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Aiate'ly that she suspected he was only a man 'dressed in woman's clothes, and that same of the patty were aware of the trick. Bridgen, he found, dad on two gowns, and nothing of his own clothing but shoes, though he contrived to impose on the company, who iemonstrated when he was attempted to be scrutinized more minutely. They said that he was a woman, and ought not to be hauled in that way. Mr. RAWLISSON—He was rather an expensive sort of lady, with two gowns on. D:d he, or she, get any thing to drink at your house P Mr, M'Calian—l took care to prevent that, Sir; for suspected his design in coming to my house. lie was with difficulty got out, scrambling and scuf fling, till ten or twelve policemen were employed to convey him, arm and leg, from it, when Page en deavoured to rescue him whilst whistling for thelgang. Mr. RAWLINSON—Pray, Mr. Page, what may you be ? Page replied, that he sold greens from house to house. Policeman, S 76, (Peter Aitchin), said that the prisoner Page was a desperate fellow. Mr. M'Callan—He is the terror of the whole neighbourhood, Sir. Bridgen and Page were committed, each for one month, to the House of Correction, to the great re lief, for the present, of Hampstead and its vicinity. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Robert Hughes and Elizabeth Westley, the actors in the late tragedy in real life, in Lower East Smithfield, were placed at the bar before M'ssrs. liAnDvacK and WALKER, for final exanii ation. The evidence which has already appeared relative to this transaction was now repeated, but nothing new transpired. After the witnesses had concluded their statement, the prisoners being asked if they heti any thing to offer in their &fence, replied in the negative, upon which Mr. HAanwwli observed, that however painful it would be to him, he must commit them for trial—the one, Hughes, fot dis charging a pistol, with intent to sheet ; and the other with having counselled him in the offence. The Act under which the prisoners are cow vnitted, the 9th of George IV., states, in the 13th chapter, sec. 11—" That if any person unlawfully tor maliciously shoot at, or attempt to discharge loaded arms at any person, with intent to murder such person, every such offender, or any person coun selling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony ; and being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon." Hughes has for some time been employed as or ganist at the Rev. Dr. Cox's chapel, at Hackney, and is considered an excellent performer on that as well as other musical instruments. He is nearly blind himself, and about two years age married a young woman who is stone blind, anti resides in the vicinity of this office. Yesterday, previous to hi• examination, she visited her husband in one of the strong rooms, and it was with some difficulty that she could be separated from him. Westley, who wu3 present at the time, seemed much annoyed, and ap peared once or twice disposed to rush at the unfor tunate young woman, but was prevented by the other prisoners. While standing at the bar in the Justice-room,Westley locked Hughes's arm in her'i, and kept him quite close to her during the examination. RESISTANCE TO THE PAYMENT OF I STIPEND IN EDINBURGH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Perhaps the greater part of the people of Great Britain are not aware, that while a resistance ro the payment of tithe prevails to an almost unl versal extent in Ireland, the same species of refusal to support the Clergy of the Establishment has for some time been resorted to in the city of Elin. burgh. Such, however, is the case ; and that blood has not been shed in the same manner, is only at tributable to the cautious character of the inhabi tants, and the salutary dread of the Magistracy and Clergy in introducing military force in aid of the civil power. In England, in Ireland, and in the country parts of Scotland, the Church is supported by tithes (in Scotland, paid in money by landlords, not by tenants), and all these tithes are levied with out a shadow of justice, as the lands were originally acquired with such burdens upon them. But in Edinburgh the case is entirely different. There the Clergy are supported by a modern tax of 01. per rent. on the rental of houses and shops, excluding the habitations of the lawyers, who have the privi lege of exemption, I call the tax modern; for although originally instituted in the reign of Charles IL, it was on a most limited scale, not worth mentioning; and as it now exists, it was constituted by a solitary clause in an Act of Parlia ment smuggled through the House about the year 1808. This tax is called annuity, and en an average yields 10,0001. a-year. Toge:her with cer tain share and other dues, the Clergy in total re ceive nearly 13,0001. annually, which sum is divided among eighteen ministers. It would naturally lie supposed that the contribution of such a large sum would free the inhabitants from any other ecclesias tical tax ; yet see what takes place. The payment of annuity or stipend gives no right whatever to a seat in the church. The different kirks are in the custody of the Town-council, who make a complete job of them, letting the seats at enormous prices, and raising in that way upwards of 7,000!. a-year, out of which, after paying precentors and repairs, &c., they make a clear profit of about 4 or 5,000/. You will now perceive under what a system of extortion the citizens of Edinburgh are labouring. From year to year they have been dragging on under these and other severe burdens, amount ing in general to 50/. per cent, on their rental, unpitted either by the Clergy or the Magistracy, in vain seeking relief, till at length, worn out by a com plication of grievances, the greater proportion have, by some sort of tacit understanding, resolved no longer to contribute a farthing of annuity, a very large number have likewise this year taken posses sion of seats in the churches without paying the usual arbitrary high prices. Following up these ideas, the householders, and all classes of inhabitante, have determined rather to allow seizure of goods and furniture than pay the tax ; at the same time resolving on no account to buy one another's arti cles when so carried off. Whether this be right or wrong, legal or illegal, it