The Sun. — London, England, 1825-12-28 00:00:00

I'DE LONDON JOURNALS• DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 8, 1825. [vu TIMES.] Among the effects to he looked for as ine vitably resulting from the tone and measures of the Irish Catholics, since the last Session of Par liaments is that of estranging their friends and exasperating their opponents. There is the fur siser consequence, also, which, not for their sakes, but for that of the nation and its enduring inte- Nests,. we are disposed to contemplate with re gret—we mean the justification afforded to the Anti-Catholics in their use of violent language, *heir resort to irritating recollections, and their boasts of the triumph which they anticipate to their cause from the gross misconduct of the Popish -chiefs and demagogues. A meeting which took place at Londonderry on the 7th of this month, has recalled to our minds the above re flections, which, in truth, we are happy to forget, whenever a lull in the troubled waters of Irish faction enables us for a moment to escape from them. The meeting of the Derry men was to commemorate an achievment, bold at the time, successful, and useful, —namely, the shutting the gates of that remote and otherwise obscure garri son, against the Papist partisans of James ll. Such commemorations were for many years of great importance in Ireland, because they kept alive, together with the Protestant spirit, that of the revolution of 1688, and an attachment to the House of Brunswick, which took the Crown under the pledges imposed by the revolution, in preference to the House of Stuart, and a succes sion by right divine, supporting itself on arbi trary power, and forcing upon the nation an intolerant religion, in contempt of rea son and conscience. So long as the House of Stuart existed in any degree of influence over the minds of men, or of activity to take advantage of favourable circumstances, it was fair and wise to keep down its retainers by all the means that public meetings, and memorials of old, and honourable actions, could administer to the Protestant spirit, which was, in fact, for more than 70 years identified with the love of Consti tutional liberty. Of late, with the extinction of the Pretender and his representatives, the reason for all these animating and invigorating expe dients has disappeared. It has therefore been the general desire of ell men who wished to tran quillize and consolidate the Irish nation, that, retaining the principles which had descended from more doubtful and anxious times, the watch words and signals of party should be relin quished, and that the ancient enemies of the re volution and of the establishment in Church and State, should rather be invited by conciliatory measures to rally under them, than deterred by demonstrations of Protestant force and energy to exert against this bulwark of our political exist ence a power of which the original object had vanished from the face of the earth. We repeat, that if it was sound policy to hold the Papists at defiance when they had a Chief to look up to from whom they could not be detached, it also became us to extend to them the olive-branch when his death had released their honour or affec tion from the duties which he had required from them ; and this altered course of proceeding was in rapid progress from the year 1779 to almost the present hour. The spirit which held to gether those friends of Protestant ascendancy who were bona fide what they declared them selves,' and not mere plunderers fattening on the monopoly of power, while the language of freedom and the revolution was in their mouths—the public spirit of such men was fast ceasing to show itself under the aspect which it bore in the earlier periods of the eighteenth cen. wry. Except among the very lowest of the Orangemen, tools of a few among the upper orders, those warlike demonstrations which once had been the test of loyalty to the house of Hanover, had lost their charm with their use, and even the 'prentice-boy-festivities of London. derry were sinking into tameness. Now, what we have to reproach the Catholic orators of the prevent day with is, that they have revived the hostile temper of their enemies—they have clad it with freshness—they have raised it from de bility into active and formidable power. Mr. Dawson, Member for the county of Derry, met his countrymen at their assembly of the 7th in- OWL He did it to give eclat to the restoration of his, till now, delining party. The speech of the Hon. Gentleman gave a detail of the hor rible persecutions and injuries inflicted by the last Parliament of James I I. in Ireland—the ex ciusion of all Protestants from employment great and . small—the restraint upon their liberties— the-'confiscation of their properties—the pro. scription of their persons—the repeal of the Act of Settlement, and various other ex ploits. Why, then, did Mr. Dawson ven ture upon such irrational details ? His own seise must have told him that they were altoge thet irrelevant—that no James had risen from the