The Sun. — London, England, 1830-09-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The French nation:must be presumed to under stand best its own internal condition, or at least, whether correct or otherwise the view which any people may take of their own interests, it is they only who have the power (which foreign dissentients have not) of carrying such views into action. We find from the Fads Journals, us well as from our cor respondents, that however the institution and the prodigious extension of the National Guard may be looked upon by distant observers, like ourselves, as a body in some measure distinct from the nation, because regularly organized, and devoted to peculiar uses, or as a fair object of wa►chfulness, if not of suspicion, from being a body self-officered and completely armed, the French regard it as in corporated, or rather identified, with the country, and incapable of being moved by any interests or impulses which are not common to it with the whole of constitutional France. Undoubtedly, if it is to be understood, as some of our contem poraries have informed us, that the National Guard of France is commensurate with, and does actually con stitute the entire French people who have means of providing themselves with clothes and fire locks, there is an end of the question, so far as con- terns the diitinctness of the two communities. Still we may be permitted to remark, that even a people might be disposed to act differently with arms in its bands, from its mode of behaving itself without them ; and that its own interests and those of other nations - might be affected through the immediate operation of a million of hands each grasping a mus ket, and prompt in the use of it, rather more criti cally and irreparably than by any civil government and legislature, were it even possible to conceive a legislative body amounting in numbers to a million of men. As we have said before, however, the French ought to know their own affairs best ; and if they feel that a general armament of the nation is requisite towards the assurance of peace abroad, and towards the consolidation of order and liberty at home, it becomes a manifest indiscretion to a fo reigner to press opposite counsels on their notice. Such an establishment, nevertheless, will exercise unavoidably—we must not venture to say injuri ously—a paramount and permanent supremacy in any country where it exists. But then, say the op timists, that is still the government " of the people." Undoubtedly, we admit that it is so; but it is the people making and administering laws in person, not through deputies; arid thus discarding from its prat. the noblest improvement of modern times upon antiquity—the invention of representative eonstilu lions. We see that the Constitutionnel puts in the same rank, as equally essential to the well-being of Prance, the trial by jury for offences of the press, and the spread of the National Guard, or civic soldiers, to .the remotest extremities of France.--- llfntee. It is understood that overtures. were lately made to Lords Melbourn and Palmerston, Mr. Charles Wynne, and Mr. Charles Grant, but they refused to join the Administration without Mr. Iluskisson. This circumstance sufficiently indicates the arrange ments on which we may calculate. A respectable 'manta (the Maneherder Guardian), alluding to the dinner given in that town to the Premier, observe; ghat— " Certain journalists have been in the habit of telling us that the Duke of Wellington's Administration was hated by the country ; and that wherever the public voice could make itself beard, the general prevalence of that sen timent was made abundantly manifest. Well ; the con puny at the Manchester slimier consisted of between '7OO and 800 persons of the middle claim of society—men who individually neither want the favours of Ministers nor dread their frowns, but who, in the best sense of the term, are independent ; and how did they receive the toast of d his afeptsty's Ministers ?' Why, with vehement applause; and when the Duke of Wellington, le k ar, 17 e11;04,0 hi s ao . knowledgment of it, had stated that hit colleagues end himself desired to retain his Maleity's confidence, only so long as they possessed the confidante and good opinion of strap assemblies as that,' the whole company rose (at least we did not see a single exception,) and there was one of the most enthusiastic bursts of cheering that we ever wit timed. It is not, however, to be inferred from the cir oninstance, that the people of Manchester are satisfied with the entire construction of the Administration. Their favourable opinion rests chiefly on Sir Robert Net in one Douse, and on the Duke of Wellington in the other; and their feelings towards the Government, by no means those of undiscriminating confidence, are founded on the general tendency of its most important measures ; on its great extensions of religious liberty; on the tolerant spirit of its &mettle, and the cautious and prudent character of its foreign p Airy; on its maintenance and presumed incline gun to extend the application of a liberal and commercial system; on its declared intention to introduce a strict economy into every branch of the public service ; and on the disposition, for which credit is given, it, of a readiness to Was those concession* with regard to the improvement of our institutions, which the spirit and the intelligence of the age so loudly roll for." We are here told that the people