The Sun. — London, England, 1830-04-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Once more we invite attention to the designs of Ferdinand VII, upon the peace and prosperity of the young American Republics. It i., not the first or second time that we have pointed out the obvious deviation from straightforward and even-handed jestice, which may be fairly charged upon the policy of our Government, as between the above-named Powers. When Cuba was garrisoned by no more than 3000 men, unprotected by any ships of war, and Mexico and Colombia had prepared a squadron with a military force in all respects equal to a success ful attack upon the island, England laid an injunc tion upon the infant states, and, from a regard to English interests, as it was alleged, restrained them from accomplishing its easy capture. But when Ferdinand thought fit to make the Havannali general rendssvous for expeditions against the people of Mexico, did England hold up so much as a finger to discourage him ? Certainly not. His expedition sailed ; and Great Britain having, for the sake of " British interests,"—valuable interests, no doubt, they were,—prevented one party from defending itself by anticipatng an invasion from Cuba, was guilty of the injustice of looking on quietly while the same Cuba was made the source and instrument of an aggression upon the state whose hands ber Government had tied up. Now, nobody has ever advised or importuned the British Government to interfere by force, or even by remonstrance, in re straining Ferdinand from c. crying on hostilities against the states of what once was Spanish Ame rica, from the ports of Spain herself. Ineffectual to aey military end, and harassing and tormenting to the commerce of the world, as are and must be all attacks upon the toast of the Republic (to an infi nitely greater extent than the irregular warfare be tween Turkey and Greece), there exists no right in any third power —or, at least, such a right will hardly be exercised—to prohibit a direct descent from Spain upon Vera Cruz or Tampico. But by assuming, from special and selfish motives, a right to protect Celia from the Mexicans, we net only created a cor responding right, but have incurred a positive and in superable obligation to protect the Mexicans from Cuba. Mr. Peel declared in the House of Commons, that henceforth the British Government, if Ferdinand should obstinately resist its prayer to acknowledge the independence of the liberated colonies, would act im partially between them. Mr. Peel does not require to be told that there is no mode of being henceforth im partial but this—namely, to inform Ferdinand that he shall not make Cuba or Porto Rico the depot of his aggressive expeditions. When Cuba was weak, and might have been taken in a few hours, we inter posed and saved it : now, therefore, when Cuba is strong, with a garrison of 16,000 men, and rein forced by an armed squadron, it will not be " im partial justice " to hid the Mexicans go and take possessioa of Cuba if they tlease. They cannot take it ; the permission would, at this moment, be a mockery. The mischief was done when they were strong and were first prevented from attacking it. The mischief can in ne manner be repaired but by saying to Cuba, " You shall not attack Mexico now that yOU are strong." We do not know what may be meditated by Members of Parliament, but there is no denying that one or more of them ought to take measures for bringing forward a subject so im portant to the honour and interest of this country ; and we shall be surprised if, soon after the recess, some individual, holding a prominent station in the House of Commons, do not call forth a full ex plenaticn en the part of his Majesty's Ministers.— Tintes. Our Irish letters present some accounts which must be curious, and indeed not quite intelligible, to persons little conversant with the habits and lo cal politics of Irelaud. The Fermanagh trials, and their comparative results, as they severally affected the Protestant and Catholic misdoers, have pro duced, it seems, a good deal of that sort of com ment which goes by the name of murmuring. A riot, amounting to a battle between two parties, having cut a number of lives, many individuals of each party were put upon their trial. Some of the .Catholics were found guilty, and all the others, fourteen, pleaded " guilty" of the crime with which they stood charged in common. This, we find from the Irish newspapers, was regarded much less as a proof of guilt than as a despair of justice, and gave rise to sundry insinuations that the Ca tholics had been iniquitously dealt by—the more, because Mr. Justice Jebb, reputed to be a po— litician of the old leaven, had the tnisfor tune to be Judge on the occasion. Then came the trial of the Protestants; and it is made a mat ter of charge against them, as a party, that the witnesses for the prosecution were unwilling to give evidence on which they could have been found guilty ; vet was one of the Protestants identified by these repugnant witnesses as the man who shot a Catholic through the body. But if his acquittal be made a reproach to the administration of justice, it ought to be acknowledged that be was knocked down and nearly disabled before he fired the shot— a fact which, in our poor apprehension, would fully sanction the verdict of acquittal. Every thing will be looked at with a jauediced eye in Ireland, until every abettor of disturbance on both sides shall have been effectually crushed. An extract from a Dublin journal has been sent to us, containing two documents worthy of some notice. The first is a very short address from the Knight of Kerry to his constituents, announcing hie appoint ment as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland and asking their suffrages at the new election for the county, occae eioned by his acceptance of that office. The Vice- Treasurership of Ireland was lately held by Sir George Hill ; and if the post were to continue as it existed while in his possession, with just official business enough to swear by, so as to cheat the devil in alleging that it was " not a sinecure," we