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that the Court of King's tench has decided that grouse are not game. This is n so—the de cision was this—in a case in which the Duke of Devonshire was a party, it was held that grouse .are not " birds of warren," within the meaning of a Royal grant of free warren-1m this does not make them less game than they were before. By the ancient forest laws, our Kings had a power (now happily no longer exercised) of granting to any of their subjects, usually sonic great Nobleman, a right of free chase, or free warren, over a certain large tract of cOanis try—anti where this has been granted, no other person has the right of either hunting, or of killing " birds or beasts of warren," in any place over which this feudal right extends with out the leave of the king's grantee—and as the King's grantee may have right of free warren over lands of which lie is not the owner, it may happen that a gentleman may have an estate of ten thousand a-year, earn yet not have the right of coursing a hare or shooting a partridge on his own estate, without being liable to acttons for damages, at the suit of some. grantee of the Crows, whose right of fret warren may extend over every acre of his neighbour's large estate.— His Grace of Devonshire had a right of this sort, and it becoming a question whether a person had infringed upon it by shooting grouse, it was held in the Court of King's Bench that he had not, because grouse did not come within the de scription of birds of warren. However, persons who kill grouse without being duly qualified in respect of estate, &c., or without having paid th e game certificat e duty, are liable to penalties pre cisely as they were before this decision.—Morn ing Herald. The object of the journey of Count Capo d'lstria to this country cannot be mistaken ; and it will, therefore, we trust, be treated with all the delicacy and caution which its nature requires. The British Government will never permit a Russian, in feelings and habits, and bound to that Empire by the strongest ties of gratitude, for past obligations conferred upon him—the British Government we fearlessly assert, will not allow any such man to wield, at his mere pleasure, the destinies of Greece. If our interference were justified--were necessary in regard to the Porte, it is for other and for stronger reasons applicable to Russia, who must not get an additional foot ing in the Archipelago. We fear little from any efforts which she could make against our interest in that quarter ; nor, in truth, is there any good reason for believing that her ambition is at pre sent so ill-directed ; but as in most cases pre vention is s a f er th an the chance of cure, our policy must be prompt, bold, and decisive. No half measures will answer—no wavering—no equivocation--4o subterfuge ; and if the Count make that appeal to the British Go vernment which it is but reasonable to believe he will—the more laconic and prompt our denial, the better. We impute not to the Count any wild or extravagant projects of ambi tion ; we have attributed none to the Court from whence he has been released in such flattering terms ; but we doubt as to the construction which should be put on his letter of introduc tion ; and that doubt must be explained away, before we advance a portion of our honour and our dignity on such a suspicious document. We do not live in times when compromise seems very efficacious ; and though often desirable, and in fact the only means of settling conflicting interests and opinions, this is not a case in which it can be practised with utility. Humanity and religion-have long pleaded- for the deliverance of Greece, and we were atnonkst the first to urge , for the protection of A laud endeared to us by the early. recollections of her fadeless glory. We objected upon principle to the mastery of the Turkish scimetar, and we implored that the best blood of Greece should not be savagely spilled by the ferocious Ottoman. But Turkey—and it is lamentable that the state of Europe should require it—Turkey must not be crippled, much less destroyed. Though the independence of Greece, if practi cable, would on the one hand be an event which we should hail with delight, yet on the other, common policy claims the admission that the existence of Turkey is necessary to the due pre servation of the balance of power in Europe. We believe the Count Capo d'lstria to be a very clever man—his character for diplomatic intrigue was not very long since the subject of great praise in Paris ; and that he should quit a post of honour and emolument, for a doubtful eleva tion, is not one of the strongest inducements with us for favourably listening to his proposals. They may be liberal, generous, and just; he may offer guarantees that he will not abuse the power which is likely to be vested in him ; but we cannot disguise from ourselves, that we should still fear the existence of a snake being somewhere in the grass. At all events, common prudence and common sense alike teach us the utility of caution.—Morning - Post. Chief Justice Best has followed up his address to the Wiltshire Grand Jury, by a still more ela borate address to the Grand Jury of Somerset shire, his native county. In this last discourse he has adverted to a multitude of topics, as con nected directly or indirectly with the alarming increase of crime in this country. Sir William Best is unquestionably possessed of good natural faculties ; and' as his schooling has been rather in the world, than in those black-letter shops in which the developement of the mental powers would seem to be improved by a process of which the Chinese mode of improving female feet may be said to be typical, he speaks with more effect on general subjects than lawyers usually do.