The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-23 00:00:00

S?11IT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It appears, that on Monday last the City of Dublin Grand Jury found true bills against Mr. Shiel, on the profecution of - the Attorney-General, for sedition. With regard to the law and justice of this State proceeding. w e have now no right to question them, they are in better hands. But end how it may, we consider the policy of such a prosecution, for such an offence as is attributed to Mr. Shiel, and at the present crisis, so unwise, that no conviction or sentence can redeem it. Two-thirds of the Catholics, we might add nine-tenths of the respectable and independent men among them, have, for some time past, lo o ked coldly on the Dublin orators. Shiel now becomes great from having a great opponent. It was thus with O'Connell, who swelled into higher note when he had once prevoked the Attcney-General to measurer eivo r e 3 with him. But the Attorney-General ought not to have been so provoked in either of these unhappy instances ; he ought not to stake the character of the Government and his own reputation on the issue of a battle with any common scold. To O'Connell he gave the eclat of complete success : to Shiel, if convicted,he presents the crown of martyrdom. But knowing, as Mr. Plunkett must from experience, the im - possibilityof detertniningApriori,wh ether on the clearest tes tittiony,he will obtain a verdict from a Dublin jury, there were abundant reasons in discreet and sober calculation, why he should never tempt his chance with such a tribunal in times of party violence, except under extreme necessity, of which there was undoubtedly no symptom here. It has been the cry of the Orange incendiaries for years, that so long as Lord Wellesley was Lord- Lieutenant and Mr. Plunkett Attorney-General, the Crown, in Ireland, would never obtain redress for an injury, he able to pro tect the public peace, or vindicate the honour of his Majesty's Government, whatever insults or outrages it might suffer. The Attorney-General knows full well that such has been, for many a day, the open war-note of the Saurin faction ; and that the inference founded upon it, was " the evident expediency of " changing the Executive Government." Further, there was a pretty clear index of what the Attorney-General ought not ta have done, in the noisy importunity of the Orangemen at both sides of the water, calling upon him to prosecute these associators. Could the Irish Government suppose that its sworn enemies were giving it sound advice? Was it not manifest that they only laid a trap for the man in the whole empire whom they most fc - Ir and hate, and that they who were loudest in hallooing him on, would, when they found their snare had succeeded, be loudest in exulting over, and reproaching him? We are, nevertheless, inclined to hope, that the suspense which now exists with regard to the future composition of the Cabinet may terminate in such an arrange ment as will afford the friends of liberal and equitable measures towards Ireland an increase of confidence in their success, by poiverfully restraining the evil spirit of a party, which thwarts and friistrates every attempt to promote by honest means the wel fare of an ill- used people.— Times. It is a remarkable circumstance, that while the French Government is trying to abridge the liberty of the press, British Juries, with their native freedom of character, are establishing that liberty among us in the rational exercise of its proper powers and functions. Three causes for libel were tried on Wednesday ; one in the Court of King's Bench, one in that of the Common Pleas, and one in that of the Exchequer. In the two first the plaintiffs totally failed, the verdicts being for the defend ants; and the plaintiff in the last obtained only Is. damages. We will venture to say that three more trumpery cases were never brought into Court. An attorney's clerk is quizzed on an electioneering affair ; a bailiff errs, and gets into a lady's chamber in pursuit of a debtor, and has all the three Muses upon him, of prose, poetry, and painting :—a barrister is conveyed to a watchhouse on a charge of drunkenness or indecency, and the historic muse of Bow-street reports his exhibition at the office; and each of these indignant parties seeks for redress in a Court of Justice ! The thing is preposterous ! Into what a state of imbecile sensitiveness would the English character sink, if it could not bear the slightest breath of censure ? A vigorous reputation will live through, and even laugh at, a storm of ridicule and scandal ; as the gallant ship still holds on its course, though some baffling breezes may, at intervals, mingle with the steady wind that impels it. But we are chiefly induced to make these remarks, from a desire of offering some suggestions to the consideration of future juries. It is their duty to listen most respectfully to the summing up of the Judge,—to receive the law from him, in all cases in which he is allowed to be its ex positor, as from a person instructed in the law, by habit and study, and placed in the Courts at a considerable expence to the country, for the explication of the law. Even in cases of libel the most suspicious, his opinion deserves attention ; but if, after this, any Judge shall venture to impugn the motives of a jury in giving their verdict—if he shall insinuate that they have violated the sacred obligation of their oath—that they have tampered with their consciences—we hope that a jury thus stigmatised will net, except they are conscious of guilt, separate till they have called upon the Judgefor an explanation ; till they have demanded on what authority, on what mysterious insight into the heart of man, he has dared to charge them with so dreadful a crime as the wilful perversion of justice.