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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extract? from the Morning Papers, April 21,1825. [MORNING POST.] We shall offer no apology for again reverting to the subject of Catholic Emancipation. The discussion to be resumed this evening in the house of Commons embraces two distinct yet combined questions. The first is general, and, as one of principle, is ,paramount to the other. The second assumes the first to be decided ; it takes for granted that the Catholic Claims ought in the abstract to be conceded, and refers to the time and the mode in which the concession ought to be made. It is thus obvious that many who con tend for the expediency of Emancipation may nevertheless reject Sir Francis Burdett's Bill on two solid grounds—namely, that at the present juncture it would be unwise to carry such a mea sure ; and that if wise or expedient to do so, still the Hon. Baronet's Bill is in outline and detail radically not such an one as Parliament ought to sanction. We shall not, however, stop here to urge the numerous arguments which suggest , themselves as fatal to Emancipation on these last mentioned bases. Our ob jection IR to the principle of all proposi tions for admitting Papists to a further partici pation in our Established Constitution. That Constitution is now, and was intended to be im mutably Protestant, and what the Catholics ask is not to share in the civil rights of which the Constitution guarantees the exercise, for those rights they already possess, but to alter the Constitution itself, and become partners in the Government of the country. It would abuse the sense and patience of the public to recapitulate now the old and irrefragahle heads of opposition to such an innovation. The advocates of the Ca- tholie Claims seem themselves to consider success hopeless, by continuing their attacks against those impregnable bulwarks of the State, and they have accordingly attempted a diversion, with the view of effecting by stratagem what they could not ac complish by strength. We shall therefore proceed with our remarks upon the conclusions which we were aware would be drawn in favour of Email= cipation, from the recent evidence before the Parliamentary Committees. The impression which that evidence appears to have made on the ardent and unsophisticated mind of Mr. Brown low we sincerely deplore, although we are far from despairing of his recession to those sound and patriotic principles of which he has hitherto been so able and eloquent a supporter. Mr. Brown. low's mistake has very evidently sprung from the honest directness of his own heart and judgment, and the benevolent reluctance of an ingenuous man to believe in the obliquity of an artful world. The candid and immaculate creed in which the Hon. Member for Armagh has been bred, would not allow him to conceive the feelings or the con duct of others to be spontaneously different from his own. But in this fact is the solution of his error. A Protestant education has imbued Mr. Brownlow with those high-minded and honoura ble principles ; but does he not know that the bane of a Popish clerical education is to inculcate a mean and crooked duplicity of soul—a casuis tical compromise of interest and conscience— and a dark and treacherous self-justification for seeking an assumed benefit through the tangled and thorny paths of falsehood and evasion. Is it not plain, then, that if the straightforward pro bity of the Hon. Gentleman's impulses makes him believe humanity better than it is, the gro velling deceit which instruction has rendered equally natural to Papists, will make them be lieve humanity worse than it is. Mr. Brown low, therefore, should not judge of the interest:. ed testimony of Catholics, as if it were the disinterested testimony of Protestants. And yet he has done so, and, on that erroneous hypothesis, publicly recanted the political faith of his fathers. We shall not rest, however, with mere general accusation against the in tegrity of the Catholic evidence before the Committees. Let Dr. Doyle's ethics be es. tirnated by the practical illustratiron which his own examination supplies—and, as to the re - rnaining witnesses, ex uno disce °nines. In I:,e first place then it cannot be doubted, indepen dent of the Rev. Doctor's own affirmations to that effect, that he is most heartily desirous to make oat the best possible case in support of Emancipation. He repeatedly says throughout his testimony, that this measure would funda mentally redress all the grievances of Ireland— and in another part he deems those grievances to be so monstrous, that he should " rejoice at any event which would put a term to the existing state of things in that country." Here then is a full admission—a fervid or almost furious declara tion, that Catholic Emancipation, or a good casein support of Emancipation, was the