The Sun. — London, England, 1830-03-04 00:00:00

point, of. view. It ascertained, beyond all doubt, how Tar the present Ministry had the inclination and capacity to grapple fairly with the difficulties of the country, and afford the suffering population any thing like a prospect of relief. It is now clear, from what was put upon public record by the debate and division of Thursday night, that Government have riot the courage to look the evils of the country in the face, nor wisdom to repair them if they did. If there were any value in the arguments used against Lord Stanhope's motion, they went to prove the necessity for that very investigation which he de manded. The facts which the Noble mover ad duced in support of his proposition for inquiry were not even attempted to be denied ; and u hat a case of national embarrassment and popular misery did they not establish I. It is true that, while the Duke of Wellington admitted the distress, he still clung to his favourite paradox, that all this public suffering was co-existent with decided indications of increas ing prosperity. Let us, on this point, to prevent the imputation of being supposed to misrepresent the Noble Duke, quote his own words. He said " lie was justified, on the first day of the Session, also in mentioning the increase of buildings not merely in London alone, but farm-buildings, and buildings in every village—for these things could proceed from nothing but the progress of the people towards something like prosperity." Now, from this statement about the increase of farm buildings and buildings in every village, it is clear the Premier meant to show that the agricultural interests participated in that " progress of the people towards prosperity." But what had the Noble Duke said in the commencement of his speech touching this very subject ? Here are his words— mark them reader, and ask yourself whether, if his Grace had taken up his positions so badly and de fended them so weakly in the field of battle, the laurels of Waterloo would ever have ornamented his brows ? He said, " the Noble Earl who had commenced the debate had !list alluded to the agri, cultural distress. No man could be more conscious of its existence than he was; and he stated so on the first day of the Session; he would now repeat that he had not the smallest doubt of its existence." Thus he has proved to the satisfaction of all, whose faith in the infallibility of Ministerial logic is not to be shaken by any suggestions of rea;on, that two contradictory statements ought to be received as identical propositions, for lie avers that the agricultural interests are under the pressure of undeniable distress, and are at the same time advancing in prosperity. The traveller who blew hot and cold in the one breath, excited the astonishment and anger of the hospitable satyr, who drove him, as one in whom no confidence could be placed, from the shelter of his sylvan dwelling; but the House of Lords expressed no surprise or displea sure at the Diike . of Wellington representing in the one breath the agricultural interests to be the object of condolence and congratulation. We can, indeed, easily conceive the possibility of the depression of a particular interest being consistent with the general prosperity of a nation, but how the depression of a particular interest can be consistent with its own prosperity is a proposition which we confess our in capacity to understand. To say that the distress of the agricultural class is temporary is one thing, and, however false in fact, is not contrary to reason ; but to say that the distress and prosperity of the same class is co-existent is quite another thing, and con trary both to fact and-reason. if the Duke of Wel lington has found out that there are new farm-houses and new buildings in every village, and can point to those aribstantial proofs of prosperity, and say " there is an answer to your tales of agricultural distress," why does he at the same time admit the distress? Again, if the farmers are so rich as to be enabled to build new houses in every village, why do he and his myrmidons in the Press call upon the landlords to lower their rents, in consequence of the inability of the farmers to pay them? The parasite Press of Government, with the view of drawing away the at tention of the public from the profusion and extrava gance of Ministers, has been for a long time telling us that the only panacea fOr theevils of the country, was, that the landlords should lower their rents. We the rents are lowered, in point of fact. The abate. moits which have taken place universally through• out the country are only reductions of rent conse• A quent own the insolvent condition of the farmers, Has the reduction of the rents abated the distre , s ? Far from it. Every account from the agricultural as well as the manufacturing districts shows that it still increases. What then 'can relieve the farmers ? fia order to be able to answer this question let us see what it is that oppresses them. The taxes and the poon-rates—these they cannot pay without great difficulty, even where their rent has been abated 30, 40, and SO per cent. Nay, in some places, where the actual abatement has been to the amount of 100 per cent.—that is, where the landlord, being unable to obtain uny rent, has made a " virtue of neces sity," sod the tenant has continued to hold the iAtul At present merely on the payment of the taxes, tithes, and poor-rates--ilitiiculty is still felt in endeavouring to pay those incum- !trances along with the expenses of cultivation.— Why ? The reason is, that taxation is really as high as during the most extravagant period of the war, white the prices of produce have undergone a great depression, The causes of high taxation are tfaNational Debt and the prodigal expenditure of the Government—the cause of the low prices is the contraction of the currency by Mr. Peel's Bill. To make this plain to every understanding, we will ask what was it that enabled the farmer and manufacturer to bear the heavy pressure of taxation during the war ?