The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THU PUBLIC JOURNALS. Senor Garcia, the Plenipoten4iary of Buenos- Ayres who formed the late disgraceful treaty of peace with Brazil,being put upon his trial before the bar of public opinion, has not been slow in. ente,..ing upon his defence. The charges against an are two-Ist, that be transgressed his in structions ; and 2dly, that in_ doing so, he signed a convention derogatory from the honour, and injurious to the rights of his country. It is plain that to constitute his deliriqueacy, these two must be joined ; for if he had succeeded in gaining better terms by transgressing his instruc tions, he would have merited applause ; and if he had concluded an ignominious treaty by ad hering to them, he would have escaped censure. Senor Garcia quotes instances in which other diplomatists transgressed their instructions as well as hiinSelf, liut he..forgets to show that in doing so they compromised the honour or the interests of their country. .' Against the second charge, he defends himself by'asserting, that in the circum stances.. of the Republic, peace was necessary, and that peace could not be obtained on more favourable terms. Now the Government which directed his mission was to be presumed the best judge of this nece!, - , - ,,ity,'and their agent was not at liberty to find out a cause for alarm of which his Gc;sernment did not seem to be aware. for instance, that instead of yielding up th e. point in dispute contrary to his instructions, the Emperor of Brazil had refused to make peace without subjecting the Buenos-Ayreans to an annual tribute ; could Garcia have pleaded Ins own views of a state•necessity as a justifica tion of his signature_ to so degrading a condi tion ? The unfortunate Minister, however,. has a right to he heard;, and we .recommend his de fence to the attention of those who felt surprise at his unexplained conduct. The Buenos Ayres' papers which contain the documents alluded to, reach to the 24th of July. It appears from their contents, that the Government had adopted energetic measures for the prosecution of war.— Most of the provinces which formerly were ad 'verse to the war, arc stated to have resolved to support. it. The treaty concluded by Garcia had every where been condemned, and it . is asserted that there never was an occasion in which such unanimity of opinion prevailed in the provinces. The public officers are sacrificing their emolu- Meets to assist in carrying on the contest. The Provisional President of the Republic has autho rised the Minister of Finance to make a deduc tion of 8,000 dollars from his salary. A Judge of First Instance offers to quadruple his propor tion of the direct. taxes during the continuance of hostilities. Private individuals are also sub- scribing. As at the date of these papers the utmost limit of the period stipulated for the ex change of the ratifications of Garcia's treaty had expired, it. may be presumed that the Court of Brazil was also very actively engaged in warlike preparations, and that the next arrival will bring some interesting intelligence 'respecting the ope rations of tho contending forces. The paper of the 11th contains an account of Senor Lopez taking the oath as provisional President of the Republic ; and in the same paper there is a let ter from the late President Rivadavia, offering to pay during the war triple the taxes to which he is liable. No military or naval operations had taken place.—Times. Our appeals to English charity, on behalf of the destitute and unhppy Spaniards, have, we rejoice to say, not been altogether vain. Among other proofs of the humane interest excited by the mere publication of their misery, it would be gross injustice to one generous individual, and not less injudicious with regard to the cause • itself, to .suppress the receipt of a donation of 1001., being the sixth - of the same amount since the firstachlreas in favour-of the exiles, from Mr. James Tillard, a. gentleman residing at Street; near Canterbury, who, we are informed, appro priates annually a large proportion of an inde pendent fortune to similar purposes of benefi cence. This example, will, we are sure, be fol lowed, if not in the same noble and magnificent extent, at least in a congenial spirit. It is the more urgent that something should be done . 'without delay, because the above subscription, liberal as it was, cannot have provided the neces sary support to so large a 'number as 200 or 300 families for more than a single week at the longest ; and there seems reason to apprehend that Government is ready to endure the reproach of neglecting this chance fed portion of the help less' patriots, if it can thereby cast the burden of relieving them on any other shoulders.—lbid. In another • part of our paper will be found extracts from , the late Parliamentary Report on Emigration. Two weavers of cotton goods were exaniined. It would appear that they are de cidedly of opinion that . the present dis tress among the cotton weavers has been brought about by the immense quantity of goods being made by means of power looms, and which quantity has so depressed the price, that at length the weaver can get little or nothing for his labour in weaving. The matter, therefore, comes at - present to this—that a large proportion of cotton weavers must leave the country or go ta the poorhouse, or to other employments. v But these two weavers say, that they and those placed under similar circumstances can get no other employment. The machinery of power looms, therefore, has for the present brought this description of persons to the predicament we have stated. As we have before said, the pa nacea recommended by the Legislators who drew up the , Report is, to rent f oreig n l an d s to suc h poor people as these, at a low rent, and take a mortgage on the land for money to be lent, for t h e passage out, tools, zie. But in order that the Legislature may lend money under such cir cumstances, it must be borrowed either pa rochially or nationally, for we have it not ; we have it not n the Treasury. A loan must be, had recourse to by the parishes, or by the Par liament, and the increase of debt and taxation be the consequence. , We can do nothing, in this case