dearest and up permost object with the Bishop of Kildare and Loughlin, during his examination. Let us next see when thepoctor has an object to attain, the sort of plastic conscience which he brings to the task— the suppleness of virtue which assists all the efforts of this pop ish Prelate. " The Doctor" was interrogated on the subject of a provision fromthe State for the Popish Priesthood, and " on principle " be strenously opposed and denounced such a mea sure. Nay, he quot ed Scripture shew that the shepherd should be fed exclusively by the flock Ile tended — that the Priest should be paid solely by those for whom he laboured. Now, in this case, the Docicir principle is fortified by religion ; the positive injunctions of God are, in his opi nion, superadded to the obligations of moral duty—and yet, how fare both principle and religion, conviction and commands, when op posed by our Holy Divine's object ? All vanish, evaporate, are dissipated in a breath, to make way for a matter of expediency, to gain Eman cipation, Dr. Doyle explicitly avows he would consent to the Burnish Clergy being paid by a Protestant State, instead of by their flocks, as enjoined its Scripture! Is it rational to suppose, we ask, that an enlightened person of this stamp would, in other points, stick at trifles " to gain" his object—would he hesitate at means, provided they secured a favourite end ? Well, then ; would Mr. Brownlow barter reason and religion, Judas.like, for a few pieces of sil ver; and, if he would not, how can be safely judge of Dr. Doyle, or the rest of the Papists, in any particular by himself ? How can any Mem ber of the House of Commons venture to sacrifice the birth-rights of this Protestant community on the eely answers of a set of interested Papists ? ETHE TIM ES. The second reading of the Catholic Bill, on Ttiesday last, opened with a circumstance curious i❑ itself and encouraging to the friends of the measure. Mr. Brownlow, Member for the county of Armagh, and foremost hitherto in the ranks of the Orange interest of Ireland, commenced the debate by declaring himself a convert to the cause of emancipation. II is argument was twofold -Ist, (what, indeed, we are astonished had ❑ot struck the Hon. Gentleman sooner), that_ things cannot remain as they are in Ireland ; and 2d, that if a conciliatory system be adopted he is now convinced of its safety, as well as of its necessity. The latter change has been chiefly wrought in Mr. Brownlovv's mind, as he has stated, by the evidence offered to the committees of Lords and Commons during the ... few last .. weeks. Upon that evidence we-sh,all just observe, that, it does appear to our judgment, as a whole, to have gone to the root of many prejudices. The Bishops declare upon oath, that the Pope is but the executive officer of a purely spiritual power—that his bulls are of no avail whatever against the Canons of the Church, against the Decrees of Councils, against the ecclesiastical regulations and usages of - par ticular countries, or the prescriptive rights of their Churches, which vary in diffe rent States, and even from one Province to an other of the same State—that as against the allegiance due to Sovereigns, the Pope's autho rity is not worth a straw, and that if any d emand or attempt were made from Rome upon the minds of the King's subjects, unfavourable to his lawful power, the Priests would to a man be hound to resist and preach against it—that the Pope can not, under any pretence whatever, levy a single farthing from the pockets of any people in the world, except only his proper subjects ef the (so called, but foolishly called) patrimony of St. Peter. And here we must be allowed. to express our suprise that any person can now attach any serious weight to the charge,. that the Pope claims a right to cashier Kings, and to dispose of their asuninions ! If such a prerogative were real, how comes it that the Court of Rome—a selfish Court enough, ambitious and grasping, and persevering in its projects—has never helped itself to any of those fine empires and king doms, of which it asserted (and of which it was allowed by Papists, or the argument is worth nothing), the positive and indefeasible domi -1 nion ? There stands the Pope—the ambitious, domineering, all-powerful Pope, as he is term ed—of whom every kingdom where Catholicism obtains a footing, is assumed to be held, as its lord and master ; there he stands or sits down for ten centuries—confining as well his insatiable ambition, as his unbridled and acknowledged power, within a pitiful dukedom in the centre of Italy ; from no part of which Italy , bey ond his [ - own Lilliputian territory, has he for ages receiv ed five shillings' worth in the way of tribute, saving a white pony now and then from the King of Naples, o hen his Majesty chanced to be in the humour. This we take to be a toler able set-off against the alleged