—A paper currency, an d no thi ng else; that kept up the prices in something like a proportion to the increase of taxation ; but, that being withdrawn, the prices fell in pretty near the same ratio that the value of the currency was enhaneed----so that the bur thefts of the country remained as great as ever, while the means of discharging them were considerably diminished. It is true some millions of taxes have been taken off since the war; but the change in the ettrt.ency makes the amount of taxation, though nominally Jess than it was at that time, yet in reality greater, If the currency were enhanced in value only one-third, that enhanced the taxation also one-third, so that 40 millions of taxes now have the same pressure On all the interests of the community that 604miltions would have had in the war. The same would have happened if we had a gold currency during the war, _which was reztrigted in quantity, and enhanced in value, at the time that Peel',?, Bill,which has worked such an extraordinaryrevolution in the affairs of the nation, pazted, Thus the expellee of the war, or the National Debt, ;41 the remote, and Peel's Bill the proximate cause of the greater part of the present public distress. The consequencaa of that measure have, indeed, been aggravated by the experiments in free trade, the repeal of the Naviga tion Laws, &e, What then remains to be done ? —Nothing but to enlarge our currency to the extent of our burdens, or bring down our taxation to th.e level of our currency. in spite of their details and their documents, Ministers most come to this and Damon sense at last.—Morning Herald. It wive us great satisfaction to ;letup from the spetcb ' Mr. Peel, on Tuesday nigh 4 ,the reeettt prosecutions for libel were not the result of •• %.• r any eltauge of opinion in the Cabinet with respect to the policy of interfering with the Press, but originated in the desire of Sir James Scarlett to show the Administration how much they had gained by obtaining an Attorney -General who knaw so much better how to keep newspapers in order than his predecessors since 1820. From the sort of slavish awe in which nsarly all the barri,ters of the Court of King's Bench evidently stand of Sir James, he is naturally led to over-estimate his own importance: and hence we can account for the tune of reproof to the mild and amiable CordLyhdhurst, conveyed in his declaration on the first " However anxious I am that the right of printing and publishing should be preserved, I here freely declare that for the last ten years the license of the Press has, in my judgment, been too much unre- Cruined; mud that its wholesome use would be better 'Reserved if more restraints had been placed on it." There was in the prosecutions something of the feeling which is frequently observed in net, men, and which has led to the adage of " new Brooms," &c. Sir James informed the House tl at he had no leisure for reading, like most men, whose exertions are exclusively professional; he is, no doubt, disposed to consider the functions of the Attorney-General more essential to the nation than those of any other servant of the Crown, and, therefore, we can understand the uneasiness lie may have felt at the sort of abdication of the most odious of these functions for ten long years, as tending to produce an impression, that en Administration cot.hl possibly be conducted with out the aid of ex-officio informations. " The Learned Gentleman ( Sir Charles Wetherell), ob served Mr. Peel, had supposed that there was a conspiracy among the Government to overwhelm an individual, who was stated to be the representa tive of the party with which he acted. So far as he (Mr. Peel) was concerned, he knew nothing of the conspiracy; for he never heard of the libels until his Learned Friend had thought fit to appeal to the law, and vindicate its authority by these prosecutions.—f Hear, hear.)"—This declaration of the second Cabinet Minister, the Leader of the House of Commons, settles the question as to the share of the Ministry in the prosecutions. We now know that they originated in the desire of Sir James to surprise Ministers agreeably with the performance of a piece of service for which they were not pre pared. A contemporary (the Globe) takes another view of the circumstances in which the prosecutions originated, somewhat more favourable to Sir James. He supposes him, as he has no leisure for reading himself, to take his opinions from those whose read ing is not very select, and whose discretion is on a par with their sources of information. If we thought the prosecution originated in that sort of experience which causes a man to discover a mare's nest occa sionally, sse should have some hopes of him ; but we have our doubts. However, we shall allow him the benefit of our able contemporary's suggestions : " The Attorney-General." he observes, " stated, in proof of the necessity of his prosecution:, that when he was in the country, in March last, he found people alarmed at the paragraphs concerning the agitation in London, which were copied into the Provincial Papers from the Morning Journal. The persons with whom the Attor ney-General associates are posssibly not remarkable for their discretion ; hut even if their alarms in March were of more serious import, they would hare afforded a sorry reason for endeavouring to repress, in June, a system of misrepresentation which had ceased to be mischievous. Indeed, on the trials, the Attorney-General took credit to himself for having abstained from prosecuting while the agitation of the Catholic Question continued. It was just at the time when those friends whose fears he exposes had recovered the small portion of sense that belongs to them, that he cattle forward (if we may use the language of Sir C. Wetherell) to pour the oil of his ex-officios over the waves which were no longer troubled. He is now driven to confound the two periods, and to: justify his super fluous activity in raking up forgotten paragraphs, by showing the temporary effect which had been produced by some nonsense of still older date. The case seems to be, that Sir James Scarlett is some months behind even his country acquaintances ; and not being, as he states, a regular reader of Newspapers, he began to be frightened ate the assertions of Lord Eldon's plots against the Duke of Wellington, and the Duke of Wellington's plots against the