—lbid. Mr. Peel introduced last night four Bills for consoli dating and amending branches of our Criminal Law. The speech with which he prefaced his motion was warmly applauded by the House, and will insure for him from the country a continuance of the reputation which his excellent intentions, and his judgment and prudence in giving effect to them, have already procured for him. The principles on which Mr. Peel proceeds cannot be too highly com mended. From the commeoceolent, indeed, of his legis lative efforts, he has endeavoured to purify the law from all that favours injustice, fraud, and chicanery, a nd t o re nounce all the supposed advantages which Government ,derived from the partiality of tribunals. He looks not to law as a craft, by a skill in which a set of men may be en abled, for their own interest, to give one man an unfair ad varitage over another, but as a means by which justice may be afforded to the people with the least difficulty, and at the least expence. He has very properly availed him self of the skill ofprofessional men, who would have entered on the task with the same exemption from obliquity of mind which he manifests. The mere lawyer who undertakes the reform of the law, even if his understanding have suffered from the chicanery which is so interwoven with the English law, can with difficulty bring himself to do troy that which ha hz; ac quired a knowledge of with so much labour, and which consti tutes his claim to distinction. It is in fact exacting too much from human nature, to expect that lawyers should be efficient re formers of law abuses. But their skill may be bought by those who, like Mr. Peel, can direct it to thepublic good. In the out set of his speech, Mr. Peel declared, " that it appeared to him consistent with common sense that the law should be rendered clear and intelligible, that as ail are bound t o obey it , its provi sions should be known to all, and couched in language definite an d precise, that it may be understood and respected." For the ex pression alone of this truth he deserves the gratitude of the coun try. Duly give effect to it, and what will the English law be ? Ile has 'ow acquired sufficient reputation to entitle him to the confidence of the country; and we need not say, that if he pro ceed fearlessly is The course on which he has entered, he will con fer a greater service nn it than has been done by any former 3li nister.—Morning Chronicle. Every day evinces the great inconvenience which has arisen from the late long adjournment of Parliament. The Lord Chancellor states, for instance, that he can now get no assistance in hearing appeals till after the return of the Judges from the Assizes, which will be, in fact, till after the Easter recess. So that on this one head alone a period of six months, from November to May, is sacrificed by this injudicious postponement of the meeting of the two Houses. A multitude of other important matters too, which, if spread over a sufficient period, would have had that consideration to which they are each individual:). en titled, are now to be huddled into the impossible space of one week, or else must be postponed till the return of the Country Gentlemen and the Bar from their respective Cir.:nits. This is an evil which we all along foresaw, aw l - protested against, and has since become, as our r eaders too well know, seriously aggravated by events which cou ld n ot, when we did so, be in any manner foreseen. When Parliament met in November, it should have been kept together. If it bad b een so, much of the public business (including many of the election petitions) would have been got through. The truth a great disinclination to meet Parliament has grown up among official men of late years; enhanced, in some instances, by in dolence and a love of ease, and not a little by the teazing, inter locutory debates, which have lately become so much the practice. The country, however, has a right to expect that its business will be done and attended to, independently of such consideratio ns ; ,nd there cannot be, we think, a more striking specimen of the ill effects of. procrastination to -ail parties; than that which the pre sent state of public business, arising out of it, exhibits.— etrorning Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCIL COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fix. fe2. THE XING V. JAMES DEAN AND OTHERS. Mr. BRODERICK opened the pleadings. This was an indict ment charging the defe❑dants, James Dean, Thomas Dunstan. Charles Edward Grindall, and Wm. Hunter, with conspiring to gether to cause it to be believed that the prosecutor, Thomas Adcock Grindall, was of unsound mind, was unfit for the manage ment of his own affairs, and ought, therefore, to be placed under personal restraint; and in pursuance of that conspiracy, with having, on the 27th of September last, seized the said prosecutor, and caused him to be removed from his house to Tunbridge wells, and there detained in confinement. The defendants were also charged by the other counts with an assault and false imprison ment, to the whole of which they had pleaded, " not guilty." After a lengthy but uninteresting trial, the Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, acquitted the defendants generally of the conspiracy, and acquitted Dean and Dunstan of the assault, finding Grindall and Hunter Guilty. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 22. JOHNSON V. POPE. This was an action for an assault and battery, brought by the plaintiff, who was a Beaman on hoard a ship called the Asia, against the defendant, who was the Commander of that vessel, for an assault committed upon him on the high seas. The defendant pleaded first that he was not guilty, and secondly, that he, being the Commander of the vessel, had only exerted his authority so far, as to correct and punish the mutinous conduct of the plaintiff, who had disobeyed or refused to obey the orders given him. In consequence of this, the plaintiff had been moderately chastised, which was the assault he now complained of. In answer to this, the plaintiff said that it was untrue, and that he had at no time disobeyed the orders given to him. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in summing up, observed, that this was an action for assault and battery, to which the defendant had made several pleas. These it was necessary for him to make out, but in this instance no evidence at all had been produced to prove them, therefore the verdict must be for the plaintiff. The only question would be as to the amount of damages, which it would be for the Jury to determine. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verlict for the plaintiff—Damago, 100/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—John Boxwood, the principal clerk at the Cross Keys Inn, Wood-street, appeared before Sir Pwrzu LAT: rut, yesterday, upon suspicion of knowingly receiving some country bank-notes, which formed part cf the contents of a valuable parcel stolen from the Stilton coach some months since. The case was opened by Mr. Perry, one of the clerks to Messrs. Esdailes, the bankers, stating, that in June last, a parcel, contain ing local notes to the amount of about 2,700/. was delivered from the Huntingdon Bank to the guard of a coach which passes through that place. The parcel was directed to Messrs. Es dailes, and the guard kept it in his pocket ; but, upon examina tion at the banking-house, the one delivered there was found to contain nothing but waste-paper; and the guard's account of the matter was, that somebody must have picked his pocket and sub stituted the waste paper for the genuine parcel. This guard was taken before the Magistrates at Huntingdon, but the evidence was such that he was enlarged. Upon information that some of the stolen notes had got into circulation, Foster, the Marshalman, was employed to trace them. Sir PETER—You selected one of our best officers, and we had better hear what he did from himself. Foster then stated, that having learnt that twelve 51. and one 101. note of a Cambridge bank (part of the stolen notes) had been offered at Mersrs. Grote and Co.'s, where they were payable, he traced them through Messrs. Drummonds', and the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross, to the defendant. Sir PETER--. 411 the person here who received them from the defendant? Foster—He is not. Sir PETER (to the defendant)—Perhaps you will admit pay ing them.----Defendant ; I do not know. We do pay a great many notes to Charing-cross. Sir PKTEa—From - whom did you receive these (handing the 12 51. notes) ?—The defendant (after observing, in a low tone, " we take many notes, and put no mark on them") said ; I have no doubt I received them from a person who was a book-keeper at the White Horse, Fetter-lane, 20 years ago. Sir PETER-Can you produce this person—what is hie name? Defendant—He is in town—he may be found at the Spread Eagle. Gracechureh-street ; his name is William Bayles ; he was lately a clerk at the General Booking Office at the corner of Cateaton and King -street. The Alderman sent an officer in quest of Bayles, to some place named, but he returned without success, and the defendant was liberated on his own recognizance in 2001., and three sureties in 1001. each, to appear at the Sessions. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Prior, the " Irish Pilgrim," as he is designated, was once more brought to this Office, with his little bundle of books, and his clothing of sackcloth, he having been found in the streets receiving alms from passengers. It ap. peared that he had some claim, as a casual pauper, upon St. Mar tin's Parish, and one of the Overseers was sent for. Prior, on being asked why he persisted in following a vagabond course of life, which he appeared to have adopted from choice, said, " I am alone in the world ; I have no home ; no roof to lie under but the canopy of glorious Heaven (crossing himself); and I am afflicted with an evil spirit for the sine of my youth, which, I acknowledge, were great; and until I can, by a course of prayer and suffering, expiate my offences, and appease the wrath of the God of Glory (again devoutly crossing himself), I must remain as I am, a miserable afflicted sinner." Mr. Mtssituer,- , -Why did you not remain in Ireland ?—Prior —lreland, Sir ! What was Itodo in Ireland ? Poor Ireland, is an unfortunate and destitute country, deserted by the heads of the land, forsaken by those who ought to remain at their own paternal homes to cherish and protect the poor, and keep society in peace and harmony together. I might wander frcm one end of the island to the other, and meet neither friend nor an asylum for my wretched head. _ _ Mr. Mnssnutt—l really do not know what to do with you, my friend.