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rilE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extr;lets fro* the Morning Papers, Sept. 22, 1 82 b. [TUE TIMES.] A .day or two will probably decide the im portant question whether we are upon the eve of a general election, or that event is to be deferred for another year. It is considered that by the dissolution of Parliament so soon after the defeat of the Catholic question, a great accession of strength will accrue to the anti-Catholic party — that is, one side of the Ministry will be strength ened, and the other weakened. It is not, however, by - a house being divided against itself that it is most likely to stand. The weakened party, by far the ablest in talent, may be disgusted and re tire-; and then what becomes of the stronger, thus denuded and exposed ? It is very certain that whatever strengthens the anti-Catholic party in the Cabinet, tends to paralyze Mr. Canning and convert him into a cipher—that Minister to whom the country professes to feel itself so much obliged, on account of the liberal system of policy , which he has introduced into its coun cils. There is no question, we allow it, but that a very strong anti-Catholic feeling exists in the country, ready to break out into an anti- Catholic cry, if one-half of the Ministry should at this time take advantage of their col leagues by dissolving the Parliament, and stir ring up the passions through a general election. But we contend, that if a general election take place at the present crisis,—to which, in truth, we have no objection,—Catholic emancipation is by that very occurrence suspended : for it is ob. viously betrayed in the Cabinet, if its adherents suffer the election to take place, and continue in office. The friends and supporters, therefore, of a liberal policy, cannot do better than adhere together on those general principles on which they are united, leaving the detached and ano malous question of Catholic emancipation out of their view; for it would be very rash indeed to betray the grand cause on which they are united, on account of discrepancy of opinion, wherever that exists, upon a single point. The Whig candidate for a seat in the new. Parliament, supposing a new Parliament to be called, if re proached with his vote on the Catholic Emancipa tion Bill, would now reply, that there was so !couch trickery in the Ministry upon this question, that it -ought to be forced upon them as a Cabinet measure ; for until it is decided affirmatively in the Cabinet, it will never be carried : and for this cause it was that Sir Francis Burdett reso lutely and rationally refused to ♦ote on the sub ject a year or two ago, alleging that the obtrusion of the question on the House, while the prepon derating body of the Ministry opposed the bill, and the enlightened fraction of the Ministry act ed in its support, was a mere imposition, to which he would not give his countenance. He would not appear to be gulled by it. The measure is a measure of State,—not the subject of conflict be tween parties. _ [BRITISH PR US.] If we may judge from the proceedings of the Slhipw•rights' Union, they seem resolved to sub stitute an entirely new theory of subordination in lieu of that which they have so recently thrown off. They appear to have enacted a new code of combination. laws in the place of those which Parliament have repealed. By their code their own sentence is to be, in all cases, final. They will bold nothing by favour—they will accept no thing by, compromise—they will ask what wages they please, and they will have what they ask as of right. If all power is to be translated, as it seems the intention of the Union Committee that • it shall be—from the hands of the employers to these of the workmen, it will certainly be no easy matter to settle their pretensions. It seems intended on the part of the shipwrights that it should be a trial of strength. Indeed, the whole combination system has been commenced, and is carried on in that spirit. But the conflict of norm: bers against property can never be a drawn battle. It is a propensity that experience has uniformly discovered in the mind of man to usurp power, and there seems at present but too prevailing an inclination in the working classes to possess themselves forcibly of a dominion which,irt the nature of things,they never can obtain, and which if they could obtain, they never could exercise but with ruin to others and to themselves. They may centinue for a time the present state of broil and confusion in which they have involv ed the master manufacturers—but in what can it .end Property, after all, must preponderate :it cannot be otherwise. That class whose lot is labour—useful as they may be in their station, and invaluable as their services may be in their proper sphere of duty—can never hope to make a new distribution of the powers and interests of society. They may indeed disturb, but they • cannot destroy, the order which Providence has _established in the world, for the furtherance • of 'civil society and the security of private rights. They have their. allotment of .power, which, it well and wisely exercised, is adequate—at all times—to what-ought to .be its purpose, antd to the attainment of whatever it ought in justice to accomplish ; but the instant 4 seeks to be pm , mount, its uumerical strength becomes its real weakness, because it gives birth, from necessity, • <tn an antagonist force, against which, while the order of civil government exists, it can never successfully contend. As to the attempt to re •gulate .wages by the price of,provisions, it is ut terly impracticable. It can never be attempted :tea any, principle of common sense or of common justice. It is preposterous for the workmen in any trade to.attempt. to regulate their price-book by the returns of Leadenhall or of Mark-lane. As Ewell might the journeymen , bakers or butchers-fix their wages by the price of ship-tirri ber.At ismanifestthat the very same causes•which tend to advance food to a higher price than usual :inay at the.same time lessen the demand for that very labour, for which the workmen would . insitit upon an increase of wages. No man of sound wind can reflect a moment, without perceiving not only that such a demand, under such circum stances, would be most unreasonable in itself, but that It could not be complied with. That is the most prosperous state of a manufacturing country, in which, while food is cheap wages continue high, and where consequently the reward of la bour operates as a stimulus to industry. It is a bad condition of society, in which the labouring classes are perpetually struggling to keep poverty at arm's length. But it does not therefore follow that the expence of subsistence ought to regulate the rate of manufacturing wages. It cannot be too often repeated, that the attempt on the part of the working classes to insist upon this measure of value can only arise from a want of those just prin ciples of thinking and reasoning which it most be hoves them to attain. Wages in every branch of ma nufacture must depend on the decreasing demand or the extra consumption ; these are the barome ters by which they must rise or fall ; but the prices of bread and butcher meat fluctuate, it is obvious, with various causes with which these are not connected, and upon which they have no in. flnence. As for the present combining system, it cannot long go on without extirpating the Capi talist. He will soon find it his interest to carry his money and his machinery where he can em ploy them, not only profitably, but in quiet and repose. This he must in vain seek for, as long as the rise or reduction of wages is to be per petually contended for between manufacturers and their workmen, as between two active and hostile interests. As far as legislation is concerned, un doubtedly the laws which best defended each, would best protect all. At present the boundaries o: all law are threatened, and that general capital, which is the object of common concern, and in the employment and circulation of which the prosperity of the whole community depends, is placed in a condition which it is fearful to look upon, and the issue of which it is not easy to prophecy. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 20th instant, and the Etoile of Tuesday, arrived last night, by Ex press. The latter has brought advices from Con stantinople to the 22d of August, by which it ap pear that the resolution of the Greek Govern ment to place its country under our protection, and the increase of our naval force in the Levant Seas, had created a serious sensation in that ca pital. As no mention is made in these accounts of the proceedings of the Turkish armies, either in Greece Proper or in the Morea, it is evident that nothing had occurred calculated to gratify the Porte,or else advantage would have been taken of the slightest occasion to build upon it the re port of a magnificent victory. The Constitutionnel gives several extracts from the Friend of the Law, which throw some light on the actions and skir mi►hes whith the Austrians have turned into im portant succeses gained by their dear friend and Frogs* Ibrahim Pacha. The first statement is the most important of all, for it confirms the in telligence which we had