The Sun. — London, England, 1827-11-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TRH PUBLIC JOURNALS. Among the useful 'labours of the Commi sioners of West India Inquiry, there is one whit we have not hitherto noticed, upon the titles t landed property in the conquered island of Tr' nidad. It appears that since the year 1815 in elusive, the minds of the Trinidad proprieto - have been harassed, and- their possessions . dist turbed, by attempts of the local Government t force them into a compliamee with certain fon4s and conditions—not contemplated, undoubtedly, by the parties who signed the articles of capitu lation in 1797, under which the colony was sue rendered to Great Britain,—on pain of having their estates confiscated if they should refuse to obey the mandates of their ruler. Private pro- perty was:guaranteed in the most unambiguous anti extensive manner by the above-mentioned capi tulation, and all contracts or purchases held valid by the laws of Spain were to be equally so upoii the British Government. Yet in the very ye4r next after that during which, at the general peace, the island was ceded in perpetuity to Great Britain, dare was issued by the Gover nor, Sir Ralph Woodford, a proclamation, which in effect unsettled, and brought within the fangs of the Crown or its agents, every estate of every inhabitant, old or yoting, throughoUt the whole of Trinidad. It required that all the cultivated lands in the - island should be " con firmed" to their possessors, by certain formal process on the part of the Government ;. but that the Crown should be empowered, as often as it (that is, as often as the acting Governor) pleased to resume the property so confirmed, on giving an equivalent in land ; and that for the•confirma tions thus obtained a quit-rent of ss. currency should be paid for ever on each quarre, or 2 1-sth acres, by the grantee. Now we really cannot perceive the equity or common honesty of such an endeavour to place the whole soil of an exten sive island. at the mercy of any public officer. An unlimited power of resuming every man's estate,- on pretence of finding biro " an equiva lent" in some other district, seems to be that sort of omnipotence over property which, if some-• times exercised by the Grand Seignor when he wants to recruit his Imperial finances, we' had hitherto supposed to.be confined to that poten tate alone. Loud and not unjust complaints having been transmitted to England from the colonists, three successive proclamations, in 1816 1818, and 1823, were issued, for the purpose of softening , in some degree the tyrannical provisions of that of 1815. But enough of.harsliness in the official reaulations, of discontent . in those to be affected by them, and' of consequent distraction and embarrassment in the affairs of the colony, still remaining, the commission to which we have alluded , was made out, under which the gentlemen intrusted with it were di rected to embrace . the whole subject with in, thier inquiries, and to report what degree of lave and justice was to be found on either side of the question. The Commissioners appear to have gone somewhat further than perhaps Lord Bathurst or his subalterns would have approved, by concluding their report of facts with an essay on principles, and undertaking to lecture the Go. vernment 'at home ,on liberality, magnanimity, and so forth, towards the colonistspoints on which ; _ as it strikes our judgments, Mr. Dwarris and his colleagues were not consulted, and with regard to which, except for the praiseworthy zeal which has evidently governed them in all their inquiries, and no doubt supplied them, under discouraging circumstances, with nerve and per- ; severance to proceed to the end, we should say that a sound view of the limits assigned to their executive commission would rather have recom mended them to be silent. Enough of evidence is brought forward bythe Commissioners to prove , that Government would-actbothharshly and un wisely by enforcing, against usage • and general opinion, the rigorous injunctions of a disputed law ; and. more particularly where there . are grounds to suspect that the pertinacious eagerness with which the loCal Government pressed for its execution arose :more immediately from an ap petite for fees of office than from a desire for the better settlement of property, or for the advance ment of the island.— " Limes. , The Middlesex Magistrates, we are glad to see, have replied to the public feeling, on the subject of the erection of a Lunatic Asylum, by, an almost unanimous adoption of the proposition —out of between fifty and sixty persons assem bled upon the occasion, only one solitary hand. having been held up against it. The Press, we believe, may take some credit to itself on this , occasion :—but for the details which it has pub lished, and the efforts it has made to throw every . poss ible light upon the subject, many who have become the most powerful advocates of the mea sure would have remained in ignorance of its paramount necessity and importance, and would probably have been found among its opponents, instead of seeing that opposition reduced to one. No time,,we trust, will now be lost in . carrying this slow act of justice into effect ; and that many months will not elapse before we hear of the ,first stone of this edifice, sacred to humanity, being laid by the venerable and Noble person who is justly entitled N. be looked upon as its , author • and founder — rwe mea n Lord Robert Seymour. In the. mean time the Legislature, must, and will, we trust, do something to miti gate the intermediate sufferings of those whose hard lot it is to be still consigned to the private receptacles, the exposure of the. state of which Las led at length to this result. From the College of Physicians, who inight 'long since,! have r em edi e d t h e whole- evil, nothing, we fear, is to be expected; but there surely is an absolute: necessity that .an Act should be passed, esta blishing a small Board of Commissioners, half medical and half not, for the constant superin tendence of these places, with power to limit the numbers to be taken into each, according to their view of its capacity. We do not indeed see why the Secretary of State for the Home Department might not at once ,adot some such measure as this, trusting, . as he might safely do, to • Paha- - ,ment for his indemnity in so doing. Fearful indeed will, at any rate, be the moral responsibi lity of those who, having it hi their power, neglect, one moment the application ,of some effectual. remedy to the foulest stain upon a.natton calling itself a Christian people which has ever yet been brought to light.