The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We recommend our communication from Lisbon in this day's paper to general attention. Perhaps, also, the knowledge of additional facts may enable us to take a more perfect view of the whole subject. It will be recollected, that at the very beginning of this unhappy conflict, we stated it as a rule of indispensable obligation upon us, that whilst Ferdinand observed his engagement of strict neutrality between the contending parties in Portugal, we should abstain from perplexing his Government at home, by passing Spanish refugees into the Peninsula. The duplicity which he has evinced in the discharge of his en gagement towards Portugal, might seem to let us loose from ours towards him. However, an open course is preferable. While we believe, or affect to believe, his asseverations of neutrality, —while we listen to his explanations, and admit his excuses,—it were better that we should con tinue to observe our own obligations, and not follow a bad example, even in the punishment of bad conduct. If the Spanish Government exceed all bounds in violating the neutrality of its neighbours, then we must declare openly that we can bear it no longer, and among the means of annoyance, the restoration of the emi grants to their native country will no doubt be one. In the mean time, we will acknowledge that the situation of Sir Wm. A'Court at Lisbon, of the Portuguese Minister here, and of our own Minister. for Foreign Affairs, is an extremely difficult one. From a just and natural aversion to have recourse to the last expedient, they are obliged to act with rigour towards those whom they compassionate, o whose cause they inwardly approve, and whose views, also, they would openly second, were they to act upon the knowledge which they pos sess. Now all these embarrassments might be prevented by the retirement of the French forces from Spain. It will be recollected, that at the very beginning of these troubles we said, that the peace could never be secure whilst the forces of two such warlike nations as France and Eng land remained on the Peninsula, appearing to - espouse different pnnciples, and to support oppo site parties in the two states. From this opinion we have never swerved, and the issue will show that it is a just opinion. But it may be said, that were the subsidiary forces withdrawn, a war would immediately commence between the two patties—the Servile and the Constitutional. To this we answer, that the affair is not ours. France and England have tried the effect of an armed mediation, and it has failed of success : the par ties are no nearer an accommodation now, than they were on the day when the French troops first entered Spain ; and, which is• worse, this unsettled state has been and may be pro longed to such a degree, that probably the quantum of human suffering will exceed that which would attend a real, open, and sincere war between the parties, to say nothing of the chance that other nations may be dragged into the con flict. But l'urther, if it be thought strange that we, who have recommended (though, we must observe, with no very confident hope of success) the interference of *foreign Powers to suppress the sanguinary struggle, between the Greeks and the Turks, should urge the recall of the alien forces which 'b'ave been sent out to the Penin sula, we answer, that , the cases are dissimilar ; the first is a war of nations—of people against people : the second a war of principles. Im bodied Europe may say to Greece and Turkey, " You shall fight no longer ;" but imbodied Europe cannot say to the servile and constitu tional opinions, " You shall make no further progress ; you shall attach no more converts." We have seen how difficult it is to say to them, and to enforce the dictum, " You shall not in flame your partisans to the madness of taking up arms to destroy each other." Were Greece free from the dominion of the 1 ulks, and subject to intestine troubles on the best system of Govern ment, probably the most humane way would be, to let the conflicting parties settle their disputes by their own method.—Times. The late meeting at the Thetford Wool Fair, at which Mr. Coke presided, presents some cu rious incidents. In the first place; it will be ob served how great the anxiety is upon this occa sion, that our manufactures should be found in an improving state ; for upon the employment of our looms, it was acknowledged, depended the price of wool. Oh ! gentlemen, you are come to this are you ? We should have thought you would say—in something like the words of the late statesman of your county—" Perish our manufactures, but let our agricultural interest jive." You have found out then, at last, that British manufactures are of some use to the tillers and owners of British land. We congratulate you on the improvement -of your minds, and the increase of your knowledge. Be content, then, to feed our manufacturers at a reasonable price with bread, that they may be enabled to convert the covering of your flocks -into coverings for your own backs, and those of your continental neighbours. The weighty and agreeable truth is i na deltown by Mr. Fison, that, " without any exception !,:o his knowledge," our manufactures are improving ; and we presume wool felt the advantage, on the improvement of the price it fetched, But Mr. nson promulgated also ano ther opinion, of no slight -consequence. He said, that " for his part he thought that those narrow prejudices which would interpose a barrier be tween one country and another should be broken down ; and he differed from those who attributed the present low prices to the importation of fo reign wool !" And with reason ; for if the fo reign wool were worked up where it is grown, but the more foreign - cloth would be imported i n to this country, and both our own looms would be the less employed,and a less ca ll wou ld ex ist for wool of native growth.