previously received from other quarters, that the Greeks had surprised and destroyed the garrison of 1,200 Arabs, whom the Egyptain Commander had left at Nisi to protect his communications with the sea. Only a few horsemen escaped with their lives, and 25 foot soldiers who were taken prisoners. The Greeks lost in this brilliant enterprise, which was executed by four thousand Arcadians, Andrusians and Leontariotes, only fifty killed, and the brave Commander of the Arca dians, called Crizalis. After the action of the 20th of July, in which the Austrian Bulletin writers slew Ypsilanti, and annihilated the whole armed force of the Morea, that murdered Com mander continued to advance and to occupy so important a position, that he was fiercely attacked in it the next day by more than double his strength. He repelled his assailants, and inflicted considerable loss upon them, but finding that they had turned the position of another Greek Chief who was overpowered by numbers, he moved to his relief and covered his retreat, when Colocotroni arrived with his corps, and drove the Arabs back to Tripolisza. This is one of Ibra him's boasted victories, and may serve to give a just idea of the rest. [THE PUBLIC LBDOER.I The determination of the Greeks to seek the protection of this country has excited an univer sal anxiety to ascertain in what way the applica tion will be met by his Majesty's Government. If feeling alone decided a matter of this import ance, the result would not be problematical; for to such men as direct, at this hour, the affairs of this country, the idea of restoring Greece must have incredible attractions. It is an affair, how. ever, of calculation, as well as of sentiment; and if it be found, upon mature deliberation, that the inconveniences greatly outweigh the advan tages, the honour of the proposal will be declined, however pain may accompany this stern act of duty. But it is not altogether certain that, in a mere profit and loss view of the subject, the objections exceed the documents ; for the risk appears to us to be by no means so great as is usually imagined ; and the ex pence is not worth speaking of, as Greece pos sesses resources, if well managed, which would be soon more than adequate to cover her own ex penditure. As to the risk, the only objection worth noticing is the possibility that it might in volve this country in hostilities with one or more European Powers. That it would lead to a result of this kind, however, is in the extreme doubtful; for what right would be invaded, except the ob solete one of the Porte, should the application suc ceed. No other Power would have even a plausible pretext for going to war ; and if it still proceeded to hostilities, the risk would be at least as great upon its side, as upon ours. The last considera tion would have more influence upon the deci sion, than perhaps is generally believed; and the objections in this respect seem to us to be far more specious than solid. Should this country too decline the overture, the Greeks would pro bably next address themselves to Russia ; and, were the latter to accede, we could not, with any shew of humanity, interpose to prevent her' from rescuing the Greeks from the horrible evils that await them, in the event of being brought again under the Turkish yoke. NEW TIMES.] We last night received the Etoile dated Tues. d a y . The Three per Cents. continue to support r themselves nearly about the pries they have for some time maintained. The Journal des Dobai* pursues its daily attacks on M. de Villele,. who will probably sink at last under. this load of abuse, because he has the folly (too common with great Statesmen) to undervalue the influence of the Press. M. de Villele has effected two vast bene fits in France—the passing a law of indemnity to the emigrants, and the reducing the annual charge of the Public Debt ; but he has never brought the true nature of these measures fully before the public; he has suffered the French people to be puzzled and deluded by the Journal des Dclbats, as if he ima gined that sophistry and misrepresentation had no effect on public opinion. Fatal mistake ! M. de Villele will hereafter find that he has neglect ed one of his first duties to himself and his coun try in not causing the false reasoning of the Journal des DAats to be clearly exposed and powerfully refuted. That Journal quotes his words, but perverts their spirit. He had said that when the five per cents. fell below par it would be to the advantage of the State that the Sinking Fund should purchase in that stock rather than in the Threes. Well, cries the Journalist, the Fives are a quarter per