Crown, just when the old ladies he had conversed with four months before had begun to disregard them." Be this as it may, there can be no question that Mr. Hume was right, when he said "he would put it to the House whether the Attorney-General had not done more to bring his Majesty's Government into contempt and disrepute with the best of so ciety, in his prosecution of Mr. Alexander, than that individual had ever done by his publication of the paragraphs in question." Indeed, this seems to be the feeling of Ministers themselves, from their anxiety (to use a somewhat familiar expression), to have the saddle put upon the right horse ; though of course, while they take this credit to themselves, they do not wish to take also the discredit of appearing to disapprove of the service of their over zealous servant. They approve of the conduct of Sir James, and the public, by coupling the approval with the declaration above alluded to, will know how very cordial the approbation is. But this is the return that excessive zeal often meets with this wicked world., in which, to " damn with Li praise, assent with civil leer," is but too usual among good-natured friends. We have more th a n once alluded to the strange sort of reasoning by which Sir James justifies his interference with the Press ; and we wish he could spare a little leisure for reading a newspaper occasionally ; for, with all deference to him, we think he might find in some of these vehicles of information the means of improving in logic, if in nothing else. "He thought (said Sir James) ho nestly and conscientiously, that if the Press was to be the polluted vehicle of public and private slander; if every gentleman who happened to be a Minister of the Crown, was to be held up to scorn as a knave, a liar, and a scoundrel ; if it was to be considered as a part of the liberties of Englishmen, that the Duke of Wellington, or his Right Hon. Friend, or any other Minister, might, because he was a member of the Cabinet, be, with impunity, represented as a fool, a traitor, or a coward, one of two things must happen. The Press must fall into such disrepute, that no man would allow it the slightest influence, or some mea sures must be taken to correct its excesses. And ac- cordingly lie thought that when there was a case of a factious man, without principle, or truth, or de cency, or the least regard to private feeling or the public good—who, in the most false and atrocious mariner, published libels against all that was good arid just, and distinguished in the country—the besvhing which could be done for the interests of the Press would be to punish such a person; since, by so doing, they would increase that moral influence which the Press ought to have. Honourable Members might hold out for the abuses of the Liberty of the Press; but, he contended, the Press would lose all its in, flue, llce if that liberty were suffered to degenerate :a licentiousness, since it must thus infallibly fall nto contempt, Where, then, would be its moral ntluence ? Gone for ever. It would become lile Thersites, as described by Homer, who might say that Achilles was a coward and Agamemnon not a great King, while the Greeks would only laugh at his mendacity and despise his slander.—(Hear, h ear .) When ; therefore, a Paper was conducted on such principles as the Morning Journal—on the principle of perpetual slander, falsehood, and mis. representation, he thought it was conferring a be. netit on the Press to punish it " It is singular that the eery illustration of the Learned Gentleman did not open his eyes to the error of his argument. Thersites called Achilles a coward, and the Greeks laughed at and despised him, but wk d►d not despise all the Greek, because Theriites, a Greek, was sjespicable. We never understood before that ge. ner44 , , were included in particulars. Sodom and Gomorrah even wpuld have been spared, had ten righteous men been found in the place. It is quite enough that people should answer for themselves, without being burdened with the responsibility of othei-s, There are about two hundred Newspapers published in !(great Britain; and there are Reviews, Magazines, Registers, and other periodical publica tions in abundance, published p • marterly, monthly, and weekly. Because one Newspaper forEets what ;.$ dge to propriety and decorum—because one NewsFager le loose in its intelligence, and draws erroneous CciPc.l4:49N from true premises, or correct conclusions from false Ferp;;;el, pr sins both in pre tnises and conclusions, therefore, acgor.dikg to this man—who modestly makes himself the criteripp Af 4.;;;;at is proper and improper—all newspapers, all periodical pwblications—in a word, all the Press=-- lose their intluet.e and fall into contempt. Why there is not a green-grocee 4; Saffron-hill or Saint Giles's who would not laugh at the absgrdity of this reasoping. What is it that all the world arc constantly aiming ,k 4 it distinction ? Why is it a merit to be good but because it is a demerit to be bad? If there were no Sinners there woßid be no Saints. If a ll men were as goo d at managing causesas Sir James Rearlett, he would have more leisure to improve his mind by reading newspapers. There like very few newspapers in London that 14'0 1 (1 iiCst be very much obliged to their rivals to deal bricated intelligence, and to make themselves con, temptible. A rich man does not feel that he will be contemptible because his neighbour cannot pay his bills; a fine lady does riot think the less of her ball dress because there were a dozen or two ladies at the ball worse dressed than herself. Why do people take one newspaper in preference to another, but because they suppose the one they take to possess the best intelligence, to give the best reports, arid to be conducted with most propriety and sagacity. A strange conclusion—that the advantage of riches is destroyed by the existence of poverty— the advantage of talents by the existence of im becility—the advantage of good papers by the existence of bad—the advantage of good breeding by the existence elsewhere of rudeness. Who could possess Sir James with such a strange hallu cination ! Yet he clings to it with all the obsti• nacy of a candidate for martyrdom for his