—Morning Herald. We insert in another column an article from an able legal correspondent on the subject of Lord Stowell's late . decision. It appears to us that it is open to many of the objections urged by our correspondent. We confess, however,• that the principle of the decision seems to us to remain unshaken. If England - recognizes slavery in her Colonies, the relations.between master and slave, in one of these Colonies, cannot be dis turbed by the accident of the temporary absence of the slave in the Mother Country, where the law takes no n o ti ce o f any such relations. The master, on regaining possession of the slave, can put him under the necessity f the ex tinction of the relati ons o proving . between them in some' mode recognised by the law of the place. Tl 4 Court of Appeal in England must decide according to the law of the place as much as the House of Peers in an appeal from a Scotch Court. There is an analogous case in English marriages dig - solved in Scotland. In England marriage i,5 indisSoluble . ; ,in Scotland not ; 'and a Scotc ► Court, without hesitation, dis Solves a marri• made in England which the parties intended t, be an indissoluble contract, without regardink the nature of the contract , on the principle that adultery and several other sins ought not to be tolerated in 'a well-ordered state: But, when the parties married in England and divOrced in Scot land, reappear in England, though they may have been each remarried in the meantime in Scotland, and many children may have been,born under such re-marriages, and entitled to succeed to property in that. country, the English. Law pays no attention to what has been done.out of the kingdom, and the relations of husband .and wife resume their force and validity. The West Indian Courts pay no more attention to the.re lations in which the slave may have been to wards his.master in England, or any other coun try to which he may have been conveyed, or • through which he may have' passed, than if he had passed the intervening time in a balloon in the air, or as one of the seven sleepers. Our correspondent has stated the case of the slave's return to Africa, and being brought from thence to the West Indies by a slave dealer. This, we conceive, .does not alter the matter. If the property of the master he not ex tinguished by some means acknowledged valid in the %Vest Indies, no matter how he found his way back !to a conntry where he recovered his original freedom, and how he was re-conveyed to the West Indies, the master's right revives with his re-appearance in that region of slavery. If an Englishman's cow were to find its way into one . of those regions where cows are worshipped, and where, instead of cows belonging to men, men may be said to belong to cows, if he could lay hands on it again in the . county of Middle sex,: it would be to small purpose to plead against the ownership, that the cow had been for years acting the part of a divinity in. Asia, when; the hand that touched her cowship would have been deemed sacrilegious. So long as blacks arc held to be chattels in any country, the ownership can only be destroyed in the manner in which the ownership of other chattels is destroyed in that country. The law may be immoral and anti-Christian, but so long as the law is suffered to exist it must be en forced.—Morn. C'hronicle. It has at length been announced , that Austria . has joined the and insisted that the Poite should accede to their ,friendly, ,propositions. Why, to be sure, if the Sultan be obstinate, and continue to persecute the Greeks, his capital and the island of Cyprus may be amicably occupied by the Allies; 'and as Austria has found out that she would be excluded from a share in the spoil, if she continued her alliance with the. Porte, she now has very disinterestedly volunteered a tardy adhesion to the victorious Powers. Whether the rumour prove, correct or not, it, i s not our present puipose attentively-to . enquire ; but _we cannot in the mean time help observing, that from all appearanees it is 'by no means unlikely that ere long England, will have to reconstruct 'the - POwer which she has so much contributed t 9 destroy. We can have no ,earthly wish to see the empire sof the Porte continued as it has hitherto been; but then it is beyond all con troversy absolutely ! necessary that we should have some power in that quarter, ca pable'of impeding any attempts which may be hereafter made by any one of the Autocrats of Europe. We never wish to impute bad designs to any Power ; but we cannot be blind to what is going forward in the world, nor silly enough not to prepare for the worst consequences which may happen, so long as we are able. We are unwilling to revert to' the painful subject of the attack at Navarin . ; but it has occasioned us no little surprise to find the leading Ministerial Journals (lately the most violent of the Opposi tion) endeavouring to shift all responsibility and all censure from the Allied Oovernments—as if, forsooth, we can imagine for a moment that the three Admirals acted without specific orders from their employers. If the attack be so meri torious, and- the victory so brilliant, what neces sity for excuse, in any quarter ? If so shameful, and 'in such -direct violation of every-known and admitted principle of international law, they may rest assured that the , shifting the ce'isure from one quarter to another cannot mend the case.— Mornins Post. We entertain a lively hope that the reign of George the Fourth, signalized as it has been by a series of events most glorious and advantageous, to the nation—distinguished already by the most extensive and successful undertakings under the patronage of the Monarch and the direction of his excellent taste, for conferring beauty and dignity upon the exterior aspect of the Metro polis—is yet about to bestow a still greater and an imperishable benefit upon the present age and upon posterity, by the foundation in London of an University under the, united sanction of the Crown and the Church, baying,for its object to promote• literature and science, and to promote them in conjunction with religion, loyalty, and virtue ; without which literature and science can only serve , to render their possessors more power ful and more disposed to inflict evil upon so ciety. It would be an injury to the great and good men who are now exerting themselves to obtain foe London and for England an. insti tution so.acellent, and in all the circumstances of the case, so essential to the security of the Constitution, to entertain for one moment the idea that they