have profited by them—the other suitors have seen the time of the Court unprofitably consumed by them —the public know a little more of Mr. Wellesley's affairs, through them, than they ought to know, or can be agree able to that gentleman. That what we object to, is im putable to the character of his Lordship's mind, .we are disposed to believe. We have seen the same peculiarities nearly in all his decisions. In his capacity of Legislator,' in like manner, he never elevates himself, even- by acci dent, to general and comprehensive views. But, in re turn, he is without an equal for discovering flaws. And if he dislike any measure, from his command of means of that description, he can always waive the more obnoxious ground of opposition, and defeat the measure without be ing under tl necessity of disclosing his real views.— AfOrning Chronicle. We gave, yesterday, a long, and what we can seldom predicate of the discussions in Leadenhall-street, a very amesing, report of a debate at the East India House. The principal orator, we might say the only one, for his speech was long enough and comprehensive enough to overlay even the harangue of Mr. Joseph Hume, was Dr. Borth wick Gilchrist. Dr. Gilchrist is from the " North coun- Erie ;" he is a grammarian, a poet, a politician, and, par excellence, a man of erudi-ti-on ; he is, in fact, an Oriental Dominic Sampson, and every nook and corner of his brain is so crammed with Hindostanee, that common sense has no room to effect an entrance, much less a lodgement. It would be a very unprofitable task to follow the vagaries of the Doctor's speech, because, though it touched upon every thing between the north pole and the Hoogley, there was, as Mathews's traveller says of a tour not quite so exten sive, nothing in it. But though the speech is not worth much, the object of it deserves a little attention. It cannot be denied that he who is called to command, it matters not whether in India or elsewhere, will find obedience much more prompt and satisfactory if he can give his commands in the language of those over whom he happens to be placed. Nothing, indeed, can be more absurd than for an officer to be obliged to have recourse to an interpreter in order to make his orders intelligible. But this remark applies to spoken language only. However desirable it may be that our East India functionaries should write Bengalee, no necessity requires that they should, nor is it essential that they should, read it. Interpreters in either case may be had in any number, and they will, in genera], be sufficient. The real question, therefore, is, whether it is easier to learn to speak a language in a country, where not a single soul can speak it (at least with the genuine accent), save and accept John Borthwick Gilchrist, LL.D., or in a country where, with the exception of a handful of Europeans, not one out of eighty millions of people can speak any thing else. That there should ever have been two opinions on such a question must appear wonderful to any man of plain understanding. It is necessary, in looking to the acquisition of languages, to keep in mind a distinction of some importance. A language, the struc ture of which is complicated, although presenting for midable difficulties to him who begins the study of it by grammars, may, nevertheless, be very easy of attain ment to him who acquires it, from the lips of those who speak it ; indeed, it is not going too far to say, that by the latter process all languages are equally easy, and that a boy of fourteen will learn to speak Hindostanee, as easily as he will French. There are, indeed, in India, some difficultiei to be overcome which are not to be met with among our gay neighbours. We cannot domesticate with the natives, and, from the prejudices entertained in India, we would not if we could. Still, even from his servant, an Englishman in India will acquire more Hin dostanee in a month than he will in England, from his master, in a year. We do not state these things from the slightest wish to underrate the excellence of the in stitutions at home, which we are most fully disposed to admit, and which we also grant, supply certain essentials in general education, which cannot be obtained in India. All we mean to aver is, that they cannot communicate the knowledge of the language of India so well or so ex peditiously as it may be attained there, merely because working with human means, they cannot overcome diffi culties which, without the gift of miracles, are, in their nature, insuperable.