—Prior : All I crave your Worship, is to be sent to an asylum where I can be at req. Mr. MiNsirum. said, he would consider what could be done for this singular man. Mr. M. finally ordered Prior to be taken into the workhouse until he could make some arrangement for his future comfort. Prior—G&l bless your Worship. May the blessings of Heaven descend upon you, for your kindness to an afflicted spirit. We have been just informed that eight more per sons have read their recantation in the church of Kings, county of Cavan. One circumstance to be particularly attended to is, that this parish being on the borders of the counties of Meath, Mona ghan, and Louth, shows that the reformation is spreading towards the adjoining counties from the heart of Cavan, where it may be said to have struck the first root.—Dublin Correspondent. On Wednesday evening a well-dressed female went into the shop of Mr. Fenn, roasted coffee-dealer, Crown-row, Walworth, and requested permission to sit down, as she was sud denly taken extremely unwell ; in about two minutes after she requested a coach might be sent for, and gave her address No. 8, Canterbury-street, Waterloo-road. A person was instantly de spatched to the nearest coach-stand, during which her illness seemed to increase, and, before the return of the messenger with a coach, she expired, and her remains were taken to the White Hart pub.'ic-hoil e, near to where the melancholy scene occurre d, t o await the decision of a Coroner's Inquest. On Wednesday night the parish church of Croydon was broken into, and robbed of a great quantity of black cloth, with which the interior was decorated in consequence of the death of the Duke of York. The thieves, it appeared, effected an en trance by means of skeleton keys ; but it is supposed were dis turbed before they had time to break open the vestry-room doer, which was attempted ; and had they succeeded, would have been attended with much greater loss of property, as plate of some value was deposited therein. Since the decease of the above Royal personage, a great number of churches have been robbed of the black cloth with which the pulpit, the communion-table, and other parts of the i n t er i or, were covered. A great number of robberies have been effected at the Surrey side of the bridges within the last fortnight, by a young man about 19 years of age, respectably dressed, and having the appearance of a clerk. The way in which he manages to levy contributions on the public is this calls at a house, and the door being opened by the servant, he presents a note, saying it contains a small bill of his employer's, and desires it to be given into the master of the house. The servant proceeds with the note, and during her absence the fellow has generally succeeded in mak ing a rapid retreat, carrving off whatever property has fallen with in his reach. On Wednesday he called at the residence of a gen tleman at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, and while the servant turned her back to deliver the note handed to her by the thief, he stole a very handsome bracket clock, which was in the hall. There is one peculiarity about the fellow, by which he may be known ; he wears an enormously large pair of whiskers, which are supposed to be false ones. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. An Account of Causes entered for Trial in the Court of Common Pleas, for the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, and 1826. LORA CHIEF JUSTICE DALLAS. 1820. Hilary Term. Middlesex 5O London BO —l3O LORD CHIEF JUSTICE DALLAS. 13.13. INlichaehnas Term. _Middlesex 42 London 7l —I!3 445 Easter Term. -- Middlesex 44 London 74 —122 _ _ LORD nom , JUSTICE GIFFORD. Int. Hilary Term. Middlesex 46 London 63 —lO9 Trinity Term. Middlesex 38 London '7B _ _ —IIE Michaelmas Term Middlesex 44 London —ll9 4803 1921. Hilary Term. Middlesex 4B Laudon Bl —129 LORD CHIEF JUSTICE BEST. Easter Tenn. Middlesex 43 Land= 77 —l2O Trinity Term. Middl,sex ...... 48 London 61 —lO7 T.'-ister Term. Middlesex 4O London 84 Trinity Term. Middlesex 5O Michaelmas Term Middlesex 49 London 87 —IS6 472 London 60 —125 1815 Hilary Term. T•iiddleaex 55 London 84 —197 Mlchaelma.s Term Middlesex SO London 100 .I.oe Easter Tenn. Middlesex 43 London —lO6 IR2. Hilary Term. Middlesex 4O London 71 —lll Trinity Tenn. Middlesex 46 London 63 —ll4 Easter Term. Middlesex 5O London '72 Michaelmas Term. Middlesex 49 London 94 —143 500 Trinity Term. Middlesex 29 London 79 1546. Hilary Term. Middlesex 55 Lon ion 106 —l6l -: ~ Michaelmas Term Middlesex 26 London 93 —129 470 Easter Term. Middlesex 101 London 218 —319 Trinity Term. Middlesex Bl London 192 —273 123. Hilary Term. Mlddlesex ...... 34 London Sd —l2O Easter Term. Middlesex Londcn 77 —ll5 Trinity Term. Middlesex 92 London 65 Michaelmas Term. Middlesex 79 London 189 —268 —lO2l Of which, 6 have been postponed at the instance of the parties, and one remains untried. W. S. BEST, Marshal. _97 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-FEE. 22. There was not much betting yesterday', if we except that be tween favourites; nor is there likely to be any of consequence till the frost has entirely broken up. We must therefore confine ourselves to a mere list of odds. DERBY, 7 to 1 agst Glenartney 22 to 1 agst Trumpeter 9 to 1 agst Tatler 23 to 1 agst Gustavus 13 to 1 agst Defence 2S to 1 agst Spondee 14 to 1 agst Espagnolle 25 to 1 agst Catherine 20 to 1 agst Dahlia SO to 1 agst Lord Ailesbury's 20 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie 33 to 1 agst Gamelius 22 to 1 agst Mameluke 40 to 1 agst Johnny(Cressida)* Even on Dahlia agst Mameluke, Trumpeter, and Gustavus, se- parately. OA K S. 5 to 1 agst Maria 14. to 1 agst Duchess 15 to 1 agst Totteridge 15 to 1 agst