of Manchester are riot disposed to withheld their confidence from the Administration ; but then the confidence is given to eu Administration in posse, and not in ease. It is at present like a regiment returned from the West Indies, with the colours, drums, and one or two officers—a very good regiment, only requiring to be renewed. Credit is also given to the Administra tion for tut intention to introduce strict economy into every branch of the public service, and a readi ness to make those concessions with regard to the improvement of our institutions, which the spirit and the intelligence of the ago se' loudly call for. We do not doubt that, as far as the people are con cerned, they will support any Minima who en forces economy, and is disposed to improve our in stitutions. A Ministry disposed to act faitly , to wards the country may set faction at defiance. But is our contemporary quite certain 'that the Duke really means to promote mu:lnm) , and reform ? Last Session opened with high promotes; but the per formances did not exactly keep pace with thern. It is supposed, we know, by some, that the Duke, who is a diligent reader of the , eigns of the times, and knows when to adeance and when to . retreat, will endeavour to cut the ground from under the Opposition by proposing, himself the mea sures on which alone they eat(' hope for po pularity. 'Be it so---eo matter what the mo tive. 'Elie Ministerial Manifesto of Government without Whigs, tells ,us, indeed, that " it is most evident that the Duke of Wellington's Adminis tration is that most calculated of all which the va rious parties could supply, to meet the present wants and wishes of the country. There is hut one voice heard from each extremity of the kingdom to the other, r a id that voice is for retrenchment and eco nomy. Many men, when out of sower, have talked of retrenchment ; the present Ministers alone have attempted to carry it into effect, and they, therefore, are entitled to our credit when they pre pose further reductions. W e observe, also, that Mr. Hume is a firm believer in the good dispositions of Ministers. At the dinner given to him in Gies gow, he observed, " That he believed the present Ministry were ready to be operated upon by public opinion, and it was the fault of the people if they did riot take advantage of this dispwition. Nothing has been effected without being lousily &Mantled and if not demanded it never would be got." Mr. Hume is a sanguine—a very sanguine man. He bas becu tit his post in Parliament ever since be en tered it, inceesent in his endoontirs to arrest the ex.- travugant expenditure of the public money, and yet lie Oils the, people of Glasgow that " the taxes sire as high as, ever t" that " the expenditure of the army was nearly as great as in war." Still ho has faith in the Duke of Wellington, and the followers of Johanna Southeot are not more conlid" the advent of th e i r Shil o h, t h an h e is the regen er atio n to he effected through the Premi er . " Its tensblered (be WO the Ito f ' most aristocratical a ssem bly I n 'the sera ""mus the ber were a Lord John thi e ,to r Lord John ' that , ' if 4 Ni r li ienss would be ma:soiled whether e on tio a tt ; or mit. If a person like him, without " H " ward, he was regarded se art intruder; h ut name f"r defection o sexing ing all the calumnies egoi st a him beetZ iiway b y hi t , march to Brentlord. Even the leedie r a whose home drove him to the hustings, would ta t, : nothing. lie said, though he wow not a freeholder, he was a free driver, and declined payment. The Hon, ; Member then explained, at considerable length, the Parlia mentary exertions which had gained him the good opinion of the people of Middlesex. He owed his success chiefly to the middle classes. Had he depended on the higher he would have had but a small chance. In the Session before last, in opposing the standing army (which was larger than it was in 1821), be bad stood in a minority of only ten ; 'and even, when be was supported by Mr. Maxwell and other six. Was it not to be loudly deprecated, that while incomes in general had fallen a half, the taxes should re main as high as ever ? The salaries which were raised during the depreciation of the currency had not been re duced when money had regained its old value. This made a difference in the price of food of thirty per cent. If ;there was any man present who thought the country could - recover from its embarrassments without a large reduction of taxes, he was very much mistaken. The large expen- Aiture was kept up to gain the support of the Aristocracy. The Duke of Wellington, if lie remained in office, must 'turn over a new leaf. The Duke was the man to check the Aristocracy, if he was supported by the King. If he would seriously set about retrenchment, he (Mr. Hume) would like to see the Whig or Tory who would oppose him. :the expenditure of the army was nearly as great as in war. Out of 5,500 Officers, not above 500 had seen actual service ; and promotions were kill going on. This was another mode of giving pensions to the connections of the Aristocracy. The King could not give a pension of 201,, without nn Act of Parliament, but he could make and promote as many Officers as he pleased." The Duke of Wellington was the man to cheek the Aristocracy, if he was supported by the King I Be it so. 13ut there are some awkward obstuelei in the way, even,by the confession of Mr. Hume. " The Aristocracy (he said) were never more dependent on the Government than they now are ; and this estate, which ought. to be living on their own properties, a check on the rapid movement of either of the others, now shared among its members a great portion of the taxes; which Was not wonderful, when it was considered that they put in a majority of the Members of the House of Commons, who direct the appropriation of these taxes.