is the case, and all the so phistry of the Legislature could not turn the people torn their purpose. The result has consequently been hat a number of seizures were effected months ago, but when the articles were carried to the Cross to be rouped, mobs of four or five thousand persons instantly collected to witness the scene ; the offi cials were hissed and hooted, no one bade, and the goods were then carted off to a receptacle for such things in the neighbourhood. So strong was the demonstration of public feeling on these occa sions, that of late there has been no further attempt either to seize or to roup : indeed, such was the obloquy under which the officers (or process-servers, as the Irish would call them) laboured in the town, that the principal has resigned his functions, and I believe the Clergy could not now get a man to fill the situation. At present the Clergy are trying, be fore one of our local courts, to constitut e the tax a personal debt, so that imprisonment might follow, but here there is little chance of success; the Acts of Parliament are exceedingly defective, and a com mittee of the inhabitants are doing all in their power to protect the defendants from unjust oppression. Thus then do we here observe the winding up of all bad laws, which sometime or other must came to an end, if it were by nothing else than the simple expression of public sentiment. Same time since the inhabitants would have applied for an Act of Parliament to rescind those Acts directed to the imposition of the complained-of tax, but they well knew that an unreformed House of Commons would never have listened to the recital of their grievances, and that they must wait till the people have real representatives in that Assembly. I must also do them the justice to state, that there is no wish to starve the Clergy of the Establishment in the city, it is only wished to reduce them in number, there being far too many, and to leave the remain der, that is eleven or twelve, to be paid from that fund now so sha►nefully engrossed by the civic ex chequer. _ Begging that you will give the foregoing a place in your very meritorizus Paper, in order that the case of the eiti2ens of tdinburgh may be as widely known and sympathised with as possible, I am, Sir, your obedient servant ) WILLIAM 6HANIBtRS, 47, Broughton-street, Edinburgh) tec. 24, 183 h ACCIDtNI" AT LORD YARBOROUC HOUM—.-An inquest was on Mondsy belt"' at the Blue Posts, Bennett -street, St. James's, before Mr. lIIGGs, on the body of itilNNAi! hOiERTS. It appeared that the deceased, who Intii been thirty years in the service of Lord YARPOftoiiGli, after dining with the rest of the servants in the ball on Christmas-day, at his Lordship's residence, in Arlington-street, withdrew tad the kitchen to attend some domestic coin:et - W. the had not long been gone before the stlrvatits, searing her screams, ran to her assist ant-6, aikd found her lying before the fire, nearly burnt to a cinder. His Lordship's medi.±al adviser was instantly sent for, but the deceased I'vas quite dead before he arrived. It is not known how the lamentable occurrence hap pened!. vtrdict—" Accidentally burnt to death." Whilst occupied in the above inquiry, the feelings of the Jury were much shocked at the following appalling accident which tools place opposite the house in which they were assembled t=A gentleman's groom was riding pot on a young apiiited hone, when the animal suddenly became festive, and rearing on his hinder legs, fell over upon his unfortunate tider, who was so dreadfully crushed by the ponderous weight of the animal, that he was conveyed speechless to St. George's Hospital, without hopes of re coverys DREADITL WRECK, AND SUPPOSED LOSS `or Ntsx Sour.s.—On Friday night a fine brig, perfectly new, drifted in on the coast of Bannow, not a soul on board ; the main sheet hid been carried away, and was lying over her side in the water. The iron stay, or tra veller, had snapped, it is supposed, and she got a dreadful lurch, so that a sea washed the entire crew overboard. It appears by her pipers she was named La Bonne Julia, of Bordeaux, bound to Dunkirk. She had not drawn any water, and was perfectly sound until she struck. She had a valuable cargo of oil, fish, and about 100 French and Spanish dollars in a bag ; her Captain's name was J. BAETEN. The gentry and water-guard instantly came forward and used every exertion to save the cargo. The oil is now discharging, and is to he bonded in stores, on account of the Crown and the lord of the soil, to give time to the owners to claim ; as, if none should appear, it belongs to the latter, subject to the duties and salvage. To prevent any risk from contagion Messrs. BOISE and OsamoNE, with the consent of the officers of customs and water-guard, saw every article of clothing, bedding, &c on hoard brought on shore and burned, notwithstanding the entreaties of the many poor who came from all parts to get what they could.— 'Wexford Independent. INTERESTING NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following hove been lately published by Messrs. COLBURN and BENTLEY " Musical Memoirs," by W. J. PARKS, E•q., 2 vols., comprising a fund of information relative to Music and the Stage, and their eminent vo taries, for the last fifty years.-2. " Conversations of the late celebrated Dr. Paley, and other Literary Memoirs," by H. BEST, Esq., of Oxford, I vol.-3. " The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright, comprising a complete History of Reform," 2 vols.-4. " Conversations of the late Jotnes Nnrthcote, Esq., with Mr. Hazlitt," 1 vol.-5. A Second Edition of " The Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons," with a fine Portrait, by TURNER, from Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, 2 vols.-6. " Journal of a Noble man, comprising an Account of his Travels from Moscow to Vienna and of his Residence i❑ that City, with nume rous Anecdotes of distinguished Persona," 2 vols.-7. " Letters addressed to John Mitt, Esq., relative to the Revolution of 1666," edited by Lord DOVER, 2 vols.— S. A Second Edition of the " Life and Correspondence of John Locke," by Lord KING, to which is now first added, among other important papers, the curious Diary of Lord Chancellor KING, illustrative of events during the reigns of GEORGE I. and 11., 2 vols. 13ERWICKSIIIRE MEETING.