might say that it ought to have been abolished at once, instead of being turned over to the Right Hon, Gentleman who now holds it. But there is good reason to believe that as great en irspeovement was designed by Ministers in the character of the office, as in that of the occupant, when they required it at the hands of Sir George Hill, and transferred it to the Knight of Kerry. We understand that the Vice -Treasurership is henceforth to constitute an active, laborious, and efficient office, bearing a rela tion to the Board of Treasury here, somewhat re sembling that which the Chief Secretaryship (the functions of which are discharged by Lord Francis Lemon Gower) bears to the Home Department. The new Vice-Treasurer, it is stated, will have to superintend and check the wasteful expenditure of the grand jury system, or so mucii of that system as may be found impossible to eradicate,—to watch over the various branches of the finance department, at present run ning even more wild in Ireland that here,—and to direct its more especial vigilance to the several stages and perils enconntered by the public money, from its first grose collection by the revenue officer, to its final and net lodgment in the King's Exchequer. On this condition, arid on this condition only,—viz., that the Vice:-Treasurership shall become an effective office of supervision, controul, and audit, reuiring the constant industry of an able and faithful public ser vant, capable of 'indemnifying the State for hie sa lary, and eatisfied to toil for income and reputation, —d o we conceive the Duke of Wellington justified is tendering this arrangement to, we believe, an old personal friend, or the Right /lon. Gentleman in acceding to it. The next of these papers is a letter from - Mr. Daniel O'Connell, containing at the outset many fine, and doubtless unaffected, eulogies upon the political history and merits at' the Knight of Kerry ; but proceeding to detail, at unmerciful length, the reasons why the E.ight lion. Geotle man ought not to have joined the Duke of Welling- • ton's Adreinietration,—..why he (M r . O'C on n e ll) expects that the Knight will soon be found " repudiating the trammels of office,"—why Mr. Fitzgerald ought not to have calle(I the Duk e o f Wellington a " great Minister,"—why the Duke Las no " ardent desire to advance the prosperity of' Ireland"—and why, in short, though Mr. O'Con man adwires And loves the Knight of 4erri too much to admit of his (at present) voting or can vassing against him in his own person, the electors of Kerry would be amply justified in doing both one and the other. Mr. O'Connell, as a pretty significant confirmation of his last remark upon the real, though unavowed, object of his letter, expresses much anxiety to the Editor of the Pilot, " lest it should not appear before the election !" We have heard it whispered that a certain family of Roman Catholics, some of whom are resident in Kerry, have been for a considerable period preparing to undermine the Knight of Kerry with his consti tuents, with a view to succeed him in the represen tation ; and that a local print has been set up, the chief purpose of which was to abuse him. It is hinted to us, but with what approach to truth we know not, that the present letter of Mr. O'Connell may be regarded as letting in a ray or two of light upon the above-mentioned rumour.—Times. We confess we cannot imagine on what principle, civil or religious, the same "liberal" Government that admitted the Roman Catholics to political power can refuse a similar participation in constitu tional privileges to the Jews. An Evening Minis terial Paper does indeed advance something intended for an argument, but it is too weak and absurd to deserve to be considered even as a plausible pretext. That Paper says, " The admission of Catholics to the Legislature was denied on the ground that Pro testantism ought to be the religion of the State—the admission of the Jews is denied on the ground that Christianity ought to be the religion of the land. These two propositions are widely different—the liberalism that would confound them must be very enlarged indeed." Now, it so happens that the same Protestant Constitution ' which excluded Judaism denounced the Roman Catholic religion as idolatrous, and consequently unchristian ;—whether rightly or not is another question ; we only state the fact, and state it- for the purpose of showing that our Government and the Prelates of the Church of England did not refuse to confer the privileges of the Constitution on that sect on whom they had cast the Anti-Christian imputation of idolatry;—nay, they invested that class whom they so stigmatised with the power to legislate for the Church of England—so en larged was their liberalism, so comprehensive theirpo litical and religious benevolence. If an invidious dis tinction be drawn between the Roman Catholics and Jews, we did not commence it ; let the servile apo logists of Government answer the charge. It is too late for our Prelates—it is too late for the Admin'- stration, at whose feet the venerable guardians of the ark of the Protestant religion so lately surren dered their orthodox scruples—to affect any con scientious zeal for the security of the Church. It must now stand or fall by opinio: , and that higher Power which overrules the policy of men—the Pro vidence which established it. It must not look any longer for protection to the solemn assurances of Princes or the hely intrepidity of Prelates. It must not trust to temporal power ;—it found that reliance frail as a reed when opposed to the demands of the Roman Catholic. It must not invoke it against the solicitations of the Jews. The members of the Papal faith are now within the pale of the Constitution, which excluded them for cen turies as enemies to the State. We wish them to continue to enjoy all its advantages as long as their conduct proves that they have learned to respect the civil and religious liberty of others,and thus cultivate the characteristic principles of genuine Christianity. But, while we express our fidelity and devotion to the Christian faith, let