tomb—that no Popish Parliament could- exist within the kingdom—that the Papists were ut terly contemptible.when compared in point of force with the Protestants of the empire. Why, then; did Mr. Dawson resort to such topics ? From a motive not unpardonable in a party man •---in a lover of ascendancy and its collaterals— because the time was meet for such apostrophes ; because Mr. Dawson knew the truth of what he advanced in another passage of his discourse — that the English mind has undergone upon this question an awful, and, in our judgment, we may add, , a melancholy revulsion. He spoke to willing ears, and his apefech will be conned over in this Country'hy willing readers. No wonder that the Honourable Gentleman displayed fire enough On the occasion, when he was served with fuel from the stores of his enemies. We can, indeed, tear 'testimony, from our own observation, to the fact, that "little or no chance exists for the Ca tholic question, if , now tendered to the accept since of Parliament. The Catholics have worked with too much industry against their own cause. So far as feeling goes, the great bulk of the Pro testant world is, we fear, adverse to them. It is weak indeed, and lamentable, to decide a question of everlasting import by the capricious temper of the day : •but if the Catholic advocates are neither statesmen nor philosophers, they ought not to be surprised that their Protestant neighbours have drawn from history some prtju dices, mingled with salutary lessons. [N ENV TIMES.] The death of the Emperor Alexander is offi cially noticed in the Gazette of last night by an order for a Court Mourning on the demise of that Monarch. Speculation therefore is naturally directed more intensely towards the character and probable conduct of the Emperor Constan tine. It has been rather hastily assumed that he must be disposed to favour the independence of Greece, even at the hazard of involving his own country in war. There are several reasons which incline us to doubt the accuracy of these antici pations. In the first place, the health of the new Emperor is by no means well established. He is not in that state of bodily strength and energy which would be necessary for taking the field himself in person. His treasury, though perhaps better supplied than some persons ima gine with stores of the precious metals arising from loans, is yet not adequate to bringing a large army into the field, and keeping it there. The object of a war must be either the selfish one of aggrandizement, or the more generous one of giving freedom to an oppressed people. Un doubtedly, many considerations attach Constan tine to the Greeks, as a body of men professing the same religion as himself; but, on the other hand, he has been bred-up in the principles of absolute power; he has lived in camps and in the exercise of military authority : he must feel that the Greeks themselves have injured their own cause by the avowal of doctrines wholly incon sistent with the domestic policy of Russia. We have heard, indeed, that even in the lifetime of the late Emperor, Constantine was at no pains to conceal his disapprobation of the proceedings of the Greek Chiefs : and they at least have little reason to expect the countenance and protection of the new Emperor. Ambition and the love of ag grandizement are no doubt charges to which every absolute Sovereign, on first mounting his throne, must naturally be exposed ; but Constantine suc ceeds to an established system essentially pacific —a system not only wrought into the internal ad ministration of Russia, but embracing the whole of Europe. Russia could not move hostilely against any one power Without alarming and dis quieting every other ; while, on the other hand, her statesmen (than whom few are more sa gacious) know well that the real power of Russia may be more effectually augmented by prose cuting plans of internal improvement, than by any course of successful warfare that could be reasonably imagined.—From all these considera tions, we are induced to cherish a confident hope, that, by the meeting of Parliament, his Majesty will be enabled to b assure his people of a conti nued good understanding with Russia, as well as wish the other Powers of Europe. [HORNING POST.] French Papers and the Etoik of Sunday reached us last night by Express. The most in teresting intelligence which they contain relates to the contest in Greece. The crisis of that Country's fate was evidently approaching, and if the aid of Providence have not again granted vic tory to the heroism of man, that crisis has been dreadful. It appears that the resistance of Mis solonghi had been justly considered at Constan tinople as the chief cause of the protraction of the war, and that the forces lately assembled in Egypt, both naval and military, had orders to make the reduction of that city the first opera tion of the winter campaign. Ibrahim Pacha, who wished to accomplish the conquest of the Morea, relied on the contrary on the junction of those forces with his own, to enable him to lay siege to Napoli. The Capitan Pacha, how ever, refused to depart from the plan which had been traced out by the Divan or its Christian Al lies, and called upon Ibrahim to help him with his army. Hence some differences arose, from which a gleam of hope may break upon Greece; but it is faint and imperfect. Ibrahim, according to the present accounts, had given way to supe rior authority, and had promised to bring the balk of his troops to the assistance of Redschid, who was to resume the siege of Missolonghi by land, whilst the fleet should attack it by sea.