—lbid. We have just received a very curious account of the Highlands of Switzerland, the production o f a Tal. Kasthofer, a gentleman filling a high office in the Canton of Berne, and Member of s everal Contioental Societies. The work was published in Geinan, but we have not seen the orieinal. A translation has appeared at Geneva and ° Paris, by a M. Fazy-Cazal, under the title of Voyage dans les petits Cantons et dans les Alpes Rhetiennes, and it is this translation which we have perused. In this work there are details with respect to the economy and habits of the Swiss mountaineers, which are exceedingly valuable, and which we do not believe are to be found any where else. They are particularly va luable, because it is in the valleys of mountainous countries alone where society appears before us in a simple form, that we can hope to obtain light on certain points, respecting which it is of the utmost importance that society should be well informed. The mountainous regions of Europe, whatever the form of government — whether they belong to Monarchies, Aristocra cies, Republics, or D em ocracies—whether the taxes be high or low—whether the inhabitants be proprietors of the soil, or tenants of Lords—are, we believe, with the single exception of the Highlands of Norway, the abode of frightfid poverty. In all of them, with that single exception, the population is ex cessive, and the inhabitants suffer greatly from want of food. In the highlands of the Canton of Berne (called, in the language of the country, the Oberland), the soil generally belongs to the occupiers ; who, in consequence of their in- , creasing numbers, have been reduced to smaller' and smaller portions. The laws and usages of the different valleys are not uniform, but every where an uniformity of misery seems to prevail. The Canton of Berne has, like England, Poor Laws of a very old date. It would appear f'rom the very instructive work to which we have alluded, that in the details of the execution of these laws there is a considerable resemblance to English practices. So far back as the year 1690 a law was passed, excluding from their right of support from the parish all those individuals who should marry without being possessed of ade quate means. Even at that early period the Government sought to prevent the progress of poverty, by having recourse to means for re ducing the number of marriages. We shall on a future day, lay before our readers some of the details respecting the Highlands of Berne. We observe, M. Dupiu imputes the miseries of the lower orders of France to their obstinacy in re jecting vaccination, while in this work we observe, that vaccination is accused of having added con siderably to the evils of the Swiss mountains.— Morning Chronicle. The introduction of troops into the King's Bench Prison still occupies, as it well may do, a good deal of public attention. As not one word has been put forth in defence of it, we must, upon the best and most deliberate atten tion we can give it, pronounce it a measure in all respects highly blameable. We do not, how ever, understand that either the late or the pre sent Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment had any thing to do with the matter. How far it may be wise in the Government to admit even an interregnum of a day, is another ques tion ; but the fact, as we have heard it confi dently asserted, is, that on the Marshal's appli cation for troops at Whitehall, he was told that there was no Secretary of State to give the or der, and that he obtained his object at the Horse Guards, under a general order or autho rity, which he is stated to possess, for that pur pose. We have no wish to misrepresent the matter in any way ; and if we are wrong, Mr. Jones can readily set us right. But assuming the fact to be as ne have stated it, it surely be hoves those whose duty it is to attend to such matters to inquire into the existence of any such order as this ; and if they find it to exist, either immediately to recall it, or so to limit 'its use for the time to come as common discretion must of necessity point out. It is not to be borne, we should imagine, that a common gaoler (for Go vernors and Marshals are, in fact, no more) should be entrusted with a power which persons in offices of the highest trust and authority do not possess, and which the Constitution has wisely placed alone in responsible hands. Such a power must be the more uncalled for and un necessary in this prison, close as it is to the very seat of Government, than in any other ; and we cannot but hope that now that we are blessed with Whig rulers, who have so long, so elo quently, and so justly deprecated in theory the proneness of late years to resort to military aid on the most trivia► occasions, they will show that they were in earnest in what they said, by acting, upon this occasion, up to the full letter of their theory. We are far from meaning to blame Mr. Jones or any person unneces sarily ; but we cannot help thinking, that if he constantly resided in his prison, as other gaolers are expected; and, we believe, compelled to do, better order might be obtained, and abuses and excesses more readily repressed. But that be cause the wretched inmates of this dungeon should for once endeavour to while away the melancholy hours of personal restraint in a more boisterous degree of mirth than strict prudence may justify, they are, therefore, to be treated as rebels against the King's Government, is a mea sure, the extreme folly of which seems, to us at least, to be only merged in its extreme tendency to the greatest tyranny and injustice. But, re curring again to the manner in which it has been done, we cannot but look upon it as highly blameable. Mr. Jones was bound, at any rate, we imagine, to have recourse to the civil power before he resorted to the military. Was this done ? What Magistrate, besides himself, was called in to give his aid or his advice upon the occasion ? How many persons were sworn in as special constables, or charged in the King's name to aid and assist in checking this tumult, if the too boisterous hilarity of these people can be called such ? If this was not done, and death had ensued in consequence of the military being thus called in, we strongly suspect that a fearful responsibility would have fallen some where—sufficient, we trust, even in idea to pre vent the recurrent e to such an undeliberate pro ceeding in future.