us recollect that the Jewish nation was front time immemorial the chosen depo sitary of the imperishable truths on which that Divine dispensation is founded. Let us recollect that in the midst of idolatrous nations they pre served pure and undefiled the knowledge and wor ship of the One Supreme Being, and handed down to us that volume of faith and prophecy which is the foundation of the glorious superstructure of Christianity itself. Nor should it be forgotten that they owe no allegiance to any foreign Power, nor that they have borne with exemplary patience the civil and political privations to which they have been subjected. It is true that they are not seven millions—nor do they recommend their claims to Government by popular agitatt,a. This rummy die entitle them to political consideration in the eyes of those statesmen who act only upon expediency, but will have a far different effect with those who would rather do justice for its own sake than upon corn pulsion.—Morning Herald. The new world which Mr. Canning called into existence has in some of its departments evinced rather questionable and scurvy gratitude for the liberality shown it by its famous creator. Colombia, which has, within the last few years, undergone as many changes as the moon—being one day under an arbitrary dictatorship—another day almost an empire like black Brazil—a third day governed by what is called an oligarchy —and a fourth day by the savages who form the mob—this Colombia has at length settled down into a sort of republic, and promul gated a paper constitution, consisting of sixteen ar ticles, written apparently by some clever attorney in the pay and confidence of the Catholic priests. Republicans of the " glorious" olden time, and some even of modern date, have generally been at some pains to profess a regard for civil liberty and toleration. They have also in most cases not only professed but even practised tolerance and libe rality. But the republics of the new world, much more enlightened of course, have taken care not to stumble on any such acts of folly. The school master who is abroad has instructed them that civil liberty is a comedy and religious liberty a farce, and that they being respectable and genteel performers it would be derogatory to their fame to enact the latter. In Colombia the good citizens have accord ingly dispensed with the farce, and voted religious liberty to be a nuisance. The fifteenth article of this promulgated Constitution is, therefore, in these words : " The Catholic Apostolic Roman religion is the reli gion of the state. The Government exercising the office of protectorate of the Colombian Church, no other public worship will he permitted." The idea of a republic in which every citizen is either compelled to do worship before the idola trous mnrnmery of the mass or do no public wor ship at all is truly a beautiful specimen of liberty. The Colombians forbid any Protestant, Lutheran, Episcopalian, or Presbyterian, or any number of such Protestants, from building a chapel and therein worshipping the Deity after the mariner of their sect ; and yet these bigots call themselves republi cans, boast of their love of liberty, and dress up the drab goddess in all the flaunting decorations of a sans culotte This, no doubt, is the work of the priests, but it is a proof that where such priests have such influence it is impossible there can be anything like rational liberty. This article of the Constitution shows that these people are undeserv ing of liberty—are incapacitated from appreciating its value—and ought to be drilled into obedience by some single-handed tyrant. Their vaunted love of freedom is a mere pretence—or rather a license to practice oppression by the cheapest method. They are ignorant of its first principles; for he who cannot tolemte the faith of an oppo nent is a bigot whose creed is a fraud, or a barba rian who cannot distinguish between right or wrong from any other sense than self-possession. Where Popery is in the ascendant there can be no free dom, and in Colombia the priests rule and the peo ple obey. It would appear diet all that is required to give protection, and toleration, and the right of fr,ea discussion to a people, is to write with a pen certain dry articles upon paper or parchment. The scribe indites and the republic is formed. The con stitution is promulgated, and the savages dance round it with joy, and call themselves freemen. Certain cant phrases are employed, and the pew state is called into existence, and the purblind bigots who use them bye the vanity and the insolence to call themselves the regenerators of the world. The sixteenth article decrees the following " The Constitution guarantees personal security, the right of property, equality before the law, the liberty of :lie Prelka r liberty of employment, and the right of petition." Thu liberty of employment! What do these emancipated swindlers mean by this ? Is it the liberty of working in the fields, digging in the mines, or breaking stones on the highway P Or is it the liberty of borrowing and employing capital ? They are adepts at this we all know—men of cunning fence in bleeding their neigbours—expert loan-job bers who bubble poor Bull out of his money, not one sixpence of which do they ever intend to pay. The liberty of employment, therefore, is a funda mental article of the new Colombian Constitution. They might as well decree the liberty of a Scotch haggis ! The thing is nonsense. But they, moreover, decree the liberty of the Press! The liberty of the Press in a country where there is no religious toleration I They may mean the liberty of imposing a censorship—th e liberty of their countryman Scarlett—but, in good faith, they cannot mean what they thus formally de cree. With the liberty of the Press we should undertake to write down their constitution in a week—tear all their fundamental articles to rags— and send the priests rav)ag over the country with with the cross in the one hand and the scalping knife in the other. Bolivar was wrong in permitting these people to form a Constitution for themselves. He should have made the