even, but by means of the old method of borrowing and taxing—and this to get rid of our poor, who are brought to a state of desti tution by means of power-looms and the other improvements in machinery. We have heard some say, but we know not what truth there may be in what we have heard, that there are twenty 'million - a of acres in the United Kingdom in a state of nature. We think the experiment of re n di n the. poor .money to cultivate our own * wage the poor money to cultivate our own W 55 ads had better be made before we make the e xPetiment of lending them money to euki wvaeteshfoortligna th la i . uke nds tl Anla4 to the waste lands, y might be purchased by Ole nation at a cheap rate, and , therefore, that they could be rented " e t o the . poo r a t a ver y low rate. But do what W borrow move --to will in the matter, we must o such kpass have our Legi slators hro t u nt u s; and if we borrow, we know we must increase the taxation, or we cannot rtaY the interest. - These borrowing schemes *ver do afiy good in the long run. We call the.bor rowing system the high- road: of .destruction for. Any nation that gets into it.---.'Morning Herald. The Court of Common Pleas'*gas yesterday; occupied once more with the verses on " Levi. the Bum." The wounded feelings of Mr. Levi, who has fOund in,Chief Justice Best a sympa thetic bosom into which he might ; pour his tale of distress, have not .yet found an equally sus ceptible Jury ; for after a luminous charge from the Lord Chief Justice, in which limits of the liberty of the Press were elaborately traced, and • the attack on Mr. Levi . clearly shown to have exceeded those limits, the Jury found for the defendants. If, as was stated by his Lordship, " there is a sting at the end of the verses,' we fear the pain caused by the sting will not .be at all mitigated by the perusal of the long bill which his attorney will take care to put into his hands. 'We are not fond of betting ; but we would take a bet, that, painful as the reading of the verses with the sting at the end of them must have been to Mr. Levi's feelings, the perusal of the long list of six shillings and eightpences will pain them still more. But time is the best physician in cases of this kind, and we would recommend to all bum-bailiffs who may suffer from stings in the tail of verses to beware of the sympathy of kind-hearted Chief Justices, and to trust rather to the healing virtues• of Time. The Lord Chief Justice said, he knew his assertion would not be believed when he said he was a great friend . of the Liberty of the Press. His Lordship is quite out when he attributes to the Press this distrust in his friendship. The Press, indeed, never had a declared enemy, from the time of Judge Jeffreys, downwards. But ever since :the days of Reynard the Fox, the heaviest blows have been struck by friendly hands. The Press has the most perfect confidence in the friendship of his Lordship, but deems it advisable to keep in mind the old adage, Preserve me from my friends." " The Liberty of the Press," said his Lordship, " is the liberty of affording information on all subjects, and of en larging and improving knowledge of every description ; it is the liberty, in matters of Government, of speaking fear lessly the truth on points in which the writer may deem the Ministers of Government in error ; and, as far as re gards civil actions, it is the liberty of speaking truth in such a manner that the statement made may be put on the record, so as to enable bins against whom it is directed fairly to meet and grapple with it. This is all the liberty which the Press has or ought to have ; to go beyond these limits is. but to abase that liberty ; and it is abused when it is employed for the purpose of holding a man up to ridi cule. The object of ridicule.is seldom to reform, but gene rally to wound the individual against whom it is directed. Its use is pleasant to those who, not being affected by it, can smile at it; but the person laughed at is in an uncom fortable situation—and feelings of uneasiness, and of anger and irritation, are the only sentiments which are excited in him. Its use, therefore, is limited, while the injury it may do is great." We wonder, as his Lordship was in the mo ralising vein, he did not proceed a step further, and refer to the denunciation againstridiculeand scoffing, delivered regularly in the Tabernacle.— Why ridicule, with all deference to his Lordship, is as old as . human nature, and will live as long as folly. Men are not always in the humour of abusing Ministers ; and we know no man living but Lord Londonderry, who can hold it out in the King Cambyses' vein for twelve days run ning. Our bile - cannot be always boiling over, and the .stomach of the stoutest fact-collector must at length be surfeited. There is a time for every thing, says the wise man—a time to laUgh and a time to weep. God did not give man the disposition to laugh in vain ; and things are so well ordered, that fools for the most part are in sensible to ridicule, which only endears their ab- Surdities the more to them. We think that it is pushing things a little too far to interdict all mirth, out of a tender regard to the susceptibility of such men as Mr. Levi, the Bum.—Morning Chronide. The advantages to be derived from. an ex tended system of Emigration, in the present condition of the British Empire, are so evident, that it seems unnecessary to devote much fur ther space- to explain or enforce them ; we there fore prOceed to analyse and 'consider the Report of the Parliamentary Committee, so far as it re lates to the Mode in which the difficulties which beset such a national undertaking may be the most. easily surmounted, and the cost which must at first attend it, be rendered the least oppressive to the minds and the purses of the community. The , Committee have estimated the expence of locating a. family ,of five persons after their disembarkation at a colonial port at . 