—New Times. TRADE TO THE EAST INDIES. (FROM OUR MANCHESTER CORRESPONDENT.) " There is nothing connected with the policy of England (says a late writer) more remarkable, than the degree of apathy which her people generally appear to experience, with reference to the affairs of the most important of all our dependencies, the EASTERN EMPIRE. At a moment when the influence of Great Britain is felt and acknow ledged over the whole Continent of India; where an hundred millions of people directly under our own sway; and millions upon millions besides, who dwell under the nominal rule of their native princes, look to us as the ar biters of their destiny, and the guardians of their happi ness ; and when it is avowed, that the loss of this influ ence would affect us more materially than almost any other calamity, it is surprising to behold the neglect with which every question relative to the proper management of British India is treated." At a moment too, when the manufacturing districts in this country are suffering most heavily for want of a market for their goods, and when the manufactures of other coun tries are treading closely upon our heels ; * it is of great importance, that the people of Great Britain should be , fully acquainted with the restrictions, which cramp our trade with our own Empire in the East Indies,—that they should be fully aware of the vast field which India opens for our relief; and of which we are only prevented from availing ourselves to an extent almost unlimited, by heavy duties. upon imports from the East Indies, beyond what are laid on similar articles from the West Indies. A duty of 101. per ton more (being 50 per cent. on the prime cost,) is laid on East than on West India sugar. The duty on West being 271., on East India, 371. per ton. £2B per ton more is laid on East than on West India Coffee. Thu duty on West being 561. on East India, 841. per ton. £2B per ton more is laid on East than on West India Cocoa. The duty on West being 56/., on - East India, 841. per ton. £7 per ton more is laid on East than on West India Turmeric. The duty on West being 3/., on East India, 10/. per ton. Ils. 6d. per gallon more is laid on East than on West India Rum. The duty on West being Bs. 6d., on East India, 20s. per gallon. £6 per cent. ad valorem, is laid on East India Cotton Wool, while West India is admitted free of duty. t There are also higher duties on a variety of other articles, such as Dye-woods, Mahogany, Hides, &v. &c. than on similar articles from the West Indies. N.B. The Mauritius, a small island, (ceded to us by France,) is cultivated by Slaves ; it lately has been selected as the object of favour, being the only spot in our Eastern Empire, put upon the footing of the West Indies, with regard to import duties. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, under which our Eat India trade is placed, it is a remarkable fact, that our expofts to that country have increased in an astonishing degree. Export of Cotton Goods to India from official documents, but di- vided by 28, to give the quantity in Pieces 28 yds. each. Printed. Plain. Total No. 1814 ending Jan. 5,1815, 21,600 1815 1616 35,398 _ _ _ 25,521 1917 ISIS -- -- 164,790 315,787 132,628 121,930 254,558 1819 1820271,509 240,144 51 1 ,653 • -- 1821 We are also shipping to Indiaconsiderable quantities of Cotton Twist. What then would be the extent of this trade were the France now manufactures about as much Cotton as we (lid only 14 years ago. tWe lay the same duty on Cotton from our o wn d om i nions in India, as on American Cotton, while America imposes from 25 to 100 per cent. on our manufactures, produce froth British Itidia,"put upon a fair fobting, as ie . - gards import duties; with the produce of our other colonies ! It may. be objected, our Government is not in a situa tion to reduce the revenue ; but, on a little reflection, it will be evident, that ha an increased export of the manu factures of this country to the East Indies, would enable the people of Englund to consume an increased quantity of the produce to,be received in return, the Revenue would be benefited by the change ;—besides, we are now paying a bounty of 3/. per