Dictatorship perpetual, and dragooned the rogues into subordination and civilization. They are not yet in a condition to understand, far less enjoy, the blessings of liberty. Their proceedings have only a tendency to bring republicanism into contempt. They should be taught to read before they are allowed to write Constitn tions. The fundamental articles of Colombia arc a libel upon the United States, or rather a sort of political larceny, in which only the worst parts are stolen. This, however, is bad and insidious enough, and therefore' we trust Congress will go to war. —Morning Journal. A " Lover of Justice," as he styles himself, is most urgent with us for the publication of a letter, which he alleges to have addressed to us on the sub ject of the beer trade. The letter we have not now by us ; but to prove to him, and to all others entertaining similar opinions, how little we are averse to the publication of opinions adverse to our own, we here subjoin the points which he is so anxious to bring to the notice of our readers : " Ist. That new establishments cannot compete with old ones, unless they deal in a superior article. " 2d. That the only sufferers by this measure will be those persons who adulterate the beer, and by so doing in duce strangers to deal in a genuine article in opposition to them. " 3d. That it is impossible to retail genuine porter at a less price than threepence per quart on the usual standard. " 4th. That if porter is retailed at a less price than this, it must necessarily be a mixture of drugs and ingre dients injurious to health. " sth. That it is a duty incumbent on the brewers to deal only with persons who are fair dealing cud honest men, and who deal in a genuine article." Now we have published the remarks of our Cor respondent, and we will venture to add, that he will not find fifty persons in the whole trade to join in opinion with him. The writer of the letter seems to forget two main points connected with the ques tio❑ at issue; first, that the proposed measure has already deteriorated the property of the licenced victuallers to an enormous extent, and that public house property is at the present moment actually unsaleable; secondly, that it being competent for every one who can pay the sum of two guineas for a licence to retail beer, there is nothing to prevent every owner of a cook-shop, eating-house, or coffee shop, from supplying his customers himself, and thus depriving the licenced victualler of a consider able portion of his profits, as well as with the means of supplying the public with a better and sounder beverage; for the fact, we believe, is undoubted, that the greater the consumption of beer, the better is its quality. The licenced victualler is in fact likely to be ruined, on the one hand, by the measure, and the public to be injured, on the other; for under the new Bill we are confident that adul teration will be carried to an enormous extent while in many neighbourhoods the new beet-shops will prove an intolerable nuisance, and form so many rallying points for thieves and prostitutes.—Morning Advertiser. THE TURKISH WIFE. As naturalists to the embassy from France to Constantinople, M. Fontanier was supposed to possess a knowledge of medicine, and was thus requested to visit the wife of an inhabitant of Amassia, who was ill, and who passed for a beauty even where all was beautiful. She was a Turcomaun, and had married the Amassian, from motives of ambition. She received a splendid dowry, and although, from reverse of fortune, he had been despoiled of his wealth, even to the loss of his pipe-bearer, she would scarcely snake any allowance for his support, though, for her own service, she maintanaed a retinwe of negro slaves. " Before entering the harem," says M. Fontanier, " the good man took the precaution to make inc wait in the interior for until all was arranged in the for my introduction. The lady did not disturb herself either for her husband or for rue ; it would have been difficult to have found a more hand some woman; her bracelets and necklace were adorned with emeralds, and her velvet robe was richly covered with gold embroidery ; 'ter pipe was studded with diamonds, and she wore a number of precious stones on her fingers and on the fastening of her girdle. As soon as I had taken my place, she ordered her negresses to bring me coffee and a pipe, and stated her complaints, which appeared to me to be more imaginary than real. I recommended her to take exercise and change of air." " That is precisely the thing," said she to me ; " I am the daughter of a Curd ; I can scale the mountain's top, and govern a steed ; I formerly wandered freely over the country, I needed no veil on going abroad, for what can a virtuous woman want with a veil ? Thus did I live and breathe freely ; but now I must conceal myself, walk with gravity, and, followed by a troop of slaves, go and visit a parcel of stupid Turkish women. Yes, tbe air would do me good, and liberty more than any thing." The husband did not hear my advice with any thing like the same satisfaction that his wife testified ; she perceived this, and told him pretty smartly to go and order more coffee, and to return when she should send for him. He went out and left us there alone ; the lady then said to me, "You see this old animal ; he is the true cause of my illness, and that illness is nothing more than ennui at the sight of him. He is out of fortune's favour ; and what pleasure is there in living with a man who remains in the city with out power, without authority, and without even any thing to eat ? My friend, are there no means of ridding one ' s s i g h t o f him ? You are the prince of all physicians, the very cream of doctors ; have you no medicine, which, with God's help, might deliver me from him ? I should then return to the country where I am so well, and would quit this city, which I pray God to overthrow."