favourite doctrines. We have already disclaimed all ,wish that the conductors of ne ws p a p ers s h ou ld b e allowed any more than other persons to injure individuals. But this is quite a distinct consideration from that of calling men to account for the opinions they form of public men respecting their public conduct. Where there is liberty there will be error. All men do not think alike, all men do not reason correctly. Opinions and opinions must be allowed to come into collision; statements must come into collision with statements, that the truth may be discovered. The discovery of truth is a tentative process—the road to truth lies often through error. The Attor ney-General cannot discover any new road for the discovery of truth. Let him abandon his silly idea of keeping the Press respectable by silencing all newspapers that are not distinguished for absolute wisdom, and attend to the means of preserving his own respectability, which will be found in the pos session of a little more common sense.—.[Horning Chronicle. We wished it to be understood that Heaven has not conferred upon us, as it has done upon our gracious Sovereign, the faculty of being in two places at the same time ; for it is only a King who can be supposed to be reading a speech in an old fashioned tapestried room at Westminster, while lie is comfortably enjoying himself before a sea-coal fire in his royal residence at Windsor. There is a dole ful difference between being in his Majesty's gaol of Neweate and his Majesty's palace elsewhere, be cause, while one is in the former place, it is not convenient for him to be at the same instant in the House of Commons. Arid, even if we had been pre sent on Wednesday morning, the hour of four o'clock is not the best time to review the speeches of the " collective wisdom" of the nation, or to do justice to the measures of the " noblest assembly of free men" in the world.—lt will be seen that the House has consented to the production of the papers for which Sir Charles Wetherell moved, after one of the most powerful, biting, sarcastic, and lacerating addresses for which he has yet distinguished bun self. The defence which the Attorney-General made, notwithstanding the condolence of that illus trious patriot and friend of the people, Sir Francis Burdett, was a curious display of assurance and humility—of forensic swagger arid ill-digested re traction—of mendacity arid absurdity. He indulged in statements which were untrue—he apologised for words which he had the hardihood to assert were misinterpreted—he assumed a tone of candour while he was writhing with malignity—and while he ad vertised his own impartiality arid moderation he bud riot one solitary fact to build upon, nor a witness nor a case to which he could appeal. He was forced to confess that he commenced his campaign against the Press with the Morning Journal, arid had ended it with the Morning Journal He was obliged to admit that his object was to crush that paper, and prevent its daily exposures of and comments upon the distresses of the country. His desire was to let the country sleep on in its misery —to veil the truth from the eyes of a suffering people—to close up every chink through which the light from without might shine on the rottenness within—and make public opinion entirely dependent upon the sentiments of the Treasury clerks who crawl arid the scribes who lie. We thank Sir James Scarlett for this unto. ward and inconsiderate confession. We did not expect that so much truth would be wrung from him, and we rejoice to find that Ministers and their legal guardian are sensible of their weak point. Yes ! the distress of the country is the spectre they fear, before which they tremble, before which they will yet crouch, and which, as it has come upon them likes ghost by night, will haunt them till they are as haggard and marrowless as the weavers of Coventry or the harnessed serfs of Bedfordshire. Deeply as we feel for our injured and beggared countrymen, we confess the situation of the meanest and poorest of them is more to be envied than that of his Majesty's Ministers. They may be ragged and forlorn—houseless arid hungry—but they have no national calamities to answer for. They may not wear on their breasts the glittering baubles of war—they may riot repose on silken couches, or press the sleepless bed of down—they may not revel in the superfluities of pampered pride, nor indulge in luxuries at the expence of the humble and the industrious—but they have this consolation—they stand exempted from the re sponsibility of being the authors of a nation's wrongs. The time will come when they w ill cry justice, when other men cry mercy in vai n . They may rest assured that this distress under which at present they groan will yet be their avenger, and when those who now try to conceal it, and refuse to remedy it, will be glad to supplicate that Providence which they have had the arrogance to criminate. This distress will work its own cure; and it will do so the more speedily from the circum stance that those who deny its existence are too firmly bound by their creed to retract—too much infatuated even to attempt to avert what they do not perceive. One important truth transpired during the debate of which we have every dispo sition to give Sir James Scarlett the entire benefit. Mr. Peel, though, as a Minister, he was bound to defend, yet most openly arid most unreservedly declared himself to be no party to these pre . secti- INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, ALLacn 3. tions. We thank thesitight Honourable Secretary Samuel Levy, late of No. 18, Bevis Marks, St. for this candid admission. He has washed his Mary-Axe, auctioneer, was opposed by Mr. WOOD.. hands of this transaction. He has solemnly ROFFE, on behalf of a creditor, named Henry Bath. affirmed that he had no knowledge of the pro- Another creditor, named Solomons, opposed in per ceedings of the Attorney-General till he saw them son, reported in the newspapers. Heshas thrown all the The insolvent was discharged under the act, in responsibility and all the criminality upon Sir James July, 1816.