ton in the drawback allowed on refined sugar exported. To take off this bounty would be some saving to the Treasury, and a large-saving to the people. It is not only a clear loss to the nation of 31. per ton upon the sugar exported, but mark, it alSo raises the price of all sugar consumed in this country, 3/. per ton, and is a tax on the nation paid to the sugar growers, of more than Six HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS PER ANNUM. It must in fairness be stated, that the East Indies have some advantage from this bounty in common with the West Indies, though comparatively only to a very small amount, as the sugars imported from the East Indies bear a small proportion to those from the West. Until last Ses sion the bounty was 61. per ton, 3/. per ton was then taken off. This is a wise measure on the part of Govern ment, and we rejoice in it, there being no good reason why the people of this country should pay a bounty on the pro duce of either the East or the West Indies. At the same time, it must be observed, that as no equalisation took place in the duties, this measure places the East Inlia Trade in a worse situation relatively than before, inasmuch as that, while by the operation of the bounty, all sugar in the British market was sold 61. per ton aboVe its natural price, some of the finer qualities-of East India could be imported in return for our manufactures, and were brought into competition with the West India monopoly, even pay ing the extra duty of 101. per ton. Now receiving only 101. per ton, (an advantage, as before observed, to which neither the East nor the West Indies are entitled), and remaining subject to the extra duty of 101. per ton, the measure is calculated still more to limit importation from the East Indies. The plea of the West Indians for the continuance of this bounty, and of those protecting duties, so injinious to our commerce, and expensive to this country, used to be,— " You have the monopoly of our trade and navigation." Even the colonial Assemblies have repeatedly admitted, that when the restrictions on their trade should be taken off, they would no longer have a claim to any exclusive privilege in our markets. THESE RESTRICTIONS ARE TAKEN OFF. The carrying trade of our colonies is thrown open —they may send their produce where they please; and, excepting a few prohibited articles, such as gunpowder, arms, books, &c. may receive their supply of manufactured goods from whom they please. But, will it be believed ? a prohibitory duty has just now been laid on East India rum. These sacrifices, enormously great as they are, is not the whole of the burden imposed upon this country, to enable the planter of the West Indies to continue the ex pensive, the ruinous system of slave cultivation, (which, without such support, he would long ago have been forced to abandon, and to have adopted a better,) we will men tion another item. The expence of our slave colonies during the year 1824, a year of profound peace, for naval and military defence, and other contingencies, amounted to upwards of one million six hundred thousand pounds, and this is an expence which is going on from year to year; while on the contrary INDIA MAINTAINS HERSELF—her de fence and government cost us nothing.—The expence of every establishment connected with her, at home or abroad, is defrayed from her own resources. But it is said, the West Indies are a source of wealth to the Mother Country—that they give extensive em ployment to her manufacturers. On the contrary, as mat ters are now managed they are a dead weight, a source of enormous expence without any adequate return. It is calculated, that on account of the West Indies we have added ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIONS to Our National Debt. But to say nothing of this, whether it be more or less; to say nothing of the MILLIONS which this nation has annually to pay for interest upon this mighty sum; to say nothing of the incalculable loss which this country sus tains, from our trade being cramped and limited by pro tecting duties to favour the West Indies; to say nothing of the sum levied upon the consumers, the people of Eng land, Ireland Scotland, in an enhancement of the price of their sugars, &c. by the operation of these duties, which prevent the produce of the East Indies being brought into fair competition with the West; and which sum, what ever the amount, goes not into the Treasury, but direct into the pocket of the West India Planter; to say nothing gf all these, we have besides, as stated above, before we derive any profit from the trade of the West Indies, for defence and other contingencies, and in their part of the bounty, an absolute outlay of more than Two MILLIONS per annum ; a sum in itself much greater than the wnoLi; AMOUNT of our manufactures consumed in our West India Colonies. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Mr. Walter Dowding, the proprietor of the Streatham coach, No. 7,209, produced his driver to answer the complaint of a Mrs. Molony, of Robert-street, Brixton, for as saulting her. The complainant had some business to transact on Fish-street hill, and for the sake of reaching town with speed, she got upon the defendant's coach, after having been told by him that lie was going over London-bridge. Hearing a promise made to a gentle man, who was afterwards taken up on the road, that he should be conveyed to the end of Fleet-market, Mrs. Molony reminded the defendant that she was going to the Monument, and expressed a hope that she should not be detained. The driver said London bridge was blocked up, and going round would make no difference to her. The coach came straight on to Fleet-market, and there she alighted, being informed by another coachman that the de fendant was going up Fleet-street. As she had been brought so much out of her way, she declined paying anything, alleging that her husband would be there in a few minutes. The defendant, however, insist.; upon being paid instantly, tore open her cloak and shawl, pulled her about, and collected a mob round her. She then rod him 10d., took his number, and had walked but 50 I nnis when she met her husband, who had set out from Brixton at the same time with herself, and had walked all the way; so little speed had the coach made. The defendant denied having used Mrs. Molony roughly, or that she had said any thing about London-bridge. His regular route lay over Blackfriars-bridge, round St. Paul's, to Graee church-street ; and before she went away, he desired her to get up again, and said he would set off at once to Gracechurch-street. Three gentlemen spoke to the general good conduct of ti de fendant " The plain truth is," cried the defendant, "she wanted to bilk me out of my fare." " The plain truth," replied Mr. Alderman VENABLES, " seems to be, that she was dissatisfied, because you broke your contract with her, and therefore refused to pay you, in which I think she was fully justified. You delayed her, and took her greatly out of her way. When you knew she was going to Monument-yard, you should have told her, what a circuit you would make before you would reach it. I shall send the case to the sessions, unless you return the fare, pay all costs, and make her some compensa tion." The parties retired, and soon returned to state that the matter had been settled. B OW- ST REET. —Eleanor Murat, a female of respectabl e ap pearance, dressed in black, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged by her landlady, Ann Midway, with having de serted her ready-furnislied lodgings, and with carrying from thence a number of articles. Mrs. Midway deposed, that about two months ago, the prisoner and her daughter, a girl about seven years of age, came to her house, at No. 9, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square, and agreed for two furnished apartments, which they occupied until Friday, when they decamped, without any previous notice, leaving a week's rent unpaid. O n searc hi n g the apartments, the prosecu trix found that various articles, consisting of sheets, towels, &c., were missing ; and she also discovered that some china cups and saucers, on which she had eet a high value, were broken, although she had given the prisoner ropeated cautions not to use them, and had supplied her with other articles of crockery, to prevent any accident occurring to her favourite china. On Friday evening, while deploring her loss, a letter was handed to her by the servant girl of Mrs. Murat, in which that lady promised her payment for the week's lodging which was due, and she also promised to make good whatever articles were Missing or ibrokeii while she arid hei daigfiter occupied the