The Sun. — London, England, 1827-05-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. , - It is satisfactory to learn, irom the statements of our Lisbon correspondent, on whose accu racy we place the firmest reliance, that all ap prehension of immediate danger to the life of the Princess Regent of Portugal may be laid aside ; and thus that reasonable time will, in all probability, be afforded towards completing such political arrangements in maintenance of the spirit of the Charter,—that is to say, for pre serving the country itself from destruction,—as are rendered unavoidable by the machinations of the old Queen, the Serviles, and the hopeful Miguel ; and such, moreover, as may be suffi cient in spite of them. The various Arguments on the several rights and pettensions of Don Pedro to interfere with the actual Government of Portugal, and of his brother to usurp, at a period so early as next October, the powers of the Regency into his own hands, will be seen in the letters of our correspondent. The subtelties and involutions of the case we have not considered worthy of so much grave attention as its broad and obvious outline. It may be desirable to satisfy the literal and special pleading critics of Foreign Courts, that according to form and punctilio, and so forth, the Princess, as Don Pedro's Regent, has every title to continue her administration beyond the day of her younger brother's minority ; but common sense and the practical necessity of the occasion must govern this like every other difficulty which springs out of human affairs. The clear intent of the Em peror in granting, and of the people in accepting the Constitution, was, that it should be admi nistered with a view to its prosperity, not to its deliberate destruction ; and therefore that its friends-.—not its proved and acknowledged ene mies--should be entrusted with that adtninistra ave power. Nations cannot afford to be quibbled out of their dearest interests : Portugal cannot suffer the loss of her chartered liberties, nor England see tamely a faithful friend overcome ; and though we arc of course well pleased to find that the letter of the law is with the merits at issue, we have no hesitation in avowing that new safeguards, supplementary to the defects of the Charter, m ust , of rigid necessity, be provided, to ';neet those imminent and fatal dangers which nave sprung up since th e Constitutional deed was prepared, and which were wholly unfore seen by its author ; otherwise there exists no re ciprocity of obligation between the party grant ing and the party claiming the executive power of the kingdom. There is an authority—an autho rity not divine, or of inheritance, but tendered by a constituted power, to a certain individual, and for a definite purpose the favoured individual openly despises and attempts to frustrate the end for which he was appointed, yet claims the trust with the avowed intention of abusing it. To avert such an ' evil, there is reason that the Portuguese Chambers will pass a la w f or th e a pp o i n t ment o f a C ounc il o f 1 : ' regency,with powers to act until the consumma tion of Don Miguel's marriage with the young Queen; and that a guarantee against the premature intrusion of that Prince into the Government will be signed by England, France, and Austria, before a long period has elapsed. It gives us much plea sure to hear it reported that Lord William Bentinck is about to be despatched to Portugal, holding the joint characters of Ambassador and Commander-in- Chief, it being acknowledged that no man is more fitted to inspire the friends of England with confi dence by sound discernment and integrity, or her enemies with those opposite feelings, which are a tribute never refused to unshaken steadiness and in vincible courage.—Times. The once domineering ex-Ministers pretend, that they did not mean to lord it over, or pre scribe to, the King. Liberal minds may be wil ling to draw a distinction between the hacknied creatures of office,—the old deskmen of Pitt origin,—and those whom fortune and talents first raised to eminence in other careers, and who afterwards acceded to the Ministry as a new occupation. That some of these latter have been temporarily tainted with the hardened presump tion of the former, we have no doubt. What else could have induced the Duke of Wellington to reject the offers, and even the solicitations, of a Sovereign whom he must revere ? His Grace has lived chiefly abroad,—in camps, and among soldiers ; he must have been a stranger, except in theory, or from recital, to the malice, and envy, and cabals of domestic factions; yet, being immer sed in one (the late Ministry), he, probably al most for fashion's-sake, imbibes its feelings, and adopts its mode ofaction. He could have governed the army whoever were Ministers, the office of Com mander-in-Chief having nothing to do with the po licy prescribed by the Administration. The army and its head are executors of councils—not council lors; and to return to this important station, he has not only been invited by Mr. Canning, (who, in a letter to the Duke, said that "no officer of the army could wish more for his Grace's return than he did," or words to that effect), but he is also requi red by the King himself, in a letter in which his Grace is affectionately styled "My dear friend."— Is it loyal to repel approaches of this kind ? Or how is such a repulse consistent with the respect professed towards the head of the State ? His Grace is said to have replied, " that he could not separate himself from the friends with whom he acted." Why, has he not acted with Mr. Can ning and Lord Harrowby, as well as with the late Lord Chancellor and Mr. Peel ?