• His brother.in-law - was Sampson Ge- Scarletts-shas cast the leprous liberal off—has left nese, who kept what was termed a " mock auction" him to the tender mercies of his Whig friends and room, in Cheapside. He was in custody at the suit the polluted patriotism of Sir Francis Burdett. Of of a butcher, named Nathan, for 261. 10s., of which this inimitable reformer we shall speak more anon. 141. was money lent, and 121. for butcher's meat. We praise Heaven that this fungus of an apostate The money was lent in September last, arid the in radical has not comniitted himself by airy act of jus- solvent gave him a bill, which became due on the tice or consistency which could provoke our praise. 7th of November. O n th e 2d o f J anuary, N at h an arrested him, in the city, but not liking to be con- His conduct on this occasion was i n p er f ect k eep i ng with the past history of his political life. A trod- fined in Whitecross-street pris on , as i t wou ld b e ing patriot is ever a tyrant at hea r t ; an d h e w h o i s injurious to his health—(Laughter)—lie immedi loudest in its praises over his cups, and when sur- diately sent for his attorney, end got himself re rounded by his inebriated adherents, is the readiest, moved by habeas corpus to the King's Bench. On when the crisis comes, to draw his sword on the the 26th of October, he sold all his household fur side of the mercenary despot. Sir Francis Burdett niture to Barnard Sloman for 251. On the 10th of defending Sir James Scarlett is a problem in December, he purchased some writing desks, &c. politics which we leave Messrs. Hobhouse and of Mr. Bath, his opposing creditor, to the amount Galloway to solve when at their next anti_ of 121. 18s., and at M r . B at h' s request, he accepted versary they drink " The Liberty of th e P ress !" a t a bill for 151. Bs.: h e did not sell them at Har die Horns Tavern. The man Who could b r ib e the wick, but at G enes e s auct i on room, No. 96, guardian. of a child to secure a seat in Parliament, Cheapside. That was what was termed a " mock and then become informer, and, by concealing the auction." names of the gpilty, attempt to fasten the shame Henry Bath, the opposing creditor, was a cabinet upon the innocent, is not a map to shake hands with, maker. On the 10th of December, the insolvent or even walk with on the same side of the street. i ordered some writings:lesks, tea-caddies, arid work- He is a betrayer of no ordinary kind, and the- best I boxes, to the amount of 151. 18s., and gave a bill at wish we can give his friends is, that they may never i five weeks, for that sum, stating that he had been receive from him a larger share of his support than laying out a great deal of money in purchasing we experienc4 pn Tuesday ! It gives us infinite property which he w as go i ng to se ll b y auct i on a t pl e a-ure to speak of Mr. O' Connell i n a f ar di:- Harwich, and he was therefore short of money, but ferent strain. His conduct since he entered upon would take up the bill when he returned. All the hi s parliamentary duties has won for him tire esteem goods Were sent to the insolvent's residence at Bevis o f hi s enemies and the respect of all parties. Mr. Marks, bt;t two desks, and the same day the witness O'Connell is a fortunate man. Had a millionth discovered that the bill was not likely to be paid; part of the Scarlett moderation been directed r upon which he kept the two desks, and went to the against him which has been directed against us he would at this moment have been either in gaol or in Botany Bay. His attacks on the Government were passed over in silence. His seditious and even treasonable invectives were allowed to find their leve, in the expansive sympathies of the finest peusanty in the world. Do we blame Ministers for this ? No. Do we make these acts ma► ter of accusation against Mr. O'Connell ? No. He performed his part well, for he has attained his object. He has accomplislitd more for his countrymen than all the Irishmen who ever existed, and from the bottom of our hearts we congratulate him on his triumph. He bade de fiance to a weak, irresolute, abject, and hypocritical Government—trampled their laws in the dust— turned their coercive measures into ridicule— and with his single arm fought his way into the very centre of the " noblest assembly of free men" on whom the sun has yet shone ! Mr. O'Connell having accomplished this will, we trust, long wear his laurels untarnished, and, by his moderation, consistency, and attachment to the liberty of the subject, put to the blush the whole treacherous race of English mock patriots. For ourselves we seek nothing more than the publica tion of the whole proceedings connected with this infamous campaign of the Attorney-General, and this has been accomplished by the motion of Sir Charles Wetherell. Mr. Peel stated that it was unnecessary to move for these papers, seeing that Sir Charles was actually in possession of them. But Mr. Peel knew that the motion was not made for the benefit or instruction of Sir Charles, but for the advantage of the House and the country. The motion has placed these documents within the reach of eTery individual, and when the proper time comes we shall notice them further.—Morning Journal. In The Sun of Monday evening we met with the Following notice : " We understand that the Excise.office has sent round circulars to the confectioners, warning them not to sell cherry-brandy. This is at least frank, fur the informers are immediately to be let loose upon all parties who may contravene the notice. We should be glad to learn how much the revenue will be befitted by these vexatious visi tations ?" Now we really cannot answer the question as to the matter of pounds, shillings, and pence; but we can answer it after another fashion, and in a manner which our readers will agree with us is perfectly to the point—and that is, that no amount of gain' can possibly compensate for the opprevsion, the disgrace, and the immorality of such a system. Its adoption is more especially objectionable at such a time as the present, when tradesmen have difficulty inn even meeting the ordinary expenses of their esta blishments, instead of having spare funds to meet such vexatious demands as those to which we allude. The Government, however, appears to be determined to pursue its system of