601., but upon considering the schedule of tie cessary.expences ,comprehended in the ,Report,. we cannot yield implicit confidence to this esti mate, although it is probable that the total may not be materially wrong. The Committee, to select - one or two instances, alloW 101. for the expence of conveying such a family from the coast to the land allotted to it, which appears to he rather more than enonglr; and, on the other hand, they confine the list of articles conducive to the personal and domestic comfort of the five persons of whom each family is to consist, to four blankets, one kettle, and one frying pan. The class of persons likely to emigrate will pro bably not expect their dwellings to be furnished with beds, chairs, and tables, or register stoves ; yet zurely a bench to sit upon, a knife or two to divide their pork, and a milk pail, since there is to be a cow,.would not have seemed extravagant or injudicious accommodations. Agreeing in the main with the Committee, as we do, we cannot but lainent that the4general confidence in its calculations and conclusions should be im paired or endangered by any apparent want of accuracy and caution, even in the smallest matters. Taking, however, 601. as the neces sary expence of locating :each fiunily, the Committee recommend that. 4,000 families should be located at , the expence of Govern ment in the first year, 6,000 in the second, and 9,000. in the. third ; numbers progressively increasing in obedience to the very intelligible principle that an increased production of food' ought to precede the sudden introduction of a new population. The Committee have taken these three years, and this extent of emigration as the basis of their calculation, although it is obvious, as they observe, that the same system may be pursued to any extent which the excess of population in Great Brit a i n , a nd th e qua ntity of-fertile and unappropriated laud in the Colonies may render .expedient. The location of the 19,000 emigrant,,families of the three years will occasion to the country arrexpense of 1,140,0001., which sum the Committee recommend shoUld be raised by joan,:progressively, as it will be re quired, the interest with one per cent. of Sink ing Fund, amounting together to 57,0007., to be charged upon the Consolidated Fund.— But this is not to be a permanent charge upon the finances .of the country. The Co lonists applying ~ f or this . *assistance are to engage to repay to the Consolidated Fuinl the Able of its outlay, by an annuity to com-., mence the third - year after , their settlement, and to he for that year at rate of 10s. for each thenceforward gradually to increase by an addition of 10s. yearly, until it, reaches 51.; and to continue at that rate so long as any part of - the Original advance, - with its accrued interest, Mall remain unpaid ; which will be from the commencement of the repayments, a period •of thirty years. That the Emigrants will be elevated .within, the .prescribed period .into a con dition in which these payments will be ,easy, and that the Colonial Legislatures will be dispOSed - to grant every. legal facility for enforcinithem, none of the witnesses entertained any .doubt whatever. The Committee further recommend, that: an Emigration Board should be established to which families desirous of Emigrating may apply for a ticket, entitling them on-their arrival in the Colony to the regulated assistance, upon their compliance .with'the prescribed conditions ; this 'Board to em ploy agents in different parts of the country to inquire into the character and fitness of indivi f dual applicants, and especially to guard against the danger of paiishes or districts, or proprietors, availing themselves of the system for the mere purpose of casting the burden and annoyance of refractory, vicious, or helpless objects from them selves. upon the Colonies. It will be seen from the imperfect sketch we have now given of this part of the Report, that the difficulties of the subject have in a great degree given way before the investigations of the Committee, and that the advantages which have so long been held out to - the country as likely to result from an ex tended system of Emigration may be realized without any violent effort at the commencement, or -any permanent burden whatever upon the finances of the State: kw ill be perceived that the Committee have left the expences of the conveyance of Emigrants from their present homes to the Colo nies, to be provided for exclusivelyeither from their own individual resources; or by means of paro chial or eleemosynary aid. We feel persuaded that this suggestion of the Committee would be mischievous in its effects, and that whenever.the subject comes to be considered in Parliament it will be rejected. But we must defer the state ment of our reasons for this opinion to a future occasion.' Of such a production as this Report, intended as it is solely to convey important in formation upon a difficult and interesting subject of national policy, the merely literary demerit' would certainly have escaped our criticism, had not some of our contemporaries thought proper to bestow the warmest encomiums upon its ar rangement and composition. This misapplied praise compels us, however, to acknowledge that the Report must be read as it has been written, exclusively on account of the information it con 7 tains. If it is to be viewed at all as a literary effort, it must be rated rather below than above the general standard of productions emanating from a similar source.—Morning Post. The evidence of Mr. Malthus before the Emi gration COmmittee, a part of which we give in to-day's Nov Times, will not fail to be read by all who are sincerely desirous to come to a ,cor rect judgment on a most important subject, with the attention due to the learning and genius of the Reverend Witness. Mr. Malthus did not conic to the discussion of the question unpre pared ; for, in his celebrated Essay, and, more lately, in his Treatise on Political Economy, lie had had occasion to refer to it. He had, be sides, visited Ireland in 1817, and was thus en abled to add his own valuable observation to those of authors who had treated. of the condi tion of the peasantry in that eountry. The practise of subdividing the land to a great de gree has not, of course, escaped Mr. - Malthus's :attention, and to that, and the general use of thepotatoe as food, he attributes, as all who have coolly viewed their effects have donei.the rapidity with which the population of Ireland has, within the last fifty years, increased. His opinion of the deep injury which the minute division of farms has inflicted on that country, and must ultimately, if the practice be persisted in, inflict on this coun try. also, is decided, as well as his approbation of an attempt to return to a healthier system, as the leases 'of these small farms successively fall in. And he observes very justly, that if ever Government should make a sacrifice, in order to get rid of a portion of the redundant population, it is at the moment of such a Change that it is peculiarly called on to make it.