—On Tuesday a numerous meeting of the freeholders and farmers of the county of Berwick was held in the splendid new County Rooms at Greenlaw—the first meeting which has taken place in that handsome edifice, which is the munificent gift to the county of Sir W. H. PuayEs, of Marchtnont. Mr. flay, of Drummelzier, presided; and the principal speakers were Lord DLINGLASS 7 Sir DAVID MILNE, Mr. BAILLIE, jun., of Jerviswootl, Mr. Srorriswoooe, of Spottiswoode, Mr. HALL, jun., of Dunglass, Mr. MILNE, jun., of Milne Garden, Mr. TioNast, of Kimmerghame, Mr. ANDERSON, of Rochester, and Mr. SWINTON, of Swinton. Mr. Srorriswoone, in moving a resolution relative to Political Unions, stated that the late proclama tion against those bodies was urged on Ministers by the KING, so that it might be said to have emanated entirely from his MAJESTY. The resolutions were carried without a dissentient voice.—Edinburgh Advertiser. It appears, after all, that the reported loss of the Congress frigate, one of the best vessels attached to the Portuguese expedition, is not true. A letter has been received from SARTORIUS, the Portuguese Admiral, dated from Belle Isle, and subsequently to the time at which the wreck was said to have taken place. A number of Eng lish sailors, amounting to 69, had left the Congress, now named the Rainha de Portugal, not, however, as aban doning the expedition, but because their engagement only extended to the navigation of that vessel to Belle Isle. All that was said, therefore, respecting the violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act on the part of these men, at the time of their sailing, proves to have no foundation, as the service they had entered on was in all respects a legal one. They will be conveyed back to England in the Lord Blayney steam-vessel, hired for that purpose by the Portuguese Admiral, who hss written to the agent for the Quern of PORTUGAL in this country to pay the arrears due to them as soon as they arrive. This letter is dated on the 21st instant. The sailors who brought the news of the wreck to Jersey were not supposed to have formed a part of the crew of this vessel, but to be deserters from some other ship, who have probably invented the story of the wreck to furnish them with a claim for charitable as sistance. The circumstance is of great importance as re gards the ultimate success of that expedition. Had the loss actually occurred, it would have net only injured the cause by a diminution of force, but would have thrown a damp over the whole. It is said that the expedition has been joined at Belle Isle by one vessel of war from Rio de Janeiro; so that it is now very complete in point of efyi• ciency.— Times. ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS.—We regret to state that a desperate affray took place on the night of Tuesday las`, between the gamekeepers of the Earl of Moam and a gang of poachers, eight in number, who had entered the plantations armed with guns and blud geons. The poachers began the affray by attacking the three keepers in the most ferocious manner, four of whom singled out the head-keeper, who was most dreadfully beaten, and would most probably have fallen a victim t• their brutal violence had not the other keepers, who had previously separated from them, fortunately arrived, and put the poachers to flight. Several of the men on both sides were severely bandied.— Western Times. A ludicrous mistake happened to Sir HENRY Har.roxn on the rejection of the Reform Bill. Sir HENRY is, or was, Court physician, and a courtier, and anxious, as a courtier should be, to stand well with all all parties. The morning after the decision of the House of Lords, he wrote to the Marquis of TAYISTOCE, in a tone of mingled grief and auger, to condole with his Lordship on the temporary defeat of a measure which promised blessings to the country. The same morning was witness to an epistle on the same subject from the complaisant Knight to the Earl of WESTMORELAND. The contents of the second letter were somewhat different from those of the first. Sir HENRY had addressed Lord TavlsTocx as friend addresses friend on the occasion of some lamented bereavement; he spoke to Lord WESTMORELAND as friend speaks to friend at a marriage or a christening—" he was overjoyed, and, no doubt, his Lordship would be, at the final rejection of a Bill which was pregnant with revolu tion, anarchy, and every thing that was bad." The let ters were' folded and enclosed ; but, alas! some one of those tiny mocking spirits that love to make game of good intentions, slipped Lord WESTMORELA ND'S note into Lord TAVISTOCK'S envelope, and Lord TAVISTOCK'S into Lord WESTMORELAND'S. The heir of the house of Russel read and pondered, pondered and read, and had just arrived at the charitable conclusion that poor Sir HENRY was in a fair way to pay a visit to his brother Dr. Bost- ROWS, when, from certain family queries, he contrived to puzzle out the mistake ; and his announcement of it reached Lord WESTMORELAND at the moment when the Earl was searching, but in vain, for a clue to the meaning of the lugubrious phrases in which Sir HENRY lamented the success of a victory to which the Noble Earl had so heartily contributed. Both the letters are in the posses sion of Lord BaoucHast. What Sir HENRY said, or how Sir HENRY looked, when the blunder was explained to him, we leave GEORGE CRUIRSMANE to tell,— ' Spectator. REVENUE of the CHURCH of IRELAND. EPITOME. Of the Revenue of the Church of Ireland, and of the irregular payments of the First fruits of the Archbishops, Bishops ) Dignitaries, and Beneficed Clergy in that part of the United Kingdom, who are enjoined by the Irish Statute, 2d Geo. I. chap. 13, to pay their first year's revenue or profits of their Benefices respectively, into the Revenue of First Fruitt., Within four years of their taking such Benefices, viz.—one-fourth part of the whole sum of their first year's profits, at the end of every year, for the first four years, together with an Explanation of the Twentieth Parts remitted to the Clergy in Ireland by that Act. Acres. No. I.—Number of acres of land belonging to the Sees of Ireland, now held or let by the Archbishops and Bishops there, as per First Fruits Returns, &c 6t4,864 No. 2.