cent. below par, why do you not purchase in them ? Because (it may be answered) the circumstances of the market are such as to render the purchase not advisable in the opinion of the Commis sioners. The Commissioners have decided that the present circumstances of the market form a case of exception. M. de Villele's remark was just, as a general rule ; but there is no general rule without exception. Suppose a combination of Stockjobbers were to succeed in depressing any Stock a quarter per cent. ought the Commissioners to assume (contrary to their own positive know ledge) that this was the natural state of the market ? The Commissioners of the English Sinking Fund have a discretion as to the parti cular Stock , in which they purchase, and the French ought to have, as by law they have, a similar discretion. DROWNING CHRONICLE.] It appears from a paragraph now travelling the rounds of th• Press, that the Duke of Northum berland, on arriving at Alnwick, expressed to his assembled tenants his confidence that they would receive pleasure at being informed how incorrect the newspaper accounts were on the subject of his late mission. His Grace is then reported to have affirmed, that from the King to the Peasant a mark ed attention was paid to him as his Majesty's Re presentative. We make not the least doubt that this statement was as gratifying to the good peo ple of Alnwick as the Noble Duke had antici pated ; but while his Grace was condescending to make his tenantry happy, by correcting mis representations touching the degree of honour in which he had been held in France, we regret extremely that he did not enter into some expla nation concerning the alleged neglected claims of a decayed Gentlewoman (connected with his family) on I►is justice and generosity. The story, which is the talk of the town, has deeply interested the public, and the circumstances of it, if truly stated, are such as detract more from the • dignity of a noble and weal thy house than the rumoured slights which his Grace has taken the trouble to contradict for the especial satisfaction of his friends in the coun try. We need scarcely add that we allude to the representations of a lady of the name of Webster, now dependent for support on parish aid, whose grandfather, Mr. Lomas, on the death of his wife, the Dowager Duchess of Somerset, surren dered, with romantic generosity, to the late Duke of Northumberland a deed securing to him (Mr. Lomas) the Duchess's property, amounting in value, it is said, to 60,0001. The grand-daughter of this gentleman, advanced in years, and in deep distress, describes herself as having in vain solicited the assistance of the pre sent wealthy Duke, and also of his kinsman, Lord Beverley, whose possessions have been swelled by the generosity of the applicant's grandfather. We refrain from entering into the sordid parti culars of alleged evasion of promises and trickery, to which, supposing them to be truly stated, his Grace can doubtless prove himself to have been no party, for our sole object in noticing the matter is to invite either confutation of an injurio►►s tale, or justice to an aggrieved and helpless indivi dual. Assuming the fedi to be as represented, we must in charity assume the Noble Duke to be a stranger to them ; and, indeed, we are strongly inclined to conjecture that he must. be altogether ignorant of what has occurred at the Mansion-House, for surely if he were aware of wl►at has passed, he would think it at least as incumbent on him to shyw that he had not lost his title to the world's respect in this affair, as to correct idle misrepresentations respecting slights offered to his embassadorial dig. pity at the Court of France. Certain we are that the good tenants at Alnwick would feel more interested and more gratified by the former in formation than by the latter, as it is of more concern to them to be convinced that their land lord is beyond all question a liberal and humane Nobleman, than to be assured that he has been an honoured Representative of Royalty at a Fo reign Court. It is very seldom, indeed, that we notice affairs between individuals ; but the pecu liar circumstances of this case, and the explana tion which the Duke has just offered on a matter that touche s him less closely, have tempted us to infringe our general rule. In some degree, how r ever, the affair is of public concern ; for if the story be permitted to rest where it is, it will be winded about in France as an anecdote little creditable either to his Majesty's late Representative, or to his Majesty's choice of a Representative, and as generally illustrative (our neighbours love to generalise) of the mixed meanness and ostenta tion of the proud English Nobility. [MORNING HERALD.] There is a practice growing up in our Criminal Courts, arislng l as we apprehend, from a dislike to trouble, which requires, we think, to be put an end to. The circumstance we allude to is this, of a Counsel for a prosecution rising up and in forming the Judge, that in his (the Counsel's) opinion, the evidence, as stated to him, is not sufficient to convict the prisoner, and that there fore the prosecution should be abandoned.