—The confirm mice of the present system, all the principles laid down in the Essay on Population, and all the facts by which they are illustrated, equally con cur in sheaving to be impossible. It must be checked by the operation of natural causes—by the demand for food pressing on the means. of supplying it —a check which; it is very justly observed, will be necessarily accompanied by a prodigious quantity of misery, 'and its ne cessary consequence, a dreadfully increased mor tality. The transfer of paupers from Ire land to England and Scotland, appears to Mr. Malthus to be pregnant with the ut most danger to those countries. On this point we cordially concur with the Learned and Reverend Gentleman, but we think it of some moment to point out a slight distinction, which does not seem to have been attended to. It is proposed to relieve Ireland by Emigration ; now it does not seem to have occurred to the Com mittee, nor to the witnesses, that this relief, so Tar as. Ireland only is concerned,. would be as effectually obtained by emigration to England as elsewhere. We do not, of course, make this ob servation with a view to recommend such an emigration, but merely`to correct a slight mis conception which has crept into the Report...— The opinions of the Rev. Witness on the subject of the poor laws , ---a subject on which .he has been. so traduced by those who could not; and those who would not, understand his views:---are of the - highest importance. ,But in this, and on many other points, we must content ourselves with referring our readers to the evidence itself ; for were we to dwell on each particular that is deserving of attention, our notice would extend to as great a length as the: object of it.--New Times. Long before the - stomach-pump was invented, the stomach-brush was in fashion. It appears to have closely resembled an instrument used by wine-coopers, called a bottle-rinser. When let down into the stomach, it was agitated by a circular wire, and was thought, in conjunction with copious draughts of warm water, to cleanpe the stomach thoroughly.-- Wadd's Memoirs.; CANNIBAL EPICUR s m.—A savage. belong ing to St. Vincent's showed me the foot of an " Alouague," which he had in his basket. He only ate Alouages; who - are savages from the Main, near the Oronoco. They say that Christians give ihern the belly-ache. They had, neveTthelen, within the year, eaten the heart of an Englishman.—Southey's Chronological His tory of the West Indies. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, OCT. 2 LEVY V.. MILNE AND ANOTHER. , • - .This case has already been several times before the public. was an action of l i bel brought by a Jew, named Levy, who follows the occupation of a Sheriff's officer, against the publisher of a small pe riodical' called the Spirit of the Times, fOr the publi cation of a number of. verses, and' a print, which the plaintiff alleged were calculated to excite a prejudice against hihi "and by . that Means injure hiM in his profession. At the. former :trial the Jury 'found a verdict for the defendants, on the, ground,that they did -not 'consider the publication libellous. In the Course 'of •EaSter Term last, however, the plaintiff obtained a new trial, and the case •now came ,on for the second hearing. ' Serjeant ADAm,Stated the case for the Plain= tiff, and rend the alleged libel, which he ,contendeA was in every sense, of the word libellous, and calcu lated, beyond all doubt, to hold the. plaintiff up to general.ridicule. . . Mark Nathan was clerk to,Charles Lewis, the, plaintiff'S attorney, and had called on Milne; the first defendant, in. order, ifpossible, to get him to admit that he. was the.publisher of the, libel. After,some conversation, wittiest succeeded in getting this ad mission; -He .then• went to the residence of the other defendant, Duckworth, where he met with the same success. " _ . Charles Leivis, on being. called, stated, thai he was . the son 7 in-law of the plaintiff, positively , denying :hat he was his son. Mr. Serjeant \%TILDE addressed the Jury for the defendants. He contended that the publication will not Libellous. It" was a mere good-humoured effit-t sion, and, although certainly calculated to raise mirth, it was'not such as could, for a moment,,injure the plaintiff. Previous to summing up, the LORD CHIEF Jus- TICE recalled Mark.N,atlnut, and showing him some writing endorsed on the back of the book in which the alleged libel was contained, asked bim if it were his hand-writing, and on being answered in the affir mative, asked if that memorandum were made di rectly after'he bad called on Milne, for the purpose of getting the admiision from him. To this the witness also answered in theeffirmative. - His Lord ship then desired him to read it, and say how • he could reconcile it with the evidence he had just given. The memorandum stated that be called on Milne only, who admitted that both himself and Duckworth were the publishers. The witness did not appear able to account for this variance. VW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up. He was bound to tell the jury, he said, that whatever held a man up to ridicule was a libel upon him • by this law, therefore, he told them, that he considered the publication in question was a libel. Re said, although lie knew he should not be believed—that there was nota better friend to the liberty of the press than himself. When he said that, however, he meant the true, the genuine liberty of the press, that exercise of its powers which tended to the improving and , enlarging of knowledge in every branch, speaking fearlessly the truth, and by that means showing the ministers of justice where they. had erred, but never going