-Acres of Parochial Glebes in Ireland, to which Incumbents have been admitted, from Aug. 1812, to the nth of Feb. 18.11, as per Returns from the First Fruits Office 82,615 Deduct 1-3 d for land unprofitable3)767so9 255836 Deduct 2-thirds profitable 511673 Average annual value, per acre as per return of Commis . 26 sioners of Ecclesiastical In. quiry, '26s. 1831 ..-- 3070038 1023346 ,0 ) 1330319(8 £665174 Deduct 5 per cent, for collect ing, &c 33458 767,509 Total amount £631,916 for Iyr 11,916 0 0 No. 3.—Total amount of the compounded yearly value of the Tithes paid by the l'arish loners of 1,194 l'arishes (out of 2,460 Parishes), deducting 5 per cent. from thesum total for collecting, &c. &c. as per Return :.68, 439 0 0 No. 4.—Total amount of the estimated value of the 1,271 Parishes that have not compounded for their Tithes—say at 200/. per annum each—de ducting 5 per cent. for collecting, &c 241,290 0 0 No. s.—Total of the sum paid by the Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergy of Ireland, including the Rectorial Tithes, received by them for the whole one year's First Fruits to the Revenue thereof, from August, 1812, to the 26th Feb., 1831, as per Return from the First Fruits' Office 9,947 11 0 Total amount due this day to the Revenue of First Fruits from the Archbishops, Bishops, and Be neficed Clergy of Ireland, for the first year's First Fruits of their Benefices, pursuant to the Statute of the 2d (leo. 1., chap. 15 1,151,697 9 0 Thus they appear to have only paid about one hundred and sixteenth part of what they ought to have paid. 9947) 1161845 (116 9917 16714 9947 67675 59682 79',)3 No. 6.—1 am prepared to establish by proof that the total sum which has been received in each year by the Archbishops, Bishops, and clergy of Ireland who have been promoted to benefices from August 12, 1812, to 26th February, /831, as the annual profits of their respective benefices, amounted in each of those years to 1,161,845/., and which sum ought to have been paid as one set of First Fruit• by them into the revenue of First Fruits ; instead of which they have only paid into it 9,9471. 11s , which sum so paid does not amount to one per cent. on the sum they received as their first-fruits in any one year within the above period.* No. 7.—The annual profits that arise to the in cumbents of parishes in Ireland, from the parochial glebe lands alone, amount to more than seven times the sum in each year from 12th August, 1812, to 26th February, 1831, than has been paid, or con ditioned to be paid by the Archbishops, Bishops, and clergy of Ireland, who have been promoted to benefices within that time for their first year's fruits of the benefices to which they have been so pro moted. Thus— Parish. No. Province. Acres of Parochial Glebe. 34 • •• 76,205 144 - 218 Tuam Total 91,137 Acres. Take off one-third as unprofitable 30,379 Take off' two-thirds profitable land Worth upon an average 265. per acre 344,54 , 3 121,516 2,0) 157,970 (8 .C 75,985 Deduct 5 per cent. for collecting, &c 3,947 Total phi(' for First Fruits, from 1812 to 1813 p fl47) £75,038 (7 69,5'29 5,59 No. S.—One fifty-third part of the Annual Revenue arising from the Parish Tithes of the Incumbents in Ireland alone, amounts to more in each year than has been paid, or conditioned to be paid for First Fruits, by all the Archbishops, Bishops, Dig nitaries, and beneficed Clergymen in Ireland, who have been promoted to the Benefices from the Mh August, 1812, to the 26th February, 1831 ; notwithstanding they are bound by the Statute of the second Gco. 1., chap. 15, to pay the whole sum of their first year's Fruits, Revenues, and Profits respectively to the Revenue of the First Fruits, viz....L1, 1 fi 1 , 8 45 Annual Revenue arising from the Parochial Tithes...X s29 X3 Paid for F. F. £ Thus : 9,947)529,929(53 49,735 32,579 29,831 2,738 being 1-52,d part. No. 9.—Messrs. Blackburn and drampton, the present Attorney and Solicitor General of Ireland, in their opinion, given by them to the House of Commons on the Sth of August, 1831, intimated that one year's First Fruits and Profits of the Arch bishops, Bishops, and Clergy of Ireland, in the 29th year of King George 11., was computed at 3001. per annum. Those gentlemen, when they made that statement, appear to me to have known, or at least they ought to have known, that the net produce of all the Benefices in Ireland, im any one year within that reign, exceeded 500,0001. ; and that in the year from 1812 to 1831, the net proceeds of the Revenue of the Church of Ireland exceeded 1,161,8451., as shown above. lam unwilling to suppose the opinion of those Learned Gentlemen was given for the purpose of diverting the attention of thesuffering population of Ireland from the spoliation committed on them by the spiritual part of the trustees of First Fruits there, to shelter themselves and their co-trustees from the responsibility that attaches to them for their neglect of duty ; but I have strong reason to believe the majority of the people will be of that opinion; particularly as the average value of the annual fruits of every parish Church in Ireland (and they are 2,465 in number) exceeds 3001. per Dignitaries inclusive; Archbishops and Bishoprics exclusive. No. 10.—How those Learned Trustees could bring themselves to suppose that any rational being who was acquainted with the history of the Church of Ireland, could be led to believe that 3001. per annum in the 29th year of King George the Second. was computed to be the whole of one year's First Fruits of the Church of Ireland, is to me inexplicable. They knew that the Irish statute of the 2d of Geo. 1., chap. 15, sec. 3, which passed in the year 1715, and which is now in force, requires every Arch bishop, Bishop, dignitary, and beneficed clergyman in Ireland, all and every of them, to pay the whole sum of their first year's revenues and profits of their benefices respectively to the revenue of First Fruits; and they must have known that 3001. per annum, in the 29th year of Geo. 11. was not a thousandth part of the First Fruits of the revenue of the Church of Ireland in that year. They knew that the yearly revenue of the Church of Ireland at the time they gave their opinions (and from the I2th day of Au gust, 1812, to the 26th of February, 1831, for in cumbents that had been promoted within that time) amounted in each of those years to 1,161,815/., and that that sum as one payment, or set of First Fruits, was pursuant to the statute of the 2d of Geo. I. chap. 15, due from the Archbishops, Bishops, and bene ficed clergy to that revenue, and that they had only paid about the 116th part of that sum. No. 11.