The Sun. — London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Perhaps it is satisfactory to have no great news from France. We do not wish for striking events or important changes. We hope matters are now entered into train again, and are pursuing a tranquil course. The impeachment of a corps of Ministers for act, of high treason is, indeed, a mighty occur rence, but a perfectly natural consequence of their atrocious conduct. M. Eusebe Salverte, a person of eminence among the ranks of the Liberal Deputies, opens the important proceeding, and thus states briefly his proposition :—" The Chamber accuses of high treason the Ministers who signed the report to the King, and the ordinances of the- 26th of July. 1830." The motion is supported on all sides, and carried by a majority, consisting of the whole House, with the exception of three members. It is painful to press a matter. that may terminate in the loss of life. We have already spoken of the acts of the late French Ministry as we thought they deserved, when they took place. Justice, we presume will now have its course, and we shall therefore be silent, far ther than describing its official process. Of one insi nuation of M. Salverte we should doubt the accu racy. "An inquiry," he says," will show to what point is founded the opinion generally received, that the Ministry, for the success of its criminal projects, bad solicited the support of foreign Governments." The Ministry, we should think, cannot have been mad enough to do this. We should apprehend that foreign Governments, in reply to such an application, would have used their influence to keep ' the King of France within the pale of the Charter. An inquiry will probably show what the truth is. Our private letters are well worthy of perusal, par ticularly those signed " it." "N. and L. The protest of the Peers, quoted in the letter signed " it" was a natural consequence of the precipitate degradation of 00 individuale. The King has gone some way towards appeasing the rising discontent, by promptly restoring two of the excluded members of the Upper House—Marshal Soult and Admiral .Duperre—to the rank from which they had been so unceremoniously ejected. A further homage has been paid to public opinion, by creating a rank for the naval service analogous to the military rank of Marshal. There are to be three Admirals of France, whose dignity is exactly to correspond with that of Mandrel. M. Duperre is, by another ordinance, honoured with this distinguished promotion. The letter signed " IL" contains a brief account, which does not appear in the journals yet received, of the proceedings to the Chamber of Deputies on War day, on the subject of the election-law. The in tended alterations will greatly simplify the present process. It is proper to state, that the ultra papers, the Gazelle de France and the Quotidienne, proceed in their course of undisguised hostility to the new system. .The proposition which they labour to establish is, that the Government, having depart ed from the principle of legitimacy, cannot stop where it is. The revolution, we are told, began with cries of " Vive la Charte I" but a few days after that charter was remodelled, and now another charter appears to be wanted. In conclusion, it is argued that the principle of the sovereignty of the people being acknowledged, the Chamber of Depu tree is in the situation in which the Constituent As sembly stood at the commencement of the first re volution, arid will be hurried forward in the same manner to a republic. There is, however, one ma terial point in which the parallel fails. The head of the Government from which concessions were then extorted was expected to be insincere, and gave constant cause for jealousy : whereas, in the present case, the head of the Government is the creature of the revolution, and no reasonable being can suppose that he would be favourable to plans for the subver sion of the constitution. It is said in the Mcssager des Chambres that the King of Sardinia has allowed all the French Journals to be introduced into Chain bery, on the principle that the people should know every thing ;. end that he condemns the conduct of Charles X. This is the right course for Kings to take. The National reports—but we do not give any credit to the statement, --that Charles X. having written to William IV. fn the use of an English frigate to convey him from Cherbourg to this country, was answered by our Minister for Foreign Affairs, that the relations of friendship subsisting between England and France did not permit the re quest to be granted. The accounts from Spain, which reach us through France, show that the wretched Government of that kingdom are beginning to he alarmed. Every friend of liberty and justice must wish to see the worst fears of Ferdinand and his partisans realized to the utmost.---Timer. The election dinner of Mr. Brougham mid Lord Morpeth, for the county of York, was celebrated in that city on Friday lust, with a magnificence, or at least an ardour mid sincerity, appropriate to the oc casion. We should have now let the business pars with the united description ; but there is clearly sal error or two in matter of fact and in reasoning, which we are anxious to put right. Mr. .Broughum charged his Majesty's present Ministers, and parti cularly the Duke of Wellington, with wishing well to the Polignee Admioistration I And the chat go was immediately nod very properly received with expressions of dissent. The charge is not true; It is unfounded. our Ministers might wish well to the Polignac Administration, as our laws wish well to thieves upon their trial— " God seed you a good deliverance ;" but as to any recommendation of the Polignac Ministry, or any approval of its conduct after it was formed, wet know, and rio does the intelligent part of the British public know, that nothing could be farther from the minds of our Ministers. They could not foresee the pre elite events that would result, and they had no right to interfere with the King of France In the compo skim of a Ministry, but they did apprehend mis chievous consequences front the choice of such a creature as Polignac; cud Polignac's consciou s ness of their aversion to him, induced him on many petty occasions to trent them with