The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUB PUBLIC JOURNALS. The new Stamp Act (an ominous name) imposed by the local Government of India on the inhabitants of Calcutta, has given rise to a state of feeling in that capital which his Majesty's Ministers and the Parliament would be very rash to despise. A cir cular address has been printed upon the subject by tine committee appointed for conducting a constitu tional resistance to this most obnoxious measure, and we are happy to bear evidence as well to the clear statements brought forward by the committee, as to the temper, firmness, and judgment with which they have embodied in a petition to the House of Commons, a summary of the matters contained in the circular address. The question as to the policy of the new tax is perhaps to he . solved by the pos sible exposure to extensive injury, or even destruc tion, which might result to the private commerce of India from a repetition of such attempts to levy money without the consent of Parliament.— But the startling question is one of law. By the very last renewal of the Charter, the sovereignty, " the undivided sovereignty over India, was dis tinctly asserted to be in the British Crown." The Act of renewal conferred a power of levying certain imposts within Calcutta, subject to the approbation of the Court of Directors and of the India Board. But it is contended by the petitioners, that such im posts were limited to duties of customs, and a tax on houses, the proceeds of which were to be appli cable to mere purposes of police. They insist that a stamp or any other description of tax (but the above) was never contemplated by the Act of Par liament of 1813. The general exasperation pro duced by the measure, if nothing else, ought to be looked upon as one good reason for rescinding it. If the treatment which Counselhave received from the Bench at Calcutta, while arguing against the re gistration of the Stamp Act, be what the letters represent it, we must say that we consider it most disgraceful.—Times. We alluded yesterday to the efforts now making by the Parishes around the Metropolis to secure themselves against the depredators who have lately gained such a head among us. The letter add resse d by Lord Lansdowne to the Lord Mayor and Magis trates of the several Police Offices, has been animad verted on by some of our contemporaries as an at tempt to cure symptoms, instead of the disorder which is the cause of their appearance, and as attach ing an importance to that which is really of very little moment, as the absence of protection leads necessarily to compromise, and when compromise is necessary, the better the channel is known, the less the loss and inconvenience to the sufferers. We have no doubt that his Lordship, on giving due con sideration to the subject, will see that people ne gociate with thieves only because they are without protection, and that the great point to be aimed at to supply the protection, which would put an end to the negotiations ; and not to render the unprotec ted still worse, by throwing difficulties in the way of their aiding themselves, before other means are devised for their assistance. Our Police is on a bad footing with a view to prevention ; our law throws difficulties of all sorts in the way of the discovery of guilt; and When a conviction has been obtained, we have a system of punishment not calculated to deter from crime, but to render the comparatively innocent hardened in crime. It would notbe safe, perhaps, fora Catholic Priest to quote from Defoe's Moll Flanders, after what has been said on the subject of that work forming the youthful mind in the Sister Kingdom ; but it would not be amiss if our Legislators bad perused it, before they fell upon the maddest of all mad projects, that of re warding criminals by transportation. Moll's mother, a transported felon, in Virginia, tells her, " When such as are transported from Newgate and other prisons, after having been found guilty of felony, and other crimes punishable with death, come here, we make no difference between them and other ser vants, and they work together in the field till their time is out. When it is expired, they have en couragement given them to plant for themselves; for they have a certain. number of acres of land al lotted them by the country, and they go to work to clear and cure the land, and then to plant it with to bacco and corn for their own use; and as the trades men and merchants will trust them with tools, clothes, and other i necessaries, upon the credit of their crop before it s grown, so they again plant every year a little more than the year before,anaso suy as ever they want with the crop that is before them. Hence, child (says she), may a Newgate bird become a• great man ; and we have (continued she) several Justices of the Pe,aqe, Officers of the Train Bands, and Magistrates of the towns they live in, that have been burnt in the hand—there's Major —, (says AO, he was an eminent pickpocket ; there's Justice B —r, was a shoplifter, and both of them were burnt in the hand; and I could name you several such as they are." There never has been any want of men in England to point out the defects of our laws. But where are we to find legislators ? As Mr. Bentham observes, " among legislators in name scarcely any other practice can be found than that of children, who, in their prattle, copy what they have beard of their nurses. . . . Among those whose wants have been forestalled from their cradle, among those who become legislators to gratify their vanity or relieve their ennui, there can scarcely be found one who could be called a legislator without Jnockery. How shall he who possesses every thing, without the trouble of thinking, be led to subject himself to the labour of thought ? If it be desirable that legislators should be men of enlarged and well instructed minds, they must be sought among those who possess but little wealth—among those who, oppressed with their insignificance, are stimulated by ambition, and even by hunger, to distinguish themselves ; they must be sought among those who possess the habits of Cyrus, and not Sardanapalus." —Morning Chronicle. As if the moral ruin of the community were the point about which those who have the charge of the public weal were most indifferent, we see the two most likely sources to bring it about—viz. gambling and gin-drinking —at the present time most rife and uncontrolled. Passing by, for the moment, the Hells, both great and small, in which the first of these sources of contagion is engendered, who can pass along our streets, and not perceive that the other is quite as flourishing a trade ? Yet we are possessed of laws and religion, and boast ourselves to be a vastly moral people, and our Monarch " De fender of the Faith. Oh, how little, we must be per).