encouraging informations, and levying every farthing which the utmost stretch of the law will permit. Apothecaries, druggists, arid chemists, have been treated precisely in the same —or, indeed, after a rather worse fashion— than the confectioners, for they received t►o notice, but were treated at once to a stamp-office prosecu tion ! The following is the price of selling half an ounce of tolou lozenges ! " THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. YOURSELF. " Stamp Office, London. " SIR,--The Honourable Commissioners of Stamps have considered your petition, and been pleased to mitigate the penalties incurred by you to the su►n of 81., which must be paid at this Ofli•;e within tell days from this date, to prevent I he• proceedings being continued to recover the full penalties and costs. " I am, your obedient servant, " J. TIMM, Solicitor of Stamps." [Morning Advertiser.] LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MARCH 2. WILBRAHAM V. WARTNABY. This was an action on a policy of insurance on arms and accoutrements valued at 8001. by the ship COUICI, from London to Madeira. The defendant, an underwriter, had subscribed the policy for 2001. The plaintiff shipped the goods, which were those of his own manufacture, in the spring of th• last year, and consigned them to Messrs. Dunn and Co., of Madeira, to sell on his own account. The ship ment arrived at Madeira in April, 1829, and was immediately seized by order of the Government, who having refused to restore the goods, the plain tiff claimed against the underwriters as for a total loss. The Jury under his Lordship's directions, found for the plaintiff.—Damages, 1981. SOULBY V. KNIGHT AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover 365/. for an under taking given by the defendants, Messrs. Charles Knight and Fyson.• The plaintiff, a wine-merchant. having a lien on a bond for 1,0001. given by a Mr. M'Dougall to Messrs. Robertson and Roberts, was applied to by the defendants, who were formerly in partnership as attornies, to deliver up the bond for the purpose of putting it in suit on behalf of the obligees, who were clients of theirs, against the obligor; and the plaintiff having consented to do so on their agreeing to pay the amount of the lien out of the proceeds of the verdict, the defendants gave an undertaking to pay him 3651. in the event of their recovering on the bond. An action was then commenced against M`Dougall, and the money was ultimately recovered. The 3651. was not, however, paid over to the plaintiff, the partnership between the defendants having been dissolved, and Mr. Knight, whose affairs had become embarrassed, having left the country. The present action was brought against both on the joint undertaking. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 3651. CANNON V. LAMB AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover 261. on a warranty of a mare sold by the defendants to the plaintiff in May last. The Jury found for the plaintiff—damages 261., being the price of the mare, with the sum paid for her keep. insolvent, demanding all his goods back, and offer ing to return the bill : he put himself into a violent passion, talked loudly of honour, and threatened to bring an action for defamation.—(Laughter.)— When the bill became due, it was presented at the insolvent's residence, and the answer was, " You had better take it to the King's Bench." Instead of the goods being sent to Harwich, the witness saw them exposed in Genese's mock-auction-room, iu Cheapside, and they were there sold, or as the witness said, with a sigh, " they gradually disap peared like snow."—(Laughter.) Cross-examined by Mr. CooßE—When the in. solvent threatened witness, he (the witness) was also in a passion. Mr. I. OOKE—Then, I suppose, when he put him self into a passion, and talked of honour, you put yourself in a pa.sion and talked of honesty ? Wit ness—No, I talked only of my goods.--(Laughter.) Hiram Bath, the creditor's brother, also gave similar testimony. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER believed the insolvent intended deliberately to cheat Mr. Bath; at present,' however, the Court would adjourn the-case. SPRING ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. AYLESBURY, MARcH 2. THE KING V. WOODMAN AND SIX OTHERS. This was an indictment against the seven defen dants for an assault on John Somes, at the parish of Ivanhoe, in this county, on the 28th of March, 1829. Mr. Serjeant STORKS for the prosecution, ob served, that the defendants were seven persons of some rank in society, being considerable farmers and their sons. The injury complained of was one of magnitude, and aggravated by the station of the de fendants, two of whom were constables, and one headborough of Ivanhoe. It unfortunately happened that in Ivanhoe there existed no slight degree of hot blood, and the prosecutor had unquestionobly made himself unpopular by his efforts to correct various abuses which had found their way into the parish. On the 28th of last March, the annual vestry meet ing of the parish took place, and having discussed sundry matters is the vestry-room, the party ad journed the farther consideration of them to the Red Lion—time out of :wind the theatre of parish gaieties, after the termination of the laborious por tions of their meetings ! Down to the dinner sat Mr. Somes, and many of his fellow-parishioners, and the clergyman of the parish was chairman. While the minister stayed all was peace, but no sooner had the clergyman left the chair, than the defendants began to manifest unequivocal symptoms of riot, and disposition to quarrel with Mr. Somes. 'I he Catholic Relief Bill was discussed, and the gentle men grew furious in their zeal; some denouncing his Grace the Duke of Wellington as the assassin of the Constitution, and others as its friend and saviour. Various toasts were given, not that the object of them might be honoured, but to create dissension and riot ; and matters had proceeded a considerable way towards a regular war, when a paper, composed by one of the anti-Somists of the company, was read, which was as follows :—" That old hell hound (meaning Mr. Somes) will take com mand of the vestry till he falls into the ditch, after which his hopeful son, the greyhound, will bully the parish till that noble dog Lion (meaning Mr. Woodman) wakes, whose voice shall be thunder, and his de e ds ligh tning."