The Sun. — London, England, 1830-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, A thousand questions are asked, and the keenest curiosity evinced, with respect to the state of France! The questions can only he answered, or the curiosity satisfied, by the narration of events as they occur; for we will really not take upon us to prophesy what will be the result of the late extra constitetional attack upon the chartered rights of the people. We Will not even attempt to predict one hour what may happen the next, for popular movements are more uncertain than the changes of the wind; and where bloodshed is hazarded, we at least shall be cautious of saying any thing calculated to produce excitement on either aide. We will not urge others on to dangers in which we cannot par ticipate. We are friends to liberty ; and if we were to be asked how liberty was to he secured in France without insurrection and revolt, we could hardly Any; but in this country the tribunals and juries would afford the next civil resource. If the same or similar remedies exist in France; let those who think the late ordinance Of the King illegal bring the matter to a trial, either by refusing the taxes, and obliging the Court to sue for them, or by com mencing process against those who have broken up the printing-presses, If juries, chosen from the people,.decide in favour of the Court in these cases, there is an end of the matter for the present, and the French people cannot have liberty and the charter, bee:we th e y are unworthy of them. But if, as it is more natural to expect, juries decide in favour of the sehjeet, then the King must either dis miss his present Ministers, and recall his late edict, and give back the charter pure anti unsophisticated, or he must shut up the courts of law; and this last step would of course dissolve all allegiatiee and be the signal for a civil war,-,if the French have any civil-war blood in thorn. Reasoning and legitimate, resources would be at an end, and brutal force would take their place. If; as it is stated, a pro test has been signed by a great number of the Peers in France, against the obnoxious edict, this men mire may have great effect upon the !lord mind, and the minds of his Majesty's Ministers. For our own parts we think that the objection token to the edict has great force,---that in annulling a Plan tricot which has never sat for the despite)) of bosi sieso,—in dissolving a legislative body which ho never been assembled, it fires a shot into a vncant space,--it does nothing; and that the deputies ehoiten must at least meet once before they can be dismissed. But suppose the new little departmental Parliumeot, chosen necnrding to the rides prescribed in the Royal edict, were, when assembled, to lean to the popular side, where would the King then be ? And if it were to dean to the King's side, where would the little Parliament itself he ? Does his Majesty expect to govern France by means 'of an oligarchy of 258 Members ? If so, he would soon find himself the slave of that oligarchy, instead of the ruler of the nation. Ile would not dare to be stow a place, or confer an honour, except on its members or their coneexions. Ile had better at once throw himself upon the affections of his people, than.enter upon such a course even if he could run it with cancers.---Tiotes. We lay before our readers the latest accounts from the French capital, on the subject . of the very extraordinary proceedings of the Government. We may Ray conscientiously that no person in this cruel try was prepared for the measures in Paris. The hole proceedings are so foreign to our habits, that speculation is quite paralysed. It semi to us that this is the eevermt blow which has been mina for many years Against crowned heads in Europe. The inference which ell men celestite of reasoning must draw from the measures of the French Governmeet, coupled with the proceedings in Spain, Naples, and Sardinia, is, that Kings do not consider themselves bound by any of the ohligatioes which are binding on other men, mold that they deem convenience their only rule. This case of France is such a gluing de/Arline from eeerythieg like legal preteiple, that she suspicion long entertioned, from what has taken place in Spain, Portugal, and Italy, must at length be siewed as incontrovertible truth, that Kings are not to be tied down by any contracts. We know of no men who have so deep en intermit in disap proving of the conduct of the French Government as the crowned heeds of Europe. The people of France have shown no indisposition to confine them. selves within the limits of the law, and to consider their king us the first Magistrate of the country. lint this, the only sovereignty which does not infer the degradation of the people, has not satisfied the French Government; and accorditigly we see that that Government is bent on reducing the French to a state of, the most humiliating subjection. We need Hot observe, that the oily tenure of Kings which can be recognized in the present day, is the consent of the people. The King who is Not sa tisfied with holding his Creel) by this tenure, and would wish to be considered as possessing the right of disposing like cattle of hie subjects, ie the great est of all enemies tn. Kings. 'tie entueic Kings to be viewed as irreconcilable enemies of his species— as beings who are to be treated as wild beasts, . every man ought to (loamy whenever be has an op. portunity of doing so. The Kings of Europe ought not to deceive themselves. They can in no other way prove their not participating in the measures of the French Government, than in dis tinctly condemning the departure from truth and principle of the French King. The ,people have seen so much of perfidy in the Revolutions of Spain, Portogel, anditaly, that they will believe this a part of a common system, if they have not distinct evideeee to the. contrary. They will believe in a conspiracy of Kings against Nations, in a separate morality for Kings, and that no arrangement, m contract, can be safely lettered into with them. There is already but too strong an inclination to be, litre that the Holy Allianeu was at the bottom of the counter-revolutionery movements in the Peninsula tied Italy. The mere disavowal of ell participation in the proceedings of the N ol o Government will not, therefore, be sufficient. The people must be taught to believe that the other Kings of Europe are as hostile to the measures as they are themselves. 