-nitted to say, is the practice of that faith under stood, if vice and corruption of the most loathsome kind are allowed to rear th e i r h ea d s , an d re i gn triumphant i n a community ca p a bl e , if d u ly regu lated, of much better things ! We despise the mere cant of morality as much as it be possible to despise it; but we cannot be indifferent to, much less can we despise, the danger Wioch stares every one in the ,face who ventures out of his own dwelling. No man can pass along the streets without seeing sump tuous dwellings rearing their heads at every cor ner, in which fortunes are every day made, and des tined to be made, by the mere trade of pouring liquid tire down the throats of the poor, the profligate, and the unthinking; and all that a revenue may be raised at the price of the health, the lives, and morals of those who have, if they did but know it, a right to j be protected by the Government under which they live from these seeds of, and traps to, early, prema ture ruin. Year after year the public is promised a reform of the licensing system—but each wise head that undertakes it proves itself as thick as any on which the gross abuses of the present system can be seen to work. That department of the Govern ment which ought to attend to such matters seems to consider th e lulus populi a very insignificant con sideration cotepared with the one great object, re venue—and eve n the leviathans of the mash-tub, though theyfind their peculiar commodity intrenched non by the 'newel.% of this liquid fire, find it more c onvenient to ! coalesce with them than to i run th e hazard of opening a traa,., the monopoly of which they have solongenjoyed, The gm-seller cannot carr y on his trade "'fit is called a beer vel a ! and, though ougll he sells no leer, and holds the license in question merely as a blind, the connection between the brewer and distiller, whose mere tool he is, satisfies all ; and the licensing Magistrates on the one hand, and the Government on the other, are much too kind to break in upon this monopoly in poison, for the sake of the community in general.— If the Government were anxious to produce a com munity of drunkards, of lunatics, thieves, and disso lute people of all denominations, they could not en courage a more fruitful source of every one of these characteristics than that which now exists,and is every day extending itself. Tile Press—the much-abused and hatedPress,however,dares to decry this enormous and widely spread contagion. It dares to grapple with that which Ministers are forced to succumb to—the brewer's monopoly; a monopoly which at once cripples the finances of the country, while it under mines public morals and happiness. In fact, we know of few subjects more alarming than this. It is every day spreading its baneful influence in a way and to an extent which no man of common observa tion can be insensible to. Yet the Press is the only weapon which dares to lift itself against the overwhelming mischief. The Quarter's Revenue, forsooth, satisfies the Government; the compliant Magistrates, those guardians of public morals, see no danger; and the populace of the country are handed over to ruin, that the taxes may not be les sened, and the Sunday smoking of the great breweries and distilleries may not be diminished. And yet we live in a country boasting of its morals, its religion, and its liberty. How often must we de clare that liberty never can survive public virtue ; and that thesurest road to national degradation and ultimate despotism, is that the morals of the common people should be undermined ? We ask, then, those among our Legislators who still think principle worth contending for, why they remain indifferent to this danger ? We call upon them to consult his tory, and to declare whether there is upon record any instance of freedom and of property sur viving the wreck of public virtue ? If there is not, can the abominable career which, for the sake of a revenue, they are encouraging the populace of this country to pursue, end in any thing but the loss of that which, as freemen and as Christians, we have hitherto been taught to reverence and hold dear ?—Morning Herald. Archdeacon Bathurst, the son of the Bishop of Norwich, has deemed it expedient to publish the correspondence between the Bishop of Chester and the Lord Primate, and that which ensued in conse quence between the latter and the venerable Prelate his father. If any thing had been wanting to the vindication of the Bishop of Chester, or to the proof rather that his assailant was at once calumnious and stupid, these documents would undoubtedly have supplied it. They confirm in every impOrtant parti cular the statement of facts by which we at first en countered the silly and contemptible calumny, levelled against one of the brightest ornaments and most effective champions of the Church. It is now placed beyond further question, that in fact the Bishop of Norwich did ordain a person who had no title to ordination, and who was to officiate, if any where, in the diocese of Chester, in violation of Ec clesiastical discipline, and practically in usurpation of the Ecclesiastical authority and jurisdiction of another Diocesan; and that this was not the first instance in which such a line of conduct had been adopted by that Right Rev. Prelate. These cir cumstances reduced the Bishop of Chester to the alternative of compromising the salutary discipline of the Church, and surrendering without resistance his rights and his duties in his own diocese, or of com municating to the highest Ecclesiastical authority the dangerous inroad which had been attempted, and in part effected upon both. No man who has the advantage of knowing that eminent Prelate, will doubt that the alternative was a most: painful one,. or will feel the least surprize that he adopted without hesitation the more firm, un compromising, and conscientious course. The communication produced, as it was sure to pro duce, a very mild rebuke as to the past, and a very calm and dignified admonition as to the future conduct of the Bishop of Norwich, addressed to that Prelate by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. We shall only express our hope and expectation, that the rebuke and admonition, administered as they have been in the temper of true Christian mildness, may have been received and adopted with congenial meekness of spirit—and respectfully forbear from any further canvass of the conduct of the three very elevated and estimable persons engaged' in the trans action. How or where the contemptible slander upon the Bishop of Chester, which is now so fully exposed, was concocted, is a question with respect to which we acknowledge a feeling of curiosity. It is both too silly and too malevolent, we are per suaded, to have originated with our contemporary. All that we yet know is, that the Bishop of Chester being the aUest champion of the Protestant Church and Constitution of the Empire, and the most insur mountable obstacle to the designs inimical to both, which the present Administration profess they do not entertain, but which, upon their avowed prin ciples, they must entertain if they are honest men, information which turns out to be false, and which he'd it not been false would have been fatal to the reputation and influence of this learned and virtuous Prelate, is, from some quarter or other, communi cated to, and published by, the Journal which en joys in a peculiar degree the patronage of Ministers; which has been their chosen vehicle for imparting sundry previous matters that they were desirous that the Public should know or believe; and to which hitherto the secret articles of treaties and the very pencil marks, genuine or forged, on the envelopes of official papers have been equally accessible. It would perhaps be rash to draw inferences at the pre-' sent moment, but if further information should be withheld the public will not fail to draw their own inferences.—Morning Post. We are happy to find our contemporary, who vilified the Bishop of Chester so grossly, laudably anxious to atone for his error. Not contented with the apology which was dictated to him, and which, from the ample confession of folly and falsehood which it put into his mouth, could not but be a bitter draught to the most sincerely penitent, our contemporary yesterday, by way of " more last words" on the subject, presented ins readers with the docuraeets by which the statement in his re cantation is estal;lished. We desire to give him all credit for this act of supererogatory candour—for proving to the world the trafotuided nature of his monstrous charge against Dr. Blomfield, by other evidence than his own, which, after the experience of the last month, the more sceptical might have been disposed to reject on the old rule—inendaci male creditor etiam vera decenti. We are not disposed to make any lengthened observa tion on these documents, which we have given in another column. We could have wished that Archdeacon Bathurst had, instead of attacking one of our contemporaries which was most honourably anxious to vindicate the Bishop of Chester, for , statmg, without the slightest wish or meaning of offence, that the letter of the Archbishop of Canter bury reached Dr. Bathurst while he was engaged at a game of whist, had given a few words of advice to the Journal he was more particularly addressing, in which that Prelate's attachment to cards, and his resolution not to give up his hand as long as he could manage to hold one, were so coarsely and in considerately put forth. We could also have wished that Mr. Archdeacon had given us the whole of the correspondence, instead of presenting it in abstract, net that we mean to insinuate that the parts he suppressed were less favourable to Dr. Bathurst than those that he published, but because less candid and less courteous interpreters may. This is perhaps the last time that we shall be called on to notice directly the very pitiable predicament in which this affair has placed the Journal princi pally concerned in it ; nor do we conceive that any of its future lapses, by whatever circumstances ac compsr.ied, are likely to call for our notice or ani madvarsion. It may now indeed say with Hadibras --" those that are down can fall no lower." In tat lowest depth in which its conduct has placed it, there is no lower depth to which it can sink. Of Dr. Merrifield we have only to say that his con duct has been all in all the conduct of an honest, conscious servant of his Divine Master. It may be a very good thing to study Hoyle at night, and to weary the eyes in poring over the gravities of Jortin in the morning. We wish not to quarrel with any man's inclinations, but we must say that there are in our opinion, recreations and studies of a higher character, and that above all, there are duties of practice belonging to the office of a Chris tian Bishop, the honest discharge of which is infi nitely more important than either cards or criticism. —New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, DEC. 12. FIELD V. OSBORN, BART., AND OTHERS. This was a bill filed against Sir John Osborn, Bart., Lord Kenyon, and others, to set aside certain deeds of conveyance and release, which, as was al leged, the plaintiff had, in ignorance of his rights under a settlement made on the marriage of the late Sir Charles Ventris Field and Louisa his wife, and by misrepresentation on the part of the late Sir George Osborn, Bart., been induced to execute in 1792 and 1804. After a very long struggle by the plaintiff's Coun sel to uphold the case, The MASTER of the ROLLS decided that the bill must be dismissed, with costs. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 12. PEPPER v. PEPPER. Mr. HEALD (with whom was Mr. Rawl,'Ns) ap peared for the plaintiff in this cause. Mr. John Pepper, the plaintiff, having put some title-deeds and other documents into the hands of a Mr. Mon travers and a Mrs. Langdon for security, gave his son, the defendant, a written authority to take them out of their hands. Upon presenting th:4 authority, the papers were immediately - given up to the de fendant, who gave a receipt for the same, in whose hands they now remained, and who refused to give them up to the plaintiff, his father. It was under these circumstances that Mr. John Pepper had found himself under the painful necessity of filing a bill against his own son. And what was the defence which the defendant had sct up ? Why, that his father was too old, and his faculties too much im paired, to know what to do with them ; and that he was afraid that his younger brother would get them into his possession. This was the whole of the defence. Mr. PEI'YS (with whom was Mr. BARBER) ap peared for the defendant. The Learned Counsel said that this was not the suit of the father, for he was wholly incompetent to manage his affairs : it was instituted at the instigation of persons in whose hands he was. Mr. HEALD, in reply, was glad that the time of the Court had not been wasted in hearing the mass of evidence respecting the infirmity of this old gen tleman's mind, because it was no ground of de fence. It was unpleasant to ask for costs on behalf of a father against his son; but as he did not see why his client, who had offended nobody, should be visited with so heavy a punishment as the costs of this suit, he should not only ask the Court to grant the prayer of the bill,—namely, that the papers in question should be delivered up to the plaintiff,—but also that the defendant should be made to pay the costs. The VICE-CHANCELLOR granted the prayer of the bill, and ordered the costs to be paid by the de fendant. THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL AND ATIIERSTONE SCHOOL. Mr. RUSSELL was about to open this case, when Mr. SUGDEN, who was on the same side, said that the trustees in their answer baying declared their utter ignorance of certain matters, it was neces sary that there should be an inquiry before the cause could be heard. After some conversation between the counsel, it was agreed that there should be an enquiry as to what estates belonged to the charity.—for what rent they were let, and what the rights of the schoolmaster were; the trustees in the mean time undertaking to pay the master the arrears of his sa lary of 1101. without prejudice. CONSISTORY COURT, DEC. 12. YOUNG AGAINST YOUNG. This was a suit for a divorce by reason of adultery, promoted by MrS. Mary Young against her husband, Colonel Henry Young. It came now before the Court on a question as to the admissibility of the allegations. The libel alleged that the parties were married in 1798; they cohabited together till 1814, and during that period seven children were born. Colonel Young, towards the latter end of 1914, it was alleged, formed a criminal intimacy with a woman named Sophia Cross, who accompanied him to Aberdeen. Mrs. Young was in the mean time left in great want, by reason of this desertion, and owing to an execution being put into the house by the contrivance of her husband, whereby she was disabled from following him to Scotland. It was further alleged, that Colonel Young and Sophia Cross went to Prince Edward's Island, where they cohabited for eight or nine wears. In 1825, he was found to be residing at 'Paris, and Mrs. Young went to France in January, 1826, in order to serve him with a process from this Court. She returned to England in May, in order to raise money, leaving her daughter, Matilda Jemima Young, at Boulogne, where Colonel Young came to reside. During this time, it was alleged, he car ried on an adulterous intercourse with a French actress. By the medium of the daughter, a recon ciliation was effected, and Mr;. Young returned to cohabitation with her husband at Boulogne in July. Soon after, however, he formed a criminal connexion with a French woman, named Juliette Dupont, and cohabited with her in the vicinity of Boulogne, after his release from prison, to which he had been sent in October, 1826. - _ _ _ _ Sir C. ROBINSON was of opinion that some of the allegations were inadmissible. On the whole, he should admit the libel, with the exception of the last four articles. HAnnozn V. HARROLD. This was also a question as to the admission of the libel in a suit of divorce, on the ground of adultery, pi'omoted by Mr. Thomas Harrold, against Jane, his wife. The COURT directed the libel to be reformed in a f e w particulars, and then admitted. GRANT V. GRANT. In this case Dr. ADDAMS moved upon an allega tion of faculties, representing the husband (who is the promoter of the suit) as possessing an income of 5,0001. per , annum, that the Courc would order the wife, on account of alimony, a greater allowance than 31. per week, which she now received from her husband. Dr. LUSHINGTON, on the other side, denied the allegations respecting the faculties, and objected to a greater allowance.—The COURT refused to order more. MARY HARVEY, a widow, \vas fully com mitted to Norwich gaol, on Tuesday, charged with mur dering an illegitimate child by administering laudanum ; she was the mother of four children by her late hush end.— Boston Gazette. curious computation has been made, which w in A beinterestin g to reflect upon at the tea-table. 25,000,0001b5. of tea, and 170,000 tons of sugar are an nually consumed in the United Kingdom, averaging about 20 ounces of the former and nibs. of the latter for each individual. 1 It is not, perhaps, generally known, that poor BAR „ un , the comedian, whose destitute condition called forth considerable public sympathy, has, some months since, his suff er i n g s by the hand of death.— Ebnae.ete released il ved On the night of M on d a y th e 3d i ns t. a s heep belonging to Mr. GxeitoE CLARXE 7 of Sutton, was earefd. em ~ slaughtered in a close Occup i e d b y hi m . Th e i mme di a t e wants of the depredators, however, being small, after skin quarters, they contented them selves with taking away a few pounds of chops, and left oftnhinegreomnaeinodferthe h theind carcase behind them,.....Boston Gazette. OLD BAILEY, DEC. 12. The Sessions having ended, the Recorder, at four o'clock;passed sentence upon the prisoners tried (luring the Session. The awful sentence of death was passed upon the following : HOUSE-BREAKlNG.—Jeremiah Crawley, Martin Blaney, Henry Walton, Thomas Edwards, Maria Smith, William Longman, Thomas Hough. lions E-STEALING.—Thomas Chapman, alias Der rick, William Johnson, alias Carter, George New man. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—James Herring. BURGLARY.—James Faggotter, Thomas Milgrove Shepherd. RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION.—Edward Purdey. CUTTING AND MAIMING HIS WlFE.—Richard Richardson. STEALING FROM THE PERSON.—William Baker. This convict said, that he hoped his case would be looked into, otherwise he was a murdered a man.— He said that if another witness had been present his fate would have been different. The RECORDER told him that his case had been narrowly watched by he Jury, and what he now urged was not a sufficient cause why his judgment should be respited. If he had any thing, however, to urge in mitigation of sentence, he might send a petition to the Secretary of State, where it would be sure to meet with attention. The Court at pre sent could not hear any thing further. _ _ STEALING IN THE Brooke, Richard Hart, Michael Russell, Charles Stanley, John Kilminster, and Robert Williams. The last prisoner addressed the Court at great length. He said that the prosecutor had sworn falsely against him. He said he had been convicted of stealing a purse, and a 401. note; but as for the purse he never saw it, and the note he picked up at the end of Chenies-mew!. He concluded by saying, " I declare I am innocent of the charge made against me." The RECORDER regretted that a person standing in the awful situation the prisoner did, should accuse his prosecutor with perjury of the worst kind. The jury who tried him were fully satificd of his guilt, and nothing which he could urge could alter the sentence he was about to pass. The Learned RECORDER then exhorted the un happy group to direct their minds to an earnest ap plication for mercy at a higher tribunal ; and then passed the awful sentence of the law upon them in the usual way. THE FOLLOWING WERE ORDERED TO RE TRANS PORTED FOR LIFE.—Wm. Nash, Daniel Driscoll, Mary Leicester, Mary Mason, John Stack. FOURTEEN YEARS.—Harriet Jones alias Tomli son, James Kinnersley, James Cobson, Henry Dignum, George Collerby, John Cope, Francis Ambrose, Owen Dail, Eliza King, Margaret Pren dergast ; George Davison and John Coleman, for robbing Mr. Galloway, their employer. William Cutts.--This prisoner was convicted of receiving a stolen horse, and he is detained upon two charges of horse-stealing in the county of Hants. SEVEN YEARS.—George Wedger,Frederick Bent ley, Henry Hammond Flemming, John Rush, Ed ward Winson, William Guyon, John Weener, Thomas Wheeler, Samuel L'Count, John Smith, John Cramer, John Harris alias Wells, John Downes, John Corner, John King, John Hulgate, William Brown, Henry Johnson, Samuel Ball, Peter Hedley, John Sulivan, John Burgess, William Flood, John Smith, Samuel Wilson, John Morton, Joseph Ste venson, William Peterson, Thomas Reynolds, John Buckridge, Thomas Cummins, William Jones, Ed ward Pricker, Thomas Davis, Michael Bul lock, John Marks, James Lucas, John Hitchcock, William Bishop, Alexander Austin,Richard Murphy, Flora Hayes, John Levy, Richard Isaacs, Joseph Carmaranda, Mary Leary, Mary Ann Lyons, Alex ander Hunt, John Booty, James French, Henry Mountain, Edwin Partridge, John Young, Catherine Doyle, Mary M'Sweeney, Benjamin Salmon, James Thumpsuu, William Ilawkin3, Richard Lett, Wil liam Arnold, Robert Coleman, James Brownsell, • and Ann Frances Clifton, for stealing a 5/. note, which came to her possession by virtue of her keep ing a receiving house for the general post-office. IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.—TweIve months, 6; 9 months, 2; 6 months, 9; 3 months, 13 ; 2 months, 15; 1 month, 19 ; and several for shorter periods in the gaol of Newgate, and some to be publicly and pri vately whipped. John Wilson, for stealing carpenters' tools, was or dered to be whipped 100 yards at the cart tail, as near Southampton-street, Fitzroy-square, as con venient. Several were discharged by proclamation, and the Sessions was then adjourned to the 10th of January next. The flecla is fitting at Deptford for an ex tensive survey of the western coast of Africa. Captain BOTELEA is appointed to the command. Letters from Barcelona, dated the Ist instant, state that the King and Queen of SPAIN were expeeted to make their entry on the 4th. A decree had been publish ed, declaring the port of Barcelona to be a free port for the deposit of merchandize, on the same principle as San tander, Cadiz, Corunna, and Alicant, upon a payment of two per cent. for all charges,—half to be paid at the im portation of the merchandize, the other half at the export. By another decree, the importation of cotton twist from No. 1 to No. 80 is prohibited, and the increased duty upon raw cotton, which was impesed on the 2d of August last, is takc'n off. Accounts from Toulon, to the 29th ult., give some particulars of the expedition to be sent by the French Government, in the ensuing spring, against Algiers. Twelve ships of war are to he fitted out in different ports in 'France, of which four are to be equipped at Brest. At Toulon the Ville de Parie is to be prepared as one of the squadron. Bomb-vessels are fitting out at Toulon. A camp of 25 to 30,000 men arc to be formed in the envi rons of Toulon. The Duke of RAG USA is to command the land force, and Rear-Admiral Ill!ssitssy the naval part. Ile is to have under him Rear-Admiral ROSAMET, as second in command, and General DURANTEAU is to he Etat Major.--It is hinted that the real object of this Ex pedition is not Algiers, but that it is destined for Egypt. Last night, about ten o'clock, a yotuag female was observed on the parade, standing in rather a forlorn at.. titude upon the brink of the river. After a moment or two she proceeded to take off her clothe?, ; but before she had quite unrohed herself, a sailor, from the brig Apollo, who suspected. her intentions, rushed from the vessel, and just caught the unfortunate creature at the moment she was about to plunge into the river. Upon being questioned she said she wag an English girl (which, from her accent, w as quite evident), and that she was going to swim after her lover, who was gone to America. She was lodged in the tower, where she at present remains.— Waterford Chronicle. DREADFUL SHIPWRECK, AND Loss OF LIVES. —On Thursday night last the brig Ceres, belong ing to Messrs. GRANTHAM and PARRINDEE, of Burgh, having landed a cargo of coals at the yard of Mr. Mlcic- LITHWAITE, of the former place, was about to proceed to Wainfleet Haven, for which purpose a pilot was taken on board. The day had been stormy, but in the evening the wind had considerably subsided, and was in fact calmed. — But owing to the past tempest, the sea continued dreadfully agitated ; the vessel dragged her anchor, and began to beat. At this juncture the crew, five is number, became much alarmed, and their piteous cries were plainly heard on the shore, by an immense crowd of spectators who s peedily as sembled, and many of whom were indeed within call of the vessel. Urged by their impending danger, it was Proposed to launch a boat from the shore, but a s light reflection showed the madness of such a project, the sea running ex tremely high, so as to render it impossible for a boat to live. At length, however / it was resolved to pr ocur e Captain MA NET'S apparatus, which is kept at the hotel ; th e mortar fixed, and a shot about to b e fired, when sud denlyw a brought, s te shipstruck with dreadful vio lence. A moment of dreadful suspense ensued, and the vessel disappeared; the groans of the ill fated crew were lost in the gurgling of t h e waters, and all was over ! Ina few hours the floating materials of the wreck drifted on the beach, and with them the bodies of the pilot and master; the others are still en shrouded in the deep. The name of the unfortunate master was JOHN Buumwsorr ; and the pilot, Joni% 11L.,;Dy.— ' Inquests were held on their bodies on Saturday before C. 31AsTIN, Gent., Coroner, when verdicts Were returned of a ccidentallY drowned........ Boston Gazette. A D/EMON. M. Reviere Sommabert, a wealthy inhabitant of the district of Moule, was brought up before the Cour Royale of Guadaloupe, on the 10th September, accused of the murders of Jean Charles, a negro, and Melie, a negress, also with an attempt to starve to death another of his slaves, named John Philip. The extraordinary facts of this case denote a habit of cruelty in the prisoner, which neither education nor consideration for his own interests could repress. In 1824 the negro Jean Charles died, in consequence of having re ceived, in the back of his head, the discharge of a double•barrel fowling-piece, fired at him by M. Sommabert. Proceedings were commenced against M. Sommabert, but the Tribunal of Point-a-Petre having, on the 12th of December, 1825, refused a motion of the public accuser for a warrant of arrest, the prosecution was dropped. On the 10th of December, 1826, the authorities were informed that a negress, named Melie, had expired, after suffering the most horrible tortures, on the estate of M. Sommabert. An inquiry into the circumstance was instituted. M. Som mabert declared that he knew not what had be come of the negress in question. One of the drivers of the estate, a negro, named Cedran, led the officers of justice to a remote part of the plantation, and which was not the burying ground of the negroes, and pointed to a particular spot, which had the appearance of having been recently turned up. On the ground being dug up here, the earth was found to be saturated with blood, and at a few inches depth was discovered the body of a young negress, which was recognised to be that of Ml l e. The head and right arm were fractured, the stomach burst open, and the whole body covered with wounds and lacerations. On a closer examination, it appeared that the body, from the knees to the breast, had been sub mitted to the action of fire. The result of further inquiries was, that Melie, having fled from the estate, was recaptured and brought back— that M. Sommabert gave the signal for her punishment by giving her three blows de rigoise—that he then ordered her to be tied up to one of the arms of the mill, and to receive from each of his eighty negroes five stripes with a branch of acacia—that the unfortunate creature having fainted away and fallen senseless on the earth under the cruel torture, M. Sommabert trampled upon her body, and jumped repeatedly upon her bosom and stomach—that he then called for some straw, which having lighted with his cigar, he proceeded to scorch her body, from the knees to the breast, in the most inhuman and indecent manner—that after being thus tortured b) this worse than infernal demon, she was con veyed, still alive, to the Purgerie, where in a few moments death relieved her from her suffer ings. The wretch Sommabert then ordered the body to be buried in a remote part of the grounds, and recommended the most profound silence to his negroes and dependents. After the dis covery of these horrors, the prisons or dungeons belonging to the plantation were visited. In one of them was found a negro, named John Philip, in a state of almost complete inanima tion, having been deprived of all nourishment for four days. He was loaded with chains and had a heavy iron collar round his neck ; upon his body were the marks of recent flagellation.— Sommabert was immediately arrested. In his examination he sought to shift a portion of the horrors laid to his charge upon his wife ; he, however, acknowledged having given the unfor tunate negress the three first blows de rigoise, of having lighted the straw, and scorched her body with it, to ascertain (as he expressed it with atro cious naivete) Vshe were still alive. A prosecu ehni cs his wife, ed overseer, against Sommabert, the latter having been t a i n o d n w it a e s ff e a o u mz present at the execution of Melie. Sommabert alone was taken into custody, and before the trial the prosecution, with regard to Relfaud, was abandoned. After a delay of nine months, Sommabert and his wife were brought up for trial, before the Tribunal of First Instance at Point-a-Petre. Sommabert alone was found guilty, and con demned to death. According to the colmnial criminal code the' sentence was to undergo the revision of the Cour Royale of Guadaloupe, which Court took cog nizance of the affair, as before stated, on the 10th September last. The prisoner's Counsel (three in number) put forward twenty-three pleas of nullity, also a justification on ,the ground of insanity. At four o'clock the Pre sident read the judgment of the Court, which allowed one of the pleas of nullity, arising from the circumstance that on the pro ceedings in 1824, relative to the murder of Jean Charles, M. Guichard, now one of the Judges of the Court of First Instance, which condemned the prisoner for the murder of Melie, was then the public accuser, and as such com menced the prosecution against Sommabert. Iu consequence, the former finding of the Court was reversed, and the case was ordered to be again tried before the Court at Point-a-Petre, and by other Judges, who are to con f orm them selves to the edict of 1738, whi c h fb r bid s them to accept the testimony o f s l aves aga i ns t their masters. It is said that th e Attorney-General ringe will appeal against this d ec i s i on . Du trial, the wretch evir z c e d th e mo st imperturbable t indifference. o , Thursday, and fat sheep sold remark ably well; there was also a fair demand for store cattle and ti n l i e glit a snake was killed in the sheep for feedin s g eTri known at this fair for many years.---Exeter Alfred. ki ls li e z lraTo i ng E th sg e . gr a a t v a w lj a , lk w . her T e The garden cwirase Y nd e i ss.cottoafe:rccir.: of al; dragging gpcienrg being seen at so late a season of the y ß aße Bank Notes, parcel, MYSTERIOUSToe It. containingye—s,ra r e . — E xeterCh sovereigns,t jA e i nßflfo BelfastßrremEdeinformed, Ca, coach ntEhd.that on o°o l l .1 it c hi e ne , PNs i tioChrtTihllEesri OCCURRENCE. . Sack ville-street, by direction of Messrs. GIBBONS and WIL LIAMS, notaries public to the Bank of Ireland, in order that it should be transmitted to the Belfast Banking Com pany. The parcel has not since arrived at its destination; nor can any clue be found which may lead to its recovery. The different coach agency offices between this city and Belfast have been carefully searched without effect. We have heard that the police received early intimation of the occurrence, and that they aro using the most diligent ex ertions to recover the property.—Dublin Morning Register. A robbery of a most curious kind was effected at Ashton-under-Lyne a few days ago. A woman went into a shoemaker's shop, and requested to look at a pair of shoes, which she tried, but they did not fit; she tried another and another, still none would do, and the shoes were put upon the counter again. When about to leave the shop, the master told her that there was one pair mis sing, which she denied any knowledge of, and offered to be searched. An exami natio n of her dress accordingly took place, but no shoe s could b e fo u nd; till at length the shopkeeper's wifejmore confident of th e l oss o f t h e s h oes than her husband, determined to make a more miyte search herself, and at length found them hanging by the string which generally attaches the two together upon a hook which had been affixed to her leather garters.... Manchester Mercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday morning three Jiro; dressed young men were charged by two watchmen bell ing to the parish of St. Martin, with creating a St. Martin's -court, at three o'clock in the morning , and _ _ saulting them in the execution of their duty. One of the defendants, declared that the account g by the watchmen was grossly exaggerated. Th e fact " they were leading their friend to his hotel, when n 0,44 the watchmen now present came up, and, " in rough voice," told them not to he making a noise. ilo Mr. HALLS—Why, it was rather a rough night, an !,o, cannot expect that watchmen, who are exposed to all aesA should have voices like dandies or nightingales. Is any charge against the other person'—" No, Sir , .41 the watchmen, ‘! he was rather too far gone to do u" mischief." ands " Then he is discharged," said Mr. HA r.rs, two defendants must find bail ; and as oue of them to state his name, let him he locked up until he doeibto The defendant, much to his surprise, was remove(!,.ool temporary prison at the tear of the office, w here, !'. l ,f 1 remained by himself for about two hours, the ei reet :f an (lamp lodging got the better of his " principt7:lltor friend, Mr. Sanders, and the proprietor of the In a . be at mums, Covent-garden, having b ec ome his secari" e- i l d length stated that his name was Henry Entwistle! told that he was discharged. s frie ° „An ineffectual attempt was a ft erwar d s made vi rop erf., of the defendant to keep their n ames f rom the i° 3 e s acil b James Shaw, a suspended watchman, was charg .o , demanding money, assaulting, and knocking (10 7, f° et. Frederick Bell, who re s id e s in Duk e ' s - cou rt, Bog' s ' • gif eel The defendant, w h o was p rove d t o h ave been eie, tte afof drunk when the transaction took place, wa s coinuP want of bail. the A short time ago a coachm an found a bracelet 1 0 ' 4 1l box-extrance of Dru r y-lan e Th ea t re , and offered it_Af°fci the next morning. Th e p e r s o n to wh o m he apP li 7 4 ,i,fel` ceiving that the bracelet was made of gold, set ‘ 11 :4 e 1); ( cameos, refused to purchase it, and detained the art'esio advice of the Magistrates. H e a d ver ti s ed it three tia_l_Ate, the newspapers, but the owner not having come f0r 02 7, 1 0 claim it, the coachman applied yesterday to have to up to him. The gentleman who held it canl,„" g b r acek t consult the Magistrates, who told him to keep for a month longer. dor s i r QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday being I.P e a auto' pointed by Mr. George Ford, the solicitor, of Gr e ` - t , prol e , street, Westminster, to bring forward his witneo es - . 6 " the charge of forgery against Mr. Richard iCe sf " "tett No. '7l, Upper Stamford:street, Blackfriars, som e 10-1 .o prevailed to hear the case. r 0 " Mr. Kearney had been admitted to bail to aPPe 4 ,... d bisi° o'clock yesterday, and Mr. Ford, the solicitor, ple d r r e,° self to bring forward his witnesses to support the co a '' he said he was determined not to be made a tool of' par It may be recollected that the charge against gr' 1 60 b ney was for adding a " 0 " to an unfinished cheque,rfor drawn by Mr. Ford, of No. 45, C ur zon-street, I ,‘:`,!r.th e on the banking-house of Sir Claude Scott and transaction took place at No. 5, King-street, St•e , and from information received by M r . F o rd from 1.. i 9 0t, Reed, the proprietor o r con d uc t or o f th e Hell, the Pr was apprehended. sr Were On ion the last examination Mr. Ford's witnesses rested at the door of the office, as on the former oc" -- number of Sheriff's officers waited outside. NA The Magistrates on the bench were G. W. Esq., and Captain FITZGERALD, a county A few minutes after 12 o'clock Mr. Kcarnef, a,!, s/e et' by his solicitor, Mr. Cook, of Bedford-street, LA' garden, entered the office. g era l Mr. Cook addressed the Magistrates, and said "'"„ ready to enter into the case : the time appointed 1*- ep 12 o'clock, and he was ready to defend the reput ati°ll character of his client. fet an hour 1%1 M. id 3lagistratete. odei ARRIOTT sa.il the attendance of any person. • toil At one o'clock Mr. Cook again addressed the M a g' s and remarked that his cli en t had now waited an b °11 . 17 04 , ' , there was no appearance of either the prosecutor or Pa s t , nesses. He understood last night they would be tendance. was usual to allo' wesiinir° Mr. MARRIOTT said that there was every p i oi l in Mr. Kearney's favour, by the parties not coming far° against him. He was discharged. ple r. d. Cook_said they would wait any time the I%.l7actod'itsa ll a i se: Capt. FITZGERALD.—Nothing can be more sato of. there is not the slightest stain on Mr. Kearney's Ch a a r 9 34 sr The proprietors of a Portsmouth coach, No. 'OS peared by their solicitor to an information laid again" by Byers the informer, for running the coach o ' i a g , t o" day, when it was only licensed for three days in the viz., Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. ofic ted The MAGISTRATES, after some consideratioOf the defendants in the penalty of 51., and costs. SHIPPING INTELLIGENC E ' LIYERPOOL. „ a st TUESDAY, DEC. 11.—High waterlB m inute r - poo. o'clock.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Elizabeth , , i ' l i a ijort from St. Domingo, with mahogany ; Pautaloo, ebeef from Alicant, with fruit ; Charlotte, Sloane, from n bi a blilm with timber; John and Mary, Cummings, fromv pet with wheat and oats; William, -----, 111) Tb 9 oil: sauce, with clay ; Lee, (steamer), from Cork, vv" 0 .10 dries ; Manchester, (steamer), Penn, from Doblj u i, o olei ditto ; Hope, William, from Newfoundland 01 ,1 with with fish; Comet, (steamer) , Phillips, from D ub " " ' the CL ail. for S r CLEARED EARED OUTWARDS.—The Essex, Clie ar ` eY ' vannah ; Duchess of Athol, Christian, for Wugl". MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. ;COUNTRY --.ARY.—SArvnnAY, Dec. 15. •••. Bemrose, W., Bourn—.Whit e H a rt, Spalding ..........•• B a rlow, W.. Natteraey—George, Workscp ........... .... Ch a tt e rton, R., Southeo a t es —Kingston hotel, h loB. ` upon-Hull .................................................................. Collier, J., Abingdon—C rown Abingdon ...................... Fraley, N., Trowbridge--Caste, Bath ........................ ... .... „ Hirst, M., Meltliana—George, Huddersfield . ........... Humberston and Co. Kingston-upon-Hull —Kingston nu' Kingston ......................... .......... ............................ Plimer, N., Neath—Ru m m e r, Bristol ......................... OP"' INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHA- --R 140 0 ,.' Lamb's Con- Stoner Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Dec. 17, at Nine o'clock, Pickering, J. Haddon -place, Stanley, J., Charing 010 6 ' Waterloo-road Evans, R Inchbroolc, " biarTp P o i rt , m Cumber- Pearson, J., Bowling-at- , " King, W., Well-street, Cripple. cestershire s g s t j c..: j a e id ll4) Co m ., neY gate Sherman, Walters, C. Wapping S C H : ,dli a cac r ulkn k lisidt. , n, Dixon, W., Portsmouth t o m : tr i l e l o n o r s i . e ! r o . , Ga d. ,Hl3e.ina Henry- Hicks, , A question was d ec ided at ti claimed are:of on liable to pay to the tiunaw- Barnstaple, on oi Ilj am consumed, and my M ii_a onda g y a l i a n s eke t, thateye diigin andgmanure r ground o f th e d ung b e i ng purebased.—Ezeter Alfred. le , The editor of a Persi an news p a per , i n a dictory address complain! of want of patronage, 11:0IA. 1 0 following peroration. " have not been seen;' like the lam ps on a moonlight ca I have burnt away unheeded. It is time, thcrell-6:00 desist, and withdraw my hand from- all further, ;ptic i) with this paper -- I have determined to repose on the of conclusion." _.....;%/ BIRTHS. r 1 O s On the 9th instant, at Bedford - row, the lady .00°1 Cardale, Esq., of a Bon. ,01e1 On the 12th instant, at Claremont-terrace Fowl:" the lady of James Bernard Dew, Esq., of a riaught MARRIED. Jo )0 On the 10th instant, at Brozbourne Church, ge rt* o lit i London IVl'Adara, Esq. to Anne Charlotte, el lest of John Peter Delancey, Esq. DIED, On the 10th instant, Isabel, youngest daughter of 11P.- Heath, Esq., of Seymour-place, aged 21 months. B AY' On the Bth in s t an t, M a tilda, wif e o f M r . Thos. A' ing, jun., of Tunbridge, barker. At Portsmouth, after some weeks' illness, Gr a ' — ' dat' wife of Colonel Phillott, of the Royal Artillery, an" 0 0 1 ter of the late William Baher, Esq., of Lisniacue, 4 ° Tipperary. A l ' On the 9th instant, at his house, Hollowail/, St. ban's, Isaac Piggott, Esq., solic ittr. 10 On the 12th instant, at Earl's-court, Old BrornPtl.4ooo the 7.5t14 year of her age, M ar y, re li c t of the lam` 4 Gunter, Esq., of Earl's -court. gitilr On the 12th instant, at the house of his aunt, in - . 1 , 11 0 0 square, after a few days' illness, Mr. George Shuffleb°`" aged 18. ~, elr On the 26th of June last, at Camp Kamptee, ne°" : F l ted poor, Edward Sayer Burehell, Lieutenant Home ArtP; b e; Madras, aged 23, son of Joseph Burchell, Esq., of Le a head, Surrey. Pt' On the Bth instant, at Greenwich, John Stevenson , aged 73. l# On the Bth instant, Al in Hans-place, sloane_stre et t Emma Lance. '' . . fie ' ~.........-,.... Painap a nd PupLisnEn by M. YOUT4G, a t _ 4O • sirs °FYNE, No. 112, Send. This day wa `~'~' HI M. ei v Withu W n iee, I.llllN'ied: they, lt i ;lire -P::ees:yl il t ur " u r• 111 ~,,,:, volumes.". 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