—(Loud cheers.) —lle attributed the situation of the country to the prowess of these abuses. The House of Commons was not the representatives Of the People, but servants to the Lords, in levying and appropriating taxes, which ought never to be larger than the actual wants of the Go vernment required. The country possessed the means of making all happy, if it had proper guardians ; but not having them, they see a great amount of taxes levied, to support friends and connections, who ought to support themselves out of their own properties.—(Cheers.)—lm• pressed with these opinions, he had followed one course. When he entered the House of Commons, the mode of appropriating the revenue was not so well known as it is now.—(Cheers.)—He soon found out the *buses which arose from a trial-administration of the taxes levied on the eountry—taxes which would not be required in a different order of things. They were appropriated in pensions and In sinecures, which were not required, and it was found that most of these sinecuriate owed their places to Perna inentary influence, not to their talents or industry. The only remedy was the lessening of the means of corruption. The earnings of industry were taken to give to those who did not deserve it, but who, in consequence, became the More strenuous supporters of corruption. They were, in fact, in a circle of corruption, and in it they would conti nue till the people stepped in and cut it.--(Cheers.)--- Every act of his had in view the lopping off, piecemeal, if not by wholesale, this or that little stream of corrup tion, to lessen the wholesale effect of the fountain.— (Cheers.)—He did not speak against individuals ; it was the system he opposed. It was the system which made these men what they are, and if others were put in their place, let their ease and luxury be equally ministered to, and he would wish to see the man who would decline it." Those, then, who name the majority of the Mem- bers of the House of Commons have an interest in keeping the expenditure high, and Ministers can only obtain the support of that majority, by conti nuing the large expenditure. The country celled loudly for retrenchment last year, and obtained it not. 'But it is possible that circumstances may lead this year to that which could never before be ob tained. The Duke has a formidable opposition to 'encounter. In this country, whatever the views of an Opposition are, the grounds of attack must al wept be liberal. To attempt to oppose..the measures of a Ministry of mere aristocratical' pretensions; would excite such general indignation throughout the country, that if a Minister were to dissolve Par liament, they would gain in consequence greatly in 'the new elections. We take it for granted, then, that the most exclusive and haughty Aristocrat that ever entered the House of Commons, must at least assume liberal pretensions. A Minister who can count on the Sovereign, may follow the plan alluded to by our contemporary (the Scotsman), of granting as much as the Opposition would venture to ask. If he were a hollow reformer he would thin the ranks of the Opposition by letting the principal families ,know conlidentielly, that he should be obliged, in his own defence, to adopt measures which would break .down tha Aristocracy ; and that, therefore, it was not for their interest to drive him into a corner. If he were really inclined to retrenchment and reform, he would allow the Opposition to commit themselves 'so far that they would be obliged, for the sake of consistency, to push him on liberal measures. We assume that the Ministers of. this country are almost 'always more liberal than Parliament-. Hence the well kuown expedient to which several Ministries have had recourse of naming Committees, composed of the most honourable and respectabl e lembers, to pros pose savings, and thereby, sheme the other Mem bers out of an opposition to the Ministry when they are proposed. But still, a Ministry, though gene rally better than Parliament, cannot be much better. The advocates of economy in Parliament amount to about twenty or thirty at most, and seldom divide more than a dozen. The eagles must be fed. Mi eisters will always, we suspect, take care not to al low their virtue to carry them so far as to make them risk losing caste. There is no making bricks without straw ; no cutting - blocks with razors; no making virtuous men nut of those who think only 'of their separate order. Mr. [headsmen, who had nerves of iron, was able to make head against the hatred borne to him by the aristocracy for his liberal measures, which they viewed us sapping the foun- Autions of the Corn Laws ; but how few men there 'are who would not have sunk under the trial. The ; extraordinary tenacity is not a quality on which we ro.t3 at liberty to count. Most Ministers will'prefer run easier course; the approbation of Parliament to the.approbation of their consciences. The time is litst . approaching when it Wlll:birsierewhether better measures will be dealt out to the people in this than in former Parliaments. Events have been teaching 11 4 , and the country is more in earnest about reform 'than it was. It remains to be seen what Parliament and Ministers are to be.