—The opinions given in this matter by the present Attorney and Solicitor-Generals of Ireland, and the late Attorney-General Plunkett and Soli citor-General Joy, as laid before the House of Com- • 1 per cent, on 1,161,845/. amount. to 11,61b1. 88. mons in August, 1831, were so given on a com plaint made that a great portion of the first fruits of the Church of Ireland was not duly paid to their proper revenue. It is obvious that those four Learned Gentlemen were aware that they were and are Trustees of that Revenue, and Members of the Corporation thereof, in conjunction with the Reve rend Prelates,and consequently responsible with them for any irregularities committed by the Members of that Corporation. How far it is right for apparent defaulters to be judges in their own cause is not for me to decide; I take it that every Member of the Corporation of First Fruits is open to a serious responsibility, and can be made to answer the deficiency of that reve nue, which deficiency, from the 121 h of August, 1812, to the 26th day of February, 1831,amounted to 1,151,897/., which sum that Corporation forgot to sec paid, and feeds it inconvenient to recollect such non-payment. That sum is now due to the revenue of 14'irst Fruits, this day, 26th Feb. 1831. We now come to the revenue of the Twentieth Parts, formerly paid in Ireland under the Act of the 28th Hen. VIII. chap. 11, Irish. It was, in other words, five per cent, per annum on the entire revenues of the Church of Ireland at the time of the grant of the Crown in 1712, and the Act of the 2il of George I. chap. 15, confirming it, and released the clergy from the payment of the same annual revenue of the Church of Ireland, being at that time 580,922/. The twentieth parts, or five per cent, on the re venue then payable to the Crown yearly by the Archbishops, Bishops, and beneficed Clergy, was consequently 29,0461. The Crown, therefore, by the grant and the Act of the 2d of Geo. 1., chap. 15, released the Clergy of Ireland from the payment of 29,0461. per annum for the consideration to be given by them, as set forth in the said Act of the 2d of Geo. 1., chap. 15, Irish. 1. That they were by the Statute of the 2d Geo. 1., chap. 15, to be released from the payment of their twentieth parts to the Crown, which amounted at that time to 29,04.61. per annum. 2. That they were to be the receivers of their own first fruits and profits of their benefices for the first year, together with the first year's fruits of the rest of the Irish Clergy. 3. That they were to have four years each to pay the first year's profits of their respective benefices to the revenue, instead of two years, which latter pe riod was the time allowed by the Acts of King Henry the Eighth. 1. For which considerations they were bound by that Statute to pay the whole sum of their first year's profits of their Benefices respectively, to the revenue aforesaid. They have uniformly complied with the three first conditions, but they found it convenient to forget to comply with the fourth condition, and, consequently, they have not paid more than about one hundred and sixteenth part of what they ought to have paid. Thus—One year's revenue of the Church of Ireland, in any one year, from 1812 to 1831—Ante, pa. 26, No. 4-1,161,8,15/. , . Paid by the Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergy, for £ their First Fruit, from 9947)1161845(116th part of what they the 12th of March, 1812, 9947 ought to have paid to the 26th Feb. 1831.. pursuant to the Sta. 16714 tutes. 9947 67673 59682 how the present Trustees could at'empt to infer that one year's First Fruits' Revenue and profits of the Church of Ireland, was computed to be fixed at about 300/. per annum, and this done with a know ledge of the Irish Statute of the 2d Geo. 1., chap. 15, which requires that each Archbishop, Bishop, Dignitary, arid Beneficed Clergyman of Ireland, shall respectively pay to the Revenue of First Fruits the whole sums of the first year's profits of his be nefice, which, if those fruits had been duly paid by all, would have amounted, within the period afore said, to 1,161,8451., and which ought to have been paid to that Revenue by the Clergy ; and, with the exception of 9,917/. I Is. as above, is now due from them to that Revenue. As ene of the injured lay patrons of Ireland, I beg leave to protest against the system of intrusion that has been adopted by the Hierarchy there, on the rights of Lay Patrons of Churches, and against the Clergy generally, for the deficient . payment of their F►rst Fruits, and that I will continue to use my utmost endeavours to relieve that country from such intrusion, and from the imposts that have been resorted to in order to snake good that deficiency, which is as oppressive as it is unjust. I presume, with respectful but humble confidence, to submit that sufficient evidence of the conduct of the parties is in my possession to effect that desirable object. SAMUEL COOKE. MADRID. (From the Times Private Correspondence.) MADRID, DEC. 17.—1 wrote you on the Bth in stant, and sent you a copy of our Extraordinary Gazette of that date, announcing the capture of the brave but unfortunate Torrijos, and about fifty of his companions, who had been driven from Gibral tar in consequence of the infamous persecutions and menaces of the English Governor of that unhos pitable rock, where, relying on British generosity, they expected to have met with an asylum ; but, alas ! they were sadly disappointed in their expec tations, as in him they met with a greater foe to Spanish liberty than in their own countrymen. By the Gazette of Thursday, the 15th, you will see Torrijos, and fifty-three of his brave companions, have been most inhumanly murdered in the glorious cause of liberty. This, I hope, is a convincing proof of the blood-thirsty despotism of Ferdinand, whom the Gazette has had the audacity to compare to Titus, by stating, " whilst the blood of these fresh victims is still smoking, we can put into the mouth of the King the memorable words of the clemency of Titus, ad dressed to the Jews, on contemplating desolated Jeru salem : I call Heaven to witness that your calamity is not my