— He is shrewd and plausible, and the effect of w h a t he says is heightened by an earnestness which seems constitutional with him, and which is exceedingly rare with Englishmen, whose mode of speaking is in general indicative of the cool indifference which belongs to their charac ter. We can easily, therefore, understand how his Address to the Wiltshire Grand Jury should have operated like enchantment on that body of Squires, and led them to express, by acclamation as it were, an approbation of some positions, at which, in their sober moments, they would have been startled. The Somersetshire Grand Jury were, it appears, more on their guard ; and though Sir William laboured much harder for their approbation than he did for that of their brethren of Wiltshire, they cautiously abstained fro m following the precedent set by the latter. — Sir William reverts to the subject of boxing, one f th e cases to be tried being manslaughter, aris ing Out of a fight. " I have before," he says <, had occa.sionto make some observations upon the prac tice of fighting ; and I have seen, without pain, the remark, on what was supposed to have fallen from me onthat s ubj ec t. G o d f or bid, Gentle men, that T shouldpractice b e cons id ere d to h ave encou raged the horrid of prize-fighting ; but although I consider boxin g to be an evil, I look upon it as a smaller evil, and as a less degrading practice than it that whi c h prevails in those coun tries where is not to be found . We have the choice of two evils ; and I now repeat it, that the practice of boxing is a law of peace. It encourages habit that prevent the gratification of a Malignant spirit by the use of knives, or other deadly instruments, which are employed by one man to obtain an unfair advantage over another. Instead, therefore, of tending to de stroy, I thinks it tends to the preserVatitVn cf human life," There is, `l.lpeii the whole, sound sense in this A's then will quarrel and fight, it it befter perhaps that they should fight with their hands, than with weapons of any kind. It is on this ground that boxing chiefly is defen sible. But not con t ent with thk negative praise, Sir William Best rtiiiS out into 41 eulo gium of the practice as tending to keep alive that truly British s pi r it w hi c h had enabled us to gain so many brilliant victories, and con tracted it with the brutal mode c'fflgliting north of the Trent, called tp-and-down fighting. What ever sttligthens the body, tends of course to produce mental intrepidity, and therefore all Gymnastic exercises—boxing among the rest— may be said to promote bravery,, Bitt via siis pect too much importance is attributed to this particular mode of exercising the body, as a cause of bravery ; and any experienced officer will tell Sir William Best, that it is not the soldiers raised in the boxing counties, but those raised i n th e t , up-and-down" counties, who constitute the flower of the British army, both for appearance and energy. But if boxing be so instrumental in keeping alive the truly British spirit, which is the cause of the victories achieved by British armies, Sir William, in consistency, ought to have not merely apologized for it, but recom mended attention to the means best calculated to keep the practice alive. Here, however, he is not overand above consistent. " Though far from wishing to put down the practice, I am yet most de sirous to prevent the abuse of that practise. I can not bear the idea of an Englishman standing by to enjoy a danger he does not endure, and set ting men to fight for the vilest of all purposes— for that of gambling, in order that bets may be made upon the result of that contest that may terminate fatally for one of the parties engaged in it." And lie threatens those who stand by, en couraging such fights, with the vengeance of the law. But, in order that boxing may have those rules which arc so much admired by his Lord ship, and in order that those rules may be im pressed on the public generally, it is necessary that the fights should be numerously attended. If boxing were to be confined to accidental scuffles which take place between individuals who fall out, it is morally impossible that it should have its laws, or that they should be engravers on the minds of the people. The notice of a fight draws an assemblage, and prizes and bets lead to the establishment of rules, according to which the contest shall be conducted. There would be no public fights but for the prizes and the bettings, for it is impossible to suppose that the low people, who alone box in public, could be induced to cultivate the science, and prepare themselves, without any indemnification for their blows and their loss of time ; and it is equally impossible to suppose that there should not be the same betting on the results in the case of boxing, which there is in every other case where a number of men are observing any event, the result of which is involved in uncertainty. It is puerile, therefore, to say that he admires box ing, while he shrinks from the inevitable conse quence of its cultivation. He might as well ad mire the art of jockeyship, and yet condemn the running of races for prizes, and the betting money on a contest for speed, , which ,sometimes terminates fatally to the poor steeds. So much for boxing. But this is only one of many sub jects which Sir William discusses. He reverts to the important subject of the increase of crime, which he very properly ascribes chiefly to the po verty of the people. " Experience justifies me (he says) in asserting that wages are the baro meter by which we may ascertain with consider able accuracy the state of crime in a county. — Wherever wages have been high, I have found the amount of crime comparatively small-- wherever they have been low, I have observed with pain that the labourer has resorted to the law of nature, and supported himself by plunder." We noticed the other day the case ofCumberland, where crime has been positively decreasing during the last ten years. But Sir Wm. Best is like the Indian Divines, who make the world rsst on an elephant, but forget to make the elephant rest on any thing. Wages are the barometer for ascertaining crime, but what is the barometer for wages ? He has, in the interval between his address in 'Wiltshire and the present, been taught that wages cannot be arbitrarily raised or lowered, and he therefore expresses himself more warily now. Low wages are the consequence of the disproportion between the