The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-09 00:00:00

I, OW d I WO nen 0 turne d e frog' propo' of the ie Se' 20t!IP . ' phies r i eineio' 'rane e ' !ity."" inhor e >ever 6l 1( 1 coo )n a l° 1, I%fr. It would certainly have been much more' delicate in the Noble Lord not to have presided on an occasion such as that. They had heard rainy accusations against him of dealing in dark intrigue; but after the plot of which they had just seen the failure, they could not doubt that °the it could deal in plots as well as he. He begged of them to bear in mind the opinion of the Magistrate, who said there was nothing criminal in the matter, and who drove it out of the office. After what they had heard and seen, he trusted they would not believe him capable of the littleness and baseness which had been imputed to him ; that they would not believe any gentleman capable of-having recourse to such a contemptible stratagem. No ; the fact was, that at ten o'clock ha had told the porter the hour had arrist.d at which lug duty required hitti to turn oft the gas; and Osiretthint to eci lip to Lord Stanhope, and inform his 4otdshil that it was time the lights were extinguished. Tlitt was the full extent of his offence. But of an attempt to bribe the porter, it was at once false and absurd to charge any thing of that sort upon him : or, indeed, upon any person, seeing the nature of the testimony by which it was sought to support it. Adverting to the statement that the numbers were on the former night, for the motion di rected against him, 29—in Iris favour, 9—he begged to say, that the balloting box was not only defective, but se veral members told him tnat they could not get beans, and, therefore, it was no vote at all. Of the applications said to have been made to him by the Conservator, he had:only to say that they had not reaohed him. The CONSERVATO R said he left the letters at Mr. Frost's residence, and he was promised a reply. Mr. FROST resumed, entering, as on former occasions, into the various services for which the Society wire in debted to him. A GENTLEMAN at the upper end of the room, whose name we could not learn, called the Director to order_ repeating the charges made against him, and demanding a reply. Mr. YOUSEY rose, for the purpose of requesting the attention of the meeting to the prevarications of which Knight hail been guilty. He thought they ought to adopt some Resolution expressive of their opinion, that he did not deserve to be continued any longer in the service of the Trustees of that house. The PRESIDENT doubted whether they were entitled, at any time, to take up the matter in that font'. They could not say whether the illness produced the prevarication, or the prevarication the illness --they could not arrive at any sound decision on the subject without a medical inquiry ; they hat therefore better drop the subject, the more espe cially as :t was out of order. He had been guilty of an omission which he should then repair—he had not con cluded with a motion ; but what he intended to meve was to this effect, that the meeting do suspend the bye law respecting the ejection of members for the purpose of ejecting Mr. John Frost. Also, that the officers of the Society du call upon Mr. Frost to deliver up the books, the documents, the Herbaria, and all the property of the Society in his possession, as well as detailed accounts of all the monies of the Society intrusted to him. Mr. Fnosx continued his observations, going over the topics to which he addressed himself on the former even ing. He dwelt upon the distinction between Home and Corresponding Members. He never entered the name of a Fellow or a Home Member; he merely allowed those to Sign who were to be Corresponding Members ; he did it for the good of the Society, and it was of the highest ser vice to the Institution. He had the deepest reason to complain of the persecution to which Ire had been exposed. He attended the Council, expressed to them regret for the indiscretions of which he had been guilty, had thrown himself upon their mercy, and Ire found no clemency. In the cours e Of the Noble Lord's speech allusion had been mad e to his retnoval front the Household of the Duke of Cumberland. He was not afraid to meet that subject,—he should be ready to do so whenever required ; but surely the present was not a fit occasion. No ; the subject had merely been broached for the purpose of pressing upon one who was regarded as a falling man. As to the pecuniary matters, tipou whi c h so much stress had been laid, he had o nly to say that he was fully prepared to submit the c l earest and most satisfactory statement of those transac tions early in the ensuing week —(Applaus e .)—H e con cluded with a very earnest appeal ; to th e j us ti ce an d goo d feeling o f the Society, imploring them mercifully to con sider the circumstances in which he was placed, contending against the rank and talent of the Noble Lord in the Chair, U well as the various undue means which had been resorted to for the purpose of oppressing him. Dr. SIGMOND wished to know from Mr. Frost what answer he had to give respecting the application made to him on the subject of the accounts on the 4th of April ? Mr. Faosv replied that he came to that meeting under the impression that he had no charges to answer, except such as had been made against him on the former: evening; but now every moment brought a fresh charge ; he had riot these a counts then with him —h e could not be ex- Pooted to-have them without notice ; but in due time he should be happy to lay them before the Society. Mr. Frost then left the room, and did not afterward* return. Doctor Siossown said, that bearing in mind the care e r of Mr. Frost there, they could not forget that previous to the unfortunate expulsion of Mr. Brown, he had exerted himself most be ne fi c i a ll y and assiduously for the goo o the S oc i e t y —t h at they might, therefo re, with much d ad f tage