The Sun. — London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY • ..;xtracts from the Moriang Papers,Aug. T. 5, 1825. [THE TIMES:I We have received the French Papers of Mon day. They are chiefly filled . with angry discus sions en the strange declamation of M. Bellart, against the Constitutionnel and Courier Francais. The following apparently very innocent state ment of a most undeniable fact, composes one of the passages quoted from the latter, as subversive of the religion of the State The petition of " the Protestants of Nerac, expelled from " their church, was• laid on the - table of the " Chamber of Deputies the day before yes " terday by General Foy." The articles se lected from the Constitutionnel as libels against the Established Church amount to thirty-four, and are spread over a space of three months, from the Ist of May to the 31st of July. The following is one of them-, and may be reckoned no unfair example of the whole :—" But while " the schools of the Freres lgnorantins are esta " bushed, and supported by means of taxes, " pray allow Lancasterian schools to subsist by " voluntary contributions." Irreligion must dis guise itself with most successful ingenuity in France, if ance, it can exist in the above quotation, where, without the keen scent of a Crown law yer, it would be as difficult to detect it as to trace the doublings of game without a pointer. EIMITISIT PRESS.] The French Papers which we received last night bring only vague and contradictory reports from Greece. According to letters from Con stantinople, containing advices from the Morea to the 9th ofJuly,lbrahim Pacha remained in the plains of Tripolizza, and the Turkish troops re cently landed by the Ca pitan Pacha were proceed. ing to join him by why of Leondari. T here was a report also at Syra that Ibrahim Paella had succeeded in burning Corinth, and that Colocotroni had afterwards entered into negociations with him. On the other hand, letters from Venice posi tively assert that the Greek General, Goura, has gained another victory over the Pacha of Negro pont,. who had been compelled, in consequence of the disaster, to withdraw all his forces from the district of Eastern Greece, which was in his occupation. These reports all rest on very doubt ful authority. Most probably it will turn out that none of theni is founded in truth. We still look with anxiety,and not without hope, for the confir mation of the defeat and capture of Ibrahim Pacha. The Jesuits in France are' making a rapid and steady progress to the possession of wealth and power:l t Is stated that they have lately asked the . Government to give them the bluildinE, , and estate cf the " Val de Grace," in order that they may establish a house of their fraternity ; and such - is their influence, we are told, that preparations have been begot) for the removal of the military hospital, by which the " Val de Grace" is now occupied. The prosecution of , -.the Constitution net and the Courier Fruncaise l is another proof decisive of the increased and increasing power of the ecclesiastical party, and especially of the Jesuits. Those two Journals have published the Procureur-General's requisition for their suspen. sion at full length. It is a declamatory Paper, very well written as a political pamphlet in defence of the Government, but to Englishmen, accustomed to seejustice administered in so different a manner, it must have a singular appearance as a judicial do cument. The formation of a camp on the frontiers of Spain,,has not been suspended. Two regi ments were to arrive at Bayonne on the 18th instant, and would take up their quarters outside the town. The General of Engineers, Ilaxo, - was expected, in order to examine the state of the fortifications, and render them worthy of their topographical position. rmonNuic, POST.I French Papers to the TM ; and the Doile of Tuesday,- reached us last night, by express.— They contain some intelligence from Constauti. tinnple, which acknowledges that up to the 9th of Jtdy, Ibrahim Pacha was still locked up at Tripolizza. It adds, however, as a setoff, that 41e reinforcements landed by the Captain !Nebr. had per►etrated or► the 6th ult. as far as Nisi, which is but a short distance inland, and were preparing tb march through Leondari to Tripo lizza. These preparations might certainly be made, but it remained to be seen whether they would lead to a favourable result : for as the Greeks occupied the passes which divide Leondari from Tripolizza, jt was far from certain that the Captai►► Paella's troops should he able to force them. Rut supposing that they did so, even then the cause of Greece would be far from desperate; for the new reinforcements not being able to carry More provisions along with them than what were requisite for their own use, their numbers would only serve s when arrived at Tripolizza, to increase the general distress till it swelled, to positive famine, and the country being closed bOind them as soon as they should have passed, instead of being able to rescue Ibrahim, they would find themselves involved in his diffi culties and his fate. That this fate will not be quite