insolence after his accession to power. Hut Mr. Brougham says, that the proof of our government's nttechment to the Polignue administration will be established, if they suffer the Ex-King of France to bring his baggage into &glued without being elite Parted to search and seizure, or search rind rejec tion, Now what may be the intention of our go vernment upon this point, we know not; nor do we even know whether the King of France is coming to Ringland : but Mr. Brougham should think (if but for a moment) on what he is saying. If the Ex-King of Franca comes to England, he brings nothing to our shores but what the people of France h ave su ffered him to take away with him, Why are they to be the only generous peoplo upon earth, and we the only muliguent petty cavillers `?Ile hits not withdrawn surreptitiously ; lie has been conducted publicly and slowly by his subjects almost from the centre of the kingdom to its western coast, and they might have stripped him, if they had pleased, to his shirt. But unquestionably with whatever they die miss the wretch, any civilized nation Upon earth would receive him. We have no respect for hint, no pity for him, but a great regard fur the dignity of the Britieli character, es compared with that of Prince. Charles X. has never injured those: WhOrn lie has injured cruelly and basely, have yet the magnanimity to dismiss him with some allow "( 44 perhaps, of nnexatnined money and goods ; what righthavt we to step in between their bounty and tea unit - *spry o ever of it e— Thies. At a public dinner given to Sir James Graham at a sk e d ehaven Sir J , l, 2l,let xt urdtry week, a gentleman having u e n i„ us tevo 7 l . 1 1,111ente . " en the great anti ; Hovered watt l Which has just taken place," hr 9 Whites l first read the O i r t rl i !tr e liaised by the King, for crushing the Liberty of liberty of Prance, I had cut e whit It the trembling anxiety to see whether that hirer people wouhl rise up at once arm , v t,mt,4 4 4, 1 by destroying that reckless tyroutthat hesitteVNro4ll4ll by that insane muss —(Cheers)—er wait the sitesil,%l7:).; less certain progress of time for expelling - from th ' sli%:' ". the serpent which they had nourishe4 o n ly to icing his suriety was speedily put au curl to by the inteit T too which his spread joy throughout Ow h u m, 4,„1 raised one universal feeling of exultation amongst all men who know and feel what liberty is. —(Cheers.) Never, I will venture to say, did history record a Revolution more necessary in its commencement, more terrible in its warning to all tyrants, more ;just in its ven• geance, or more speedy and glorious it its termination. (Cheers.)—The rights of freemen are not tobe compromised by, nor held at the will of tyrants; and this lesson canner be too strongly impressed upon all men—that the people have an indefeasible right of resistance to Kings and to kingly power, whenever that power is exercised against their liberties.—(Applause.)" Sir James luivi . i;g added— " I trust that the French people will show with what moderation they can use victory, by sparing the life of that wretched and outcast man who was their Sovereign." W. Lawson, Esq., of Brayton-hall, the gentleman who proposed the Honourable Baronet at the Elec tion, on the Tuesday following, observed— " From one pint of his speech I slightly differ, and that difference will be best shown by the toast I am about to propose--e' May the beads of Don Miguel, King Fer dinand, anti Charles Csapet, be severed from their bodies and rolled in the dest—and the more speedily the better.' " The toast was drunk with " applause." Accord. ing to the intelligence from Madrid, we may soon expect to hear of important events in that country. Ferdinand's reign will not, probably, last much longer. The influence of the great movement in France must speedily be felt throughout the Peniii. suds. The statements in the letter from Madrid, in another column, may or may not be true; but that important changes must take place in Spain, is a point as to which there can be little doubt. When speaking of Ferdinand, we naturally recur to the period when the French army, led by the Duke d'Angouleme, enabled him to trample a second time on the' constitution of his country. On that occa sion we well remember the fulsome praises lavished on the hero of the Trocadero. How times are changed ! We have before us a Brockune, just published in Paris, under the title of " The Flight: of the Royal Family—exact relation which passed at Saint Cloud, Rambouillet, Maintenon, Laigle, Argentan, and Cherbourg"—in which, while the late King is spoken of as having been unable to ex tricate himself from the influence of Priests and Emigrants, but yet possessing " no decided pens chant for despotism," the Hero of the Trocadero is throughout treated as an ideot and a coward. "He was incapable (it is observed) of connecting two ideas together," such was his hebetement. The only man of the family was, it is said, the Duchess d'Angouleme. So much for history 1 Yet the destiny of thirty-two millions of men would have been committed to this ideot.--Morning Chronicle. At the Cumberland election Sir James Graham, among other desirable reforms, is reported in the Carlisle Journal to have said, " that an immediate effort ought to be made to reduce the expenses at tendant upon elections : to remedy this, let the votes be taken in five or six places in such a county as this; and then the freeholders, without inconve nience, without expense, could make choice of re presentatives—not because they were possessed of large properties, but because they were endowed with consummate abilities."—As Mr. Crackanthorpe had just before observed, " That the interests of this country are no longer re presented, because the expenses ;of contested elections are mo enormous, that compromises of the grossest and most scandalous nature are made daily..--(Loud cheering.) I find that all the counties in England are completely pars lystel.—(4 Look to Yorkshire.') IVO, I do, and I say Yorkshire is completely so, or rather, it is rendered com pletely nugatory; there are two Members of independent principles, but, on the other hand, there is one a little liberal, and the other anti-liberal ; and I sincerely regret, that, owing to the expense, Yorkshire cannot send four liberal Membere.