danger to dis tant Sovereigns, from the Pope's interference with their temporal rights. But, in truth, whe ther Mr. Brownlow (whose change of opinion we confess to be valuable, and his avowal of it manly)—whether that Hon. Gentleman has been induced to take up a more correct view of the question from the Parliamentary evidence, or whether Mr. Dawson, looking through a darker glass, sees just what in conjunction with Messrs. Peel and Goulbarn he has always seen in the cha racter and religion of the Catholics, we regard the evidence as in itself of very little moment—in it self, we mean, apart from its iufluence upon the public feeling. It is not the answers to interro gatories by half a dozen gentlemen, however in telligent and upright, that can affect the just im portance or the future bearings of a great national concern. We hold it to be worse than trifling with such a subject to waste the public attention by striving to pick holes in the consis tency of two recitals of opinion—one designed to unite and consolidate a popular interest, prone of itself to fall in pieces; and the other to stand among the most precious records of the empire, given under the grave sanction of an oath, or the solemn responsibility of individual reputation and honour, in the face, of Parliament. With such comparisons, or with the things compared, we have little business. To us it appears that the Catholic Qtiestion is in no degree a question to he governed by this or that especial' creed. We are above all, persuaded, that let the worldly pretentions of priests and churches be what they will, human nature and the great standing inte rests of political society must be the practical rulers of mankind ; that, in fine, the minuter diversities in modes of faith will have less rower every day over the affairs of nations while those expanded principles which may be said to constitute the elements and the outlines of all religion, will acquire a more effective agency, and will co-operate more harmoniously to the universal good. Common interest is the grand argument for this great mea sure now before us. Differences in matters of faith will se ld om exas p e rate the minds of men , when no temporal sufferings can be traced to them. —,..—. [NEW TIMES.] Perhaps the question of the Catholic Claims was never taken up in Parliament on fairer and broader grounds than at present. The mass of evidence produced before the Committees of the two Houses on the state of Ire land has put the Legislature in possession of more facts than were ever before brought to bear on the question. We are, however some what surprised, that among these facts is not to , be found the exact numerical proportion which the Catholics bear to the Protestants. This pro portion differs very widely in different Darts of Ireland: and it is quite surprising: to observe how very variously it has been stated by writers' of no mean celebrity. Dr. Hussey, formerly Roman Catholic Bishop of Waterford, stated that the Catholics exceeded the Protestants in the proportion of ten to one ; the late Dr. Duigenan, a Protestant, contended that the Protestants were above one-third of the population of Ire land. Common report states the Irish Catholics at six millions, and the Protestants at one million ; and some recent estimates have given the relative numbers at 4,900,000 Catholics, and 1,900,000 Protestants. It would; certainly, he highly de sirable that this point should be accurately deter mined ; and it would seem that nothing would be easier than to determine it, for the whole po pulation has been numbered and found to amount to 6,800,000. The Established Clergy could, with ease, return the number of their flocks, and the Protestant Dissenters would have no difficulty in doing the same. Whatever may be the exact proportion of •the different Com munions, two facts seem certain, that the Roman Catholics are the great majority of the popu lation in Ireland, and that they may form a mi nority (perhaps equally disproportionate) in the empire at large. The first of these considerations affords a- motive for conciliating and tranquil lizing them by reasonable concession ; the second obviates the alarm that is felt at the idea of their ever obtaining an ascendancy in the Britisl Empire. EIMITI S II PRESS.] By accounts received yesterday from Madrid, it appears that the general expectation in that capital is, that the Duke de l'lnfantado will certainly replace M. Ugarte in the favour of the' King. He is with Ferdinand constantly, and his refusal of the embassy to Paris is ascribed entirely to his confidence in the 'success of his intrigues at home. When the retirement of the French troops from the Peninsula was announced to the King by the Charge d'Affaires, Ferdinand is said to have expressed his wish that the French Government would grant him the use of a fleet to prevent the landing of parties of Constitutionalists on his coasts, and to put down the extensive system of smuggling which is carried on to the great detri ment of his revenue.