as brilliant as the beg,inning of his military career gave reason to anticipate, was be. coming every day more probable. Let ters from Venice announce- that General Gouras had gained a complete victory over the Paella of Negropont, who had been compelled to fly back to his island, and to evacuate all the districts of Eastern Greece which he had occupied. If this be the case, it will be in Goura's power either to march upon Nlisso longhi, and to-force Redschid Pacha to raise the siege of that place, if it be true that he resumed it af ter the arrival of the Turkish fleet : or, what would be equally advantageous, he might enter the Nlorea by the Isthmus of Corinth, and assist in over powering the Egyptians before he turned his arms against the'T urks in Greece Proper. Some ac counts say that port of Ibrabbn's force had burned Corinth, a_g.d that Colocotroni had en tereti into negociatious with bin], but this is not likely. Had the Egyptians penetrated as far as Corinth, they would have kept that key of the Peaittsula iu their hands, and_ if they did Pot profit by it at the time to evacuate the Pe loponnesus, and thus relieve themselves from the dangerous position in which they were placed, they would not have committed so gross a mili tary error as to have abandoned the place, as it is said, to retire once more to Tripolizza and suffer themselves to be hemmed in , within its smoking ruins. UTHE PUBLIC LEDGER.] All the preparations for Lord Cochrane's de parture for Greece are nearly complete, and un less some unforeseen impediment intervene, the whole of the arrangements will he finished by the middle of next month. Such at least is the opinion of persons, who have the credit of pos sessing the best information on the subject. The exact number of steam vessels that are to be em ployed on the expedition, we have not been able to ascertain ; but their number, it is said, will be very considerable, on account of the superior advantages they present in the numerous shoals and narrow seas of Greece. The purchase of several has been already made good ;. and to complete the acquisition of the requisite number, nothing is wanting, but to come to an agreement about the price. Besides their superior utility, it is expected that their novelty will inspire the ignorant and superstitious Turk with extreme terror. Lord Cochrane, ac cording to report, will precede the armament, taking only one vessel with him at first, by which arrangement, it is said, his Lordship hopes to hold the necessary consultations with the Greek Authorities without losing a moment for action, as soon as the rest of his force shall have joined him. How many other vessels, besides those above-mentioned, will be placed at his disposal, has not, we believe, transpired ;.only' that it may be positively affirmed, if our information he correct, that the ship in which his Lordship arrived in this country, and which now lies at Spithead, will be of the number. This vessel, if we are rightly in formed, is his own property, purchased with his own money, and bought by him under the pre tence of enforcing the claims he has on the Chinon Government. Whether this pretext was a feint or not, we do not know ; whilst it would be of little use to probe the matter to the bottom. • It is further stated, that her crew is composed wholly of . British seamen ; and, with the exception of the flag, she has nothing, not even a sp9r, to which his Brazilian Majesty could lawfully set up a claim. [MEW TIMES.] We have had occasion, two or three times to uotice the praiseworthy exertions of the London shopmen to free themselves from the intolerable slavery of handling cambric after the hour of half-price-at the Theatres Royal. It is most manifest, that if they are kept longer at work by their barbarous masters, they cannot ex pand their ideas by studying the works of our immortal bard, nor learn life and manners in the saloons of the theatres. In this age of combination, therefore, it was with no sur prise that we read the code of laws en acted for their community ; though it must be owned there is considerable novelty in some of its provisions. Our memory may be treacherous ; but we cannot at this moment call to mind any Legislator, prior to the Meeting at the Crown and Anchor, that ever established a regular gra dation of tines for the offence of voluntary over working. The Linen-d ra pers' Assistants, however, haVe wisely decreed, that every member Who shall be found to continue at his business after .seven o'clock in the evening, between the Ist day of November and the last of February, shall forfeit and pay ; for the first offence five shillings ; for the second offence ten shillings ; and if he be so incorrigibly industrious as to offend a third time, then (horrible to relate D•hels to be actually ex •pellerN Driven forth from the honourable society of assistant linen-drapers, where will the unhappy Wight shelter his luckless head ? Behind what counter will he dare to hand muslin to a fair customer ? How will he ever summon courage to cut off a yard and a quarter of huckabjck ?