— This is, we conceive, a manifest injustice to all parties, and proceeds upon the erro neous notion of treating such matters as if they were causes between individuals. When a Grand Jury, consisting, as it ought to do, of twenty-three persons, has deliberately said that there is no good ground to put a man upon his trial, we are not convinced that one individual, who has probably neither seen nor heard one of the witnesses, and who knows perhaps but half the story, and that imperfectly from his brief, can be competent to set aside and stultify the so. lemn judgment of a known, a legal, and compe tent tribunal. Judges, too, now and then, do something of the same kind, by stating that the case does not appear to be sustained by the de positions before them, and for that reason ought to be abandoned. The depositions as taken by the Magistrate, and by him transmitted to the Court, can hardly in any case be sufficient to bear out this conclusion, against which, as in the other case, the finding of the Grand Jury is a complete answer. Besides, how can the Judge tell (as in fact is often the case) but that stronger evidence has been found since the prisoner's committal ! If the Judge discovers from the depositions that in fact no felony has been committed, and that the prisoner has been proceeded against under a mistake, he may be justified in stopping the pro ceedings ; but the sufficiency of evidence is the province of the Petty Jury to judge of, and public justice requires that a person charged on the inquisition of the Grand Jury should be con victed or delivered by the verdict 'of his Peers, and by that alone. Without dwelling moreupon this latter practice, the former is one which we feel quite confident upon—via. that the guilt or innocence of a person accused should not depend upon the dictum of an Advocate. This kind of interference on the one hand, and of courtesy on 1 the other, between the Bar and the Bench,' is highly unconstitutional ; and arises in a great degree from that modern familiarity, which has taken away so much in public opinion from the independence of the one and the proper dignity of the other. Gentlemen at the Bar, are, we dare say, "all honourable men." Having received his fee, of Course the trouble of conducting a case is what no one can wish to avoid. He can, of course, have no case or engagement which requires his attend ance elsewhere. And as for his being feed on both sides—that is, on the one to prosecute, and on the other to obtain au acquittal, is a thing utterly impossible. Yet in ignorant minds this sort of interference may subject a man to some one of those imputations. At all events, a criminal prosecution is not like a case between party and party ; and, for the sake A . public justice, and from respect to that high name in whose behalf the prosecution is instituted, ought not to be got rid of in this summary extra. judicial manner. In cases of civil inquiry it has become the practice, after the whole legal ex pences have been incurred, and the Jury even impannelled, for Learned Gentlemen to recom mend a reference. Here the parties themselves have something like a choice; though, in fact, it is oftener than not merely nominal, and which they are not allowed to exercise. The highest legal authority in the kingdom has repeatedly condemned this practice, as one to which he would not himself submit. The Lord Chan cellor has more than once declared, 4 4 were I tin. party, I would insist upon the Judge trying my cause." But, be this as it may, it never can be fit that criminal prosecutions should be put an end to by the method' we have pointed out; but every man who a Grand Jury has said ought to be tried should be tried, and either convicted or acquitted by the due course of law. OLD: BAILEY, .SErr. 21. (Before Mr. Justiee GAIIELEE and a London Jury.) TRIAL OF MR. WHITE FOR FORGERY. Henry White was put to the bar, charged with forging on th 29th of July a power of attorney for the transfer of 3201. New South Sea Annuities, with intent to defraud the South Sea Company. There was another indictment for forging the names of certain witnesses to