can he discouraged or retarded by any. dread of the imputation of :illibera lity. This imputation,. they may be asSured, will be cast upon them most unsparingly; but they may and will despise it ; for it will proceed only from the Infidels, the Revolutionists, and the Joint Stock speculators, who have presumed t 9 give to an institution they are about to form, and which will no doubt be in all respects con genial to the character and wishes of its founders, the proud title of The London University," and that without having the least connexion with any of the constituted authorities, as such, Muni cipal, ecclesiastical, or monarchical, of the Me tropolis. We do not of course mean to say, that every one whose name appears as a Share holder, or even as. a Committee-man of the anti religious day school for grown gentlemen, which is now-building, must of -necessity be an infidel or a reyolutionist. There may be, many that arc neither, and of such it can only, be said, that they are helping forward the designs of men who are much longer-sighted than themselves. It has astonished us not a little to find that men having pretensions to science, or even to respecta bility of character, should have been gUilty of the mountebank trick of assuming in advertise ments and title pages the name of Professors ; upon the strength merely of having been nomi nated to read Lectures in a building not yet' erected, to ClasSes Who' may never assemble- —b , the agents, for the council of this non-descript institution are no more, of a Joint Stock Com• pany. Every man is henceforth we suppose to be called a Professor, who delivers a lecture ti an audience contributing sixpence a head froiti the benches of an ale-house, or who travel through the . country to astonish the rustics by pretty little chemical or hydrostatic expel riments exhibited in a barn. If, however, there, were nothing to deserVe particular nci tice in this Institution except the presump tion of its founders, and the silly vanity or un necessary artifices of those upon whom'the 0-- tronage of its founders has fallen, whatever diFi crust these things mi g ht have 'excited, they could 0 not have, given rise to any serious apprehension in the minds of the friends - and - guardians of the Religion and Constitution of the land. But the case is far otherwise. The object of this Insti tution is to ' denounce and discredit religion i, hap essential part of public education., It ,ser - rates itself from all the public establislimen4 which have ever been known in England ; froiii our venerable Universities ; from our useful gram= mar schoOls, attached to and under the inspection of the national Church ; from the respectable se minaries established by the Protestant Dissenters in various parts of the country ; it boastl of the great and palpable distinction which se;- parates it from all these,—the utter. rejection Of religion. To be consistent, the conductors o' this' establishment ought to inscribe over its no* tal certain deep, and gloomy, and - terrible Athe r istical characters; and thus show..themselves td the world as they really are, the pretended vow; ries of science proclaiming aloud, that ,which ~t he fool bath" only " said in his heart." Au institution of such a character, bearing the ni,nie of " the London University,"_ would be a foul stain and a deep calamity. to the . country.---, We are therefore happy to believe, that the country will he -protected from this injitry and r reproach by the establishment of a Christian In•,, stitution, which, under the highest patronage; and with every legal sanction, will deprive the Anti-Christian one of the name it has so pre sumptuously usurped, and stunt the growth at least of the venomous monster, if not stifle it at its birth.—lbirL . • COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, .Nov. 17--SuGAtt.---There has bee» less animation in the British plantation market this -week; still a fair extent of business 'has been doriej and upon the whole prices have been well support'? ed. ,Thc quantity sold is 900, casks. E as t I n di a 4 saleable' at former rates, but the stOck'of Bengal' nearly exhausted; the geoCers having taken the onlj lot of moment remaining. in first hands, namely, 300 bags middling white; but heavy and damp, at 74k. • MOLASSES command steady prices, the sales being 220 puns. good St. Vincent in store, at 325., and DeMerara of fair quality at 30s. from the ship's side. Ruar.—About 200 puns. and `hinds. of strong Jit• maica and Demerara have been sold, but these des criptions do not go off so readily as they did, and for common Leeward the demand is still very limited. COFFEE.—The.market for plantation is steady, the ,sides, which probably amount .to 150 easks l chiefly in Jamaica,!obtaining the previous currency. For 'Cocet or PIMENTO there has been no inquiry. RlCE.—There is no Carolina in bond, and the demand for East India is extremely 'limited... In HIDES 'Dot a single transaction is reported. TALLOW.—The market for yellow candle is still inactive, ,but prices rule nominally the same as last quoted. COTTON.—The market was rather dull previously to the public sales yesterday, and on Brazil a decline .of id. per lb. was established, but in consequence of the unusually large attendance of buyers, nearly the whole of what was offered was taken at about the prices previously current. 2,000 bags of Anie rican and 500 Brazil have been taken on - speculation. The import is 13,047 bags, and the sales amount to 17,966 ba g s. Tobacco.—The week's demand has been good, but at further depressed prices. About 180 hhds. have been sold, 60 libds. Virginia Leaf, at nd. a . 30. with a small lot of fine middling butted Stem vied, at 6d. for Ireland, and about 100 hhds. Vir ginia Stemmed, chiefly low prices, .2V. a 30.; a. few at 4d. a sd. to the manufactdrers. NAVAL STORES.-There has been a slight im proveinent in American Tar, of which between 800 and 900 brls. Carolina, of good quality and in Store, have been sold at lEs. a 15s. 3d. per brl.; but for 1,250 brls. Stockholm, only 16s. 9d. per brl. was obtained. In Turpentine not a transaction has taken place. DYEWOODS.-The transactions have been very limited in all descriptions, but, with the exception of Fustic, which is dull-9f sale, and offering at low rates, there is no alteration to notice in prices. The particulars are-of Logwood, a little Cannpeachy at SI.; of Nicaragua Wood, a small lot of common solid at 12/. 15s. to 131.; and of Fustic 54 tons good Cuba, from the quay, at 10/. 55., and 35 com mon Spanish at 61. 