— Aware of the magnitude of the dangers which threatened him, and determined not to yield whilst they had life, the brave Missolonghians sent the archives of the Government, the old men, women, and children, to Zante and Ce phalonia, and prepared to maintain their post, or to die like Leonidas aml the Spartans at Ther mopylae. As the communications were not yet interrupted, provisions were brought in abun dantly, and numerous bodies of patriots and heroes poured in to share their triumphs or their glorious death. The batteries were repaired and the fortifications strengthened, that the ground al ready bathed in gore might be defended inch by inch. Neither did the garrison and inhabitants trust to human courage alone. They appealed to that God, who knew the sacredness and justice of their cause, for protection in the day of battle. After a general review, in which every Chief embraced his soldiers, so self doomed to the same destruction, the venerable Bishop of the place (their only Christian ally on earth t) publicly blessed them, sprinkling holy water on their standard, which, decorated with crowns of well earned laurels, was perhaps des tined shortly to sink in blood amidst the palms of martyrdom. Let it be said after this that modern Greece does not equal in patriotism, devotion, and heroism, nay, not transcend the brightest deeds of her early ages ! Let also those Powers call themselves Christian, who not only view these preparations of a whole city for immolation with indifference, but if they betray any feeling or put forth any strength, betray and put it forth in behalf of the destroyers, not. the victims ! [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The death of the Emperor Alexander seems to be an inexhaustible theme with the French Jour. nals, which chews the powerful sensation it has excited amongst that People. Every day they publish some new particulars respecting it, or' some commentary to shew the influence it is like ly to have on the affairs of the world. A Paris Paper of Sunday contains a letter from Warsaw, which enters into a more circumstantial account of his last moments, than any which has appeared as yet. It seems from this account, that the event did not take the people of St. Peters ' burgh wholly by surprise, as they had, a few days previously to the arrival of the melancholy tid ings, received intelligence of the fatal distemper, which, in a few days, and in the prime of life, and plenitude of power, carried him off. The news of his illness is stated to have caused general cotssternation ; but in the midst of it, a letter was received from the Empress, announcing a favourable change, and holding out considerable hopes of a recovery ; however, in the midst of the Te Dean, which in conequence of this tran sient gleam had been celebrated in the Metropo litan Church, intelligence was received that this mighty Monarch was no more. A stupifying grief, we are told, succeeded to the joy that had been lighted up before ; and these rapid alter nations of intense pain and pleasure, whilst they are certainly, if true, a noble homage to Alexander, are every thing but compli mentary to his successor, who probably had a large share in producing these violent tran sitions of feeling. The latter, however, is much misrepresented, if he does not carefully note them down in the tablet of his memory; and, for every tear, shed for his predecessor, he will exact some mark of respect for himself, if not so sincere, at least more solid. Indeed it may be said, almost in every instance, that when the people rush to mourn over the remains of depart ed royalty, they give the strongest possible indi cations of their fear of the Sovereign who has just ascended the throne. An expectation is express.' ed in the same letter, that the passage of the lifeless remains from Taganrog to St. Petersburgh will be one continued funeral procession, th►e people streaming in from all quarters to express their sense of the loss they have sustained. We may, however, without any injustice, except such persons as have any grace or favour to ex pect from the rising Imperial sun ; for these, no doubt,will have too much prudence to suffer them selves to be carried away by the torrent of r,ublic feeling, in which only the obscure and unambi tious can, at least under a despotic government, safely swim with upon such an occasion. But there seems to us to be considerable exaggeration iu this account of the national affliction ; and, if our surmise be correct, what a lesson does it read to those Monarchs who think that their subjects hould have no will but their-, and should hold their lives, property, and honour, wholly depend ent upon their caprice ; or, what is worse, upon the honesty and wisdom of their chief servants ! ['MORNING CIIK.ONICL.] We have from the first expressed our opinion, that .