—The negociation respect ing the Loan has not yet arrived at a definitive conclusion, with regard to the amount for which it shall be contracted. That alone, however, we can repeat, is • the subject of discussion. In all other respects the terms are settled. A. considerable difference has always existed on the Stock Exchange in the price of what are called the Old and New Bonds, the latter being those which were issued by Ad miral Jabat, under peculiar circumstances, when the dominion of the Cortes was confined to the Isle of Leon. We understand, however, that no difference will be made in the terms on which the Bonds will be received,under the arrangements now making for the New Loan. The disinclination of Ferdinand to admit the New Bonds is not greater -than that which he feels towards the Old Bonds; in this respect he is, at least, the friend of equal justice, if there can be any justice in cancelling the claims of his creditors by a composition of 30 per cent. [MORNING HERALD.] Though we are no great admirers of the wis dom or utility of many of the proceedings of the Civic Body, we are glad when they happen to take up a subject in which they are likely to be really useful. This, we think, is the case with the allusion made the other day in the Court of Common Council to the negligent at tendance of Commissioners of Bankrupt, at the Court in Basinghall-street. This is an in convenience which has long been felt by mer cantile men, and by all who, in addition to their loss by the insolvency of their debtors, have to seek redress by attendence before most of these Commissioner. Of the eager thirst for fees we would say but little. The' liberal" and " learn ed" professions are no followers of virtue or of science for their own sake; and as long as the tc panis ematur" lasts, that which " makes the mare to go," must have its Influence with every description of rider. But surely the public have a right to expect from these gentlemen, that if they condescend to accept the office, they should perform its duties, and among these that they should be punctual hi their attendance at the hour appointed ; and that no more than one com mission should be proceeded in at the same time. None but those whose avocations have led them to witness and experience the evil we complain of, can form any idea of its nature and extent. Those whom it concerns (and they are not a few) will be glad that the Court of Common Council have taken up the s u bj ec t ; an d which we hope they will not abando n till th e y have procured redress-for so large a portion of their constituents, and of the public, as are affected by this shame ful and intolerable grievance. [MORNING clinoNicLE.i It has often been remarked, that no class of 1 men form such erroneous judgments in political affairs as the Clergy. Of this we .have a preg nant proof, in the account of the proceedings of the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, an Assembly of the Established Clergy of a district of Scotland, containing at least one-fourth part of the popula tion of that country. The subject of discussion was an overture, as it is called, that a petition be presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying that no farther claims should be con ceded to the Catholics. Instead of taking into view the circumstances on which the decision of the question, whether the claims of the Catholics ought or ought not to be allowed,' should turn —name ly) whether, taking into consideration the state of Ireland and the condition of its po pulation, the empire at large would be more bene fited by conciliating than by irritating the Catho lics, and wh et h er t h e d anger would be greater from placing th em on a f oot i n of equality with the restof their fell ow - c i t i zens, the effect of whic h would be the admission of a small munber into the Le gislature, or from allowing- them to increase in wealth and pouer, and excluding them at the same time from the situations which connect the possessors of wealth and influence with the Go vernment of the country—the Rev. Members of the Synod discussed the question in a more convenient manner. To hear them, one would suppose the question was, whether we should give the Irish the Catholic or the Protestant religion, instead of how we are to dispose of a Catholic popula tion, which we cannot uncatholicize, in the way most beneficial to the empire. The misdeeds of the Catholics in former ages, the superiority of the Protestant religion over the Catholic, the in tolerance of the latter, were all d welt on ad nauseant, as if these were really the points which ought to guide our decision. [TILE PUBLIC LEDGER.] Whilst all accounts concur in representing the Turks as urging the preparations for the