the same deed or power of attor ney for the transfer of the annuity. To the latter the prisoner pleaded " guilty." To the first indictment he pleaded "not guilty." On the prisoner being given in charge on the first indictment, Mr. Sergeant BOCANQUET addressed the Jury. The pri soner had been indicted on two charges : the first for forging a power of attorney for the transfer of a certain amount of South Sea Stock (new Annuities). This was a capital offence. The other indictment, that of forging the names of two witnesses to the same power of attorney. This was a felony, subjecting the prisoner to transportation only. To this latter indictment the prisoner had been well advised to plead guilty ; and he trusted he should not be considered as departing from his duty if, under all the circumstances of the case, he declined to offer any evi dence in support of the capital indictment. The Governor and Directors of the South Sea Company, whom he had the honour to represent, taking the whole of the prisoner's case into consi deration, were of opinion, that the ends of justice would be sufficiently answered by allowing the plea of guilty of the minor offence to be recorded, and by not pressing the evidence in support of the capital charge. He hoped that this clemency of the Company would have its due effect, and that when the prisoner should be removed from this country into another society, he would repent of the offences of which he had un fortunately been guilty. He would now, with leave of the Court, abstain from offering any evidence in support of the capital charge. The JUDGE observed, that he did not think It necessary to call on the prosecutors to support the capital indictment : that not being offered, the Jury would of course acquit the prisoner. The Jury, therefore, returned a verdict of Not The prisoner was now given in charge (to a Middlesex jury) charged capitally with forging and uttering as true a receipt for 281. 125., purporting t.. be from the Receiver-General of Stamps.—To this indictment he pleaded " Not Guilty." Mr. BOLLAND stated to the Jury, that the forgery of which the prisoner was now accused arose out of the transac tion which had been the subject of th e last trial. The Com missioners of Stamps, aware of the course pursued by the South Sea Company, had also come to the conclusion that the ends of justice would be sufficiently answered by the punish ment to which the prisoner would be subjected by the plea al ready recorded : they therefore instructed him to withdraw from the farther prosecution of the case. He would, therefore, not offer any evidence in support of it. Under these circum. stances the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner, who is a than of extremely respectable ap pearance, apparently about 45 years old, was now removed from the bar. OLD BAILEY NEW COURT. Elizaleth Watt:, alias Tut-pin, was indicted for feloniously receiving from a boy, named John Sullivan, a Dutch clock, the property of Timoth y S u ll ivan, the father of John, knowing the same to have been stolen. The particulars of this case having been fully stated within a few days in our Police Report, we forbear repeating them. The prisoner did not deny the offence, but stated that a Mr. Welch, who accompanied the prosecutor to her house in search of the property, offered to compromise the affair, if she would allow him to pass the night with her: Welch, who was in Court, denied this imputation. He he said, a wife and two children, and wished to hare nothing to do with such a thing as the prisoner. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Court sentenced her to be transported for 14 years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LSE name of HenryFA d inCHARGEgwas brought 0F u F p E o n L O a .. c N h Y a . rg e 0. coeit . l e.at h p e . Gut LDlZALL.—Yesterday a respectable gentleman f f It appeared that as Mr. Fielding was walking through side, a drunken Irishman ran up against him, collared WTI and charged him with robbing him of 9s_. It was useless to r 7 e postulate with the fellow, and he gave Mr. Fielding in c „ 1 1 to to the watchman. The constable considered he was b (Ml y",„ o rS to be take the charge, and the man stated his name Murphy, residing at 34, Short's: gardens Drury-Ole, and e , O ployed by Price . and Goswell, the erfuniers Mr. Field in g 'it t e locked up on the charge, but Muip p liy did not . appear before _ Alderman. Mr. :eielding said it was a peculiarly hol d c n that he was to be imprisoned the whole night without any dress.