work, but the effect of your pride and obsti nacy.' " They were executed at Malaga on the 11th inst. at half-past twelve o'clock, amidst the exultations of an infuriated and bigoted populace. Poor Torrijos was the first one who marched to the place of martyrdom ; he who had braved the fire of the enemy in so many engagements was not to be appalled at the sight of the wretches of Ferdi nand's tyranny : he marched with a firm and com posed air, taking farewell of his comrades in arms, —the word was given, and he fell amidst the balls of those soldiers for whose cause he had so valiantly fought during the war of independence. After him came Calderon, his constant companion, with a de termined step. The others were all drawn up in file, and met the same untimely end as their heroic chief,—(here follow the names, which we have given elsewhere),—in all, 51 unfortunate patriots, who have thus been deprived of their lives to gratify the sanguinary revenge of the tyrant. The intelligence of their execution has created the highest delight to the Apostolicos and the infuriated priesthood. Ferdinand feels the atrocious act he has committed in having them thus put to death, and is afraid to publicly show himself. The Queen, it is said, tried to intercede in their favour, but without success, as the despot win not listen to any humane feeling this unfortunate Princess may strive to exert in saving victims from his vengeance. All the friends of Torrijos and his murdered compa nions, instantly the news was known, put black crape round their hats. Thus, as I expected, has teminated the fate of the heroes of 1823; but they will some day or other he revenged. Spain is not without patriots, who, when the moment is favour able, will strike the blow. The High Sheriff of the county of Roscom mon has announced a meeting of his bailiwick on the sub. ject of the Reform Bill for Monday next. The requisition on which he has called it bears the signatures of both the County Members, ten other Magistrates, and every other gentleman of the liberal party in the district, THE DEVONSHIRE REFORM MEETING. The following is Lord Grey's answer to a letter from Lord Ebrington, forwarding the Devon county address of confidence in the Premier : " Downing-Street, Dec. 14, 1831. "MY DEAR LORD,.—I have bad the pleasure of receiving your letter of to-day, with the accompanying address from the county of Devon. " Nothing could be more gratifying, both to my col leagues and myself, than so flattering an expression of the confidence and esteem of a body so numerously and respect ably composed as that which you describe. " For the very kind addition of your personal concur rence in the sentiments of that body I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude ; and your approbation of the new Bill has given me the most unqualified satisfaction. You have ju.tly appreciated the views of the King's Govern ment. Bound, not more by our repeated declarations than by a conscientious opinion that nothing less than we had before proposed would have the effect of producing a settle ment, in which all the great interests of the country would concur, it has been our endeavour to maintain, to the full extent, all the principles of the former measure ; and at the same time, when we could do so without impairing its efficacy, to introduce such alterations as appeared expedient, not only as improvements in themselves, but as tending to mitigate the hostility or obviate the objections of our op ponents. I am, with the highest regard, " Dear Lord Ebrington, yours most faithfully, "To Viscount Ebrington." (Signed) " GREY." IRELAND.-REFORM. The following letter has been received in answer to a vote of thanks passed to the Lord Bishop of Chichester, at the Longford county meeting : " Preacher's Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, " December 1 t, 1831. " Stu —To any one who occupies a public station it must ever be a source of pure and high gratification when he' can secure the approbation of a numerous and respect able portion of his fellow subjects, while he complies with the dictates of his own conscience. I have, therefore, re ceived, with much satisfaction, the communication with which you have honoured me, as chairman of the great county meeting of Longford. " It has long been the settled conviction in my mind that some Reform in the Commons House of Parliament was necessary. The concurrence of so many opinions heretofore differing upon the merits of the measure intro duced by his Majesty's Government has satisfied me that it deserves the warm support of every lover of liberty, every friend to his country's peace, and every well-wisher to its prosperity. . . " The apprehensions which have been entertained as to its supposed dangerous tendency appe•ir to me chimerical —it is founded upon the true principles of the Constitu tion—it is calculated to extend its benefits; and, while it provides for the more effectual exercise of popular rights, I cannot see that any of its provisions have a tendency to abridge the legitimate privileges of the higher classes. It therefore his received, and will continue to receive, my honest and Eealous support. " With many thanks for the obliging manner in which you have been the organ of the wishes of your countrymen, " I have the honour to remain, Sir, " Your most obedient and faithful servant, "E. CHICHESTER." ROYAL MARINE BARRACKS. (FRAM A CORRESPONDENT.) SlR,—The report which has recently appeared in several of the Papers of the Royal Marines being about to be removed to Deptford dock-yard, is, I find, totally without foundation, though it is by no means improbable that the Naval Asylum at Green wich will ultimately become their head -quarters, the Woe of the barracks at Woolwich expiring in a few years. No building can be better adapted for the purpose of a marine barracks than the Asylum, since the area already forms a parade, the spacious colon nade affording every convenience for drilling and mustering in wet weather, the houses ample accom modation for nearly the whole of the officers, the dormitories readily convertable to men's quarters; the contiguity of its situation to Blackheath render ing every facility for field drills; and last, though by no means least in the scale of advantages, the chapel, a clergyman already appointed, together with the extensive burial