10s. per ton, agreeably to which we now quote. At the public sale of Angola Bar wood, the buyers being doubtful, from the appear ance, whether it was all genuine, only 81. 10s. was offered, and it was • bought in . at 9/. 95., but for a little Gaboon 71. lOs, per ton has been obtained. INDIGO.--There has been rather more inquiry from the trade, and the few sales effected haVe been at fully better prices. LAC DYE AND COCHINEAL continue very. dull of sale , ; at our quotations. • MEDITERRANEAN PROD UCE.--There has been con siderably more inquiry for Madders and Madder' Roots, and higher prices are now asked for the for mer, and have been obtained for the latter, 425. per cwt. having been paid for about 100 bales Turkey and French. The sales of Sumach are confined to about 100. bags old Sicily at 10s. 6d. per cwt. A. slight improvement has been realized on, VALON lA, of which 150 tons : Smyrna have been sold at 16/. ss. from the ship's side; and a small re tail. lot by a dealer at 171. ss. per ton. Of BARK the sales are 20 tons Cork-tree at 9/. 10s. per ton, and 20 hhds. Quercitron at 1 ls. 3d. per cwt. for • old, and 15s. 3d. per cwt. for new Phi ladelphia. OIL-The sales consist chiefly of Malaga, of which 80 tons have found buyers at 331. 15s. to 34/. 10s., together with eight or ten tuns Gallipoli at 40/., and a little Palm at 25/. per tun. AsttEs.-The market has been rather steadier, and in States' Pot a slight improvement has taken place. The particulars of the sales are, of Pot about 200 brls., Montreal at 265. to 275. for old, and 2Ss. for new, and 160 old New York at 275. 9d. to 285., and 'of Pearl about 100 brls., at 28s. to 285., 6d. for Quebec and' old, and 295. 6d,' per cwt. for new Montreal. SALTPETRE.—The sales are confined to 150 bags at 255. 6d. for ordinary up to 295. and 30s. per cwt. for good quality. PREPARING PROVISIONS IOR SHIPPING, Sec.—The article described in Capt. PARRY'S late voyage, by the name of Pemmican, is animal food.of any sort cooked, and subsequently dried in a gentle heat, and re duced to powder, and pressed, by which the original volume is reduced to thtt of , one4fth or six.th. Vegetables may he preserved in a similar way, by grinding the fubstance a mill previous to pressure, in order to extract the whole of the water they contain, and packing the dry essence in air-tight bottles or jars. This vegetable preparation would affortla most valuable addition to a ship's provisions for long voyages to warm climates, as a preventive against Pifever r o e n s e p';'rvodefodurin.::dhtirbi; InfraelThelegetables, scurvy, and a most essential benefit to convalescents after 'Weekly Review, and from the heating been ascertained, that vegetable substances are equally.free front the irrita tion of animal food only.—Londol POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • 1 BOW-STREET.-SUSPICION OF MURDER,-- 1110 f. HALLS, 'Esci: the sitting Magistrate, entered into the in vestigation of an occurrence which has created a very ex. traordivary sensation, the facts elicited having caused la' strong suspicion to be entertain e d that a murder was colli mated on Friday night on Waterloo-bridge, on the body of a female. What adds to the singularity:of the affair that the person who was taken into custody by a watch • man, and conveyed to a watch-house charged with the crime, was permitted to gO at large by the officer who Or that occasion officiated as night-constable at the watch house of 'St. 'Mary-le-Strand. Mr. HALLS, in the early part of the day, had directed'Aldereon, an officer, to in quire into the circumstances, and to bring all parties who -could throw any light upon the subject before him on Sii turday evening. At eight o'clock, the officer, with Ed wards, and other persons, were in attendance, when the folloWing examination took place , Edwards, the nightconstable, whose conduct has rd peatedly been thesubiect_ of just animadversion by the Mai gistratei of this office, said, that on Priday morning, abomit. an hour after midnight, Lawrence, a' watchman of Water looabridge, breught a gentlemanly-loOking man to the watch-house of St. Mary-leStrand, and stated that l 4 !, had brought him from Waterloo-bridge in consequence of his -. being in the company of. a female who had leaped • over the parapet into the Thames, •and was drowned. He . (Edwards) walked with . the gentleman and Lawrence to Waterloo-bridge, and .saw. Carlo, the gate keeper, and he was then told merely; "that the gentleman paid the toll for the female, and that she had thrown her . self into the water." The gentleman wrote his name and address on a letter, which was produced by a Mr. Dignuni, who happened to be present, and then he suffered the gent tleman to goabout, his business. Mr. HALLS-2-What, let him go, merely because he wrote some name and address, - "'Mr. Clayton, No. 11, Upper Spring-street, Portman-Square," on a piece of paper. How do ypu know it was his :real name and address that he gave? - Almiersers,•the officer, said,-that hehad inquired at No. 11, Upper - 'Spring-street, Portman-square, and no such person resided there. Mr. Har.r.s—ln a case of this description, you (Edwards) ought to have detained the man, or at least have-ascertained, that the address he gave was a true one. Emlivards - -:-I did not learn till after the gentleman was gone that he had twice been through the gate to the female, before - she threw herself into the water. Had Carlo in forrned me at first, that which he did afterWard4, I should not have let the;grntleinan go. Jolom Laivience deposed, he is a Watchman of Waterloo bridg;; between twelVeand one o'clock he was on his beat, and heard 'a voice call b'ut '" Murder !" and a gentleman call out Watch !'' Ime..raa to the alcove neat the gate, on the Strand -side of the bridge; and asked •the gentleman what'he Wanted. He replickl, "a female has fallen over . ..* Witnrss replied, " that imm impossible,- she must have leaped over, or haife been thrown over." Witness looked over the parapet, and saw a female floating on the. surface of the water. He instantly called to the guard ship below to send out a boat The tide wok flowing very strong at the time, - but she continued to float for about four minutes, and then she sunk.. -A boat arrived inabout five minutes afterwards, but the body could not be found.. Witness told the gentle .man that he-must go with himn--to the.watchhouse ; and' he -asked the gentleman if he knew who the female' was? He replied that ", he knew her, for she lived over the water," meaning in Lambeth. • Mr. Ilarr.s—Did you ask him who he was ?--- - .Witness, Yes ; he said be was a respectable 'tradesman, and that the female had gat over the parapet for a particular pm pose witness examined the place from which the gentleman said she fell, and found on the parapet nhandkerchief, which he produced;. there was no name upon it, or mark, as he could discover; after time gentleman had been taken to time watchhouse, Edwards, the night constable, returned with the gentleman to Waterloo-bridge, and bad some conversa tion with him; after which he took his address, and let him go 'away. • Mr. HALLS.—Who saw the parties first?. Carlo, a money -taker of Waterloo-bridge, deposed, that about half an hour after twelve o'clock, on Friday morning, he saw a gentleman and a female coming towards the gate; they stopped to talk within a short distance, and the female appeared' to be vexed at something Which 'the gentleman had said to her, but he (witness) could not distinguish the words used by either party ; they came after Ward- to the gate, and the gentleman paid foi• himself, and said to the female, "shall I pay for you?" She made some in distinct answer, and be paid ibr her ; they had proceeded a short distance on the bridge, when he heard n loud talk ing, and a sort of skirmish ; and soon afterwards,' on going out of time gate-house, he saw the gentleman standing on the Strand side of the wicket, and the female on the other side, and the gentleman was holding her by one arm, and endeavouring to pull her through; she said that ahe would not come, and she got away from him and went upon the bridge again ; the gentleman said, " that foolish woman will stay on the bridge, all night, or probably throw herself over the bridge ;" the gentleman then paid another penny, and again 'paSsed through the wicket after•the feMale, and joined her Upon •the .seat of the first alcove ; in about foer minutes afterwards,: Witness heard a cry of " murder !" whielm was succeeded by the gentleman crying " watch, watch !" and on going to learn the cause, the gentleman, who was in conversation with the watchman, said she had fallen into the water. Mr. HALLs—Did they appear to be sober when they went through the gate? Witness—Perfectly so. Mr. Dignum said; that he was present when Edwards took the address of the gentleman, and suffered him to depart. Witness would know the man again, if.he should see him. Mr. Haus—l do not hesitate to tell you, Edwards, that you have acted extremely wrong ; it was very culpable in deed in you, on.such .au occasion, circumstances being so very suspicious, to let the person go. Edwards—l can explain : there was no charge made against the gentleman by the watchman ; he merely said that the gentleman was in company with a woman who had drowned herself. After I bad allowed the gentleman to go away, I was very anxious, and prOceeded again to the bridge, when I then learned that the gentleman paid twice to go on to the bridge to the female. Had Carlo told me so before, I should have detained the gentle Man. Carlo—l did tell you so. Mr. HALLs—I am not to be Cajoled with fine speeches, Mr. Edwards; and if you did not know it was your duty as a constable, to have detained the accused ; let nip inform you, that, as a man possessing common feeling, you were bound to have detained him without any formal charge having been' made, and, .if you do not produce hips, you trill be.punished to an extent that you may not expect. Edwards said he was extremely , sorry be had let the gen tleman go, but it was only a fortnight. ago that Sir Richard Birnie reprimanded him for detaining in the watch-house a person who had, been taken in charge by a watchman, in Catharine -street. Mr. HaLLs-:-That was a very different case; that per son was a housekeeper living in the parish, and he was ap prehended merely because he was talking qtiietly to a few friends in the street, and refused to " move on" at the watchman's bidding. In this ease a fellow-creature has lost her life, and what could have induced you to let the man go after he was brought to the watchhouse, I cannot say, but such conduct is very suspicious.—Edwards—l say, Sir, that no charge was made. Mr. HALLS—And I say, Sir, that no charge was neces sary in such a case ; don't make speeches here, Sir, but mend your conduct, which has been very bad.—Edwards I will do all I can to find the man. Mr. HALLS-You had better. Alderson, the officer, we understand, has obtained some clue to the individual, and little doubt is entertained of his speedy apprehension. The circumstance of the man hav ing given a false address, has greatly added to the suspicion which exists relatiie to the transaction. HATTON-GARDEN.—J. Barker, laceman, No. 296, High-Holborn, was brought up on Saturday last, before Mr. LAING, under an,assaultwarrant, charged by Richd. Garland with baVing in a violent and outrageous manner struck and kicked him, on the night• of the 15th inst. Mr. LAING=.-What provocation did you receive? De fendant—Some. observations, Sir, having passed between us at the Grotto, relative to a third person, who happens to be a female, Mr. Garland, "bold in the lady's quarrel," threw down the gauntlet, and said, " Barker, you are no gentleman; )ou are a blaCkgtiard ;" and upon this I acted. Mr. LAING—Make it up with the complainant, or you shall find bail. At this moment another person, named John Gardener, Who lives in Clerkenwell, came forward, and said he had a charge of a similar nature to prefer against Mr. Barker. Being sworn, he skated, that on the night of the Pith instant,•the.night following that of the aforementioned as sault, he was at the Grotto, where was also Mr. Barker,: and that. Mr. Barker, in the most unprovoked manner, • furiously laid hold of and struck him. Mr. Barker, in his d e f ence , said that this g en tl eman ap-; peared on that night as th e c hampion and avenger of Mr. Garland ; and that he said to him, "Barker, are you sorry for the abuse which you last night offered to my friend, and do you 'recall the insult you gaVe him ?" ' This,' Sir, was the ground of the assault now complained of. Mr. LAING ordered the defendant to find bail for both the assaults : and the matter stands over for the Sessions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET...—FALSE CiartacT‘Eas. Sdturday, Samuel Underhill, a young men ofikkieent appearance, was -Charged with having attempted i to.. im pose upon. John . Pulteney, Esq., ,of Grosvenor -place, by inducing him, by means of a false character ; to; hire: he prisoner . as a footman. Mr. Pulteney stated,. that:, he agreed to _take the prisoner into his service, if satisfied "with his reference for a character. The prisoner referred hint to John Jones, Esq. Field House, Epsoni, with. whom, he said, he had lived seven years. Mr. Pulteriey, in consequence, wrote to Mr. Jones, and received an • answer, giving the prisoner an excellent character ; but from something in the composition of the letter, he was led to Suspect that it might not be genuine, and went to Epsom, where he as certained that no such person as Mr. Jones was known, and the postmaster informed him that he had never seen a letter so directed but one, that was taken from the office a few (lays before by a person he (lid not know. Being satis fied that the letter was a forgery, when the prisoner next calletl'at his house he had him taken into custody, and he confessed the fait: The prisoner, at the office, stated, that he had resorted to the stratagem to obtain a situation, to save himself from starvation; On further examination, it appeared that he hid lived with John Jones, Esq.,-of 'Wilt shire, whose servant, Webster ; was found guilty at the last Gloucester Assires, and executed, for robbing him of a large quantity of plate..—The.Magistrate.observed, that it was plain what the prisoaer's intentions .were, and inflicted the full penalty of 201.—The prisoner said, he had a friend that would immediately pay it for him.' ,• . A well-known character, named John Stack, was re manded for a future examination- on a charge of knocking down a gentleman, named Giles, residing at Mitcham, in Surrey, about five o'clock in the evening, in Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn, and robbing him of his watch, &c. • Mary Holloway, the young woman who was ordered to be committed to prison for three months, on a charge of burdening the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, with a bastard child, the name of whose father she refused to disclose, again made her appearance at the office, the parish-officers having relented on the subject, had again taken her and her child into the workhouse, but she refused to stay there, and insisted that the parish should allow her a weekly sum to subsist upon ; this the parish refused to do, and the Magistrates declined interfering in her behalf, her conduct had been so bad. QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Saturday seven licensed vic tuallers from Kensington; appeared to informations for having their houses open during divine service on Sunday. They all pleade6l, guilty. An attorney, who attended for them, pleaded that his clients committed the offence in error ; in Kensington the church service commenced at half -past nine in the morning, and continued to eleven ; ,it began again at half-past eleven, and r continned to one; it again commenced at half-past three, and finished at five— so that there was very little interval for opening their houses for• the accommodatibn of their customers;' and several of the houses were booking -houses forpassengers by the stage coaches, Which arrived and set Off at all'hours: The MAGISTRATES said, the defendants bid done every thin. ' to entitle themselves to a miti ga ti on of the penalty in the course they had, adopted, and they would therefore mitigate the.penalty to 20s. each. SC;ine oftlie defendants asked host, they were •to act to wards trairellers who were in want of refreshment? Mr. MARRIOTT replied, that the law wade no distinction. LA Ml 3 gT H-STR . E ET. —lxt SoLemo Ns', Pao'. ERT.Y. —After the' commitment to Newgate of a Jew named John Nathan, for a' daring robbery on the person of a Mr. Paul, whom he enticed into lais 'house under the pretence of show ing him a weather-glass which be had to dispose . of, a Jewish-looking person mite forward, and said that his house had been robbed eight days before, and that this very weather-glass was part of the property stolen, he therefore hoped that their Worships ,would grant. him a warrant to search Nathan's house, and also that of another person where be sosPected , the remainder of the plunder had been disposed . of. Mr. BAUDWICICE.-What is your 'name? Applicant. Abraham Samuel. ' Mir: ILlanwxcxE.—Pray had you any connection with Ikey Solomons? Samuel. Why yes; Sir ; we Were mar ried to two sisters, but there was no other connexion between us, nor have I'even spoken to him for some years past. • . Mr. "riaßrilxicxx--...Whitt is your trade or husineils confectioner. Ali. Ilmtmytcug—Will you inform, us whether you have ever been tried ?—Samucl—.l. don't see what this Luis to do with Jmy, application.. , Mr. IfAnnwicKE-;--It certainly has.—Samuel still hesi tated, but at length said, that he. had never. been found guilty of a felony or perjury, and therefore his oath might be Safely taken Mr. HARDWICKE-Were you ever tried at the Old Bai ley ?—Samnel—l was. ..Mr. HARDWICKE-..411111 eonvicted Mr. HARDWICKE-What for ?.--Samuel for being pre. sent when an officer took a sum of money not to prosecute. Mr. Hannwicire—You certainly are very shy in giving your. answers. What was the consequence of that convic tion, for by that we may learn something of the nature of the offence? SammiA—Sir, I have no objection when the office is cleared to give you every information in my power, bet would wish to remain silent ,for the,preseut.. • This be subsequently slid, and the Newgate Calendar being produced, it was ascertained that he was tried and convicted in 1822, and sentenced to 'two years' imprison ment. While giving an account of the transaction, he opened his budget relative to the practices of some of his brother Israelites, particularly the attornies, and mock at tornies, one of whom he said was convicted and imprisoned, another of them was indicted for perjury, and a third, in whose apprehension he bad beep instrumental,. was.taken before the Lord Mayor . for stealing 3001. from a Captain, but escaped, owing to his being admitted as King's evi 'deuce against his confederates. He also gave a detailed ac count of the arrangementsfor the escape of his brother-in law, Ikey Solomons, and of the persons' who played the principal parts in it,'from the first application for the habeas down to his masterly retreat in Petticoat-lane. The coach, he said was driven by his father-in-law, hut it was not his (Samuel's) fault that Ikey escaped, for on the previous day lie called at Newgate to see Mr. Wontner, to communicate what was in contemplation, but neither he nor his chief clerk being within, he was obliged to inform one of the officers, giving him direction; to apprise the GoVernor the moment he reached home of the ' plot that was in agitation; this he supposed had riot been done, and Ikey got off with flying colours. After stating `sorne further particulars to the Magistrates, the warrants were granted, and placed in the hands of the officers. Both . Were immediately. executed, ,hut quick. as were their motions, the news had gone before them, and the only re sult of the "search was the finding of the weather-glass in' Nathan's house, which -was identified by:Samuel as part of the property which had been stolen from a house of his in Rupert-street. It has since transpired that time entire of the plunder ac tually belonged to Ikey Solomons, and that prior to her, trial, Mrs. Solomons fearing that, in the event of her being, convicted, it would beconie the property of the Sheriffs or the Crown, conveyed it to the care of her brother-inzlaw Samuel. The burglars are supposed to have known this, and it operated as an encouragement to their depredations. WORSHIP-STREET.