ensuing campaign with extraordinary activity, they de scribe the Greeks as extremely remiss in their measures. This contrast, apparently alarming as it is, should not disconcert the friends of the Greek cause, as it is not a new feature of the war, but has marked it throughout all its stages. The Porte, ' from the magnitude of its resources, the number of its subjects, and the despotic nature of its authority, has been uniformly able to bring large masses into the field ; but, for want of discipline and proper supplies, they always melted away be fore they could perform any thing at all corre sponding with their numerical strength. The Greeks on the contrary, being subjected to an Authority, which is loose in its texture, wait till the last moment before they renounce their private for their public duties ; but then they made up for their former dilapriness by their impassioned ardour. We are fully persuaded that, in this respect, the present year will not differ in its results from the past ; and whatever apathy the Greeks may seem to exhibit at the present moment, and however formidable the preparations of the Porte may be, we entertain a confident hope that these appearances will be in. .verted before the end of the campaign. We are aware that the Turks are adopting measures of precaution, which they had disclaimed to take before. They have begun for the first time to make provision for the regular sustenance of their troops in the field, and, in the choice of their Commanders, look to capacity more than to favour. Still there is a vice in the Turkish character, as well as an incorrigible defect in their military and political institutions, that will render these new proceedings unavailing ; and it is even possible from the horror of that people to innovation, that the proposed improvements, in stead of forwarding the objects of the war, will only serve to provoke popular discontent and military insubordination. On the other hand, the Greeks have stronger inducements than ever to oppose a spirited resistance to their enemies. They have now laid aside the yoke so long, that the idea of resuming it, must be in tolerable. At the same time they must know that the vengeance of their former masters would be sweeping and stern in proportion ' to its postponement ; and policy would now recommend extermination, where it would have been satisfied at an earlier period with the mnishment of the leaders of the insurreo tion. Besides these motives, they have the pride of victory, the enthusiasm of freedom, and the conscious sympathy of surrounding nations, and, if we add their progress in the theory and practice of war, we are not over sanguine, if we anticipate the same successful results on their side this year, by which their efforts by sea and land have been signalized hitherto. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday evening several gentlemen, meth hers of the Common Council for Farringdon Ward Withoui together with others, the churchwardens and overseers of the several parishes in the same Ward, assembled in the receiving ronm of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in compliance with sum monses received to attend two several inquests there to be held. On the arrival of the Coroner for London, TuomAs TON, Esq., he was addressed, previous to the oath being ad ministered, by Mr. Savage, of the parish of St. Dunstan, for the purpose of making known to him the unanimous opinion of tie gentlemen present, that they were not bound in point of law to attend inquests at the hospital, or without their own pa rishes, the hospital being a distinct parish within itself ; and considered it a grievance pressing heavily on the Ward (the parish ot St. Sepulchre alone ,having been put to the expence of 50/. a year) to be continually thus. called upon ; and pecu liarly so when it was considered that very many of the cases originated without the city. Mr. SHELTorr said, the hospital, being a royal foundation, was not confined to receiving patients from the city of London solely, though situated ,within its precincts ; that where the death of any person took place, there the inquest should be held ;. and if no jury was to be found in the parish, as in the case of the hospital, they must be found elsewhere ; that not only were they bound to attend, but every other qualified per son within the city. A much greater hardship, if it was one, was instanced in the small parish of St. Thomas, Southwark, which had within it two hospitals, receiving patients from all the neighbouring counties. A gentleman inquired what was the amount of the fine for non-attendance or refusal to be sworn ? Mr. SHELTON said, the course was to present the party to be dealt with at the Sessions. A desultory conversation followed, which ended in the gentle men's protesting against the right of enforcing their attendance, more particularly