'Silt repeat it, that the present is the cause of the eroweed heads. With the rack diffusion of intedligenee, and the lumen distribution of property in Europe, it is quite impossible that tiny Government errs Ictig maintain its ground, if tin will of the people be not deemed the guide of those. Who rule, It is therefore the interest of Kings to identify themselves as much as partible with the people, to cause themselves to he viewed as first Magistrates, and not us owners of the country. For their common interest, there. fore, they ought to separate theinselvis from the French King. If they do not necommodate them ielves to the spirit of the age ? they will kroner or hater trample them *in the dust. Every prudent King ought, therefore, to consider the cause of Kings es inseparable from the good-will of the people. The people have every where their eyes on the Governments. Every step is of importance. Let it' rust be forgotten that a victory over time people is never final, and that the conapiraey of all the Sovereigns of Europe would be insufficient to extitiguish in the people the love for independence, Which growls with the growth of nations in industry ete t t Civilization, The only effect of such a con• eitteeey would be the lesson, that Kings are to be eon,ideted as beasts of prey, which every roan ought to &vont. On the other hand, every men would be taught• to believe that as Knelt can keep no faith with the eople the people can keep Ho • fieri h °Milt do 64 people : s it " Con n :11 1 g, o K f ir a ig li se partreZ the justice to sel, that of ;thee roue yesterday but omit, loud condernmata French Government. We t ut " P""e0 by the co not think so ill the Ministry as to believ e th at t he y do tit t•I of common feeling of abhorrenc e . Nay, Wh ate ver4lerf the other Sovereigns of Europe m a y think I* the se e working of the French Conetitutiore it would ere quire good evidence to induce us to believe t h ree 1 It would sanction the daring steps of the French Government. They dare not, they will not I* fir insult the nations committed to their care, as to countenance the - immoral conduct of the French Government. The -letter of our Correspondent, whicheemei down to a late hour on Tuesday even ing, leads us - to expect serious proceedings in Pitris.-, Every hour is pregnant with important events. We will not believe that the French people will tamely yield to the u-urpation, of their Government. The Government, however, - arust have calculated on the army.' But an army in a civil wards worth nOthing. In this country, in which the army is more aristocratical than in any other, we would undertake, - in any commotion in which the people should be on one side and the Government on another, to draw over the soldiers to the people with little difficulty. In moments of excitement all ordinary motives cease to be operative. In the be ginning of the French Revolution the army soon gAve way. In the present day the army must be far more identified with the people. We would not be lieve a soldier himself were he to tell us that he would act uga;nst the people in a conflict. He may be perfectly sincere when he promises to act against the people ; but when once he is brought into col lision with an enthusiatitie population he yields.— Soldier% have mothers, and wives, and mistresses, -and children. They are brave and resolute, but they are not monsters. We have no f e ar of the army. In all times of excitement, the army partakA of the general excitement. Even in Russia, the army has been of late a subject of constant terror to the Government. But a clever people like the French cannot have on army n inch does not enter • into the common feeling. • The conquests which followed the French Revolution made the soldiers a iheporate caste, and • Nalioleon, for .s time, was more • with the army than the nation. But an old Priest. ridden man of 70 years of age , without talents, whose name is o n ly as soci a t e d w ith the conquest of their country, can have no hold over the soldiery. We shall not think so .ill of the soldiery till we have some evidence of their base subserviency. We re , petit it—the cause of Kings has not received such a shock for many, many years, as it has at this time in France.--Morning ebronicle. The letters we publish to-day from our private correspondent itithe'Prthich capital will be read with a painful interest, as they show the frightful lengths to which power, as soon as it has broken through the restraints of law, justice, and decorum, is ca pable of proceeding. The Ministers, who have just thrown a great and enlightened nation, which was reposing in perfect security in the shade of its institutions, into the midst of the MOO neolifeniug passions, have followed up this first act by others worthy of such a beginning. The details furnished by our private correspondent can excite no surprise, whatever indignation they may provoke, for a suc cession of violent acts, one more outrageous than • the other, were the necessary coneequerice of the melt- Sures just adopted by the French Government. The employment of themilitary force to give effect to those measures was a thing to be expected, as was the gene- rid confusion which has ensued. We shall quit this subject, therefore, for one which is every way calcu lated to throw a gleam of joy over the seene,because it, shows that there exists a spirit in the nation, which, in the first place, will dispute every inch of ground with its rulers—acquire, in the next, strength by collision, until it achieve, at last, one of those tri umphs which induce us almost to rejoice nt the ex cesses which led the way to it, on account of its complete and beneficial character. The example which the opposition Journals have set to the country at large, and which is so worthy of the spirit and ability with which. they are conducted, will, recording to all appearances, be generally fol lowed, and is likely to have . the same effect in France as the resistance of the sieve's Bishops pro duced in Regim] about a century and is half ego. The whole of the opposition Provincial Press will, in all