The Sun. — London, England, 1827-07-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Our City article conveys the not unimportant intelligence, that the Bank of England at once announced and executed its intention yesterday, of discounting at 4 per cent. A narrative is also given of the means by which the measure was brought about, and of its effect. We hope there is a sufficient degree of prudence mingled with courage in the affair. There is no doubt but that a low rate of discount is beneficial to commerce, if it do not lead or incite to such spe culations as induce those who grant the discounts to stop their issues suddenly for the sake of their own security : and the experience of the Bank in an affair of this kind is, we hope, too recent to be yet forgotten. The only mode of obviat ing a similar mischief—now that it is determined to lower the rate of discount—is by using great circumspection in the acceptance of bills, not only confining the accommodation to good ones for the time being, but having an eye also to the subsequent thriftiness • and durability of those concerns for which the accommodation may be required. If these are likely, or indeed capable, of being suspended in their progress, they were better stopped at their outset, and mercantile spe culation turned into other channels which have a shorter space to run ere they reach their comple tion. The rate of discount being lowered, it is evident that more paper-money will be thrown into circulation; and of course the price of the ' commodities of life raised. Here, also, is fresh • subject for caution. The price, also, of labour will not rise with equal rapidity ; a fresh corn bill was, therefore, the more necessary. Our correspondent in the city states, that the Bank itself was undecided and uncertain on the point of lowering discounts. If so, the Directors could not, individually, take that full—and, we will add, unfair—advantage which they 'Might other wise derive from their previous certainty that so operative a measure would take place. Still their knowledge that the scheme would be agitated, and that it might be decided affirmatively, would be sufficiently useful to them. All the Government securities rose greatly on the dis closure of the fact, and brokers hurried to make purchases. Those who had thought it prudent to make their purchases before, might rest tran quilly at their desks.— Times. We insert in another part of our paper the coriteats of a placard dated Nottingham, but printed at Mansfield, which has been exten sively circulated in that neighbourhood. The feeling, throughout the manufacturing districts is, we are sorry to say, but too faithfully repre- sented in the placard in question. If any enemy of the Aristocracy of England had set his wits to work to devise means for inflaming the people against them, he could not possibly have hit on any better calculated to produce that result than the proceedings of the Upper House during the last Session. These proceedings were calculated to produce an impression on the minds of the people that the higher ranks are utterly insen sible to the welfare and interests of the nation. and that their selfishness is so intense as to dis turb their un.derstandings, and to drive them to seek their separzte advantage in the ruin of the country. For our parts, we are far from im puting bad motives to wally of those who threw out the first Corn Bill We have no doubt that mistaken views of the interests of the country will account for not a few of the votes. But.it is not the less to be regretted that ignorance of the in terests of the country, .aud. 3 • own should have led the great body of the peop e_ to viewhe higher classes as their enemies and oppressors. .--Morning Chronicle. The attempt to chain down the press in France, by means of a Censorship, will, like former des potic and priestly efforts to silence the voice of public opinion in that country, recoil upon the heads of the oppressors. The day is gone by when this degrading policy could be effectually acted upon. A people, among whom intellect is not stagnant, and who have known for a time the' liberty of the press, cannot be permanently deprived of it, even by such powerful agency as a combination of the House of Bourbon with the Court of Rome. It is in vain for Charles X. to iwpe to be able to bring about in France the state of things which Ferdinand VII. has achieved in Spain. He must change the tem., perament, and blot out the recollections of the French people, to Act such a counter-revolu tion. We said, when the former absurd and ty rannic law against the Press was first proposed, that the Apostolic faction, v; ho contrived the measure, would either be obliged i - ,o withdraw it,. or it would end in their ruin. The ferment which it excited is fresh in every one's memory—fond the inventors of the project adopted; for once, the prudent course, and sacrified their design to the public tranquillity. But it seems they have soon got tired of a peaceful state of affairs—they have derived no instruction from experience— the abominable spirit of clerical intrigue is again at work—and the Royal prerogative, as in the times of Charles I. and James 11. with us, is called into action against the will of the Legis lative Body and the nation. It is clear that the King is rather a tool in this business,: worked by the hands of the crafty 'and ambitious priesthood, than a free agent pursuing the dictates of his own mind. There never was a time when there was less of political provocation given in the French Journals than at the very period when the censorship has been restored. A good deal of freedom of discussion, however, has taken place on the subject of religion, and . many of the journals have shown any thing but a devout ve neration for the restored ceremonies of the Church of Rome, the fanatical missions, and pretended miracles, which have of late years formed a principal part of the state machinery. A free press was as a rampart against the flood of superstition which threatened to sweep away the improved habits of thought and enlightened ins!itutions, that were created out of the wreck of the intolera nt system which,.was overthrown at the Revolution. For this the Court o f R ome and its myrmidons cannot forgive the Press, and for this the priest-ridden Monarch is instigated to wield the prerogative, against the best interests of his people.