—( Loud laughter.)—After this elegant epistle had been read, all was confusion, and after many polite speeches from sundry of the defendants to the prosecutor (such as " I'll knock your head off your old shoul ders, you scamp," " You old villain," &c.) they suited the action to the word, and the prosecutor got as severe a beating as one would wish to receive on a summer's day. Such was an outline of the ease, Mr. Baron VAUGHAN, after ascertaining that the indictment was removed by the prosecutor, said the justice of the case would be best attained by with drawing a juror. Mr. Serjeant Swum instantly acquiesced. The Learned BARON-1 should advise the gentle men of Ivanhoe to finish their business at the vestry in future, and not to adjourn to the Red Lion to re port progrese , till they have become a little coo l er . Thus ended the matter, and the " Author of Ivanhoe" and his friends retired. Thomas Ashwell, aged 28, was indicted for felo niously uttering to one John Priest, at Woburn green, a 101. forged Bank -note, well knowing it to be flrged and counterfeit, on the 4th of May last. The Jury found the prisoner —Not Guilty. The calendar contains a great number of cases, but none of any marked atrocity, with the excep tion of the murder of Mr. Edden, of Haddenham, in October, 1828. The Grand Jury have returned ull the bills, except this last and most important, which is still before them. NORTHAMPTON, MARCH 2. Thomas While, aged 24, a farmer's labourer, was indicted for a felonious assault upon Ann Swannell, a girl under the age of ten years. It appeared the prosecutrix and two other children having entered the cowhouse in which the prisoner was, he shut the door, and after a little time beg a n t o take liberties with her person. From her statement, corroborated by that of her mother, and a surgeon who examined her, there was no doubt that the prisoner had com pleted the capital offence. The J ury found him Guilty, and the LORD CHIEF BARON passed sentence of death upon him. Win. Clare and Wm. Ireson were found guilty of poaching in a wood belonging to the Earl of West moreland ; and Thomas Parsons, Charles Cock, and John Bliss, were convicted of a similar offence com mitted in a wood belonging to Wm. Watkins, Esq. The prisoners offered no resistance to the keepers in either case, and therefore The Learned JUDGE ordered them to be dis charged on entering into their own recognizances to come up for judgment if called , upon, and for their own and each other's good behaviour in the mean time. HERTFORD, AfAUCH 2. Mr. Justice BAYLEY was escorted into town this morning by the High Sheriff and a numerous re tinue of the Magistracy of the county. After at tending divine service at the Church, his Lordship proceeded to the Court-house, and opened the Com mission. The Lord Chief Justice TINDAL is not expected until late this evening. The business in the Nisi Prius Court consequently does not commence until the morning. There are at present only seven causes set down for trial. Thecalendar contains the names of 43 prisoners, whose offences (with the exception of the case of James Franklin, who stands charged with the wil ful murder of his wife at Bishop Stortford), are not of a particular aggravated nature. James Wheeler, aged 28, and Daniel Hailer, aged 19, were capitally indicted for having violently beaten and robbed Edward Lastbury, of his watch and money at Watford. The Jury, after a short consultation, found a ver dict of Guilty. Mr. Justice BAYLEY told the prisoners that their lives were in great danger. It was a case of a most aggravated nature, isiasmuch as they had shown no mercy to the prosecutor, and bad used great violence in committing the robbery. He should therefore consider their case seriously before he passed sen tence upon them. Yesterday being the day fixed upon for licensing the different public-hou,es in the city of London, the LORD MAYOR, attended by Al lermen VENABLICS, CO:.'ILA ND, and VirtNemesTEß, attended at Guildhall for that purpose. Gem rally the licen,es were renewed with out remark, and only one or two houses out of the 'great number in the city were complained against. At the adjourned day several applications are to be made for the fresh licenses, and many petitions on the subject were handed in to his Lordship, THE' MARKETS. COAL 111 A lIK Adair's 31. Od, Reautoont--.._,, .. 29 0 Bensham Main 26 0 Bishop's 26 0 Charlotte --- 27 6 Felling 27 0 Hebkurn Main 30 0 39 0 Kenton West 29 9 Killingworth 30 0 28 6 Ord's Redhugh 26 6 PC 141 , 1 _ 229 0 Pontop Windsor dam.— 28 0 fantield 28 9 Townley . 30 6 Willington Wylam 32 6 WallsEndlteroicke&Co, 3t 3 Ditto ltell Robson & Co. 30 3 Ditto Bensham 27 0 Walls End Brown's 30 0 Ditto Burraton 29 Ships at market, 1:17--Sh ET.—March Walls End Boundary 265. 6d. Ditto Brown's, unacr...... 36 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 29 6 Ditto Gosforth 31 6 Ditto Hcworth 26 0 Ditto 31 0 Ditto Hilda 30 0 Ditto Hotspur 30 3 Ditto Northu land 30 0 Ditto Peareth...—....„... 28 6 Ditto Mason's 22 0 Ditto Walker 31 0 Walla End Hetton 32 9 Walls End Lauibtou........ 32 6 Walls End Lyons-- 30 6 Walla End Stuwut's 32 6 29 0 Hartley .. 3l 0 Stontioal Drina ,4i 0 28 6 Warde's Lianelly 33 6 Tantield Trader _ Hebbuni salad 23 0 Ipa sold, 42—Uosohl, 8% COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beaus. Per Quarter. 1. to s. a to s. a to a. 1. Abingdon 55 62 22 38 91 41 42 Andover * . 55 6.5 92 34 20 23 52 Birraingham....-- 56 66 32 38 28 20 52 sridport 56 '74 32 39 26 30 54 Cirencester 48 65 30 31 17 20 —. 40 Faringdon—......-- 54 86 36 40 96 38 46 Guildford 42 74 24 35 20 30 4 2 Henley 54 83 30 35 20 30 ... 40 Hereford 64 84 38 45 96 40 60 Highworth 62 80 39 42 28 34 Maidenhead 65 84 29 38 22 30 51 Oakingbam 56 76 30 36 18 32 42 Reading *. 41 86 18 41 16 31 4f 5a1i5bury..,,,,.,,.,., 54 66 23 34 20 90 50 Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 42 Stroud 64 74 34 38 22 22 46 Tewkesbury 65 78 40 42 30 38 42 Uxbridge 48 '7l 21 32 19 32 41 Wantage.--...--. 