—lontamer's Travels in the East. An itinerant showman was in the act of exhi biting the well-known comic spectacle of Punch and Judy to a crowd at Story's-gate, Nyestrnisster, yesterday, when suddenly a violent gust of wind took the stage, and, iu spite of the effoits of the showman inside, precipitated it to the ground with a heavy crash, which broke it to pieces. Punch and his lady, together with the whole parapher nalia, were pitched into the muddy road, amidst great laughter from the crowd, whose faces exhibited a striking contract to the poor showman, who looked any thing but pleased at the upexpected tikx , LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Aram 21. DOE, EX DEM. GRINDALL, V. sTGRT GRINDALL The proceedings in this case were resumed this morning. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, at the conclusion of his opening speech, stated, that in what he had said respecting Mrs. Suett, he meant nothing to the dis paragement of her character. She was now of a very advanced age, and as she resided in Yorkshire, and was unable to travel, the defendant could not have the benefit of her testimony. Her written de position had been taken in the suit in Chancery; but as by an extraordinary rule of that Court, neither of the parties was allowed to see the depositions until a particular period in the cause had arrived, he (tbe Learned Counsel) had not had an opportunity of perusing Mrs. Suett's depositions. The first witness examined on the part of the lessor of the plaintiff this morning, was blr. Wake field, an apothecary, who stated that he had at tended the testator, Mr. Grindall, for three years, from 1823 to 1826. Prior to that time he had been attacked by apoplexy. There was nothing like in sanity about him, but he was imbecile and childish. Mrs. Suett remained with him till 1826. She ge nerally spoke for him in aaswer to witness's ques tions. Ile was forgetful. If witness went to him one day and mentioned to him on the next what had passed, he had no recollection of it. Witness and he were defendants in a Chancery suit, and witness had occasion to see him on the subject of it. He could not be made to understand any thing about it. He could not understand why it existed. Mrs. Suett appeared to exercise great influence over him. Dr. Mayo examined by Mr. BaouGHals—l was sent to see Mr. Grindall on the Ist of October, 1826. At first I saw him alone. The second time I saw him with Dr. Yates, at Bolton-house, a lodging-house kept by one Sawyer, at Tunbridge ' wells. I was with him about half an hour the first time. I found him in n very weak and wavering state of intellect, which gave me the impression that he was an imbecile person. His understandiug ap peared to have been impaired. Mr. W. H. Pulley, a Proctor, of Doetorsi-com mons, had known the late Mr. Grindall for twenty or thirty years, and had done business for him pro fessionally. In 1815, or 1816, witness observed a change in his health. Witness had prepared a will for him, arid in Februery, 1824, Le came, accom paled by a friend of his, Mr. Dawson, an auctioneer, to witness's office to execute it. Witness read over the will, and the testator filled up the blanks. There was an indecision and childishness in his manner, that induced witness not to allow him to execute the will, particularly as he (witness) was an executor under it. At the commencement of the iuterview, witness thought he was perfectly competent, but in the progress of the business became of a different opinion. Mr. Dawson made a remark as to the amount .of the legacies he had left. He then became greatly agitated—apparently from the fear of offend ing his friend Mr. Dawson. The childishness of his manner, coupled with the conversation, induced wit ness to say that the execution of the will should not proceed. Mr. Grindall was the executor of the will of Mrs. Baddeley, the actress, who went by the name of Stricland. He had proved her will, and in 1825 he received a circular from the Legai•y-office, requiring him to settle the duties. He brought it to witness, and said that he had no recollection of having proved such a will as the letter referred to. Witness, on referring to his books, told him he had proved the will, and he must settle the duties. He said he should leave it to him (witness) to do what he thought best. Witness's opinion was, notwith standing what he saw on the former occasion, that the testator at this time (1825) was competent to have made u will. Mr. Gower, a merchant of London, who had known the testator, stated that for several years prior to his death he was in a very weak state of mind and body. Ile used often to send fur witness, and on his going to him he had forgotten what he had sent to him for. Witness often went away without knowing what he had been sent for. On money matters he was conversable, but on many other subjects he appeared to have no memory. John stone Grindall, the second nephew, was next called, and gave evidence to the effect that his oracle was imbecile. The deposition of Mr. Richard Ogle, the sur geon, was read. It stated that the deponent had attended the testator professionally from 1799 to 1816. He was first seized with apoplexy, followed by paralysis, in 1815, and before he had recovered from the first attack the second came on. It left him in a state of extreme debility ; it affected his speech and other organs of sense, and very materially im paired his memory and understanding. He never recovered from the attack, and was unable, in depo nent's opinion, to exercise any understanding or judgment with respect to his affairs. Before that time he was a man of strong understanding. Depo nent would not sfterwarde have trusted him to do any business requiring the exercise of discretion or judgment. From his weak and torpid state, depo nent considered that he was a man extremely liable to be influenced, defrauded, and imposed on with re spect to his property. Mary Gillett—l lived with old Mr. Grindall itr Judd-place. I went into his service in October, 1826. He used to ask me to write for him ; not eery frequently, as I had sometimes refused. He was easily alarmed. The opening of a door or any noise would alarm him. He appeared to be childish. Mr. John Grindall behaved very affectionately to his uncle, but the old men treated him very harshly. Mrs. Isabella Lawson, of Seymour -street, knew Mrs. Swett, and was also acquainted with old Mr. Gsieriall from 1823 to 1826. Mrs. Suett came to witness's house when tLe old gentleman turned her out of doors in 1826. She continued to live in witness's house till the spring of 1827. Captain Sturt called on her shortly after the Tunbridge-wells affair. Ile was, he said, very happy to see his old friend. She told him how very badly Mr. Grindall had used her in turning her out of the house with out her clothes. Captain Sturt said if he could get any one to join him, he thought he could make something of him. He added, " If I could succeed in getting him out of the house to dinner, it would be better for you." Witness always understood that Captain Sturt was Mrs. Suett's friend. She was in very bad health when he called on her. She cried very much. Above. a fortnight after she left wit ness's house Captain Strut called to ask for her ad dress. lie told her that he had had a good deal of trouble in endeavouring to get her money for her, and had not been able to succeed. Winless never' heard Mr. Grindall speak of Captain Sturt. The old gentleman appeared very infirm and childish. Mr. Lawson stated that the testator used to speak of his pore! ty. When there was a want of butter he would say he was too poor to buy any. He used to say that every person about him was in the habit of robbing him. From what witness saw of him, he should think he way a person liable to be influ enced. Mr. Varty—l was a :tenant of the late Mr. Grin dell for 20 years. I occupied three houses under him, at a rent of 112/. During the latter part of his life there was a considerable chauge in him he appeared to be almost childish. This was the case for the lessor of the plaintiff. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then rose to reply to the evidence adduced in behalf of the plaintiff, after which the Jury expressed themselves quiet satisfied, and after deliberating for one moment re turned a verdict for the defendant. The Lokp CHIEF JUSTICE said he perfectly agreed with the Jury iu their opinion of the case. This verdict establishes the will. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aram 21. William Crawley, late of Wood-etreet, Cromer street, Brunswick-square, a lieutenant )11 half-pay of the 27th Foot, was opposed by a creditor named Alcock. No case of opposition was made out against the 4reolTent, but upon application to the Court by the opposing creditor, the turn of 10!. a-yeas was ordered to be appropriated out of his half-pay of 82/. a•year, towards the gradual liquidation of his debts. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 21. Frances Mathews and Ann Mathews, both sis ters, and women of the town, were charged with having feloniously assaulted John Williams, on the King's highway, and forcibly taken from his person five 101. notes, his property. On the night of the 12th of January last, the prosecutor, au elderly bald-headed man, of respect able appearance, met the two prisoners on the Kingsland-road. They appeared mach distressed, and asked him for money. He took them to a public-house, and treated them with some gin, of which he himself partook. He was afterwards in duced by the prisoners to accompany them to their lodging, in order that he might be an eye-witness of their poverty. " Finding nothing comfortable in the room," he gave the prisoners money to purchase coal, provisions, gin, tobacco, &c., and sat smoking in the room with them for about two hours, when he went away. During his stay in the room, the younger of the two prisoners attempted to put her hand into his pocket several times, and he admitted having said that he had a large sum of money about him. On leaving the house, the prisoners still fol lowed him, and again importuned him for money, which he deelined giving, but treated them with some more gin, and then went away. The prisoners, however, still followed him, and the younger of the two induced him to go with her down a narrow passage. They were followed by the taller prisoner, who struck him a violent blow, and knocked him down. The prisoner Ana Mathews then robbed him. She then said to het sister, " Corns along, Fan, I have got it—it's all right." They then went away, and the prosecutor became insensible. Mr. Justice PARIC summed up, and The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners. The prisoner Frances Mathews immediately ex-. claimed, " You have sworn falsely against us, Mr. Williams, you know you have. The cries of our mother will ring in your ears when you have hanged us both. Oh my poor mother !" Her sister also solemnly denied that she was guilty, and they were both removed from the bar, protesting their innocence. Mr. Justice PARK observed that their lives would be spared. POLICIL INTELLIGEriCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young may, named Rodivell, of moat respectable connexions, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, by Thomas Herdsfield, the officer, charged with having plundered his employers, Messrs. Perkins, Bradley, and Chapman, of Crutched-friars, wine -merchants, of money to the amount of 3221. Mr. Chapman, one of the partners, had given the prisoner a cheque for the above-mentioned sum, on Monday last, upon the banking-house of Barclay, Tritton, and Co., with directions to pay duties and dock-fees at the Custom-house. The prisoner got cash for 'the cheque, but, instead of going to the Custom-house, he went to the Bank of England, and obtained sovereigns and small notes for the large notes with which the cheque bad been paid. He then went, with all possible speed, to his lodging, had his trunk carried to a coach-office, and started off for Southampton. His employers suspected, from the extraordinary delay, that things were not going on right, and Herdsfield was employed to trace him. The officer soon " nosed" him to Southampton, where he found him seated on the box of a coach which appeared to be about to drive off for Ports mouth. On his person the officer found 2851. in Bank notes, and 281. 