—lbid. Our City article shows how the Bank Direc tors are trying to " back out" of their notable project of making country bankers the hucksters of their notes ; and the proceedings in the House of Commons are yet more interesting on this subject. Mr. Manning, one of the sitting mem hers for Penryn, and Mr. Peafse, two Bank Di rectors, in reply to a question from Sir John Wrottesley, the Member for Staffordshire, dis claimed strongly the project attributed to the Bank : yet their assurances seemed to have but little weight with Sir John Wrottesley. They have none with us. There may be some subter fuge, or " come-off," as the people say, —as, that it was done by Mr. Such-a-one in his pri vate character ; but we have no doubt that the project was in agitation, and that the first steps (now taken, and justly reprobated) resemble the first steps in any other project which has suc ceeded and been carried into complete execu tion. While referring to the Parliamentary Re port, we cannot let pass the opportunity of ex pressing our strongest app ro b a ti on o f th e goo d sense and liberal feeling of the Dissenters, who have resolved, by a large majority, not to em barrass the Government at present with the ques tion of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.—/bid. Last night the attention of the House of Commons was drawn to the subject of Emigra tion by Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald, who called on Mr. Wilmot Horton to state what the intentions of Government really were. Mr. W. Horton said, till the Committee had concluded their labours, Government could not state their deter mination. This called up Mr. Leslie Foster, a Member of the Committee, who stated that the Committee « were unanimously of opinion that there were many places in Ireland, where the population was so dense, the land could not possibly produce enough for the support of its inhabitants ;" and that the Irish Proprietors had, in consequence, conic to the determination of clearing their lands of all the surplus population. He stated farther, " that it had come to his knowledge, that one great proprietor had actually driven upwards of 1,200 persons in this manner from his estate, and turned them loose upon the country." This gentleman, it seems, however, " by a splendid exertion of his resources, gave them all employment elsewhere." The same principle, he said, was more or less in operation throughout the whole of the kingdom. East, west, north and south, the landed proprietors were ejecting the surplus population from their estates. Of these ejected persons, the greater number came over to this country, thereby adding greatly to the necessities of the native population. He concluded with. observing, that " the Committee were agreed upon one princi ple of relief, which he thought could not be too soon adopted, and that was that the Irish land lords should take upoil themselves the expence of transporting the surplus population of their respective estates to Canada." There can be no question that the surplus population of Ireland is a great curse both to that country and to this.— It is, however, much easier to tell the evil, than to point out a practical remedy. Till, however, the seat of the disease is reached, it is in vain to think of" remedies for England alone. Ireland' must either be cleared of her surplus hands, or all intercourse between the two islands must he suspended, and that is a remedy which never would be agreed to. It is clear, that if the na tion were to be at the expence of relieving the Irish landlords of their surplus population, the void would immediately he filled. To.secure the country against a recurrence of the evil, the Legis lature must, in some measure, reach the landlords. To make the change of removing a burden on all 'those having an interest in the land, would, of course, go a good way towards enlightening the minds of the proprietors on the subject.-- Some bold measure must be adopted. Turkey has sometimes been compared to Ireland : but the disease of Turkey is of an opposite charac ter. The population does not increase. The Turks, who love indolence above all things, call the plague the blessed, as, by constantly thin ning the population, it frees them from all anx iety for food. Under such a state o f things there can be no improvement ; for it is the ten dency of population to increase which stimulates individuals to exertion and ingenuity. There are not wanting eulogists of the state of things in Turkey. Hacquet, a celebrated naturalist, who examined a number of the finest provinces of Turkey in Europe, says that the Turks are without that distress for food which is the cause of so much misery in all the Christian countries of Europe ; that even in the Austrian States, the inhabitants of Stiria, Carinthia, &c., are per petually pouring down on the Low Countries, and causing the utmost distress. In Turkey, on the otherhand, the pasturage is rich and abundant, the cattle feeding up to their bellies in the meadows, and food is always to be had. Mr. Buckingham, in his journey through Mesopotamia, states also, that he was particularly struck with the ease with which individuals could find subsistence in Turkey. Ireland again has too much of the principle of im provement, and is kept barbarous by an opposite cause to that which keeps the Turks stationary.— If it were not for the steam-boats which convey the Irish to this country, typhus fever and other diseases caused by want of food, would soon do the business of the plague among them. Something must be done; property is allowed for the benefit of the community; but still the lands of a country belong, in the abstract, to all its inhabitants. When the social fabric is diseased, the proprietors of land have no right to an exemption from the consequences; and we trust, that public opinion in England will compel the enforcement of correct principles in Ire land.