beyond the strict bounds of truth : and in civil cases stated in such a manner that a defendant may justify by plac ing it on the record. This was the true liberty of the press, and if exerted in such a manner, was cal culated to do all the good the country expected from it. It would prevent its being abused, and if abused,, would protect it. The learned. Counsel for the de fendants had stated that the libel was only calculated to excite amusement. True, many might be amused, but still one would be rendered unhappy. His Lordship bad observed that the reading of the verses had excited a smile n the countenances of all in the box. Although amusing to them, they must be aware that the laugh had the effect of making the plaintiff unhappy. They must consider how they would like to be treated in the same manner. In no way could the press become so tyrannical and so detested as in holding up private character to public ridicule and scorn. The tenour of the_ whole of the publication in question was, undoubtedly, to insinuate that the plaintiff had on a former occasion acted improperly. The Learned Counsel for the defendant had said that the whole was merely playful; but such play fulness certainly appeared to his Lordship deeply imbrued with malignity. The circulation of true reports of the transactions in the public .courts of justice was undoubtedly very valuable to the public; but, a person was not to take parts of a case—he was not to state merely the judgment or the verdict, but was to state the whole of the facts as they appeared,* by that means allowing the public to judge of the nature of the case. His Lordship had no hesitation in saying, 'that in point of law the present publica tion was a libel. The next ' point to prove was, whether this plate related to the plaintiff, That had been distinctly proved. - If, therefore, they believed that Milne was the publisher, then they would re turn a verdict for the plaintiff, with such damages as they should think.the nature of the case required. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for the defendants, on the 'ground that the publica tion was not proved.. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday one of the inhabitants of St. Ann, Blackfriars, was summoned .before the sitting Alderman, to show cause why he refused to pay his assess ment towards the Rector's Tithes of that parish. Upon the several rate books being shown to the Alder man, it appeared that each half-yearly book was calculated to produce upwards of 1001. It seems that the above parish, in conjunction with the adjoining one of St. Andrew's by the Wardrobe, is under the operation of the Fire Art, which fixes a certain income to the clergy in lieu of tithes :—that the rector is entitled to the annual sum of 235/. 6s. Bd. exclusive of surplice fees and glebe ; that the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars; contributes two-thirds, or 155/. 11s. 2d., whilst the other third is paid by the adjoining parish : that for many years previous to' 1825, a rate was levied on the parishioners, which produced an overplus of between 501. and 601. ' a year, and that although, on the complaint of the parishioners, the rate had been since reduced one halfpenny in the *mid, yet'at the present time an assessment wa s demanded and collected, that produced nearly 47/. a yea r over and above the sum repaired by law to pay the rector that so peremPtory was. the,order given by the Act of Par_ liament which enforced the collection of the city tithe-rate that not one farthing could be lost, as empty houses, vacant , ground, or any Other species of property was assessable under it ; and that where it was not paid by the occupier, it was recoverable of the owner, in any part of the kingdom,. without any limitation whatever as to time; that the mere expenses of collecting the rate was the, only addition that could legally be made to it, and which, it was con tended, could not justify the assessors in Making such a surcharge as they were in the practice of doing. In reply to the above statement, the Alderman admitted that the assessors were not justified in raipingn higher sum than was required to pay the rector his legal demand ; that with respect to what had been done by the. parish, officers in former years, he had nothing to do with, as be could only take cog,nizance of the ease before bins ; but that as the Act of Parliament authorized the payment of the ex .pences attending the collection of the rate, it was the pro vince of the assessors, who were of coorse parishioners, to make such compensation to the collectors as they thought proper, and that he did not see how an individual could set up an opinion in opposition to theirs, as to bow much was the proper sum to be allowed for the necessary expanses at . touting the said collection ; that he should therefore recom mend the rate to be paid, as, were he called upon. to grant a warrant, he did not see how he could refuse to do so. In answer to a question by the inhabitants, the ehureh warderi who was present, admitted ihat the rector did re ceive front the parish a larger:sum than what by law he was entitled to, but that it was produced by a distinct rate7book of two-pence in the pound per annum, the subscription to which was entirely optional. Michael adlaghan, Mary, his daughter, and Elizabeth Dunx, were brought up f or fi na l examinatitni yesterday before Mr. Alderman ANSIACT, charged with knowingly uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. Powell, junior, who appeared from the Mint,. in timated at the opening, that he heard the prisoners had been apprehended at the iinistance Of George Vaughan, the police-officer, who in 1816 was convicted of .conspiring to induce a man to commit a burglary in order to get the reward. He had not heard the facts, but if it was se pol lilted that the testimony of Vaughan was necessary to com plete it, he would.declare in the outset that the Mint would have nothing whatever to , do with the Prosecution." After putting a number of questions, the Ahleiman was satisfied the case would be incomplete without Vaugbap's evidence,. and he therefore dlsmissed the priioners,.aisuring them that he was nevertheless convinced of their guilt, and that he knew each of them had been in custody before as titterers: Mr. Powell then said, that since he had been in Court, he had been asked whether Vaughan Was not eMployed by the Mint ?, He begged ,to.,state publicly, that, he never laid been so employed, nor would any information or as sistance he could .atford be. received. James alias Johnson Gilligan was,charged with having. "79 base shillings in his'pOSiession.—Committed for trial. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yeiferday William Francis, who was brought before the LORD MAYOR a few days ago, charged with having robbed Mr. Stapp, of Snow-hill, o f a gold watch, chain, and seals, was again examined. The circumstances of the case, as stated on the former occasion, excited the greatest interest, and the jtistiee-room and the hall were crowded during the investigation. Mr. `Stapp . s evidence was, that at about a quarter before nine'o'clock on the evening of Saturday week, as he was passing alone.-,- King-street, Snow-hill, at the corner of George-alley; the prisoner pinioned him by the arms, while another man snatched his watch. A Mr. Yarrow, who heard Mr. Stapp cry " Stop thief," ran to George-yard, and he'said that there he saw the prisoner, The prisoner was appre hended next day in Sinithfield, and upon being told the nature of the charge, appeared to be.very indignant, :and declared that he could bring evidence to prove that he was not near the place 'where the robbery was said to have been committed. A solicitor fir the .prisoner requested that the Lord Mayor would hear evidence in proof of an alibi. The Loan MAYOR—Had you not better keep the 'evi dence for another place? The Solicitor had eight persons to prove that the pri soner seas at a great distance from the place where the rob bery had been committed, at the hour above mentinhed.• His object in bringing those witnesses forward was to en title his client to give bail, according to the provisions of the 6th of George IV. cap. 64, which enabled two magistrates to allow bail to be taken under certain circum stances.--The RECORDER. acquiesced. . • ", Charles Warner, a pot-boy; n Lissongrove; remembred Saturday week last. He was attending his master's house, and saw the prisoner and three or four other men enter' the tap-room at between nine and ten o'clock in the merit-, jog . , The prisoner continued drinking all day, and di not go away until about a quarter after nine at night. Wit ness recollected well the circumstance, because he borrowed a frying-pan upon which the prisoner had some mutton chops cooked. Five other witnesses gave testimony to the same effect. The prisoner, who was very deaf, at first made a mis take about the name of the public-house, but soon after wards corrected it. All the witnesses but one testified as to the cooking of the chops. Alderman LUCAS arrived at this moment, and after some consultation between him and the Lord Mayor, the wit nesses for the prisoner were bound over to give evidence at the trial, as well as the witnesses for the prosecution. The Loan MAYOR then read over the whole of the evi dence in the case, and commented upon it as he proceeded.. lie considered that the evidence of Mr. Stapp and the other witnesses for the prosecution, as to the identity of the pri *oiler, was not sufficiently met by the testimony in favour, of the alibi to warrant him in taking bail for the appear ance of the prisoner. The witnesses for the prosecution had positively sworn to the person of Francis, but the wit nesses for the prisoner had stated matter as to time of a contradictory nature. The Loan Mqvcnt elect agreed with him. in the pro priety of not admitting bail. The prisoner was then committed for trial. A man named Keening, was. then put to the . bar, on suspicion of having been concerned in the robbery. Mr. Stapp, however,could not identify him, and he wa.s . discharged. . _ MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Sir G. FARRANT and F. A. Rot, Esq. the sitting Magistrates at this Office yes terday, were occupied the greater portion of the day in hearing informations preferred by the officers of this esta blishment against several licensed victuallers, charged with various offences against the terms of their recognizances, such as suffering gaming to be carried on at their houses, late hours, &c. The fist case was that of Mr. Wallace, landlord of the Chesterfield Arms, in Shepherd's-market, May-fair, the information against whom was supported by the following evidence : Clemente, the officer, in consequence of information he had received, went, accompanied by Schofield and Goddard, • two other officers, to the house of Mr. Wallace, where he understood a system of gambling was carried on every night in a room up stairs ; but on the first , occasion,he found no• opportunity of entering the house, although he watched until three o'clock in the morning to see some person go in or out. On the second night, however, about half-past 12 o'clock, he saw a man come out, and he took that occasion to enter, followed by the other officers, and found in the parlour below stairs ten men drinking and playing ,at dominoes. He then ran up stairs and attempted to enter the front room on the second floor, which was the apart: meat in which he had received the information that gambling, to a great extent was carried on. For some time he was resisted in entering the room by a foreigner, who shut the door in Iris face ; but at last he got it open, and found about a dozen well-dressed men seated there with a billiard table, card table, cards, and all the machinery for gambling in the room, although there was no play actually going on at that moment. The foreigner who opposed the entrance of the officers abused them in the most violent terms. In justice to Mr. Wallace, they must say that they met with ne resist ance from him. The foreigner alluded to, a fashionably dressed . young fellow, here stepped forward, and said, that the room spoken of was his private room, and, he always understood that in England every man's house was his castle, and not liable to intrusions of this kind.: The Magistrate then asked the Frenchman who and what, he *as ? . • The latter replied that his' same was Burdieu, and hie Profession that of a cook. Mr. Rox—ln whose service are you as cook ?—Bur dien—ln the service of Captain Garth. Mr. ROE-Are you in his service now ?—Burdieu— yes, I am. Mr. ROE-And you ledge at this public-house?—Bur= 'diets—Yes, I do. Mr. 4.-11 the billiard-table yours ?—Burdieu—Yes, and all the other furniture in the room. Mr. Box---Atid who are those that frequent this room of yours,. to gamble ?—Burdieu--They are all my own private friends-ill foreigners almost—and we d 'meet to amusetmi ll of . and and the landlord is under the rontroul of the m agistrates, ourselves,gaß Rot.—You nlgr i w tni l hacvhi house; right hihtsaatvoel licensed ec a r n t y h tointi house, this use ?. y is accountable for any milicoridnct carried on in any part of it. Sir GEORGE FAREANT asked Burdieu if lie had any ob jection to give some, of the names of those who met at his rOoris.:--Burdieu.-...." Not the least, I will give you twenty nausea." He then wrote down 'on a piece of paper 14 or 15 names, with their addresses, all of whom were cooks to various noblemen and gentlemen. . Mr. ,Wallace, who said that he would leave' nothing un done to put a step to the practices go i ng on i n hi s h ouse ,• for which he was very sorry,. Was convicted in a penalty of 41. and costs, which he immediately paid. Mr. ROE then addreised Mr.' `Wallace, and said that the receivedna:l t:number ar rerrd lotnyfhaeropynemcsonvosi persons ahua:di is long,eahnt adjourn taot thisis magistrates'ro informationvuos e m t9f a h t 4 l I tt ' p h o n a , nt n every o o i ' r s ffi c Id,coa.eykil' had , aftere re l and afterwards at night, the most ruinous system ol gambling: that in one case a young man'lost no less a stun than 70/., then another 401. and. his gold watch . ..; and a third reduced to, absolute beggary.. The magistrates theh dismissed this case, cautioning Mr. _Wallace, tq get rid of those people; for the penalty `of a next conviction would be 101., of a third 'lOO/., and any after a forfeiture of licence. Several other landlords of public-housei were convicted also in . niltigated penalties, for late house chiefly. LORD ENNISNIORi.-.--,WhO 16 to succeed the deceased Nobleman ?—An idle question for the degraded inhabitants of this great county. Theyare eighOwndred thousand, to be. SUM—but three men may put them in their pockets, and send ntoken to represent them in Parliament. We have seen as strange things done—and we expect to see them again, putil education shall have done its work, and taught man his rights and dignity. Four or five probable candidates • a re named, and they - are all, and everyone of them, "fit and proper persons" to represent this county in Parliament. They are Lords Dungarvan, Bernard, and Berehaven, lgr, Smith Barry, and the Honourable William - Smith. One of th-3 stawellsis also named ; but we thipk that any patkiotic member of that family would have itist as much chance of succeeding as ourselves. The Stawells would mean too well for the people to be returned by the People. The instated Freeholder must -hear a little longer to uphold the tyranny which grinds him to the dust.-- 1 Cork Chronicle, LONDON MARKETS. (From the:London New Price Current of Tuesday)• SUGA R.j—LThe purchases' 1f lquscovades last week ale raged 800 hhds each day ; , in; several' instances the loge biroWn descriptions were sold a shade lower, aud the fine 69s and 708, which lately rated so • kiw in proportion, alived a small advance. . 7 , • • , - We' Stated on Tuesday lest, that the comparative sta.) to-day - would on& lie 3 to 4,000 hhds and tierces led than last year; it will be seen by the return, that the di( ference •-is 'only 2871 hhds and tierces, in consequence e l the increase in stock, and the unfavourable' report of the Hambiirgh Maiket, the Refiners and Grocer evinced little inclination: to purchase•this morning, except inconsiderabl e parcels for immediate use; at the close of.the market the estimated.sales to-day were 600 hhds. prices unvaried. The Refined market last week' was steady, theneareg t quotation of low Lumps 8.55, few fine goods were b ou ght , ' Molasses heavy at 275. - „ „ This . afternoon ,the Refined market was without ant alteration: - The.: ealewof 'Foreign Sugars last Week Web parcels of finp,white Havapnah.s3s, : and good at 51s. .: ,I ', In Bengal Stigara no sales were reported.—By public sale 2365 bags Mauritius eohl at full prices; fine yellon f 70s 6d, dry brown 63s 661 a 655. _ By Priblic Sale 'this fOrenoon,l Brazil Sugar, 84 chests soft, white 43s a 441, brown SO S . Harannah, 220 chests damaged, white at 43s 8d 0 15 ' Ports Rico Sugar, 99 hhds, 87 barrels, nearly all wash' ed, 29§ a 31,5. COFFEE.—The quantity of Coffee offered at public sale last week was ineasiderable. The'Fdreign meets with 114 ' offers; St. Domingo was -withdrawn, no offers at : 41 6 ' The prices of every description of Giffee may be stated I', shade lower, except middling and good middling Jamaica' which continue in request at full prices. • . Thiere were three public sales this forenoon, consistig of 362 bags ord. to good ord. Brazil 162 bags Very. JO Poito Rico, 241 casks British Plantation, the latter chief Jamaica descriptions, which:went off at full priees; 641 , ord. 554 a 57s 6d, low mid. 669, mid. 69s an d 705,40", mid. 795. All the-Brazil was taken in at 37s 6d, 13 . t after the sale 38s was offered and refused. The PO - Rico'forini no criterion of the Market. Foreign Coffee nornimal; -Jamaica in good demand, and prices support RUM, BRANDY, AND RoLtm.rns.—The Rum MS wag exceedingly firm last week, and no, parcels now offer undes 24 sd, foi proof, and under proof Leeivards. 11 0 Sales lest week were chiefly Demerara, 1 and 2. 9 yer 2 ' sd, 5 and 6 over at 6d ; some fine Jamaica Rums were also. sold.!at veryfullsprices. , The quantity of Brand! offering in this market is very limited, and the price 014 -firm; the orders sent to France are however 'reported to b r extensive. In G e neva few -sales are lately reported. • Hew; FLAX, ANTI TALLOW.—The accounts by d' e Steam boftt. are' to tho 15th ult. Exchlie , a 10t1 15-1 Tallow 97 to 98 Rubles. 105,500 cask's shipped , ' 55,000 for Sale.....—The'prices of Tallow' in London eontialle subject to much fluctuation, the prices from 38tr6d t ; 37s 6d ; -th l eMarket has since tallied, and.is rather bri s at the - inserteticurrency.