rooms which from unforeseen circumstances she was obliged . to vacate. On further inquiries the prosecutrix found that the prisoner and her daughter were living izr Lisle t -street, and on repairing to their lcolgings,"the prisoner solemnly assured her that if she would wait until Tuesday, she would faithfully discharge all - demands. She failed, however, to keep her promise, and the prosecutrix gave her into custody. The prisoner pleaded in her defence that she had formerly moved in a respectable circle, although now reduced to distress. She assured the Magistrate that if time had been allowed her she would have faithfully discharged her rent, and made good every reasonable demand of the proseeutrix. Mr. I-fa Lts, after perusing the letter sent by the prisoner to the prosecutrix, was.of opinion that the charge of felony was not established. He therefore dismissed the prisoner, with a caution to be more circumspect in her future conduct, and he also told her that she should lose no time in settling with Mrs. Midway. MARYLABONNE.—Yesterday, Mr. William Pole was brought before Me. Griffith, on a peace warrant, charged by his wife, Mrs. Frances Susannah Pole, the proprietress of a respect able ladies' boarding-school, in Great East-street, Manchester square. The appearance of the parties presented a striking contrast. Mrs. Pole is a lady upwards of seventy years of a ge, and of tall stature, while Mr. Pole is about five and twenty, and of low stature. Mrs. Pole stated, that she had only been married to Mr. Pole about six months, but during that period his conduct had been most violent and eccentric. On Sunday last he took the poker and knocked her down; he had twice attempted to poison himself; the last time was on Christmas-day, when he swallowed a quantity of laudanum, and no fewer than four medical men attended him on that oc casion, but he was still in the habit of constantly carrying a large quantity of poison about him ; she felt in danger of her life, for he had repeatedly threatened to murder her. When she married him, she had a large school of 30 scholars, but the greater part of them bad left her, in consequence of his violent behaviour. He would likewise remain up all night in the drawing-room, with a large fire before him, screw down the windows, and tie the door up with cords, and she was ob liged to have the locks taken off before she could obtain admit tance. Since his marriage, he had not troubled himself about following his business, and he had been maintained entirely through her exertion!. Mr. GRIFFITH remarked, that the complainant seemed to have made a very i nn asvle extraordinaryrtothe charge ehoice ?, and asked yr. Pole what he had to say ay Mr. Pole coolly said, that his wife had thrown boiling water over him several times, and threatened to murder him. Mr. Gaivrrrn—She says it is you who have threatened to murder her. Mrs. Pole said her object was to have him bound down to key the peace, and her statement was fully confirmed by one of the inmates of her house. Mr. GRIFFITH said the defendant's conduct was so unac countable, that he was unable to say whether he was or was not in his senses. The warrant might stand for a week, and it he repeated his conduct, he certainly should be sent to the House of Correction.—The parties withdrew. Mr. and Mrs. Hall again appeared before the Magistrate to adjust their connubial differences, and it was ultimately ar ranged that Mrs. Hall should not molest her husband in future, and that articles of separation should be drawn up, and duly signed. WORSHIP-STREET.—James Tyrer was charged with robbing Mr. Hughes, a bookseller, at Islington, by whom he had been employed as an engraver. It appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of calling at Mr. Hughes's shopforordonersiy, was and i g n en th ei e -al , l v y ay ca . lled on in s t a l the e uray mornings, dweek Mr. Hughes missed a number of books, and something occurring when the shop boy to render the prisoner suspected, he was taken into custody, and disclosed an extensive system of plunder which he had been carry ing on for more than a twelvemonth, giving information also of the pawnbrokers with whom he had pledged the property. In the course of the examination a vast number of books, some of them very valuable, were produced, and the prisoner was recog nized in many instances as the person who had pawned them, and the pawnbrokers were bound over to prosecute.—The prisoner was committed. UNION-HALL—Yesterday two young men, named John Vaux and Charles Goring, of respectable appearance, were brought up to this office in custody, before M. SWABEY, Esq., from the Camberwell watchhouse, where they had been confined during the preceding night, charged with uttering two counterfeit sovereigns. Baxter, a constable of Camberwell, shortly stated the circum stances under which he apprehended the accused persons. He said, that on the previous evening, as he was passing along Cam berwell, he observed Vaux in a shop making some purchase, in payment for which he tendered a sovereign, which on being sounded on the counter by the shopkeeper, did not appear to him to " ring" as a genuine one should; he there fore refused to take it, observing that he thought it was a counterfeit ; upon which Vaux produced another sovereign, which was also refused upon the supposition that it was a bad one ; the latter then left the shop, and proceeded to another, within a few doors, followed by the constable, who made his appearance just as Vaux had handed one of the sovereigns which had been pronounced as counterfeit coin in the first in stance, to the person within the counter. Both the sovereigns were also rejected here, upon which Baxter immediately took him into custody on a charge of uttering counterfeit sovereigns, and locked him up in the watch-house. It appeared that Vaux had repeatedly declared them in his judgment to be genuine sove reigns, and recollecting that he had taken them a short time pre viously from an individual named Goring, he sent for that person to the watch-house, who at once admitted that he had paid them to Vaux, and expressed his surprise and astonishment that the sovereig ns should have been rejected, as he was convinced they were gold. The. constable, however, instead of placing any re liance on Mr. Goring's statement, locked him up also in the watch-house along with Mr. Vaux, where they were detained during the night. Baxter now produced the two sovereigns which were described as counterfeit ones; he said that he had tried them, and was convinced they were composed of spurious metal. The magistrate, on looking at them, observed that they appeared to have been filed a good deal. The constable said that he cut them in order to discover what they were made of. Magistrate—And can you now positively swear that they are counterfeit ? Baxter--No, Sir, I should not like to do that ; but I firmly be lieve them to be base metal. The Magistrate here directed the sovereigns to he rung on the table, in order to discover whether they were good or bad ; but that plan failed, as the constable had been exercising his ingenuity on them with the file, by which he took all sound out of them, and rendered it impossible to arrive at the merits of the case by that method. It was here suggested that Mr. Phillimore, the pawnbroker, should be sent for, in order that he might be enabled to s tate posi tively whether the suspected money was genuine or otherwise. In the interim, the case against the accused persons s eemed, in the view of the Magistrate, to be so pregnant with suspicion, that he actually directed their commitments to be made out. Air. Phillimore, however, soon entered the office, prepared with the usual test for trying gold—viz. aquafortie ; and on applying it to the sovereigns, he at once pronounced them to begenuine : they were afterwards placed in the scales, but were a little deficient in weight, and this was accounted for from the operation of filing they underwent in the hands of the constable, who cut into near the centre of one of them during the experiment. Upon hearing the decision of the p a wnbroker, the constable, more than an y body e l se , appeare d t o be astounded. What !" said he, " the soverei gns not bad ; why this has been a dreadful mistake indeed. Well, I could have almost sworn they were counterfeit before the trial with the aquafortis." Vaux complained of the hardship of having been locked up on such a charge, and said that his committal to gaol (had not this in ves tig a tion taken place) would have brought utter ruin upon him. His associate in trouble also inveighed against the constable, for having locked them up without more minutely examining the money which he charged them with having uttered as counterfeit, but which now, after they had been confined a whole night, turned out to be genuine. Magi stra t e expressed his regret that they should have been. put na tothe serious inconvenience alluded to, and observed, that they were now perfectly exonerated from the charge, and there fore left that office without the slightest imputation on their character. Thursday morning, Mr. Agar, Governor of the county gaol at Maidstone, received a letter from the Secretary of signifying that the execution of the sentence of death, passed the 14 smugglers , should be respited until the further S upontat e, sig nification of his Majesty's pleasure. Agreeably to further orders, all the 14 prisoners were yesterday removed from the gaol, to be put on board ship, for the purpose of transportation for life. It was supposed by many people that some of them would be exe• cuted on Monday morning ; according an immense concourse as sembled here, for the purpose of witnessing the execution.—Maid stone Journal. Printed and Published by M• TOTING, at the ItTx1:14; Flee Na 112, STIVID. • MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, TUESDAY, FEB. 14. Ayton and Sanders, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—George, Newcastle upon-Tyne--1 1 Backhouse and Woodcock, Almondbury—King's Head, Hudders field-11 Illogg, W., Norwich—Norfolk hotel, Norwich-2 Brenell and Co., Liverpool—George, Liverpool-1 Burge, J. Sc R., St. Philip and Jacob, Gloucestershire—Rummer, Bristol-10 Cash, J., Liverpool—Star and Garter, Liverpool-11 Dods, A., Worcester—Hopmarkct inn, Worcester-12 Earnshaw, M., Burnley—Black 'Bull, Burnley-11 Gibson, It, Aldborough—Angel, Norwich-1 Gaunt, W., Armley—Court-house, Leeds-10 Goodrich, C., Etton—Sand hill inn, York-11 Gray, W., Birmingham—Royal Hotel, Birmingham-11 Grist, J., Aston—Royal Hotel, Birmingham -1 Hacker, S., Ca nterbu ry—Gu ild hall, Canterbury — Hall, C., Andover—White Hart, Andover-4 Hart, J., Birmingham—Royal Hotel, Birmingham —I Herring, J., Doncaster—Guildhall, Doncaster-11 Levine, H., Mertlivr Tidvil—Rummer, Bristol-1 Morgan, J., Bottisitain Lode, Cambridgeshire—Bird Bolt inn, Cambridge-2 Oliver, J., Ipswich—Coach and Horses, Ipswich-1 I Roach, J., St. George—Rummer, Bristol-1 Sheath, T., jun., Birmingham—Royal Hotel, Birmingharn-12 Tate, W., South Shields—George, Newcastle—l I Todd, W., Sheffield—Tontine, Sheffield—l 2 Walker, J., Ley Moor, • Golcar, Huddersfield--King's Head, Huddersfield—ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, FEB. 14, AT 1 4 :12ir. Cooke, H., Gloucester, cheesefactor Calvert, J., Salford, publican Gilbert, 8., Brighton, musician Freeman, S., Somer's town, carpenter Garratt, W., Birmingham, brickmaker Goodaman, W., Rotherhithe, mariner Mardams, W., Whitchapel, bedstead maker Moody, T., King-street, Golden-square, tailor Phillips, M., Spa-fields, artist Rawlings, T., Tottenham -court-road, cabinet maker Read, R., Vauxhall, grocer Shannon, S., Aldgate, baker Smith, J., Birmingham, book-keeper Solomon, A., Old Gravel-lane, broker Stanley, J., Little Britain, waiter Tarrant, J., Porteea, cabinet-maker Walter, W., New-street, Marylebone, builder Woolf, A., Rochester, fruiterer THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Feb. 7, This day's market exhibited throughout a moderately good supply, and was rather numerously attended, both by London and country buyers. Mutton and Veal experienced a brisk, Beef and Pork a dull sale, at the following prices per stone of Blbs. to sink the offals Beef qs. 10d. to 53. Od. Veal 4s. 6d. to 61. Od. Mutton I 4 4 IQ Pork 4 2 5 4 The foregoing quotations are Beef 2d, per stone lower, Veal 2d. per stone higher, than those of this day se'nnight, at which Mutton and Pork were stationary. A considerable number of Sheep and Beasts left the market unsold. Reef...,., Mutton LEWES MARKET.—Feb. 6. 4s. 4d. to ss. Od. Veal 1 ..............--,. 4 6 5 0 I Pork--...... Os. Oct. to 00. Od. 40 4 6 Supply limited:and trade brisk. HAILSHAM MARKET, Beef 4s. 44. to ss. Od. Veal 53. 111. to sa. 4d. Mutton --..—. 4 6 5 0 I Pork . 4 0 4 6 Supply short, and trade dull, but the stock ultimately all sold. .—Feb. 7. RUMFORD MARKET.—Fob. 7. ... . s. d. to a. d. s. d. to,. d. Beef 4 0 5 0 Veal . 4 8 .6 0 Mutton 3 8 4 8 Pork Suckling Calves from I4s. to 40s. ; Quarter old Pigs 9s. to 14s. each. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. Pease. Per Quarter. a. to s. a. to a. a. to a. a. to a. a. to s. Blandford —.—.— 41 61 37 40 :n 141 Brigg— :s2 56 33 58 27 33 45 00 44 IA Cambridge-- 54 -25 46 '-- Chard --3 S 44 24 32 44 48 Huntingdon— 50 55 35 38 20 32 .57 60 Louth.. 5O 53 36 40 25 33 51 55 48 56 36 40 24 36 46 52 Newark Norwich 52 59 3C 38 26 33 48 46 41 m Nottingham 55 59 43 46 33 36 56 62 Peterborough ....... 50 56 38 42 24 30 Plymouth . . 52 60 36 8 8 28 Sherborne. 5O 56 32 38 3 0 3 ° n 4 Uppingham «.».M.54 59 39 45 34 5 0 48 6g Wiabeeli 43 57 3 ° 40 50 York 5O 62 36 42 %46 34 48 56 LEEDS CORN MARKET, Fel3 - . There was a large supply of Wheat and Rail, dling of other Grain; fine dry Wheat was dul lower, and other descriptions were difficult to per quarter cheaper. Barley Is. per guar' Shelling, and Beans, much the same as last w thing doing in Rapeseed. ley, but only mid- II sale, and rather quit, and full le. ter lower. Oate, oek. Scarcely any i n c onsequence of the fine thaw, and in some in- There was only a MANCITESTER CORN MARKET.—FeTh- The slender improvement adverted to last week has entirely disappeared, day ; the business transacted was but trifling. Although we make no alteration in o t tar quo a tions, Wheats are a shade lower. Customary Bushel. I smtaondceersatleowateter ntderaninesehaajme ba.erkenetstuhbisnittA to. English, New ....,..--... J 5 9 9 ------- Red --------. 8 9 9 ~.. Irish, White,------- 811 g ---- Red.------- Cana da..------...- ---- 8 4 Foreign --...,---__ Wheat (701 b.) s . d. toe. d. I3arley (601 g.) For grinding.----*. Oats (451 b.) English and Scotch -- 0 0 Welsh...... —~—...--m--. 0 0 Foreign ---------- 4 8 410 Irish, Kiln-dried .---- 410 411 Undried.----- 4 8 4 9 Per load of 6 Imp]. bushel. M a lt. New ...----,--.18 0 50 0 ---- Old 0 0 ---- Inferior ...... 11 - 7 0 14 0 Pease (Imp. Qr.) e. d. to S. d . Blue, 7 6 7 White—(do.) 0 0 Beans. Znglish 0 50 0 Irish and Foreign—At, 0 83 0 Per bag of 2601 b. Flour, Fine Notts--.35 0 47 0 Yorkshire, fine4l 0 46 0 Irish, fine —4B 0 47 0 5ec0nd5,..,.„.,,,,-44 0 42 0 Barrel Flour Sweet -- 0 0 Sour-26 0 SI 0 Per load of 2401 b. Oatmeal, English 0 4p 0 high— 8 4 8 9 8 10 V I 59 G 0 0 0 00 ~, el 0 Old (feed) -- o 34 0 Tared (Imp. Qr.) —... 0 0 0 0 Bran (broad) pet 20Ib. 18.2 d. a Is. id. MANCHESTER NEW SMITHFIELD.—Yeb. At per lb. sinking the °MI. sd. to 80. 8 Calves I 4 61 1114 rtga 4,818 Sheep Ogg Cattle 64. to I'd MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET. —Feb. 3. Potatoes, Ss. Od., lOs. Od., and lls. 6d. per load of 12 score and Ibr. ; Carrou 12s. s, . 13s. 6d., and 16s. Od. per load of 12 score; Turnips, Bs. ft, andd 10 per load of 16 peoks ; Onions, 40s. Od. and 441. per load of 12 score. MANCHESTER YAK'. No. d. d. Throatle Twist, 12 to 12f :10--f 13f 144 40 19 20 Mule eopTwist/ 30 12i for warp ISt 40«,...-14f 151 50 17f 19 PAL—, 21 22j 70-- 24 27 FAL...—. 29 3t Mule Cop Welt, 30 • 121 'to 13 40 131 14 50 - 16 ' 17 60 L 74 IRe 70 80 ' rr 100 -30 ii 120 34 Fi Weft from was te,lo Si 10 It 9 10e 18 10 11 24...,...11 18 BIRTH. On the 7th inst. in Russell-square, the lady of Henry Hoyle Oddie, juu. Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the Bth inst. at St. Clement Danes, by the Rev. John Nelson, A.M. John Tanner, Esq. of Speenhamland, Berke, to Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of George Nelson, Esq. of Essex-street. On the 7th inst. at Nottingham, Michael Peareon, Esq. of Lansdown-place, London, to Maria, youngest daughter of the late John Fellowes, Esq. of the former place. On the Bth inst. at Havering, by the Rev. T. Whitehnrst, the Rev. John Peacock Byde, of Bengeo, Hert a , Cl er k, to Emma, second daughter of Edward Robinson, of Havering Atta Bower, Essex, Eaq. On the 6th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. of Cambridge, the Rev. Joseph * Wolff, Missionary to the Jews, to the Lady• Georgiana Mary Walpole, fourth daughte r o f th e late, and sister to the present Earl of Orford. D. At Emsworth, Hants, on th DI e E sth inst. Maurice Evans EN. Navy Agent, aged 49 years. On the 2d inst. at Newport, Isle of Wight, Mrs. Mary Webb, aged 76. On the 7th instant, at 'Manchester, Rough Robin, the pugilist: he never recovered the effects of his last battle, in which, h ow _ ever, he was victorious..