# more improper site for a palace than Buck ingham House could not have been selected. This spot unites every possible disadvantage, and no creatures but cows ought ever to have lived on it ; it is marshy, in a hollow, and in a de testable neighbourhood, and further, it is a sort of coil de sac, and therefore unfit for a palace, which, as a grand object, ought to be placed in a great track, where it may be seen by the world. Of Buckingham-house tine never have seen any thing but the chimneys, a good view of which is had from Piccadilly. As loyal men, it has been a great grief to us to think that our King was going to live in a hole, and, some time ago, we gave vent to our inward trouble on this score, but our Courtly Contemporaries, taking alarm at our demonstrations of loyalty, abused us unmercifully for our pains, and one of the ungracious varlets did us the injustice to say, that if his Majesty had chosen a better spot for his Palace, we should have run about dis tracted, with hair on end, crying out that the cows and the cockneys were about to be defraued of their rights. We now, however, find, that people in general are of opinion that is not right that the King of England should hide a Palace in Pimlico, and a paragraph which we copied yes terday from a Sunday Paper, states that this abominable plan is abandoned ; we have also in formation from other quarters that this is the case, and we rejoice that it is so, for though de cided enemies to lavist•tin9, the public money on mere show, we are still more adverse to drib bling it away on mean schemes, which would make no sort of return, either in credit to the na tional taste, or in ornament to the capital, and which would prove most expensive in the end, for if his present Majesty were content to live in a hole, we doubt whether his suc cessor would follow his example, and a reason able demand would be made to a Parliament for a new residence by a future King, who might not like to live like a frog. If a palace must be built, it is the best plan to build it at once to the best advantage. We certainly do not like the idea of trenching on Hyde Park, but the top of Constitution-hill seems more free from objection ; and if the King of England does not fence him self in against his loving subjects, the space taken from 4 4 the cows and the cockneys" for the mere house would be very inconsiderable, particularly as the ugly pond might be filled up. Why should not the palace of the English King be as open as that of the French King I [MORNING HERALD.] The abstract which we publish in this day's paper of the result of the commitments to the last Old ,Bailey Sessions, will be found fully to bear out and confirm the remarks we made a short time since, as to the very small number of the prisoners at these sessions who are tried by the Judges, and the great proportion of cases, the trials of which consequently devolve upon per. sons holding judicial offices appointed by the City of London. Of 173 cases, it will be seen that only 19 were tried by the three Judges whoat tended the rota,and as those tried by theßecorder were (all 'but o►►e) City cases, four-fifths of -the prisoners committed for offences in the county of Middlesex were tried by the two City officers. It is not necessary for our purpose to inquire (and it would be painfully invidious to do so) into the ability of both or either of the persons we allude to—what we contend is, first, that the county of Middlesex and the City of West minster, where cases the greatest both in num ber and importance must necessarily occur, ought not to be placed in a different or worse situation in this respect than in any other county in the kingdom; and, secondly, that the appoint ment of Judges exercising functions of such high importance to the community, resting ssith a Corporation (which has hitherto, we believe, been in the habit of selling the first step which leads to its higher offices), is an anomaly in jurispru dence, if not a serious encroachment upon the prerogatives of the Crown, with which the liber ties of the people are so closely interwoven. — It appears to us that it would be quite as fit for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen to appoint the King's Ministers as his Judges ; and that Sir William Curtis might just as well drive up to Downing-street, and take the seals from Mr. Canning, as that the Corporative Body should have the power of dealing with the lives and liberties of such of his Majesty's subjects as are charged with criminal offences at the very seat of Government. We trust that we shall not be told that the trial of criminals is of less consequence than the other duties of the Judges, and