- The idea is too painful to dwell on : when we came to this passage in the more than Draconian Code, the paper dropt from our hands, and we involun tarily exclaimed, with Gay's Deserter— " 0 ! 'tis so moving I can read no more !" [MORNING HERALD.] The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have put forth their First Annual Re port. ft professes to have been read or spoken in the first person singular, by some officer of the Society—who has given one signal proof of pru dence and good sense—that of withholding his name. Unfortunately, this is the only one. The document is a rare specimen of the mock. sentimental. The matter, if it may he so call ed, presents nothing but arrant pretension, with the most lamentable penury of ideas—and the writings is in that sort of style which is called " the valgar .fine." This is the inure to be re gretted, that the motives of a . part at least, are good, and that much benefit has really resulted from the labours of this Association. The Re port should have been drawn up with force and good sense—first, in order to do justice to the merits just mentioned, and nest, in order to pro tect from prejudice and ridicule, the vexations and fooleries in which these gentlemen, or some of the most ,notorious of them, love oc casionally to indulge. After a preamble about " the wise, the liberal, and the humane," Re port starts .with the following piece of senten tious wisdom, and its application to the Society : _" It is the fate of all laudable undertakings to ".encounter, in their outset, prejudice and ridi " rule. This Society, undaunted by such opposi " tion,has pursUed its progress mitha steady pace." Now this, in the Ist place, is not true—in the 2d, not original. Such is not the fate of all laudable imdertakings—truth being much more frequently encountered by persecution. than by ridicule— aud this moral apothegm has been forestalled by iohannah Souidlcote and Doctor Tozer. Among the objects of the Society, the Report enumerates introducing 66- Elementary Works, impregnated with humane sentiments."--' hat a fustian taphor is here, for what might and should have been simply expressed ! Another object Was to interest the professors of physical science iu the cause of humanity !" Here, for the sake of using a bombastic envelope of words, the writer ignorantly confounds " physical" with " medical" science, and has "the effrontery, against all truth, to suppose physicians and sur geons not " interested in the cause of humanity." Next follows a recital of the succe4sfal efforts of the Society against hull and bear, and badger baiting, and other " cruel sports"—a gratifying result, which deserved to have been written with good sense and common propriety. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] If is very currently reported, that it is the in tention of our Government to prevent Lord Cochrane from going to Greece, and the general conclusion is, that this measure is to be adopted as a compliment to, our allies the Turks. The same distinguished Naval Commander joined the Brazilians against Portugal, and nothing was said ; may we, therefore, ask, was our alliance with the Court of Lisbon, at that time, less binding than our present relations with the Turks? Yesterday was a holiday at the Bank • there were in consequence no transactions at the Stock Exchange in Money Stock. The quotation for account was all the morning NU, and for October, 90i. It is now conjectured that there will be little alteration tilfafter to-morrow, as the quantity of puts, as they are termed at the Stock Exchange, were yesterday very great; that is to say, when the Consols were 90i, the job bers bought as low as 90, the seller, however, reserving the pri vilege of putting if he chose an equal quantity upon the buyer, at the same price, at any time during the account. The seller had thus the prospect of making a considerable sum, if Consols went much below that price. It is therefore the interest of the extensive jobbers who purchase on such terms to keep the price steady and not below 90, otherwise they would get a greater proportion of Stock put upon them. The attention of the mem bers of the Foreign Market was directed entirely to the new Guatemala 6 per Cent. Loan, which came out yesterday morn ing at 73; there was a rush to sell ; and in a few minutes from 4 y prem. it fell to and 4 dis. The other South American Stocks were slightly affected by the fall in the Guatemala Scrip. Colombian Bonds were M i l, Mexican Scrip 4 to 41. dis., Peru vian Bonds 73, Brazil Scrip 5 to 54. die. Greek Scrip was with out variation, 13 to 12i. In other Foreign Stock there was no alteration worth noticing. In shares there was nothing particular to notice, except the continued appearance of new Associations for Steam-boats. There were two yesterday morning—one a London, Gravesend, and Queensborough ; the other London, Portugal, and Madeira; the first was at par, the latter at premium.—Ubid.) ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL. Yesterday a Board of Governors was held at the above Hospital to transact the ordinary business of the esta blishment, but more particularly to investigate the conduct of the nurse Armstrong, belonging to the Hospital, towards a patient, named Daniel Taylor, who died from an injury in his hand, by being thrown from his horse, and upon whom the Coroner's Inquest sat on Saturday evening, at the Turf Tap, in Grosvenor-place, the proceedings of which were fully re. ported in our paper of-Tuesday. At twelve o'clock there were upwards of thirty Governors present, and the Rev. Mr. Maims was unanimously called to the Chair. The Rev. Chairman (after alluding to the object of their meeting, as far as regarded one of die nurses of the esta blishment, against whom some misconduct was alleged to wards a man named Taylor, who died in the Hospital), read a letter which he had 'received that morning from Ali. the Coroner, which that gentleman had ,writtea by the de sire of the Jury who sat on the body of the deceased, wherein they expressed their unanimous opinion 4hat great blame was attributed to the nurse Armstrong, and expressing their decided conviction that she ought no longer to remain in her situation. A Newspaper of Tuesday last, containing the report of the Coroner's Inquisition, was here read, after which, Mr. Keats, the surgeon under whom the deceased man was placed when first brought into the Hospital, was called in and examined. He stated that he gave particular instructions to the nurse to keep the deceased man quiet, and by no means to Permit him to leave his bed. However, he had contrived to leaVe the establishment tintdred, at the instigation of a man who was a frequent visitor to him, and a woman named Taylor, who stated herself to he his wife. About a week after lie was seen in the streets with his hand in a sling, and from his wrist to his shoulder his arm was dreadfully inflamed, and be was again admitted into the Hospital. Mr. Keats said he had also given orders that his poultice should not be taken off' till he (Mr. Keats) gave such instructions. He considered that if the Jury had returned a verdict against the woman Taylor, they would have done right; for he had no doubt, had she not per suaded him to leave the Hospital at the time, the fatal conse quences might not have ensued. The nurse (Armstrong) was then called in, and denied hav ing made use of any harsh expressions to the deceased, or to any other patient an the ward. She had certainly told the woman Taylor, that she should not come into the Hospital, for her having induced the patient to leave the establishment. The deceased was in the habit of taking the poultice from his hand to show the wound to different persons that visited him. Jones, the beadle of St. George's, Hanover-square, was also examined, but he merely spoke to having heard the nurse and the woman Taylor quarrelling several times ;n the ward re specting her (Taylor) advising the patient to run away from the Hospital. The CHAIRMAN said, that it was his opinion that before the Board could proceed any further, it would be necessary that they should have the depositions of the witnesses taken by the Coroner before them. In this the meeting acquiesced, and the following resolution was agreed to :—" That two gentlemen should be appointed to communicate with the Coroner, as it was the opinion of the Board that the verdict returned was not in accordance with the testimony that was produced before the Jury."—The inquiry then adjoured at two o'clock till a future day. SIR W. DAVENANT. This Gentleman, as is wPll-known, was long; the patron and protector of Theatrical amusement. To his ex ertions it was owing that the histrionic passion was kept alive through the fanaticism which prevailed in this country previous to the martyrdom of the unfortunate Charles the First, and throughout the reign of the Usurper Cromwell. The people had been taught to consider stage players as the outcasts of Heaven, and the enemies of all good ; and this spirit prevailed generidly through the early part of the Protector's sway, but when the first ebullitions of fanatic fury bad a little cooled, the people began to perceive that they had touch less to fear from the actors of.tiramatic pieces, than they had to apprehend from the performers on the political stage. They therefore encou raged Sir W. Davenant to exhibit entertainments of music and declamation, in the manner of the ancients, at Rutland House. This course of entertainment he commenced in 1656, and con- ! tinned it at Rutland House for two years. In 1658 h e re moved ,1 his comp a ny t o the Cock-pit, in Drury-lane, where his performances assumed a more dramatic form, and were conti- I nued until the eve of the Restoration. On that event taking! place, theatres once more reared their heads in this great Me. tropolis. Sir William took the actors, who were termed the King's Company, under his controul, with the sanction of the Court. They first performed plays at the Red Bull ; from thence they removed to a new built house, situate in Gibbon's Tennis Court, near Clare Market. where Orator Henley gave his Lectures; and finally, upon the erecti o n o f t h e N ew The atre, on the site of the old Cock-pit in Druiv-lane, the King's Company took possession of it, and opened it on the sth of April, 1663, as appears by the following Fizlt Play Idll of Drury-lane, The a t re . By his Majesty's Company of Connnedians, At the New Theatre, Drury Lane, This day being Thurday, April but, 1663, Will be acted a Comedy, caned THE lIVMOROVS LIEUTENANT. The King Mr. Wintered. Demetrivs ' - - Mr. Hart. Selevivs • - Mr. Bert. Leontivs - Major Molten. Lievtenant - Mr. ClYn. Celia - . - - Mrs. Marshall. The play to begin at 3 o'clock exactly. Boxes 4s. Pit 25.6 d. Middle, Gallery Is. 6d. Upper Gallery Such was the birth of Old Drury ; her decease occurred Sa turday, June the 2d, 1791, at the age of 117 years., Der Frieschutz was brought out at Rouen on the 19th lost. with eminent success. It is as po pular there sat PAris. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG. 24. The LORD CHANCELLOR delivered a few judgments this morning in bankrupt cases. EX PARTE WESTON IN RE RAINEY, A BANKRUPT. In this case a person named 13oustield (the party really in terested) had purchased a vessel (the Ocean), which he let in 1809 to Messrs. Eastman and Hunter, whereby they became indebted to him to a considerable amount., After the bank ruptcy of Eastman . and Co., an order of this Court was made in August 1819, directing .the Commissioners to inquire Whe ther there was a joint-estate of Eastman and Hunter. The Commissioners reported that there was no joint estate, unless a sum of 4611. due from Robert Rainy could be as considered. This report gave no information as to the value of the proof. Upon another reference to the 'Commissioners, they reported, in August, 1821, th a t the es t a t e o f H un t er an d Co. was likely to make a dividend. When the matter Came before the Court, the dividend had not been made, and his Lordship thought that Mr. Bousfield was not obliged to wait- in an indefinite time. The probability was unsubstantial. Another question then arose. It was stated that Mr., Bousfield was not entitled to prove against the sep - arate estate, .because their was a joint estate in hiS own pocket.. The fact was, that Bousfield had chartered a ship to. Eastman and Hunter, who was to pay a tonnage rate; he had, therefore, it was alleged, a demand on them for the hire only. Mr. Bousfield also put some part of the cargo on board. The persons who thus put the cargo on board the ship, it was alleged, became indebted to Eastman and Hunter for freight : but the owner had a right to say that no part of the cargo should be delivered until his tonnage was paid, which amounted to more than the freight. It was clear that Bousfield had received a considerable sum in payment for freight of goods. This was said not to be due, but that. Bousfield ought to be paid by Eastman and Co. But Bousfield had a lien on the cargo for what was due to him for the use of the ship, and he received the money by virtue of it, in discharge of his debt. It had been decided in many cases, that if a person grants, lets, or demises a ship, lie parts with the possession of it : but in the last decision upon this doctrine in the Court of Common Pleas, three of the Judges difFsred from Lord Chief Justice Dallas, thinking the ;Court of King's Bench wrong in pre ceding decisions. It was understood that when a similar case came before the latter court again, the doctrine would be re considered. His Lordship therefore wished that a case should be prepared for argument; or, if the parties liked it better, he would inform himself of the opinion of the Judges. Mr. AGAR asked his Lordship to decide the question. The LORD CIIANCELLOR.—Then you shall have the opinion of the ?tine Judges. EX PARTE LELAND IN RE SILL AND WATSON,: BANKRUPTS. His LORDSHIP observed, that this case was not only import ant in respect to the amount of money involved, but one of the most complicated that ever came uefore the Court in bank ruptcy. Every description of paper credit known in mercantile transactions formed part of the case to be considered. The Commissioners had arranged the various species of bills in classes ' and left his Lordship to d ec id e i n cases , w hich could not be decided till the matter was fully argued. His Lordship allowed parties the option of letting the petition stand over till the second day of next term, in order that arguments from one Counsel of a side might be heard ; or of referring it back to the Commissioners. IN RE TOWNSEND. Just as his Lordship was rising, the bankrupt addressed the Court respecting his case. His Lordship, as upon former oc casions, pointed oat to hint the necessity of deciding whether he would submit to or contest his commission. For a full half hour his Lordship listened to and answered the remarks of the bankrupt with great patience and affability. Upon Mr. Townsend's calling upon his Lordship for justice, as a Judge, in the hard circumstances of his case, The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was bound to do jus.ice to all ; and he could not suffer the bankrupt to put the as signees to a serious expence after he- had done what in fact amounted to a recognition of his commission. After much difficulty, Mr. Townsend consented to submit; the Registrar recorded his submission ; and his Lordship de clared the matter should be one of the first he would dispose of after his return front the country. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. LANCASTER, Atia 22. MA NSLA LIGHTER.- Robert _Mato was indicted for killing and slaying William Lupton ; the prisoner was tried upon the Coroner's Inquistion f the Grand Jury having thrown out the Bill preferred against him. Mr. STAIME stated that this was a case of a very peculiar nature, and called fir their 'most serious attention. It would be proved to them, that the prisoner at the bar had admi nistered poison to the deceased. It would be for them to cirarmstaness - , and with what modes it was so administered ; they would weigh all the faCts of the case, in order to decide whether the deleterious drug was administer ed 'for the purpose of producing a , beneficial and salutary effect, or fin- other more dangerous purposes. In the one case they must find the prisoner guilty of murder; in the other it would amount only to manslaughter. He hoped that this trial would prove a salutary warning to those indivi duals, who, tampered with the lives of their fellow-creatures, without possessing the slightest knowledge of medicine. . Wm. Lupton, a boy of six years old, son of the deceased, was called and examined its to his knowledge of the obligations of an oath. Having been found to understand it perfectly, he was examined, and went on to state that he remembered when his father died; he died on a Sunday; he went to bed about eight o'clock on the evening before ,•- Nuttall was in the house on that evening. Witness was then in bed in a room on the same floor with his father ; he could clearly see what was passing in his father's room ; he saw Nuttall holding a paper of pills in his hand; the paper also contained some white pow ders i • he did not hear the p r i s on er sa y an y thing to his father, On the following morning his father mixed one of the pow ders in a cup and took it. There were pills and arsenic mixed up in the cup ; his father did not take the pills.— Cross-examined : He knew it to be arsenic, because his mother told him so. • John Bowett said, he saw the prisoner at Coke Fair on the Bth of %larch ; he told witness that Lupton was very ill, and troubled with worms, and that if he cured him, he was to have Iss. for the job. lie called upon witness in about a week, and asked him if he had not got some pills from John Blakey for the worms ? Witness said he had. Prisoner, upon looking upon them, Mid he could make pills like them. He did not say why lie wished to look at the Two druggists deposed, that a day or two before the death of the deceased the prisoner bought two pennyworth of white mercury, which he was told was poison, and which he desired to have wrapt up in three separate papers; he got in another paper two pennyworth of jalap. Nancy Brown and Sarah Lupton were called. They proved that the prisoner and the deceased were seen together on the night in question, and that the deceased had taken the powders, which the prisoner had brought him ; that he became violentl? ill in consequence of taking them, and that he died on the fol lowing day. Mr. Petty, a surgeon, said he opened the body; he found in the stomach a quantity of brown liquid, weighing nearly a pound and a half ; the coats of the stomath were much injured by it. Another surgeon had analyzed the liquid, and had dis. covered a quantity of arsenic in it. The stomach was in a si tuation which indicated the reception of mineral or vegetable poison._ . Dr. Lester was called, but did not appear. 31r. Justice BAYLEY, in summing up, dwelt upon the very tender age of the witness upon whose testimony the case rested. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. Justice BAYLEY told the prisoner he had had a narrow escape, and cautioned him against meddling with medicines in Future.—The prisoner said he would take his Lordship's advice, and was discharged. ARSON. Grace Hayes was capitally indicted for having wilfully, ma liciously, and feloniously, so fire to a barn or shippon belong ing to Charles Davies, of Blackburne, on the 16th May last. Several witnesses deposed to having seen the prisoner near the barn on the day charged in the indictment; but no proof was offered that she had any tire or light, or other materiel in her possession, although she bad declared to some person on the road that she would burn it —She was acquitted. Alr. Justice BAYLEY intimated a hope to the prisoner that she would take warning by this aCquital, and not indulge in notions of revenge, which eventually induced her to the com mission of the offence of which she was now so fortunately acquitted. FATAL. EFFECTS OF OVER.ANXIETY. — Sunday evening a man, his wife, and the wife's sister, took a walk up Millbank—th e wife carrying her infant, which was a healthy and tine child. After walking .same time, the mother gave the infant the breast ; and then the sister proffered to carry the child, which was agreed on. The sister having obtained the child, her care, as well as that of the mother, was, despite of the terrifically hot and , saffbcating weather, " to see that the baby was, w ra pp e d up warm ; an d p art i cu lar) , to pull a shawl or a handkerchief over its face, so that it might not eaten cold." On looking at the infant shortly afterwards, they were petri. tied at findin it destitute of all animation, and that .blood had issued from the nostrils. The'child was dead. EXECUTION. • (From the Bury Gazette.) The execution of John Mann, for highway rob" bery, was appointed to take place on Wednesday, at twel fe t. . , o'clock, at Bury. About two o'clock, on the morning of tha day, the following order was delivered to the gaoler, by messenger, who had left London on the preceding afternoon Whitehall, 15th August, 1 825 ' d Silt—l am to acquaint yo u th at t h e accompanying respitel."„. been granted to John Mann, only with a v i ew to give time Mr. Secretary Peel's con s id erat i on o f hi s case, and that the p 1 .1: sutler must not he led to exp ect a further suspension of the la g I aM, Sir, your most obedient humble servant; H. HOBIiOUSr . ' To the Keeper of the Gaol, Bury' St. Edmund's. • This respite, it appears, w as grante d i n consequence .o f a •e -- tition having been transmitted from Hadleigh to the Home • cretary, after the announcement of the unsuccessful issue X , the application to the L or d Chi ef J ust i ce by the Rev. J 7 v • Smith. t- In conformity with th e little hope held out by the above le ' ter, 31r. Orridge, the gaoler, anxiously impressed upon , prisoner's mind that there was scarc e ly a p oss ibility of Peel advising his Maj es ty to grant a pardon, when made a,5 quainted with the merits of the case. The unfortunate 10 hopes were, in cons e q uence , b y no means sanguine, and t,. tendon to his religiou s d u ti es cont i nue d as strict as betbre• Un the morning of Friday, however, he watched arixiouslY fir; the window of his c e ll, t o di scover if the co ff in , a ccording ' le custom, was that morning carried into the chapel: He that it was, and the faint ember of hope died within him. k The following are the particulars of a confession w" te Mann, some days previous to his execution, made of die_ r ej o bery of which he was convi c t e d, an d w hi c h h e attest ed be J. Benja&ld, Esq., a magistrate for the county. It he ; tp consequence of a discrepancy between tlik confession so" evidence of the prosecutor on the trial, that the petition to.. he Home Secretary was grounded. Granting, however, that t i i ' se , statement given by the deceased be correct, it will be seen, he it does not in the slightest degree lessen the criminality? , act for which he suffered death : we ' r ` c O d n rin t t e in il g th w o it f h li t te e rc p h ro l s as ec t, it h to e r , , w j it . h ß T a 3 . m G h r a im in s j e a y t a ti ti le d Head, in Hadleigh, from about five o'clock till the time o' L e t, robbery; he tossed w ith Raynham for beer, and observed to_, he had got some mo ne y, an d t h en sa id to Grimsey, `.Old ham has got some money, and I'll have it.' When Bar' i s id left the house he followed him, and on going; out, Grimsey to him, 4 Teli my Lurcher (meaning Sarah Barnes) to ge„ Raynham's money.' Sarah Barnes was standing outside or King's Head, and he told her that Raynhain had got 5° j t , money, and Tom Grintsey had sent him to tell her to get it..,„j• , , was then agreed that Sal Barn es s h ou ld f o ll ow R a ynharn, 1 - 5 e try to get his mo ne y, an d t h at h e s h ould be near, in easf ike d met with any resistance. Raynham and Sal Barnes wit together together till they c a m e near to Topsail-bridge then wen t . he re a stack-yard belo ng i ng to flullbeck's-park. Aft er being 4 ber t a few, minutes, Barnes called out, 4 You old rogue, Y °d o peci, me so, I'll call my husband.' He went up to them arid c were Halloo, what are you doing to my wife ?' P le Y hi'. struggling on the ground; he then struck Raynham with t t he fist, anti Sal Barnes knocked him (the .prosecutor) 214 1:01S head with her Patten; both Sal and himself put their - t he into Raynham's pocket, and he took out the purse fi lm* pocket, and Sal and him returned into the street, and tve t .,, e got Grimsey, and lie called out, • Come along, Toni, we have old Raynham's money.' They all went up the stre''''c o rY parted the money by a light from the window of the . 0 1t. , public-house. There was only one red note, eigh t s i o xed , crowns, 3s. fid., and some odd halfpence. They. t he 14s. lid. each, and Tom Grimsey put some stones tri i ,"" b icil purse and sunk it in a pulk of water near the Cock, after t itre titr g they went to 'the Lion tap, where they remained for some or, drinking." Mann also confessed having been e4og.e4 ' wards of 40 other robberies. ACQUITTALf KKEF'FE and 130001' • . (From the Cork - Reporter.) g Ptre: While the Jury wer e i n consu ltation, e m aio'.' did not betray, the least symptom of apprehension. _.... 14 , e „.;d51. tamed the same composu re h e h a d ev i nce d d ur ing theme? a ir'. and ahnost the same position—his head leaning on lit d o do which rested on an iron brace that projected beyond the The other prisoner, Bourke, seetned greatly agitatede,4tibl e When the Jury came o u t an in tense inter e s t %S' When -get in the countenance probably of every one. in Court w",, u nee", f ," —he merely stood up, anti when the Foreman Pr nh " - e ctfa: vereliceef Not Guilty for both prisoners, he very resP A bun made an inclination of his head in acknowledgme nt l,orts i a; of approbation'ran through the Court, and Keetre , 'st l ,, to ing his position, begged leave to address a few Lordship, to which request the Learned Judge very.or. ow i of Lords, and the Judge of assented. Keeffe then spoke in the following words.--tbe Dot_t, • "My Lord—ln the presence of the King of Kings- that 14 as innocent of the charge made upon me this day as vish i l l* Ito . the unborn. As well might they have arraigned your, re , in .„. or the Bishop of Cork, at this bar as me; and 1 tlec j i a , r bt-P e l ', o presence of God, that I would search out and . Pu n ' s ,an in 1 ". ileraa petrators of that horrid murder as soon as any gen - tha t d e ed country." , ,I Wi t ''' . Baron PENNEFATIIMI—" Well, I am - o` . I ( a. 0 t' you sa . so. Discharge those men." an re' Keeffe then bowed most respectffilly to the Court , co ot galleries ; many gentlemen in differ.mt parts of the . . fOf turned his salutation. . ' tsicle- ° e 0 Judges, .1 acknowledge ibe do On the verdict being pronounced, the huzzas oil,: o lice o f friends of the late prisoner; were tremendous. T H , e l: e 0 1 4 /1 0 deavoured to keep off the crowd, but all in vain: . r isoov - d of people broke through the guard, and embraced the P,.,„. iaT,,ie the most affecting manner. While this was oceMpg re pt : part of the court-yard, in another direction some ;wn d ill Ais t relations were in hysterics. Keeffe was tnllowed do__ , otl'',ee I rade by a great crowd, cheering him as he went i , lorl i g op v a, 0 . length he was obliged to run into an apothecary:b sAfice °° t 0 Parade for medical assistance. He called at this Y. es 'ot ric e I early hour yesterday morning, and procured two e. °l 7 ol ve. ° I report of his own trial. We, understand his friends . carried him home in triumph. i 5 .....—...-------............e. er;C 3)l ° I The Sabbath, in Boston! (Noah Affi 6 , 7 ,___,, 0 s labout to be rigidly enforced. 'The United States o f Pro)° , the 22d July states, that " the Councils of the e ,. l T o ress o ol are about permitting societies to extend an iron ehe i T lo r n io l t o4 oo streets, near their churches, during a part of the co d evening services on. Sunday." Another order a 2 00 e be. uhf Councils directs that " no person shall drive .. ii peo on a walk or common foot pace, through the '" Sabbath." • ~......"../ ........, • —.......-......--... s • --- . BIRTHS. LatlY vonce On the 22d inst., at Silverlands, in Surrey , flotham, of a son. • 10 1 1 °t On the 20th inst., at Little Hampton, the es t. Hampden Gledstanes, Esq., of a daughter. , Reg r e. On Wednesday, the 24th inst., at York-terrae e st ill her e park, the lady of Capt. H. A. Eliot, of a daughte r ' o'er MA RR It; D. ~ , webb• el& On the 22d inst., at Lee, Kent, Mr. J• ." . ifs. Hotel, Piccadilly, to Mrs. Davies, On Wednesday, the 24th inst., at St. John 9 c ut's' 'Pa Or ' Cieln a 3 ney, Mr. George Christopherson, of St. , e eon ,vr , ,a, grandson of the late Rev. George Hall, to Marp itoe be t o ., 't , ter of the late Charles Ross, Esq., ship-buil ° ' r ural' r , J. Schild, of Greek -street, Soho. H a novef l - t J o f 'III 4 On the 20th inst, at St. George's, cs of bee-eott,achorcht, sotcl"h itt P I Weldon, of Bond-street, to Maria, only da u g legat e ; *.-1.. On the 21st inst., at St. Giles's, CriPP Lipscomb, to Miss Mary Ann Eastwood. sa t ' DIED •'. I. ller , • e . .Vscl Black ~,,A, 17.14- On• the 20th inst., aged 78, Septtmus geon, of 'Weybridge. e, . c, On Saturday, the 21st inst. at at Apslel beth, wife of Mr..lohn Shelton. m . lit, the ifil e° „ On the 15th inst., at Haniburgh , ----t_ r oice, .` '6O , '' daughter of Mr. Wiliam K of ita rhe ' ' the crap, 4 in road, London. Forhe - ' On the 23d inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. ssq.d, ltovi n .'l3,le o year of her age. . e 11' 043( of 1 • C On the 15th inst., John Willcock. of I`'Oo` • - • ()- wig the 90th year of his age, many years an /-- • e.,...5t' AtorYi e P:d. and a respectable merchant there. her ag e ' , in t dre" On the 21st inst., in the 54th year of George ag e 's in An Mr. Joseph Stanley, Prince's-square, Rih° . ti; t On the 24th inst., Sarah, the wifi of n."' - vllen' i , of Kingsland. ells , re, ' f ilo Ag 0 ..:C. On Wednesday morning, at Tunbritigiestock.sq o f ~ wile of George 'F. Lambert, Esq., of ' ray rt, sci. ' e r ° II' 0. don, and youngest daughter of John Pea VOcl'' t 0 Yorkshire. o F i e ntingi rir On Monday, the 22d inst., James o sefl u a e ittlfith der's-end, in the 81st year of his age. in 6/, ork e " •atono (fie . th On Monday, the 22d inst., at Bra broken, e la serious accident, in which his thigh . 07 1 rv .sela 3r ' tus Nash, Esq., of Cornhill and Finsi' ll ' ~.. St le boos litlic° 001;gtio, year of his age. st 8 01 Printed and Published for the p,oq •,. co °met:, No. 112, Strand, by -I