to themselves, consider the expediency of giving up the design of ejecting Mr. Frost, and then proceed to dis cu•s whether or not they should abolish the office of Di rector altogether. Were they to decide upon that aboli tion, they would completely put an end to the risk of that collision between Mr. Frost on the one hand, and the Pre. sident and Council on the other, which might otherwise be justly Apprehended. They m i g h t pass a Resolution also,, declaring that they were satisfied with his former exertions for the advancement of the interests of the So c,iety, but th a t i n future the office of Director would be dispensed with. The PRESIDENT then informed the Meeting that the Council had com e to a Resolution to recommend the abo lition then suggemted. It was the n fur moved, , 4 Th e byelaws be susended zethe purpose of a boliahing at the office - of Director p as un ssary and inexpedient." Upon this a long and desul y convetsation arose on the legality and correctness of such proceeding.--During a pause, _ The PRESIDENT took occasion to say, that he was in fluenced by no persecuting spirit, that he exerted no in fluence ngainst Mr. Frost, that relatives and friends of his w ho were members of the Society had absented them "elves on that occasion, and he should be exceedingly S orry to be the means of bringing any gentleman to vote against Mr. Frost. boctor StOMOND renewed the motion made on the for- Itter evening, respecting the recovery from Mr. Frost of t he various articles belonging to the Society now in his 13.08sesion--allowing th a t gent l eman time to the 16th of January for returning the property in question. Doctor GORDON said, that the recommendations of the ma -Co uncil o ug h t to receive the support of the general body ; kwere not th en to consider whether or not they would netcertain demands upon Mr. Frost, but whether or they would suprt Council. Had Mr. Frost met the dewands of the Council as he ought ? Was it becona th should right, that such a motion as had been submitted ..be put from the Chair, without it being preceded by ‘.declaration that the Meeting approved of the proceedings of the Council respecting Mr. Frost ? _tbr. Szcatonn fully concurred with the la s t s p ea k er , altered the motion accordingly. do 4ft " some further conversation, Dr. Sigmond aban iled his former motion, and proposed a resolution con ttZ4t;tl of the minute of Council, by which Mr. Frost s ue from the exercise of his functions as a Di rect 4 0 1 4 . and it was understood that the motion for the citK l tin of that office would be brought before the So- Pa its next anniversary. ti o ," meeting having voted by ballot on this last-me:l- A.7u r esolution, the numbers appeared—For it, 21— pen§,Vust it, 7 —Majority, 14. p:he motion calling on Mr. Frost to surrender the pro -3:of the Society was then put from the Chair, the 41dent observing that it would be informal to insert the Ito m h iv i s * " Director," as the office was suspended. This th e g been also put to the vote, the numbers were—For elation 20 --Against it, s—Majority, 15. il,ll4lllcs;vere then voted the:Chairman, and the meet t °loomed to the 16th o f January. Thy Pe c ~"e new Historical Romance, so much ex .r..;l, entitled "D arn l ey, " b y the Author of " Richelieu, It i "of th e C ourt o f F rance, " is at length published. reip„ " P"ken of as a s ti rr i ng an d splend id picture of the qr . ; of littler the EIGHTH, so fertil e in m a gnifi cence , teii,trQus Adventure, and events that furnish such ad- Materials for th e N ove li s t . Th e ce l e b rate d festi spi" o f the Fi e ld o f t h e C l oth of Gold, form a most con 46otts featu re i n t h e story. 41 4 4 Thursday the 31st an inquisition was the lat the Royal Oak, Lidgate, near Newmarket, on t), ei: fi r of ANNE CRICK, who (lied on Monday night, ;INItII. under mysterious circumstances. The deceased ger ?Wards of 13 years of age, and was at the time of NII: e4 01 1 . 73 the service of Mr. SAMUEL SNAPERD, of ~N64 ' , • After hearing evidence, the Jury returned a %% I . '" to the effect, that the deceased had died from in theitoation of the lungs and fever. They also expressed 11 4 d dec i ded di sappro b at i on o f the conduct of the mater "446- '.04 of the deceased. PKICIES OF sTocx; nip. DAY AT ON O'CLOCK, g tilt Stock 3 pet Cemt, lied. q4 l4k l' )1•1 ATlOnitlea I per Cent. Cons ............93.%,.41New Ditto shut 1 1 4 per Cent Ditto Bed. lOO4 3 ,4 Initto lid. 79 7?tim. I per Cent. Ann. I"N% Ditto sf). 2d. 19 78 pm. Ditto. MS ll95;Vi Ditto lO. 79 78 pm. Ditto Scrip - Ditts 6rnall Rank 1.. Ann.... ...... ...I9 11—M Ditto lid. 19 78 pm. Ditto 30 y ears Indi t Stock >quo Bonds 7l 75 pm. Cons, for Jan. 20 951 5 14 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONK O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds -ON %14 ' Peru v ian Bonds ...... ......... Buenos Ayres Bonds 30% !Portuguese Bonds Chilian 80nt 4, 4 — , Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds — ! Ditto, New Ditto, 1824 Danish Greek Bonds — 1823 — Ditto, :i8•15 31 145 , French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala - Exchange —f. . \lexican Bonds — , 3 per cent. —t. —r. Ditto, 1325 27m ' - Exchange —f. —r. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (ias. at 5/. pm.) £lOO 403. Brazilian Mining Company Brazilian imp. Min. Cu. oss at 5(. pm.) £2O Ditto National lO Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £37% Potosi La Paz and Peruvian Co. 10 6s. Od. PRICES OF IRISH STO Bank Stock 25 5 34 Consols, 3 per cent . tl4t4 Gnv. Stock, 3% per cent 99% Ditto, New 4 per Cent lOl% Gov. I)eb. 3!4 per cent— 9 l7i Royal Canal Stoca Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c — CKIS, nURLIN, JAN. 6. St. Patrick Incur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto !Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank !Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine I Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena. 0 1 Dublin 0 O Flanders 1 France 0 O Guernsey&Jersey 0 Arrived. Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands 0 2 Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden I Waterford LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. THE GOVERNORS respectfully re m i n d the SUBSCRIBERS and their FRIENDS, that the ANNUAL BALL, will take place on THURSDAY next at the CROWN and ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. (Dancing to commence at Eight o'clock), which they bare no doubt will meet with a repetition of the liberal patro nage bestowed on the former Ball. 15, Old Broad-street, By order of the Governors, Jan. 8, 1830. JOHN GILL, Secretary, ete *un LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1830. Despatches from General Sir LOWRY COLE, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 24th of November,---and also from Lie - nt.- General Sir C. COLVILLE, Governor of the Mauritius,--were received this morning at the Colonial Office. The French Papers of Wednesday conta lo particular news worthy of extract : FItENCII FUNDS...-TA MS, JAN. 6.—Five per Cents, 108 f. 50e. to 1081.60 c. ; Four and a Half per Cents. 105 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents. 841. 20c. 84f. 10c. Bank Stock, 1,890 ; Rentes de Naples, 91f. 85c. 70c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 811 ; Rentes d'Espagne, 7 ;Rentes Perpe tuelles d'Espagne, 62 61i; Haytian Loan, 4801. Ex changron London,—one month, 251. 60c.; three months, 25f. 45e.—Cout s Authentique. Lisbon Gazettes to the 26th December, in clusive, have been received, bat their contents possess no public interest here. They merely give an account of some religious ceremonies performed by the KING and his accomplices in the sacred work of usurpation. Our Paris Correspondent informs us that a question of the greatest importance to th e free dom of discussion in France has been for some time seriously agitated before the Provincial Tribunals. It arises from the restrictions im posed by the Government on the manual or me chanical operations of the printing press, which, according to certain old laws and decrees, framed at a period when liberty did not exist for periodi cal publications in France, have been subjected to the superintendence of the Government au thorities, who forbid any printer to exercise his trade until he has obtained a Ministerial licence, which is granted, continued, or withdrawn at pleasure. It is obvious that, in a great capital like Paris, and even in:some of the more con siderable provincial towns, there cannot practically be any serious obstacle to the establishment ol a Newspaper on liberal or anti-Ministerial prin ciples. The Government, in fact, find it im possible, in such situations, to make the old law of license an efficient engine of restriction. It is different, however, in those departments which do not contain any second or third rate towns. There the Minister is able, by limiting the number of licenses, and placing those who enjoy them under the watchful superintendence of the Prefet and the Bishop, to obtai❑ a complete and effectual controul over this part of the pro vincial press, and thus, in fact, to fetter a con siderable proportion of the whole number of the periodical journals in the kingdom. When it is proposed to establish a Newspaper decidedly hostile to the Minister of the day, or even o doubtful or suspicious principles, a hint to the e printers, one or more, is i❑ general all that is necessary to prevent its appearance, and even without any direct interference, it is often enough to stifle the Paper in its birth, that the printers be of a timid and cautious character, and above all, that they have reason to be well convinced of the disposition of the Government to watch their proceedings, and treat their literary delin quencies with severity. The Charter declares that every Frenchman has the right to cause print, " defaire imprimer," and to publish his opinions on condition of his conforming himself to the laws for the repression of the abuses of that liberty ; and the law of the 18th July, 1828, in pursuance of the fundamen tal principle of the Charter, allows every French man, arrived at the age of maturity, and in the enjoyment of civil rights, to publish a journal, or periodical Paper, without any previous au thority. But, by means of his controul over the printer, the Minister is enabled to impose a , silent veto on the liberty de . 1r 'iy the Ch 01(1, and by the whole of the thc pei iu dical Press. Four of the provincial judicatories, those of Moit, Bernay, Moulins, and Chartres, have been called upon to decide between parties who proposed to establish provincial Newspapers, and the licensed printers of the neighbourhood, •• who refused to allow'the use of their presses for • the purpose of publishing the journals in con templation. These four tribunals have been unanimous on the general principle, that the printer, hi consideration of the monopoly en joyed under his license, is bound to print any journal proposed to him, without entering into an examination of the views or principles on which it is to be conducted. These decisions, although not perhaps warranted by the letter of the law, appear to be perfectly in accordance with a wide, and liberal, and conscientious view of its spirit and intention. The Judges seem to have felt that an important article of the Charter, and one which was in fact a guarantee for all the other articles, was brought in question before them, and that on their sentence its existence and efficacy depended. Such of their judg ments as we have seen, that of Moulins for in starce, appear to have been dictated by sound as well as liberal views. The Judges of Mou lins appear to have held that by conferring on certain individuals the privilege of exercising a particular profession, and interdicting all others from its exercise, the Government has necessarily imposed