probability, follow it; and, though it may prove unavailing to prevent the suppression of those Journals, it must, by increasing the ge- ;lend indignation against the Ministry, and compel- ling the latter to divest themselves of even a shadow of moderation, bring about that issue which every rational .man, anticipates, and every good man wishes, • much sooner that it t. ould otherwise have taken place. In the mean time, the most ardent imagina tion would find it difficult to picture to itself the projects of deep revenge which every Frenchman, who takes the least interest in the happiness and .glory of his country, is forming at this moment. War, without quarter, and pushed to the last extremity to which civil war can be carried, is • the unly image that suits the passions of the moment ; and is it to bring things to this point, which madmen alone could cmitempate• with nnemicere, that the French Ministry have been plotting 'so. long against the Charter, granted by` the late, and • sworn to by the present, Monarch? If those who are opposel to the Government at this juncture constituted the minority, still, with the sentiments we have just described, they would com pose such formidable antagonists as would have de terred any Other Ministry ; but, when it is con sidered that nine-tenths art least of the nation are now converted from submissive citizens into furious enemies of the Government, the • whole of the danger to which that Government is exposed forcibly rushes upon the mind, and every one asks at• the mane time, " Are the tranquillity of France anti the peeve of all Europe of so little value as to be left to the discretion of such reckless adventurers as now unfortmiately preside over the destinies of the former ?" To germs, transient iticcess in the course upon which Churles X und his Ministers have j ust en tered the cordial co-operation of the army is necessary, whilst the army must be very differently constituted to what it is to lend itself to such us purpose. It. ohould have no home but the camp, no attachment except to its leaders, no principle of action, beyond pay and indulgence in licentious pleasures—in a word, it should consist of such desperadoes as the Duke of Bourboe led against the walls of Rome in the 14th • century ; whereas the French soldier is more iidluenced,perlivps, than any other by the feel, inv . ' which the images of parents and home recall. To count, therefore, upon the assistance of the military in the execution of measures which, in a particular degree, threaten that class of small pro victors from which'the army is chiefly recruited, is only *mother proof of the inconceivable folly and rashness in which those measures have originatede-- Illaraing Herald. • . We do not remember such an insistice of political Nel&COnderllntitiOtt as the friend.- of the • Ministry seem inclined to exhibit at the • ensuing General Election. At not one single place, as yet, where popular feeling CAM show itself, has a single candi date started avowedly as a Ministerial man; while, in places where the popularity of the Government might be put most unequivocally to the test, all is silent as the grave. In Middlesex, the metropolitan county, where votes are more equally distributed between men dell descriptions than in any other--; if we except, perhaps, the counties of York and Lancaster--Mr. Hume, the most indefatigable oppo nent of Government, is, it seems, to be allowed quietly to walk over the course ; while in West. minster ' comprising that part of the metropolis in which the very seat of the Government with all its influence is placed, the old Members are to remain unmolested, though it is qiiite notorious that so weak is their personal bold upon the great body of their constituents, that almost a breath of opposition could shake them. These must be very mortifying circumstances, especially. to a man of high spirit like the Duke of Wellington ; and will not his Grace stop to ask why these allege are so ?—why he, who was the most popular man in the country, and who has ac, (pored, in one capacity, the strongest claims to its lasting gratitude and applause, should, as a Minister of • State, sink so comparatively low • in the public estimation ? - The answer, if his Grace does ho nestly ask the question, may be mortifying, but it Moo be useful. His Grace hut taken a false esti matO of the eituation of the country, a n d, setting , lii ii t i e t o e f f e 4 l l l . 4 v alike e l ' r i i s :t o :3e s o h e u i r s s r . o n :W e a i r i e t a s v d e a o n t n b ie ol i s 4 conclusiols say that heratf t h e s own creating ; on the contrary, we are free to con fess that he found much of the mischief ready pre pared to his hand. His Foreign situation was the work of Mr. Canning—his Free-Trade errors those of Mr. Huskisson—and those of the Currency the mistakes of a band of political theorists, of whom his colleague, Sir Robert. Peel, was, unfortunately, the organ. But, when the Duke of Wellington found himself involved in the blundering imbecilities of the convention of Cintra, he soon had the man liness and good sense to emancipate himself from a contamination equally injurious to his own good name, and to the interests and destinies of his country. And why- has he not displayed the same courage and foresight in his civil, as he exhibited on all occasions in his military capacity P Does he think that nations cm be governed with the same facility that armies are commanded; or that a mere name su premely eminent in a military point of view as his own is, can supply the want of that knowledge which is alone the sure passport to real and useful power in civil affairs ? But the Duke of Wellington is, we conceive, by far too sensible a man not, sooner or later, to see his errors; and we know nothing more likely at once to sting his just pride, and awaken his recollection, than the galling fact, that, while professing to appeal to the people in the election of a new Parliament, in no one place where that appeal can be really made, and fairly put to the test, is there a candidate with boldness enough to come forward, and manfully call for the T eeple's suffrages on the ground of being the frit nd and sup porter of the Ministry. We speak of the failings of the Duke as a statesman more " in sorrow than in anger." he sycophants who, for their own selfish purposes, applaud his errors, and cheer him on in measures subversive of the welfare of the country, are the worst enemies of his fame. We have always done justice to his merits; but if we were to sacri fice truth to flattery, or to allow our reason to be dazzled by the splendour of his former exploits, when it is our duty to form a correct estimate of his present measures, we would be justly reckoned among those who sacrifice the interests of a country to the fascination of a name.