—Alderman M AGN AY allowed that it was a hard n d to upon Mr. Fielding. He thought the constable was h° ll , l '• he take the charge, and if Mr. Fielding felt himself aggr iev "`"ers had his remedy against the man, whose name and addro /I " known. THE CASE OF MRS. SULLIVAN. p . 4 „ ri ate MARYLEDONE OFFICE, SEPT. 21. This unr01...-e5.... woman, so inhumanly assaulted, as detailed in our paP er °l o t g terday, is still in a dangerous state. She has been de livered child (not full grown), which the surgeons say cannot Lve, h a l received a material i n j ur y, an dth e s t a t e o f the mother is ex tre precarious. The poo r woman , it wou ld appear from th erns lowing remarks of Mr. Griffith, has not even the common 11.;( cessaries of life, her husband having been out of e m p le V4 a considerable period. Up on M r . Whittington, one of dparish officers, coming into the office Mr. GRIFFITH gis ressed him, and requested his attention to the cas e of Affii poor woman, who he under s tood was stretched i n dread : agony upon a mise ra bl e p a ll e t, w ith ou t one comfort, o r eve rn, individual thing to remove th e ga lling pangs of racking l' or alleviate her misery. It is a case, said the .Magistrate, e t 0 real and almost unexampled misery, and it would be an charity to relieve the poor creature.—Mr. Whittington4o mised to attend to it.—The poor woman lives at N o. 9, n• and Eve-court, Oxford-street.—Two of the defen dants been admitted to bail ; but although bail to the amount 1/01 2,0001. was on Tuesday evening offered fbr Alfred FloVierS7ts Magistrates declined taking it. DISTURBANCE IN SPITALFIELDS . Wonsinp-STREET, SIFT. 21.—1 n consequence of 1.. A. oration which has been transmitted to this office, the 1$ °n o trates have thought fit to depute some of the officers Veld, in constant atten dance on the spot. Accordingly Mr. At e ; iol o attended by a proper force, has been on the alert for s om past. He had been to the spot yesterday, and finding thelo'bio bourhood perfectly quiet, had retired to his own h 0 , 116 : 0 0 Wheeler-street. At about ten o'clock, however, he heard c ol violent shouting, and having properly armed himself, proce,..„ to the place from whence the noise issued, and found aboutrtii, or four hundred peoble, and succeeded in securing some abou t ringleaders, who were brought before the Magistrate ie sts die morning, and ordered to find bail. It appears that this turbance was owing to some jealousy and misunderstandintibe tween the workpeople and their masters, office and is like ly to t_t o . '„if the subject of some serious charges at this on the Pa' the latter against the former. N o ß r l r t s n.: t r n e o e t n , 0 Haymarket,r r oH- S TR E BEET . —Y e sterday . 1 —0 haslr ' "-- . JOHN -DODD. estei ay r. oh of late at this and other police-o ffi ces, particularly 0t Ifi„ so street, where he charged the Chief Magistrate of that "olr. with a breach of the peace, and nearly a breach of his ' 4 OO Dodd') head, on the'rnglit of the King's Ball, but a ft erivs„,,, changed the "venue," and laid it upon the shoulders of , 2 ;;., Lee, the Chief Constable of Westminster, was brought I :,, o , from the depths of a watchhouse, three or four day s die charged with usurping the character and calling of one ~u'e th e r "Nightly Watch." It appeared that Mr. Dodds ~_*.a t a• is aspiring to the station one day or other, or rather night 1 , 0 . guardian of the public peace, and wishing to have a littl e P er to tice beforehand, or from some other reason, thought Pt? 01 sally out into the public street, about 12 o'clock at nig o oon spring a rattle; and not a common rattle either, bu t t)ri f ) loo‘ V been . d rattier 3 f j diali n g -Dcudi o dd , -'l°...f as never was heard in the parish before, for it was i _ s w ere that it brought together almost all the watchmen lev e l ; bl not deaf, within a mile round. The watchmen k ne .„ the the music of it, that this rattle must be a strangertlo the neighbourhood, and they bore down all sides, to set o s tlds intruder; when, who should they find but Mr. J ds ohn l 'pea with a large hairy c a p on, a nd w ith both his ban ettiring with all his might, perf o r m in g a Highland Clan i s.g a s of 'se' tune on an immense sized double-to ngue d r attle, ne t or his large as a moderate-sized violencello. So, to ac . : °an achnie ly thus serenading the inhabitants of the parish, th e whoever? lodged Mr. John Dodd in the watchhouse. Be was p romis e t°. discharged by the Magistrate next morning, on a . he vi tae refrain from this sort of amusement in future • hat % a :sres. - was detained to ascertain whose property it rea ' l l Y w4s. o O w ' terday Mr. Dodd applied to have the rattle restored t rty ; be and assured the Magistrate that it was his own Prqewben he had it made specially for his own use 17 Year s e g ° ' bar e e.rj ' e resided at Colchester, and it was made on such a Peeu , t with s p t o r w uc e t r i s o , n effect but himself. Here Mr. Dodd gave a sPe ei , In t e n n ok.th i office—new improvements, and all to its foundation, 3ed that it defied any other man to do that with it, which prov 6 404 belonged to him.