on the privileged indi viduals the condition of employing their exclu sive right for the benefit of those who are ex cluded from its exercise, and that by granting to Frenchmen to cause print their opinions, and to publish periodical Papers, the law did not commit the practical absurdity of taking away the means of doing so, which would, in fact, have been the case by denying to the author him self the right of printing his own opinions, and, at the same time, granting that right exclusive to the favoured few who act, or refuse to act, according to their own discretion. If such were to be held to be a fair interpretation of the present law of France on this important subject, the Legislature might justly be accused of with drawing with the one hand the benefit it had professed to grant with the other. In the meantime, however, the Royal Court of Poitiers, before whom the judgment of one of the four provincial judicatories to whi c h w e have alluded_ had been brought by appeal, has adopted an opposite view of the subject, and disregarding the four consecutive decisions by which it was understood that the law on the subject had been settled, has thought fit to reverse the judgment of the inferior tribunal, and to relieve the printer from the necessity which the previous decision had imposed on him, of furnishing his presses and printing materials to the publishers of the new journal. This new decision of the Royal Court of Poitiers has left the law of the Press in such an unsatisfactory condition, that we should imagine some considerable change will be thought necessary in the course of the ap proaching Session, either by opening the business of the printer to the public at large, which would certainly be the more natural course, or at least, if the monopoly trust st be maintained, by declaring it compulsory on the individuals enjoying the license to furnish the use of their :presses to all the world, and perhaps at the same time relieving them from the penal consequences of a publication over which they would thus have no controul. We are not sufficiently read in the antiquities of French jurisprudence to say at what period the licenser's privilege, which is in effect a right of exclusion, may have taken its origin ; but would be rather a curious subject of inquiry to trace this assumed right to its origin, and at the same time, by way of parallel, to take a view during the same period of thecilaw of England on the subject ; which, according to a statemei of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL in the late trials here, at one time conferred on the executive branch of the Government the monopoly of the art of printing, under pretence of its having been originally imported under Royal auspices. The present French license might probably be traced to a similar origin, and it is only wonder ful that it should have survived the sweeping system of reform introduced by the revolution. LITERATURE. TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. LONDON, 1830. So far as we can at present judge of this pub lication—for the first number only has yet made its appearance—it bids fair to answer its pro fessed object, namely, that of imparting the most useful topographical intelligence at the cheapest rate, and in the most compendious and accessible form. We augur thus favourably of the work, first, from the very excellent specimen now lying before us; secondly, from the known ability of its Editor and (as we are given to under stand) its proprietor, Mr. Gorton, viho in his former publication, " The General Biographical Dictionary," abundantly satisfied his readers that he possessed those essential characteristics of an Editor, judgment, good sense, and a compre hensive acquaintanc e with general literature. The d' ..e darner given by the Duke of WELLING TON to his colleagues, at Apsley-house, on Thursday even ing, was a Cabinet dinner, and was the first given this season. CATHOLIC BISHOP OF WATERFORD.— His Holiness the POPE has been pleased to appoint the Very Rev. Dr. FoaaN, P. P. of D ungarvan, to the Epis copal Chair of Waterford, vacant by the death of the late Right Rev. Dr. Kitt.Li,..-Dublin Morning Register. SFTIPI I !``TEI,I IGENCE,(THIS DA nol: LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN S.. N.N.W.—Arrived fron Solt in, f r Jamaica; and Adm.! hl Remington, fit Drwerara. PORTSMOUTH, JA N. 8 —Wind N. to N.N.E.—Ar rived his ALorsty's ship Java, Iron Madras, sailed the I st. , if Auzu.t, Mauritiu, tl.e. 26th of September, Cape of Good Hope the 28th of October, St. Helena the 11th of Novrmber, and Ascension the 16th of November; and Lord William Bentinck transport, from Malta aryl Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived ti e Friends, --, from Prince Edwau as bland ; and Solae,, Cross, from Denia. 7.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—Arrived the Sandwich packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 27th ult., spoke on the sth inst., in lit. 49, long. 7 47, his Ma jesty's ship Britomart, cruizing to supply the homeward bound; and Magnet packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 23d ult. ; Panther, Gowry, from Gallipoli. DOVER, JAN. S.—Arrived off Port, the Janet, Lo thian, from Bombay ; and Paul Pry, from St. Michaels. The Jessie, Winter, from Table Bay to Algo t Bay and the Mauritius, was -t,,tally wrecked the 7th of October near Cape The master, two mates, two pas sengers, and eight of the crew saved in the long boat, and three others of the crew swam on shore. It is feared that fourteen persons, passengers, and part of the crew, were drowned. Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope previous to the 21st of October :—The Olive Branch, Anderson ; Charles Kerr, Brodie ; Harriett, Buckle ; and William, Young, all from London ; John Graig, Younger, from Plymouth ; Aguila, Taylor, and Skerne, , from Liverpool ; Jamaica. Wilson, and Retrench, Cooper, from the Clyde ; Niema, Wade, from C.ll;n t ; Kate, Watt, from the Mauri tius ; Emulous, --, and Eliza, Jane, from Bor deaux ; Courier de St. Paul, from Nantes ; and Lucitus, Feres, from Buenos Ayres. LAW INTELLIGENCE,-(THIS DAY, VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. INDISPOSITION OF COUNSEL. -EFFECTS OF ANTIDILIOUS FILLS. At the sitting of his lioNoun this morning, upwards of 30 bankrupt petitions were struck out of the paper, in eon seqm nce of no counsel appearing. After a few petitions had been disposed of, Mr. ROOTS said he had an application to make, ad mi .sericordiant curia;. In the early part of the day, his Ho nour had struck out two cases in which he was Counsel, (Harding and Sawden, and Rooth and Rooth.) He (Mr. Roots) was present shortly before the cases were called on, he was labouring under severe indisposition, and was com pelled to take that species of medicine, against the effects of which it was no use making resistance. (A laugh.) Under such circumstances, the Learned Counsel trusted the Court would retore those cases in which he was Counsel. Mr. RUSSELL had a similar application to make, though he was not (happy was he to say it) labouring under that indisposition of which Mr. Roots complained. But the Court would recollect the holidays were hardly over, and Counsel were entitled to some little indulgence. Mr. BACON trusted the Court would restore the case of " Ladbroke and Philips" which it had struck out, in con sequence, of the illness of Mr. Lloyd, for whom he appeared. Several other II iriisters rose to beg for the same in• dulgence, stating as reasons for their applications, that several long cases bad gone off, which they expected wool( occupy the time of the Court. The VICE-CI7A NCELLOR thought the mere absence of Camel in consequence of the supposition that the cases in which they were concerned would not come, as no reason whatever why the Court should restore cases to the paper ; with respect to the applications of Mr. Roots and Mr. Bacon, the Court thought they ought to be granted, the illness of Counsel was at any time a sufficient ground to form such an application. The Court, there fore, restored the case in which Mr. Roots and Mr. Bacon were engaged, but refused to do so with respect to any of the others, observing, that there was a plain rule which all men knew and were bound to abide by. If Counsel were not here at the time a case was called on, the Court must suppose there was nothing in the case calling for the attention of Counsel. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. sminf V. TURNER. This was an action to recover a sum of money for house keep and house hire. Ile Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Da mages, 121. HARVEY V. HANSOM, GENT. This was an action to recover the sum of 71. 2s. Gd. for medicine supplied by the plaintiff, an apothecary, to the defendant, an attorney. The plaintiff proved his ac count, that the bill was delivered early in 1828, and no obj'•ction had been made to it, that he had called fifteen times at the defendant's house, and three times at his office, without having been able to see him. Mr. PLATT, for the defendant contended that no benefit had been proved to have accrued from the plaintiff's me dicine and attendance, and that M. would be a sufficient sum for this bill. Lord TENTERDEN, in summing up, remarked, that the defendant had never before objected to the bill, and that his . • object was to reduce the verdict to 5/. in order to deprive the plaintiff of his costs. The Jury found for the plaintiff to the full amount. Damages 71. 2s. 6d. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Madras Papers to the 16th August, and Cape of Good Elope Papers to the 22d October, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. From the Madras Paper of the 15th August we find the conduct of Captain Corbyn, of the ship Roberts, towards his pas sengers, has been subject to a judicial investigation, and Mr. Cullimore, the gentleman complaining, has obtained damages of 300 rupees, with costs. The above Papers are iu general devoid of interest. )From the Cape Papers to the 22d October.) The troops composing the garrison at Green Point had a review and sham-fight, for the purpose of being inspected by the General, the Earl of Dalhousie, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army. (From the Paper of the 10th Oct.) As nothing is Paid in our letters from the frontiers this week about the rust in the crops, we are led to hope that the Colony may escape so terrible a calamity. His Excellency the Governor and his suite arrived at Graaff Reinet, on the 15th of September, and a salute was fired in consequence. They write from Graham's Town that the weather had set in within these few days very cold, with flying showers. His Excellency will thus have an opportunity of beholding the most interesting part of the Colony. According to the Paris Papers it appears decided that, in the late Council held, the Chambers will be convoked on the 2d of March ; and it is reported in the saloons that the Budget will be the only law of importance that will be presented during the session, which is to take place four or five days after the opening. Accounts from Bordeaux state, that the river there re presents that of the Neva great floating masses of ice almost covers the Garonne. There is an arrival at Havre from Monte Video of the 20th of October, at that period all was tranquil there. `Two Lisbon mails have arrived this morning, brought by the Magnet, which sailed the 23d Dec., and the other by the Sandwich, which sailed the 27th of December.