--On Saturday, William: Cutts was brought before Mr. BROUGHTON, for final examina tion, and committed on several charges of horse-stealing. The prisoner was apprehended a short time since at Gos port, by Mr. Barber, Governor of the House of Correc tion, who found in his posseSsion a great number of horses, all of which are . supposed to have been stolen. One of them was the property of Mr. Peck, of Old Ford, in Essex, stolen from the door of the Jolly Sailor public house, Shad well, by a man named Watson, who has been capitally con victed of the theft, and was included in the Recorder's last Report.' Many other of the horses have also been claimed, and the prisoner stands committed for trial, on the capital charge, in seven cases, in addition to which, it is believed, that others will be established against him. . The owners of some of the horses requested that they might be left in their possession, which, upon their, enter ing into recognizancei to produce the animals at the trial, was complied with. 'Two men, named Johnson and Chapman,' were aisp fully committed for trial'on charges :of horse-stealing. MOTTOS FOR DECANTER LABELS. Arridet PORTus? subeat non caula SawebatisS HERI? non dolor est Hie liquor 'est inoILIS.BONus, aptus ad amnia luta. Oppida ne CALCA. VALLAto ad prielia, qumrens, Si sonitum eapias ewe tibi est, Volupe. Dum luctt CLARE Te magis iste trahat. ' Literary Gazette. • THE LAWS AND THE PROFITS.-h WaS 'stated a few days since, that no less than 197 applications :were made by young men, this terni, for admission to practice as AttOrneys in the different Courts ; but this is Lothing•compared to the moderate state of the 'profession of the law,. as it appears by the Law List, an octavo book, exclusively devoted to the registering of practitioners in the ,difcereut branches. • Counsel. Special Pleaders below the Bar 49 ConveyanCers 9O London Attorneys 2146 Country Attorneys ............ ,• 4200 Total in the ProftssiOn ~..8121 THE SILK TRADE. COVENTR N O , ' / P" _ There is but little business doing irr Bilk, ov in ceig dull season of the. ear and to the country dealerice supplied themselves the late sale. Quotatio ns, b -are fully maintained, - and Turkey silk is dearer frtr!; Is. per pound. The following is a copy of a handbill which blis culated in this city • " Coventry, " At a Meeting held at the Half Moon Ta e te day,. by the gauze and fi gure w e avers (in conseq u ' l' i l, sweeping a n d ru i nous re d uc ti on attempted to be the weavi n g o f th ose articles), it was unaniin oo solved,_ t be "1. That th e pr esen t com bi na ti on t o reduce ' . of labour is at this time unnecessary and u njust. 01 , " 2. That we are determined to, suffer no ab ate ti, the present prices, as the state of the trade does or time require it; and it cannot be e ndured being obliged to parochial .aid to Jpalle,up the ge'' b ik " 3. That the nume rous wOrkMen - here as' enl igeti' solve, by all legal means,. to resist the proposed ' p o il• as degeneratin g t o th emse l ves , d egra di ng t o their of •and• ruinous to the' general prosperity 'of the ti t "' ventry." 11 , " Monday, I° , v ft " To the Manufacturers in the Gauze and F' . 6 - p y vl o iin t e t e( r ieswiltsh Department. - " Gentlemen,—We have again met and delibell. liste thesen o d f reductions. infrerquuine nttobroedthtFormerreductions, experieh°:re c er proposed, that must asontsersifa*-u'ire°.4: We have no wish to. oppose you, except t o save foo dr i, and families froth extreme misery. If the law ° effectual to prot ec t yo ur i n t eres t s , an d you eh° 101101,', to the proper quarter for redress, w e , y ou r 01: an d' ready and willing to back- u p y our re p resen tation s., sist all in our power to remove:any dis a d v antage s ° fit think you labour under. B u t we m us t beg leave' t i o o , fully to inform you, that we cannot submit to reau' " We are, Getitletrien, yours respectfolil"' "THE GAUZE AND FIGURE-WEAVERS OF COVAS TI4 Coventry Herald. S s ' THE APPROACHING EXECUTI n,xecu- : The five, unhappy men who are ord e red for ex- Thursday' next, were all convicted at the Septetalk sions. Their names are—John Powell, Thos. Charles Stnith, John Keaton, and Edward P W :oti l John Powell, who is only 23 years of age, vv ss ;W, ed of stealing f rom hi s e m p l o y ers, Me ssrs. Sewela%, (a m highly erce r ry es , pe li e n t e l n bl , e ,a a n n , d i l e la x b t e en rd siv as e hei fi ; n b , us c in a e r ss ry : °p o l „o , silk ton-street, Soho- square ) a var i ety , o f s ilk s, cambr'`,;;EVl, I bazines, &c. Powell was employed as the clerk , ;6l man, of Messrs. Sewel and Cross, and was the . of. Henry Dunn; the, young 'mail -who, with . 3 :, named Smith, was tried at 1.44. Old Bailey fe s '!ape r; ago, and convicted of extensive robberies of 'tlie rj o of his employers, an d w h ose sentence, upon a cal'As l ',. viction, was commut e d t o t ransportat i on f or life. time after Powell had been in his. situation, ' 11 :`,..0 1 ' *ere excited against him, in cons e quence of the e l . mr ior , o "nary manner' in which it was disco ve r e d h e was t, Clements, an active officer, of Marlborona - t a „ omPloyiSl to' watch- -his , Movetnents. He lead t 5 ' r otl° r hip Greek-street,i and had also hired r oo t If an eating4tauae ; in: Catataby-market, .whicb, t a li tr tO v t ' did not sleep at, he frequently visited during tile ;v 11 . ,, A cirFurnstance havi n g s h or tl y a ft er ' occu rred, `mill!'' lo his being taken into custody, lie expressed ness 'to he searched, and to have his trunks at bi' ii i r e ee ", c searched.. Search was accordingly made,, but Pe' v e' 'found on his person, nor at his apartnients in Gtfbere . Ife.WaS, however, conveyed to Carnaby-marke t, opening two large newly made boxes, the offif,eo whole pieces of the m o st V a l ua bl e cam b r i cs , richest description, bombazins, bandana laadker ol fo i so i) , de Naples, &c. the whole o f th e p ro p er ty o f ge s , ; ', io m t and Cross. There was also found a regular la dstl, handwriting of the prisoner, of ail th e ar ti c les he to with the value annexed to each, in all am ountil e over Upon being questioned; he : ackno w l e d ge d that ,d, s vi ! to e a was sent out with s ilks, &c., he alw a y s coP tSi e ;tra 'rolling the wrapper over them, to conceal A ° , tael‘. • ,4 of silk &c. under it, and,' beiides this, bet" / ; rolls of silk 'intrusted to hi m to thi s room, wilic a rou l4 'for the, purpose, and, unrolling the whole, be o . l i e r, off a number of yards from th e end next the d a pp aj e then Wind it up again. He denied that he ", e a _ tl complice in these robberies, and declared that P _sole perpetrator of them himself. tit the 1 ) ,'„ Thomas : Sackett was convicted of stealingl - v L'` son of Mr James Sharp, clerk to Messrs. . 