—Morning Herald. Judging from the articles in which some of the Paris Journalists on the Liberal side of politics have expressed their indignation on the occasion of the recent Ordinances of the King, and their determi nation, to resist them to the extent of their power, we are led to conclude that the censorship of die Press was intended to have been one of a mild and tolerant character. Jr appears that argumentative discussion would not have been prevented, the Governmtnt merely assuming the power of putting a summary stop to the spread of seditious doc trines inciting to violence and rebellion. This power has been at once imperatively called into action, for the toleration of the public journals in proclaiming that " the Government has lost the character of legality which commands obedience," and that " obedience has ceased to be a dUty," would have been a virtual resignation of the Mo narchy into the hands of the revolutionists. It is me lancholy to rvflect thnt the periodical Press of such a nation us France should be compelled to wear re maining fetters ; and still more melancholy, if las we incline to think) its conduct has been such as to render their imposition a necessary measure of prudence and self-defence on the part of the Sovereign. The Liberal Journals concur in assert ing or insinuating that the blow struck by the Royal authority ut the Constitutional Charter of France is the first, as well as the moat terrible, it has re ceived—that this attack of Royal power upon no tional freedom was as unprovoked as it seems likely to be fatal. This is an obvious and violent misre presentation. It will scarcely be disputed that it was one of the intentions of the Charter given to France by her restored Monarch, to reserve in the French Crown a considerable share of real power and authority in the government of the country, or Oar the assumption and exercise by the Climber of Deputies of an absolute and arbitrary veto in the appointment of the e xecu ti ve an d respons ibl e nnisters of the Crown, would have been wholly incompatible with the continuance of this indepen dent authority and power. It is equally clear that tiny act or any pretension plainly hostile and destruc tive to the principles or spirit of this Charter, could not change its character, or not at least become less hostile or less destructive, from the circumstance that the means employed in the performance of such act or the enforcement of such pretension consisted chiefly of the very machinery which the Charter it self had provided for other and opposite purposes. Bearing in mind these undeniable fads and indis putable principles, it remains only that we should see what the conduct and pretensions of the Chant her of Deputies have been, and the - manner in Which the elective machinery established by law hau wrought to give support, confirmation, and validity to this conduct and these pretensions, and we shall be at once enabled to decide the question of priority between the attacks respectively made upon the constitutional Charter of France, by die Monarch of that country, and the Liberal party among his sub jects. It would be a gross error to imagine that the conduct of the Chamber of Deputies presented the mere ordinary case of a Parliamentary opposition to the Ministers of the Crown, or that it was a case which had been provided for or even contemplated by the Charter. It amounted, in truth, to an es pies% denial, or an open and undisguised invasion, ut least on the part of the Chamber, of the King's constitutional right to appoint his own Ministers, and the submission of the King would, therefore, have been a virtual abrogation of the Charter, and a substantial surrender to the Chamber of Depu ties of the whole power of government, executive and legislative. Had there been any charge against Ministers, could it have been said that, since their eppointment to office, they had adopted arty mea. sures of a pernicious or dangerous tendency, could any special grounds of opposition have been alleged, the Chamber of Deputies, in refusing to co-operate with the chosen servants of the Crown, might have been within the letter and spirit of the Constitution ; but, when the whole accusation against these Ministers resolved itself into the mere fact that they were at once Ministers and Royalist' —when the case was one of simple and undisguised conflict between the violation of the Chamber and the volition of the King, in respect to a choice ' which the Constitution bad expressly confided to the latter, the triumph of the Chamber would evi dently have been equivalent to an entire subver sion of the Constitution, and would here led of necessity to the utter extinction of monarchical power in France. The very nature of the unrea sonable opposition offered to the King's will must compel every impartial observer to infer that it was dictated by a revolutionary spirit, aiming at nothing less than the overthrow of th e ex i st i ng Constitu ees'. It had appeared to us, previously to the issue of the ordinances, that the King wood have pur sued the wisest policy in suffering the Liberal party so far to carry their projects in the Chamber as to procure a dismissal of the Ministry. The ulterior attempt to effect encroachments upon regal autho rity would then, it might be supposed, have given him the vantage ground in a contest for the preser vation of his constitutional rights. Th e meet i ng o f the Chambers would, however, have been the ac quisition of a formidable power in the bands of men whom we are justified in designating as the uncompromising enemies of the Monarchy, They have been prevented horn Inspiring or e xerc i s i n g this power, and though the course adopted by the King be a dangerous one, we must believe it to be less