10s. in gold. Herdslield said that the prisoner acknowledged to him that all the money was the property of his em ployers. . _ _ The prisoner said nothing, and was fully rom , mitten for trial at the Old Bailey. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, John Underwood was charged before Mr. Diltrisrium, with furiously driving a cart, the property of William Rowley, whereby Alexander M`Donald, a child only seven years of age, was driven over, had his arm broken, and otherwise re ceived serious injuries. Mr. MlNsittmt. should call upon the prisoner to find good bail, and give 24 Lours' notice of the same. FdARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the time appointed by Mr. CONANT, the Magistrate, for an investiga tion of the circumstances under which a footman in the service of his Grace the Duke of St. Albans•re eeived some serious injury, by having been run over by the carriage of Lady Lucy Pusey. All the pat ties who could throw any light upon the matter were in attendance, including the coachman who drove the carriage on the day in question. The first witness examined was Mr. Miller, a fish monger, in Piccadilly, who stated that he was stand ing at his own shop door, which is very near the spot where the accident happened, and saw the coachman now present driving along Piccadilly, by the Duke of Devonshire's wall, and turn suddenly into Berkeley-street, and just at that instant be heard a scream; on running to ascertain the cause, he saw a footman, in livery, under the feet of the horses in the carriage, and one of the horses plunging vio lently. The coachman was pulling up the horses with all his strength, and succeeded in checking them as soon as, under the circumstances, any man could do. Witness assisted to lift the footman from the ground and place him in a hackney-coach, which conveyed him to St. George's Hospital. He seemed to have received serious injuries about the head, and was quite insensible at the time. Witness did not think that any blame attached to the coachman, as he was not driving rapidly at the time. Mr. Johnson,a coal-merchant, residing at Knights bridge, gave a similar account of the transaction; but added, that considering the sharpness of the turning, he thought the coachman had turned it tco quickly. Police constable No. 61 witnessed the accident, and did net think any blame attached to the coach man. The unfortunate sufferer was more to blame, as he was speaking to some one on the pavement at the time he was attempting to run across. The lady in the carriage instantly gave her card, and expressed great regret at the accident. A nephew of Lady Lucy Pusey's attended on be half of her Ladyship, and said, no one could lament the accident more than she did, but, in justice to the coachman, she thought it right to state he was driving very steadily at the time. He understood that the man had admitted in the hospital that he was more to blame than the coachman. The coachman, an elderly steady-looking man, in his defence stated, it was impossible for him to hare avoided the accident, and said he was not going mere than four miles an hour at the time. He declared solemnly, that if his own life depended on it, he could not have done more to avoid injuring the man. Mr. CONANT said, that from all the evidence he had heard, he certainly did not think that there was any wilful negligence on the part of the coachman, and the latter was therefore discharged. A young man of the Jewish persuasion, named Solomon Isaacs, was convicted in the penalty of 20s. and costs, for wantonly and cruelly beating a horse he :vas driving in a cart the day before. QUEEN-SQU A RE. Yesterday Mr. Frederick Smith, a sculptor of con siderable eminence, residing at Ebury-cot tage, Ebury street, Pimlico, who has received several gold and silver medals from the Royal Academy for his works, was brought up from:Knightsbridge watch-house, charged with being drunk and disorderly. A police—constable of the S division stated, that about one o'clock in the morning he found the de fendant at Knightsbridge, haranguing a mob of per sous on the King's illness, and stating that he had the power to sure him. lie took him to the watch-, house for safety, whore he betrayed every symptom of insanity. Mr. IVlAnntorT asked the defendant what h e had to say in answer to the charge. Mr. Smith--The oath thi,i man has taken against me is null and void. The Bible says " Swear not at all; neither by Heaven or by earth." Now Heaven is God, and the earth is his footstool, and therefore 1 consider the constable has been guilty of blasphemy. People may doubt this doctrine, but we ought to take the Bible in its literal sense, e lse why do we place it in the bands of children ? The defendant continued in this strain for a considerable time, making frequent quotations from Holy Writ. Mr. MARRIOTT directed the constables to remove him out of the office, and desired Mr. Smith's bro ther to be called in, who had come to the ofEce on hearing that his relative was in custody. Mr. MARRIOTT recommended him to have his brother examined by some medical men, as he had not the slightest doubt of bis insanity; and he would then be authorized to have the necessary controul of him, if the professional men were of opinion he was insane. - The brother promised to follow the Magistrate's advice, and left the office with his brother. H A TTO N- GARDE N. Yesterday a man of the name cf John Paggis was brought up on a warrant before the sitting Magis trates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, charged by the vestry clerk, Mr. Oldershaw, and the churchwardens of the parish of St. Mary, Islington, under the following atrocious and inhuman circum stances:— Mr. Oldershaw stated, that on Saturday last the prisoner was employed by the sexton to open a grave in the old burial ground of the parish, for the , interment of a Mrs. Bell the same day. In the progress of his work he came, at the depth of abort six feet, to a leaden coffin, the lid of which he re moved, and then mutilating the body which it con tained, he deposited the dissevered trunk sad limbs in the earth, and carried away the coffin, which lie secreted in the adjoining new burial-gro un d, evi dently with a felonious intent. As soon as the cir cumstances were known, a deep and painful sen sation of disgust and horror spread itself among the inhabitants of the parish, and every one called loudly for vengeance on the head of the wretch whose brutal conduct had caused it. The church wardens immediately instituted an inquiry into the circumstances, and succeeded in procuring ample and conclusive evidence against the prisoner of the facts before stated, but whether they should prosecute the prisoner for the felony, or indict him for the misdemeanour, they were at a loss to determine. Jo the first ease an insurmountable obstacle seemed r° present itself. The coffin, as appeared by the iv' scription on the lid, contained the body of a Ben jamin Braithwaite, aged 71, who died and was buried in July, 1755, and as it was unquestionably the property of the executors of the deceased, who, in all probability, were themselves long since gathere d to their fathers, nobody cou ld b e f oun d to appear 111 the capacity of a prosecutor. It was, however, ad visable, in order to allay the ferment created in the parish, to punish the prisoner, if not for the felooy , at least for the misdemeanour. Farley, the sexton, stated, that the prisoner had been employed by him as grave-digger for the last two years. On Saturday the prisoner selected him self the spot where to open the grave, for the inter ment of Mrs. Bell. About eight o'clock in the morning the prisoner, when he had dug to the depth of nearly six feet, informed witness that he had corne to a leaden coffin. Witness desired him to let it remain, and excavate on one side of it, to the depth of eight or nine feet. Witness did not superintend the work, and therefore did not see the leaden colliiu. At one o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Bell was in- terred, and the grave was filled up. Witness knew nothing further of the circumstances, but believed, at the time, that the coffin alluded to remained un disturbed. The Magistrates censured this witness for his gross negligence respecting his duties as sexton. Witnesses were then called, whose evidence fully established the case detailed by Mr. °Warshaw. Young, the prisoner's assistant, stated that they were obliged to remove the coffin, an it lay directly in their way, for the purpose of sinking the grave to the required depth, They took it to the tool-house ; but the prisoner afterwards removed it from thence, and hit it in a hole in the new burial ground. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was afraid to let the sexton know any thing of the cir cumstance, us he was apprehensive of incurring his displeasure. It was for this reason he secreted the coffin, and not with an intention to steal it away. He informed Mr. Bell of all that occurred on Sunday morning. The Magistrates expressed a painful feeling at so iudecent and inhuman an outrage upon the sanctity of the dead. The parish authorities had it in their power to inflict the proper punishment in such a case upon their own servants by dismissing them, and therefore they (the Magistrates) would discharge the prisoner. Mr. Oldershaw and the churchwardens expressed themselves satisfied with the conclusion the Magi strates had come to, and retired. UNION-HALL Sarah lirenl . y was charged with reeeiving several packages of cards, the property of the Philanthropic Society, knowing them to have been stolen. She was committed. An individual of respectable connections, and known to the dealers who frequent the Southampton and neighbouring markets, is in custody, charged with having stolen twenty-tire sheep from Hureley-park, the seat of Sir FlKErficont, one of the county Members. In the predatory wars of the South American I❑dians, the strongest and the bravest man is appointed General, who, awing the continuance of the contest, is armed by universal consent with the power of life and death. BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. at the house of the lieu. George Agar Ellis, M.P. in Spring Gardens, Lady Georgiana Agar Ellie, of a son. On the 20th inat. at Upper Edmonton, the lady of the Rey, J. L. Wallace, of a daughter. MARRIED. Oa the 20th inst. at Brixton, Mr. H. D. Osborne, of Tolse-hill, Brixton, to Sarah Anue, eldest daughter of Mr. Farlow, Esq. of the same place. On ti:' 19th inst. E. Steel, Esq., of Gateshead Fell, to Mrs. Watson, widow of the late Mr. Wm. Watson, mer chant, London. O❑ the I7th inst. Major G. A. Rigby, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, to Emily Ann, daughter of Mr. 'l'. Andrews, Solio-square. On the 14th inst. at Cognac, James, son of J. Ashman, Esq., of Brunswick-square, to Mario Clementine, daugh ter of P. P. Mstrett, DIED. On the 21st inst. in Cadogan-place, C. Hopkinson, Esq., banker, of Regent-street. On the 20th inst. at Hackney, William, second son of the late W. S. Cooper, Esq. On the 20th inst. Mary Anne, the wife of Mr. Edw. Snell, of Albemarle -street, Piccadilly. On the ltitla inst. Mary, the wife of G. Cole, Esq., of Woburn-place. A few days ago, John Blackwood, of Stewarton, aged ninety years ; he was an upright honest matt, a nd, at one time—the largest manufacturer of table linen in the west of Scotland—agent for the late Mr. David Dale for paying his poor pensioners in that quarter- rburch beadle —bellman, regularly tinging the parish church bell week day and Sabbath—agent for 9. bank, and discounted bills —grave-digger, personally—and would not taste whisky for mortal man. The offices connected with church and church-yard were not held by him so mach for the emolu ment, as because they had been banded down to him as successor to his worth, father; and the whole perqui sites of bellman he allowed to his brother David, the parish fiddler, who, in his rounds through the parish once a year, collected what is termed the bellmau's groat ; be was , however, of rather a different turn from his brother, for his mode of collection was to ask no more at a lime than served him for that day's whisky.— Glavow Herald. 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