—The Magistrate said he was Otliter i o ne' and told Mr. Dodd he mighf take himself and the rat . e, a „ o s. b—yagpivlainn gofouhtisa own — that poi ,/ d i: as soon as he pleased : which advice Mr. Dodd follorreo a " diately. 0 1 --.„ , brought to this o ffi ce, in custody of an o ffi cer, „,...,s Kee; , it p MARYLEBONX-OFFlCE.—Xesteraay, Edw.. - e d ”. f s harg ;o: , o having stolen a cask of gooseberry-wine the ma e• Lady Knightley, of No. 2, Seymour-place,Manchesters, herr When the prisoner was placed at the bar, Willi:ol'a ose ladyship's footman, who gave charge of the Pri s 4g e :. 014$ called forward to give evidence, but when the v C o ses''' about to administer the oath, he refused to be sworn,7,: a iv. ing his disinclination to prosecute the prisoner. 11 2 %, well' Lissosr remarked that lie ought to have consulted n,„, bill nation prior to giving the prisoner in custody, and 0 1 7;ttior to be confined all night in the watchhouse. I t fi roce ew. improper thing to refuse to give evidence a ft er suc h L i, so rtli. ing, and lie could not stiffer it. He ordered Ely w e u; ho le °. The witness then stated, that on Tuesday last, .th ,_,.. fin s, Lady Knightley's servants were employed removing t . ll . 4 t ree + Lure from her residence in Blanchester-street to Seyow a i l l e doll: when the prisoner was employed to drive the caraval!. _.`" x i c at a ev e , to the house, and while there he was noticed to be I nr i 02: which was'attributed to his having stolen some bran_ ' sts °P i was missed by the housekeeper, who sent witness eniiscoyerevto cer, to his lodgings to search after it, and they ther,e_ t ; on ing, a cask of gooseberry wine, which was identified as 1.0 e.,•& s,, rants were removing the goods.—John Fish being, iT e . .ok 1 Lady Knightley, and had been seen in the hall syto_f the that he assisted in removing the goods; he say/ L" / s e Ile , wine in the hall. It was not put into the carara:t•_rta tosoo' with the last witness, and found it in the prisoner s a s t' lx i o as 4 The landlord of the prisoner, who appeared vert Stepp e d have the affiiir arranged amicably between the Phe * r ot forward to give the prisoner a good character, wh en he to be silent unless he could give evidence as to lief a tried for P etjt tea prisoner was then recognised as having been _., _,,,,. o bo st ra _ • ing.—The housekeeper, named Priscilla Edward. ,c_u . ',: the 60 101 . interrupted by the ;Magistrate, who informed lurntpbaetry..„ Jobei, the above evidence, and identified the cask c9n e at_ a n_ t s u i t koly a' The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and n w milted for trial. ra in the List l Y °,. On the 20th inst. at Thorney, Bucks, . f., Geo. Tyler, - R.N. of a son. t DID, seen 7 On Tuesday,, the 20th inst., in Burton-cre BIRTHS. 1" OW Stallard, of a daughter. : ' a ' Sen n BIARRIED. , ch N I; Sen a of Graham, of New Bridge-street, to Blisst;la s as a 133r" a Blackheath. „,_: •adiir „,_,l t so I Yesterday, at St. Olave's, Hart-street, lus „_ har d aa. f of Essex-street, to Jane, On Saturday, the 17th inst., at - Greenw_l_. , be d ) OA ' 0 e;', ° P. ' Esq., of Cooper's-row. DI will i am DO On the 20th inst., at HackneVs ' 11 r. kne • Edmonton, to Miss Adamson, of Rae Y • shil l . - tc'e if DIED h• 31a..1 es 1, Chi t board I s r e ser s o dP On the 14th of August last, O . Lieutenant , _ vii , Sybille, between Zante aid Corfu, ,ilicoe, , ;( 1., 0 _.,... Jellicoe, R.l"-1., fourth son of A. J• d C i t s kJ' IlePji lli in n worth-common. oaks, t he a' at Seve n t for On Tuesday, the 13th inst., Lieutenan be a i shs• s tP mile, Esq., a Magistrate and DeputY ,. 51 1 e• m of William Hughes, Esq. d of Kent. eldest daughter of it.a, re lic red 81 ' I Graham, of lialmuir, Forfarsnire, i•no au ,hea, eh pn Mrs. -la " • Ou t On the 14th inst., at Clapham, , h , i n fan On the 13th inst., in the 81st yea!,of.. her Bg- ' t h inst. , ' At Whitechapel, on Thurs aY, OP , of James Goldi 2, Esq. the 1 5 w oof Marl 14 ' gob On Blond y the 19th inst., Itira. 9 o f Croydon, Su;re ' y, aged 7 3 . charlott e ' ____,---"" On uesday, at Sunning-hill, OFFICE, - - P I " Mangles, Esq. - - ----- the at ---- ns• Of' Printed and Published for the Pltbo J. S. c at , No. 112, Strands I d '''