dangerous than the alternative. —Morning Path We give in another column the best information furnished by our Evening Contemporaries of the of the ordinances s uspen di ng the liberty state of feeling and of parties in Pars, after the pro ' mulgatiou of the Press— ! dissolving the Chamber of Deputies —and changing the representative system ; and we now return to a more mature discussion of the mea sures taken by the French Government,' and the probable issue of events, than it was in our power 'to enter upon its our Paper of yest er d ay. From t h e observations which we then made, we see no Om. sion ta make any abatement. We still consider the conduct of the French Government as not only un called for, but dangerous and insane—tending to in. volve the country in civil discord and bloodshed, and to render an appal to the sword a much more pro bable manner of settling the disputes between the Crown anti the people, than ii recourse to those con stitutional laws by which - both have sworn to abide. Nay, more, we will go the length of saying that a more iniquitous course was never pursued by any Government, in any modern time, than that which owns Prince Polignac and his confederates for its authors. For between whom, in fact, does the-dis pute lie ? Between the. King and his Ministers on the one hand, and nearly 20,000,000 of people on the other—between the King and a few courtiers, who could not be missed were they to disappear to-morrow, and a whole nation, for whom the former are properly only trustees, and 'who may not unfairly challenge a comparison with almost any -country in Europe, in point of - civilization and envied eminence in arts, sciences, and literature I And is the happiness of such a number of human beings to be placed in jeopardy merely for the sake of humour ing the caprice of a man whose equal might be found any where, and of persons whose superior. reside in every quarter of the country ? The idea is monstrous : and yet such is the slender basis placing the whole matter in ita proper point of view —on which the King end his advisers have dared to violate the Constitution of the country, and arm against one another the two great parties into which the country is divided. Again, on the other band, what can be thought of the integrity of the head of a great kingdom, and a numerous people, who, after pledging his honour that he held the Constitution sacred, and would abide by it to his latest breath, embraced the earliest op portunity of violating it, when, had he simply changed his responsible advisers, he might toot only have avoided nll chance of any disagreeable omit rence, but even added to the happiness and comfort of the people ? Will the people of France forget such conduct, or ought they to forgive it ? That the feelings of the people of France are in perfect accordance with these observations, we have now the most ample evidence. They have not, indeed, risen en masse to overthrow the existing order of things ; but they have exhibited sufficient indica. tions that no time will be lost, nor any exertion spared, to restore constitutional freedom to France. The editors of all the !Iserel papers have joined in signing what may be termed a round robin against the existing Government—namely, to resist the ordinances of the Government, in so far as re spects themselves, and to call upon their fellow citizens to do so likewise. They observe, with a spirit which we applaud, - that " the Government has this day lost the character of legality which commands obedience. We resist it in what concerns ourselves. It is for France to determine how far her resistance might to extend." In the same de claration the Deputies who have been elected, ate called 'moo to meet, as if the illegal ordinances which had been honied had not taken place; and upon the ground, that as the Chamber has never been assembled, nor the elections verified, it could not be legally dissolved, because, until these matters had been verified it could not, with propriety, he considered as h a vi ng any existence. There is much plausibility and semblance of reason in this argu ment; but we are much mistaken if the people of France do not take the bull by the horns, and, in stead of waiting to d.....vide the matter by a meeting of the newly-elected Chamber of Deputies, resolve the point in dispute: by en appeal to the sword.— Disturbances have already taken place, and lives been lost—crowds have a s sembl e d i n different quar ters of the city, a n d moon, in eise of general in surrection, been placed in the Court of the Tuille ries for the defence of the - palace, and of the Royal Family. This is a sample of the present state of ! things in Fiance, and us an additionul iestance, it is • worthy of mention, that neither the Constitutionnel nor the Journal des Debuts appeared on Tuesday last. The stoppage of these papers, even for one day, must cause no incons iderable excitement throughout the country, a nd w e are ind ee d egregi ()wily mistaken in what we have been accustomed to think of the French character, if a general in surrection is not on the eve of breaking out.— Morning Advertiser. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. Ott Tuesday afternoon .a Commission de hmatico inquirendo was executed at the Red Lion, flillingdon,' near Uxbridge, for the purpose of inquiring into the state of mind of Lady Charlotte Sherard, sister of Lord Harborough, who has for some time been an inmate of a Lunatic Asylum in Hillingdon. The CommisPioners were Mr. PIIILLISIORE, Mr. WIN SLOW, and Mr. BLUNT. The first witness examined was Mr. James Stil well—He said, I keep a Lunatic Asylum in Hil lingdon, called Mooreroft House; Lady Charlotte has been under my care since the sth of November 1825; I received her then from her trustee, and I have seen her every day since, and frequently con versed with her ; when she first Came she was very nervous—quite incompetent to guide heredf—and would frequently break out into sudden gusts of passion, and use violent and bad language ; at other times she was very low, and would scarcely speak. She called witness's father lest Sunday, and said to him that she should like to give him a good drub bing. Afterwards she said she had been playing the pianoforte, beeau.e she could not beat him. She. 1111(1 