—(Chvers.) And I also assert it as my deliberate opinion, that, in consequence of the progress of liberal anti enlightened principles, were it not for the irn memo expense, Cumberland could send two independent Member* to Parliament."—(Cheers.) There can hardly be a doubt that the taking the votes in a number of places would alone tend mate rially to improve the County Representation. But this improvement *ill riot be conceded till the still more important reforms can no longer be refused ; for we must never blink the question, that the Government of this country is founded on corrup lion, and that whatever tends to improve the Repre sentation must equally tend to shake the foundation of the Government. The Duke of Wellington is severely censured by Sir James for his opposition to retrenchment. After noticing the superannuations of Messrs. Bathurst and Dundas, he adverted to the opposition of the Ministers to the reductions re commended by the Finance Committee, and then gave the following very graphic account of the nature of the reductions effected by his Grace : " Icy commencing with the higher offices, it would produce a double effect—it would reverse the state of things—it would act like a two-edged sword, cut. ring down the public expenditure, anti striking a death-blow at that corruption which the high offices engendered and supported.-•--(lmmense cheering. ) But instead of that, the Government began by lopping off clerks, private soldiers, and subalterns of every depart ment—(A voice In the crowd : The chips of the block. yard I') Aye, es my friend in the crowd has said, the mere chips of the block-yard.--(Great cheering.) I fed extreme pleasure in being thus interrupted—it proves that he who takes upon himself the tank of exposing evils, does not undertake a thankless office; it provea that his labour is not in vain ; that the great body of the people know, and are narrowly watching their own interests.— (Cheery.) This thought animates me upon the present occasion, and if I am elected, it shall cheer rue through the paths of my duty,—(Cheers.) I was about to remark, that the Ministry having taken this course—the Committee broke up—because, it did ea happen, that all their recom mendations touching the higher offices were thrown over board by the very House of Commons that appointed them, end their operations were confined to such paltry offices as I have stated to you.—(Cheere.) They did not touch the salary of one single Member of the Howse of Common*, nor that of an individual Peer in the other House, but confined themselves to the weak and powerless-.-.thus keep. ing :open flu': corrupt gates of influence wide as ever, and increasing the duties of those who had most work and l e a s t pay.—(Cheers.) Seeing this, I thought it toy duty to try the honesty of the Home of Commons, and the sincerity of the Government, by bringing forward a dis tinct motion for doing away with the office of Lieutenant- General of the Ordnance—an office which was filled, I ant sorry to say, by an individual representing a great mid populous county—and which the Finance Committee had declared to be useless. I proposed the measure—the Government resisted—and the Ilouse of Commons rejected the recommendation ofa Committee elected by themselves, and by whose Nuggeytiony both they and Minister* had ex pressed their willingness to abide..--(Loull checrieg.)-1 took my course from the moment—l sane that the Duke's d e f e r e n c e to public opinion was a false delusion.-.-arid that his Ministry were a twee poor, and corrupt body, totally ' , wor thy o f my confidence.....(Cheete.)—lt then bscaine necessary fur me, treeing that there was a body of men in that Howie who invariably voted with the Ministers, to in quire how far they were influenced by the Aristocracy, and what interest they had in the Governnient, by emoluments derived through the patronage of the Crown. Now, I think them scarcely ever could lie a proposition more fair, More reasonable than this—that when a roan has hie hand in your pocket, you Arnold inquire how much he takes out, and what he does with it. House of Commons are the guardians of tine public pro perty, and it iv but - reasonable that that public should know how that property - is expended.—(Cheers.)-1 said, then allow Me to ask how much thelPrivy Councillors re. ecive from out of the public pause? Ministers said, in reply, sou shall not know---they offered a conditional re sintance-1 might have information About any body *dee, but that body was sacred, and not ten he meddled with.— (Applau,e. )—I thought it was most unjust, moat impoli. t i e , to w i s h to conceal such facts. And here let me say, and it is but justice to nay own assiduity that I should say tint I m a de out a list of the Privy Council-.--which 1 ant inclined to believe in correct, tinted it has never been contradictial--and in the presence of that Parliament.e-in tine teeth of those very individuals who were receiving it— I said, and I now repeat the assertion, that there are no less than 113 intlivi , tuals of the highest rank of tine No bility, having either seats or direct inductive nre that House, who aro receiving einonget them tilto,ooo/. yearly from the pockets of the people.—(Cheers, and cries of "tohatue, elnittrue".....“ at them again l")—I will not go through an analysis of the whole course which I have ;Aimed, but I think thia inn a slight apecitnen of the honesty and faith with - Winds I have weed you."--(Cheelft-) h4vo HD doubt that both this Duke of %Veiling , !°l 4:itt m liet ‘lt t ) e ' r i " during the°r t titan be have Comtmrorrs will tv did during the last. But we may observe that the expence of elections, to which Sir James so justly objects, and the enormous sums of public money shared by the Aristocracy, are closely connected.— We may observe farther, that the great curse of this country, that which tends more perhaps than any thing else to debase the people—the immense masses of property held by individuals—depends chiefly on the power which the Aristocracy possess of putting their hands into the pockets of the people. An estate of a thousand a-year seldom goes to the third generation, because a parent feels the necessity of providing duly for all his children; and the estate must either be mortgaged or conveyed to trustees. The same changes would take place in the estates of the Aristocracy, were it not for the public money and the church dignities. In coun tries in which matters are left to take their free course, families rise and fall, but large proper ties are never long in the possession of any one family. A powerful Aristocracy can only remain so by the oppression of the people—that is, by allotting out of the public money sums for the support of their younger children, far beyond the value of their services, out of the public purse. The salaries are enlarged to suit the rank of the receiver; and were the evil to end with the higher classes, we might. perhaps, rub on ; bat the whole mass of society becomes infected with their extravagance, and even clerks in public offices contrive by hook or crook (we shall allude to instances ere long) to get hold of enormous sums. An Aristocracy, preserved by entails and primogeniture, influence elections and degrade the people ; and, by commanding Par liament, are enabled to continue entails and primo geniture. Thus abuses support each other. On the other hand, nothing is unimportant which dimi nishes, however slightly, the power of the Aristo cracy. We say at once the Aristocracy, because the Duko of Wellington, or any other Duke, is merely their tool, and cannot resist, if he would, the demands of the body. Every defeat of the Squire archy, in a county election, by strengthening the hands of the advocates of retrenchment, leads to farther defeats. The depreciation of the currency during the war has produced many evils, but it has also produced some good. By buoying up the Aris tocracy with an idea of their being more wealthy than they really were, it led them to contract heavier debts, and give greater provisions to their children. The change stranded many of them, and affected most of them. We are now feeling the benefit in their inability to expend money during the late elections. For we must not dis • guise from ourselves the fact, that the independence of the yeomanry has, in many cases, been as much caused by contempt for the poverty of the Squires (for poverty in England is always despised), as by their own virtue. Let advantage be taken of the occasion to urge retrenchment, which will cr ippl e still further the Aristocracy, and increase tile power of the people to complete their independence. The day, perhaps, is riot far distant, when England will he all that the most sanguine can desire.—Morning Chronicle. The result of the election for Cambridgeshire has afforded another signal triumph of public senti ment over Ministerial influence. That county now sends two independent Members to Parliament; and, in achieving its own " emancipation," has pretty strongly indicated the sense which it enter tains of the wisdom and virtues of the Ministry which its ejected representative supported. It was no moderate aversion to the principles of the Wel lington Administration that could so rouse the energies of the county as to dislodge Lord Manners from a seat whi c h h e f on dl y cons id ere d us hi s inalienable possession, backed as he was by the Ministerial credentials, and by the hereditary in fluence of the horse of Rutland. When it was first understood that Mr. Adeane would offer ~himself to the electors, the friends of the " family, compact" studiously gave it out that hie corning forward would endanger the seat of Lord Francis Osborne; but, after a few days' contest, Lord Osborne re mained at the head of the poll, and the dominion which the Rutland family exercised over the county was signally and completely subverted. It was gratifying to see this contest conducted, on the popular side, without any manifesta tion of personal f ee li ng , but e ntirely on the ground of public principle. Nor was there any thing like personal exultation at the expellee of the beaten candidate; on the contrary, the manly and honest electors, who, in vindication of a great principle, and i n t h e f ree exerc i se o f their political privilege, occasioned his overthrow, commiserated his fate, and did justice to his private worth. But the Government d o not come as clean out of this contest as Lord Manners. lle deserves credit for not having vexatiously kept open the poll when he found that he had no chance of ultimate success. But how did the Government act ? Lord F. Os borne, if the report of his speech be correct, im peached thctn of interfering with the freedom of election. He said, "ho had reason to know, for lie had seen it in black and white, that the interest of one great department of the Government had been against him,,because he was not willing to support the blunderin g Ad m i n i strat i on ." The Administra tion, however, made an additional blunder by sup. posing that their influence could turn the scale of this election. They calculated with rather too much confidence upon the venal obsequiousness of the electors of Cambrid ge shire —so did they mis. calculate their strength in Norfolk, where Mr. Wode house was sent " to the right about ;" and in Suffolk, where Sir Thomas Gooch bad hie twenty five years of Ministerial subserviency repaid by being kindly relieved from the onerous duties of representative of the county for the future. It is true his devotion to the public service was so great that he was not, like Cincinnati's, anxious to leave the cares of Government and retire to his plough, and therefore the electors found it necessary to use some gentle compulsion in divesting him of the se natorial robe, in which, after some struggling on his part, they happily succeeded. He may now return to his fat wethers and his turnip.fields, and enjoy the conscientious satisfaction of having contributed, by the policy which lie supported, to raise the agri cultural and other great interests of the country to that state of " unrivalled prosperity" which they now present. Alas I for the ninety-three new Mem bers which the present elections were to give to Ministers! We may well ask the " whipper-in" wheal j aro they to be fo u nd ? If Mr. Jolliffe, who fins , ust lost Surrey, be n o t more successful in findingin the fox-hunting season, he had better for swear the sport that has qualified him for states manship altogether, and sit down and study the dia lectics of Aristotle I—Aforning Herald. Mr. O'Connell, it will be seen, has been returned for Waterford, hut in u manner which does him no great credit. There appears to have been so much management and trickery in the matter, that no one, we think, but Mr. O'Commell, standing in Mr. O'Connell') shoes, would have demeaned himself so far as to have accepted part of the representation of it county where a superior interest existed. 11 Mr. O'Connell, however, fulfil the promises which, it will be seen, lie made to his new constituents, We shall have reason to be grateful for his return—for in future the 'Right Hon. Gentleman states his de termination to adjourn the House of Commons at nine o'clock, or, ut all events, at eleven ! We wis h hint speed and success to his endeavours. The change will be beneficial to all parties ; for, as Mr. O'Connell very properly remarks, the lute hours which have been lately kept by the House of Com mons are no hours for doing business ; while, let us told, they are very unfit hours for enabling us to give any satisfactory account of their proceedings. — MO rn ing Adverliser. CODONEUSIIIPOI t TUE COUNTY OF ma:sta.—The death of Jouu Wittoirr UNWIN, which took place on Sunday evening last, a f ter a pro. tracted illness, leaver a vacancy for the situation a one of the Coroners for the county of Middlesex. Mr. UN w l : 4 1173 filled the office for many years hi conjunction with Mr. Sriat.ttio. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Two labouring men appeared as plaintiff and de fendant before the Loan MAYOR, in a case which is likely to terminate in a manner not at all expected by either. The complainant stated that he had lately come out of the hospital, where he had been confined for some time by severe illness. On appearing in the streets he met the defendant, with whom he had been well acquainted, and whose rival be had been in the affections of a young woman. They went together to a grog-shop, and there they drank a little too much gin-and -water; and the complainant's head being weakened by the hospital regimen, he was not well qualified to take good care of himself. As he had the infirmity of " woman-bunting" when he Fat a drop too much, he thought it would be advisable to leave his watch in the care of his friend, the defendant ; but to his great surprise, that person upon being applied to next day for restitution of the watch, declared that it was his own property, and that the complainant had made him a present of it while he was sober on the preceding evening. Under these circumstances, the complainant was of opinion that the conduct of the defendant was neither more nor leas than a flat robbery, and finding that possession would be persevered in, applied to an officer, who recommended that the matter should be represented to the Lord Mayor. The defendant's statement was to the following effect :—He had been for some time courting a lady, who, however, had the bad taste to prefer the com plainant to him, and even to become the wife of his rival. While he was in the height of his addresses, he made her several presents which she never ob jected to receive, although she was determined never- to make the sort of return which was consi dered necessary by him. She, however, gave him a couple of watch seals. As he love business was wholly at an end, the defendant proposed to the complainant that the lady should forthwith give up the memorials of the passion he once entertained for her. He at the same time said, he had her seals ready to restore to her. The complainant candidly acknowledged that his wife was no longer in pos session of the trinkets, for it happened that the moment she received them she handed them over, as proofs of her attachment, to the complainant, who disposed of them to a neighbouring Jew for about a fourth of their value. This was considered unfair dealing, although a lore transaction, and the complainant upon being reproached with having formed a conspiracy against the property of the de fendant, pulled out the watch, and handing it to him, requested that it might be kept as a compen sation for the articles out of which he had been wheedled. This being the state of the case, the defendant thought he w a s ent itl e d to t h e wat ch. The LORD MAYOR said, he never wished to be concerned in transactions arising from the tender pas sion, for fear he should hurt the nice sensibilities of the parties; but he should like to know what sort of a watch the watch in question was.--The com plainant said it was a metal watch. If A metal watch!" said his Lordship, looking at it, " why, my friend, this is no watch of yours. It is gold, and double-cased, and goes upon a patent lever. Where did you get it?" The complainant and defendant were both struck with amazement at this discovery, and were evidently sorry that that they had not contrived to divide the watch between them. The defendant said he knew nothing about the watch, but that he had received it from the hands of the complainant—and if that worthy was brought to the Ohl Bailey for it he should most willingly at tend to give evidence. The LORD MAYOR—Except a satisfactory expla nation be made to me, I shall not let the watch out of my possession. The complainant—The watch is mine by the laws of finding. As I was passing through Leaden hall-market about two years ago, I sees it lying there under a butcher's stall, and as there was nobody there that seemed to have lost it, why I takes it up and claps it in my pocket, where it went very well until it went away from me. Mr. 'fabler—The watch may have been stolen. I see the name of " Martin Clayton, Manchester, No; 1,227," upon it, and that may lead to the dis covery of the owner. It would have been no more than honest in you to have advertised the circum stance, or to have made it known here. The complainant said he always understood that if a body found a watch, he had a right to keep it, and he hoped the Lord Mayor would act upon that understanding. The LORD MAYOR—No : I shall keep the watch until the right owner make his appearance. The complainant and defendant then retired, greatly disconcerted. It will be recollected, that a person of respectable character and connections, named M'Pherson, was committed from the Mansion-house some time ago upon a charge of forgery, and prosecuted by the Committee of Bankers. The Lord Mayor was in formed that the Grand Jury at Guildford at once threw out the Bill against him. GUILDHALL. Yesterday Joseph Jones and Williatn Parker, the former un assistant in a public-house in Newgate market, and the latter an old man who has for many years claimed the exclusive privilege of working the market-pump, were charged, before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, on suspicion of being concerned in an ex tensive and daring robbery committed on the pre mises of Mr. Frederick Freame, the landlord of the Red Cross, in Newgate-market. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY ordered the prisoners to be remanded. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a man named John IVise was placed at the bar before Sir R. Biamm, charged with having burglariously entered the premises of Mr. Dupree, of the Savoy-wharf, near the Strand, and stealing therefrom four fowls,—The prisoner was remanded. A man named Wn. Randall, who, it appeared, had lately been an inmate of the King's Bench prison, and was subsequently discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, underwent a long examina tion on a charge of rape, the object of the brutal at tack being a child only eight years old, named Mary Ann Robinson. The details of the examination are of course unfit for publicity ; but they were attended with circumstances of peculiar atrocity. An attempt to compromise the matter with the father of the child having been discovered, Mr. Thomas, the po lice superintendent, has undertaken to prosecute the prisoner, who stands remanded for a week. MARYLEJMNIE. A tall thin man, in a suit of black, very thread bare, was brought yesterday before Mr. IlawuN sos, charged with a breach of the peace. Mr. Itswr.iNsoN asked him his name. "I am here," replied the defendant, " in the name of the Lord Jesus Chriet Ili Mr. Rsww.sos—l again ask your name.—De fendant—Why auk it ? I have given you the name o f my master, and that is Mifficient. No man upon earth has a right to demand my name. Mr. RAWLINSON—You are charged with en of fence against the laws. Defendant—l am unjustly charged, and have nothing to do with it till my o#3. cosecs have been heard. Richard Holland, a police-constable, No. 104, division S, stated, that the defendant had lately preached sermons in the open air and on the high way in Somers-town, and as it occasioned a number of persons to assemble, some of whom, instead of litvening to the words of t ha . preacher, ma d e a dis turbance, instructi ons were green him by his supe riors to put a stop to it. H e saw the defendant at seven o'clock on Sunday morning in Brill-row, be fore the Duke of Kent public-house, preparing to begin, and he went up to him, and told him what orders he had reteived' and that lie must not c ome there to preach. The defenda n t said he had chosen a text, and preach from it he would, in defiance of him and his superiors. The police-constable went his round, anti when he came back, the defendant was going on with a sermon, and a mob of thirty persons was assembled around him. The constable told him to leave off, and go; 'the defendant said he would not. The constable tried to lead him away. The defendant hung tight to a lamp-post. The mob hooted the constable, and he got some of his comrades to assist, and took the defendant to the watch-house. The Inspector of that division of the police in formed Mr. ltawlinson, that complaints had been made by many respectable inhabitants of this prac tice, and the object was to suppress it without severity. Mr. - RAWLINSON, to the defendant—This is illegal, and you were warned not to do it. Defendant—lf the witness in this case, has sworn what he does not understand, I am entitled to the benefit of it. (To the constable)—Do you know the difference between preaching and praying ?—The constable made no reply. Defendant—lie don't answer me. Mr. RAWLINSON—He is not obliged to answer such a question. What has it to do with the breach of the peace ? We say you have no right to con gregate people in the street. Defendant—lts only the truth I want. He swears, when he came back from his round he found me preaching. Now, if he does not know the differ ence between preaching and praying, he swears what he does not know.—(To the constable.) — You say that I came there to preach from a text, — did you hear me give out that text ? Constable— How could I hear you, when I was away. Defendant—Do you think I did give out the text before I began to preach ? Constable-1 don't think any thing. Defendant—Did you ever hear a man preach? The constable was silent. Defendant—lf you won't answer that question, I ask you, is the text in preaching given before or after the sermon ? Mr. RAWLINSON—We cannot suffer the time of the public to be wasted in this way. The defendant was putting another ridiculous question to the constable, when Mr. RAWLINSON told him, he and his brother Magistrate believed the evidence, and they should detain him until he gave bail to keep the peace, and his name and address. He was required to withdraw, but he refused, declaring justice had not been administered, and he was carried to the lock-up room by four of the officers. The parson neither gave bail nor his name, and when the van came to remove the prisoners to Clerkenwell New Prison, Keys, the gaoler, was obliged to carry him to it upon his back, for he would not walk. A serjeant, belonging to the Grenadier Guards, brought his daughter, a child, eleven years old, to the office, and asked Mr. RAWLINSON'S advice. He said he lived in Berkeley-mews, and a lady, whose back door opens into them, had taken some notice of the child. The child came home Jut week repeatedly with articles of value, silk dresses, stockings, a bonnet, two bottles of wine, &c., and said the lady (Mrs. Leigh) had given them to her. Her story was believed, until the applicant found on Saturday night that his wife's box had been robbed of nine sovereigns and a half, and some silver, and then a suspicion of the truth arose his mind ; and when he accused the child with having taken it, she confessed that she had, and that a girl in Mrs. Leigh's service, two years older than herself, had partaker) of it. This girl was also brought to the oflice by her mother. It did not appear that she had got more than a bonnet and a bottle of wine out of the stolen money. She said the other gave her six sovereigns and a half on Wednesday to talc* care of for her, which she said she found, and she had them again. _ Mr. RAWLINSON said it was unlikely that a lady would give such presents to a child, and the serjeant or his wile ought to have made inquiry of her. The serjeant said they did intend to do se on Sa turday morning, but she was then gone out of town. The serjeant has got articles of the above kind to the value of 61. or 81., which the girl brought home, and Mr. Rawlinson ordered one of the officers to go round with the girl to the shopkeepers of whom they were bought, and try to get the money back. Alderson, the officer who went round with the serjeant and his (laughter, returned in the evening, and told Mr. Rawlinson he had succeeded in getting the money back (nearly 51.), from every place but ORO, and that was for the price of a doll. " Come, then," said Mr. RAWLINSON, " I think you have (lone the business well." " It's a very expensive doll, your worship," replied Alderson," it cost it. Ns." Mr. RAWLINSON-11. 165.! (He examined the doll, and asked where it was bought.)—Alderson gave a card of the shop, J. Cacheloux and Co., No. 47i, Quadrant, Regent-street, and said the child, he understood, went there in a coach to buy it. Mr. RAWLINSON thought Mr. Cacheloux had acted incautiously in selling such an expensive article to a girl so young, and he granted the seijeant a summons to require his attendance at the office. LAMBETILSTREET. A young man, named James Bray, was charged with assaulting u police-constable, and creating a disturbance in the Mile-end road, on Sunday after noon. The Magistrate ordered him to pay a fine of 40s. to the King, or be imprisoned for one month in the house of correction. HATTON-GARDEN. Mary Ann GrWilla was finally examined on a charge of administering poison to a young woman named Dorothy Turner, residing at No. 25, Hyde. street, Bloomsbury, and discharged. POISONING THE SICK AT JAFFA. We returned to Jaffa on the 24th May, and remained there till the 29th. This city, but lately the scene or a terrible necessity, was once more to behold the same necessity of command ing death. Here have I a rigorous duty to fulfil : I shall fulfil it, and will declare what I know—what I saw. Some terts were erected on a little eminence near the gardens which sur round Jaffa on the east. The order was secretly given to blow up the fortifi ca ti ons , an d, on t h e 276, upon the signal appointed, we suddenly beheld the town uncovered. An hour after wards, the General, attended by Berthier, with several physicians and surgeons, and the ordi nary staff, entered his tent. I accompanied him. A long and melancholy deliberation en sued respecting the probable fate of those in curably sick of the plague, and their term of life. After the most conscientious discussion, it was decided to anticipate, by a potion, an inevitable death, which must take place a few hours later, hut under circumstances more griev ous and painful. Bonaparte rapidly traversed the fallen ram parts of the little city, and entered the hospital. There were here some with amputations, some wounded, many soldiers afflicted with opthalmia, uttering lamentable cries, and the plague patients. The beds of the last were to the right, on en tering the first ward. I walked by the General's side. I affirm never having seen him touch a single infected patient. And why should he have touched them ? they were in the last stage of the malady. No one spoke a word. Bona parte knew well that he had no safeguard against infection, and that to expose himself needlessly was to expose his army, who had no hope save in him. He traversed the wards quickly, switching the yellow top of his boot with the whip which be carried in his hand. While moving rapidly along, he repeated these words...• " The fortifications are destroyed : Fortune has been against me at Acre: I must return to Egypt, in order to preserve it from the enemies that are coming : The Turk s w ill b e h ere i n a few hours. Let all who feel themselves able, rise and M come with us, they shall be transported: Jo litters and on horseback." There were lisvell sixty plague patients. Whatever has been PO of numbers above this, is exaggeration. Their total silence, their complete exhaustion, or imi. versal languor, announced their approaching end. To carry them out in that state was evidently to inoculate the army with the pestilence. Ali the various theories and accounts of this evenit of which I am by no means ignorant, are fabrications or fables. The fact ought to be frankly avoivrdr proving, at the same time, its indispensable; though painful necessity. For my part, I &do what I believed then to be true—what I bellee now to be true. 1 cannot say that I sat, the potion administered ; I should tell an untruth. lam unable, therefore, to name any person, without haza rding something incorrect,. But 1 know quite positively that such determinstien was taken---and ought to have been taken, int,. deliberating. That the order, in c ortaequetnein this determination, was given, and that the phte patients died, are facts which I guarantee ((VPe discovery of the truth. How is that vi eb 14, formed the whole subject of conversation stbeee• quarters, on the morrow after our departuttips, Jaffa, as a thing not to be doubted; OP which we spoke as a lamentable necessql which was spread throughout the whole. Ont. public report; that which men regarded 017' tis , the details only requiring explanation r411.:"', si become an atrocious invention to Tully right in the case of the seven of a hero ? Napoleon's own statement front.. is Helena is in the main correct, exeePi the number, which signifies nothing. If it!? acknowledged did receive the opiate, the IWO equally justifiable in the case of silty, to 001 I believe it was administered, and for velint' know it to have been ordered. If _ wrong, crime was the same in either case. HiB rof t big on its propriety, necessity, and even l' 11 7 8 „ pity, is but a repetition of that which evey:H and he among the rest, employed and or eight, which twenty years before at Jaffa.—Constabiii, g • cellany, Vol. LVlL—Metnoirs Nark°ll' Vol. 1. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. tottk; The highest price of Bread in the Metropolgr Ob. Loaf. There are others who sell ft om : WK. that price. PRICE OF SEEDS —Aug. Id. a ... 4 New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) ... 4 . "*.'__. 7;m, til• yi t Old Ditto Ditto " " H rn : in . . -- ' . iffe PPF . .4. New Foreign Ditto— _ w••• giosoft,„&"-• Old Ditto - ".".• - 46 „„,„, 54 ---.. New White Clover ....... 600. 0 1 . 44r^ „ L .,. Old Ditto Di :f0 71* .- - -r4.1. , New Trefoil ..../.00*•••••00.044•00.......... ..... ...'''' 1 e..4 Old Ditto 5,....,. .•••11. .•...$.• 061 Rib Grass 106. ;Po* obi Of ....„. ,„„...... English Carraway 5eed...............—,—........... — 4 * _... gil. Foreign Ditto Coriander - +. ...4. 031. 17t 10 1 .• 42.• 00.' St. Fain ....................(per Quarter)................ '''" 4 ' Isirir $ Rye Grass goi. Ms. 4 , 0 4 - 400. 461 #* CO 1 ?? 1, c 0 ) , Ditto .....................................0........... 3 B, .44 Linieed . , for feeding -- -4 ' -a - ;a0 • -'''OA Ditto, for crushing -.........w,.......«...... -. 4 . , - - foal ...a. 4616 ' fi. Canary Seed, New - - .4. * 44 ..4 " V* Ditto Old ~,, el. ofi White Mustard 5eed........(per 8u5he1)..... - 1 • a " - ilsopp, Brown Ditto 1.........."......rftw00rw0 .... 4 . ....: Hy, Turnip Seeds, R0und5........--...-............. - 4 . 7,",* .4 ilio ...I. .."....„.. 0. Green and Red Ditto _ - Tares, 01d....-......................................... -46 ilia' k Ditto New . ....—•..4. .: ...... 4 ... .... ...01 ,4 _ a of. 64 / to . a tiasmi(PetsinSeedieetxxPpoogicEntikttoetogtalisPh;ltiCnEe PRICES OF FLaslit°) 3211 761 .61 .5::6 1 6 0: : : : 17 .. 1 .F. ;: 1 ef: : . ii1 1f :1 1' ii .4l Farnham .w....» W. 01 ,,. 1 7. 01.0.,,, 10 US. ... ••• - , • SI• 61 . 34 ep. WV' 5/. 12•,..,,,,. ' 61 " ' Kent suggez Ditto PRICX OF OIL.. fund ..,;,4 1 4 Au OA. Rape Oil, brown Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the P4ll Rape Cake, per ton PRICE OF POTATOES—AugioO 110' New Pot/does, lO.. ts. __F- --co, a. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKEF-41A* 5°L " Ws. Od. Clover 'La to 400. oct, to 4... ------- ...--- ..i. RAW HIDE& a e; A 1 0 4 1 Per Stone , a. d. to s. d. 1 per ut0! ... ....„ 6 11: . 1 ,0, Best Heifers& Steers 2 10 3 0 Ordinall ~."---- 0 ''" 1 4 1iddlings 2 4 2 0 Market Calf..•••"*" SHEEP SKINS. .01 11 I , l * , p Polled ............. Os. Od. t• Oa. M. 1 Shearlin ~....!...,.1 . ....,.. 1..., Downs .......—.... 0 0 0 0 1 Larribs........**' it/e' LEATREn• 11 per 1„,b.,„„ JO 0 Tanned 110 00 . 4 _ . ,.... 4" PI Sp3nish Ditto .."-- 01 P dossmgb,. 11 0 C a lf Skins. 011 to To, 01 0 Ditto ....b ° le 0011 a 0 Ditto ..... I° , t ,t a isod l9 l/ Small Seals, .T.---,.. I.C C . 1 8:11 1 1 n li c es : 1;id 0n1itd..........."""e"°88e""vw°1811 . Iretw"'"l! 0 ,0 s4 ‘ 91 Culm ga 0 Llangennech Gtionglt Stone Coati Bed ~r : 1:17. o °l Walls End Seltrior: Ditto Worsbroug.. 'L4l.lts Ellison small:7;001 a Oosl or th small s I lebburn smal W a ll s End sinau_n; 64, sold, 243‘....."00P. PRICES OF Per lb. to 3611).... 16 23 to 661 b.,.... 23 28 Dressing 141 18 Fine Couch Bides 17 19 Crop Hides, 35 to 40th. 14 16 Ditt0......—.40 to 451 b. 13 171 Ditto COAL MARI Beaumont SOL 3ti. 32 0 Kilhngworth 32 6 l'ontop Windsor..—... :19 6 Townley .31 0 Wylam WallsEticillewicke&Co. 33 0 Ditto Callerton 30 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 30 6 Ditto Cramlington...... 30 6 Ditto Gosforth 34 3 Ditto Hilda 32 0 Ditto Northumberland Ditto II 34 0 Ditto Russell's .....—. 33 9 Ditto Walker 33 0 Ships at market, 31-9hii r el aboute_y i i s t: d e o samew down 2 s 0 . aavnednragaSCOTCll MARKETS. r a 0 il HA DDINGTON CORN 111AKK0...'"4 t wOli 10 average; 26 quartets sold. Oats are up ts. ; 00 to Wheat stands Is. higher on the4topt and '''' - 'l2 L b ° II Ali t rage. Pease and Beans are both do w" Is. '' of rite--- %vete sold. Ol e / nonthethem,:orapge, 11;n2alitultiii&:thsitlif;31 Wheat. Becky Oats. relo o l gO4 First 7 ,2s Od 38s Od . NU 0.1 44$ n t i th i Cott Second.... tti, o d 37 1 od 34 , od 49s ,-- e. 40. 'Third ~ f,g, od 35 1 Od 30, 04 elle f,„ ar.. quarters of Pease, and Si quartera There were 279 qrs . of Wheat in market...sS Ow— -15 Uasold.-8 Grey. Arerage .3/. 4..161. 4 . 10-- A „.12. 0 0' DALICHITI-1 CORN MAlthlL'f.-u,'",; 0 ,0 , i y: The supply of Wheat at this day's mark ° $0 but fully sufficient for the dennuid ; salve brafri:tht,,,, prices lather l o wer than those of this day WO! e 9 sreirettn7l.::: 1 2 1 , 1( 1(1 %1. B arle y. 34:l6lpo :s43 o l at t l i 1 1 Ft; : A p o f e l 11 Third"... 5511.0 d 31s oa 335 Od 431 1 iberammumireoreman.a... On the 15th inst. in BUllitipTsrHinipol6-111.ettP IC• of Capt. Johnstone, of & daughter, still-bortis.he 0 On the 15th inst. in Nottingham - ' cl ' r e 11. Pole, Esq. of a son. On the 12th inst. at Wilton-street, 0111:0101M the lady of Captain Fyfe, Resident At " .40 daughter. O u tit t o h g e h l te 2 r. th inst. at Camberwel l Vicarage/ Mrs. of a °1- On the 12th inst. or MARRIED. e leff o f Newin g t on . t at Newington, 131 r. 13' IrlisCalis, , 01,1 Kent-road. ' r f),IS ' EgOnit:ntt-hePll44Peetahcrietst.Kaetnnisifnagrylwinbo' shone, "Slirl,111.1,„ 14;:er"0.'1' he 4 " surgeon, aroo .., to Caroline, second daughter of i , ..o. " r.." 1. of Duke-street, of Manehester-sq" DIED. no i l'A' ... his 83d ar t mat. at Homerton, Wm. P ' lll _ On the l y s e th ' inst. Mr. W. ClounPion, uf Ilfu'a' , l''' : l, ;„ On t he 15 h • i 'Norfolk -street, Strand. w_ Gn e the 14th inst. Horatio, youngest 6 ' n ...re f f r" olr it iward, Esq. of Guilford -street, Busseli-'l, 0 0, ' ... u . t he 14th inst. John, third son of M r. n 08. fa p o O kT l i n n ar n vis : t tb - hi f tocne e ore l6 ". th inst. George, ono 0 0 6°T l°f Ml. ' j i i i i' :l 4l . h l k s is - t p it 4 la 7 i ce n th s . t. year i it . F rge Dallas, ~ tot ° ~, OP o i On the 10th inst. in Dublin, of tYP hul , f l ol4l4l' 11. Della I. of his Majesty's 37th Reglin en '' c Sir Geo —---:-------nr) ----01J4ii°1 PRINTXD AND P C BLUM St a ST MVO" , o r i ,,,poliJ "X SUN 0/11CX, lig, &IA » '' zart. :sgre-edYstrgeest.t, .cripogste, .