—Morning Herald. The last number of the Edinburgh Review contains some just remarks on the general sloven liness with which Acts of Parliament, to use a common phrase, are " got up." There is, cer tainly, a most abundant portion of ambiguity in most of them ; and any plan which tends to di minish or remove it, is well worthy of considera tion. Some part, though we fear not the largest, arises from the habits of those by whom bills are drawn. These are clever enough men, we doubt net, but they are for the most part lawyers, and, consequently, wedded to tautological technicali ties ; and very few of them are native born Eng lishmen, and, therefore, they are but indifferently acquainted with the idiom of the language in which they legislate. So far, however, as ex pression merely is concerned, we do not despair of a remedy. Many of the Bills recently intro duced are nearly unexceptionable in that respect, and the phraseological improvements adopted by Mr. Peel, and which will probably be copied by future law makers, may be looked on as the commencement of a system of certain and intelligible legislative diction. By these models other Bills are likely to be tried, and a purer and more perfect form of expression will be the consequence. But we fear that the evils of which the reviewer com plains lie deeper ; and that any thing like a com plete remedy is hopeless ; perhaps a palliative may be found, and such a palliative we shall en deavour to point out. The English people are fond of law. It is their ordinary mode of set tling all disputes, and justly so. Whatever dis trust may be entertained of this or that Minister, or of this or that party, the most absolute reli ance has, for many years; been reposed on the purity of our Judges, and the general intelli gence of our Juries. An Englishman does not, when lie has invoked the arm of justice, set himself to bribe the Bench, or way-lay the witnesses, or flatter or threaten the Jury, because he has the most perfect conviction of the general honesty of all three. Nei ther does he, when beaten in A cause, look round for the means of revenge on his judges or i his adversary. His utmost wish centres ;in a new trial, or an appeal to a higher but similarly constituted tribunal ; and when his case is finally adjudicated, he casts all retrospective cares to the wind, and sits down content, if not gratified. The cause of all this lies on the surface ; it is the strong feeling of that perfect political freedom which Englishmen enjoy, and the sacred regard which every man is, in consequence, com pelled to pay to the rights of all the rest. It is quite natural, with these sentiments, in regard to legal decisions, and with the disposition to seek relief from almost every grievance by an appeal to a Court, which naturally follows, that an Englishman should be friendly in principle to a multiplicity of statutes, however, in a mo ment of spleen, he may rail against it. The same protection to which he has recourse in one case he would invoke in another ; and for the security, often fanciful, that law affords, he will make sa• crifice of any thing, even of that liberty which it is the object of all good laws to preserve. In this disposition lies the evil which it is sought to re move, and which, as we have said, we fear to be without a cure. The more minute the details to which laws are directed, the more refined and deli cate must be the shades of difference which they seek to establish—the more circumlocutory their language—and the more numerous and complex their definitions. If we will have laws to regulate every process of arts and manufacture—if not a peg shall be moved in our domestic economy, with out the fiat of a.Court—if we will eat, and drink and be clothed by statute—we cannot fairly com plain, that language, which has its limits, should now and then fail under the burden of our unlimited demands. We said, that we thought a palliative might be found to the evil of ambiguity in Acts of Parliament ; and in the light merely of a hint of what might be done, rather than what we hope to see done, we shall state our opinions. Setting aside the great canse which we have endeavoured to assign, there can be no doubt that much of the evils spring out of the hurry, often indecent, with which Bills of great importance are pressed through Parliament. To this hurry, which leads to acts of explanation and amendment without end, the palliative we allude to might be usefully applied. We would make all Acts, in the first instance, annual. They would thus receive, not only the criticism of the whole of the public press ofthe country, hut, what is more valuable, they would be tried as to their working, and what defects were noticeable might be supplied when the Bill was made permanent. Another good effect of such a regulation would be, that many enactments which, in the heat and excitement of the moment, are placed on the Sta tute Book, and which are kept on it, not because they are useful or desirable, but merely because they are there, would never pass permanently. — The additional information which a ti%elvemonth would supply—the leisure given to consider both the principle and the tendencies of the Bill— would all be favourable to sound and judicious legislation. The same rule in respect of private Acts, as they are called, but which, so far as the circle of their apparatus extend, are as much laws as public Acts are, would render unneces sary the whole apparatus of checks by which it has been attempted to give impartiality and justice to their discussion, whether in Com mittee or in the House.—New Times. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—FRIDAY, JULY 27.—..(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Banyard, E., Deptford ...... I Gregory, J., Sun-street, Bi- Chambers, W., Ely ...... ... 12 shopsgate Charlesworth,J., Fenchurch Hewitt, N., Buckingham street Churchill, S., Deddington. Hooper and Co., Adam-st., Oxfordshire Day, W., Lime-street-pas- Jackson, .1., St. Swithifes sage 1 lane lO Fisher, J., Lynn ll Leigh, E. and Co., Chid. Gibbon and Co.,Martihmont dingston l2 street COUNTRY DIARY.