Translation 16 to 1 agst Pantina 17 to 1 agst Souvenir 20 to 1 agst Morel 23 to 1 agst Calypso 25 to 1 agst Lunacy SO to 1 agst Shoveller SO to 1 agst Scornful 33 to 1 agst Hampden SS to 1 agst Donna Clara 13 to I agst Reviewer 18 to 1 aget Jupiter* 18 to 1 agst Sancho 20 to 1 aget Olivera 20 to 1 agst Popsy 20 to 1 agst Granby •EGIR. 22 to 1 agst Matilda 22 to 1 agst Moonshine 30 to 1 agst Emma SO to 1 agst Nivalis SO to 1 agst any other. ;WORTH. : Shoveller * Is (*) were taken. RIDDLE 10 to 1 ages Those marked tin The case of the distress of some children who were in consequence of their desolate condition adopted by a butcher named French, who resides in Quebec-street, at tracted much attention some weeks ago. Sir Francis Burdett was struck with the singular humanity of the butcher, who has a number of children of his own, and directed that inquiry should he made into the circumstances of so unostentatious an act of charity. Finding that the facts were correctly stated, the worthy Baronet sent a present of 100 guineas on Tuesday morning to the butcher. A few evenings ago some villains stole twenty-one sheep from a field belonging to Mr. Wight, at Long Ditton, in Surrey : although information has been given at the different police-offices, and a large reward offered, the offenders have con trived to elude the officers. CHARACTER OS SUVAROFF.—AS at the very outset of his glorious career he became an object of the most active jealousy to several courtiers and favourites, who were power ful enough to obstruct his advancement, he formed the strange design of concealing his transcendent merit under the bizarre guise of folly. Nothing could be more luminous than his plans, more profound than his conceptions, more rapid than his actions; but in familiar intercourse and in public, his countenance, his gestures, his words, bore such an impress, not only of originality, but extravagance, that those who were at first inclined to oppose him, now ceased to dread him ; looking upon him merely as an instrument fit to be made use of by others, but totally in capable of disputing with them the attainme n t o f h onours , credit, or power. Thus, by a singular coincidence, this hero of despotism borrowed, in order to raise himself into consideration, the same mask behind which the hero of liberty, Brutus, concealed himself under the reign of Tarquin. Suvaroff, respectful towards his chiefs, affable with his soldiers, was unpo lite, haughty, and insolent towards his equals. Ile astonished those Who did not know him, by the multiplicity and rapid Con cession of the questions that be put to them, as if it was his duty to make them answer certain interrogatories. This was his man ner of knoWing a man at the first view. He had noropinion of those whom he embarrassed, but conceived an immediate esteem for those who answered him without hesitation and to the point. Of this I had myself a proof at St. Petersburg!' ; my laconic answers pleased him, and during his short stay in the capital, he often came to dine with me. I recollect that I once asked him li if it was true that when with the army, he scarcely ever slept, if he lay upon straw, and never took off his boots and spurs ?---" Yes," said he, ‘ I hate idleness, and for fear of sleep ing too long, I have always in my tent a cock to awake me fre quently by his crowing ; •when, but very rarely, I wish to indulge in a little indolence, and sleep commodiously, I take off one of my spurs." When he was named Marshal of the Empire, he in vented a new and most singular installation for himself, and which be performed in presence of his soldiers. Having had placed at each side of the aisle of a church two rows of chairs, equal in number to the general offi cers of an older standing than himself, he entered the church with his coat off, ..n,l jumped over each chair in the same manner that boys play at leap-frog. After this symbolical ex ample of the manner in which lie got over the heads of his rivals, be put on his full uniform of Marshal, covered himself with the numerous crosses and orders that had been so profusely bestowed upon him, and then gravely requested the priests to conclude the ceremony by singing Te Deum. It is said, that en receiving from the Emperor of Austria one of his most honourable orders, he knighted himself, and put on the badge before a large mirror, with the most bizarre ceremonies, and in presence of a great number of persons. It is well known that in Switzerland,' when, in consequence of the faults of Korsakoff, he was forced to retreat, he ordered a ditch to he dug, and placing himself in it, cried out to his soldiers, that they must trample him under foot, and co ver hi m w ith e arth, if they want e d t o fl y instead of facing the enemy. The first day that he met Mr. Alexandre de Lameth, whose defect was not a too great flexibility of character, their interview appeared to me sufficiently original to merit notice here. " What countryman are you ?" said the Ge neral abruptly,— , ‘ A Frenchman." " What professio n ?" " Military." " What rank?"—" Colonel." " Your name?"— " Alexandre de Lameth." c, G oo d !" M. de Laineth, a little piqued at this abrupt manner of interrogation, addressed in his turn Suvaroff, and fixing his eyes upon him, said, " What coun tryman are you ?"._-_« A Russian, apparently." "What pro fession ?"--" " What rank ?"—" Ge nera l."-- Goad !" They b o th th en " What name?"