--Morning Herald. One of Mr. Canning's papers announces that, now the Session of Parliament is at an end, the final Ministerial arrangements will take place ; which the same authority states to be, that the Premier himself will return to the Foreign Office, and the Marquis of Lansdown will take the Home Department—thus terminating the short, and we may add, inglorious official career, of Lord Dudley,. and_ Mr. Sturges Bournel that the Duke of Portland will become 11 1.-.. nominal First Lord of the TreaSury . , 11/Ir. Caninn s hlin_ self still retaining the virtual lieadship o f t he ,Mniestry and. that it prol)able 1.09 f Holland . . will take office—meaning, we presume, that his Lordship will succeed the Duke of Portland in the charge of the Privy Seal. In this supposed arrangement it will be seen that the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer is entirely over looked ; and, therefore, whether this is intended for Mr. Brougham, or Mr. Huskisson, we are left to conjecture. These arrangements will have, as far as the individuals are concerned, a somewhat ludicrous appearance, and as regards the coun try, a most extraordinary one. If Lord Lans down, for instance, was destined, as he must have been, from the first, to take office, why should the Noble Lord have sat, during the whole Session, a' non-official and irresponsible Minister in the House ; and the moment it is prorogued assume that responsibility which would have had, at least, a more straight-forward and constitutional appearance before? Or is it, after all, that his Lordship would not take office under Mr. Canning ; and that the latter's return to his former office is the condition of the Marquis's acceptance of one ? Almost the same observa tions will apply to Lord Holland ; who, if he take office now, may fairly be asked, why lie did not do so before, unless it was to escape the « badgering," as Lord Goderich calls it, which would probably have followed the event While Parliament was sitting ? But does not Mr. Canning see, as everybody else, we should imagine, must, how much these changes go to shake his own situation and preponderance in the Go vernment, while they proportionably increase that of the Whigs, who, we have all along pre dicted, will throw him overboard whenever they can ? In the two present Secretaries of State he will lose his two most attached adherents, arid will only have Lord Goderich and Mr. Huskisson left who will bear that designation. The Whigs, to be sure, are an accommodating set, and will yield to him, or to any body, or to any thing, to keep their places ; but once fairly seated, and secure of the most important sup pbrt, they will anxiously and readily, we suspect, get rid of all those, the amalgamation with whose past principles forms a medley kind of mixture so ridiculous and inconsistent in the eyes of the country. Viewing matters in this light, is there not every prospect of Mr. Canning very soon having to regret, if he does not already, the sys tem of intrigue under which his Administration has been formed, of which there is every proba bility of himself becoming the victim ? But this state of things is of much more conse quence, as it concerns the country, than as af feCting individuals. The important interests now at stake, both at home and abroad, 'require the anxious, undivided attention of public men, which cannot be effectually bestowed upon them, if' their waking thoughts are perplexed with the struggles and intrigues which we allude to. What the country wants is, next to talent, some thing like public spirit and self-devotion in her statesmen. Let these qualities be but evinced, arid the public at large would care but little to what particular class of politicians a statesman m ay have belonged, but without which, a Tory 'and a Whig are equally useless and reprehen sible.—lbid. We do not say the surrender of the Acropolis will be fatal to the cause of the Greeks, but that cause certainly presents, at present, an unpro mising aspect. The war, if it still be conti nued, must, in future, be carried on by detached parties, seeking protection from their fastnesses, the fortifications of nature, in cases of casual reverse. Unfortunately for a war of such a na- titre, most of the mountaineers are on the side Gthe Turks, the patriots being chiefly the reeks of islands and of the plains. If, as we have repeatedly heard, it be seriously in tended by the Powers of Europe to interfere in behalf of the Greeks, it is certainly much to be lamented that their interference had not taken place before the last strong hold had yielded. Their labour will now he infinitely greater, whe ther they . proceed by negociation or by force. The Empire of the Turks has long been a pro blem, for the solution of which we are still in want of data. It is usual to represent the Go vernment as a depotism in its simplest and rudest form, and the people as a horde of barbarians, very little more enlightened than when they first rushed forth from their native wilds, to carry victory and devastation over the fairer portions of Western Asia. But to those who read their history attentively, it must be apparent that this is a very superficial view of the subject. Power is seldom built up, but