—MoNnaY, JULY 30. Berdsley, E., Crompton—Palace, Manchester l2 Chadwick, J., Manchester—White's, Manchester Harris, J., Modbury—Globe, Exeter ll Ireland, J., Cattistock—George, Crewkerne Laud, 'f., Dover—Guildhall, Canterbury lO Lowe, T , Middlewich—Albion, Hauley 4 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Limola's Inn Fields, JULY 31, AT NINE. Bagley, R., Fan-street, Got. Brady, W., Bethnal-green well-street Collins, J., Wandsworth Buckley, T., Orchard-street, Dummer, W., Deptford Fisher, J., Westminster Upper Marylebone. Bunning, W., Park-place, Be- street gent's-park Galloway, J., Joiner-st., West- Close, 'l'., Porter-street, New- minster port-market DREADFUL OCCURRENCE,----A most shock ing circumstance has occurred, in the death of a man, in consequence, it is believed, of having had laudanum ad ministered to him by thieves, for the purpose of more easily robbing him. The following are the particulars of the case, so far as we are able to collect them. On Friday afternoon, an old man, with a long beard, and apparently a follower of Johanna Southcott, was seen to enter the Windsor Castle public-house, near Windsor - bridg e, woman. They had something to drink there, and were joined by three men who had followed them into the public house. They were there drinking together for some time, and the old man got rather intoxicated. From some con versation that he beard between the three men, a young man of the name of Gordon, who was drink in g in the house, determined on watching them. They d id notes stay long there, but proceeded to the Cotton Tree , in ore street, behind the New Bailey. Into this house Gordon ' followed them, and they had some rum. One of the men went to the bar for a glass of rum, and Gordon had a n op portunity of seeing that it was not full when it was given to him. The man went out of sight a few moments, and then brought the glass into the room. Gordon then saw that it was full, and that the man had some difficulty in carrying it across the room without spilling it. The man said, " I intended this for another man, but he is gone ; you may as well have it," and with these words poured the liquor down the old man's throat. Gordon had not, at the time, any suspicion that they were administering any thing improper to the old mr, but he thought they in tended to rob him. With this idea, and seeing the man so drunk, be asked at the house if they could give him lodg ings, but they could not. Two of the men then went out with the old man ; the other man and the woman went away. Gordon still continued to watch them as far as the Hare and Hounds in the Parsonage. They did not stay many minutes there, but went on towards Church-street. When there, the young man communicated his suspicions to two of Mr. Bourne's (coachmaker i a) workmen, who agreed to accompany him. They watched the two men as far as the White Lion, in Port-street. From thence the young man went to the lockups for a beadle, while the other watched at the door. The young man soon returned with Hull, the beadle, who on going . into the room where the parties were, found the old man insensible; one of the two men was throwing water in his face, and the other was picking his pocket. Hull, with assistance, secured them. One of them made a desperate resistance, but was overpowered, and on him was found a phial containing a small quantity of laudanum ; there was also found some silver. The other had likewise a small sum about him. Nothing was found on the old man, though some money bad been previously seen in his possession. The men were conveyed to the lockups, and the old man to the Infirmary, where, though every attention was paid to him, he died the following morning. Shortly before he died, however, he was sufficiently sensible to state that his name was Thomas Aspinall, that he was a weaver, living at Black burn, and had come over to see his two daughters, who were living in s er vice somewhere about Smithy Door. The police have not yet been able to find them out, nor have any of his friends arrived from Blackburn. The two me n gave their names Francis O'Neale and William Thorn hill, and, We believe, they are both known to the police. Ad inquest was held on the body, at the Town Hall Tavern, on Saturday evening, Ad adjourned till to-morrow. --Manchester Mercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—A waterman, named Cannon, who'plies in the neighbourhood of the Tower, was •unm n`ioned before the LORD MAYOR, for having assaulted a gentleman named Swift, under the following aggravated circumstances: — Mr. Swift stated that on Monday last he went from the Favourite steam-vessel into the defendant's boat for the purpose of landing. There were three other gentlemen in the boat. When they reached the wharf, the defendant insisted upon having 6d. from each of his passengers ; and swore (throwing himself into a fighting attitude) that not one of them should leave the boat without paying him that sum. Witness refused to submit to such an imposition, but the three other gentlemen were absolutely intimidated by the ferocious manner of the defendant, and paid him to get out of hie clutches. The defendant persevered in his demand and in his threat, and witness put :id. into his hand, but refused to give a farthing more, as be knew that it was the practice of those watermen, who designated themselves "the lawless gang," to cheat the public as much as they could. He, however, offered his address. Wit ness then moved towards the wharf, but, as he was stepping on shore, the defendant struck hire a violent blow on the neck. The defendant, who is a young man of most ruffianly appearance, said that as the gemmen had pushed his boat off from the steamer before he had his complement of cus tomers, he thought they ought to pay him extra ; that three of them bad consented, but the fourth was obstro pulous, and struck him with an umbrella, whereupon be resented the assault by a push. The prosecutor said, that every word of the defence was false. The LOAD MAYOR. immediately ordered that the defend ant should be committed, and that 24 hours' notice of bail should he given. The LORD MAYOR seems determined not to excuse want of punctuality in persons who charge others. He has of late discharged several prisoners, in consequence of the absence of the complainants at the time