frequently broken the windows. She laboured Under a variety of delusions ; site fancied she knew a person's thoughts; that she had had secret cor respondence with those persons, that they knew her thoughts, and she knew theirs; she mentioned one person, a Mr. Donkin, and said that there was a mutual agreement between them to be married ; the thought of this person frequently disturbed her rest at night, stud she used to awake, repeating this gen tleman's name ; she said that she and this gentLe man had settled in their own minds to be martied. CHIEF COMMISSIONERIS that the only thing that induces you to consider she labours under in sanity, is that the only delusion ? Witness--That is the only thing she mentions, and you may con sider that in the light of a delusion. CIIIEF COMMISSIONER—At other times will she talk rationally ? Witness-- On ot her subjects she speaks in the most rational manner. To her sisters she enters into conversation and argument of the most rational description, and her arguments aro very good. The witness stated, however, that she was wholly unable to take care of herself. CHM COMMISSIONER—Why do you consider she is unable to take cure of herself ? Witness—' She is very inconsistent ; her mind is constantly wavering from one thing to another. The other day she wanted a harp, and her wants become very ex pensive. Yesterday I went up to the Chancellor to ask permission for her to have the harp. Can she play on the harp ?---She . Cllll play a little, but with no judgment. The witness added, that the lady in quegion was twenty-eight years of age, and in his opinion was quite unable, from the ner vous affection under which she laboured, to take care of her person and effects. She was aware of the nervous state tinder which she laboured, and she had oppressed her intention Of visiting certain places. when she recovered. In speaking of her affairs, she sa id that she had drawn a draft for money some months since; that it had not been honoured; and s he expressed her hope that her property would be taken care of. She was informed for what purpose the Jury were to assemble, and she wished to know whether a representation to them would forward her marriage with Mr. Donkin ? The witness was strictly cross-examined by the Commissioners and Jury, but he could state nothing more to establish the insanity of the lad y . Dr. Davis said he had visited Lady Charlotte oc casionally between the last five and six years; she was then in a very desponding state; she would not speak to any one, and for several days remained in that desponding state. After she had been in town about fuer months, she so far recovered as to be üble -to walk out evens day. One day she escaped from her guardians, and increased liberty was then given to her. When she was brought to the house of the first witness, she was very weak in her mind, an-I intractable; he should certainly say that she was not in a fit state to manage her person or effect-; she wished to have her liberty to walk about, but witness did not consider, that as she so extravagantly disposed of money, it would be prudent to allow it to her. Mr. Partington, her trustee, aware of this improvident expenditure of money, desired her to draw no more drafts on Messrs. Gosling; du►ing the last seven or eight months, he considered her mind had not been so perfect. Can you mention, said Mr. Putt.i.tstonn, any thing else in proof of her insanity? Witness—She mentioned various places. where she was going to, and said she intended to stop at my house for a fortnight. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—ReaIIy I tin not think that that. is a proof of insanity. She showed her sense.—(Laughter.) For the purpose of showing the delusion under which the lady laboured relative to Mr. Donkin, some letters were put in and read. In several of them she spoke of Mr. Donkin and Mr. Baptiste Noel, expressing her affection for both, and gay. instructions for pieces of music and various otter articles to be conveyed to her. One of the letters, which she addressed to Mr. Donkin, and enclosed to. D:. Davis, was to the folowing effect : " Dew William,—lt is through the interest of my friends that I em induced to hope )ou will take up your pen. This letter cannot assure you less than the framer, I stn not still unhappy hire. Circumstances, I was in hope when I wrote last, would, ere this, have altered the csse. Alas ! that seems not likely, living under Mr. Stilwell'. rare. Do not contradict my thought by saying you wi.nl.l not have some people about you twenty miles off. As for hid to see you, I trust I sm still remembered, or how shall I say to myself—forget? Your lock of hair is still safe— , mention in your :answer to this if you c ire for one of mine. Affectionately yours, " CHARLOTTE SHERARD." Addressed to Mr. Donkin.—Seal, " an Anchor." On this letter having been read— Dr. TATTERSAL, who was examined, confirmed the opinion of Dr. Davis, that she was of unsound mind. Several other witnesses having been examined, Lady Charlotte was introduced to the Jury. She entered the room with composure, and took her seat between two of. the Commissioners. The Chief Commissioner asked her several questions about Mr. Donkin and her property; and laughing in a very simple manner, she said Mr. Donkin bud been a patient in the same house with her, but was not more attentive to her than to any of the other patients. With respect to her property, she could not nor would not give any account. When further asked by the Chief Commissioner if she bad been well treated by Mr. Stilwell, she replied that he had uniformly acted with great kindness towards her, more like a father than otherwise; and she should be ungrateful if she said to the contrary. The unhappy lady then left the room ; and the Jury immediately returned a verdict—" That she was of unsound mind, and had been so since the 31st. cember, 1824." A solicitor, who attended for the family, said that there was a person named Donkin, who had been introduced to Lady Charlotte ; but he never, that he was aware, made an offer of marriage to her. The statement that he was a patient in the same house with her was without foundation. The other gentleman, Mr. Baptiste Noel, has been married upwards of twelve months. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.