the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, (the pa rishioners of which are now trying the question of general ex emption from serving on juries in the Court of Exchequer), and the expression of their determination to bring the matter before the Court of Aldermen. After receiving the further information that the allowances usually made for the Jurymen and beadles were mere matters of courtesy, the Gentlemen were severally sworn, and the first inquest taken on view of the body of Isaac Burgess, late in the employ of Mr. \Varner, brass-founder, Jewin-street, Alders gate, aged 62. Elizabeth Burgess, the only witness, stated, that she resided in Cock-lane S n ow-hill, and had been wife to the deceased, who left his florae on the morning of last Friday week, to go to his daily labour, and was brought back to her at two o'clock on the following morning in a coach, by the beadle of the Lon don Infirmary, his head covered with plasters, and with the appearance of having been drinking. He was confined to his bed till the Thursday following, when he was conveyed to the hospital. The deceased informed her that he had been in com pany with his shopmates, and was passing down Leadenhall street, late in the evening, when, finding himself dizzy, he at tempted to grasp at a post, but missing his aim, he fell, and, as he supposed, was crushed against it by the wheels of a coach passing at the moment at a regular pace. The spectators con veyed him to the infirmary. Mr. Wm. Burt, house-surgeon, saw the deceased on being brought in. There was a wound on the forehead, another on and behind the right ear, with erysipelas extending down the right side of the neck. The deceased died yesterday . . The head and body had been sin ce o p ene d : there was no internal injury of the former, but in th e c h es t much water. His death was occasioned by erysip e l as , but whether the erysep ilas was produced by the accident, or ot h erw i se , w as not certain. The Jury, in the absen ce o f ot h er ev idence, returned a ver dict precisely to that effect. Another inquest was then taken on the body of James Dun ning, a child two years and a half old, who, on Wednesday week, at three in the afternoon, set fire to his clothes in Ship yard, while lilaying with a lighted match, and expired on Saturday morning. Verdict—Accidental. Deagi. LAN INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 20. GLAMORGANSHME MINES. WATKINS V. MAULE. Mr. SuanEx said, his client was now ready to deliver up the possession of the property in question. Mr. HART submitted, that Mr. Bailey , ought to pay the costs. Mr. SUGDEN thought it would be better to reserve the ques tion of costs until after an intended application respecting the machinery. Mr. HART said, the costs could not possibly be the subject of argument. He insisted he had a right to have the costs of the application to commit Mr. Bailey, and of the application to stay proceedings pending the appeal to the House of Lori,ls. Mr. Su GDEN was willing to concede the costs of the applies tion to commit, but he hoped the costs of the motion to stay the proceedings might be reserved. Mr. HART stated, that his Lordship bad, in the case of " Willan against Willan," laid down the - rule, that where a party failed, he ought to pay the costs. The LORD CHANCEL Lon—Had you not better get through the important step first—the delivering up possession, and tak ing out the money ? They say they are ready to give up pos session, and take the money out of Court : they are retiring from the opposition they before made—therefore let the pos session be restored, and reserve the consideration of the costs as to what has passed respecting the committal, and staying pro ceedings pending the appeal. EX-PARTE GELLER IN RE HINDE. In this long depending Liverpool his Lord ship intimated that he was prepared to give the parties his judgment: Mr. AGAR said, he had not been able to obtain the informu•r tion his Lordship had required on a former day. His Lordship fixed Tuesday next for delivering his judgment. Several other matters were postponed till Friday and Tues., day COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 20. BRADLEY V. ARTHUR. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE mentioned this case, which it will be recollected was an action of false imprisonment, involv ing important questions of military authority and discipline. r. Brougham had moved for a new trial, and the Court thought it would be desirable that the points he wished to raise should be brought before them in the form of a special case. The counsel were unable to agree on the facts which should be stated ; and the Lord Chief Justice, having been applied to for his decision, thought the difference so important that no single Judge ought to settle it. The case, therefore, should go into ,the new trial paper, as of Michaelmas Term. Mi. BROUGHAM expressed a hope that the case would not come on to-day or to-morrow. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE replied, " Certainly not :" he had mentioned the case thus early in the term, that Gentlemen on both sides might have time to prepare for the discussion. THE KING - V. CARLTON AND OTHERS. Mr. RUSSELL mentioned this long pending rule for a crimi nal information against the British Press, for libels on Sir George Chetwynd ; and it was fixed for this day, supposing the motions for new trials should allow time to hear it. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, APRIL 20. GARDNER V. WEDD ANT) THREE OTHERS. Mr. Sergeant WII.DE moved for a rule to shew cause why a general verdict should not be entered in this case. The action was tried before J%ir. Baron Graham. It was an action for- an assault and false imprisonment, in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages one farthing for the assault ; but the imprisonment was not allowed. He now wished the verdict to , be entered generally, on the ground that the learned Judge at the trial gave liberty to move to that effect. The action arose from a dispute respecting tithes. The parson of the parish and his parishioners had disagreed (neither the name of the Reverend Gentleman nor his parish were mentioned), and the parson, to smooth the business gave a general invitation to his parishioners . to settle all their disputes regarding the tithes over a good dinner. The parishioners attended, and after dinner, instead of sober sentiments, they regailed themselves freely over the parson's wine by drinking most uproarious toasts against the parson and his clerk, such as " Damnation to the parson and his clerk."—(Great laughter.)—The clerk of the parish, as in duty bound, felt offended at the extreme liberality of the toasts, and remonstrated, on which, from words they proceeded to blows. The defendant and three others took hold of the clerk and turned him out of doors. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Was the turning him out. of the room false imprisonment ?—(Laughter.)- Mr. Sergeant WILDE-NO, my Lord ; the false imprison ment consisted in keeping the plaintiff in a chair' while they carried him out of the room by main force. The chair was in a corner of the room, and they held him there against his will and consent, while they took him up in their arms and carried him out of the house. He did not know what period of time constituted false imprisonment, but the clerk was detained from the free exercise of his liberty by the constraint of the defendants. The LORD CHIEF Ju STICE.—I see no imprisonment at all in this case, and the Learned Judge who presided at the. trial seems to have been of the same opinion. The good parishioners only kept the clerk in the chair to prevent his tumbling out, while they proceeded to give him his liberty in the fresh (Much laughter.)—We cannot grant the motion.—Motion re' fused. The Medina, With 180 convicts on board, will' sail forthwith from Sheerness, for Van Diemen's . Land, and the Norfolk, with 180 more convicts, will sail immediately from Portsmouth, for New' South Wales. Letters dated in January, have been received from Lady CABtrury.r,, at Madras. They state, that the Lieutenant-General had had a violent attack of cholera, that he was then somewhat better, and that sanguine hopes were entertained of his ultimate recovery. SOUND SLEEP,.—A Prussian physician has pub lished the case of a girl, twenty years old, at Medebach, in Westphalia who has slept during 451 days. Two doctors a re watching this modern Sleeping Beauty. SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—A person at Chelten ham, on cutting up a loaf of bread for dinner, which had been delivered that morning from the baker's ? to his utter astonishmen t found a mouse in the centre of the boat !—What next ?—( Cho , " tenharn Journal.) The squares are at length beginning to put on their spring livery ; but asparagus and other early vegetables are still as scarce as they are sometimes in the month of February. _ A melancholy accident occurred at the resi dence of Admiral RICHARD INCLEDON near Barnstaple, on Monday week. The gallant and veteran Admiral, who was upwards of eight/ years of age, fell from his gig when near his own . door, and was so much hurt that he expired in a few minutes afterwards. COAL MARKET, APRIL 20. Ships at Market. Ships sold 561 Newcastle • -27 j 20i Sunderland - - 14.-} Price. 26s Od to 3 6 s 3 i c i 28s 6d to 37s b_ BIRTHS. On the 18th inst., at Sandgate, Kent, the wife of the Re v ' John David (Bennie, of a son. On Tuesday last, at Wimbledon, Mrs. Henry Lindsay, o f °' daughter. Yesterday, in Upper Gower-street, the lady of T. B. Batar(lf Esq., of a son. On the 20th inst., the lady of the Rev. John George. Stolle' of a daughter. MARRIED. 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