ground, (since all must die), are desiderations of no trifling consequence, whereas at Woolwich both church and church-yard are well known to be very insufficient for its own parishioners. Deptford dockyard has none of these advantages whatever, neither is it an healthy spot for crowded rooms of soldiers. The old prize offices, with an extra room or two in Greenwich Hospital, would be ample for the tuition of the Naval School, though I have ever thought the " boys" might be made more useful in the profession they are intended for, were they to reside altogether on board a line of battle ship, which might be moored off Greenwich ; when they would hare an opportunity of knowing more readily the several duties of the calling they are intended to follow. They might also be taught, in addition to splicing, knotting, moulding, rigging, &c., the several " nautical trades," of ship-carpen tering, painting, sail making, rope making, &c. &c., thus enabling them to become generally useful when appointed to a man of war or merchant ship. Exeter, Dec. 25, IS3I. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF THREE LIVES. On the evening of the 30th of November last, Capt. William Scobie, of Ardvare, parish of Assent, Sutherlandshire, was proceeding by sea to that place from Ashire, from the adjacent parish of liddrit chilies, when the boat struck on a small reef of sunk rocks, east of the Island of Handa. The boat being under sail at the same time, and with a light breeze, the shock was tremendous, and the consequences most disastrous. Immediately the keel started, the mainmast fell overboard, and the boat split up from stem to stern, with the exception of the bow and fore theft, by which the sides slightly adhered. The Captain, being a man equally deliberate and resolute, did not lose his presence of mind in this crisis. Having directed the crew what part each should act, the whole cargo, in which were upwards of twenty barrels of salt, was instantly thrown out, and, ex cepti:ig four barrels, all by the exertions of himself and one of the crew, a very athletic young man. The wreck now drifted off, floating at the water edge, and from the direction of the wind and tide, kept near the shore. At this time one of the crew slipt his hold, and was drowned within the wreck. The Captain still encouraged the remaining three to balance the wreck and keep their holds, as in all pro bability, since the weather was mild, they would come to land on either side of the channel. This was the case ; first, the wrec k approac h e d t h e i s l an d, which is inhabited by eight families; but, as it was now between ten and eleven o'clock, the united cries of the sufferers sunk unheard. The wreck next took the opposite direction, and by two o'clock in the morning approached a sandy bay, called Tarbet, when one of the men in the bow got ashore by the aid of the foremast and a parcel of hoops. He was now directed, and proceeded im mediately for assistance to a shepherd's house, where some fishermen were at the time. This being the only house within five miles, and he unfortunately missing his way, no assistance arrived till past seven of the following morning. By this time the wreck was on the beach, and the Captain and the ablest of the crew appeared in their position at the stern—but, alas ! they were just cold, and the last sands of life had run. The remaining one of the crew was found lying on the shore in a state of in sensibility, who, when recovered, stated that when the wreck grounded, he threw himself out, but could scarcely stand, and was able to render no assistance to the rest, who spoke to him, but could not move from the wreck. It would seem that their exer tions in throwing out the cargo, and being deeper sunk in the water, had exposed them sooner to the overpowering effects of the cold, while they were the means of saving the two that escaped. Captain Scobie was the grandson of the Rev. Vim. Scobie, some time minister of Assynt, and was connected with many of the most respectable families in the county of Sutherland. — Aberdeen Chronicle. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Jfoniteur of Sunday, Dec. 23t) The official part contains— " 1. The promulgation of the law passed bf ti Chambers, and sanctioned by the King, grs ll the Minister of the Interior an extraordinarY) of 500,000 francs, in addition to the million i o ,H in the budget of that department f or 1831,'; relief of foreigners who have taken refuge ill in consequence of political events. " 2. The promulgation of another law, 131 an additional aid of 600,000 francs to the pe of the ancient civil list, to be distributed aulon of them as seem to be in a situation to require, " 3. A Royal ordinance, announcing va minations of Judges and Justices in dill( partments." (From the Messager des Cliambres of Moog PARIS, DEC. 25.—A Journal has state d yesterday the Minister of Marine, being surr° h ‘ by several persons in a passage of th e Chard Peers, had replied to the questions which wet to him, respecting the trobles at Grenoble, bi afflicting doubts. This is not correct ; the O r in fact, announced that order was entirely ref° ORAN, Nov. 27.—The hostilities with the: have ceased, but the arrivals are still inter' Only one tribe supplies us with fresh meat. An individual, who came from Tremezenet s the most alarming reports. General Boyer ht his head cut off. GRENOBLE, DEC. 19, 10 P. 31.—A large,) composed of numerous detachments of the " 0 41 Guard and troops of the line, is vigilant to pt order and srcure those places which repot ,0 were circulated seemed to threaten with r such as the Town-hall and the offices of the IP".1 of the taxes. These threats were doubtles s ,[ idle boasting, if ever they were uttered, authorities do well to be on their guard for tilt' lic interest. I An individual, who was crying " Down W l° National Guard," has just been arrested. (FROM A LETTER.) " MODON, Nov. 30.—Public tranqutudL o i coming more and more confirmed. The Ig!10 notwithstanding their desire to revenge the de' the two Mauromichalis, have been forced nounce their plan of seizing Mistra, and O f against Napoli. " The Deputies are slowly assembling at 11 whither the seat of the Government has been ferred. , " The Rumeliots have brought many band (perhaps Palicari), to secure the indepenci e„ ", their votes, or to engage the votes of the fi° ld o is said that those chiefs, in concert with Cole l 'o the Ilydriots, are not inclined to prolong I llt h ifi tence of the commission of administration, ' IP' sensible of its weakness." PAnfs, DEC. 25.