--SALISBURY, Jut,r 28 Hannah Willis, the younger, waa put to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of her illegitimate child. The first witness called for the pro , 4centioll was the mother of the prisoner. She deposed that on the day laid in the indictment she observed some symptoms of illness upon her daughter, who, after some time, confessed that she had been recently de liVered of a child, and pointed out a box in which she had placed the infant. The witness called some other women to her assistance, and they took from the box the body of the infant, which was quite dead. The witness stated that she had slept with her daughter for a long period previous to the day in question, but had never observed the slightest in. dication of pregnancy in her daughter. On her cross-examination she admitted that the appearance of the infant did not differ from what she had observed upon children born dead. She added , that her daughter was a girl of u most kind and in offensive disposition. Tobias Ifarper Mitchell, surgeon, in examining the infant, found some blood near the mouth, one nostril, and the orifice of one ear. Above the latter there was an indentation which might have been ef fected without much violenceos the indentation was situated over a space between two bones, which bones wore both very soft. On examining the brain it was found to be full of extrnsasated blood. The internal appearances were the result of the external bruise, which could not have been inflicted by a woman in the course of delivering herself, And even could not have been inflicted by it human hand after the birth of the child. Cross-examined by Mr. BINGHAM—In his expe rience he has seen many instances where there could not have been the smallest intention of doing vio lence to infants in parturition, but where, from the malformation of th e mot h er , or of the infant, vet),, severe contusions and other injuries had been in flicted upon the child in the process of parturition, and all these injuries would be increased by the in-, experience of a first delivery, the mental confusion and distress of a secret delivery, and the agony which generally prevails in all deliveries. The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty of the murder, but returned a verdict of Guilty of endea vouring to conceal the birth. The Court sentenced the prisoner to be impri soned for 12 months, and kept to hard labour during the time. Richard Chip, aged 30, was put to the bar, upon an indictment which charged him with having wil fully murdered Robert Coles. the Jury found th; prisoner Guilty of Man slaughter. 'rhe COURT then sentenced him to be iminisoned in the Rouse of Correction and kept to haul la bour for one year. George Hood, Samuel flood, and John Hood were placed at the bar upon an indictment charging them with having unlawfully and maliciously, at the hamlet of Bemerton, stabbed John Staple, whilst aiding and assisting Edward Dowding in the execu tion of his office of tithing-man at Fuggleatone St. Peter, in this county, Francis Brown was a sheriff's officer t a warrant had been entrusted to him for the purpos e of arrest ing Hood, the father. The witness then stated that in endeavouring to execute this warrant he had been obstructed and assaulted by the prisoner George Hood; that he, after the obstruction and assault, obtained the assi►tance of a constable named Dowding, and proceeded on the following day to the arrest of the prisoner George Hood, upon u warrant which he had obtained from a magistrate, on information of the assault. Ile stated the cir cumstances connected with the second attempt ut arrest to the following effect :—I knocked at the door. George Hood and Mrs. Hnod appeared at the window. I pointed him out to Dowding as the person who had assaulted me. Dowding said that if they did not open the door or surrender the young man, he (Dowding) would break in the door. They said it was all a trick; that there was no warrant, Dowding had said that he had a warrant. He had seen it out and read it on the green, whilst Mrs. Hood and George Hood were at the window. They could have heard it. Dowding, the constable, was called at this time, and declared that he lost the warrant in the fray. Mr. ComattnGE cross-examined the Witness, who stated that he had never gone to look for it after • . wards. He had sent a strange boy to lo ok for tt, awl promised him threepence for his trouble. fit had often also inquired for the warrant. the con A t T e r t . its S o e f rj t e h a e wa ntil r o ra m n i t , A s was parole about eviilce by )o Mr. COLERIDGE submitted to the Court that did Learned Serjeatit . was not in a condition to p rove b y a to p, wrielen Pro'e tea:lute:my the contents of the warrant, us [tee diligence for its recovery had not been used. After hearing Mr. FOLLETT in suppo rt of Mr. COLERIDGE, and Mr. Serjeant BOSIPAS against the objection, the Learned JUDGS admitted evi dence to 1,,,, r0 be given of the moue and contents of the lost Wir. rant. When this part of the case had been closed,h Mr. COLERIDGE submitted -that the'warrant, sat os it had been proved to be, was not in itself a lepl authority fur the abridgement of the subject's Jibe* ti , ist it was absolutely illegal, and that the resisionee to it could therefore not be an offence Sigsinst the laws. It had only sat out the surname of one d the prisoneis--(tilus Hood), and did 1 01 therefore convey to the party aga;nst whom it 0 1 dirt vied that information which the law required to be given to the individual to be arrested, in 10, assure him bt yowl doubt that he was the intliviflo t poii4xtl at in the warrant. After healing coait.cl on the opposite side, 14 Learned JUDGE observed that although tle mel t 's [ion of his own judgment was in favour of the PA' lion for which Mr,.-X.—MA:RIDGE contended, yet 00 4 question raised by the objection was of "4'oa" importat.ce to the whole community," and as noel. press decision had, us he believed, been ever coo' ts, u : ,5 , 0 the qtwstion, he should reserve, it for lf : c.onideration ~ ,f the highest legal authoritr—llotne i '° the twelve Judges. hh : John fi,:l,l lgni nei S da t i au mugit i e le iy, d f e twi p i li os toh e fo d uw , tat water r t our o i n m e al n dt t oh e ,e r i p n t ra g ocb lt,eheciiieht.di,o :ire:cob thet h throw e rii,ga a ir li t : su b ir l d. r e .. I G -It l i e t o t e d r:c a ei t: H d imo h po i , a di s::v went You not u u p J0h n,... 