-- The contents have not yet transpired. Accounts from Liverpool of the 7th of January state, that about 1,500 bags of cotton were sold the day before. THZ FUNDS. The Consol Market, which left off yesterday at 95 to 4, for the Account, opened at the same price this morning ; and in consequence of the report of the change of Ministry, which one of our evening contemporaries yesterday announced as almost decided upon, the Consol Market continues lowering. The opinion in the City is, that all is not right with the present Administration, and Consols are at present 95k, sellers, with a heavy market. In the Foreign Market nothing doing. Greek Stock maintains its price. ENGLISH 3f per Cent. 1004 _a New 4 per Cent., 1014* 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Bonds, 74 76 Exchequer Bills, 80 81 FUNDS. Greek, 341 I Mexican, 264 7 Peruvian, 18 19 Portuguese, 594 60,i Prussian, Russian, 1094 Spanish, 101 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 9.5 i, FUNDS. Bank Stock, 217 18 India Stock, 3 per Cent. Cum. 93 3. Do., for Account, 95 Ditto Reduced, 94 1. FOREIG Brazilian, 70Z- Buenos Ayres, 30 31 Chilian, 26i 27i Colombian, 24 5 Danish, '75 French, 5 per Cent. 108,1; Ditto, 3 per Cent. 83i 41 THREE 0' CL 0 CB. Consols for Account, 95e. DEATH OF SIR T. LAWRENCE, P.R.A (From the Times.) It is with sincere pain that we have to announce paint all the eminent characters of his day, whether dis tinguished by personal attractions as beauties, by rank or station, or by talents which were likely to render their lineaments obj•'cts of curiosity with posterity. He painted the Allied Sovereigns and their Ministers at Vienna ; the Pope, and his Cardinal Secretary Gonsalvi, with others, at Rome ; the King of France, and several members of that Royal Family at Paris; the King of England, in various position and attitudes, with all our great men athome ; and rarely did he fail, whilst conveying an accurate rssemblanee, to impart also some of those graces or improvements which spring froni a mind having the perfection of art always present with it, and diving deeply into individual character, from the conformation of the visage, the expression of the features—particularly those more moveable ones, the lips and eyes—and the short conversations in which he dextrously engaged his subjects whilst sitting. Sir Thomas, was, we believe, somewhere bordering on sixty-two on the day ()Ellis death. We know not how his loss is to be supplied at the Academy, or where a successor is to be found— " --Uno avulso—deficit alter, " —Nec simili frondescit virga metallo." (From the Morning Journal.) On Wednesday (we believe) Sir Thomas bad been bled, and on Thursday evening complained to two frit ads who were present at his table, of great uneasiness in the chest, and of pain in the arms. His man-servant was called— the arm was then bleeding profusely—he leaned hack in his chair, and said "I am very must be d; ir.g." The words were scarce uttered when he expired. His age was nearly sixty. He had been a Member of the Royal Academy for above thirty years. In private life Sir T. Lawrence was distinguished fur the greatest urbanity of manners. The highest authority in the realm pronounced him to be " the most finished gentleman of his court ;" and he was in more than one sense the aristocratic painter of Great Britain. His personal appearance was greatly in his favour : he had a fine intellectual head, and a &trace ful and dignified deportment; and much 'resembled the late Mr. Canning in the expression of his countenance. British art will have sustained a severe loss by his death. He was acknowledged throughout Europe to be the first portrait-painter of the age ; and many of the most distin guished men of every nation have done bomagc to his transcendent genius. Emperors and kings have been proud to give employment to his pencil. In his own country there is scarcely a noble or wealthy family that does not possess one of his works ; and in the various continental galleries they are esteemed beyond any other productions of modern art. He has left no family, having never been married ; it is said, in consequence of disap pointed affection in early life. Devizes, in Wiltshire, had the honour of giving birth to this accomplished artist. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday after noon at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earls ROSSLYN and ABERDEEN, Viscount MELVILLE, Lord ELLENBOROOGII, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr, BERRIES. Earl BATHURST and Mr. VESEr FITZ GERALD were the only Members of the Cabinet absent; the former being at his country scat at Cirencester, in Gloucestershire ; and the latter gentleman not being suffi ciently recovered from his indisposition to attend. The Ministers assembled between two and three o'clock, and sat in deliberation till half-past four of o'clock. The Earl of ABERDEEN, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, had interviews with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury. We are enabled to state, from the most po sitive authority, that all the preliminary arrangements for raising Prince Leorotn to the Throne of Greece have been made, and that the result of the conferences have been communicated to the respective Courts whose Am bassadors had taken part in them. There are, however, still some obstacles to surmount, and we can confidently state, that the affair is not considered to be positively set tled. So far as the Prince himself is concerned, no point remains to be argued ; and it is believed that the Emperor of Russia will also agree to what has been determined upon in London. Should every thing be arranged de finitively as now intended, the Duke of WELLtsoroN or the Earl of ABERDEEN, in the House of Lords, and Mr. PEEL in the House of Commons, will bring in a Bill to absolve the Prince from his allegiance, as a British sub ject ; and the means of enabling him to support the kingly dignity will be provided for by the Allied Powers. As to the income enjoyed by Prince LEOPOLD in right of the late Princess CHARLOTTE, we have authority to state, that no suggestion will be made to him by our Ministers, as to relinquishing any part of it, it being felt that such an in terference would be indelicate. It is expected, however, that such a liberal provision will be made for him as King of Greece, that his Royal Highness will voluntarily resign a portion of the income which is paid to him by this country. In addition to this statement, which is from good au thority, we have to notice a rumour now very prevalent in the best saloons in Paris, that a marriage is to take place between Prince LEOPOLD and one of the daughters of the Duke of ORLEANS. Such an union is much more probable than the story which has been told of an intended marriage between him and the widow of NAPOLEON. It is a well-known fact that his Royal Highness and the OR LEANS family have lately been on terms of vet) , great inti macy. During his stay in Paris he was a frequent visitor at the Duke's palace, and since his return there has been much correspondence between him and the Duke. The statement in a Morning Paper that the KING was warmly opposed to the projected elevation of LEOPOLD, is, we can state positively, without foundation.— Court Journal, MURDER OF HANLON.-011 Wednesday THOMAS MELLON alias MULHALL, WILLIAM CLINTON, awl MICHAEL BYRNE, were placed at the bar, charged with the murder of THOMAS Harmon. The curiosity of the public was greatly excited respecting this trial, and for the purpose of hearing it, we noticed amongst the dis tinguished individuals in the Court, Lady GREVILLE, Lady GOWER, Lord PRUDHOE, Archdeacon SINGLETON, Captain DOYLE, Colonel VERNER, &c. &c. The case having closed on both sides, Judge VANOELEUR addressed the Jury, who retired for about an hour and a quarter, and then returned with a verdict acquitting CLINTON, and finding THOMAS MELLON and AfrotArr. BYRNE both Guilty of the murder. Judge VANDELEUI then pro nounced, in the usual terms, the sentence of execution upon both prisoners, to take place on Friday (to-morrow). The two miserable men were then led, under a strong guard, into Newgate. The Court immediately afterwards adjourned.—Dublin Morning Register of Thursday. SUDDEN DEATH OF COUNSELLOR SHER RIN.—On Tuesday evening, as this gentleman was pas sing through Abbey-street, he was obliged, on account of extreme weakness, to sit upon the steps of a shop door. A glass of water was given him by a person in the shop. After drinking of it, he sunk lifeless on the flagway. He was immediately conveyed to Jerrie -street hospital, where Mr. CALLEN, the resident apothecary, opened the jugular vein, but erery attempt to restore animation failed. This unfortunate gentleman had been for some time labouring under a pulmonary complaint, and had been taking medi cines, some of which were found in his pocket and a blister in his hat.—Dublin _Morning Register. EXECUTION. —On Wednesday, WILLIAM ADAMS, who was convicted about six weeks ago of rob bery, aggravated by assault, suffered the last sentence of the law at the ordinary place of execution.— Caledonian Afereury. day the death, not altogether sudden, but yet rapt , ,, that most atni:ble man and great artist, Sir Thomas Law rence, President of the Royal Academy. He expired a , his house in Russell-square, on ursdav night, after at. illness of five days. On Saturday, we are toll, he dine(' with a party at the house of Mr. Secretary Peel. Or Sunday he first complained of pain in the neck and low al part of the face. The malady seemed to increase and re mit at intervals. On Wednesday, Mrs. Otley, the wife of the distinguished writer on the Fine Arts, and a par, of her young family, 'spent the evening with him, when he appeared cheerful. After their departure he was worse, and Dr. Holland was called in, who immediately saw the danger of his patient, w:th whom he sat up all night: he was relieved and better during Thursdey, so that moan!, evening lie received two other old friends, one of whom read to him, at his own request, some account of Flax man, the sculptor, in one of the periodical works. They had retired, perhaps to take tea in another room, when they were suddenly alarmed by cries for assistance : they were those of Sir Thomas's servan', but when they reaches! the spot which they had so recently quitted, his nn.-stet had ceased to breathe. Thus died the most distinguished painter of the day in one branch of the art (and we do not know that he ever, except in one or two instances, essayed his skill beyond it)—that of portrait-painting. In this he was certainly without a rival; and his reputation and success were not incommensurate with his merit. He was called on to SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The President's Message contains two or three points requiring some further notice than that which we were yesterday enabled, amidst the press of other matter, to bestow upon them. In discussing the foreign relations of the United States, the language of the President with re gard to France is not distinguished by the most acquiescing or complacent spirit. It is well known that although England has long since paid over a large sum of money to indemnify American citizens for losses which they had sus tained by reason of our military operations in the Southern States, the prompt and full measure of British compensation beieg such indeed as t_.) extort from Mr. Adams the warmest expressions of esteem and eulogy, no one of the Presideiiis who have followed each other in America - siiicst the downhill of Buonaparte, has Fuccearled in obtaining by negotiation from Louis XVIII., or the present Sovereign of France, the least ap proach towards a satisfactory adjustment of claims, of which, at the same tithe, the equity has not been disputed. This delay, if not de nial, of justice, formed more than once a grave subject of complaint with General Jackson's nreCecessors, in their addresses to the United States ; but on the part of the present Chief Ma gistrate, the dissatisfaction assumes a deeper tone, and finds vent in more peremptory language. Ile says, that " the claims of our citizens for depredations upon their property, long since committed under the authority, and in many in stances by the express direction, of the then Go vernment of France, remain unsatisfied, and must therefore continue to furnish a subject of un pleasant discussion, and possible collision, be tween the two Governments." This is broad and plain speaking, and bears on the face of it an index that the President means all 'that he ex presses. No doubt it must appear revolting to a Prince of the House of Bourbon, that he sho , ild be made an instrument for wringing from Royalist and legitimate France, retribution for outrages which France was compelled by an unlawful tyrant to perpetrate; and a taunt may well be flung in the teeth of America, that she declined, from fear or favour, a quarrel, for which she had ample provocation, with him by whom she was grossly injured and insulted, while she threatens to raise one with a sovereign from whose family, instead of suffering wrong, she had received the most inestimable benefits. As a personal appeal, we do not see how such an observation could ho fairly, or at least very gracefully, answered by a negotiator acting for the United States. 'l''•fi rule, however, is positive upon this subject, and the identity of France in 1829 with the .Go vernment to which she submitted herself from 1801 to 1814, can in no sense, and with no re gard to law or reason, be brought into serious controversy. The President does not appear to be quite contented with the spirit entertained in Mexico towards the representative of the United States in that neighbouring (and, we fear, at Washington not much loved) republic. But it is believed among well-informed people, that if ever a diplomatic agent, by over stepping nshciusoufsulnyctiiirst„heanddomiensvtoiclvisntgrughgimles of the nation to which he was accredited, — if ever such a functionary gave just cause of offence to an independent Government, Mr- Poinsett was that man. General Jackson ex cuses his intrigues but lamely, and has acted with prudence in readily recalling this Minister, notwithstanding his great and active talents.— General Jackson speaks with elaborate, and even somewhat ostentatious, sympathy of the wretchedness to which the long-suffering Indian race have been reduced by the tyranny of their white destroyers. The redress, however, which the President proposes for wrongs of which he i does n n h o atn t dh d ea i r s y s et e o m be b en l e e tne t r he i itnoa painful gc e n r i t t ta u oi ( . 1 e t , oi f a e n t d hKe o e f :ll N et V tu l i 1 1( i i i s h y, does not consist of any thing in the shape of sacrifice on the part of the . republican persecu tors. There is no restitution suggested of even a fragment of those wide regions from which the unfortunate aborigines have actually, by force or fraud, been extruded; but he recom mends that they shall be henceforth relegated to an ample district " westward " of the Mississippi, which is to be formally " guaranteed to them. Guaranteed ! Yea ; but is it to be so far gua ranteed that no individual or state of the vihole confederacy can henceforth legally get possession of this land by any pretence of purchase ? If not, we would not give a straw for the guarantee, while rum, or dollars, or powder and shot, form subjects of back-settlement barter. At all events, this panacea for the Indian sufferings is but a repetition of the system which occasioned them, namely, yet another banishment from lands whereon they 'have peaceably subsisted. With General Jackson's views upon home politics, it becomes not us to meddle. For those who are quainted with the circumstances which accom panied his former contest for the chair of Presi dent, and which determined it in favour of Mr. Adams, it may be curious to trace the apparent connexion between Mr. Jackson's theories and his party feelings. Those, likewise, who still recollect a former dissertation of Mr. Adams, on the just distribution of powers between the central and the local Governments of the Union, will be at no loss to find a more than accidental repugnancy between the doctrines of the present Message and of that which issued from the Ex- President, relatively to the same interesting topic. On the Tariff, from which most was expected, General Jackson has afforded the slightest ma terials for estimating his precise line of policy. In truth, on this subject, the President does by no means shine ; since, apart from the obscurity in which he leaves the world as to the degree in which he underrates his own intentions, he leaves no doubt upon the mind of any man as to his entire and extraordinary ignorance of the tariff itself, and of the important questions involved in it. His elementary position is not merely un statesmanlike,—it is lamentabl) absurd. He lays it down as " the general rule " for graduat ing the duties on articles of foreign growth or manufacture, " that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries." It follows, then, that we are to raise a competi tion in our own country with all the articles which are grown or manufactured in every other part of the world. England, therefore, ought to levy such duties on rice, and cotton, and silk, and furs, and pitch, and sugar, and tea, and tub Ice°, not as are calculated to increase her revenue (the lawful and unoffending purpose of taxation), but as will prevent her, if possible, from having any revenue, by enabling her sub jects to produce at home silk, cotton, pitch, tea, tobacco, &c., in so great quantity, and of such a quality, as to prevent the importation of each of these articles, and to render them un productive of revenue ! General Jackson's rule happens to be an exception to, the wise and politic rule, and - a rare exception. It goes to encourage attempts at produce and 'cost n stig d t catel: ted ; on t/' Thr" ,tbere dicta .it Chan • valid nittirtg oubte" calle d kville' Le, a• ald b e ile .d aft' , nonl• . oug ht y °get l!lite a Irn of wliild rn. us ; 't as Jo g ng• fence• 0 ;0 ,3 voci.