may therefore be con signed to supernumeraries thus appointed ; for, if it were so, then why should the Judges be at the trouble of going the circuits; and why should not the Mayor of York and the con stable of Lancaster appoint the Judges for those large and important counties ? But the fact that the practice we allude to is a defect in our judicial system, which is felt and acknowledged by all who have paid attention to the subject; and we trust that the time is not far distant. when Mr. Peel (who is the most effectual prac tical reformer the country has witnessed for a very great number of years) will turn his atten tion to an incongruity which ought not to con tinue. [BRITISIL PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Saturday, with the Etoile and Pilote of Sunday, were received in the course of yesterday. The Eloile contains some inte resting, and we suppose authentic, details rela tive to the circumstances attending the decease of the Emperor Alexawler, and the Proclamation of his successor, Consaintine. There seems now to be no reason for believing that Alexander died by violence, and the proceedings of the Imperial Family, after his death, indicate the existence of none of those feelings which must have pre vailed if he had perished by the hand of the assassin. On Sunday the Court of France went into mourning for his Imperial Majesty. The mourning will be black for the first eleven days, and white for the last ten. An order for a similar measure appeared in the London Gazette last night. The dispatches ftornLord Strangford, officially an nouncing the melancholy event, arrived only on Monday. A private letter in the Pilote represents the coasts of Spain to be infested to excess with C olombian privateers. All the ships that have valu able cargoes are captured on leaving the Spanish ports. The vessels are immediately destroyed, and the crews landed. The King of Spain will find that the South American question cannot be postponed indefinitely, unless he has resolved en tirely to renounce foreign commerce. The holiday at the Bank yesterday had a na tural tendency to depress the British Funds, from the circum stance of there being no bargains for money, and Consols were heavy without any apparent cause. The price declined 64, at which it opened, to 81i. The ill arket became firmer in appear. ance ; but there was, as we understood, no reaction for an ad. vance. Reduced Stock sold at 801 for Thursday. Exchequer Bills were at par to 2s. dis. ; and India Bonds at the same price. The transactions in the English Securities were very li mited, but those in tke Forei;n Market were still more so, and the quotations, particularly in South .American Stocks, were lower. Colombian Bonds were 60i, Mexican 6 per Cents. 64, 65, and Itussian Bonds 78k. There was scarcely any other business done in this Market. A renewal of business occurred in Mining Shares. Anglo-Mexican Shares were 6 premium, United Mexican ditto 76, and Real del Monte Shares reached 150 prem.—(lbid. ) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Goorge Field, a drover, was yesterday charged with obtain. ing, by a fraudulent pretence, the sum of 381. 10s. lid., from Mr. Griffiths, the banker, in Smithfield. Mr. Walker, of Enfield Highway, farmer, had employed the prisoner as a drover, and about the 25th September last sent him to London with twelve sheep and fourteen lambs, with directions to deliver them to Mr. Brutt, the salesman, who would dispose of them, and place the proceeds, as usual, in the hands of Mr. Griffiths. The money was paid into the house by Brutt, and soon after some person went there, and having asked fur Mr. Walker's bill and money, received the 38/. 10s. Bd. To bring the fact of having received the money home to the prisoner, Wm. Jones, a drover, was called, who stated, that between one and two months ago he overtook the prisoner upon Forty Hill, near Enfield, who told him he had done a pretty job. He asked him what was the matter? To which the prisoner answered that he had taken 381. of Mr. Walker's, and he must go away for it. He advised him to make up the money again, take it back to Mr. Walker, and hag his pardon ; but the prisoner said he could nut manage that, for it was all spent, except 16 or 17 pounds, which he had left in the hands of woman. After some immaterial conversation, they parted, and the next time witness saw Mr. Walker, he mentioned the circumstance to him. Mr. Walker, being recalled, said he had never autho rised the prisoner to receive any money for him, and the pri soner, who declined saying anything in his defence, was fully committed for ttial. MA R Y LE BONE. VIOLENT CONDUCT OP A WATCHMAN.