1 ; , i t r i r:s, ran int o witness followed him, and was stabbed by h i m in have murdered me, and I hare a mind tom d e : you." I then threw him on his back, and P ut „ po i'n f i of my knees upon his bowels, and the oth er his arm. I retired after some time, and Os to assistance of the constable, deposed as fined for three weeks in the Salisbury Itifirmarl,, George Andrews, one of the men c alled to 7 neeses did to the fact, that when the door had bre, partly forced open, he saw daggers and sworti6s a three-pionged fork thrust through the '1 rn by the ripening of the door. The JUDGE, about two o'clock in the olou' ill t charged the Jury, who, after some deliberation, IL'il, the prisoners Samuel Hood and John Hood ''''" Guilty, and George Hood Guilty. e, 0 tiii The prisoner will of course have the beilt . ", ( Ag points which had been reserved in his favour i' u ; i t the trial. The Court adjourned about duce o i c L ,' in the morning, until which hour it continued to ; completely filled in every part, so great was the' siosity which the trial had excited. HOME CIRCUIT—CHELMSFORD, Jurf °' p l , i l :l e er e a ' b f l o e r KEY V. POTTER. €er S t tuber Wild In this case the plainti ff , who is II far mer it Ashinton, in this' county, brought an &CIO " L I ; the defendant, who is also a farmer in th e ; - ct l o o b ss st I r i t . t a c s ti s n u g st a aii w ie u d te b r ychoiumrs.., by wh 'j c g ee' ihi lands of the plaintiff were overflowed, 011 u A verdict was given 'for the plaintitf, ject6° "ilib' 1 to a reference. shah t trot' In this c a us e th ere we re no leo N a '" „ .. .;„1 Jul noises summoned on each side, and a - Sf - of the most respectable gentlemen stVOrli in., et mercy n 1 . 1 o John Stammers, aged 36, was found g ou ty' lets 1 1 1714 1 er, Alfred lrithey, 50 fl i nt . ' btle e{ others, Tbe prisoners centence of death passed on him, for 6 " L am , 0 1 offence, the Learned .Judge holding o ut no hope John Wilks, Esq., n e f r o s r forced were indicted for entering a wood 0811 ' d P f °n i ' la Wood, in the parish of Walton-Lofts , be' 6ll - 111/ ' with intent to kill geni e ' „bed deremcrolviainikiogn,is sperietilstearsir.i'cle„ol):,r cember, 1828, seventeen of Whom 'in" ready committed. 1 110 ad 11 4 im The Jury return e d a ver di c t of (Ini ri '' 11nen t oil pv were sentenced to t we l ve m onths' hard labour in the county gaol. • It 1116 The trial of C NI • I srged wit , aptain oir, c i'at Son' murder of the stiernian, William Malcolm, ljo ford- le-Hope , is fixed for to-morrow morniiig id ' o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCL. PLYMOUTH, JULY 20,—Extract of a letter ;0 Barbadoes, June Ist, 1830 :—Previous to die lug of the Barbaro, a Court-Martial bad ty bee," 1 , 0 ; on board, in consuene of a disute place at the mess. eq Mr. c John Luckpeotobes ; 1 304 s V ‘v ‘Vi v. V ea. a h a , f sentence o : i r b is v t e st . e e z e t dd ::: t tried e A b d s e l b s si ): o n i i ; C aeiri o d u o r sf t l - r 5 l; h a ea r Court - Martial h°floer; ef:7 l desertion, was taken nut yesterday to " miril. r ol" d welcome :l % l: e s . execution, but an Sid -d ien e- t c h il lein111)11;:41e 0 1 id' a reprieve. The shock was .10 WW I ; 0 1 the tV poor feilow fainted instantly on' the, °P r °. ' g continueda insensible for some time after ' 43.1" ~ oft Cape of Good yesterday, on her way from Portsmouth to ,' pi meTnti,ev:thTicahlboist, 28, Capt. Dickinson, Ctlil b , of Good Hope, to take on hoard a marbl e 0 .0 0 to H h op e e, pl t a o eet t l h i e n ro th e e m Commander Acland, who died in. comet ~ February, 183 ct :-..., the Helicon sloop of war. h.. isle Extract of a letter from Char.-- IS 1 ) Sir he A commanding the Bombay Marine, cleat' I tort ayes, is the best sea-h l3 " t ! ° t het ttl ,h by Capta in II ' of all the Company's men-of-war. 'She ':; Ottlr vessel that has made the direct to t ''' . eog' s ' passage on, of Persia 'in the height of the south-west In po p tS for Fi d t 1 8 1 Ye thole I have no hesitation in saying tha t ° heti''' . _, The Seatlower, tender to the DWI') -hole I think her by tar the fi nest vessel vfl - The Tigress brig, e° 116 d oltt now in existence." Roc": or It o, f s r a o m m e P pl o a r c i e smouth, and sailed :Ole A i ei no• :r Fu T lin h o e ut P li ri ; n a ce n s d s E Ca liza rro b The Mesienge r . steam v ssel 1-10 14 ,rien i os' P L rived on Sunday f r om Malta , last ' from r °l " - cisi r In HAMOdze—Caledonia, Kant, Dryad, ii:4ef, Skylark, Industry tender, and Messsogerjeijoit, At the 1-Isnd—Britomart. Brambiet• ` lo ' In the Sound—Talbot, Curlew. ~.r."......_,........ --......_ ------ n etl ii t i p es a m ek . e v t es sa se ll i sd fo l r l i gn y , ; ) ll ,, ,,, , BIRTHS. of S ir J O S .:B l t v l i a:ek B 2 li c t o i rn tt the I*JY of G. G. Hill, Esq. of Goner-str eet ' On the 2:lth inst. at Gladswood, 13erwieki4b1,40! she lA J J squire, of a son. if , the Ott the 25th inst. at Ancrirn, Roxburg h" oCryhtoilliorilloro MARRIED. Or' , , ki , oi On the 29th inst. at St. Georges, S ut.)--41- . e ' i o r i p Seymour,late of S. t , h 1 , . eters..urg.., to Ab' s to Q( ' Gretimicli. la* WI On the 26th ine. at Caterham, J. p• - ",1 0 Inner Temple, Esq. to Mary Seymour, 1001" fig': of T. Clark, El., of Caterhann r er antle c o tt` On the 27th inst. at Hackney. T. l'• I .° - .1 4. surgeon, eldest son of the Rev. John Hoinftgotrit-o, ft Yarmouth, to Mary, eldest daughter of T. 0 1 sergeon, of Oawestry, Shropshire. fli' DIED- s od : 1 9 . ;00 On the 26th ini-t. at Rielonend, SorreP 1 iti zalteth, the wife of General T. Grosvenor, °. . L ip and of Grosvenor - street , Grosvenor-square' 013 d On the 28th inst. George, the youull °l 1 0 0 ger, t y Wilkinson, Eat'. of Peckham. ~f liiif • td On the 2341 inst. at Fyhehl, Hants, PIO' sto kea • of the late J. lis •te Esq ., of Winterboen fl'' Hay ter, ~ p ars county of Wilts. , frt , Di u On the 26th inst: At tiaffira ersin ' .-" W. ...........„,.., / ~ ) 1 aged 86. ~..---4,,, , irOii inst, - B art. i r talt o o ffliarawekinw_ el daughter. l 41.41 l' B'l'lll' PiCINTXD AND PutiLratlED rtY MVO 1 090#' rug Sux Onus, 112, SoAO: