The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF_THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Without undertaking to pronounce what may be the actual : state of the relations between the new Cabinet and the Sovereign, we may be per mitted to draw a ; few inferences from what is known' to the whole world. It is notorious, then, to all who have been even careless observers. of the events of the last five months, that the Whigs,—who, with. Lord. Lansdowne • at their _head, rallied round the King and the Minister . ; of his choice, at a moment when an unprincipled faction endeavoured to subvert the just privileges of the Sovereign,—neither at the time of their junction, nor ever since, have exhibited the slightest symptoms of selfish motives, or of per sonal ambition. They joined the Minister, whose principles, both of domestic and foreign policy, coincided for the most part with their own. So far were they from evincing any anxiety for place or patronage, that it was not till after the repeated and most urgent requests of Mr. Canning, that they consented, by the ac ceptance and responsibility of office, to identify themselves with that system which they had long and disinterestedly, while - out of office, support ed. When that calamitous event, the death of Mr. Canning, presented to the King a new op portunity of choOSing a Minister, the Whigs scrupulously ebstained frOm preferring any claims,—from offering any suggestion which could for an instant embarass the Royal will in the exercise of an undoubted prerogative. They cordially assented to their Sovereign's choice : they cheerfully obeyed their Sovereign, because the obedience required of them was constitutional, both in form and character, and because they had no personal objects which could for a mo ment blind them to a sense of their public duty. Such having been the notorious conduct Of the Whigs, we are—though Without any po sitive knOwledge as to the truth of the various rumours in circulation—warranted in inferring that such men, would not take any step calcu lated to impede the course of public business, except on the highest ,grounds of honour' arid principle ; that no unworthy pique nor disap pointed ambition ,would'make them relax their efforts for the public good; that"nothing, in fact, short of a conviction that they. no longer possessed that share of influence over the deter minations of the Sovereign Without which no Ministers can advantageously conduct the affairs of the State—without which no honeit man can consent to keep possession, of high and respon sible office—could induce . them to entertain any intention of retiring from the posts assigned to them. If, indeed, any circumstances have oc curred, calculated or intended to degrade them in popular estimation, and to weaken, or rather extinguish, their means of contributing to the Imam' that service to render which was the sole object of their accession to the King's Govern. ment, then, indeed, the whole kingdom,would applaud the virtuous and generous motives of their retreat, and see in it another proof of that honourable and upright feeling which dictated their acceptance of power, and has directed them during their possession of it.—We again assert, that, these are mere general inferences drawn from the public conduct of the Whigs who joined Mr. Canning. We do not pretend to know whether the rumours afloat have any foundation ; a few days will of course discover the. truth. Meantime, we have reason to believe, that until the return of Mr. lluskisson, nothing will be definitively, settled.—Times. We profess ourselves unable to understand with what view Chief Justice Best stated the proportion which the literate convicts bore to the illiterate. " Education," he says, " has not produced the effects which were anticipated. We once fondly imagined, that if we educated ; the poor in the principles of religion we shouldi prevent crime. The Report of a Committee of ! the House of Commons shows that we have been! mistaken. The scheme of public education has:' now been twenty years in operation. In thati period our population has increased one-thirds while the increase of crime is fourfold. In say-i ing this I would not be thought to discourage] the education of the poor—far from it. Yet then effects of education are various. Education! makes the mind of man more susceptible to im-, - pressions both of a bad and a good nature. when a boy has been educated, he is sent forth under proper care and attention, the experience of life may produce good impressions that will keep him virtuous ; but if he is condemned from, hiy youth to struggle with poverty, and meet with difficulties of every kind, the impressions produced may be bad, and their consequencea disastrous. In the Return orthe educated Ana uneducated Convicts, it appears that the- proporS tion of literate to illiterate Convicts is as 60 td 40. That is a fact for which 'I can vouch. 7— But what is the use of communicating this fact to us, without also putting us in possession of means to judge how it affects' the question as to the influence of education on crme Before we can draw any inference whateveri from the proi portion of the literate to th e illiterate convicts we ought to know someth i ng of the proportion between the literate anti the illiterate people of the class of life to which convicts be ong. If the Chief Justice wishes us to believe that the proportion of literate to illiterate convicts is greater than the proportion of the literate t 6 the illiterate in the lower classes, lie should havd shewn the numbers of the educated and' the numbers of the uneducated. i in some districts every man and woman can read, and of gourse we cannot be surprised that in such districts the criminals should all be literate. If the propor, tion of the literate to the illiterate generally ex ceeds 60 to 40, which we believe to be tie ease, t h e n the statement of the Chief Justice, if it proves that (compared with orove s any thing , the proportions which the uneducated bear to time educated generally) the number of illiterate criminals is greater than that of the literate. Of all the charges to whieli the better sort of people in this -country have laid themselves open,. that of over-educating t he p eo p le, Archhish op Magce phrased it , is certainly not one. Eau, cation has indeed become general, but it is wretched. The peasantry are taught to read, and sometimes to write, bit no useful knowledge is placed within their reach.. No compend of the duties which men in society owe to cacti other, and of the relations in which they stand to the State, has ever been taught them—fl attempt has ever been made to cultivate their reasoning faculties, and thus to elevate them kft •the scal e of beine--seldom eyen have they beep taiNht the common rules of arithmetic, and never' practical mathematics._ Reading merely facilitates education ; it does not, of itself, con stitute education. A person may be taught to rea d without ever having a single intelligible ' sen t e nce placed bef ore him. Those who cater :for the lower orders in the way of educatioii, l ave I been especially jealous of allowing them o 'read any thing calculated- to exercise their re - soping polders, a nd have crammed them wit stupid mystical trash, dished up to them in tracts, which can only produce a mischievous effect, if they produce arly effect. The educa tion of the people cannot be said to have yet commenced ; it must be set about in a fair and honest spirit, if we wish that they should profit by what they are taught. Hear what Mr. Or ridge, the experienced Keeper of the Bury House of Correction, says, " What have you observed with respect to the prisoners themselves, particularly the young ones, as to the education they have received ?—I lose sight of those in structed in the gaol ; but to many who come, and when I know the parishes, and their local situation, my first question is, Can you read ?' No, Sir." Why, I know your parish, you must have been sent to school." Yes, but I have lost it all.' I have found many who tell me that they cannot read; but immediately that they go to it, they recover it again." Thus we find that the ability, to read is soon lost, because no pains are taken to communicate, along with the ability to read, a desire of knowledge ; and no materials calculated to gratify the desire, if it exists, are to be obtained. Those who wish to benefit the lower orders by education, ought to take a hint from the statements left by such men as have emerged from a low cendition. The letter from Burns, for instance, to Dr. Moore, giving him an account of the early endeavours at improve ment of himself, and his companions in the same rank of life, is eminently instructive. The mis fortune is that in England, from the separation of ranks, the different classes know very little of each other, and thus those who. are disposed to benefit the poor seldom know the right way to go about it. But Chief Justice Best had just before ac counted so satisfactorily for the increase of crime, that the reference to the educated and uneducated convicts became unnecessary. " Wherever wages have been low (lie says), I have observed with pain, that the labourer has resorted to the law of nature, and has supported himself by plunder." Lord Chief Justice Hales observed to the same effect, so far back as the time of Charles 11., that if a labourer, with an average family, did not ob tain ten shillings a week, or 261. a year, the dif ference must be made up, " either by begging or stealing." If theSe two Chief Justices thus in terpret the law of nature, that is, make stealing a matter of necessity under certain circumstances, which circumstances exist unfortunately at this day in the greatest part of England, it is not easy to see how education can counteract this law. Education cannot enable the people to per form impossibilities--to live on less than what is necessary to support their frames in a working condition. Of course, if education sharpen the faculties, it may facilitate the perpetration of crime, where crime becomes a matter of inevitable neces sity, a law of nature. Chief Justice Best has some sensible observations on the importance of a pre ventive Police, and recommends to the Magis trates of Bath the example of London, the accesses to which, thirty years ago, were worse than Tartary ! That Bath might benefit from the example of Lon don is probable enough; but that London and its vicinage are yet far froth what they ought to be, is not the less true. Sir William, in going over the causes of crime, is naturally led to the sub ject of public-houses, and " adverts to . the horrid monopoly of Brewers, which lie cannot help thinking tends more to increase the number of bad public-houses, and to encourage vice, than most other circumstances." Very true, Sir William ; the horrid monopoly of the Brewers robs the people, and prevents all cheek on the keepers of the houses. But how is the evil to be remedied? Unquestionably by freedom of competition, and by that alone. Where a house is badly conducted, the proper remedy is to allow another to solicit the public favour by the supply of better materials, and by better conduct. Sir William calls on the Justices not to license Brewers' houses. This is like calling on Master Barnardine to come down and be hanged. The Justices and Brewers are everywhere hand and glove ; and we predict that as long as a profit can be made by the attaching of a monopoly to a particular house, Justices and Brewers will play into each others' hands, Again we say, destroy the monopoly, make the license personal, and allow a man to select his neighbourhood for selling liquors, as he selects his neighbourhood for selling shoes or groceries. A monopoly is always worth something ; and though we do not say that there are countries in which that worth might not be turned to account, England is cer tainly not one of those countries. Money's worth will always fetch money in this money loving country ; and the Justice of Peace who has a profitable license to dispose of will know as well how to turn it to account, as the Patron of, a Living knows how to profit by selling the Ministry of the Gospel.—Morning Chronicle. We will now resume that inquiry into the re spective and comparative merits of the various Statesmen who have of late years exercised an important influence upon the destinies of .our country, to which we have been led, not cer tainly at the present moment as a matter o f choice or of taste, but by the imperious dictates of duty and of justice, enjoining us to rescue the characters and memory at once of the illustrious living and the illustrious dead ; assailed and dis honoured as they have been in some instances by calumnies the most unfounded and atrocious —in others by excessive, inapplicable, and ridi culous adulation. The subject . to which we *mild now more particularly advert , is the re cognition of the independence of some of the South American States, and the negociation of Commercial Treaties, which ,placed our trade with them, already become considerable, upon a satisfactory footing, and, at the same time, at tested their full admission, so far as we were concerned, into the universal brotherhood of na tions, Was this step, in the circumstances so wise and necessary, the act of an individual ? Did it take effect in virtue of the penetration and vigour of any single mind ? Or, was it not ra ther the result of the mature deliberations of a whole Cabinet and of the wisdom of successive Statesmen ? Common sense and honesty answer the'latter of these 'questions unequivically, and without hesitation, in the affirmative: The former are affirmed, or seem to be so, by the plications of interested calumny. We scarcely know indeed which is in this case the more ill :0140 or the more injurious to its object, the misapplied censure or the misapplied praise,— Lord Castlereagh, with a frankness and gene rosity, such as we trust will always characterise the diplomacy of England, declared the inten tions of her Government at a Congress of the representatives of imp or t an t Europeanevery State. Mr. Canning is entit led to the p raise, • and it is not mean praise, of having a cted with ability and zeal as the successor of that eminent Statesman in the true spirit of his frank and manly declaration. Why then institute a com parison to the diSadvantago of either ? The same motives and principles which compelled , Lord Castlereagh to make a formal d e c larat i on, repugnant to the wishes and feelings a 50 maiy Powers, would, as the emergency ripened, and as the commercial interests of England became progressively more involved in it, equally have compelled him to a course of action conformable to it. But Divine Providence denied to the man who first conceived and promulgated this wise, liberal, and candid course of policy, the high privilege of completing it. Did Mr. , Canning, who suc ceeded to his high office, then, we ask, hasten at once to complete it ? So far was this from the fact, that it is not complete even now. Mr. Canning acted more wisely. He cautiously in quired into the circumstances of each particular State, and ascertained beyond a doubt in the case of each before he consented to number it among independent nations, not merely that the authority of the Spanish Crown was overthrown, but that other authority competent to discharge the functions of Government, and affording a reasonable probability of steadiness and perma nency, had succeeded to it. The truth is, that the scheme of policy for England,. in relation to the new States of America, was devised by Lord Castlereagh, or, if not by him, at least by the British Cabinet during his occupation of the Foreign Office, and that Mr. Canning ably, zealously, vigorously, and consistently, adopted and advanced it. That neither the original author of the scheme, nor his earliest successor, have been permitted by Providence to reap the full ,harvest of glory which would have attended the completion of the whole work, is a fact which cannot with any portion of candour be brought to detract from the solid fame of either of those distinguished men. South America has been a field for mediation and enterprise, fruitful of honour to them both. But so far from being exhausted, the soil is not even fully reclaimed. Their successors, by adopt ing their principles and imitating their conduct in regard to this portion of the world, may yet rival their renown. We vindicate in this our view of the subject the character of Mr. Can ning from an aspersion too thinly disguised under the mask of praise. Lord Castlereagh candidly proclaimed to the world what were the intentions of England. How dangerous to the memory of Mr. Canning is the insidious con trast which implies that lie would have declared the purpose only by the act—that he would have been studious of theatrical effect, rather than of national tranquillity—that he would have hazarded the displeasure and resentment of the other nations of Europe, for the sake of the foolish and barren triumph of having surprised them. In every point of view in which we can consider the subject, it seems to us that the loudest adulators of the memory of Mr. Can ning are in truth the greatest, and perhaps the only enemies to his solid and permanent fame. That fame will rest, not upon the contrast, but upon the coincidence and similarity between him and the host of distinguished men, who through out the whole of his political life have been his fellow labourers, and some of whom have been his guides, in promoting the glory and welfare of their common country.—Morning Post. Judging by the sentiments of some of their advocates, we should say that the members of the present Administration find themselves but ill at ease, and that a principle of divide et inz pera elsewhere, sows the spirit of discord among them, that, during their squabbles and indecision, it may divide the spoil. Such must ever be more' or less the case among public men, so long as they suffer the charms of patronage and place to distract their attention from the Itigher elainui of their calling. The Whigs, for instance, it 18 said, kick, as they well may, at the idea of any share of the patronage which avowedly belongs to the Crown being wrested from the Ministry. " What," say they (not openly, but inwardly), " shall we, who have been all our lives strug gling for power and place, and who have been, with the exception of eight short months, one and-twenty years ago, shut out from any parti cipation in the sweets of office, now that a com bination of unlooked-for circumstances has placed them within our reach, lose between the cup and the lip the main inducements we had for taking office ? Shall our brothers and our sons, and our whole tribe of hungry relatiVes and con nections, for whoin we had chalked out 'snug Commissionerships, Sze., be ousted when on the eve of possession by the ridicule of the press? Or shall a Lady or a Doctor take from us not only the fruits of our Catholic pledges, but the still more valuable patronage of the Protestant Episcopacy ? Talk not to us of patriotism, of virtue being its own reward, or of the empty merits of reading our his tory in a nation's eyed. To us solid pudding is of infinitely more value than empty praise ; and if we are to be deprived of that for which alone we were induced to take office, why throw office to the dogs, we'll none of - it.' " This, we ima gine, is something like the state of mind of the Whigs (of the recreant Whigs, we mean) at the present moment ; and such will, more or less, he the state of mind of all public men, who have not principle enough about them to care for office beyond its mere emoluments and patron age. What the country wishes to see among public men is a .very different kind of feeling. It does not grudge them one atom of their re ward ; for the public at large know full well that the really working part of its servants are not overpaid.—But a Statesman, to deserve even the shadow of that name, should have a mind above money ; a man who is to wield the destinies of empires, should scorn to contaminate his mind or hands with mere pelf, but leave to the meaner minds of underlings, all that may be necessary for his own remuneration on that Lead. .But be thought, while we indulge in thes e, as they may which a Mini subject, we and th e wa y in somewhat high-flown notions on the are stry n i o n t u t i n il a s w a c r o e n o n f t r t y li e sclai msbesets bt? which its very existence, to a certain degree de pends upon the manner in which such claims are satisfiedorevaded ;be a i i t i l d g ofr wl e ie r i e l d we hear of high offices in the Stateto persons who have no claim to them beyon d th eir Parliamen tary influence, we are free to confess that, to a certain degree, patronage and power must always s go together. The principle , however, we shall be glad to see defeated and disappointed when ever it can be. But what we contend against is, personal cupidity in public men. Let them but show in their own persons a disregard of mere power and emolument, and those who have hitherto thought otherwise may learn from their leaders something like forbearance, and " blush to find it fame."—Morning Herald. A man was tried at Bridgewater on Tuesday, for robbi ng th e h o use of Mr. Stuckey, the banker, of a considerable quantity of plate. He was con victed on the clearest evidence, and condemned accordingly. So far there was nothing particu lar in the case ; but the reason of his being con demned, though often adduced, is one which will bear canvassing. Chief Justice Best, in stal ing that he could give the criminal no hopes if mercy, said, that the crime of burglary had be ep= it) common in that part of the cQUlltit, &it it was necessary to make an example. There were twenty-one cases of that crime to be tried, therefore one of the criminals must be hanged. It would appear from this, that a thief is not to be put to death for his delinquencies, but because he happens to have committed them at an un lucky time. If no .Other burglary had_ been in the calendar, the man in question would have been spared ; but . because there were others to be pardoned, he must suffer. The Judge, in deed, said, that the case was an aggravated one ; but its aggravation amounted merely to this, that the plunder was considerable, and the difference in the amount of the booty. must be regulated by the means of the person robbed, not by the moderation of the robber. We are not, however, so desirous to dwell on the particular case as on time principle, or rather the practice in the administration of the Criminal Law, of which it is an instance. When wages are moderately high, provisions moderately low, and the temptations to robbery and stealing com paratively weak, few burglaries and thefts are committed, and none are visited with capital punishment. This process goes on for a year or two, until the chances of a hanging have dwindled almost to nothing. Then comes a bad harvest, or bad markets—the poor are starving —the temptation to plunder becomes extreme— and the check which the laws should hold out at all times has been gradually fading from the view of the people, in consequence of their not being executed. With their necessities goading them on the one hand, and the non-execution of the law inviting them on the other, acts of plunder increase—Juries get alarmed—Judges talk of the necessity of example—and one or two mise rable wretches are hanged. More fruitful sea sons and times of greater prosperity again come round, and the wakeful spirit of the law is again lulled to sleep, to he roused by similar causes and with a similar effect. It may be worth while to consider for a moment how such an alter nating process is calculated to operate as an example. What are the considerations most likely to deter a man from crime ? Certainty ofpunish ment if discovered, most assuredly. Every thief may fairly calculate on the chance of not being found out, for of that chance we'can by no enactment deprive him ; but it is in our power to keep him from calculating on an escape when found out. If every burglary were visited with death, it may be said that the frequency of the punish ment would lessen the terror of it. Perhaps it would, but though that may be an excellent rea son for altering the punishment, it is none for passing over twenty burglars, and pouncing on the twenty-first. Marshal Saxe, talking of the French military law 'against marauding, — laments its • severity—" in consequence of which'," says he, " not one in a hundred is punished. Sen tinels, and even officers, turn their eyes aside in order not to see a poor fellow who would be shot if they happened to particularise him. At length, because no punishment at all is inflicted, marauding becomes frequent, the General hears of it—a strict watch is kept, a poor wretch is caught and shot, and then for a month or two we hear no more of it." "No one," adds the philosophic soldier, " says of such a man, he is criminal ;" they only say, "he is unlucky." Such is precisely the consequence of the system of punishing for the sake of example ; for the associates of the criminal only think of his fate as being " unlucky ;" and so far from being de terred by his punishment, arc the more encou raged to proceed in their course, on the plain i principle, that we would with least apprehension '.go a journey in a stage-coach the day after it had broken down, the chances being infinite that it should not tumble a second time until after a considerable interval of time.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—Capp, the person who was charged on Saturday, with having stolen some silver spoons in coffee-houses in the City, was yesterday brought up for another examination. The Justice-room was literally crammed with coffee-house-keepers, .tavern-keepers, publi cans, and waiters, a report having gone abroad that the prisoner had made what is sometimes called a most respect able livelihood, by walking to places of public entertain ments. Several who could not prefer charges against him recognise) him as a visitor, immediately before they missed their property. Upon being conducted to the bar, he fixed his eyes upon the ceiling, and affected to be absorbed in serious meditation. He kad amused himself in prison with copying some of the Psalms - of David, in a letter to the Clergyman of the Compter, whom he •requested to take care of his wife and two babes. After the robbery in Baker's Coffee-house, and that in the George and Vulture Tavern, had been investigated, A pawnbroker stepped forward, and produced a spoon, which he swore the prisoner bad pawned on the 13th instant. This spoon was marked " Lomas," and was proved to be the property of Mr. Lomas, who keeps the hotel opposite to Astley's Theatre. The waiter of the hotel stated, that he had missed two silver table spoons one day, and he believed that produced to be one of them. He did not know the prisoner. A gentleman, who was in Baker's Coffee-house when the prisoner was detected, stated that he observed Capp shifting about as if he wanted to get rid of something, and throwing down a newspaper on a table where there lay three table-spoons. Witness soon afterwards saw four table-spoons on the table, one of which was marked " George and Vulture Tavern." The waiter at Baker's Coffee-house had previously told the prisoner that he had taken one of the spoons, and the prisoner bad given it up; but knowing that the officer who had been sent for would search him, he was naturally anxious to get rid of the plunder which he bad possessed himself of at the George and Vulture, where he actually paid for a bowl of soup,with half a sovereign, and accord ingly slipped it in amongst the other spoon He had, it was stated, once been in respectable business as a broker, and is married to the sister of a gentleman of property.—He was fully committed for trial. BOW-ST REET.—F RAU D.—John Palmer was re examined on suspicion of having committed various frauds. In consequence of the publication of the former case against the prisoner, 111 r. John Brooks, a stationer, in Oxford-street, came forward and substantiated a fresh charge of fraud against the prisoner, who entered Mr. Brooks's shop on Tuesday week, and requested ..that two reams of the best paper, and two writing desks, might be sent to his master, a gentleman residing in Great Portland -street, who would pay for them upon delivery. Mr. Brooks sent the desks and paper by his shopman, who was accompanied by the prisoner; and when they reached Great Portland-street , the prisoner went into a Mews, and shortly afterTte ds came out, saying that his master was not at home, but they might find him' at a house its Chapel-street,' Grosvenor square, where they accordingly proceeded, and the prisoner took the desks, &c. from the shopman, under the pretence of showing them to his master, but he never returned.-- The prisoner said he was not guilty of this ch ar g e ; but the parties swore positively to him, and he was committed for trial. A man named Sibbald, who keeps the Lamb public house in Clare-market, was ordered to find bail for an as sault on a Mrs. Vitch, of Oxendon-street, who it appeared went to the public-house in question to look for her brother, an idle lad, who spent the best part of his time and all his pocket money in the defendant's skittle-ground. Mrs. Vitch, besides being rather roughly handled, was also saluted with the contents of a basin of dirty water. The landlord being asked how he could have acted so to a respectable female, said he had behaved with the greatest sympathy towards her. A person who was present, however, confirmed the complainant's statement, and the sympathetic Mr. Sibbald was ordered to find sureties, to answer the charge elsewhere. MARYLEBONE.—On Tuesday, Thomas Davy, a Paddington coachman, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH, with assaulting James Hornsby, the driver of Buckmaster's Bayswater stage, in the New-road, on Friday night. Hornsby stated, that in consequence of Davy's furimis driving, he was ordered by Mr. Buckmaster to take his number. As soon as. Davy his intention, he left his box ; collared him, and threatened to awash lai.o oit against the wall ; and in the mean time, Davy's employer, Mr. Poole, took the reins and drove away. Mr. John March, of No. 2, Judd-place East, New-road, formerly of Ludgate-street, and Mr. Daniel . Edward Col ston, of Peel place, Kensington-gravel-pits, supported the charge by their evidence, and directed the Magistrate's at tention more particularly to the circumstance of Davy's furious driving, which, they said, placed other passengers upon the road imminent danger. The defendant requested Mr. GRIFFITH to postpone the hearing of that complaint for one day, that he might bring forward Mr. Poole, who, sitting upon the coach at the time, ordered him to pass the Bayswater stage, and there fore was the person responsible. . . . Yesterday, when the case was again brought forward, Davy said he did not know who was his employer ; and William Poole defied the Magistrates to prove that he was proprietor of the coach, because his name was not upon it. The case having been proved by the before-mentioned gentleman, Mr. GRIFFITH inflicted a penalty of 10/. upon the defendant regretting at the same time that he could not make it ten times the amount; and ordered him, in de fault of payment, to be committed for six months. The defendant afterwards gave notice of appeal, and Mr. Poole and another became bis sureties. A person of respectable appearance, whose name did not appear, informed Mr. Griffith, that in the year 1816, he was married to, as he supposed, a widow, at Ealing church, by which engagement he forfeited his claim to a small in come. Within a short time he has discovered that her former husband, to whom she was married at Dovercourt in Essex, in 1797, is still living., and under these circum stances he requested Mr. Griffith to render him advice and assistance. Mr. GRIFFITH told him he could do nothing for him without evidence, but if he procured such as was necessary to establish the charge, a warrant should be granted. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--We stated yesterday the circumstances of a robbery committed on a young lady named Mason, residing at No. 3, George-street, Hanover square, whereby she lost a sum of 1001. in Bank of Eng land notes, and that a man named Gunnion, and his wife, the latter of whom had been employed as charwoman in the house, were in custody on suspicion of being concern ed in the robbery. In accounting for a valuable assort ment of fine dresses, &c. which were found at their lodgings, and which they had lately purchased, the pri soner said that the money with which they had made those purchases, had been given to them a few days ago by a 'Ornate relation residing at Clapham. In consequence, Goddard, the officer, who, with Ballard, was employed on the occasion, proceeded to Clapham, where he - learned from the relation in question that she bad given no money to the prisoners, nor had she seen them for a long time. The officers next went a second time to the lodgings of the prisoners, in Monmouth-street, and while there making further search and inquiry, a respectable-looking female entered, and inquired for the prisoners, for whom, she said, she had been waiting for the last two hours at the Blue Posts public-house, in Tottenham-court-road, where they had appointed to meet her. The prisoners had in vited her to go with them on a jollification party with some other friends, and she was much surprised at their want of punctuality. On learning, however, 'that they were both in custody on a .charge of stealing 100/. the woman at once 'gave the officers all the information in her power. She said that they had both been at her house, the Red Lion, on Hampstead Hill, the day before, in a state of intoxica tion, and had left a large sum of money in her care, which she still held ; and as she now had no doubt it was stolen, , she was willing to give it up to the officers. The latter then accompanied the woman, whose name is Sidwell, to her home, where she delivered up to them one 10/. note of the Bank of England, and 87 sovereigns, the whole of what the prisoners had left with her; but no trace has, as yet, been had of the remainder of the 1001. Nothing can show more clearly than this robbery does, the culpable conduct of servants in intrusting the care of their em ployers' houses to any other persons than themselves in the absence of the family. In this ease, it appears that when Miss Mason went out to spend the day, she left her own female servant at home, in charge of the house : but the latter thought she had as good a right to spend the day with her friends as her mistress, so gave herself leave of absence, confiding the care of her mistress's property to.the two prisoners, who were total strangers to her, except that the female prisoner ozcasionally acted at the house us a charwoman, and so afforded them an ample opportunity of plundering the whole house if they were so minded ; and thus servants not only have their masters, &c. plun dered, but are themselves justly suspected of the robbery, often sent to prison, and ruined. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, a' very eccentric character, without either hat, shoe's, of stockings, nanaccl James Marquis, was brought before G. Manttiovv, Esq., charged by the driver of the hackney-coach No. t 54, with refusing to pay him his fare. _ . _ _ . _ This is about the fifth time the defendant has been brought to this office on similar charges, and he has also figured at several other police-offices, when he will be sooner sent to prison than pay the coachman's demand, although he has either half-pay or a pension from the Ordnance Department, to the amount of upwards of 1001. a-year. Thos. Castren, the coachman, stated that he drove the defendant from the stand at the Adelphi, to the Haymarket theatre, about half-past 10 o'clock. Thinking he was going there to , convey a party home, he did not approach the doors, when this defendant called out, and asked him in an authoritative tone, why he did not drive up to the doer as well as other carriages. The defendant then got out of the coach, and seizing a bill of the performance, attempted to enter the theatre, desiring witness to wait, as he should want him again; the door-keepers soon turned him back, and he then ordered him to drive to the Ordnance-office in Pall-mall, which he did; when, after waiting there for a considerable time, he wanted to be driven to the Tower, but on demanding his fare, the defendant said he could not pay him. Mr. Maaniorr said, that he was astonished how any coachman could admit a man of the prisoner's description into the coach, when he TM destitute of hat, shoes, and stockings. The coachman stated that the waterman let him in, and from the manner in which the defendant spoke to him when in the coach, he thought that he was a first-rate gentleman ; nor did he discover his dress until he got into • Defendant.—l really don't know what the charge is against me. (To the coachman)—Did I Rot order you to drive to 13, Crown-street, Westminster? Coachman— Yes, you did ; but I had had quite enough of you with out that. Mr. MARniorr declared that the prisoner was a corn. plete nuisance, and he could not conceive how be could be allowed to enter a coach, as he was apparently insane.... _ . Defendant. -- Try whether I am insane, and ask me any questions you may think proper. The coachman said he had been repeatedly summoned tfor refusing a fare, and had been fined. He had also been informed that the prisoner had an income. Mr. MARRIOTT said it was true•by the Act of Parliament coachmen were liable to a penalty for refusing a fare, but yet there were certain eases, like this, in which they might use their own judgment. Bathgate, the night constable, stated that the prisoner requested to have pen, ink, and paper, and he would pro cure the money for the fare, when he wrote a draft on the Bank of England, as follows : " St. Margaret's Watch-house, Aug. 22, 1827. " At sight pay to my order the sum of one hundred pounds. (Signed) JAMES LE ROY, To the Governor and Company of Edinburgh. of the Bank of England. JAMES MARQUIS, £lOO. Master of the O r dnance." It was also mentioned on the back of the draft, that the money was for the purpose of building a new post-office at the Ordnance Department. The coachman now stated, th a t hi s f a re and loss of time amoun ted to I is. The defendant declini ng t o pay thi s sum, was ordered to b e committed to T o thill - fi e ld s f or a month, when as soon as he is liberated, there is no doubt he will again exercise his irresistible propensity for riding in a coach. LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday Josephßlachburn, a builder, residing in St. George's-in-the-East, appeared before the Sitting Magistrates, Mr. Wyatt and the Rev. D. Mathias, in answer to an information laid against him at th e instance of the Surveyor of Pavements, to show cause why he did, contrary to an Act of Parliament, and without the permission of the Commissioners, or their officers, dig up thirty feet of pavement on the public high way, for which offence he rendered himself liable to a penalty of 150/. Mr. Unwin, the clerk to the Commissioners, with Mr. Laidlay, the Chairman to the Paving Board, attended to support the charge; and it being most distinctly proved, Mr. WYATT remarked, that he thought that if the extent of damage was laid at five feet, it would meet the justice of the case. This was at once assented to by Mr. Unwin and Mr. Laidlay, the latter of whom said that he hoped the decision in this case would have the desired effect of Weventing builders and others from committing similar offences.—The defendant was then convicted in the penalty of 251., being 5/. for each foot, the least sum the Act allows. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the secretary of a benefit society, called the " Tent of Aighteousness; the mem bers 9f which are of the Joyiah peretimivD ; was viiratuonoil to this office, on the complaint of Emanuel Lei!, who was expelled the society on the alleged ground of breaking the rules. The complainant stated, that he.had been a member of the above society for a considerable time. A few weeks back he declared on the box in consequence of illness, and received a small weekly allowance. Before his ultimate' restoration to health, he attended at a neighbour's house during the ceremony of a circumcision which was performed., therein, and that fact having been made known to the; Committee, they immediately struck his name out of the list of members of the " Tent of Righteousness," on the alleged ground that be had forfeited all claims to any bene fits arising from the society owing to his having been pre sent aiding and assisting in the said ceremony, at a period when he was supposed to have been at home on a bed of, sickness. Complainant on his expulsion requested, ac cording to the regulations of the society, that the matter might be settled by arbitration ; this mode of arrangement, however, the secretary refused 'to accede to, and he was therefore summoned to explain the grobuds of his refusal. The complainant added, that be was most anxious the Ma ' gistrate should decide the case, as, even in the event of its being settled by arbitration, he was persuaded that the officers of the " Tent of Righteousness" had its affairs so completely in their own hands, that it would be decided in, the way most favourable to themselves, and his claim to be restored would be scouted. The Magistrate, on perusing one of the dailies in their hook of regulations, discovered, that if a member offended against the rules, and was expelled, on the payment of 7s. he was authorized in calling for an arbitration, which, how ever, was to be final, without the power of appeal. " If," said the Magistrate, " you choose to belong to such a so ciety, I cannot help you. You must pay the 7s. to the secretary, and then the matter between you will be arbi trated." Complainant.--I know the Committee will dome : how- ever, I shall do as your worship advises me. The Magistrate remarked on the folly of persons throwing away their money in the expectation of being benefited by such societies as the " Tent of Right eousness ." " If,' , said he, " the working classes deposited part of their eat n ins in the,Savings' Banks, instead of benefit societies, they would soon have reason to congratulate themselves on' the selection. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.-FRIDAY, AUGUST 24.--(At ttia Court of Commissiomers, Basinghall-streef.) Broad, T., Penzance ll Joseelyne„ W., Bishopsgate- Burt, R., Lucas-st., Cont street mercial-road 1 Jordan, F., Augel-emnt ... 11 Child, D., Fan-street Downer, W., Leadenhall- Pool's, G. and Co., Moor- -,, street Evans, W., Rotherhithe 11 Hewitt, N., Portland-ter race lO fields ..... . ...... : .... 10 Shurmer, J., Shirloy ll Walker, W., London UNNATURAL MOTHER.—EarIy on Thurs day morning, as a woman was proceeding to her work at Messrs. Stocks, of Heaton-Mersey, near Stockport, whilst passing through a corn field, she heard the cry of a child, and on going to that part of the field from whence the sound proceeded, she found a female infant about tell weeks old, lying upon a wheat sheaf, in a most pitiable condition, having apparently been there the greater part of the night. The child is now at the Heaton Norris workhouse, and the over seers have offered a reward for the apprehensibn of its unnatural parent.— Manchester Mercurip HYPOCHONDRIA.—A per Son at Taunton often kept at home for several weeks, under the idea of danger in going abroad. Sometimes he imagined that lie was a cat, and seated himself on, his hind quarters; at other times he would fancy himself a teapot, and stand with one a rm a-kimbo like a handle, and the other stretched out like the spout. At last he conceived him self to have died, and would not move or be moved till the coffin came. His wife in serious alarm, sent for a surgeon, who addressed him with the usual salutation, " How do you do this morning , ?" "Do !" replied he in a low voice, " a pretty question to a dead man !" Dead, sir ; what do you mean ?" " Yes, I died last Wednesday ; the coffin will be here presently , and I shall be buried to-morrow." The sur geon, a man of sense and skill, immediately felt the patient's pulse, and, shaking his head, said , " I find it is indeed too true; you are certainly defunct ; the blood is in a state of stagnation , putrefaction is about to take place, and the sooner you are buried the better." The coffin arrived, he was carefully placed in it, and carried'toward s the church. The surgeon had previously giver': instructions to several neighbours how to pro ceed. The procession had scarcely moved dozen yards, when a person stopped to inquire who they were carrying to the grave : " Mr. our late worthy overseer." " What ! is the old rogue gone at last ? a good release, for a greater villain never lived." The imaginary deceased no sooner heard this attack on his character than he jumped up, and in a threatening posture said , " You lying scoundrel, if I were not dead I'd make you suffer for what you say ; but as it is, am forced to submit." He then quietly 1 ° ;4, down again ; but ere th e y h a d procee d e d ball way to church, another party stopped the pro cession with the same inquiry, and added invec tive and abuse. This was more than the _sup' posed corpse could bear ; and jumping from the coffin, was in the act of following his defamer 9 when the whole party burst into an immoderate fit of laughter, and the public exposure awakening him to a sense of his folly, he fought against the weakness, and in the end conquered it.--. Liver pool Albion. —Jo BIRTHS. On the 11th instant, at Pau, the lady of William Er° skine, Esq., of a son. On the 21st instant, at Little Berkhampstead, the lady of Thomas Daniell, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 22d instant, at the District Rectory of St. Marfo Marylebone, by the Rev. John Hilliard, Rector of Cowley" Samuel Girdlestone, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., to Amelist eldest daughter of Richard Troward, Esq., deceased. On the 21st instant, at Owalebury, Hants, the Re' Peter Hall, B.A. of Brazenosc College, Oxford, to MarY, Henrietta, fourth daughter of the late Edward Woolls, Winchester. _ O the Rev. Pet er Still, 8.A., F e 110; th ß e e 2 v. l sLi e n o s r t g a e nt e , l a ia t n A dl l e l r! o p u . ls D C . h ß u e r c e t h o , r, ill a a n ry d .l oe; b so on t e i : of King's College, Cambridge, to Anne, second daughter 64 the late Henry Hughs, Esq. of H a rl e y-stre e t. On the 20th instant, a t St. A n d rew ' s c h urc h, H o lb or n/ Elizabeth, third d aug h ter o f W m . P revost, E sq. o f Ding's Road, Bedford- row , to t h e R ev . W m . H enry E ng l an d, Christ Coll ege , O x f or d. by the Warwickshire, DIED. On the 18th instant, at Lawn Cottage, Grenfell Hammet , aged one month and six weeks, third son of James Esdaile Hammet, Esq. On. the 19th instant, at Bideford, Devon, in the 50 year of her age, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of the Rev.' Daniel Campbell, Rector of Crowcombe, Somerset. On the 19th instant, William Blizard, second'son of .0 0 Harkness, of Ratcliff-cross. On the Bth instant, at Geneva, of typhus fever, Caroline , wife of Isaac Macaire, Esq., and daughter of Jelin Prin sep, Esq., of Great' Cumberland-street. On the 9th instant, at Geneva, Mrs. Afacaire, the wife of Marc Macaire, Esq. On the 21st instant, at Hackney, after a ling-oil* ill ness, Jane Ann Wright, wife of Thomas Wright, Esq•' aged 52. On the 22d instant, at the Royal - Hospital at Clielseo , Mrs. Sarah Haggitt, hi the 65th year 'of her age. 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