46 73 20 36 16 22 44 Warminster 42 68 23 40 20 90 48 Windsor 48 84 26 31 15 28 53 Worcester-- 60 63 32 36 24 96 —. 51 CHELTENHAM MA RYET.—March 2. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. d. to d. Wheat 7 0 9 0 Beef 4 6 Barley Oats 3 0 4 3 Veal Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 6 7 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 4 6 Hay 31. 10s. to SI. 15e. per toe. LEWES MARKET.—M S. White Wheat (per quarter) All 9arch 0 to £3 8 0 Red ditto 32 0 3.9 6 Barley Oats, New 1 9 0 1 9 Beans • 112 0 113 0 Oil Cake, New l2 10 0 per thousand. HULL A RKET.—Mareh 2._ . The supply of Wheat to this day's market is not so li beral a.; last week ; higher prices were demanded, but not obtained, and the market concluded dull for most de scriptions. Oats remain in the same lifeless state we have noted for many weeks back, but prices do not give way. There has been a speculative inquiry after New Beans, a nd good dry parcels are free sale at an advance of le. per quarter, Old without alteration. Barley is only in mode rate supply, and the trade dull at the prices of last week. Very little passing in Rapeseed or Linseed, and the prices remain as last quoted. Wheat, Old —a. 58a. 68s. ......New --a. 50s, 59a. Foreign —s. 60s. COL....an bond....—.s. —a. —e. Oats, Poland —e. 20a. 24e. Old —s. —s, 263. Small or Feed.... —s. 12s. 18s. -•11. 94a. Foreign Barley, Norf. & Suf 2Ba. SOs. I:inc. & Wold —a. 24a. 275. Foreign —a. Beans 28s. 30s. 365. .. --s. 28s. Us. Pease, White —a. 30e. SW Grey Tares —a, 20a. 26e. Foreign . —a. 2.41, 26e Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —l. 461. 491. NORWICH. Feb. 47. Wheat (per qr.) 4ss. 635. 68s. I Beans (per qr.) ..... .... 265. SU Barley Oats tls 25s 50. Flour, fine (per sack) 465. 48s. Cmcwrga.—Wheat, per 751 b. 9s. Od. to Sts. ekl., Batley, Skl gas. 4s. 3d. to ss. Od. • Oats, 401 b. 21. Yd. to SS. Od. NANTWICH.—Wheat, per 751 b. 91. Od. to 96. 5d.; Barlvy, 99 qrts. 4s 9d. to ss. Od. ; Oats. 501 b. Ss. 6d. to ss. 9d. DUMFItIES MA. s.d. s.i. s.d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 9 to 7 3 Butter, 16os 0 OW 0 9 Barley 3 4 3 6 Eggs, dozen ... ...... —.. 0 0 0 4 Oats 2 i 2 9 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal I 9 9 0 Veal 0 S 0 4 Potatoes, cwt. ,KETS.—Feb. 24. DUBLIN MARKET N, ITE.—FaIDAY, Feb. 96. From To H. P. 1,852 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 23 0 32 0 93 0, , 3`,14 Bete l7 stone 12 0 IS 0 19 11 % 847 Barley. ,16 stone 10 0 15 0 13 10 3,247 Oats, l2 stone 9 9 19 6 10 7 9,985 Cwt. F10ur............. 9 stone 6 0 24 0 9 2,095 Oatmeal 8 stone 9 6 16 0 12 9Nl_ Sold to 'hikers only. 6,453 Cwt. Flour ......... 16 0 94 0 18 734 Average price of Wheat and Flour 465. 4d. per lack_ Firsts, —......... from 21s. Ad. to 945, Od. Sales of Do. 9,985 Receipts of Flour, 13,9041 Seconds, from 14s. Od. to 19 s , Od. Thirds, from 6s, Od. to 13s, 0,1. Quartern Loaf, TRICE OF BREAD. —... gd. 1 Half Quartern COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPOITZD. Same pe, This riod last year. year. 18:i0 Bags, &e. Bags, &c. Liverpool 89,665 131,711 London 8,164 6,033 Glasgow 5 740 4,605 Total exported in 1830 2,670. Same period 18V 7,402. Bags, kc. , 200 700 POIRrIED. Previous ly this y ear. • !Bags, BIRTHS. On the 28th ult. at Walton-on-Thames, the Viseountess Powereceurt, wife of the Reverend Frederick Twisleton, of a son. At Florence, on the sth ult. the lady of Sir G. T. Temple, Bert. of a son. On the Ist inst. in Dorset-square, Mrs. Playfair, of a son. On the 2d inst. Mrs. M. Clarke, of Hanover-terrace, Regent's Park, of a son. On the 2d inst. the lady of H. Down, Esq., of a son. - - - MARRIED. On the ht inst. at Clifton, R. Jones, Esq., of Chan cery-lane, to Lady Radcliffe, of York-erescent, relict of Sir J. Radcliffe, Bart., of Milne's-bridge House, and Roy ton, Lancashire. At Paris, on the 25th ult. at the Chapel of the British Ambassador, by the Right Rer. Bishop Luscombe, B. P. Sadler, Esq. R.N.. to Cathoine Barnard, daughter of the late W. Skinner, E.q. On the 2,1 inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, R. H. Shepard, E•q. to Alicia, second daughter of the late J. W. Dunkin, Esq., of Torrington-square. At Great Barr, Staffordshire, R. Wellbeloi , ed, barrister, to Sarah, only daughter of J. Scott, Esq., High► Sheriff for Worcestershire. DIED. On the 2d inst. in Lower Grosvenor-street, Col. J. Mackenzie, C. 8., of the Hon. East India Company's ser vice on the Madras Establishment. On the Ist inst. C. Cope, Esq., of Chadlane-bill, Edge baston, near Birmingham, and a Magistrate for the county of Warwick, aged 51. _ _ On the 2d inst. in Eaton-place, the infant daughter of J. H. Calcraft, At East Cow. s, Major-General Burton, aged 75. On the Ist inst. in Dorset-place, Pall-mall East, Goo. Tappen, Esq., aged 59. EAST INDIA.-MARRIAGES. At Calcutta, Oct. 3, 7'. J. Nuthall, Esq., of the 46th Rrgt. N. 1., to Eliza, only daughter of the late L. Tate/ Esq , surgeon in hit Majesty's service. At Barrackpoore, Sept. 25, Surgeon C. S. Curling, of the 20th Regiment Native lufantry, to Miss Charlotte Denison. At Bombay, Sept. 10, Lieut. B. H. Crockett, ht Gre nadier Regiment Native Infantry, to Mary, daughter of R. J. Brassey, EN., of Lombard-street, and of Ilford, Essex. At Bombay, Sept. 14, T. H. Thatcher, Esq. to Mies Lewellyn, daughter of the late Col. Lewellyn,, Adj.-Gea• of the Bombay Army. At Kurnaul, Oct. 15, Lieut. H. Goodwin, Bengal En gineers, to Maria, second daughter of Lieut... Col. Gale, 37th Regt., N.I. At Calcutta, Nov. 2, W. V. Zillard, E. H. M. 16th Lancers, eldest son of W. P. Zillard, Esq., of Oakbill Cottage,J. Palmer,Margaret, fif t h d aug h ter of At Singapore, Aug. 13 , by license, the R e v. 3, Toni. lin, 8.A., to Miss Cooley. h ner Somerset, ,Eoi, t Calcutta. Sally At Poonah, Aug. 30 , Lieut. Wm. Chambers, 13th ta. Regt. NJ., to Jane Barbara, youngest daughter of the late S. Bourchier, Esq. Bombay. At Madras, Sept. 19, J. Orr, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, to Mrs. Elliott, third daughter of U. Lys, E.g., of Madras. At Calcutta, Oct. 27, G. M. Batten, Esq., of the Civil Service, to Miss A. F. Plowden, eldest daughter of T. J. C. Plowden, Esq., of the Hon. 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