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

the year in difficulty—we have terminated it in despair. We began in fear—we have closed our books in terror. We saw disaster before us—it now comes home to our bosoms and our liber ties. We dreaded the efforts of military despo tism, we now bow before them in the dust. The Press was then comparatively free—now it is en chained and enslaved. Public opinions had then a fair field—now they are cabined, cribbed, confined—now they are watched by a legal censor—now they are manacled as are the bones and sinews of a captured and trans ported African—now they are put under the surveillance ofan imported Creole, without prin ciple, or talent, or any feelings congenial to those which distinguish the natives of a free country. The Duke of Wellington, at the com mencement of 1829, found the nation in trouble —but his policy has left it in a more hopeless condition at the commencement of 1830. The year dawned upon embarrassment—it has ended in almost universal insolvency. It began with difficulties—it has terminated in pauperism. In short, under the Ministry of the Duke of Wel lington, it has been a year which ought to stand " For aye accursed in the kalendar." The nation has reaped from it nothing but mis fortunes ; and every good and honest man must feel happy that it has gone to the tomb of all the Capulets. It has ended, but it never will be for gotten. The very worst has been done to damn it to all history ; and the men who have rendered it ignominious and immortal still live, but only to have their names and their misdeeds, their of fences and their black apostacy, recorded on the same tablets which shall perpetuate its infamy and theirs. But what are we to hope for during the present year? Only one thing, courteous reader!—the downfall of the Wellington Ad ministration ! There is no hope for us but in this consummation. We have no chance of prosperity unless there be an entire change of inen and measures. We must have a thorough purgation, and a complete discomfiture of the present cabal. We must have a new Parliament and new men. We must have the satisfaction of hailing the overthrow and the disgrace of the Wellingtons and Peels, and all their military and needy subalterns ; and we confidently hope that 1830 will witness this desirable event. We look forward to it as a matter of certainty, and the sooner it takes place the sooner shall we be relieved from military thraldom, and the prosperity for which we pray and languish be restored to the country.—Morn ing Journal. d, The first article in Blackwood's Magazine for January is a long essay on Education, in which the advantages pro and con. are stated in a manner which can only serve to puzzle those who want to arrive at something like certainty, whether the education of the lower orders is cal culated to make them better subjects ; that is, is calculated to add to their affection for rotten bo roughs, licensing, game and corn laws, an over grown church establishment, oppression, tax ation, &c. The article is in the very best man ner of the Coleridge School, and certainly con tains a great many nostrums for the management of the will, often a most refractory part of the animal man. The conclusion at which the writer arrives is the encouragement of educa tion, although he candidly allows that " many of the reasons and doctrines of religion—many of the reasons of morality (?),—many of the reasons of political obedience, are unfathomable to the human intellect, at least such as it is at present with the great majority of the cultivated or ders of the most enlightened nations. There are dif ficulties in the philosophy of the world, to the height of which it has not yet attained. Now the human mind, confident in its own sufficiency, will not, cannot, believe what it cannot under stand. It refuses political obedience, because it has conceived but one reason for obedience, namely, the interest of the individual in the welfare of the whole ; and yet it finds institutions challenging obedience, some of which have sprung up in imagination, some in passion, some out of the subsiding conflict of the blindest forces," &c. This is a very transcendental way of stating that a man who labours sixteen hours out of the twenty-four for a subsistence of oatmeal, or potatoes and water, finds it very difficult, by his unaided reason, to understand why he should thus be forced to toil and starve, in order that a number of people should live in idleness and luxury. We really, notwithstanding the confi dence of this metaphysician, have some doubts whether the excellencies of the Constitution under which we live will be so well appreciated by an in tellectual as by an ignorant population. This may be a mistake on our parts ; but we really think that knowledge is not quiescent ; and that if the pleasure is as great " in being cheated as to cheat," is is only when people do not know they are cheated. The worst of the mystical writers of the Coleridge school is, that they only serve, by their ingenious reasonings, to reconcile those to the existing order of things, who would always be quite satisfied without any reasoning; while they are quite incomprehensible to the class who have such a strong tendency to be dissatisfied. There is no part of the happy system under which we live which is more ad mired by those who profit by it, than the inge nious way in which money is taken out of the pockets of the many for the benefit of the few. In all countries, Statesmen have felt an irre sistible love for this part of our policy. .reffer son tells us, that on his return from France he found the Statesmen of his own country lost in admiration of British corruption. He had been named Secretary of State by Gene ral Washington, and