=—The deliveries last week for 0 3 ; gumption were nearly 2,600 casks.—ln Hemp or Fla there is little variation. The 'delivery in London Sept. 1827, was 809 tons liecor' and 13,4)9 casks Tallow. . • FOR DELIVERY. Tallow, delivery, last three months 0 37 9 pee CAO Shipment on or before Aug. 31 0 37 9 free on hoard 0 Si 0 per 'f° ll ' Hemp, Shipment on or before Aug. 31 37 15 0 •.T INnwo.—Theprices of Indigo are entirely nominal.r . . The sale of 6,783 chests commences to. , mOrroW at th e India, House. By public sale this forenoon, 10 . 4 Serons Spanish IP; digo, ordi nar y an d m iddli ng C ortes to fine Sobres; all ;01" a shade lower. • COCHINEAL AND LAC DYE.—By public sale this 1 1, r e • noon serons Cochineal, 40 chests Lac Dye, th 4 bl ief ta k en i n ; fine white silver C oc hi neal, 14s a 14; Id. - Corroti.—The quantity of Cotbm taken lately for expor t is rather extengive, the prices are witho u t var i at i on . ; The purchases - for the week ending last night inclu s i ve , ar e tOO inconsiderable for enumeration, -they consist of a few per pains, at,Sid ; ,F,gyptian, at Sd ; and Bourbons, at 7d. OILS..:—The Oil Market is little varied. The love° estimate Of.this yeario fishing iis 8,000 tuns, the highe r 12,000.—Seed and other Oils are heavy. at the inserte a currency. Hors.—There is now a"plentatul supply of new Hops at Market, but the philters evince no inclination, to well at the present currency. The purchases reported are Kent Pockets 75s a Sss; Sussex 70s a sos—The estimated dui, 135 . ,000/. - I t sALTrEraE.—Saltpetre continues in good donna . 24s 6d. laisti:PacivrsioNs.—There i s lit t l e d o i ng i n B e ef or •PPvk.;--Do,con: continues in good deinand.—Butters 81 lower on account of the large arrivals last week 21 : 54 tirks. Irish, 7,010 Voreign. TOBACCO.—The purchases lately are quite inconsid , able. 1:11c. new . Tobacco, is not yet sampled,. owing to the damp weather. At late hour to-day the only sale f t. ported Was •a,ipareel of Kentucky abont,Sid. ".; TEA.—The demand for Tekoes continues at an adq lo 'ilf'l - (1. to 2d, per lb. on sale's cost. Bohm are o r looked after at a small premium. Foam—Bunch Muscatells, in boxes Si 15a a .V. lsli i half-boxes 61 a 6/ ls; quarter 61 101 r; Blooms, boxes 3' halves 90e; Lexia Raisins 4584 hexes Jordan Ahrlo, 11111*;' Grapes 229 a 23s ; brl3 Carabourna Raisins si" Red Smyrna ols. LivEarooi,, OCT. I.—Our Cotton Market has Dr . ,. quiet to-day, and the sales are from SOO to 1,000 baF' without any alteration in prices.. COUNTRY' cojor MARKETS nuni4c, THE ,Wheat. I ~13miRy., I ~ ',04‘4. : • 1.L . 5e .... /0" g. tn,p 40 64 43 10 4 40 4 9 40 60 t 35 e - 48 60 , • Per Quarter. . s. tiu s. Boston .... 4O 51 Grantham 46 59 Grimsby 46 ' 48 Iforncagle 42 , 48 HulL . 46 154 Lincoln MaidFtone 50, 60 Spil,;by 46 50 Ir 4) 'O. td 0, E. to s. 28, 36 18 21 30• 35 28 3 28' 30 23 24 28 39 .`2O 22 30'isli34 24 • 28 32 37 30 36 21b1137 20 , -;00 32 34 20 24 28 . 33 26 . 34 . . • tOTTON , WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS . AND t3C.FORTS - . imro: LTED. Same pe . This . riod.lsst year. year. Liverpool London Glasgow Bags, &c. Bags, &c. 6571561. 435,413 56;893 54, 448 • 5,3 681, 20,425 *. • Total expoiti:4 In EX FORTM,,. r -. -- • CO Frog°. ly th o • ------• Yeg:>, . Bags, &c. Bags, _„. I SI . 49 6 16 0 1 V, 2.440 37,33 129 .... .57,155. , BIRTHS. On the 26th ult. at North Runeton, Norfolk, Lady liar riet Gurney, of a; son. On the 28th jilt_ at Kirkkatham, Yorkshire, the lady Captain Ingill)y, 84th Regiment, of a son. vt On the Ist inst. the holy of Joseph Dobinson, Esq. Tooting, of a Sit: ' On .the 28th ult., at Edinburgh, Lady Catherine Boile o of a son. . On the'2Bth ult. at Hampstead, the lady of Dr. Edwal Thomas Monro, of Bedford-place, of a daughter. On the 26th nit. at Croftin House, Titchfield, Ha lt ' the lady of,Thomas Naghtin i :Esq : , of a son . . , - 111A'ARIEb.: . . . . . . . . . - - On the.lst inst. at St., Pancras, by the Re‘i. Dr. Mpo f Thomas flaviland Burke, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, harri°, at law, to Harriet Elisabeth, third daughter o.f:Willis° Alinshull, Esq. of Kentish-town. ' J , On the Qd inst. at St. James's' Chtirch, Piccadilly.,,, FOtlicer, Esq. of,Sneetinglaall; Essex, ~to Eliza, Ber, A youngest and only'surriving daughter of the lace Will Godwin, Esq. of-Hendon, Middlesex- : • ~ .On the td. inst., at St. .larries,',.Chorch , by the Rev.;_,l,Y . Maddy, 1 M. WOOd, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn-fields, soli d a Ilarriot Elizatieth, eldest daughter' of Henry Berry, f''' of Golde-2d On th n e 2d qu inst. at Kennington Church, Surrey, Ro IN/ b e lP ° Christie, Esq. to Mat ild a H a rt, youngest da u g hter of ov At St. MicbacVs, near Worcester, John Jones, Esq . • tached to his Britannic Majesty's Embassy 'at Parit .4 , Holder, Esq. Long A shton, Somersetshim Mary Anne, only 'daughter C6ningstly Norbury, P" of Droitwich. DIED. On the 26th uft. John' Bingley, rsq• of Cannon-40 City,.aged 77. • On the 22d ult: at Hastings,, suddenly, Mary, relict Mr. Thomas Cartivright, late of 62, Lower Grosveo ° street, , y q ; On "th g e e 2d inst. William, elder son of of Cornhillo in the 21 st year of his age telcer' On the 20th ult,at Bagniers de Luthen, in the pyteil o , Win. Augustus Cunyngbarne, son of Sir Win. .gustug Ct!tiYugilartlei , of Nejyerning : Bart. 'Pamir,' and Puisiasurn by M. YOUNG, a t the SIIN-071 , 1cE, NQ. 112, Strand. EAST INi COU UNITED ENGLAND tradi give Notice, • That a SPEC] COMPANY, will HALL-STREET, neat, at eleven o'c submitting for C( General Court of tion of the Court the appointment o to the MILITAR with an allowance allowance of 261. Copy of the saic for the perusal of t " The Court of said General Cour pose of submitting General Court of of the Court of Di present Marquis to Thousand Pounds " The Report i is open for the im MARGATE PI - GENEB pANY of and HARBOUR gate, on FRIDAY in ,the forenoon, By Ord • sTE - rnEl Town-hall, Marg iiii N umr p m ti il l i PAPERs hu Husk with an : A n I t . hAo P e ° fp . sp i E croni c t : ii before the C omm 2. A LETTE price 6d. or for t 3. 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