supply of labour and the demand for it, and to talk of raising wages by any other means than reducing the su perabundance of labourers, or increasing the quantity of work, is sheer twaddle. The Gen try of England, by their officious intermeddling with labour, destroyed the connection between it and the reward which led to a redundant population. Without the presence of that Magi stracy, in which Chief Justice Best sees so many virtues, this curse could never have befallen England ; but though a parcel of Booby 'Squires could produce the evil, the cure is beyond their power. Any idiot may cut through the bank which preserves a whole country from inunda tion ; but to repair the evil requires the com bined effort of numbers and skill. They who think that it is a light matter to stem the torrent which is now hurrying the population of Eng land to destruction, are very weak indeed. But where are the men possessed of that moral courage which the exigency demands ? There are men who will declaim like Sir William Best, or who will cant in that sickening style, which is characteristic of us as a nation, but who is there to encounter the odium of proposing, or sup. porting the severe measures which can alone save the country ? We have not left ourselves space for adverting to the other topics of the charge. Morning Chronicle. Among our Reports of Assize proceedings will be found a Trial, at the County of Down Assizes, for perjury. The proceedings are of importance, as serving to show the impossibility of obtaining a pure administration of justice in Ireland, under the existin g justiciary system.— " This cause," says The Belfast Northern Whig, « has arisen out of the fatal occurrence which took place at Hilltown, on the sth of November last. A number of Orangemen pa raded, with their usual insignia, before the Ro where th e peop l e o f th a t man Catholic Chapel, persuasion were at worship : a quarrel ensued, and two Roman Catholics lost their lives. . • One man was prosecuted for the m ur d er , Ile was acquitted. One of the evidence against him has been tried for perjury, and found guilty. 'We have no. doubt of Mr. Lindsay's inno cence ; and, though we think the unfortunate :boy who gave testimony against him might have , ibeen led, in the hurry and confusion consequent upon the affray, into an illusion, which it would be harsh to construe into wilful perjury, yet we are satisfied that the Jury returned a conscien tious verdict. It is, however, a most extraordi nary circumstance, that a most respectable Mer chant, of Newry, who ix the leading Catholic r f that ion., and who had been Foreman of a Jury previously impanelled, was peremptorily chal lenged by the Crown, and, with four or five other Roman Catholics, obliged to retire from the jury box. It is also a singular circumstance, that all the witnesses for the prosecution deposed that all the stiiiieS were thrown, and all the shots were fired, by the Roman Catholic party. Sir Jonah Barrington relates a story of an Irish peasant, who cut off his own hand, while striking at a salmoh with the end of his scythe ; but these unfortunate Roman Catholics must have been still more unlucky marksmen Against the justice of the verdict returned we throw out no insinuation. But it is remarkable, and, we regret to say, fax from a solitary fact, that two Roman Catholics have been murdered, and yet no one has been brought to justice ; while another Roman Catholic has become liable to transportation, from a circumstance aris ing out of the same fatal event. We have no hesi tation in saying, that had the same strenuous exertions been made to bring the murderers to justice that have been resorted to in order to convict this unfortunate boy, the perpetrators of tha foul deed would not have escaped. We have no hesitation in saying, that in Ireland there is one law for the Protestant, and another for the Catholic. We may be stigmatized as being the organ of a party ; but conscious of the purity of our motives, we shall fearlessly speak our sentiments, and take part with the wronged and oppressed, whatever may be their creed." The circumstances stated by the Bel fitst Northern Whig speak volumes. It would appear, that in those Counties of the North of Ireland where the Protestants are the most nu merous, the Catholics are placed altogether out of the pale of the law. We should express ourselves more concisely, were we to say that the law is one of the means by which the Protestants inflict wrongs on the Catholics. The law not only gives impunity to the Protestants—but when the poor Catholics, goaded by their wrongs, :, fly to the Courts for redress, their oppressors laugh them to scorn, and coolly scan the pro ceedings, to strike, through some vulnerable point in them, their hapless victims. The Catholics were shot ; but all the shots were fired by Catholics, all the stones were thrown by Catholics, all the blows were struck by Catholics. So say the Protestant witnesses, secure of the protection of Protestant Jurors ; and this mockery of justice is suffered month after month, and year after year. It is truly the fable of the Wolf and the Lamb— whatever the poor Catholic does, he is sure to be in the wrong. The more we see of the proceed ings in Ireland, the more we are satisfied that Lord Liverpool was in the right, when he at tributed no small share of the evils of that country to the English law. The institutions of the English cannot be transferred in the lump to a country placed in different circumstances. The institution of Juries is unsuitable in all countries in which the population is divided into castes, whether political or civil. It would be a mockery of justice, for instance, to try a negro by a Jury of white planters. Planters may sit in judgment on planters, and negroes may sit in judgment on negroes, but when a negro injures a planter, or a planter a negro, the judge of the wrong should belong to neither body. In former times the population--of this • oouritryl was composed of freemen and bondsmen. The freemen were all equal in the eye of the law, and all capable of sitting in judgment on each other in the capacity of Jurors. The Jurors sat in judgment only on their equals, for bondsmen were subject to their Lords. In Ireland, in the present day, certain privileges, attached to the profession of the Protestant religion, seem to have the effect of inflaming Protestants and Catholics with ani mosity towards each other, and literally divides the population into two distinct castes. Every cause of dispute between a Protestant and a Catholic becomes a trial of strength between the two castes ; and as the Protestants have the law in their hands, they naturally exclude the Catho lics from Juries in party causes, and use the law merely as an engine for upholding their influence and punishing their opponents. So long as Ca tholics and Protestants shall be separated by laws of exclusion and ascendancy, it is vain to hope for any other result from appeals to Juries in the North of Ireland, than the adding fresh insult to former wrong. The institutions of England only enable the ascendancy party to fill the measure of oppression of the Catholics to the brim. Should the two sects be made equal in the eye of the law, the animosity could not be expected to cease immediately with the cause of it ; but every rear it would become more and more weak, and many years would not elapse before it would live only in history. The animosities between th e Catholics and Protestants of Silesia have now become fairly extinct ; but when the present President of the United States, Mr. Quincy Adams, visited that country in 1800, they were still keen.—" Silesia (he says) was originally, under the Austrian Government, a Catholic province ; at this time about one half of its in habitants still adhere to that religion ; and al though the steady maxims of the Prussian Govern ment, and still more, the revolutions of time and opinions, have powerfully operated to introduce a spirit of mutual forbearance, if not harmony, there is, perhaps, no part of Europe where the root of bitterness between the two parties is yet so deep, and cleaves with such stubbo rnness to e cand the ground, as here. The Catholics s hatere n uPnrloimtesitteadntlsibtehretyminortehfeoirr worshiphying now u ; and th e Pro testantsstillreti ane,nvsyndt,hvehli;Chattillolipcsrustshiean Government psivil ege th e y hes bound itself to preserve. M. Zoll uer, w h o published a Tour through Silesia, m a d e in the year 1771, and from whom I draw much of th e information I give you, says that it is comm on here for a Catholic to exhibit before a Lutheran Judge a complaint a gainst another Catholic for calling him a Lutheran, and requirin g satis faction for what he considers as the blackest slander that could be cast upon him." As h uman . nature is the same in Ireland that it is in Silesia, it is probable that the Irish Protestants would, for a time, be as much exasperated against the Ca tholics, on account of the loss of their ascend ancy, as the Silesian Catholics were on account of the loss of theirs. But distinctions not sup ported .. by something more solid than feelings of this sort, soon become obliterated. In the mean time, while the law is the root of the division of .tite population into two classes, an approxima tion to justice can only he looked for in the ap pointment of Judges removed as far as possible from sympathy with either. The benefit of some thing like this has already been experienced in the Police system, to which we find great virtues are attributed by a ll th e J u d ges on t h e Ci rcu it s . 'The Police Magistrates were a more indifferent and impartial description of Magistrates than any the Irish had been accustomed to, and hence the people have always given them the prefe rence. Despotic power is not the enemy that Ireland has to dread, for it can only hope for petzc And tranquillity thrciugh the power of the Government coercing parties.—lbid. In another part of our Paper will be found the charge addressed by Chief Justice Best to the Grand Jury, at Bridgewater, on Monday last, when opening the Assizes at that place. It iffers a fdvt, 'Ants to which it is not uninterest ing, or even uninstructive, to direct attention, It first informs us of the unpleasing fact, that in that part of the country, es in almost every other district, the increase of crime has been rapid and uninterrupted. The appronh, or rather, we be lieve we may venture to say, the arrival, of better times yin, however, soon put a stop to the growth of the evil, which once arrested in its course, will P t length take a retrograde direction; for public morals, to a greater degree thal: it is ' generally imagined, depend upon public pro sperity. The next. point which the Learned Judge illustrated is one of less general im portance, but yet, in his estimation, evi dently one of considerable interest—it is the ancient British practice of fighting, or , i n less elevated language, the once popular, and now half abandoned, exercise of boxing. W e have seldom met with a more eloquent vindica tion of that practice, except from the Learned Judge himself, by whom its superiority over the continental modes of compassing revenge with a knife or the dagger ; has more than once been de monstrated. In this instance, however, he soared beyond his former panegyric, and not satisfied with showing, (whilst directing the attention of the Grand Jury, to a case of manslaughter occa sioned by its indulgence) that boxing " instead of causing the sacrifice of life, in fact, preserved life," he undertook to prove that it was at the bottom of all our victories, and had in some measure affected the destinies of the world.— For what other interpretation can be affixed to the following passage :—" It supports and encourages that British spirit, which has raised 'our country so high, by a continuance of victories, and has not only insured our success, but the success of civilized order throughout the world ?" lie had known, it was true, of many indictments being preferred in the North, where the practice of fighting prevailed, " all of which approximated to something very like murder ;" but yet he recommended the Grand Jury, and, perhaps, justly too, in the examination of the case of manslaughter which would be laid before them, to think less of the criminality of the individual by whom death had been inflicted, than of those who had turned the battle into an exhibition for amusement, or an opportunity for making profitable bets. " If, therefore," said the Learned Judge, " you find that any one stood by, or betted on the occasion, present an indictment against him as a partici pator and abettor of the unfortunate man, and he shall find, that instead of encouraging such a transaction, I shall take the most effectual means in my power to put a stop to it." This is cer tainly an important direction, though a little at variance with the possibility of maintaining the practice itself; for, from the moment that it loses its character as an exhibition, it must cease.— Nero Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.--Yesterday a laud coal-meter, maimed .I.inch, appeared, to answer the complaint of the principal coal-meter, - whncharged him with having de frauded the City of London of the duty upon a large quan tity of coals, which he, in conjunction with another land coal•tneter, was appointed to measure. W. Reeve stated the case; and said, that from the Ist of May to the 3d of June, 1826, the duty upon 550 chaldrons and a half of coals was unaccounted for. Upon an investigation into the cause of this extraordinary defi ciency, a book was introduced, which contained the sepa rate entries made by the coal-meters. The defendant, however, who had access to the book, tore out, according, to his own acknowledgment, some of the leaves containing the items of the returns, so that it was impossible to bring home the offence by means of that document. It would appear, however, that there were sufficient grounds in the fact of the tearing out the particular leaves of the return book, to justify the Lord Mayor in sentencing the defendant ' to dismissal. The defendant then declared that he could not account for the deficiency. He could not say what his comrade might have done in the business. As to the books, he ad mitted that he had torn out some leaves, but he had no guilty purpose in doing so. There was, in fact, a great deal of confusion in the office. He had, however, returned the leaves, and he called upon the principals to say whether there had been any imputation upon his honesty before. The LORD MAYOR said, he had been obliged in the Court of Aldermen, to pronounce the dismissal of a coal-meter for an offence of precisely a similar kind. Examples must be made to protect the City of London, and it was therefore his duty to dismiss the present defendant from his situation. GUILDHALL.—Richard Galloway, a young man, son of Mr. GcEoway, the steam-engine-maker, appeared with George Chappell, one of the labouring machinists, before Mr. Alderman THORP, yesterday, upon a summons, to answer the complaint of Henry Lovell, of Speldhurst street, Burton -crescent, an assistant in an academy. The complainant stated, that he went into Mr. Gal loway's factory, near Smithfield, on Saturday afternoon, and said he wished to speak with Mr. Galloway. The de fendant, Galloway, jun., inquired if he had a letter for him. Witness answered that he had, but still he wished to see his father. On hearing this reply, the defendant cried, " Don't curl up your lip at me, Sir, or I will kick your Witness immediately told him he was an in sulting fellow, and almost as immediately received a blow. Witness then attempted to force his way to Mr. Galloway's counting-house, but was again struck in various parts by the defendant, who called the man Chappell to assist in turning him out. The defendant, in reply to this charge, said, his father was engaged with a gentleman, and could not be interrupted when the complainant called, and, besides, it was the custom of the house, that all matters of business should be commu nicated to him. The complainant, in answer to a question, told him he had a letter, but added, in a marked, sneering, and impudent manner, that he did not choose to deliver it to him. This led him (the defendant) to remark, that there had been no occasion for impertinence ; and the com plainant then called him an impertinent rascal, and at tempted to rush to the door of the room where Mr. Gallo way and the gentleman were conversing. He and the man (Chappell) prevented the intended intrusion, and the com plainant having struck him with an umbrella, defendant thought it the wisest way to take the law into his own hand, returned the blow, and a regular round ensued. The complainant, in explanation, said, that after the de fendant had seized him by the collar and struck him, be did endeavour to get to Mr. Galloway, sen., to show w hat a state he was in, but the defendant and his man dragged him hack, and insisted that he should not see him until be had first made an apology. Now lie conceived he was entitled to receive, instead of to make, the apology. The defendant said he denied this statement altogether. ?Mr. Alderman name remarked, that if the complain ant wished to proceed at the sessions, there was no oc. casion to bold Mr. Galloway to bail, for he knew where to find !him. Under such circumstances the Magistrate need not interfere. As the defendant was making his retiring bow, he east a significant glance at Mr. Lovell, and said, " Yes, he knows where to find me at any time." BOW-STREET.—Mr. Robert Dallas, a property lawyer, residing in Lincoln's-inn-fields, and a near relative of the late Chief-Justice of that name, was accused by the driver of the hackney-coach No. 96, with spoiling one of his cushions by spilling oil upon it. It appeared that Mr. Dallas was conveying a lamp from his chambers in the complainant's coach when the accident happened. Ile of fered to pay 3s. for the damage, but the coachman de manded ss. which Mr. Dallas refused to pay, on the ground of imposition, and he was summoned by the coachman. After the case was heard, and the amount of damages ascertained, Mr. Dallas was adjudged to pay is. 6d. for the accident, and 6s. costs. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.--On Monday night Ben jamin and Thomas Shaw, horsedealers, in Portland-town, were charged before Mr. RAwraNsox with obstrcting a Sheriff's officer in the execution of his duty. John Brown, a bailiff of the County Court for the hun dred of Ossulston, complained, that in the same afternoon; when he weUt t the dwelling-house of the defendants, for the purpose of executing a xirdent Upon . the body of John their brother, Thomas collared him, and Benjaritin shut the door and kept him in the passage, while the stable-boy saddled a horie fur John, with which he escaped. The defendants did not deny the charge, but complained in their turn that the officer made a great noise and dis turbance in the house, which caused their sister to faint. They were bound in their own securities of 401. each, and two others of 201., to answer the charge at the sessions. Yesterday a man, who calls himself William Johnson, teas charged by James Lloyd, of No. 1, New Cavendish mews, Duke -street, with being found in the complainant's bed-room after he had retired to rest, and not giving a good account of himself. At half-past two yesterday morning; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd were disturbed by a noise and the appearance of a man in their chamber ; the former instantly jumped out of bed, and seized the prisoner ; and supposing him to have robbery or murder in contemplation, he sent him to the watchhouse. The prisoner described himself a native of Co.k, who had been five days in Bristol, and only two in London. He had three sovereigns and some silver in his pocket, and the truth of his being an Irishman was very much doubted by Mr. GRIFFITH, because he had none of the accent. He said, that being a little intoxicated the night before, and seeing the door of the stable under Mr. Lloyd's apart ment open, he took the opportunity of lying down upon the straw, where he went to sleep, and when he awoke in the night he did not immediately recollect himself, but wandered, without design, up stairs into the lady's and gentleman's bedchamber, for which he was very sorry. His story was in some degree corroborated by the evi dence of a groom, who, when he went to rack up his mas ter's horse, on Monday evening, saw the prisoner asleep upon some straw, in the next standing, and he had very near run his fork into him, but supposing him to be a friend of Mr. Lloyd's, who is the proprietor of the build ing, he did not disturb him. The prisoner was about to be discharged, when the gaoler espied "J. Nelson, 11th Light Dragoons," marked upon his flannel waistcoat ; and being suspected to be a deserter from that regiment, he is detained. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a man named Gunnion, and his wile, were brought before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate at this office, charged, on suspicion, with being concerned in the following robbery, committed upon Miss Marian Mason, the young lady who some time ago exhibited at the Argyll-rooms what she styles her " Calesthenic Exercises," and professes the teach ing of those exercises to young ladies under very high patronage. _ . It appears that Miss Mason, who is lodging at No. 3, George-street, Hanover-square, went from home on Satur day last for a short part of the day, leaving, by accident, a drawer unlocked, in which there was a pocket-book con taining upwards of 300/. in Bank of England notes ; and on her return she discovered that some person had, in her absence, made very free-with her pocket-book, by abstract ing from it 1001. of the notes. Miss Mason did net know on whom to rest her suspicion, until she recollected that the female prisoner, who had fre quently been employed by her as a charwoman, was at the house at the time that she, Miss Mason, went from home. Under these circumstances, Ballard the officer was sent for, and on his proceeding to the lodgings of the prisoners, he was informed that they had both gone from home, on a country excursion. The officer, however, waited their re turn, and took them into custody, and on searching the lodgings, lie found a great variety of newly purchased male and female wearing apparel, and other things of value, although he learned that a few days before the robbery the prisoners were in a state of great indigence. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said that the money with which the things spoken of had been purchased was given to them by some friends in the country; and they were remanded to have this and some other facts inquired into. One of the notes stolen is a 501. note, the number of which is known. An old man of very venerable appearance was placed be fore the magistrates to have a son or daughter, as time and chance may determine, affiliated to hina. A smart, pert young damsel stood by his side, who was introduced by the officers of St. George's parish as being in a state far advanced towards increasing the population of that parish, and of decreasing the .pocir-rabe fun& " Well, young woman," said the magistrate, " who is the father of the child ?"—" This here old man, and please your worship," she replied smirkingly, and laying her hand upon her venerable neighbour. "Not I, indeed, you hussey," said the old man, in a dreadful state of agitation, which was much increased by an unfortunate impediment in his speech. " What," said the Magistrate, "do you deny then that the child is your's 7 "-" I do deny it entirely, for the thing is impossible, your worship," said the old man. " Not so impossible as your worship might think," ob served the young woman. The Magistrate asked the latter how old she was ?—She replied, in her 27th year. " And how old are you?" said he to the old man.— " Lord bless your worship," he replied, " I could be her grandfather; lam 68 years old." Magistrate.—Well, and how did you get acquainted with this young woman ?—I did'nt get acquainted with her at all, your worship; it was she that got acquainted '1 with me. Magistrate.—How was that ?—Why, your worship, she came to bed to me one night when I was betwixt asleep and awake. ' Young woman.—O, fie for shame upon you, you v•ieked old man ! Magistrate.—Where did this accident happen?—Ay, sad accident it was, indeed, (said the old man, wiping the pers piration from his furrowed face), it happened at Old Bromp ton, your worship ; more the misfortune for me that ever I went there, hut the child is none of mine, your worship, I'll never own it. _ _ Magistrate.—But you acknowledge the young woman and you slept together.-0 yes, Ido your worship, but that was all ; for I never spoke a word to her, I do assure you, all night. Magistrate.—That may be, and still her evidence may be true.—The old man said he could bring his master to prove that the child could not be his. Magistrate.—How can your master say yes or no to the matter ? I dare say he knows nothing about your amours. _lt was further explained, that this couple were left in charge of their master's house, at Brompton, where this accident occurred. The Magistrate awarded that the old man should pay 2s. 6d. a week to the parish, but he declared that he would rather pass the remainder of his days in prison than pay a farthing, so satisfied was he of the utter impossibility of the child being his. UNION-HALL.—CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—Two men, named Jones and Smith, were charged with steal ing a silver inkstand, value 121. and some other articles of plate, from the residence of Mr. Cohen, at Efra-road, Brixton. From the evidence it appeared that, on the pre ceding day, about one o'clock, the prisoners were observed in company, hawking pencils for sale, to the doors of gen tlemen's houses, in the neighbourhood above-mentioned. Having knocked at and rung the bells of several houses, with the greatest effrontery, they at length proceeded towards Mr. Cohen's premises, which are inclosed within some high iron-palings; Smith opened the gate, went to the parlour-window, which was partly up, and, having thrust his head into the room, to see if the coast was clear, the rest of his body soon followed, a n d h e was in the apart ment anti out again with th e ag ili ty o f a harlequin : He had, ho wever, one of the servan t-maids, hearing footsteps scarcely got o u t s id e the palings, in his retreat, a o w w e h v e e n in the room, went in, and missed some plate off the side board ; she ran to the window, and saw the two prisoners running off in contrary directions; she pursued Smith, who had a bundle under his arm, whom she soon over took, and having accused him of robbing the house, de sired hint to. return the property. At this juncture, ,se veral men came up to the assistance of the girl, into whose hands the prisoner relinquished the plate, and he was taken into custody. The other prisoner was also pursued, and apprehended, when, on searching his pockets, a petition was found, supplicating relief; it had the names of se veral persons attached to it, who had k subscribed money for the petitioner. It was stated that Jones had recently been liberated from jail, after a long imprisonment, and that the names which appeared in the petition were those of his fellow-prisoners, who had lent him their aid. In the course of the investigation, it was also stated that various robberies were committed at Streatham and its vicinity, by a set of fellows, who go about hawking a few pencils and other trumpery articles.—The prisoners were fully committed. It is an extraordinary circumstance that during the three months Lord PALMERSTON had performed the duties of Commander-in-Chief, having all its patronage, not a eivgle pot or Governorship became vacant, COOPER'S SPY of the NEUTRAL CiROUND, An American Paper gives the following as the real history of Cooper's hero in this celebrated Trans atlantic novel : " This gentleman, far gone in years, whose real name is C—, resides in the town of C., in the state of New York, about 12 miles from the Fishkill Highlands.' He is a worthy man, possessed of a line farm, and for many years has sustained the office of Deacon in the Congregational Presbyterian Church 6f G— Society. Mr. Cooper has given us an accurate description of his person, which is tall and meagre, and indicative of great muscular strength. Reserved in his manners, and maintaining an invari able rigidity of features, one would find it extremely difficult to discover any emotion of his mind. He seldom feels disposed to speak of his hair-breadth escapes and severe privations, while engaged in the service of hip country, during the revolutionary struggle; but whenever he enters upon his story, it is with modesty and self abasement that he was se criminal as to act the part of Hushai the Archite,' in the presence of the servants of George HI. The writer of this article has heard him utter such ex..' pressions as these :—" How great has been :he mercy of God to me, that I was not cut off in the midst of my career of deceit and wickedness ! I have acted too much from the principle mentioned by the Apostle Pad, Let us do evil, that good may come.' r " In the year 1776 (if I remember right), he way employed as a spy by the friends of American liberty , He then lived in the county of Westchester, a little south of the chain of mountains called the Higblande. During this year he travelled to Canada and back again, for the purpose of learning the sentiments of the people concerning the war, and of ascertainingwho were the most active and dangerous men among the Tories. To this class of men he professed great friendship for the British Ministry, and expresses fears that he s'bould become a prisoner to the Whigs, who would depriv'e him of life. The information obtained by the spy occasioned the arrest and inv prisonment of several Royalists. " In the year 1777, he was frequently in NeW York, in company with the principl officers of the British army, who placed in him the utmost cod' dente. From this time to the end of the war, he' was considered as a spy for the Royalists, and the principal theatre of his operations was in the count'', contiguous to New York and the Highlands.'-#' Under different disguises and assumed names, such as John Smith, Harvey Wright, and Harvey Birch, he travelled through many towns, obtaining impor tant information, which he communicated to the American Generals. His employment necessarily subjected him to perils. Sometimes he was shot at; by the friends of liberty, whq were eager to destroy one engaged (as they thought) in the service of their enemies. Several times he was their prisoner, but his ingenuity effected his escape. Several com panies of Tories, officered with men from the British army, fell into the hands of the Americans, in con' sequence of his adroitness. It was customary with the British officers to steal their way into the coup' try, and obtain recruits from among the Tories, which were marched to the support of the British army. The spy enlisted several times under such. officers, and when he had ascertained the time fixed upon for marching to unite with the myrmidons of King George, he never failed of secretly apprising some principal officer of the American army, who, of course, was not tardy in effecting their surrender at discretion. In such instances, the spy became prisoner, but favoured by friends, who knew his real character, he always took French leave of absence. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DI A RY..--SATURDAY, Ave. 25. Ralme, J., Gomersal—Sessions-house, Leeds IL Barlow, H., Macclesfield—Angel, Macclesfield ll Fisher, T., Leeds—Sessions-house, Leeds Harrison, H., Knutsford—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool I Hai vey, J., Penryn—Oliver's hotel, Bodmin ll Moseley, W., Manchester—Spread Eagle, Manchester Murray, J., Whitehaven—lsell hall, Cumberland ll Jones, L. Oswestry—Town-clerk's, Oswestry 5 Scholfield, R., Pilkington—Star, Manchester MIRY, NEAR MANCHESTER, AUG. Captain Raymond Williams, of the 16th Regiment lit Foot, destroyed himself yesterday morning, by cutting his throat. The night preceding the fatal deed, he dined in company with Lieutenant Carney, of the same Reginlent' and an officer who was on a visit. About ten o'clock, Capt. W. retired to rest, leaving his friend and Lieutenan t Carney together, but they shortly after separated. Abou t half-past four in the morning, the Lieutenant heard I rumbling noise in Captain Williams's room. It did not fully awaken him, but he raised himself and sat up in bed, and then be heard one or two groans. Immediately it struck him that something was amiss, and he arose, went to the Captain's man, and proceeded with him to the apartment. The door being fast, was immediately forced open, and the Captain was found lying on the floor in hit shirt, with one arm bent, the hand grasped, and the other was extended. Each side of the neck exhibited a dreadful gash from the bone to the windpipe, which remained un touched. Between his legs lay a razor with which the wounds had been inflicted ; one part of its edge we) blunted ; and on the floor, which was drenched in gores were also bloody footsteps. The moment the discovery was made, a surgeon was sent for, but life was extinct almost immediately. An inquest was held last night, and the Jury returned a verdict of insanity. BIRTHS. On the 17,h instant, at Lindsey-row, Chelsea, the lady of R. E. Tcwnsend, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th im:_mt, Mrs. Thomas Sedgwick, of Pratt street, Camden-town, of a son. On the 9th instant, at Westcroft, Surrey, the lady of Donald Campbell, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 20th instant, Lady Charlotte Calthorpe, of a son. On the 17th instant, in Montagu-square, the lady of Colonel Munro, of a son. On the 17th instant, at Leadenham, Lincolnshire, Lady Susan Reeve, of a son. On the 20th instant, Mrs. T. J. Smith, of Claremont terrace, Pentonville, of a son. On the 12th instant, at Hackney, Mrs. John Kirk, of a son. On the 18th instant, in Upper Thornhaugh-street, the lady of F. J. Prescott, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 21st instant, at St. Olave's, Southwark, Mr. W. Marriott, of Old Broad-street, to Mary Ann,- only daughter of Thomas Stafford, Esq., of Bermondsey-street. On the 21st instant, at All Souls, Langham-place, the Rev. W. L. Coglan, Mr. James Tavener, of Oxford street, to Miss Susannah Hayden, of the same place. On the 21st instant, at Bedfont , by the Rev. Dr. Jones, Mr. Richard Lane, of Manchester, to Emma, second daughter of the late Thomas Fagg, Esq. Rector of .Ash more , D orset , W m. C ottere ll On the 2 1 st instant , at Kensington, by the Rev. George of " New-inn, t o Mi ss M ary Ki m b er, n i ece of ihng tilsliFYllrte Esq.,, DD William Warwick, of Brompton, Middlesex. On .the 15th inst., at St. John's Church, Manchester, Mr. Frederick Follows, of Broughton, to Ellen, youngest (laughter of the late Mr. James Harrop, printer, of Man chester. On the 15th instant, at the parish church of Bury, in the county of Lancaster, by the Rev. N. C. Boutflower, A.M., John Shearson, Esq., solicitor, of the same place, to Anne, third daughter of the late Richard Kay, E 4q ., o f Limefield-house, in the said county. On the 20th instant, at All Soil, Langhana place, Mr. Husband, of Newman-street, to Miss Elizabeth Baker, of Coventry. DIED. On the 19th instant, Thomas Christopher Glyn, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, the third son of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Baronet. On the 19th instant, at Erir,tol, Mr. John Hill, many years librarian of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, much lamented by his family and a numerous circle of ac quaintance. On the 19th instant, Frederick, the infant son of Thos. Windus, Esq., Stamford-hill. On the 21st instant, at his house, Pentonville, Thomas Pearson, Esq., formerly of Haberdashers'-house, Hortou, and Clement's-lane, Lombard-street, in the 80th year of his age. On the 17th instant, in Bath, Richard Litchfield, Baq. aged 78. On the 17th instant, at Calais, D. Hyde; Esq., of Kew. On the 17th instant, at Dalstou, nese Hackney, Eliza beth, wife of Mr. P. V. Firmin, of the Strand, aged 40. PRINTED and Punueurn by M. YOUNG, at the Surr-Orricx, No. 112, Strand. VICTT THE Majt nn WEDNI receive Ter supply of tl One Hui Ten The Twelve One Tho Fifty To The whole Stores, at of Septernt next. 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