—Morning Chronicle. There seems a disposition in several indepen dent Members of the House to probe the wounds of the Cape. The system on which Govern ment have latterly proceeded with our new Co lonies seems to us a very bad one. Our old Colonies, though often torn by factions and divi sions, yet prospered, because the local Legislature formed every where a check on despotism. Had Lord Charles Somerset, for instance, been a Governor of one of our New England Colonies before the Revolution, it would not have been in his power to do much mischief. He might have written home angry despatches, but this would have been the amount of the injury done by him. But arbitrary power is a great corrupter, and never can be entrusted with safety to any man. But Colonies are the places Where arbitrary power is sure to be most noxious. A Monarch in Europe must respect the feelings of the people, because he is depen dent for his power on the good opinion of that people. But a Colonial Governor is a despot, who is supported by a people who do not feel the oppression which he practises. The idea of the impossibility of ever having his misdeeds brought home to him, is constantly present to his mind, and naturally makes him reckless. The people of Colonies ought to be enabled by Le gislatures to controul those placed over them by this country. Without some such security they will suffer even from the best-intentioned Go vernors. If a man only reflects on the little he can know himself, and the necessity of acting in almost all cases on the information of others, he will see the difficulty there is, with the best in tentions, of not being made the dupe of design ing persons. A channel through which the lan guage of complaint can find its way, operates be neficially in the way of repressing the artful and designing. Our old Colonial System was good, our present one is detestable.—/bid. Our attention has been drawn to an advertise ment in a Sunday Paper, addressed " to the Clergy and Patrons of Livings," of a Vicarage of 1701. a-year in a Cathedral town, to be ex changed, " where residence is not required." This may, for aught we know, he exceedingly canonical and proper—that is, strictly speaking, for, rationally speaking, and unexplained, it seems to us to be directly otherwise. I►► pure simpli city, we had been led to imagine that a vicarage implied what the law calls " a cure of souls," and we thought that those who took the charge of souls were not merely expected to find some one to read prayers and preach in the Church, but were liable to be called upon to baptise, to bury, to marry, and to supply all the other reli gious wants of their parishioners. It seems, however, that we were mistaken in this, and that even in a Cathedral town, under the very eyes of the Bishop and his Archdeacon, a benefice of 170/. can exist where " residence is not required." Now, if a Captain in the Army, whose pay is of about the same amount, were to advertise his commission to be sold, and were to add to it, as an inducement to a purchaser, that he is not re quired to join his regiment, to attend parade— or, in fact, do any thing but receive his pay, such an advertisement, we apprehend, would attract some attention at the Horse Guards, and the Cap lain, we suspect, would be told that he had rather mistaken the matter, and misconceived the ground upon which he was entitled to 1701. a-year from the public. Some of our clerical readers will, perhaps, flinch at this latter idea, and will declare that they are not paid by the public—so let that pass. But is a vi carage, as this is called—is a cure of souls—is the eternal salvation of a number of human beings, whe ther in a cathedral town or elsewhere, of less con sequence than a clerkship in a public office, or of a company in a regiment ? And can the person who has been solemnly called and ordained to the one really avow that residence is less binding upon him than attendance is upon the others? Does such a person really imagine that sacred duties are of less importance than temporal ones—and that lie can hold out an absence from them as an "additional va lue ? This may be so ; but all that we can say is, that we do not understand it. We speak generally —for we do not in the least know to what cathedral town, or what vicarage the advertisement in question has reference. But if such an advertisement of a commission in the Army would, as we have no doubt, attract the attention of the head of that department, we trust there are those in the Church Militant who will not be indifferent to this, but who will thank us for drawing their attention to it. It may, as we have said, be right—it may admit of satisfactory ex planation, but, unexplained, it appears to us to be one of those announcements which cannot but do harm to religion, and it is with that view that we have thus drawn the public attention to it.—.lll. Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCII, MAT SO. DODD V. EDWARDS. This was an action against the acceptor of a bill of exchange for 991. 165., drawn on the 13th of September, 1826, payable three months after date, to the order of one' Hale, and by him indorsed, on the 21st November, 1826, to the plaintiff. After the usual proofs of handwriting in such cases, Mr. BKOUUHA DI, for the defendant, offered to give in evidence a release, alleged to have been executed by Hale, the drawer of the bill, on the 4th of October, 1826 ; by which, in consideration of the sum of 651. paid to him by the defendant, he released the latter from all claims and demands whatsoever, from the beginning of the world until the (lay of the date of the release. This release hav ing been executed before the bill was indorsed to the plain tiff, it was submitted that the plaintiff stood in Hale's shoes, and must be bound by it, inasmuch as Hale would be stopped thereby from maintaining an action on the bill. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said, that in order to bind the plaintiff, it must be shewn that he was privy to the release. MI. BROUGHAM could prove this fact only by the testi mony of Mr. Hale, who was not in attendance, pursuant to his subpoena. The LORD CHIEF JusTicz said, that as the case stood, the plaintiff was to be considered as a bona fide holder of the bill for valuable consideration, and therefore entitled to a verdict. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages One Hundred and Two Pounds, including interest. BULTEXL V. KINGSTON AND ANOTHER. This was an action on the case for negligence, in omitting to present a bill of exchange for acceptance, under the following circumstances : The plaintiff was a gentleman of substance, living in the West of England. The defendants were bankers, at Ply mouth. On the 9th March, 1821, the plaintiff being holder of an acceptance of Pitcairn and Co. of London, for 5001. payable at a long date, went to the house of Hine and Holsworth, bankers, at Dartmouth, who agreed to dis count the bill, for which, minus the discount, they gave him 501. in cash, and their own bill upon their London bankers, Messrs. Fry and Chapman, for 4501., at thirty one days after date. On the 10th of March the plaintiff transmitted this latter bill to his own bankers, the defend ants, with instructions to them to forward it to their Lon don bankers, to have it presented to Fry and Chapman for acceptance. The defendants omitted to present it at Fry and Chapman's for acceptance, until the 22d of March, when the latter house refused to accept it, in consequence of hay r e ing .. ceived notice of the stoppage of Hine and Holsworth on the 20th of March. Mr. Chapman proved that his house had accepted the bills of Hine and Holsworth as late as the 18th of March, and it was highly probable, that if the defendants had forwarded the bills in question by the next post after they had received it of the defendants, it would have been accepted, inasmuch as it would have reached London on the 12th of March. It further ap peared, that Pitcairn and Co. became bankrupts before their acceptance for 5001. was at maturity, and was dis • honoured when due ; notice of which was given to the plaintiff, who advised Hine and Holsworth that he did not consider himself liable upon that bill. Under these circum stances, the question was, whether the defendants were lia ble in this action. Mr. F. PoLLocx, for the defendants, contended tbat they were not bound to send the bill in question for acceptance by the next post after they had received it. Lord TENTZRDEN was of opinion, that the defendants were bound to notify to the plaintiff that they meant to send the bill to London by private hand. Mr. PoLLocic then contended, that as Pitcairn and Co., had become bankrupts before their acceptance was due, the plaintiff had not sustained any loss, inasmuch as if fine and Holsworth had not discounted the acceptance, the plaintiff would only have had Pitcairn and Co. to look to. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion, that as the plaintiff had not had due notice of the dishonour of Pit cairn and Co.'s acceptance, be must be considered damnified to the amount of the bill in question, The Jury, therefore, under his Lordship's directions, found their verdict for the plaintiff for Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds without interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—Henry Hillyard, a respectable-look ing man, was finally examined yesterday, before Mr. Alder man Wood, upon a charge of knowingly uttering a forged bill of exchange for 66/. 125., purporting to be drawn by Messrs. Weston and Son, tailors to his Majesty, in Bond street, in favour of John Barton (a personage who cannot be traced), upon Messrs. Herries and Co., the bankers. It also purported to bear the acceptance of Messrs. Herries. Mr. GArEs attended as solicitor for the bankers ; Mr. WEsrox, of the Temple, for the drawers ; and Mr. BUT LER, of Barnard's Inn, for the prisoner. The facts- stated upon the part of the prosecution were, that the prisoner, with another man who said he was the John Barton mentioned in the bill, called at Mr. Alcock's, the gold refiner, in Little Britain, on Friday last, and asked for six ounces of fine gold, if the bill of exchange could be changed in payment. Mr. Alcoek knew it was irregular for a town banker to accept a bill dra%, n by a town house, and said he would give an =ewer in two hours. The prisoner and Barton conferred together, and consented to leave the bill, and Mr. Alcock immediately despatched a clerk to the bankers, in St. James's- street, where he learnt the bill was a forgery in all itr parts. The bill was proved to be a forgery, both as to the ac ceptance and drawing. Mr. Clarkson, a barrister, hoped the Alderman would allow the prisoner to be bailed. He could give sureties to any amount. _ Mr. Alderman Worm replied, that if he had any doubts of the prisoner's guilt, and some length of time would elapse before he was put upon his trial, he might have listened to this application,but here the case might go before the Grand Jury the next morning, and the trial come on the day after ; and the evidence against the prisoner was so strong, that he thought it would be improper to take bail. The prisoner was then removed, with the understanding that he was finally committed, but would be brought up again to hear the depositions read over in the form in which they will be returned for the use of the Judge. Mr. Brown, the warden of the Fleet, solicited the attend ance of the Alderman at that prison to hear the proofs of the insanity of the Rev. Mr. Hughes, an inmate, with a view to obtaining his discharge under the 73d clause of the Insolvent Act. The Rev. Gentleman, he said, was respectably connected, but was deserted by hie friends.— His brother (a Baronet) had sent him 61., and that was all the assistance he had received in the prison. He was in a state of dangerous insanity, and upon the Magistrate being assured of that, the Insolvent Court would, under the above clause, !Recharge him. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, the Magistrate who would be sitting for him on the morrow would attend. BOW-STREET.—Yeste ri 1 ay Mr. Thomas White, a most respectable young gentleman,was charged with having assaulted Thomas Sikes, a private belonging to the 3d bat talion of Grenadier Guards, while on duty. The complainant stated to T. TIALLs, Esq., the sitting Magistrate, that he was one of the piquet guard, which had been on duty at Covent-garden Theatre on the previous night. After the conclusion of the performances there, he was marching with his company down New-street, on their way to the barracks, when Mr. White shoved him out of the ranks, and threw his firelock froth off his shoulder, and, on stooping down to pick it -up, struck him, the witness, a violent blow On the • back of the head, which occasioned considerable pain, and sent his cap into the middle of the street. The witness gave no provocation for the assault, and was unable to account for being singled out. The complainant's statement was fully corroborated by the sergeant and corporal who were in command of the piquet. Mr. White said, in his defence, that he did not strike a a blow, nor act in the manner described. He and friend were returning together from the theatre, when the soldiers came behind them, and endeavoured to pass them in a way so rough, that he conceived he and his friend had just right to complain of it. Feeling aggrieved, he certainly did re monstrate with the soldiers, and told them they were not marching single file, in obedience to the Order issued by the Secretary at War (Lord Palmerston). Sergeant—lt is evident this gentleman is unacquainted with military tactics. We were marching two abreast, and that is single file ; four abreast would be double file. - . Mr. HALLS—And what is one abreast? Sergeant—Oh, rank entire, Sir. Mr.White--Rank entire is what I meant. Mr. HALLS—If you, Mr. White, had been insulted by soldiers, and had come here, as you ought to have done, we would have put you in the proper way to get redress. Mr.- White—But, Sir, what use would be my coming here unless I was able to give you some more definite ac count than that I had been insulted in the street? Mr. HALLS—You did not, it seems, try the utility of it, but have committed a very serious offence, for which I must send you to the sessions. Mr. White—Then, Sir, we are to understand, that when we see a soldier on the flags, we are to run off them. Mr. HALLS, understand what you please. I shall order you, however, to be bound, yourself in 401. and two sureties in 20/. each, to meet the charge at the Sessions. Bail was instantly given, and Mr. White departed. Mr. Parry, a law-stationer, residing in Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, appeared upon a summons obtained against bins by the parish-officers of St. Clement's Danes, for not supporting his wife, who, in consequence, had become chargeable on that parish. A Solicitor who appeared for Mi. Parry stated, (that which the Magistrates were well acquainted with, namely) that Mr. and Mrs. Parry have been living separate, and that she is a woman of the most abandoned and profligate character, being one of those wretches who nightly infest Drury-lane, to the great annoyance of passengers. He then proceeded to contend, that his client was not bound to contribute anything towards the support of his wife, on the ground that the adultery of a wife is a discharge of a husband's liability, even for ordinary necessaries, at com mon law; and consequently, as the Act under which the Magistrates are empowered to adjudicate in these matters (the 6th Geo. IV. c. 83, sec. 3) requires that the party to be charged with the maintenance of another shall be legally bound to maintain, that the parish-officers were without remedy, and should do by Mrs. Parry as they would by any other pauper. The Magistrates declared their opinion to be, that the husband was bound, under all circumstances, to support his wife. They said, however, that a very small allowance would meet the justice of the case, and therefore recom mended the parish-officers to accept ss. a week, to which they agreed. UNION-HALL.—Within the last month a great num ber of burglaries and robberies have been committed in the county of Surrey, particularly in the town and environs of Croydon, by a gang of the most ingenious housebreakers that have visited that neighbourhood for a number of years. Yesterday morning the prisoners, who gave their names John Bartlett and William Taylor, alias Croker, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, R. J. CHAM* BERS, Esq., charged with committing divers burglaries and robberies in the county of Surrey. The first charge against the prisoners was as follows: _ _ Mrs. Goose, a lady residing at Elandcross, near the bar racks at Croydon, stated, that on Wednesday night the family retired to rest at their usual early hour, after having fastened the doors, window shutters, &c. The following morning, on the servants getting up, the house was disco vered to have been broken into; the thieves, it appeared, effected an entrance by prizing up the sash of the drawing room window, the shutters of which they bored through with a centre-bit, and by that means made a space in the wood work sufficiently large to enable them to draw back the bolts, and enter the apartment without difficidty. The complainant added, that she had every reason to believe the house was entered and robbed between the hours of three and four o'clock of the morning in question. Martin, a private belonging to the waggon train, who was on duty at the barracks, close to the complainant's house, stated, that on the morning above-mentioned, about four o'clock, he saw two men leave the premises, and on reaching the palings which surround the house they walked in different directions, apparently with a view of ascer taining whether the coast was clear ; having done so, the witness said the men proceeded cautiously towards the rid ing -school, from whence he had a full view of them. The witness, on being confronted with the prisoners, imme diately identified them as the persons whom he had seen leave the complainant's premises under the circumstances described. Their identity was further confirmed by a female. Myers, the constable, stated, that he has been for some time on the look-out for the men at the bar, both of whom have been " wanted" for various felonies. On Thursday morning at nine o'clock, while near the Elephant and Castle, he espied the two prisoners and a man whom he new to be a. " fence" together, going towards the Borough. Confident that the former were on their route homewards, after having committed some depredations, he cautiously followed, and having seen them enter a house in Fox's-buildings, he immediately obtained the assistance of Gough, another constable, and they proceeded into the house together, and apprehended the two prisoners, the " fence" having made his escape by jumping out of a one-pair back window. In their possession he found 16 sovereigns, together with various implements for house-breaking, and amongst them, in the pocket of Bart lett, a dark lantern. Myers said, that having secured the prisoners, and taken possession of all he found upon them, he soon afterwards heard of the robbery at Croydon, and having proceeded thither, on examining the premises, he discovered that they had been broken into with the in struments he found on the men at the bar ; for the marks on the window shutters, and those imprinted on the es crutoire, in forcing it open, precisely corresponded with them. Myers intimated to the Magistrate, that he held a detainer against the prisoner Taylor, alias Croker, for felony committed in the county of Middlesex, namely, stealing seven silver candlesticks, the property of the Earl of Aberdeen. The followinghouses were broken into the three succeeding nights previous to that of Mrs. Goose, all of which the pri soners are suspeetedef being concerned in : —The premises of Mrs. Crease, a widow lady, in Croydon : the thieves effected an entrance by boring through the shutters, and plundered plate and clothes. Also the house of Mr. Weller, a silver smith, was entered the following night, and property, con sisting of watches and plate to the amount of some hundreds of pounds, stolen. The night subsequent to that on which the latter robbery was committed, the premises of Mr. Cheritt, in High-street, were also plundered of plate and clothes. In fact, to such an extent have rob beries been planned and effected about Croydon, that the utmost dismay prevailed in the minds of all, urtil their fears have been at length in some measure quieted by the apprehension of the prisoners, both of whom were fully committed for trial. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS, MAY 30. ACCIDENT ON BOARD A STEAM-VESSEL. —J. Irving was indicted fur the manslaughter:of William Melly. The Jury found that he had been guilty pf inattention, and that such inattention had caused the death of the de ceased ; but they recommended him to mercy. Lord STOWELL, in addressing the prisoner, said, that, as he had already suffered three months' imprisonment for this offence, the Court were, on that account, disposed to treat him with tenderness, and therefore adjudged that he should enter into his own recognizances of 5001. to appear when required, to receive sentence. Hannibal Marchant was indicted for the manslaughter of Robert Gates, on the 25th of March, when off the coast of Holland, in a fishing-vessel named the Gratitude.— Acquitted. MEETINGS. OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY. -- ritIDLY JuxE 1..-(At the Court of Commissioners, BLinghall-street.) Barnett, W., Sheerness ll Jefferies, J., Lambeth Boulter, 13., Reading l2 Jones, T. , Fetter-lane ll Bulmer, S., Oxford-street... 10 Mitchell, J., Old Jewry 9 Carroll, T., Drury-lane lO Noah, G., Bruton-street ... 11 Collman 6_,. Chelsea lO Phipps, P., Shoreditch Dean, d., Kennington 9 Prudence, J., Miles-lage ... 11 Edie, R., Broad-Street Eiger, W.,•Maidstone. l2 Sior, W. Somers' town lO Finch, 8., F_gham lO Till, C., Taunton lO Foster, G., Kensington.-- 11 Weaver, R., Ply Mouth .10 Hill, 6.,Patornoster-row... 11 Wheeler, J., Fleet-street Hodge, J ., Islington 9 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street. Lincoln's Inn Fields, JUNE 4,, AT Niwa. Ballarn, T., Fetter-lane Stunt, J., Sheerness Barker, W., Shelton Vivian, P., Croydon Blundell, J. Bethnal-green Watt, J., Ratcliffe Norwood,.l., Bristol Wells, W., Bermondsey Ribble, I'., Drury-lane Williams, J., Llanbtephen Maddock, J., Whitcchapel MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, MAY 30. Isaac Sutton, a cabriolet driver, was indicted for hav ing, on the 13th December, driven his cabriolet over a fe male named Harrison, by which her legs were broken, and she was otherwise seriously injured. The Jury found him Guilty, and he was ordered to be brought up on Saturday, to receive sentence. Edward Sturges, a young man of highly respectable ap pearance, the deputy organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, was indicted for assaulting Jane Weaver on the 26th of March last. The prosecutrix, who is about forty years of age, stated that the defendant had visited her house fin• a consi derable length of time, as a suitor to her daughter, who is a public singer, but she disapproved of his addresses ; and, on the night in question, she discovered that her daughter's clothes had been clandestinely removed, preparatory to her being married to the defendant. Witness left the house at twelve o'clock at night on the 26th of March, for the pur pose of bringing her daughter back, and she followed them from the Rotunda, in Blackfriars-road, to a. house near St. Illary's Church, in the Strand, the door of which was open to admit her daughter. Witness placed herself in the door way to prevent her daughter from entering, when the de fendant struck her a violent blow in the face, which knocked her down, and he also tore her shawl from her shoulders ; she gave him in charge to the watchman, who took him to the watch-house. Francis Hartwell accompanied Mrs. Weaver in search of her daughter, who struck her mother, and attacked witness also; he interfered merely to protect Mrs. W. from the violence of the defendant.-.-. Cross-examined :—He meant to swear that he did not live with Mrs. Weaver at the pre sent time; he (lid not know how old her youngest child was (Miss Weaver here said that the child was six years old); Mrs. Weaver had lodged in his house about 13 months ago. Mr. ALLEY, in addressing the Jury for the defence, should clearly prove by the evidence of the prosecutor's own daughter, that she was the aggressor. . Miss Elizabeth Weaver, a young lady of uncommon beauty and fashionable appearance, deposed, that she had quitted her mother's roof in consequence of her connection with the witness Hartwell. On the night in question she was coming from the Rotunda with Mr. Sturges, and they were going into the house near St. Mary's Church, when her mother came up and struck the defendant twice in the face, and afterwards her mother sent the defendant and witness to the watchhouse for the night. The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced the defendant —Not Guilty. The Rev. John Bolton, Minister of a Dissenting Con gregatilm in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, was indicted for assaulting two girls, named Fanny and Elizabeth Mayers, with intent to violate their persons. The girls resided with their parents, in Chapel-yard, Newton street, Holborn. On the night of the 22d March, Fanny Mayers went into the apartments of a Mrs. Duffy, where the de fendant, she said, took hold of her, placed her on his knee, and took indecent liberties with her person. She got away from him, but he followed her into the passage, blew the candle out, and again took indelicate liberties with her. Elizabeth Mayers said, that hearing her sister scream she went to her assistance, and the defendant treated her in the same indelicate manner. Mr. Aocii.rmtJs, jun., for the defendant, said it was a most infamous fabrication and conspiracy, trumped up for the purpose of extorting money. William Duffy and his wife proved that they were in the room when the girls were there, and that the defen dant did not touch them. They went to bed before he left the house, and defendant returned to his lodgings. A paper, signed by Fanny Mayers, was produced, wherein she stated that she did not wish to appear against Mr. Bol ton, but she had been induced to prefer the charge by her uncle, to extort money ; what she bad sworn at Bow street and Clerkenwell was false, and she believed Mr. Bol ton to be an honest man. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. THE KING against LANCELOT COOPER, FOR FORGERY. This culprit, to whom the Royal mercy was ex tended, greatly to his own astonishment, by commu tation, has been, it is ascertained, more extensive in his plans of levying contributions upon the public, and in his success, than any man who has been for many years executed, with the exception of Faunt leroy. He was tried for forgery at the Old Bailey last sessions, and convicted upon one indictment : to another he pleaded guilty. It was not thought necessary to proceed on a great number of other in dictments against him, which were just as easily proveable, the committee of bankers for the preven tion of forgery having probably thought that the two convictions were sufficient to bring down the extreme severity of the law upon the prisoner. The cheques were many of them drawn upon the following houses : —Sir W. Curtis and Co. ; Messrs. Praed and Co. ; Messrs. Currie, Raikes, and Ca; Messrs. J. De nison and Sons ; and Messrs. Coutts and Co.— Some of them were paid away by Cooper to Mr. Hawley of the Strand, Mr. Hamlet, Mr. Austin, Mr. Hopkinson, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Laurence, Mr. Taylor, and Mr. Eddels, and the names which Cooper chose to sign to the cheques were—James Allison, Thomas Edward Crofton, Ed ward George Cook, George Crofton, Edward Jack son, James Cope, &c. Cooper entered the navy 20 years ago. In 1813., he was dismissed the service, in which he had acted as purser, without court martial, for, forgery and general infamous conduct. —His career from that time has been so depraved, that those who are best qualified to calculate upon the probable decisions of the Privy Council were of opinion, that all interposition to save his life would be quite useless. Indeed, we understand that when he heard of his respite, he was near losing his senses. He is a man of good address and of impenetrable impudence, but he is without educa tion. Amongst his papers was found a letter written in the French language, and addressed to the Prin cess Charlotte of Wales in the handwriting of the late unfortunate Queen Caroline. It contained a most affectionate request, that the Princess Would use her interest to induce Lord Castlereagh to re store the bearer to the situation of Consul at Ve nice, from which situation it appeared to have been the impression of her Majesty, through the misre presentations of Cooper, the fellow had been remo ved from pique. It is said that this letter was procured for him by some person of high rank at Venice, upon whom he no doubt imposed by the most egregious falsehoods. About two years ago he paid his ad dresses to a young lady at Gosport, called himself Captain Cole, and prevailed upon her to marry him. He soon afterwards deserted her without leaving her any provision. He played off an ingenious trick upon the American Ambassador here, by which he got hold of the sum of .501. He obtained some par ticulars of the domestic concerns of a Member of Congress, and represented to the Ambassador that he (Cooper) was brother to that member; and that he was in daily expectation of a large remittance from America, until he should receive which he must be greatly inconvenienced unless some coun tryman would give him a temporary loan. The Ambassador, finding that the story of his applicant was probable enough, and that Cooper had a bill pur-1 porting to be drawn by the bank of the United States upon Messrs. Baring and Co., gave him a letter of in troduction to that firm, who, upon the responsibility of his Excellency, immediatelyeashed thebill,which,how ever proved not to be worth three farthings. Last summer he obtained the sum of 5001. fr om M e ssrs. Hawkins and Sons, of the Plymouth bank, for a forged bill of exchange on the house of Baring and Co. Cooper got this bill discounted by means of a forged letter of introduction from Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, which introduced him as Captain Cole. For this forgery a detainer was also lodged against him in Newgate. The signature to the bill is a complete fac simile. Upon Cooper's person were found numbers of bills and cheques upon Baring and Co., ready to be filled up, and an American passport in the name Of Allison. It is generally reported in the city, that this instance of clemency arose from the recommendation of his Majesty's new Home Secretary. Whatever may have been the cause of so singular an exception to the, dreadful principle of general executions for the offence of forgery, the next person who undergoes the extreme sentence of the la* upon such an indictment must be the most inveterate and incorrigible of robber.. FEMALE FASHIONS Fon JUNE. (From La Belle Assemblie.). • SUMMER PROMENADE ga of pistachio green taffety, made partially 1.00"; with a broad border composed of foliage omit-, ; round the skirt ; the leaves, w hi c h extend; upwards upwards and downwards, are confined in the middle by a ring-strap, which seems to separate one leaf from the other : every leaf is edged, round by a narrow rouleau ; and the points 0 1 , the upper leaves are each finished by a rosette 01 ribbon, the colour of the dress: the hem nest the shoe is concealed by a wadded rodeall* Plain body, a l'Espagnole, with Castilian points' round the waist : each side of the bust so orna mented as to form a stomacher in front, coo' posed of zig-zag diamonds in rich silk cordos• The sleeves are in the gigot shape, but not verY, capacious, with antique points at the wrists, and next the hand a broad gold br ace l e t, fastened with a cameo. A collar, a la Chevaliere, of fo i e lace, falls over from the th roa t, an d i s fastene d in front, with a red cornelian, set in wrough t gold. Over a small cap of lace is worn a Leg' horn hat, lined with pi n k, an d trimme d with bows of broad ribbon, of straw-colou r and pistachio-green ; very long strings of th e same ribbon floating over the shoulders. f EVENING COSTUME.—Dress of tulle, or 0 gossamer gauz e , ov e r w hit e sa ti n ; th e bor d e r richly ornamented in slight white satin : next the feet the ornament is of an antique Greco' figure, forming a sort of fluting : above this, 13 rouleau, which is surmounted by a regular o' 4 of scrolls of crape, edged with white satin : these scrolls are stiffened, and, though light, have a very rich appearance. The b o dy is of whir satin, fitting close to the shape, with a doub le falling tucker of broad blond divided by Parr rouleaux of satin : the sleeves ve r y s h or t, 0 3114 and full. On th e right side of the bust is vgl a small bouquet o f full-blown summer roses• d _ sash of rich white ribbon has thre e e nd s dePe n ing in front, which do not come quite so low the trimming at the border : each of these en"' is terminated by a bow of ribbon. A diadera; beret-toque constitutes the head-dress, and is 0 ' pink spotted gauze ; the diadem-toque part ver) much elevated : next the hair a regal coronet' bandeau, a la Cleopatra : a pink plume, re" sembling that of the Bird-of-Paradise, falls over the left side. The ear-rings are of fine pear,lt as is the necklace, which is fastened in front nt a cameo set in gold : beneath this necklace ig tied a pink barege sautoir, drawn through ring, with an antique head in cameo. SECRET SERVICE. Extract from an Account of all Sums issued froto the x'7 4 chequer for Secret Services (exclusive of the Sumo p a at the Treasury and Exchequer for the Official Fee i i i, the issue of the Money), from the sth of JanuaryllB;c - to the sth of January, 1827, specifying th e Suing,„ — sued in each Year, and the Departments of the S to which the same have been issued. Departmpti. Dates. TotaL Foreign. Home. 43,000 0 0 . 43,000 0 0 46,000 0 0 62,000 0 0 . .0 36,000 0 34,00 0 0 0 57,836 10 52,000 0 0 :4 50,000 0 0 63,583 • • - JOSEPH PLANTA, Jun• Whitehall, Treasury-chamber, May 14, 182'7. fo r *** In these extracts the comparatively small sum!, ; u,' the " Colonial and "Admiralty " departments are owitoL, they make up the differegees between the sums issnea e `i, the " Foreign" and " Home" Departments, And " Total" sums. THE MARKETS. COAL M A RICET.—May 30. s a l . 66 , 31s. 6d. I Walls End Newthateb... 30 3 Ditto Peareth az 6 Ditto ;12 Ditto Russell's a.' 0 Ditto Walker 33 35 0 Ditto l e Londonderry small 16 6. Ellison small 0 Hebhurn Bean ?, 7 0 Lambton small Blyth Main 0 Fordcl Z I 0 Hartley Scotch — Elgin Main 6 Walls End HettOn.--..• 30 96 5 Ditto Lambton • 6 Ditto Ditto Stewart's Adair's Beamnont. Burd .. on Eighton 6 Felling 28 0 Heaton 33 6 30 6 Liddell's 29 9 Old Walker*--...,, T 2 0 Pelaw 30 9 Tanfield 33 6 Townls,y, 3O 9 Wylam - 32 0 WallsEndliewieke,S,Co. 35 6 Ditto Brown's---,---- 31 0 Ditto Carr and Co. 20 0 Ditto Cramlington--,-.. 29 3 Ditto Hilda Ditto Jesmond 33 3 Ditto Northumberland 31 6 Ships at Market, 93%-1"l, ° ips sold, 49%..--Unsoltl, 44' COUNTRY CORN MARK Wheat. S. to 8. 50 - 56 60 57 63 56 48 56 60 56 66 56 58 50 60 DURING THE NV_V.,V.,4. Bean' 5. to S. s. to S. S. to A 4t 23 50 39 475 31 39 44 6 3 40 43 26 3g 51 40 44 36 38 60 6. 1 38 40 26 SO f 4 j 40 41 38 ~ r ; bs 42 43 32 32 33 L' 6 0 , 40 42 31 36 nu 3? 40 28 32 43' Barley. Oats. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS Ex roza% V -. IMPORTED. Same pe- This I nod last year. year. Liverpool London Glasgow 1 Bags, &c. Bags, &c. 947,634 906,693 24,930 37.649 26,374 11,069 Total exported in I 24,300. IPre gy i 1Y V. Ye__..... 0,3 0, go 5° COTTON WOOL—GLASGOW. The sales during the week amounted to 1,014 bale °' Sea Islands 466 Boweds " e.d. (Vol d. a 7%d• 314 Orleans 21 Denieraras 113 Egyptians 7 — E( . l. a 84.• 47 iits a ted Impor from Charleston 4 .••••••-• 00000 .• 469 Do. from Savannah Do. from Alexandria 23L 0 Do. from Grenada. BIRTHS. sl On the 2 5 th inst. at Richinga Lodge, Bucks, the of J. A. Sullivan, Esq., of a son. On the 21st inst. the lady of Dr. Bright, of a DIED. Wif e ' Yesterday, aged 29, Harriet Anne , the belorrosil of Lewis Hensley, Esq., of Great,larass-street square. 1 Y eei ' On the 25th inst. at Tunbridge Wells, in-her 1- 4 t o te the Right Honourable Lady Listnore, re li c t of the johy , Lord Lisrnore, and daughter of the late Right HO' Ponsonby. ' , ( ) fit be d ' On the 19th inst., Mr. Ralph Bradley, of f r iars, aged 43. s C 1444' On the 2 3 d inst., Mary Ann , dau g hter of. Mr.• of Hackney. the'' PRINTED and PUBLIEDISD by M . youxu, -- Sux-Opywr, No. 112, Straw!, 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 . 1823 1824 1825 1826 X. a. d. 40,000 0 0 40,000 0 0 33,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 30,000 0 0 30,000 0 0 54,836 10 3 45,000 0 0 45,000 0 0 58,883 2 3 1,000 1,000 1,000 (Bags, Szc. 350 Per Quarter. Boston ---.- Canterbury Grantham Gri ITlsby* Lincoln - :Maidstone Spilsby. 3,000 3,000 6,000 2,000 3,000 1,000 MARRIED. Yesterday, at Croydon, Mr. Toulmin, banker, Loin tiara- On street, the 29tk inst to Miss Leig .at Barton h, of Watfor d Mills, Suffolk , tx . 1- Ile ° , Charles Jenkin Bye, Fellow of St. Peter's Colleget i wyet , bridge, to Emily Martha, eldest daughter of W. ' 47 Esq., of Barton th in -hall. On the 295 t., at St. Alphages, by the 1 1 °'' Watts, of Sion College, the Rev. Robert Watts, iuniitef Lincoln College, Oxford, to Pauline, youngest (11/15009c, of the late Thomas Smith, Esq., of the Charte r St. Paul's. gr El At Greenwich, on the 29th inst., by the 'ir;1031911 Dallin, Mr. Hugh Cross, son and heir of the late GPcosst Cross, Esq., to Maria, eldest daughter of nr. G• of Blackheath.