— Yesterday, Jahn APAdam, a watchman of St. Maryleboz:e, was brought up in custody, charged with brutally assaulting Mr. John Draper, of Shouldharn-street, by beating him on the head with a bludgeon. Mr. John Draper stated, that he was a cabinetmaker, and resided in Shouldham-street, Edgeware-road. He was turning home on Monday evening, and at the corner of Queen street he heard the cry of " murder." He instantly repaired to the spot, and perceived the prisoner pulling a female into a ' door-way in Queen-street, and begged of him for God's sake not to ill-use her. He had no sooner uttered the entreaty than the prisoner turned round and with his bludgeon levelled him to the ground ; he became senseless, and cannot recollect what passed afterwards. William Hampton, residing in Seymour-place, said, that on the evening stated by the last witness he heard the cry of " Murder ! ' and ran towards the spot; on last witness en. treating the prisoner not to ill-use the woman, he turned round, and, lifting his stick with both hands, felled him to the ground. The prisoner continued his blows till the com plainant was insensible. The sergeant of the night coming up, he was informed of the conduct of the prisoner, who ran away, but was pursued, and at last found on the steps of a public-house in Brown-street. The prisoner said that the complainant and vAtness had in terrupted him in the discharge of his duty, and that lie could prove so by the evidence of the servant of the lady who resided at No. 12, Queen-street, Edgware-road: Mr. GI rfriTus then directed an officer to accompany the watchman to bring this servant. The constable of the night stated, that .the prisoner bore a very good character, and had been on his beat these eight years, but he had certainly confessed in the watchhouse that he had struck the complainant. Mary Wells stated that she was servant to a lady named Mary Ann Maples ( who, we und6tstand, is the celebrated Airs' Bertram ' alias Mother Bang), that she had been to bring. mistress home, who was certainly much in liquor, but inati, no noise. On their way home she heard the cry of " watch. but did not see the watchman until they arrived at Brows'. street; the noise was made by a woman who passed theto4 witness heard the complainant cry out " Let us have a lark. She also heard him say," Let the lady alone." She then wait in doors and did not see any blow struck. The prisoner denied striking the complainant, and stated that he called him many opprobrious epithets. The head of the complainant exhibited a frightful apPear' ance, and was tremendously cut. Mr. GRIFFITH—You have heard what these men have sworn, you admitted so doing at the watchhouse, and hare neW the effrontery to deny so doing. I never heard of more dil' graceful conduct in a watchman in my life, and from the pearance of the plaintiff's head you might have com mitted murder. The prisoner was then suspended for two months, and id s° ordered to be indicted at the Sessions. EXECUTiON. The following are some further particulars re' specting the unhappy men whose lives we re yesterday forfeited to the laws of their country' William Henry Austin was the san of a most respecusb, l l old ge pntleman, who for uwards of 50 years held a contlilen, and lucrative situation in the General Post-office, from WW 4 " he retired with great credit, and still enjoys a handsome pen: sion. His unfortunate son was for 16 or 17 years in the Slitn. employment. At the time when he committed the offence rs' which he was convicted, he was a sorter of letters, and havi n g about three months previously formed a criminal acquaintance with an artful female, he was tempted to become unfaithful to the trust reposed in him, and the amount he from time to ap e embezzled is said to have been considerable. During his nn/; prisonment, both before and after his conviction his cond uct ._ described as having been such as became the awful situation 7: which he stood ; he never attempted to deny or palliate tii g . oo ° ; fence ; and while he discovered symptoms of sincere contriti be and paid respectful attention to his religious instructo neither expressed nor pretended to be the subject of these turous sensations which others, placed in like melancholy,, e d cutnstances with himself, have evinced, but which he congaed 1A scarcely became one whose repentance, even if sincere, Was as and who was about to leave the world, not as a martyr, bialy a criminal. He was humble and serious, yet firm and tr n to the last. On one occasion, when conversing ,with the l' e „, Ordinary of Newgate, he expressed disapprobation of the 1: o counts he had read of the transports experienced by som e ! het died on the scaffidd, and earnestly hoped that nothing of 't, e ; description would be related of him. " I have, said he , . 