__" Suvaroff." burst out laughing, and from that moment were on very good t e ram SeV ur's Memoirs. ST. KATHARINE'S DOCK COMPANY. Yesterday morning a General Meeting of the Shareholders in the above undertaking was held in the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Directors as to the state of the Company's affairs. Mr. Tooke was. in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN was happy to perceive so numerous a Meeting of the Proprietors, as this was the first meeting since the Com pany had been formed. The various contracts, and other pro ceedings relative to the formation of the Docks, had rendered it improper in the Directors not to have called a meeting. The Di rectors had now completed three-fourths of the purchases of ground, buildings, &c. With respect to the other one-fourth, it would be unwise at present to give any statement, as the arrangements which were now in progress for the ground, &c., he trusted would prove beneficial. Contracts had been entered into for the ma terials for forming the Docks. The Chairman said, the Directors, from all the information they had obtained from past transactions, conceived that the expenditure would come under 1,500,0001., the sum originally proposed, which included contingencies, law expences, interest on instalments, &c. ST. I. THE LATE MR. RUNDELL, GOLDSMITH. The late Mr. Rum>ELL amassed his vast fortune by habits of extreme frugality; he was never married, and never kept en esta blishment. When he left London he generally took up his abode with his niece, a married Lady, residing at Brompton. Air Rundell has left the children of Mr. Bigge (who was the lapidary of the concern, on Ludgate-hill1), 20,0001. each. Many years ago he became intimate with the family of Mr. John Bannister, the comedian, and at that excellent performer's resi dence, in Gower-street, he, to use his own expression, "passed many happy hours." When one of the sons (an articled clerk to Messrs. Williams and Brooks, of Lincoln's-Inn) was out of his time, Mr. Randal called at the office, and invited him to break fast on the following day; the young man went, and Mr. R. after putting many interrogatories as to his intended pursuits in life, dismissed him, first putting into his band a piece of paper, and charging him not to examine it till be got home—it was a Bank of England note for 10,000/. The Gentleman to whom he has left Four Hundred Thousand Pounds, is said to be a near relative. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Fleet Prison, on view of the body of Mr. Devenisb, aged 34, late a prisoner in the above establishment. Mr. Jennings stated that he was an inmate of the prison, and knew the deceased, who entered the prison 02 the 3d instant, in a very dangerous state of health. Witness administered advice and medicine to him. He solicited witness to write to Mr. Brown, the Governor of the prison, to gain him admission into the sick room, which he did, and obtained it for him. He got worse, and witness advised that Dr. Clutterbuck should be sent for, as the impression on witness's mind was, that the deceased could not sur vive long. Dr. Clutterbuck attended him, and administered pro per medicines, hut the deceased died on Tuesday, between one and three o'clock. Witness was with him all night. The witness, in answer to questions, said, that the deceased had not that proper attendance/that was necessary, and that he was necessitated to sleep in a room with other persons, whom he so annoyed through the medium of a violent cough, that he was obliged to wander about the prison in consequence of not having the means, for some time, to pay the prison fees. Mrs. Devenish, wife to the deceased, stated that her husband was apprehended and brought to the prison on the 3d February, while labouring under severe indisposition. She applied to Brown, the Governor, for the purpose of having a room for her husband. Mr. Brown told her that he could not give it until he paid his fees, when he would have a "cliunarnage" and a room in his turn. She begged and prayed of him to let the deceased have a room, where he could be accommodated, and offered to pay for it. Mr. Brown said, that there was only a large room with out beds, and she must put her husband on the boards. She at tended him during the whole of his illness, in the sick-room, until he died. She said that it was a place totally unfit for a person labouring under her husband's complaint. He was admit ted on the Monday, and on the Thursday a person applied for five shillings and sixpence, for the hire of a bed, which she had had from one of the turnkeys. Mr. Charles Snitch, surgeon, of Brydges-street, Covent-garden, stated, that on the Ist of February, he was called upon to attend the deceased, whom he found labouring under inflammation of the lungs. His assistant bled him, and took from him forty ounces of blood. It was a case of severe inflammation. Witness visited bins on the following day, at his own residence, and found him better. On the day after he called again, when be was not at home. He was informed that he was taken somewhere, but could not say where. He expressed his surprise that the deceased should have been removed while in so dangerous a state. He was request ed by Mrs. Devenish to visit the deceased in the prison, when he found him in a room filled with smoke, and fourteen or fifteen persons were in the room with him. Witness could not endure the smoke, and requested the. deceased to walk outside into the passage, which he did. He asked the deceased if he had no bet ter place to remain in ? He replied that he had not. Witness told bins that it was highly dangerous for him to be there. Colonel Fairman begged of the Coroner to put a question to the witness of vital importance, not only