appointed for examination. BOW-STREET. —Elizabeth Jones, Anne Palmer, Mary Serino, and Maria Bechford (four prostitutes), and John Vasen and Henry Roberts, were charged with having been concerned in a very daring robbery upon a man, named Wright. It appeared that Wright, who is a carman, and lives at Rotherhithe, was met, in the Strand, on Saturday afternoon, by a woman, who asked him for some beer, and he accompanied her into the York Arms, in Shoe-lane, where they were soon joined by the four female prisoners, who called for ginger-beer ;he had scarcely seated himself before the tall woman seized him round the waist, and holding him with amazing strength, the prisoner, Jones, succeeded in getting seven sovereigns out of his waistcoat-pocket, and would have got nine others, which were in the same pocket, had he not loosened one of her hands. They all then ran out of the house, sad lie was following them, when he was stopped by Roberts, who was a temporary waiter at the house, who demanded payment for the ginger -beer, and would not suffer him to go until the girls got out of sight. Wright was going in search of an officer, when he met a man, who said he had the women in custody ; he followed this man, by his desire, into the Sun and Punch-bowl public-house, and in a dark passage he was robbed of five sovereigns more. He was sure, Vasen was one of those who robbed him. Herring, the officer, said that the Sun and Punch-bowl bad long been a most disgraceful place, and afforded the greatest facilities for robbery and murder. Sir RICHARD BIRNIR said, the house should not again be licensed.—The prisoners were remanded. HATTON-GARDEN.--PoNT RACING AT Sanmt's WELLS.—Mr. Richard Dixon, of 56, Barbican, prin• cipal proprietor of Sadler's Wells, attended by the veteran Grimaldi, appeared before the Magistrates of this office yesterday, on a summons issued at the suit of Charles Beazley, Esq. of John-street, Adelphi, charging him with " having erected a building in addition to a building, the same being of wood, and not of brick or stone, &c.," con trary to an Act passed in the llth year of the late King's reign, for the better prevention of fire. Mr. Beazley said, that in consequence of an external in closure having been made round Sadler's Wells Theatre, for the purpose of exhibiting pony-racing, and the in closure not being of brick or stone, according to the ex press letter of the Act of Parliament, be was obliged, in his public capacity of District Surveyor, to call on the proprietor to do away with the objectionable building. He begged to state, that previous to his appearing before their Worships, Mr. Dixon had informed him that the building should be removed in November. .As he had no wish to put Mr. Dixon or any other a the proprietors to eX pence or annoyance, he should agree to the building stand ing until that time, upon Mr. Dixon entering into recog nizances to perform his promise at the time specified. Mr. Dixon promised that the building should be removed in November, and the matter ended. MARYLEBONE.—A gentleman holding a situation in a Public Office, and residing at St. John's Wood, was brought before Mr. Hoax'Ns, on a warrant, charged with having attempting to violate the person of Charlotte Wool latt, his house-maid, a young girl only 15 years of age. The defendant (who was attended by a Solicitor) ap peared to be about 26 years of age, and possessed the ad dress and manners of a man of fashion. The complainant, who conducted herself with becoming modesty, deposed that she bad lived in the defendant's ser vice about twelve months, as housemaid, but she had re ceived notice from her mistress, the defendant's wife, to quit, that lady having no further occasion for her services. On Saturday evening, the 7th July, between ten and eleven o'clock at night, her mistress was in her bed-room, and she was on the stairs, when the defendant, who was in his dressing-room, reading the paper, desired her to bring him up some hot water. When she entered the room with the hot water, the defendant immediately shut the door, but did not lock it, and then offered her Si. if she would consent to his wishes. She instantly rang the bell, and ran out of the room, without making any reply, and went to her own room to bed. On the following morning, she told the cook what had happened to her, but the latter told her not to disclose it to any other person, as her master might have done it merely for the purpose of trying her modesty. In the early part of the same day (the Sth July) the cook went out, and between three and four in the afternoon, the de fendant came down to the kitchen for some water, to water his flowers; he shortly afterwards came into the kitchen a second time, and told her she was a foolish girl not to take the 5/., and after dinner he came to her in the scullery and told her that if she would not kiss him, he would kiss her, and he then kissed her forehead,. and begged of her to ac cept the Si., which she again refused. He said that she might make herself perfectly happy, and that she should never want money if she would consent to his wishes. He followed her into the front kitchen, where he got her on his knee, and again asked her to take the Si., which lie showed her in sovereigns, and lie would not let her go up for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour ; but lie did not proceed further on that occasion. Whilst she was on his knee, her mistress rung the bell for tea, and before she could light the fire, the defendant again pulled her on his knee, and repeated his offer, which she rejected, and lie then allowed her to leave the kitchen, saying he was afraid that he would be seen by her mistress. After she had carried up the tea she went into the defendant's dress ing-room to empty the slops, and there she saw him again, and he pulled her on his knee, and pressed her to accept the Si., he threatened to turn her away instantly if she would not submit to him, but if she would, he might prevail on her mistress to keep her some time longer. About a quarter before ten, the same - evening, he called her up stairs to close the shutters of his dressing-room, when he again treated her in the manner she had before described, ' and told her that she might always apply to him for money, and lie would supply her with it. She made no reply, but went out of the room; but in a very few minutes the bell rang, and on entering his apartment he forcibly threw her on the carpet. She made every pos sible resistance, and threatened to inform her mistress; but lie said that would not avail her, for his wife would not believe her statement (the witness then proceeded to describe the condition of the defendant's clothes, and like wise the nature of the assault on her person.) After remaining on the ground a few minutes, lie allowed her to rise, and desired her to bring him up some hot water, which she did, and left it at the door of his room. Whilst this was passing, her mistress was in her bed-room on the second floor. On Tuesday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the cook was sent on a message to Cavendish House, and her mistress was in the drawing room, and witness was going up stairs with some cheese, when the defendant called her into his dressing-room, and renewed his attempt to violate her person. She made an effectual resistance, and he permitted her to depart, saying that she was a little devil, and he would be revenged. He then went out of the back-kitchen into the garden. On the Friday following she left their service, having been discharged at a moment's warning by her mistress, who ordered witness to come into the parlour whilst they w ere at dinner, and told her that she need not apply to them for a character, for they would not give her one. When she left the defendant's house, she proceeded to Portland town, where she took a lodging, and where she at present resided, and the same evening she informed her -landlady of what had happened to her; she did not like to go home to her father, who holds a subordinate situation in the Victualling Office, Somerset-house, because she wee not on terms with her step-mother, but she told her father on Monday. The accused's Solicitor submitted, that as no fewer than six attempts had been made by the defendant, it was na tural to suppose that it was perfectly voluntary mt the part of the girl, and proceeded to call witnesses in answer to the charge. Emily Lancaster stated, that she was cook to the ac cused ; and that on the Sunday the girl told her that her master had taken liberties with her, which she resisted ; the witness also said, it was a fine thing to be handsome, for her master might fall in love with her ; witness ad vised her to keep away from her master's room, and thus avoid a repetition of his insults ; the other parts of this person's evidence tended to confirm (as the Magistrate re marked) the girl's statement. An elderly lady said, she was an inmate of the defend ant's house, and mother to his wife ; and that on the days mentioned she was in the house the whole of the day ; and if any struggling or screaming had taken place, she must have heard it. The witness further stated, that she could not believe the complainant on her oath. The girl's father, a respectable looking man, stated, that about six weeks ago he called at the accused's house, by desire of the lady of the house, who informed him that she was going to give his slaughter a regular warning, a, she had no further occasion for her, and advised him to he careful of his child, as she was extremely handsome. His daughter came to him at Somerset-house, and related to him exactly the same story she had done that day, and it was only a family disagreement which prevented her from returning home. The girl being called said, it was the cook who told her mistress on the Friday that she (witness) had been ill treated by her master. The accused scarcely said any thing in answer to the charge, leaving it to his solicitor ; and Mr. Hoskins, after remarking to the girl's father that he ought to afford his daughter an asylum in her situation, called upon the de fendant to find bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, to answer the charge at . the Sessions. Two Gentleman who had accompanied the defendant to the office, instantly presented themselves as his bail, •and the parties then retired. UNITED MEXICAN..MINING COMPANY A meeting of the Directors and Shareholders of the United Mexican Mining Company took place, pursuant to notice, yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, when Mr. BOSANQUET defended the conduct of the Di rectors, and detailed the various rules which they had made among themselves to ensure sufficient attention to the affairs of the Company, &c.; and concluded by declaring, as his fixed opinion, that all the money hitherto laid out had been profitably ex pended, and that a niggardly system of operations could not fail to turn out an unwise one. _ A short further discussion took place of no public interest, after which the meeting adjourned. PROTECTOR INSURANCE COMPANY. A General Meeting of the Shareholders of the above Company was held yesterday, pursuant to the deed of enrolment, at the City of London Tavern ; C. BORRODAILE, Esq., in the chair, who said, it was his duty to propose that a report of the affairs of the company, signed by the directors, should be laid before the proprietors, for their approbation. The account referred to was then read by the Secretary. It came down to the 7th of January, 1827, and gave a very flattering account of the pro gressive prosperity of the company. The premiums received in the last year had not only covered the expences of the company, but had left a surplus, entirely independent of the investments in the funds, &c. The Report having been read, The CHAIRMAN said, he had the pleasure to inform the meeting, that on a comparison of the last six months with the corresponding six months of the preceding year, it would be found that the amount of insurances had been nearly doubled. He need hardly say, that under these circumstances the report was highly satisfactory to the directors, and he trusted that it would be equally so to the proprietors. A Resolution for granting a salary to the directors was then carried unanimously ; it having been pre viously stated that the salary was not now given in perpetuity, but that its propriety .might be mooted annually. The resolution for granting fifty guineas to the auditors was also agreed to, and the meeting separated. LORD STOWELL. Adair's (From the North America,. Review.) But a still more striking example is Lord Stowell (better known in this country as Sir William Scott), the present venerable Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, of whom it may be justly said, in the language of Cicero, that he is jurisperitoritin eloquentzssimus. This great man has presided in the Court of Admiralty since the year 1798 ; and during this period he has commanded the admiration of all Europe, by the learning, acuteness, and finished elegance of his judgments. There was a time when it was somewhat the fashion in this country to under value the solid excellence of his opinions. Our commerce was brought so directly in conflict with his administration of prize law, that it was diffi cult to avoid prejudices on a subject in which, as neutrals, we had so deep an interest, and were so liable to indulge strong animosities. But time has dissipated many delusions on this subject, and we have had in the late war ample opportu nity to try the accuracy of his principles, when we changed the character of neutrals for that of belligerents. We can now look back upon his decisions with somewhat of the calmness and sobriety of a philosophical historian. With the exception of the doctrines respecting the Colo nial trade, in which it is but common justice to admit that he either acted upon public orders in Council, which he was bound to obey, or upon the rule of J 756, which his Government had previously chosen to consider as an established part of its Prize Code, the differences between his decisions upon prize law and those promul gated by the Supreme Court of the United States, are so few as to be almost evanescent. — After the most- •powerful arguments, under the highest political excitements, and with the aid of the most striking eloquence, . there has been but a single principle adopted by him which has been deliberately overruled by the Supreme Court, and on that occasion there was a serious difference of opinion among the Judges. But it is not in respect to Prize Law that we intend to speak of Lord Stowell, though he every where exhibits the most profoiind and ac curate knowledge of all the .publicists of con tinental Europe; but as a maritime Judge , de ciding in what is called the Instance Cour t, the great principl es of commercial jurisprudence. His superiority in this department over the tech nical reasoning of the common lawyers is most signal. He discusses every question with a per suasive and comprehensive liberality—with a tone of general equity---a knowledge of maritime usages—and a disposition to consider maritime jurisprudence as the unwritten law of the world, rather than the municipal monopoly of a single nation ; and he draws from all sources, ancient and modern, the best and purest prin ciples to aid, to illustrate, and to confirm his own judgment. With him the grave learning of Grotius—the acute, bold, and somewhat vehe ment, discussions of Bynkershock—the reverend testimonies of the Consolato del Mare—the col lections of Cleirac—the busy, practical sense of Roccus—the brief, but clear, text of Heineccius --the various and exhausting labours of Casa reps—the argumentative .commentaries, and luminous treatises of the French jurists, appear as perfectly familiar as the writers of his own age and country. - He evidently reposes upon them even when he does not cite them ; and trans fuses into his own eloquent and impressive judg ments whatever they afford of general doctrine, or just interpretation, upon all the doubtful questions of maritime law. One scarcely knows which most to admire, the simplicity of his prin ciples—the classical beauty of his diction—the calm and dispassionate spirit of his inquiries— his critical but candid estimate of evidence - - his strong love of equity—his deep indig nation of fraud, chastened by habitual modera tion—or that pervading common sense which looks into, and feels, and acts upon the busi ness of life, with a discriminating, but in ' dulgent eye—content to administer practi cal good, without ostentation ; and wasting no thing upon speculations, whose origin is enthu siasm, and whose end is uncertainty or mischief. Even when he deals with ,subjects of another class, as in ecclesiastical causes in the Cansistory Court, one is surprised to see with what admi rable propriety he uses his knowledge of general jurisprudence and the civil law, to give vigour to his decrees. And, upon questions involving the lex loci, he has triumphantly shown that he can master the results of foreign jurisprudence ; and, as in the very interesting case of Dalrymple, v. Dalrymple, compose the strifes of the Learned Advociktes of the Scottish bar, and fix for ever, upon an immoveable basis, a question which had vexed the domestic forum of Scotland, for a long period, with its doubts and difficulties. We say, without hesitation, that the character of this eminent Judge, whatever may have been his original genius and ability, .owesits. present ele vation, in a great measure, to his enlarged studies, and his cultivation of universal jurisprudence. Take, for instance, his celebrated judgment its the case of the Gratitudine, in 1801, on the right of the master to hypothecate the cargo, as well as the ship and freight, for the necessities of the voyage ; or the case of the Juliana, in 1822, on the invalidity of a stipulation in the shipping paper, to cut off the seamen from wages, unless the voyage was performed to the final port of des tination. Where shall we find, in the annals of the common law, except among the judgments of Lord Mansfield, cases argued out • upon such rational and enlightened. principles, aided by sober and various learning, and ending in conclusions so irresistible. One seems in them, to be read , ing not the law of England merely, but the law of the world—the results of human reason and human learning, acting on human concerns, with reference to principles absolutely universal in their justice and convenience of application. We wish American lawyers would study the fine models of this sagacious Judge, with a diligence proportionate to their importance and utility. THE MARKETS. COAL MARE Charlotte. .. 