—Marshal Molitor has fe t " from his mission to Marseilles. hit' We are informed in a letter from Madrid, t',l French Charge d'Affaires has represented :( Spanish Government the inutility of imposing rantine on vessels from Algiers, because 0 1 %0 the French hare governed that country the ear regulations are such as to afford entire securiti is said that these observations have bees fav ° received. It is certain that the expedition of Bourcl ut y chief of the insurgents of Neufchatel, hi' o ' They have been defeated and compelled to o ,r' pitate retreat. Long details are published Gazettes of Lausanne and Neufchatel. TlTHES.—Rumours of rather an al ° nature have been afloat here for the last few JO, fleeted with the subject of the late horrible affray 0 . 0 topher—which, we believe, have had their rise 3 ,, military movements. Amongst the moat curren t t J v day, was the report that the gaol of Kilkenny was I bl by an immense assemblage of persons, and after engagement, all the prisoners set free. That tiler; in the county of Kilkenny great hostility to the K fo , tithes, has been so sufficiently manifested, as to room for doubt; and from letters received at we learn that an opposition to the tithe system, o iP N),, pacific but not less determin e d c h arac t er , h as bee" „ , r evinced in various parts of this county.— Tippers Press. ° A coterie of ladies, celebrated for the y' and birth, have been discussing the merits of / 41i° 0 1il i l ,„ DON ' S first work in prose fiction, " Romance and o f' the result of which left an impression on the rrd,": e o i company different from what was anticipated. V ' Mrs. B-- is reported to have said, " We all eq e . c o ol story of love and moonlight and troubadours; jo m . which, we have a tale of actual life : sentiment,dll tender hearted—wit for the witty—something too personality—eharact. re for the lovers of the dranascol mischief for the mischievous—thought for the cc° di' tire—and a well-timed hint or two for all. I °0.o( pointed, hut whether agreeably or not, I leave you l a ' We'll read the bcok agan." .at THE FOG.—The density of the fog d e "; day in the city, between twelve and one o'clock? ; remarkable as the sudden changes in the atrnosPb r ',l? , accompanied it ; and it may be recorded that then ness—considering it was noon-day—was greater th, , ,e been remembered by the most observant meteor e ' , ; Shortly before the commencement of noon the a ,0 speak of the city from the Royal Exchange to P . jr4 bar), was comp iratively clear, but soon afterward ° It e pl 4 fog, of a dingy yellow hue, approached from l h eastern part of the metropolis—the wind, then perceptible, being due east—and enveloped the , i 1; houses, and public buildings, in gloom and dark , an extent that required much caution in walliico6l.* more care in the drivers of vehicles. The shopP l ;Jr; offices, coffee-houses, sale-rooms, and places of gen er t e ; " sort, were lighted up in haste, and the conserine"„oo) prise and hustle afforded a strange contrast with th e routine of mid-day business. The fog, howe' re i r ' r ei passed onwards in a westerly direction, and Ong° have attained the great density at the foot of V I I ° street. Above, the atmosphere had a singularly lu_ r oii ° pearance, as of the reflection of an extensive connwl, on a misty night. At this time the fog in tbe A "fro; bourhood of the Bank was fast clearing away? a n ; ! • l° ,' de Vk a r e e ri h p a t r o e n h , e e a x ri e l e o p f tin so g me th a a c t ci o dri e l t Holborn in a northerly direction there were sna rc- t i. b- A ; a n p o p n e e a o ra f n a ce s s er o i f ou i t s . crossing Ludgate-hill, who was knocked down by of a private carriage, and, before the coachma n ° r pull up, she was once trod upon by one of the I c ° Assistance and surgical aid were promptly renderelafe the lady was conveyed home in the carriage with ° coining, as was stated, any dangerous injury. 0,,a MILITARY COURTS MARTIAL..- - V r t lv ii Correspondent.)—lt was generally believed la et that the Officers of his MAJESTY'S Household r rr o et consequence of the disapprobation which, it is wei l ",(P . ; his MAJESTY has expressed on the brutal erten'," i" ging, had determined for the future, in complian t er, the humane wishes of the Monarch, and the public j on the subject, to at once abolish such a brutal a drt /j grading punishment. This, however, it is to be r% is not the case, for another unfortunate wretch tic, flogged until human nature could no longer boar t- 0 11. k 1 ture. On Saturday morning last the first battalion 1,?0 first regiment of Grenadier Guards mustered at tb e c itlei place in Knightsbridge-barracks, where a privat e ° to I' l l named GRIFFITHS, belonging to the battalion, ° O ll l i been for some days imprisoned, was brought out f- coo' place of confinement, to hear the minutes of a pi martial read over by the Adjutant of the regiment. ,foo: peared that his crime was desertion, and the Cou r t him guilty, and sentenced him to receive 500 lobe% unfortunate man was instantly tied up, and the dra y event to work with their cats. GRIFFITHS is a fe r l i f man, and his cries were dreadful. After receie iP '4 lashes his back was in a horrible state, and it s ve° evident that he had received as much flogging so b e i bear, and it was deemed advisable, for tear of quences, to proceed no further with the punishmeM was then released from the torture, and convey eu )i Military Hospital, to be cured of the laceration 0 1 :,,FA' had received. There is but little doubt that, if punishment had been inflicted which his knit I'4 awarded him, he would have been flogged to deatb ea ',/ i , terday morning the second battalion of the 3d reg!",fdli Foot Guards mustered in the Armoury-yard, 1 5 ",,,i' d : walk, when a private soldier, belonging to the t' °" named TWIGG, was brought out from his place ofl6 silent to hear the minutes of a Court-martial reAer,,lS which had been held upon him for the crime of ` len t o The Court found him guilty, and sentenced months' imprisonment in Brixton HOUIII of Cor#. 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