to the interest and safety of the inmates of the prison, but also to the community at large—Wm the disease under which the unfortunate man laboured contagious? or did it towar4s the close assume that appearance? Mr. Snitch—Certainly not in the first instance, and I did not attend him in the last progress. Colonel Fairman—Had there been a fit place for the reception of the deceased, with proper attention and medical aid, is it not probable that his disease might have taken a favourable turn? Mr. Brown stated that he was obliged frequently to call on Mr. Box, the surgeon, and others, and pay the expense out of his own private purse, when some of the prisoners had been attacked with illness. The Solicitor stated that the deceased was put into the poor side of the prison, on his entrance, and he was ultimately brought to the Master's side. He wanted to know why he was removed ? Mr. Brown replied, that having received information from Mr. Jennings that the disease under which he laboured was conta gious, he instantly had him removed. Mr. Robert Henry Brown, Governor of the Fleet, told the turnkey to accommodate the deceased as well as he could on his entrance, and to place him in the Warden's room. Mr. Brown accom modation for her husband. He positiv e ly d en i e d say i ng that " he also stated that Mrs. Devenish called upo n hi m to solicit should lie on the boards." Juror—ls it customary for persons to enter the Warden's room when they enter ?—lt is. Do they pay any thing for it ?—Yes, one shilling, by order of the House of Commons. CORONER. —Mrs:Deveniell told you her husband was ill, why did you not put him into the Infirmary?—There was no In firmary at the Master's side of the prison. The Solicitor said that the accommodation at the Master's side was purchased by those who could afford it, for the benefit of the turnkey. Mr. Brown said he had used the Infirmary at the Master's side in cases of an extraordinary nature; for instance, when there was contagion. His hands were completely bound. He had fre quently paid the fees for distressed persons, but Mrs. Devenish not appearing distressed, he conceived that she was capable of paying. Solicitor.._.The sum for which he was arrested might have spoken his distress. Mr. Brown—Oh, no ! we have persons here for the same sum (II /.), worth 2,000/., and they won't pay it. The deceased was arrested by a perscn named Bower. John Juddrey, the turnkey, showed the deceased to a room, on his entrance ; there were six persons in the room where he was shown. None of them were ill. Juror—So the deceased was kept afterwards out of this room, because he could not pay his fees ?—He never made application. Juror--So you charge 2s. a night for a bed ?—Witness said he could not do it for less ; they had other comforts. Several other persons stated that the deceased was exceedingly unwell when he entered the prsion. The parties related to the deceased requested that the matter might be thoroughly investigated ; and the Coroner, with the con sent of the Jury, adjourned the inquest, for the evidence of Dr. Clutterbuck and other witnesses. The following cheap receipt for an excellent soup for the poor is recommended to the notice of the charitable : Take the liquor of meat boiled the day before, with the bones of leg and shin of beef, add to the liquor as much water as will make it 130 quarts, and also the meat of 10 stone of leg and shin ofbeef, and two ox h , :ads, all cut in pieces ; add two bunches of carrots, four bunches of turnips, two ditto of leeks, half-a-peck of onions, one Lunch of celery, lb, of pepper, and some salt. To be boiled for six hours. Either oatmeal or barley may be put in to thicken it, if thought necessary. This soup may be used at any gentle man's table. Estimated cost :-10 stone of leg and shin of beef, I Is. Sd. ; two ox heads, 4s. ; two bunches of carrots, 6d. ; four ditto turnips, Sd. ; two ditto leeks, 4d. ; half a peck of onions, ad. ; celery, 6d. ; Ilb. of pepper, ls. Bd,--Total 1/. MEETINGS 01? CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY, MONDAY, PAL /10. Atkinson, J., Stockton —Black Lion, Stockton -41 Banks, W., Pains-lane, Salop—Sun, Wellington ---,5 Blakey, T., Mould -green—Sun, Bradford—l 1 Blyth, M., Usk—Bush, Bristol-2 Caulfield, P., Pembroke —Dragon, Pembroke--I1 Charlton, J. and L., Manchester—Star, Manchester-9 Cowper, J., Moorside—White's, Manchester-10 Davies, S., Llandovery—White Lion, Bristol —iv Fairlie, Sir W., Liverpool—George, Liverpool -1 Fewster, J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool -12 Flint, H., Paddington in Poulton—Nag's Head Inn, %wring ton-1 Hague, J., Ashton—White Bear, Manchester--1 Illingworth, A., Stockport—Bulkely Arms, Stockport -11 Knight and Wilkinson. Horton —Court-house, Leeds-10 Rowntree, G., Stockton - Black Lion, Stockton -12 Springfbrd, J., Warminster—Bath Arms, Warminster-11 Steele, T., Disley—Star, Alanchester-2 Treble, J., Pembroke—Dragon, Pembroke-11 Wardall, G., Liverpool—George, Liverpool -11 Wood, S., Manchester—White's, Manchester-10 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO DE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, FEB. 27, AT NINN. Barber, J., Reigate, whitesmith Brandon, J., Camomile -street, merchant Branson, T., New Cut, hatter Brigden, 8., Theobald-road, chee.emonger Brown, W., Kingland, bricklayer Cooper, T., Chelsea, engineer Davis, R., Marylebone, tailor Eliot, G., Bond -street, merchant Hadfield, R., Tideswell, Derbyshire, farmer Hogg, J., Walworth, traveller Lock, A., New-road, milkman Lyon, R., Clapton, dyer Oliver, T., Ratcliffe, slopseller