much seldomer is it held together by rudeness and barbarism ; and if we reflect for a moment on the shocks which the Ottoman Empire has withstood, and the formidable rebellions which it has put down, we shall be convinced that there is a strength in its Constitution, and, looking to; the means employed, a wisdom in its actual Government, by no means consistent with our hasty notions of either. It is, almost unneces sary to particularise the internal commotions to which it has been exposed, for, since its esta blishment in Europe, and the destruction of the Eastern Empire, very few years have elapsed in which rebellions, more or less dangerous, have not appeared in some part of the Turkish ter ritory. We shall merely advert to the two last and greatest. When the • followers of Wahab took the Holy City, and threatened to destroy, not only the Turks, but Mahomedanisna, who did not think that they would succeed, at least ini the former attempt ? When the flame which Ypsilanti' had kindled, spread over the Morea and the Isles of Greece, what were not the anti cipations of the rest of Europe ? Was not there a confident expectation, that, the hour of retribution was at hand, when the Crescent was at length to fall beneath the Cross ? Where are the forces of Wahab and the strength of the Greeks now? The power which broke the bands of the one, has all but annihilated the other; and, if we may judge by the past, that power which has itself risen upon rebellion, is destined also to fall, as all that have hitherto risen against the Porte have fallen. In the skill with which the aggressions of one rebel have been regularly repressed by the arms of an other, there is no symptom of that ignorance which we are constantly imputing to the Turkish Government ; such a policy savours of any thing rather than barbarism. From without Turkey hits suffered. Russia on the East, and Austria on the West, have long been pressing on its Most fertile provinces ; but it has yielded less to superior wisdom than to superior numbers. That it should not, long ago, have been utterly sub dued, is, indeed, most wonderful, considering the great disproportion of its population and re sources, when c ompare d w ith ei ther of its ene mies. It is usual to say, that the jealousies of the other Powers.liave concurred to preserve it -r-that none of them have been willing to see it in the hands of another. We shall believe in this theo r y, when it can be sho wn to us, that any State which its neighbours have been powerful enough to subjugate, has preserved its indepen dence from such causes,—iNetu Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 5. THE KING V. JEREMIAH 3IATHER. This was an indictment for perjury, assigned to have been committed by the defendant, in the state ment which he gave upon oath of his property, in the Court of King's Bench, where he came up to justify as bail for a Mr. Charles Proby Bowles, who had been arrested. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS stated the case. Bowles gave notice, that his two bail, the defendant and a man of the name of Eastwood, would justify as his bail in open Court on the Bth of November. — The defendant on that day did endeavour to justify in two actions, one at the suit of a Mr. Stultz, for 1811. and the other at the suit of a Mr. Myers for 781. The defendant swore he was worth 5181. after payment of all his debts; and on being examin ed, stated that his property consisted of a house in Sidney-street, Commercial-road, of which he had a lease, of the furniture in that house, of a garden of which he had also a lease, and in which he swore he had erected a coach-house, stable and buildings, which cost him 3001., and were worth that sun). — The Court, however, would not permit him to jus tify, but granted time for the plaintiffs in the two actions to make inquiries concerning this property. An inquiry had accordingly been made, the result of which was, that the defendant did live in Sidney street, but had no lease of the house ; his furniture was very trifling, and he had not erected either coach-house or stabling. Mr. Stultz felt it his duty under these circumstances, to institute the prosecu tion. The Learned Sergeant called several wit nesses, who substantiated his statement. The COMMON SERGEANT, for the defendant, took an objection to the indictment, which stated that the perjury was committed in the Court of King's Bench, whereas the oath was administered in the Bail-court, where the defendant was examined, and gave the statement of his property. Lord TENTERDEN over-ruled the objection. The Court of King's Bench could at all times sit any where, the act under which one Judge sat in the Bail -court to take the justifications of bail, and to do other business, gave the Court the power it did not possess before, of sitting in two places at one time. One Judge constituted a Court, and the Bail-court was therefore the Court of King's Bend', and the defendant's answers were properly stated in the in dictment to have been made in the Court of King's Bench.