32 0 Eighton Main 29 6 Heaton ' 35 0 Hebburn Main --.--- 33 0 Holywell- 3l 9 Killingworth 83 0 Liddell's 30 6 Old Walker 32 0 Percy East., 29 0 Pontop Windsor 31 0 Shipcote 3O 3 Tanfield Moor 32 3 Townley 3O 3 Willington 34. 0 Wylam —3l 0 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 36 6 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 9 Ditto 32 3 Ditto Carr and C 0.......... 31 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 30 6 Ditto Cramlington...,— 30 9 Ditto Hilda - 32 0 Ditto H0t5pur..........„-- 32 6 ' Ships at market, 98%---Shh ET.-3,11y 25. Walls End Newmarch„. 345. 6d. Ditto Northumberland 33 0 Ditto ' Peareth 31 9 Ditto 35 0 Ditto Russell's 36 31 Ditto. Walker 35 0 Liddell's 30 6 Tantiel 1 Trader, 3l 9 Londonderry small —.— 18 0 Lambton small , Culm 29 0 Culrn Cox 29 ti El3in Main 34 0 Hartley 30 0 Llangenneth 42 0 Fordel Main 36 0 Stone Coal Cox 45 0 Nesham 33 6 Lambton's Primrose 33 6 Walls End Hettob---,.. 37 6 Ditto Lyons,— , 33 6 Ditto Stewart's VI 0 Russell's Hetton'sW. E. 36 9 sold, 5614—Unsold. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—JuIy Y 4. The imports from Ireland and coastwise, since last Tuesday, would, with our ordinary demand, have been nearly equal to the wants of our millers ; but, in the pre sent state of the trade, the stocks in granary must be fast reducing.—There were several dealers from the interior, together with a good attendance of our own millers at this morning's market, when a moderately extensive business was transacted in Wheat, at about last Tuesday's cur rency ; but the market ended rather dull. Gatti were more inquired for than of late, and fine qualities main tained previous prices. Several parcels of were sold for shipment to Ireland, at a reduc Is. per quarter, There is no change in the other description of Grain. Indian Corn ion of about Paine of any OLD. • I NSW. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. ( 1 ,,. O 0a 0 0;9 0a 9 , 0 0a 0 0' '7 8a 8' 0 O 0 a 0 0 0 0 a 0 O 0 a 0 0 8 2 a 8 9 , O 0a 0 0 8 2 a 8 r 0 00a00 7 6 a 9 0 0 0 a (1 4 0 a 5 a u 5 6 a 5 9 4 3 a 5 .? O C a 0 0 4 9 a 5 0 O 0 a 9 49a 6 0 O 0 a 0 0 4 0 a 5 0 a O 0a 0 048 0 a 54 ' a O 0a 0 0 3 10 a 4 ", O 0a 0 0 3 9a 91 0 u O 0a 0 0 3 10 a 4 a O Oa 0 062 04'67 " a O Oa 0 046 0456 ", O 0 a 0 024 0 a 25 ', 0 Oa 0 030 0a35 0 ' Canadian......—,--..... .. 0 0 a 0 0— 0 a— Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 4801 b. 0 0 a 0 039 0 aB5 9 -- red--....... 0 0a 0 035 0 a 35 °, Pease, English white, per Imp. qr. 0 0 a 0 042 0 a 46 a • Rye •••••••WW•WW••••••••,..../441.V10WW 0 0a 0 36 0a 40 , Oatmeal, English, per 240 1b5. —1 0 0 a 0 37 0 a 30 'a Irish ••••••••••••••••••••••wwww.......".1 1 3 0 i 0 33 0 a 3'7 1 .- Scotch ..,..,.«.»....,..««....,..,.«.»....,..««.....,..,.«.»....,..««......! 0 0 a 0 oa "' IMPORT oF GRAIN for the Weetc ending July 93. Wheat. Oats. I Barley. Malt. 'Beans. I Pease. 1 Rye. lOatud• Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads' 16,791 3,283 1,460 2,549 599 119 451 2,609 Flour, 2,236 sacks, 2,B36barrels. EXPORTS.—Indian Corn, 566 quarters-.-Flour, 1950 barrels. Wheat, English, per 701 b. , ,„! - Irish (red) - Ditto - Scotch 4MA*, V* NW. -- Canada (free)...---- - Foreign (free) - Foreign (in b0nd)..,.,,. Barley, English, per 601bs. ---- Irish ---- Scotch.-- .wernee..m. - Foreign Beans, English, per Imp. qr. Oats, English, per 451 b. - Irish ...••••••••••••••••••••,... Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr. Flour, Amer., duty paid, per SOUT COTTON. WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND XXPORTS. IMPORTED. C"----I‘-....... 1 EXPORTED. ~.......--.A................1 , Same pe-, Previoue This riod last ly this year. year. I year. ..MININOMMONI”.1••••••••••••11 .......,,,,,..,..,. i .............. . 1.1.1•••••••••• Bags, &c. Bags, &c. l Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 495,905 331,878 1,027 12,57? London 42,165 49,674 795, - 23,9 00 Glasgow 37,311 16 ,2; 9 90 Total exported in 1827 . ..... t . t . 38,3 96 . ~., . BIRTHS. Yesterday the lady of the Rev. Henry Blunt, Chelsea, of a SOD. On the 24th inst., at Euston-square, the lady of M. . 1. Spares, E s q. of a daughter. On the 22d inst., in Montagu-square, the lady of T. J e fferson, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday, at Lambeth, F. J. Perceval, Esq., second son of the late Right lion. Spencer Perceval; to Mary, eldest daughter of W. Barker, Esq. At Middle Claydon, Bucks, by the lion. and Rev. Ge rard T. Noel, the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Vicar d Harrow, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Gen. Sir H. Calvert, Bart. G. C. B. and G. C. H. On the 24th inst. at Downton, by the Rev. R. Shuck burgh, R. Brouncker, of Beveridge, Dorset, Esq. to Mariana, youngest (laughter of the Rev. W. Shuckburgh, of Down ton-house, Wilts. At Southampton, T. S. Warner, Esq. Hon. East India Company's service, to Henrietta, third daughter of the late Captain Hennessey, of his Majesty's 67th regiment of Foot. DIED. At Chestnut, Herts, on Wednesday morning the 25th instant, of an apoplectic attack, Elizabeth, wife of William Harrison, Esq. of No. 45, Lincoln's-inn-fields, and of Cheshunt, Herts, one of his Majesty's Counsel, and At torney-General to the Duchy of Cornwall. • On the 22d inst., at Chatton, Northumberland, much respected, Mrs. Margaret Davison, widow of the late Mr. William Davison, of the above place, in the 95th year of her age. On the 23d inst., in Craven-street, Strand, aged 69, Mr. C. Stavely, of Leicester. On the 23d inst., Mrs. Mary Jones, relict of the late Mr. J. Jones, Queen Anne-street• Y~INTeD and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the Soi-Orricz, No, 112, Strand, .TO TH Li BI X rn electiug that it A tion an( office, a East In The active a my Wle of grati I ha, TO TI T' Colone you, tl is my sion of Shoulc the it your fidelity ceive, be ho Mem I h U ‘, I/ 17, C .AIOC AND .wilt► Grou Park Fu Hogg SAL all th that i of th loon they the IA no 01 him to at antic state ; Rege eive 1110111 •amf Seve Coll' tit~C G an ch e s