184 graced myself and my family, and let my name and my crnit? be forgotten as soon as possible." It is said that powerfullPi. fluence was exerted for the purpose of saving his fife, for was that a Noble Lord, at the head of the department in whic", f, was employed, humanely interfered on his behalf : but, tinl ° to tunately, the offence of which he was guilty has pr omise 0, a great extent, and has even coroinued since his convicti"),es and within the Let fortnight, on one occasion, Bank to the amount of 1,000/. were taken from a letter, and " - es stantly exchanged for sovereigns. Under these circumstsncli, it was deemed absolutely necessary that an alarming evlo should be made, in order to deter from future offences of ~o description, no one prosecuted by the Yost-office having u e - 4 capitally punished for several years past. This unhappy' Y'lo man has left an amiable widow and four children w lam ent untimely end. ass Richard William Jasper, who suffered for forging 1411 „ - d s r ceptance of Messrs. Suttaby, Fox, and Co. was a book bw b e by trade. Finding himself inconvenienced in business want of capital, he had resource to the dangerous elf; dient which proved fatal to him ; and it has bee' iris moured that the offence of which lie was convicte" A not the first of that kind which he had committed, an d „itt without really intending that any person should be ; i e . mately defrauded, he had been accustomed in seYe ra ,by stances to relieve himself from temporary embarrassenet of adopting the fearful practice of counterfeiting the 0 011 ,:fer houses of known responsibility, taking care to prosino, the bills. Jasper was a man of quiet decent del:01, 0 e a kind husband and a - father. He appeared mots su iL s f ili e . ed at the prospect of death than his companions in if r tion ; but he showed every disposition to prepare hitnig t a future state. The case of John Edmonds was someeb s b e ee markable :he was the servant of a farmer at Mario'''. to te horse he was convicted of stealing, (and it is said that nail. the same horse some time back,) sold it for 12/., cams t ° ape don, and spent the money in a profligate manner. rit ot o, went down to Marlow for the purpose of taking anoth er but the former having been recovered, he found it on his li. ter's premises and brought it away, not being able t o get j, session of the other animal, which was more va luable. 10 , monds had been a youth of loose habits. lie had been it' 0% bury gaol, and six years back he was confined in the Cler ec well prison for some petty theft. After the order of big stun et tion arrived, he sent for the Rev. Dlr. Buell, the cheP4su'ibt that place, whose former excellent instructions were 1 1 0 51- to recollection by his awful situation. Ile also had an iore 4, view with his injured master, whose forgiveness he inn ) l f! and obtained. This wretched young man endured the Pr,,,is of a guilty conscience, which reproached him with the 0 7 ; 4 of his former evil course, and with the misery and disieree which be had brought upon a wife and four children. do t reverend gentleman who attended him entertained hoPeelliti his penitence was genuine, and that the subsequent tr ans and peace of mind which he enjoyed previous to his dot'' I ; ,s , not unwarranted. He died with as much firmness 0 3 ' 44 " , . coming the situation in which he was placed. COURSE OF EXcitANGG, D ec . 27. 61 -s.iustet dem, Ditto, at Sight It otten tl:4 ill Antwerp Hamborgh 37 II ,/,/ Os. Allona Paris,3 Dly's sight _. Di tto Pionrdeaux, ditto Berlin Es. A l ‘ I Frank fOrt (Ili the Nlaiii Petetsborgli Vienna Trieste %lad rid ................... ..... - . ..,„„3 1 1 Q‘2oo i r ":,.f lC : c _i .t lii e : . : : 1 SO E 3s 34 Cadiz Billma Ban:claim <.; itrilly Gibraltar .. ........ .. Leghorn Gei,t,a ...... ... 434 - Venire, It al. Liv Er, ‘laita Palermo Lisbon Oporto ItioJantiro Bahia .... 50 Buenos Ayres, nilblitt .. 9i Cot lc ( 9i pet Cent. BILLION. P o rtugal Gold, i n Cnifil J . O 0 0 11er Op Foreign (:old, in Bari 3 17 ' 6 New Doubloons New Dollar: 0 0 ° Silver Standard in 8ar5...... -•"/ inwriis. Q At tha manse of Crawford-John, iii Lanarkshire, -1, a + - on H. , on the 17th inst., the lady of the Rev. William r iiif daughter. u SPa On the 2Gth inst., at Woodford, the lady of J. &•-• Esq., of a daughter. II sce l° Ro o., On the 26th inst., in Souuthampton-row, _-, the lady of George Chilton, jun., Esq., of a son MARRIED. e fte l. On Tuesday, the 27th inst., at St. Mary's , Redford,,tlir°be, Peter La Trobe, eldest son of the Rev. E. I . La rirFostet: Mary Louisa, second daughter of the Right Rev . F. " On the 27th inst., at Camberwell Church, the Itor; lad son Robins, M.A., to Elizabeth, eldest daughter Cr , Thomas Holland, Esq _---...,_ J . DIED. it• n of pis On Saturday, the 17th inst., at Hixon, Geotfe , 5° ., 4 '. J. Marsh, of Ingestie, Staffordshire, in the 2zd,Y h e— te O r age, after a protracted illness of three years, Wh 4 ' . I with exemplary resignation. in 1/' On Saturday, the 24th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Taker eP , 71st year. Oa i t t lO At Manchester, on Saturday, the 17th inst ., in the er 0 of his age, Mr. James White, civil engineer, and au° Olt Century of Inventions," &c. e. aCO On the 27th inst., Catherine, the w ife J of Mr. • ''' is t.. f of Old-street, aged 40. A l 0 v On the 19th inst., at the Hague, Lieutenant- 00° 10 0 o Charles de Bentink, Commander of the MilitarY ~, 4 4; William, High Steward to her Majesty the Qu i %pa i Netherlands, and one of the Knights of OberS se " ' ...,........... e S V"' 'tinted and PLblished for tke PROEB/E/Clig , 11 2;i , CI ICE i'o.l 2, Stuald, 13