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty. • DRL'MMOND ACAINST FRASER. This was an action of trespass. Mr. CMITTY opened the pleadings, and Mr. BROUGHAM stated the case. The plaintiff, Mr. George Harley Drummond, a gentleman of large fortune, and heir to the wealthy banker, has found it absolutely necessary to bring this action against the defendant, who is a respectable tradesman, for a trespass committed upon his property at Stanmore. People who are fond of sporting ought to enjoy it at the right season of the year, and at all events in the right place ; but the defendant chose to trespass in the beginning of last March upon the soil and freehold of the plaintiff near Stanmore, in spite of a notice which the plaintiff had distributed and fixed up throughout the neighbourhood, and which was printed sufficiently large for the defendant, who is an optician, to have seen it without the aid of his instruments. This notice was given in last August, and on the sth of March, the defendant, with a number of persons in his company, came upon the plaintiff's ground after a hare; and the defendant, on being stopped by the plaintiff's gamekeeper, as he was in the act of breaking down a gate, told the gamekeeper that he had as good a right to be there as he or his master had, and that he was imperti nent. Mr. Brougham supposed the defendant meant to set up some title; but this would not do, for the land was in the occupation of the plaintiff himself; and as the defendant actually did damage to some amount, the plaintiff did not bring the action for mere nominal damages, but called on the Jury to read the defendant a lesson' how- ,he ventured to trespass again upon other men's grounds. • David Jones, gamekeeper to the plaintiff, exa mined by Mr. CHITTY.—I stuck up notices, warn ing- pt-upie rnmn spernng - over the n s lan a, in last September. I put up one near the defend ant's premises, and another near the plantation of the plaintiff, which surrounds the field called the Warren. In last March I was about 500 yards from the gate in the plantation, when I saw the de fendant ride up to the gate. There were about ten people with him on foot; he was on horseback. Nichols' hounds were with him. He rode up to the gate, which was fastened with a staple, and pushed it open. He was in the warren field when I got up to him. I said, " Gentlemen, call your dogs off, there are a good many hares here, and I wish you to go off." The defendant answered, that lie had as much right to be there as 1, or Mr. Drummond had. I said, " There are three young leverets in the warren, and you ought to be ashamed to come this time of the year." I beat the dogs out of the planta tion, and followed the defendant out. There were five gaps broken down in the fences of the planta tion, which were new. It occupied me a day and half to repair them. The notice was produced, and the collector of Stanmore proved that the plantation field was situate in the county of Middlesex, and that the plaintiff was rated for it. The COMMON-SERGEANT.—My friend has not quite made out so serious a case as he anticipated. I do not mean to deny that the plaintiff is the heir to an immense fortune; but he might e mploy his money much better than in bringing ill-natured ac tions. In this case a hare started in the defendant s ground, and ran through the plaintiff's land; a nd the defendant cou ld no t, i n th e h ea t o f th e mo ment, re sist the t emptat i on o f following it. My friend has alluded to the business of the defendant—the notice was printed certainly large enough to be seen with out the aid of optical instruments, but I trust, if a verdict is found for the plaintiff, that the damages will be of so very small a coin, as will require the aid of optical glasses to make it visible. Th e plain tiff has already brought one action against Mr. Ni chols,, for this trespass,—he has submitted, and pa'" the costs. The defendant, however, feels that he ought to resist this action, and his defence is, that he had a right to be where the gamekeeper found him) for he had the leave and licence of Mr. Bateman) and the warren in which in fact the trespass was com mitted, was in Bateman's, and not the plaintiff's oc cupation. As to the gaps, which may have been broken through the hedge by other people, de fendantly has nothing to do with them; head n rid his horse a few yards through the land of the plaintiff which separates the two fields ; and neigh bourly feeling should, if nothing else did, have pre ' vented this action. Samuel Nichols, examined by Mr. PLATT.---I am a farmer, residing near Stanmore. I was out with my hounds on the sth of March. We started a hare on the defendant's park, near Cannons. The defendant was not then with us. The hare crossed over several fields, and went to Stanmore Park, which is in the occupation of Bateman. The de fendant was in his farm-yard at Cannons looking over his men who were at work. He did not then follow us. I saw him afterwards crossing the avenue in the pathway in the warren-field. He did not cheer on the dogs. I opened the gate nearest the warren-field. The defendant was th e n close behind me. I do not knew who opened the first gate. The keeper swore at the defendant, and abused him terribly, and said he w ould have an action against both of us. He kept his word with respect to me. There were three of us named ih the writ. I paid four guineas, and the action was not proceeded with against me. The defendant and I were on horseback—there were several labouri ng men with us. Cross-examined by Mr. 13Rotionaal. - '-1 don't think I was favourably used by Drummond. He has not at all behaved kindly to me. I do not in the least feel obliged to him. I did sign a paPer of apology. Did not Mr. Drummond behave kindly to you, ill itecepting the apology, an d n ot proceeding with the action P—He would have behaved kindlier if he had not brought any action at all. How came you, then,rto sign the apology ?—I am not fond of law. Jones, the gamekeeper, was very abusive. He did say it was a shameful thing to hunt at this season of the year. Mr. Bateman proved that he used the road be tween the two gates to cart his hay from the warren field, and he also used the road to go from one field to the other. He did not consider it unsportsman like to hunt hares in the early part of March, and never objected to the defendant coming on his ground. The plantation field was about ten acres. The gate was not broken, only the staple. Mr. BROUGHAM replied. His friend was a high authority in civil, and a still higher one in criminal matters, where he was a judge; and he (Mr. Brougham) would bow to his opinion with the pro foundest deference, if he were pleading before him as a Counsel, or if he were even to stand before him in that situation that his friend would have to tell his fortune, as they phrase it, and which fortune when prognosticated by his friend, would be more likely to prove true than the prognostications of soothsayers generally proved. But with all this, his friend was, perhaps, the very worst possible au thority on any question touching the chase, because he has no fellow-feeling about the sport of hunting, which he only knows by the effect. That indeed, in common with every good citizen, he relishes when he sees a young hare smoking on the table, but he has no love of the sport itself, unless, indeed, it be on an E as ter day. The plaintiff is desirous of i keeping v his property to his own use, and does lot - kishto have a mob of people trespassng upon that portion of his ground which he keeps in his own occupation. The defence has failed,—there is no colour for it ; for though the Warren-field and Stan more-park are in the occupation of Bateman, the plantation between them, consisting of about ten acres, belongs to the plaintiff, and there the trespass was committed. Jones swears that he saw the de fendant break open the gate, and he is not contra dicted by the evidence of the rattling young farmer Nichols, who has so soon forgot his debt of grati tude to the plaintiff. He says, indeed, that Jones was abusive; that he might possibly have been, he does not deny it; but is he contradicted in his state ment that the defendant did break open the gate ? I call upon you to give the plaintiff such damages as a man ought to be made t o pay who, in such a sea son and in such a manner, trespasses after notice, upon another person's ground. Verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages ls. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 5. WIGGINS V. CHAPMAN AND OTHERS. This was an action of assault and false imprisonment. Mr. Sergeant TADDY stated the case. The plain tiff was a very respectable person, residing in Tot tenham-court-road, carrying on the business of a builder, and was now compelled to seek compensa tion at the hands of a Jury for an injury he had sus tained from the three defendants, two of whom were officers of the Thames Police, and the other a con stable. On the 26th of April last, Mr. Wiggins was going from his house in Tottenham-court-road to superintend the building of another house he was erecting near the Regent's-park, having in his hand a rope, which it was customary' for persons in his line of business to use. When he had nearly arrived at the Regent's-park, he was stopped by the de fendants, who insisted on his immediately going before a Magistrate. The plaintiff was of course very much surprised, and remonstrated with them, saying he was guilty of no crime to be carried before a Magistrate. The defendants, however, paid no attention to his remonstrances, saying, "You have got some rope about you, and if you don't come directly, we will handcuff you." The plaintiff then told them who he was, and requested that they would at least go back with him to his house, where he could convince them of his respectabi lity. After some time, the defendants consented to this, and they all went back to Tottenham-court road, a great mob following them. When they got to the house, Mrs. Moore, one of the • lodgers, and several itota. tiff was, but they still insisted on taking him to Dow-street, which they accordingly did, leading the plaintiff through the streets in the middle of the day, to the gaze of all the rabble who were assembled about them. When they arrived at Bow -street, however, no Magistrate was there, and the plaintiff was taken on board the Thames-police boat on the river, where he was detained for some time. ,Indeed, the affair altogether occupied the whole day ; but in the evening the plaintiff was allowed to go home, and on appearing the next morning at the Thames police, he was informed that he might go about his business, there being no charge against him. These were the facts of the case, and the Learned Sergeant thought they were such as would call for very serious damages. Several witnesses were then called, who established the charge against two of the defendants, but not against Chapman. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE appeared for Chapman, and Mr. Sergeant WILDE for the other two defendants. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE submitted that Chapman should be acquitted. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inquired whether Mr. Sergeant Wilde intended to call witnesses; and on being answered in the affirmative, said he could not acquit Chapman until those witnesses had been examined, as their evidence might perhaps criminate him : if it did not, however, he would allow Mr. Sergeant Wilde to call him as a witness. Mr. Sergeant WILDE then addressed the jury for the other defendants. After having adverted to the responsibility of a police-officer's situation, he said he would call witnesses, who would prove that the plaintiff would never have been taken into custody had his conduct been proper when he was first ac costed, by the officers, who could not be supposed to know the respectability of his situation in life when they saw him dressed as one of Ins own workmen would have been, and instead of answering the ques tions put to him by one of the defendants, as to how he c ame by the rope he had abo u t him, imme diately became exceedingly abusive to them, and refused to give any account of himself. The de fendants then, as in duty bound, insisted on his giving them the information they desired, and threatened, if he did not, to take him into custody. The plaintiff, however, persisted in the course he had first adopted; and refusing to give any account whatever, he was taken on board the Thames- police-boat, where he remained, rather voluntarily than otherwise, for some time. These were the real facts of the case; and when proved by the wit nesses who would be called, the Learned Sergeant thought very trifling damages would be sufficient to compensate the plaintiff. Several officers and constables of the Thames Po lice proved that when the plaintiff returned to his own house with the officers, he was told by them that he might go, as they were convinced not stolen th e ro p e; b ut lie insisted on going before h e ;had a Magistrate. Th e y a l so prove d, t h at w h en on board the Thames-polic e b oat h e wa s very a b us ivesto the officers and constables. None of the witnesses, how ever, said any thing to inculpate Chapman, and Mr. Sergeant WILDE proposed, accordingly, to call him as a witness. Mr. Sergeant TADDY objected, when The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE said he would put the question to the Jury, whether they thought any of the evidence criminated Chapman. Mr. Sergeant TADDY submitted that he had a right to address the Jury on that point. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, such a course was quite new, but he might do it if he chose. Mr. Sergeant TADDY was accordingly commencing his address, when The LORD CIIIEFJUSTICE said, with some warmth, ,c After this I will have no adjournment. If the ge ntlemen of the bar will not assist me in the dispo. sa l of public business, I cannot help it:ti Mr. Sergeant rw , ILDE said he wouktwithdraw his app lication.--The .LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—You do very right, brother Wilde. Mr. Sergeant TADDY addressed the Jury in reply. Th e Jury returned a verdict for all the defendants. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JULY S. These Sessions commenced to-day before Mr. CONST, Chairman, and a full bench of Magistrates. Michael Hartnett, and five other Irishmen, named Connelly, 0' Donnel, Mackay, Drury, and Herbert, were indicted for a riot and assault on the 30th of April last, in 'the parish of St. George, Hanover square. Mr. ALLEY stated the facts to the jury, and called witnesses, crom whose testimony it appeared that the defendants, having been employed in building a chapel in South Audley-street, adjourned, on the day above-mentioned, to a neighbouring public-house to drink porter. While there, a misunderstanding arose between them and three or four other men, who were also drinking porter in the same house, upon which the former attacked the latter, and severe in juries were inflicted on both sides. Hartnett, how ever, who was the ringleader of his party, seemed to have come off worst, for he had his head dreadfully cut, and his arm broken. After they had been put out of the public-house, they continued their riotous conduct in the street, and the defendant O'Donnel actually ran at and bit a groom in the calf of the leg, who was riding quietly by at the time. Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury at considerable length on behalf of the defendants. The Jury, after half an hour's deliberation, found Hartnett guilty of the assault, and all the defendants guilty of the riot. The CHAIRMAN sentenced Hartnett to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction ; Connelly, O'Donnel, and Mackay, to two months; and Drury and Herbert to one month each. No other , case of any interest occurred. BOROUGH SESSIONS, JULY 5. These Sessions commenced yesterday. Joseph Tones, the driver of the coach, No, 95, was indicted for assaulting Mr. Geo. Fitch, his wife, and a lady named James: The prosecutor stated, that between eight and nine o'clock in the evening of the 20th of May, he was driving his gig through High street, in the Borough, when the . defendant wilfully drove his coach against the 'gig, and nearly upset it. His wife, and a lady named James, were thrown out by the violence of the concussion, and seriously in jured. His wife afterwards miscarried, in conse quence of the fright. The gig was broken to pieces. Although the defendant saw what had happened, he continued to drive on at a furious rate, until his horses were at length stopped by some persons who were passing. Ann James confirmed the evidence of the last witness. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he had offered the prosecutor let. to settle the matter, which he refused to accept. The Jury, without the least hesitation, found the defendant Guilty. The RECORDER, in passing sentence, commented upon the enormity of the prisoner's conduct, and observed that it was fortunate for him that loss of life had not ensued. As a warning to other persons of his situation in life, the Court felt it their duty to pass a severe sentence, which was, that he be im prisoned six months in the Borough Compter, and pay a fine of 101. to the King; and be further im prisoned until such fine was paid. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. • COUNTRY DIARY.—MoNOsr, JULY 9. Boor, J., Warminster—Lamb, Hindon ......... ............... ... 10 Garton, J. Castle Donington, Leicestersh.—Morris Arms, Castle Donington Jones, T., Ynysmarehog—B ear , LT;ndilo IS Lund,'J., Dutton—Hotel, Bla c kburn Radcliffe, J Burnley—Thorn, Burnley Reynolds, H., Cheltenham—,Fleece, Gloucester to THREATENED INvAsioy cIr.EATGLANR. Buonaparte seems not to have entertained the least doubts of success, could he have .succeeded in disembarking his army. A single general action was to decide the fate of Eng land. Five days were to bring Napoleon to Lot tdon, where he was to perform the part of 'William the Third ; but with more generosity and disintt trestedness. He was to call a meeting of - the inhabitants, re store them what he called their righ ts, and de stroy the oligarchical faction. A fi MI months would not, according to his ace() 'unt, have elapsed, ere the two nations, late si tch deter mined enemies, would have been • idenffied by their principles, their maxims, their in terests. The full eplanation of this gibberish (for it can be termed no better, even proceed ing from the lips of Napoleon), is to be four!' elsewhere, when he spoke a language more ge nuine than that of the illoniteur and tht bulletins. " England," lie said, " must have ended, by becoming an appendage to the Franc of my system. Nature has made it on .e of ours islands, as well as Oleron and Corsica." It is!\ impossible not to pursue the train of reflections'j which Buonaparte continued to pour forth to the 1 companion of his exile, on the rock of St. He lena. When England was conquered, and iden tified with France in maxima and principles, ac cording to one form of expression, or rendered an appendage and dependency, according to another phrase, the reader may suppose that Buonaparte would have considered his mission as accomplished. Alas ! it was not much more than commenced. " I would have departed from thence (from subju ' gated Britain) to carry the work of European re generation (that is, the extension of his own ar bitrary authority) from south to north, under the republican colours, for I was then Chief Conan], in the same manner in which I was more lately on the point of achieving it under the monar chical forms." When we find such ideas re taining hold of Napoleon's imagination, and arising to his tongue after his irretneyable,. fall, it is. impossible to avoid exclaiming—Did ambition ever conceive so wild a dream, and had so wild a vision everatermination so disastrous and humi liating ? It may be expected that something should be here said upon the chances which Britain would have had of defending herself successfully against the army of invaders. We are willing to acknow ledge that the risk must have been dreadful ; and that Buonaparte, with his genius and his army, must have inflicted severe calamities upon a country which had so long enjoyed the blessings of peace. But the people were unanimoint in their purpose of defence, and their forces com posed of materials to which Buonaparte did m ore justice when he came to be better acquainted with them.—Of the three British nations, the Eng lish have since shown themselves possessed of the same steady valour which won the fieldn of Cressy and Agincourt, Blenheim, and Minden-- the Irish have not lost the fiery enthusiasm which has distinguished them in all countries of Europe—nor have the Scots degenerated fi•oin the stubborn courage with which their ancestors for two thousand years maintained their in dependence against a superior enemy. Even if London had been lost, we would not, under so great a calamity, have despaired of the freedom of the country ; for , the war would in a ll proba bility have assumed that poPular, and ,national character which sooner or later wears out an in-: vading army. Neither does the confidence with which Buonaparte affirms the conviction of his winning the first battle, appear so certainly well founded. This, at least, we know , that the re solution of the country was fully bent up to the' hazard ; and those who remember the period will bear us witness, that the desire that the French would make the attempt, was a general. feeling through all classes, because they had every reason to hope that the issue might be such as for ever to silence the threat of invasion. —Scott's Life of Napoleon. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. JULY 10. Cleminson, J., Salford—Hayward's, Manchester Cosserat, J., Torquay—Hotel, Torquay ll Finney, C., Derby—King's Head, Derby 9 Leadley, E., Cloughton—Talbot, Scarborough 2 Parsons, W., Melksham—Bear, Melksham Reynolds, H., Cheltenham—Fleece, Gloucester lO Rose, W., Spilsby—White Hart, Spilsby Spencer, J., Belper—King's Head, Duffield lO Springford„ J., WatTnin.ster—Bath Arms, Warminster INSOLVENTS APPLYIN( COUNTRY.---At the Court-1 Ten o' G TO BE DISCHARGED, house, at Ipswich, July 10, at o'clock. Potter, T., Yarmouth Rose, J., Mentleshain !Smith, W., Church-lane, White. chapel Cornish, H., Linsted Parva Johnson, W. Tattingstone Ludbrooke, W., Boresdal• Mason, G., Linton Melts, R., Aldborough At Lancaster, Barrett, T., Bolton Bibby, C., Scheles. Blincowe, R., Manchester Booth, J., Blackburn Booth, H., Failsworthy Bockley, J., Oldham Crompton, T., Ringley Dove, T., Liverpool Edge, J., Bolton Ferguson, J., Bolton Fielden, L., Manchester Guthrie, J., Leyland Hargreaves, G., Burnley At Haverfordwer Trowel!, R., Steynton, Same day, at Smith, ' uly 10,:at Tem. Heap, J., Tottington Holt, J., Oldham Howarth, J., Deansgate Jowitt, J., Liverpool Knight, H., Ardwick Price, T., Liverpool Roughley, H;, Salford Robinson, D., Manchester Scott, J., Bolton Snape, J., Manchester Walton, W., Leyland Wharton, J., Manchester t, July 11, at Ten. , Milford-haven, mariner Ely, at Nine. W., Ely The ruins of a Roman villa has been discovered on the estate of Sam. Hassell, Esq., of Little ton, near Somerton. O n re moving the e ar th and rubbish, the walls were found in most places to be standing above the floors ; a correct ground-plan was therefore obtained of the build ing, which conveys some idea of the domestic habits of its occupiers. The edifice was 200 feet in length, and consisted of a gallery, ex tending along the whole front of the building, which seemed to have been for the purpose of communication between the different parts of the house ; and behind this was a single range of apartments, each about 16 or 18 feet wide by 20 deep, in three of which the tesselated floors remained nearly entire. The rooms were warmed from four hypocausts, made in different parts of the edifice. The coins found among the excavated rubbish were those of Constantine, and of the Emperors intermediate between him and Gratian ; from these may be inferred the period at which the building had its rise and decay. These ruins, varying in many respects from others excavated heretofore in different parts of the kingdom, are considered by antiquarians an interesting specimen.—Bath Chronicle. Some time ago, Mr. Brown, factor to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, and a number of gentlemen in the west country and on the Island of Arran, finding considerable inconvenience from the want of a stated market, came to the resolution of establishing an annual Fair at Brodick, to be held in the month of June imme diately after the sheep-shearing. The first being accordingly advertised to be held on Tuesday last, a great sensation was excited in consequence among the Islanders on the western coast. Early on the morning of Tuesday the company began to arrive, and by the middle of the day the market was crowded to excess. A number of Steam Boats, Packets, &c., arrived with motley groups of Lowlanders and High landers of every degree, partly on business, and partly on pleasure, which the novelty of a fair in that romantic part of the c ountry had brought out. There was a great show of cattle, There is H e a igh ve la r n v d go co o N d vs s a h n o d w i o lo f rs s e a s d . die, p w a e r :e i u l i l k a r e l w y har ness, and draught horses, which met a ready sale ai good prices.• A great deal of business was done in wool : the small dealers brought out their whole stocks, which were soon disposed of. The great stock farmers made some very exten 'sive sales, and there is every reason to believe tat this fair will prove most beneficial to the agricultural interest in that part of the country ; ap Mr, Brown, for his Grace, and the gentlemen ui the vvest, are, willing to give it their support...—. Greenock Advertiser. I Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beaus. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to a. a. to s. s. to s. Blandford 52 60 38 44 30 36 54 60 Brigg— 5B 63 35 42 36 ,42 47 52 55 OM% 48 , Chard 56 76 38 44 24 32 45 48 Huntingd0n........... 50 55 36 38 24 32 44 50 Louth 59 62 38 40 '26 30 52 56 Lynn 57 64 39 44 26 36 52 60 NeWark 6l 63 38 46 30 37 53 64 Norwich*. g 56 64 36 40 27 30 43 46 Nottingham 58 65 40 47 28 32 54 59 Peterborough 58 60 30 34 30 34 Plymouth 56 66 40 42 26 30 55 32 38 30 36 56 64. F . ppingham 55 60 3 40 28 34 44 62 wisbech WYWININW. 52 60 —. 24 31 50 52 York , 56 64 38 44 24 34 56 GO LEEDS CORN MARKET,. July 3. The supply of Wheat was good, but the trade very dull, and that article may be quoted Is. per quarter lower than last week. There was a large supply of Oats, and prices have receded id. to Id. per stone, and Shelling was Is. to 2s. per load cheaper. - Beans ß ß We a h r Barley, York. and Lincoln. 601 b. thin e g ea . y 575. to 61s. s dt:osoNisnld,:gor4fanaotlnlkkaraaapntnrhddiecsrse:ulffbfinotekr,in6paoilrlibyce.tsh.e same. ln Bapeseed 425. to 435. --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire tO' • 435. to 445. G • . '-- Grinding ~. . ... . ... 36s. to 38s. .. t o 631 b. Oats, Potatoe ---Mealing,fForeign 14d. to 15d....English I6d to Ifici. per st• Shelling 34s. to 365. per load. Rapeseed, English, 201. to 231. MANCHESTER SMITHFIELD.—JuIy 4. At per lb. sinking the offal. 2,773 Sheep 44c1. to 6d. 1 13 Calves....ww.. 201 Cattle 4 7 86 Pigs 3,221 Lambs ...v..-- at sd. to 6d. 6d. to 7d. 51 MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—June 30. Potatoes, Ss. 6d., 10s., 11$., and 12s. Od. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto., 18s., 205., , 215., and 245. per ditto; Turnips, Os. Od., Os. Od. and Os.. Od. per load of 16 peeks ; Onions, small, Od, per lb. MANCHESTER YARN MARKET, No. d. d. Throstle Twist, 20-111 to 121 30-13 14 40w18 1~ Mule copTwisti 30 ...Ili 12i for warp 40 ~,14 15 50.17 19 60 w 20 21 70 24. 26 • 80.: 28 31 Mule Cop Weft. ▪ July 3. • .14.4.4.1 N 11 to 12 40.....,.12 13 16 17 60 2 19L • 70 t3O 21 4 2 22 8 • 100 30 32 120....x..34 36 8 14 9 18 10 13 11 Weft from. wzate ~.,,, MARRIED. friends,Agnes Jane, eetg offdaughter ,ftoorLAa Larch- cn he o : f On the 30th ult. at Si. Peter's Church, Francis Beetham, o w f i n t h g e t :7 numerous Esl " to tak of i S ri t g ok l e eav N e e , Dillon Macnamt:rsap,enEdstqh.e, honey -moon. happy pair, after field, in the county of Westmeath, the seat of Francis Pratt 81 Z1 E ie s(1 5 . 41 instant, at St. Pancras New Church, Thomas Methold Waters, Esq., of Verulam-building s, third daughter of Jobs Hawks, Esq. ' of Tavistock-squ a r e . On the 3d i ns t an t, th e R e v. W. E. Hony, Fellow of Exeter College, and rector of Baverstock, in the county off Wilts, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the Rev. W. ' Earle, rector of Swerford, in the county of Oxford. On the sth instant, at S. James's Church, by the Rev. John Blackburn, Charles Blackburn, B. A., of Portsea, Hants, to Elizabeth, s econd daughter of Mr. Charles Ri+ vington, of Waterloo -place. .. DIED. On the 4th instant, at Richmond, Eleanor, relict of the late Henry Baldwin , Esq., former)) , of Richmond. On the sth instant) at his residence in Lower Frederick. poctors'-commons, in the 45th year of his age. On o street, Connaught-square, Mr. Henry Gray, of Dean's- , the 30th ult., after a marriage of five months, Sarah, the w ife of Mr. J o h n Salmon, Upper Park-strset, , lsfington. court, On the Ist inst., at Hatcham-house, New-cross, Mrs. Harcleastle, relict of the late Joseph Itu-dcastle, Es q . On the 30th ult., at Acton-place, Kingsland-road, Martlia t ; widow of the late Mr. John Barlow, of Bishopsgate-streta within, aged 59. PHIHTBD' And , PUBLISHED by YOUNG, 10 Su x-Oriza, No. lit, Stonti,,