Rickard, J., Walworth, warehouseman Rose, J., Southwark, ironfounder Solomon, G., Birmingham, dealer Solomon, S., Drury-lane, tailor Taylor, M., Quebec -street, milliner Walsh S., Halifax, victualler Whitworth, H., Great HOrton, publican COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Gloucester, M. at Ten o'clock. Blackwell, E., Cirencester, cabinet-mak er Cambridge, W., Tibberton, horse dealer Fisher, W., Uley, tailor Flint, R., Winterbourne, schoolmaster Gardner, Stroud, cordwainer Long, E., Gloucester, painter Merritt, S., Nailsworth, tailor Richards, G., Wigmore, ensign Robbins, J., Kingwood, Wilts, clothier Smith, J. F., Cheltenham, stonemason Taylor, M., Kingsdown Parade, cooper Underwood, S., Eastington, carpenter Walker, W., Aylburton, fisherman Walter, J. P. Bristol, corn-merchant THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.--Feb. 21. The market of to-day having been well supplied with stock. and thinly attended by buyers, each kind of meat experienced a very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of Sibs. to *ink the offals Beef 3a. Sd. to 4a. 10d. I Veal 4a. U. to 3s, 10d. Mutton 3 2 4 8 Pork 4 0 b The foregoing quotations are precisely the same throughout u those of this day se'nnight. A goo d many Sh eep and Beasts loft the market unsold, LEWES MARKET.—Feb. 20. 4e. Od. to 4s. 10d. I Veal 4 2 4 10 Oi. Od. t• Os. W 40 4 4 Supply good, and trade moderately brisk. 8eet..,.. Mutton I. d. to 4. d. Veal ,. 4 4 6 Pork 3EO 0 Quarter old Pigs 9a. to lts. each. and trade dull. RUMFORD MARKET.—Feb. 21 s. d. too. d. Beef 3 8 4 8 Mutton 3 8 4 4 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 383. ; Supply limited, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WBSIL W heat. Barley. Per Quarter. Blandford Brigg Cambridge,.,,,,,,..., Chard......, a. to s. 48 36 53 • 86 54 56 76 50 55 50 55 48 56 56 60 51 58 55 58 50 36 52 60 50 56 54 39 •4S 56 32 60 Huntingdon - Louth Lyn Newark Norwich Nottingham -- Peterborough Plymouth --. Sherborne—,--. Uppingham isbech York a. to a. 37 40 34 38 34 38 44 36 38 33 43 . 36 39 41 45 SO 39 44 49 38 4S 36 as 32 SS SS 45 Oats, 36 to S. to s. 37 28 34 26 24 32 27 29 2 8 95 24 40 2 4 42 28 94 33 40 24 30 28 se so so 34 401 24 se .1 23 34 to B. 43 SO 4t is" 57 00 St 69 48 54 5S 09 4R 48 5G 59 Posse. S. to 4. 43 KS 49 .... 56 64 46 60 48 62 49 88 GO 01 4$ 50 MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—Feb. 17. The expected change in the Corn Laws preTents buyers from purchasing so freely as they otherwise would. During the past week little or no business has been done, and the attendance at market this day was moderate, but the transactions were eon, fined to the mere necessity of purchasers. Customary Bushel. Pease ("mp. Qr.) s. d. toe. Wheat (701 b.) s. d. t oe . d. Blue, (Boilers). 7 6 '7 English, New 9 4 9 7 White....(do.)--.. 0 9 8 10 Beans. Irish, 811 9 1 English 0 58 0 Irish and F0re1gn.........47 0 b 4 Per bag of 2801 b. Flour, Fine Notts--46 U td -- Yorkshire, fine 44 o 43 0 -- Irish, line —44 0 4d IP 0 41 0 Barrel Flour Sweet 0 0 Sour —29 0 ei Per load of 2401 b. Oatmeal, English &c. 9 44 e I risn b it • —...---- Old (feed) 0 36 u Tares (Imp- gr') 0 0 Il 0 Bran (broad) per 201 b. la. &I. a IL sd. Canada. Foreign 8 4 8 4 8 10 9 1 8 4 8 10 - Barley (601 b.) - -- For grinding----- 5 9 0 0 Oats (451 b.) English and Scotch 0 0 0 0 Welsh 0 0 0 0 Foreign 4 8 410 Irish, Kiln-dried 4 8 4 9 Undrled 4 8 4 Per load of 6 Imp'. bushel. Malt, New 0 50 0 Old 0 0 ---- Inferior 0 4-4 0 2,4452 Sheep 400 Cattle MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—Fat 21. At per lb. sinkinf the offal. v 61d. to 714. 5 7 402 Pigs “d- La lid. 6 71 MANCHESTER POTA; Potatoes, 90. Od., 9c dd., and 10s. Carrots, 15c, 40s. Od., and %U. Cd• 1!14 . 1. and IN. Od. per load of 10 pecks load of 19 score. ;MANCHESTER YAR No. d. d. Throotle Twist, 20 12 to 12j CO- . In 14 19 20 Mule sopTwicti for warp 4050 ” 0 E 11 1 7. 2 1 1 60- 21 221 24 27 60-- 29 32 'OE MARKET.—Feis. 17. A t per load of 12 score and Its. r load of 12 score; Turnip; 1(. Onions, £4d., us.. MA.ILICET.—Feb. 20. - Mule Cop Welt, 30 %. 40 1 14 50 -- 143 17 CO I 8 70 29 SO 24 $7 100 30 23 120 34 $7 Weft from wa.s 0,10 --. 10 14 ---.. 9 1% 18 10 11 24 11 1$ BIRTIIS. On the 176 instant, the lady of J. H. Alerivale, E sq ., burn-place, of a son. On the 18th inst., at Cambridge, the lady of Dr. ihwiland, of a son. MARRIED. On the 22d instant, at St. Marylehone Church, Edmund White, Esq. of the War-office, to Sarah, youngest daughter of John Robert Parker, Esq. of Upper Harley-street, and Ker naincham-hall, Cheshire. On the 20th inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, Adam Maxwell, Esq. of Mayen-house, Banffshire, to Miss Vandenbergh, of Owen's row. DIED. On the 18th instant, at his house, Antigua -street, Leith Walk. Edinburgh, John Fraser, Esq. at the advanced age of 86, father of Mr. Alexander Fraser, of Thavies Inn, London. On the 19th inst. at Brighton, Charlotte, the wife of Thomas Lockwood, Esq. On the 21st inst. Mary, the wife of Richard Debaufre, Esq. of Coleman-street. On the 21st inst. at his residence, Launton, Oxfordshire, John Ashby, Esq. in his 91st year, many years a much respected in habitant of Newgate-street, London. On the 10th inst., at Dalby-terrace, Robert Ewing, Esq., l ate of Clapton-terrace. On the 11th inst., at Coltishall, near Norwich, in his 80th year, Mr. Thomas Holloway. On the 17th inst., in Lower Berkeley-street, Mrs. Hibbert, relict of Thomas Hibbert, Esq., late of Chalfont, Buck Printed and Published by M. YOUNG, at the Surt-OPrica, Nu. J 11, STRAND.