10° I' e sc.ba l)ie' the bankers, a pocket-book, containing bills ° •. k i, of persons, among and other securities of the vane of 1,0001• was passing through Copthall-court, in the a." o tin the, 4th of August last, when he was bustled by a', n _. 14 0.4 k, c ont.-tiro 5 0 open, and robbed him of his .in;eket't P/ 4 , above-mentioned property. IjPertiht:t no hopes of lei, convicted, the• Recorder t01d, 5 absolutely neeess3fla could be - held out to him, make a severe . example of `? whom was Sackett, "416 to r' the defiance of the law, and ef to unite with a desperate %see, had a right to expect, to assault and rob persons engaged. se age is only 21, was ai',',, r oc Charles Smith, veh ° ? dured in their lawful ILa' isl e ,;V :4 of" - t° victed of an assault and robbery on theperson asth t i h 's i ae w e h u o r i t i y n which a t y l e 3 1; 11 Jones, in the neighbourhood of Cheapside. The I. o ' ) Ja v e Market, when the prisoner knocked him a u , be leaving him only time to cry " stop thief !" rf oirg watch-house. The facts were so directly man heard the cry, and seeing' the prisoner r u ' ou t 3 , wards him, hid himself in a door-w a -sr' y, and' , g o tit seized the prisoner, who •threw into. the road ; .which was afterwards owned .by : the proseco ...A t ' was returning late at night from the back .d 0f . 1" 1 : , ,, 711 ,; g e , Jury, without hesitation, fo I• roblje . Keaton's crime is "( the prisoner also that of ,highway Lowe's that of colouring base metal. On the 15th i nst., at ITzle grOVe-bouse .BIRT Bp. Paulet St. J o h n Mild may, E sqe, M.P., of a St'll, I D ol daughter. On the 13th inst.,. at hi s M a j e sty's Victualling Deptford, Mrs'. Brydone, wife of 'James Mar • • Surgeon, R.N., of a $.Oll. , the .11'i --- I? , , MARRIED. se l On the 13th inst., in the Church of St. Mich ar, 'Quin, 'Esq., of 'Lincoln's-inn formed in th e R oman Catholic C4aPer)' Michael 1,70 Belfrey, York (the ceremon h a ving been prev iod 'lep l y b ar rister-at-law Anne Smith, eldest daughter of Mrs. Wallis, of that!: T' the 17th in s t., at Wans tead, 'Essex, by the flevfleri, , to it i t u llfr i te e4l om i Esq., to Eliza, only daughter a the Rev. Williato t y et rector of that ,place, a nd of HaWkedon, i n t he e' L ' fi F. Bowerharik, Vicar of Chiswick, Henry Suffolk ~.., t e Rey, .A. O B n u th rg e h l iV th icar in ::: On the 17th inst., at St. Lawrence Jewry, by -11 toih Teush P gli c illik Hannah Hanson, second daughter of Valentiuo, S n ' of Mumford-court, Milk-street. d b , e, E b s e q v , 0 , n, of th .:s p lin e : i l er ef lot Pe : Hit c hcock, of Haxo n , Wilts,. to Martha, third (hot Oiu‘ the late Sir Wm. Gibbons, Bart., of Stanwell Par l ' u 'ol• dl e sex, and sister t o th e p resen t Si r Joh n Gibbons DIED. On Thursday week, at Thorne, in the 91st Ye' r o. ° e oti '; age, Mr. Thomas Morris, brother of the late fir'. il e i n o e r e ri y s, ea o r f s ß ag el o, ton a . wi l d t ol i v s , n i O n ta le l r it 9 tl 2 e d re y n e i r rfia di b e, le i ii t h r if t e r 7 ° ,i 000 1 . - although same onmtand li o o f: nls hthe ri n7 t h s6t e t. i: L o o yf s e t a e al s ,se consumption, s t u h am e t p fi pt r iro s e t ns - : m n e t first-mentioned Georgernt i o o u r e ed s. a ir s i ef l e , t s::. strong than many of her sex at 50 years of age. ri:' v ele i 0 .third son of Thomas Tanner, Esq., of Lewishato, . 0 1P i .,„ .his .20th. year, deeply lamented by his family awl fi le t , i e 0 , ; '" On the 11th inst.,' at 'Clifton (where he had g t -' 1 3 ",), the beneftt of his health), the Ray. William Everet"oo. late kellow of New College, O x f or d, and Vicar of ll ° 11, Essex. , ~sirt' :On the ] 14th inst., Mr. John y, Harle of Loo n°. merchant, iiiney regretted by'his numerous- friend': foli t ';'' On the'lBth inst.,"in the 69th year of her age;jisto; Maria, wif e Of Robt. Humphrey Marten, Esq of!, ';i,ro''''' On the 16th inst., at his residence, Mile r' n . .Capt. James Shadforth, in the 59th year of his age.midel. jOn the 12th inst. at Southampton, Riebard? 11.1 te ‘Kenna, Esq. of London, to Jane Louisa, thirdl , ' ~ ,of William Kelly, Esq. of Dublin. . IfA rtg On tile I.lth .inst. at Chelsea, Chuch, her Grace_viliP Duchess of Roxburghe, to Walter Frederick urot,oo o f ThoP 3 ` ~ fourth son of the late Matthew O'Reilly, Castle, in the county of Louth, Esq. , le, °` Co On the 7th inst. tin his 64th year, Mr. Thoma s • ti,e Upper-street, Islington. • . ' • I,)' e , On the 13th inst. at St. Matthew's, Brixton, 1,0 Rev. Edwin Prodgcrss, Mr. Thomas Townend, ° , f o glit el street, Fenchureh-street, to Diana Harriet, eldest u , of , Mr. Powell, of Brixton. -----, lt ti)e ,, PitiNmx . an4l-Rtugasilan by M..YOVN G • Ses-OrFtca, No. 112, Strand. 1101 F OR r i n tt . 130' :10 - MOT DAY,; !tll the ppulz THE Ilarnmet hr. Conn Am.; Ir. Davi lic E hrs. Divibc v 'tzielc, Mrs. 8 After which, Spectacle, QR T 1 J ohndani 'l: : §.(x To conclufli Dramatic RICIIAR] Richard To] ANnavals; Remnant? lire Tickets "tr ice Qr t 10 PARisi 0 r Ordnan their Stores lON BED Pattern for tl fr i r other pur Propeialv in' next, for the of much Bel 4 Office of t..1,e offie v of Ord, V ERY ' - LIN G t and xight Pito S KINNER The following b - U. 4 , 1 , 1 iJor t h est t •41LsieW4tQz,- , b P4rti lio ! l - "nxi tati ; ) "I t•x e t.' alln %th ,°, gati 4 , , lir (il aNg l3a D ovi3 k•(:)Ii"*"' and R ol, 4,1 I "P ead 01l a ss , Ai cg ,116 PKt~ g4 • 4 ; CQ Y, i ,i t o , 1 'gg6 to mad, F 3jks, ` 44l f " 1 114 kx, pt 1001 onlif. Liverp % past e r ! : pa : t Lld arrives terworth, 4ud ge l ey , ford, war Livery°. coachmen Cong teban. arid Staff arrivte at Manch e Arms and S. A. Prielcris f'qi. any 4. 1) - lore• a we: 114kion.