having invited his brother Ministers, the Attorney-General, &c. to dinner, after the cloth was removed, he says, " and one question agreed and dis missed, conversation began on other matters, and by some circumstance was led to the British Constitution ; on which Mr. Adams observed, Purge that Constitution of its corruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representa tion, and it would be the most perfect Constitu tion ever devised by the mind of man.' Hamil ton paused, and said, Purge it of its cor ruption, and give to its popular branch equality of representation, and it would become an i 71 4- practicable Government as it stands at pre sent, with all its supposed defects, it is the most perfect Government which ever existed.' And this was, assuredly, the exact line which se parated the political creeds of these two gentle men. The one was for two hereditary branches and an honest elective one; the other for an hereditary King, with a House of Lords and Com mons corrupted to his will, and standing between him and the people. Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, dis interested, honest, and honourable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and duly valuing virtue in private life ; yet so bewitched and per verted by the British example, as to be under thorough conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation." These States • men conl nve , at, 1): jol ing, in a rcv years to ou- tain for their country a respectable National Debt, and fraudulent Banks, whit . inundated it with worthless paper money, se; 'tr ig thereby majori ties in the Legislature, ail .Trying wide-spread ruin into society. We are old enough to remember the disapprobation expressed in respectable socie ties in this country at what was called the Quixotical Scheme of Jefferson in paying off the National Debt and reducing Taxation, which were then deemed the great consolidators of the social union. However, begging the sublime writer in Blackwood's pardon for so homely a transition, in our wish to make the difficulty of reconciling the people to their being excessively taxed for the good of their betters as palpable ns it ought to be, we may remark that it is with goverill,,g by corruption as with the process of intoxication, nothing so pleasant as the commencement of a system of profuse expenditure to gratify friends, and loans, and a depreciation of the currency, and so forth. Nothing is so pleasant as the first two or three glasses. But the difficulty is to stop before complete ruin in the one case, and nausea and head-ache in the other. Now, we do not believe that education will reconcile men to the state of things to which we have been brought, when they come clearly to understand the causes of it. Man is very apt, when he is aware of any evil pressing on him, to cast about how he can rid himself of it. Now let us con trast, with the sublimer recommendation of patience under what seems injustice, by the transcendental writer in Blackwood, the ibllow- ing homely passage in Jefferson, with the view to calculate which is most likely to find favour with the many :—" The fact is, that at the for mation of our Government, many had formed their political opinions on European writings and practices, believing the experience of old coun tries, and especially of England, abusive as it was, to be a safer guide • than mere theory.— The doctrines of Europe were, that men in HU-. merous associations cannot be restrained within the limits of order and justice, but by forces, phy sical and moral, Nielded over them by authorities independent of their will. Hence their organization of Kings, hereditary Nobles, and Priests. Still further to constrain the brute force of the people, they deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labour, poverty, and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earn ings, as that unremitting labour should be sary to obtain a sufficient surplus barely to obtain a scanty and miserable life. And these earnings they apply to maintain their privileged orders in splendour and idleness, to fascinate the eye of the people, and excite in them an humble adoration and submission as to an order of superior beings. Although few among us had gone all these lengths of opinion, yet many had advanced, some more, some less, on the way ; and in the convention which formed our Government, they endeavoured to draw the cords of power as tight as they could obtain theiti, to lessen the depen dence of the general functionaries on their con stituents, to subject to them those of the States, and to weaken their means of maintaining the steady equilibrium which the majority of the Convention had deemed salutary for both branches, general and local. To recover, therefore, in practice, the powers which the nation had refused, and to warp to their own wishes those actually given, was the steady object of the federal party. Ours, on the con trary, was to maintain the will of the majority of the Convention, and of the people themselves. We believed with them, that man was a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights, and with an innate sense of justice ; and that he could be restrained from wrong, and protected in right, by moderate powers confided to persons of his own choice, and held to their duties by dependence on his own will. We believed that the complicated organization of Kings, Nobles, and Priests, was not the wisest nor thft best to effect the happiness of associated men ; that wisdom and virtue were not hereditary ; that the trappings of such a machinery consumed by their expence those earnings of industry they were meant to protect, and, by the inequalities they produced, exposed liberty to sufferance. We believed that men enjoying in ease and se curity the full fruits of their own industry, en listed by all their interests on the side of law and order, habituated to think for them selves, and to follow their reason as their guide, would be more easily and safely go verned, than with morals nourished in error, and vitiated and debased, as in Europe, by ignorance, indigence, and oppression." Writing in 1815 to Colonel Monroe, he says, " We seem equally incorrigible in our financial course. Although a century of British experience has proved to what a wonderful extent the funding on specific redeeming taxes enables a nation to anticipate in war the resources of peace, and although the other nations of Europe have tried and trodden every path of force or folly in fruit less quest of the same object, yet we still expect to find in juggling tricks and Banking dreams that money can be made out of nothing, and in sufficient quantity tp meet the expenses of a heavy war by sea and land. , . . • • • All these doubts and fears prove only the extent of the dominion which the Banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens, and especially of those inhabiting cities or other Banking places ; and this dominion must be broken, or it will break us. The misfortune is, that in the meantime we shall plunge ourselves into unextinguishable debt, and entail on our posterity an inheritance of eternal taxes, which will bring our Government and people into the condition of those of England, a nation of pikes and gudgeons, the latter bred merely as food for the former." In 1816. " No earthly consideration could induce my consent to contract such a debt as England has by her wars for commerce, to reduce our citizens by taxes to such wretchedness, as that, labouring sixteen of the twenty-four hours, they are still unable to afford themselves bread, or barely to earn as much oatmeal or potatoes as will keep soul and body together." In 1817, " What do you think of the present situation of England ? Is not thic the great and fatal crush of their funding system, which, like death, has been fore seen by all, but its hour, like that of death, hidden from mortal prescience ? The interest of the National Debt is now equal to such a portion of the profits of all theland and the la, bour of the island, as not to leave enough for the subsistence of those who labour. Hence the owners of the land abandon it, and retire to other countries, and the labourer has not enough of his earnings left to him to cover his back, and to fill his belly. The landholder has nothing of his own to give ; be is but the fiduciary of those who have lent him money ; the lender is so taxed in his meat, drink, and clothing, that he has but a bare subsistence left." Without saying how much of the above picture is a faithful re presentation, there can be no question that edu cation will enable the people to discover many more apparent evils, Caused ny tneir governors,. than they will be able to discover reasons for. But who can prevent education ? Who can turn back the tide ? Let what will come of all this the impulse is given.—Morning Chronicle. The last year, which has been so productive of calamity, may be said to have been tolled out with the funeral knell of four of our fellow creatures, who expiated their offences against society, and satisfied the sanguinary spirit of the law, by an ignominious death upon the scaffold. The crime of two of them was certainly of that nature which justifies the exaction of the last penalty of justice ; for it was a burglary com mitted under circumstances of considerable vio lence, with deadly weapons, and which only ac cident prevented from ending in murder. There is a clear distinction to be taken, however, be tween crimes of violence and fraud. The former are in their nature more audacious, and in their consequences more dangerous to society, than the latter. Caution and prudence may not be able to protect the lives or property of men from the highway robber or the midnight burglar.— They rely upon brute force and mortal weapons. They force the traveller to surrender his property under the threat of immediate death, and break through the bolts and bars of the peaceful dwell ing in the deep silence of the night. They are generally men of blood, reckless how they shed it in pursuit of their object ; and, therefore, it is no outrage to reason, or the feelings of humanity, if their own blood should be re quired of them. But far different is the case of the man who obtains dishonest possession of his neighbour's money or goods by circumvention, unaccompanied by force ; against the practices of such a man the exercise of some vigilance and precaution would generally protect those who are the objects of his criminal designs. It matters not, in principle, whether the fraud be accom plished by word of mouth or by a written paper ; whether it be by a spoken or a written falsehood ; whether, in short, it be by swindling or forgery, the punishment should not be of such a nature as to confound the offence with that of murder, robbery, or other atrocious violence. It is said by some who contend for the infliction of capital punishment on forgery, and other offences not attended with violence, that the object of punish ment is not atonement, but example, and that it is, therefore, right to inflict whatever punishment will operate as the most effective example, with out regarding the magnitude of the offence. In answer to this inhuman sophism we say, that if death be allotted to forgery, because it is calcu lated to make the most salutary impression on the living, and to operate best towards the re pression of the crime, it should be inflicted in discriminately for the smallest as well as the greatest offences—no regard being had to the moral guilt. Justice could make compendious work by substituting the exterminating system of the ancient Stoics for the mild doctrines of Christianity, and cutting off all criminals, great and small, by one tremendous scythe. Though such a Draconic character is not yet stamped upon the Criminal Laws of England, they cer tainly approach very near it—they are more sanguinary, we believe, than the code of any country in Europe. The multiplicity of in stances in which death is decreed by our Statute book is a disgrace to our religion—our refine ment. It is an outrage on common reason—a violation of the most sacred principles of hums• nity and civilization. In reference to the exe cutions of yesterday, a humane and intelligent Correspondent thus addresses himself:—" The offences for which these men suffered were, it will be seen, very different in their kind ; from the midnight violator of the sectnity of home, to the invader of property, who obtains his end merely by deception ; from the ruffiian who breaks into a house at the time of sleep, pre pared upon occasion to shed blood, to the cheat, whose fraud is facilitated by the want of caution on the part of those on whom it is practised ; from the housebreaker to the utterer of forged paper ; yet death is inflicted for all. Is this consistent with justice, reason, and policy ?" We answer his inter rogatory by stating, that it is neither consistent with justice, reason, nor policy. We cannot see why a man who writes a fraud (for forgery is but tvritten fraud), should suffer a heavier punishment than the swindler who cheats un wary or credulous people of their money by any other deceptions contrivance ; nor do we under stand why a sheep-stealer should die the death of one who steeps his hands in blood, and his soul in the guilt of murder. These things must be reformed. We have often called the atten of the public and the Legislature to this subject —and again we say the Statute-book of England must be rendered more conformable to the dic tates of humanity and the principles of justice. Excessive and vindictive punishments for crime are themselves criminal in the eyes of Reason. Instead of producing a salutary abhorrence of the offence, they excite sympathy for the guilty sufferer. They cause the natural feelings of men to revolt against the barbarous infliction, and thus destroy all the efficacy of penal example. —Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man named John Child was brought before the LORD MAYOR, by Thomas Herdsfield, one of the city officers, charged with having robbed his em ployers, Messrs. Daly, M‘Murdo, and Co., whole sale druggists. The prisoner, on being asked whether he had any thing to say in his defence, was silent. The LORD MAYOR said, that notwithstandingthe numerous examples that had been made, this spe cies of offence was becoming still more prevalent. A labourer complained that he could not prevail upon the palish officers of Aldgate to give him re lief in his extreme necessity. Four summonses had been sent to those authorities, it appeared, before the beadle (Kindersley) attended to satisfy the Lord Mayor as to the treatment of the applicant.— The labourer said that he was unable to obtain work, that he had four children, who had been waiting for assistance for six days, in a perishing condition. Mr. Holder (to the beadle)--Why did you not appear before ? The beadle—Why, I have had such a desperate bad cold, and it is not to be ex pected that one can always ,come out this weather. It's unreasonable to expect it. Besides, I have business to attend to, and I can't always be leaving it to attend to these here summonses: Mr. nobler—But I suppose your overseers, whose duty it is to attend, have not all got colds; and if they have, are all those poor creatures to perish with cold, on their empty stomachs, because you well clothed dignitaries are too delicate to venture out in the weather from which these poor naked wretches are dying ? If the Lord Mayor's sum monses are not attended to, we shall see whether his warrants will be regarded. The beadle—But I gived them relief. Mr. nobler—Man of humanity, what relief did you give them ? The applicant declared, that the beadle six days ago gave him at the rate of 6d. per mouth for him self and his wretched family, Mr. Hobler—And what is the smallest quantity or coals you can manage to UO•WiLII Lill wranner r Applicant—A peck of coals each day costs 4d., and makes a miserable fire, which will hardly keep life in us. The beadle—But why did you not apply to the Board? Applicant—We can get no relief from the Board., When I did apply before, they only offered me 3s. a week, for the support of myself and family —six of us in all. The LORD MAYOR, in a marked manner, con demned the conduct of the parish officers, and di rected that immediate avid more effectual relief should be given to the pauper and his family. MA RLBOROUGri-STREET. Yesterday William Jobbing:, a private watchman employed by several of the inhabitants of the Ful ham-road, was brought before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate, charged with robbing two of the houses for the protection of which against thieves he was mployed and paid. After evidence,had been heard, The prisoner, on being asked by the •Magistrate what he had to say, said, that at present he should content himself with a bare denial of his guilt, but on a future occasion he should be able to prove his entire innocence on both charges. He was then fully committed to take his trial on the two accusations.. A great number of householders in the parish of St. James were convicted in a penalty of 40s. each, the lowest penalty allowed by the Act of Parlia ment, for suffering a quantity of dung, such as is constantly seen in frosty weather across the foot pavement in the streets, to protect the water pipes against freezing, to remain in that situation to the obstruction of the public footway, after notice had been given by the inspector of public nuisances to remove it. neighbourhood. 'This epistle, it will' be perceived, is a reply to one previously received by the lady from that gentleman. " DEAR SlR,—Your letter reached me on Thurs day, a few minutes before I got into the carriage, on our way to Blackheath, where we have been staying until last night; the engagement of a week's standing was kept a secret from me; you will therefore judge there is no great cordiality existing in our household. Your sentiments are just what I should have expected from the idol of my heart. The world may ridicule the notion of falling in love with an unseen and unknown person; but I have read to little advantage if such cases are not com mon, and my heart is very treacherous to me in deed if my feelings towards you ever change. I wish you would speedily devise some means for my escape, as I am determined not to remain much longer under my aunt's roof. Our house is situated a small distance from Clapham ; it is large, standing detached, and inclosed; my bed-room faces the road, and is about 40 feat from the grqpnd. A ladder, which could easily be placed under my win dow, would enable the to escape, and a post-chaise at hand to convey me to some place of safety, which I should not fear entering under the solemn pledge of your unimpeachable honour and integrity, until a license could be procured for uniting us. Let me have your pleas; a light in my bed-room shall indi cate I am ready, as well as point out to you the house, and also my person, which, I flatter myself, you will find far from disagreeable. One morelet ter from you, fully explanatory, shall be the last I will require, and you shall then see I have resolu tion to put in force your suggestions. lam dis turbed—my messenger is faithful—doubt not. my love nor resolution. In haste,' adieu. To-morrow morning my trusty servant makes her weekly ap pearance. Be courageous and discreet, as you shall find me. " Your affectionate " MARIA HATTON-GARDEN. A young woman of the name of Pollard, with an infant in her arms, and her mother, an elderly female, apparently reduced to extreme distress, presented themselves before Mr. Setjeant SELLON, and sought relief under the following circumstances : The young woman stated, that she and her mo ther were natives of Devonport. She had been married about two years ago to a sailor in his Ma jesty's service, who subsequently deserted her, and came up to London, where she understood he had entered on board the George, a merchant-♦essel. In consequence of this, she and her mother disposed of all the furniture they possessed at home, and haying thereby obtained about 305., with this small sum they set out from Devonport and travelled up to London, in expectation of meeting her husband and getting from him monthly money for the mainte nance of herself and her child. She bad but that morning arrived in London, and having traced the ship George to Cotton-wharf, she there learned that it had sailed a week or two ago for Liverpool. Disappointed and without a farthing in her pocket, she wandered about until she came within the dis trict of this office, where she was advised to make application to the Magistrate for relief and state to him her circumstances, and that she was anxious to return home. The above letter was written in neat ar a d n , d a l pse e ats g wiToto i fr b emanohre l l e eee:, friend ip c t nh h r ao a N tt r hi a urree c ..cfe t wtHxa e nai r copea s afinnl , reuar trummioanlfoeee a ernrai n dpes d t:dtuhshti appeared basehseeigmnetsnui tiieni called gstofreeehngaddtihrtohiincfai some inehqtpiunquestionablyvdlitautoi.rierenil doubted it was t o the e stated, M whosifhamii course loe: tueshart t asht h t etoe a m t r o ote.i n hugHcauo M tcieurode o l ftdgrai n lem d dsria a :i questionsu w ups a p por o t tno o is, my friend and I have come here to carry off a lady : here's some money for you, arid walk another way until we have got her away." The patrol said that he was proof against the temptation, and d r rejected the bribe. He added, that he saw no more y,isdyte ea, houseri zs.e e ,est bsssai nothing. 7 % otvLd b fe enh eyoy Tmopnc e hthrp d O i tri Usieaj: rtese:eqtkyrTenueeerk.ahedss n c o d au satisfac torilyhan des of them afterwards, until they were in custody. Mr. SWABEY here inquired of the accused if they were willing to give their real names? The individual who called himself Junk, had no hesitation in declaring who and what he was, if it was not for the exposure likely to be given to • it, which would bring down the ridicule of all who was acquainted with him, on hearing the affair had ter minated as it had done. Mr. Seymour expressed himself in a similar way. At this period Mr. Catchpole arrived, and in re ply to the questions put to him, said he lived at No. 122, Fenchurch-street, and was a watchmaker. Mr. Harmer then put the anonymous letter re ceived by Mr. Hedger into his hand, asking him if he knew who the writer was. He denied all know ledge of the hand-writing of the letter alluded to, as well as that of the love-letters, but admitted that letters with the initials had been left at his shop by both the accused persons, and they were called for by a female in the garb f a servant, and sometimes by a boy. He had no idea as to the person for whom they were intended, and merely took in the letters to oblige Mr. Junk, and delivered them when called for. He said that upon one occasion, when Mr. Junk called to leave a letter, he told that person that he had received an anonymous communication from a lady at Clapham, " blowing" him up for al lowing letters to be left at his house for a young lady at the above place. He destroyed this letter, after having read it. The witness was closely examined by Mr. Harmer, to ascertain whether he was not actually a party to the whole scheme by which the accused had got into the dilemma; but he solemnly delared that :he was totally ignorant of the nature of the letters, and that, on the receipt of the ano nymous note addressed to him, be refused to allow any more letters to be left at his shop for the parties concerned. Mr. SWABEY said, that the matter still seemed to be enveloped in mystery. John Moor, the coachman who was hired by Mr. Seymour, was examined, and from his account it ap peared, that he was directed by that individual to be at the Swan, et Stockwell, on Monday night, at nine o'clock, fur the purpose of taking up a lady and gentleman, and was directed to drive towards Lon don with great speed, the moment they entered the vehicle. While he was waiting with his coach in the road near Stockwell, he was surprised on seeing the two gentlemen seized and carried off to the watch-house. This witness said that he was con vinced the " gemmen " had not gone to Stockwell to commit a robbery, but to take away some female. Mr. SWABEY, in allusion to Mr. Catchpole, said th;t he was convinced that person knew more about the affair than he was disposed to acknowledge. If the letters written to Mr. Seymour were intended UNION-HALL. as a hoax, it was a most serious one, and might have The two individuals who gave the assumed names ended in bloodshed. George Frederick Seymour and Thomas Junk, Mr. Catchpole still asserted his innocence of hay who were given into custody by Mr. Hedger, the ing any hand in the business. Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, on suspicion of Mr. Harmer here produced another letter, at the having attempted to commit felony, were again request of Mr. Seymour, who had declared upon brought up from the county gaol yesterday, to un- perusing it that his opinion as to its genuineness was dergo further examination on the extraordinary decided, and he still, said Mr. Harmer, laboured charge which was alleged against them. The de- under that foolish impression. We quote a few ex fendants were provided with the legal assistance of tracts from the epistle as a curiosity : Mr. Harmer to get them out of the serious dilemma "MY LOVE,—I believe my father to be much in which they were placed. The latter gen t leman richer than my aunt wishes to suppose, and there said, that from the tenour of the letters he had pe- fore dreads losing it by my marriage; but one of rused, written by the supposed lady to one of his the first things we will do shall be . to' examine my clients, lie had very little doubt they were the pro. father's will, which is to be seen in Doctors'-com duction'of some parties desirous of playing a hoax mons. Oh how I pity you when I read in your on the individual for whom they were intended.— many letters the walks and disheartening delays The fact was, the gentleman who went by the which have attended the progress of our intimacy; name of Seymour had, shortly after his arrival but, my dearest love, I will make up for all this in London, received un anonymous communica- when lam once safely lodged in your arms. Nothing tion, the purport of which was that the writer, hut death shall then separate us. It will then be a young lady of large fortune, had fallen despe- our turn to laugh at those whose unkind treatment rarely in love with him, and entreated him to contributed to bring about un event to prevent answer her communications, adding, that his let- which so much pains have unnecessarily been wasted. ters to her might be left at Mr. Catchpole's, the It was intended by my aunt that the Hed g er famil y watchmaker, in Fenchurch-street, through whose should dine with us, but Mr. Hedger meeting with medium they might carry on a correspondence until an accident on Wednesday, arising from the slip they were united, without incurring the risk of the pery state of the roads, sprained his uncle, and it affair ever coming to the knowledge of her relatives, is now settled that we dine there, and thither we whom she represented as extremely watchful over go this evening and remain until Tuesday. This her. Mr. Harmer went on to say that both Mr. change, which at first I was induced to consider Seymour and Mr. Junk, his friend, had some inter- injurious to our happiness and peace of mind, I find views with this Mr. Catchpole, on the subject of upon a close inspection of the premises, to be the these letters, from which they were convinced that reverse. The ladder of formidable height we can that person must have been aware what the writer now dispense with, and one about six feet will an was; and they were also strongly of opinion aver the purpose.—[This was precisely the height that he must be in the secret of the circum- of the ladder found under Mr.- Junk's cloak when stance relating to the anonymous letter written to he was secured on Monday night by Mr. Hedger Mr. Hedger, describing that two persons an- and the watchman.]—Mr. Hedger lives at the cor swering the description of the accused were to nor of Park-road. I propose Monday evening for make an attempt to break into the house on Mon- the grand attempt to be made, which, if conducted day night, for the purpose of robbing it. on your side by prudence, cannot fail of rendering The Magistrate (Mr. Swam') immediately is- me one of the happiest women in the world. A sued a summons for the attendance of Mr. Catch- glance at the premises will be sufficient for our pole, and in the interim the following letter from the scheme. *Let a carriage be procured, and waiting lady who Mr. Seymour was led to believe had in Park-road, with the horses' heads turned to formed an attachment for him was read. It was the high road; the ladder of six feet will enable me dated from Clapham, the 21st of December, and i to get upon the wall at the bottom of the garden, and was found amongst other papers in Mr. eymour's then in the morning happy shall be the one which, possession when he was taken into custody on Mon. I have no doubt, I shall have to bless as long day night, when he went accompanied by his friend as I live." The writer then mentions that a to Clapham, provided with a scaling ladder and cough shall indicate her presence at the window other apparatus, to effect the lady's escape over the:i when he makes his appearance. It adds, " Re- Mr. Serjeant SELLON commiserated the situation of the applicants, but told them that it was not in his power to afford them the redress they sought, as there was no parish in London upon which they had then the smallest claim. Mr. Mallets suggested that there were ss. in the poor-box, and that such sum would be a substantial relief to the applicants if the Magistrate thought proper to have it handed to them. Mr. Serjeant SELLON felt happy to have it in his power to afford them even so trifling a pecuniary re lief, and having ordered the ss. to be given them, cautioned them before the money was expended to proceed on their journey homewards. The applicants gratefully thanked the Magistrate, and withdrew. Last night, an ex-police constable, of the name of George More, No. 163, letter E. division, was brought before Mr. Sejeant SSLLON; to answer a complaint for refusing to deliver up his police clothing. It appeared, that on the previous day the de fendant was discharged from the service for impro per conduct, particularly in getting drunk, and being found frequently asleep while on duty. This was done by an order of the Commissioners. The de fendant, however, refused to give up his clothing, alleging that he paid weekly, since he was first ap pointed, a certain sum in liquidation of the first cost, and unless this money were refunded to him, he was determined to retain the uniform. He was accord• ingly taken into custody, but even before the Ma gistrate he still persisted for a time in his deter mination. Mr. Se►jeant SELLON told the defendant, that the qeestion of having the money already paid refunded was for the consideration of the Commissioners alone; but unless the clothing was delivered up, he (the Magistrate) should feel it his duty to detain him in custody until some satisfactory arrangement was entered into respecting it- He would advise the defendant unhesitatingly to comply with the de mand made upon him, and give no further trouble either to himself or others. The defendant promised the Magistrate to com ply immediately, and he was discharged . LAMBETH-STREET. Three me►►, named George Lewes, James Welsh, and William Walker, were yesterday brought for final examination before Mr. HARDWICK, on a charge of having committed a burglary in the shop of a Mr. Brown, a cheesemonger, res►ding in Pell -street, Raicliff-highway.—They were fully committed for trial. DVCa, wnose services 4 nave bought by giving ' my gold watch, will join us at the Ketiningt gate ; :for dearest, excuse a female's timidity, -if siggest she may be my companion until )ou be' completed the arrangement for our nuptials. I feet the only opportunity I will have of bringing any thing with me will be my trinkets, many of which are very valuable, and have been but seldom worn . . by me, as my aunt says diamond ornaments are in appropriate for a young girl. Excuse my weakness, my poor heart sometimes deserts me. I fear you, like many of your sex, can, from devoted proof of my attachment, take cause to chide me for the rashness of throwing myself into the arms of a stranger; be this however, as it may, the ri s k I w ill h azar d ; f or I think there is something so strange in our adven ture, that if marriage be a predestinated state, we have reason to suppose ours is of that description." The epistle concludes, by desiring her dearest love to purchase the wedding ring. "My hand," she says " is very small, fingers long and slender, the smallest size ring cannot fail of being large enough. (Signed) " MARIA WALLACE." The Magistrates here retired to discuss the matter; and on their return, Mr. SWAMI; having quoted two clauses of the Vagrant Act for the information of the defendants, told them, that had they been found in an enclosed place instead of where they were ap prehended, they would have subjected themselves to the punishment awarded for such offence,—=namely, three months' imprisonment to hard labour, as rogues and vagabonds. Mr. SWABEY then passed an enco mium on Mr. Hedger for having acted in the spirited manner he had done on the occasion, and also for having given the parties into custody, and brought forward a public inVesligatidn illtb the circumstances. Even if the defendants had not presented thetnselv,es in the neighbourhood of Stockwell for the purpose of committing some felonious act, they were there, by their own admission, for a most illegal purpose.— that of taking away from her parents a child, an offence of no slight aggravation. The Magistrate then admonished the defendants on the narrow escape they had of losing their lives; for had they attempted, to scale the garden wall, where they expected to have found the person for whom they %were in quest, not only their lives might have been sacrificed in the at tempt, but that also of a gentleman whose character stood high is the county of Surrey. The defendants were then discharged. • Since the apprehension of the defendants, it has cost them upwards of 201., besides the enormous expenses attendant on giving presents to persons who were engaged in running about with letters, &c., for the parties. THE MARKETS. HAILSHAM MARKET.—Dec. SO. 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Veal Os. Cd. to Os. Od„ I 3 6 4 8 Pork 0 0 U 0 A limited supply, and a very dull trade. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Dec. 29. 3s. Od. to 48.0 d. I 3a. Bd. to 46. 4d. Mutton 3 2 4 4 Pork.—..— 310 4 2 • A moderate supply, and a dull trade. CHICHESTER MA RK ET.—Dec. 30. Beef 23. 10.1. to 48. Od. f 38. 10d. to 48„. 4d.. Mutton —..... 3' 0 4 0 I 3 10 4 ; 2 In Lean Stock next to nothing doing. Supply limited, and trade dull. RUMFORD MARKET.—Dec. 30. a. d. toe. d. . ..... S. d. E. d. • ileer... ... 26.1 0 I Veal Mutton 2 8 4 0 Pork ......... .. ... .... 3 0. 4 4 Suckling Calves from 14a . to 26a.'; Quarter oldPigtles.to 150. sack. A limited supply, and a very dull trade. STEYNI NG M A RKET.—Dec. Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. &I. Veal Os. Od. to Os. Cd. Mutton 3 4 4 10 4 0 4 4 Supply good. and trade, particularly with prime Sheep and Beasts, somewhat brisk. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THZ WEEK. WI heat. Barley. Oats. Beans Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s, to s. s. to O. Blandford 50 99 23 •-• 37 Brigg 30 64 23 lie 21 30 34 BS -- 59 -- 26 -- 19 -- 35 Chard 56 70 32 38 94 SO 42 4$ Huntingdon 56 97 24 33 17 SS 21 Long Sutton..—. 40 56 16 21 86 32 Louth Lynn 44 60 23 38 la 38 14 98 Newark 30 - 59 26 Bd 17 IS SO 4113 Nottingham 56 63 30 09 21 • 10 39 46 Peterborough 66 70 37 40 13 21 37 44 Plymouth*. 11 76 94 34 17 24 Pontefract.... . 61 84 24 - 41 - Sleaford 47 58 26 33 18 94 39 48 Uppingham 30 60 21 Sh 18 98 22 443 Wisbech. 3O 38 16 18 ,*a SS LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Dee. 29. 'I be large arrivals of this morning have caused dullness', in the tra .e, and nothing but the finest qualities inquired after. The hest samples of Barley were, however, in re. quest, and best Wheats supported last week's quotation*. In other articles no material alteration. Wheat, Norfolk and Stiff&ilk, 601 b. ....... 435. to mss. ". }.... --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe 4ss. to 265. ---bleating, Foreign 10d. to 11Sid,...English 10d. to 194. per st. Shelling 28s. to 30s. per load, Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Dee. 39. Owing to the closing of somaOf the interior canals, there were few country millers at market this morning, and the transactions were on a very moderate scale - , holders of Wheat, however, evinced less araiety to"press sales, and purchases of fine qualities could scarcely be ' made on last Tuesday's terms. Very few Oats were sold;. the choicest parcels were firmly held for last week's rates, but other descriptions were id. to ld. cheaper. We do not vary our quotations of Flour and Oatmeal ; the trade: was much firmer than at the close of the week. 'WHEAT. English, White, per 7011.). ---------- Red ----... Scotch, Welch, and Manx -- Irish, White !I 3 1 3 ---- Red 7 6 9 0 --- Foreign 9 6 10 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, ver 451 b 3 2 3 4 Irish -- Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 35 0 38 8 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ........ . Feeding .4.. 4 0 4 4 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter ... ......... SS 8 43 g -- Irish, &c. Foreign 36 0 38:0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter ........ Foreign ..... .............................. ... FLoua, English, per 2Stilb. Irish . ! ......... ..... ............... ........ OATMEAL, English l and Irish, per 2401bs 27 0 it• • • INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter ' ' 3O 0 u 0 , MALT, per Imperial quarte r 5B 0 a • • ImpoaT or GRAIN for the Week ending Dee, 29. • • Flour. Wheal Oats. I Barley I Qrs. er .. 4 2 r , For eign , r.s I inch, &c. Sokol Load.. 6,595 16,900 8 89 —.--- I 1,505 1,487 BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. at Dover, the lady of S. M. Lathaui t Eaq. of a daughter. On the 29th ult. in Bloomsbury -square, the lady of W. Ward, Esq. M.P., of n s on . MARRIED. On the 51st ult. at Islington, the Rcv. W. 11. Butler, of Brighton, to Mary Ann, third daughter of J. Bell, Esq. o f River-terrace. On the Slat ult. at Camberwell, Henry Sidden, Esq., of Great Surrey-street, to Jane Isabella Stuart, young's! daughter of T. G. Street, Esq. of Fulham. On the 31st ult. at Camberwell, J. Nix, Esq. of Sy. denhatn-common, to Caroline, eldest daughter of C. F. Hennings, Esq. of Dulwich. On the 31st ult. at St. George's, Hanover-square, Charles Davies, Esq. Eaton-street, Pimlico, to Miss E. Davies, niece of John Banks Davies Esq. Myrtle-hilli Carmarthenshire. On the 26th ult. at Lambeth, Lieut. W. L. Tudor, of the 50th Regiment, to Mary Anne, only daughter of the late R. R. Kitson, Doi. DIED , On the 30th ult. in Lower Ro c kinghatn-row, New Kent-road, in her 8 1st year, Mrs. Ware, relict of the late R. Ware, Esq. On the 28th ult. in Broad-court, Long-acre, Mr. R. Castle, aged 51. On the 19th ult. at Pau, in the south of France, T. Nugent, Esq., second son of the late J. Nugent, Esq., of Clay-hill, Epsom. On the 29th ult. at Brixton, Ann, the beloved wife of Wm. Page, Esq. On the 30th ult. Mr. W. Strudwick, in his 60th year, and nearly 40 years an inhabitant of Clipstone-street, Fitzroy-square. On the 29th ult. the Rev. S. Slade, D.D., Dean of Chichester, Rector of Ilartiield, Sussex, and Vicar of Staverton, Northamptonshire. PRINTIII AND PUBLISHED HT IVIIIRDO YOUNG, AT $Ol4 OFFICLA, 11w, STIL"Di IU: 1 111 a • C t he 4011 Fleeted w i PANY'S accompanied Extempore I Editor of " Number of January, I C This day wite ECO, P , -- 7 MER' History of ch London : rani. 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