—Morning Chronicle. We regret to find that the opinion gains ground in 'Franee that the Ex-Ministers of Charles X., if con victed—arid of that there can be little doubt—shall Assuredly suffer death on the scaffold. That their crirne deserves this punishment we admit. We will igo farther, and say, if treason ever deserved the axe, thttir's does. Never was there a more wanton and violent subversion of order than they committed, or !one attended with more sanguinary consequences.— The violation of oaths—the tearing asunder of the Charter—the devoting the inhabitants of Paris to military execution, for refusing to submit to their outrageous decrees, and placing the destroying sword in the hand of a King who bad sworn to keep invio late the chartered privileges of his subjects-....are of fences whilst:, whether we look at them in a political 'or moral point of view, admit of no palliation in the eyes of stern justice. But a victorious people can ;afford to be merciful—and mercy is an attribute of niagnanimity. When we look at the great events .which have changed the destinies of France, and ,converted the extreme peril of a people into their `imperishable glory, we confess that we wish the sword of freedom, which has been sheathed in peace, may not be drawn in vengeance ! We wish that - blood which. has flowed in civil r:onflict may not be `followed by fresh streams upon the scaffold. Nobly littve the people shown their power—they have i given tyrants a lesson of great revenge—now let idiom teach them one of clemency; let them prove. `that ..mercy is . not merely a part of the iprerogative of Kings, but also sheds a serene aplerl.r ''dour round the giant-strength of a liberated people. We speak of the people as the arbiter of the fate of titeue great public delinquents, because it is said that if the ex-Ministers are put to death it will be in compliance with the popular desire for their ex ecution. Our Paris correspondent, in his communi cation in another part of our Paper of this day, says, in adverting to the probabilitq of the infliction of the capital punishment upon the Ministerial crimi nals," this alteration in the general belief (for the contrary opinion prevailed some time ago) arises from reports that documents involving Ministers in horrid crimes by anticipation had been found in the Government offices, but principally from the know ledge that the acquittal of the Ministers would, in all human probability, lead to another revolt." As to the acquittal of the Ministers who signed the ordonnances which deluged the streets of Paris with gore, we never contemplated the possibility of such an event. If the Chamber of Peers acted so weakly or corruptly as to acquit t hem for the purpose of saving their lives, they would be unworthy ever again to exercise the functions of a judicial tribunal—but we did think it possible that their conviction might not be fol lowed by an exaction of the extreme penalty of the law ; and we thought so because we hoped the people of France would take a pride in having it written in their annals that they not only offered the most heroic resistance that ever a nation did to their tyrants in arms, but that they gave as splendid an example of mercy to their fallen oppressors. It would add a lustre beautiful in the sight of humanity to the victory which they have achieved, if the history which shall record the exploits of their glorious days of patriot conflict, shall also proclaim to succeeding ages that, with the exception of the life destroyed in actual combat, their political re demption was accomplished by a bloodless revo lution I Would we, then, have the state male factors protected from the visitation of the laws? By no means—there are secondary punishments, which, though not sanguinary, are yet of severe example. To sentence Ministers, convicted of con spiring against the Constitution, to the (;allies, would be novel, and calculated to make a great im pression on those who, being entrusted with the sacred duties of Government, are disposed to break through every barrier that religion, morality, and justice, place in the way of sordid and profligate ambition. As living instances of a just retribution, Polignac and his accomplices would afford a more impressive example of the consequences of gross abuse of power, than if they perished by the hand of the executioner. Thus incapable of further mis chief, and thus degraded, they would exhibit in their fallen condition the ignominious servitude that seems to be the most appropriate punishment for the abuse of political power, while a magnanimous nation, that conquered them in the midst of their armed legions, would, in disdaining to shed their miserable blood, gain a second and a noble triumph, by treating them with contemptuous mercy ! Morning Herald. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. On Saturday afternoon a lengthened inquiry took place at the Rising Sun, Water-lane, Hackney, be fore THOMAS STIRLING, Esq., Coroner, touching the death of Lawrence Johnson, of 15, Retreat place, Ilackney, late clerk to Messrs. Robert Flynn and Co., anchorsmiths, at Shadwell, who committed suicide. Mr. Thomas Greenwood, of Aldgate, surgeon, for the last twelve months had known the deceased, who was in the habit of calling to see his assistant, Mr. Watkins. On Wednesday evening he called at witness's shop, and he then appeared dull, but not unusually so. lie had two glasses of wine with witness; and, on going away, he gave witness's assistant a handsome silver snuff-box and a sovereign, desiring him to take care of them until the follow ing morning. Witness did not then know that the deceased was a married man,but he had since learned that such was the fact, and that he was paying his addresses to another female. On. Thursday morn ing witness went. out, and, upon returning, about ten o'clock, he found his assistant greatly distressed, in consequence of a letter received from the deceased, dated from No. 15, Retreat-place, Hackney, though', his residence with his wife was at Shadwell. The witness then begged leave to read the letter, but hoped that, as a young lady's. name was men tioned in it, who was highly respectable, and whose family were in the most poignant grief, owing to the misconduct of the deceased, it would be sufficient only to call her by her Christian name-Eliza. The letter was then read; it breathed sentiments of the most ardent attachment to " Eliza," whom alone the deceased said he could love ; that he had•been unfortunately united to a woman with whom he was miserable ; but that his previous marriage having become known to Eliza's friends, they had ac4used him of villany, and threatened to kill him; that he was now miserable, and intended to destroy himself. Mr. Thomas Robinson, of Green-bank, Wapping —Knew the deceased, as clerk to Mr. Flynn. On Tuesday he was at Mr. Flynn's country-house, at Ilford, when that gentleman showed him some let ters which he found in his office, and said that he was fearful his clerk was corresponding with a young lady, which would be her ruin, and desired witness to make some inquiries upon the subject. These letters were from the young lady to the deceased, proving a great attachment on her part, and that she expected shortly to be united to him. The witness knew the deceased to be married, and to have two children ; besides having great reason to believe that he had another wife and child in the city. Upon seeing the young lady's (Eliza's) rela tives, heleurnt that the deceased and she were to meet at a party of friends, on Wednesday evening, and witness got himself invited to the party, that he might the more effectually expose the deceased's ittrocioutconduct. Accordingly the party met, and, upon the deceased entering the room, witness, in the hearing of them all, asked how he was, and how his wife and children were ? The deceased be came agitated, and the young lady's relatives (she 'herself having been prevailed upon not to go t o t h e party) were extremely indignant. Iler uncle threa tened to shoot him; another gentleman was for throwing him out of thicvindow viind witness, for some time, kept the door to prevent his escape, which he wished to effect; but at last he was al lowed to depart. The young lady was only 18 years of age. The deceased brought her from a bearding-school to town, in a post-chaise, the pre vious Saturday, and on Tuesday he took her, her mo titer, and another friend, to take tea et his new house, at Hackney, which was intended to be their future residence. It was well furnished, h,aisndu,,afgreosmwtelrieel style of extravagance in which he li ve d, i t was mys terious where ho found money, as only 325. per week. He had been clerk to Mr. Flynn for several years, iLid was much respected by his employer, except as regarded his intrigues with females, and Mr. Flynn had done all he cou ld to reclaim him. The deceased's wife was a very amiable woman, but broken-hearted from his tyranny and bad usage. A few days ago his wif e , a f te r drinking some beer for supper, felt very ill, so much so as to require the attendance of a doctor, and she requested the deceased to go for one, but he re fused. One was sent for, however, and he found it necessary to use the stomach-pump, - when ke gave his opinion that poison had been given to her I Mr. Robinson concluded his evidence by stating that, if necessary, ho could relate many more cases, in which the deceased had nearly succeeded in seducing females. The Jury thought it WAS unnecessary, and they were obliged to him for what he has stated. The Jury, after a long consultation, returned a verdict, " That the deceased poisoned himself while in a sound state of mind." The Colton:it then issued his warrant to bury the deceased according to the Statute, without read ing the funeral service, and declared that all the deceased's property was forfeited to the King', whose collector would. immediately take possession of it. The jitry.expressed their readiness to ass ist the widow, who was {gently distressed, in petitioning tha Lords of the reasury to allow her what the deceased died possessed of, SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Sevea o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. War-Office, Sept. 21, 1830. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon J. 'lately, from the (64th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Brown, pro moted, Sept. 21, 1830. 3d Dragoon Guards—Staff-Surgeon G. R. Melin to be Surgeon, vice Peacock, promoted, Sept. 21. 4th Dragoon Guards—Surgeon H. Franklin, from the 37th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Webster, promoted, Sept. 21. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Capt. B. Everard to be Major, by purchase, vice Blois, who retires ; Lieut. .1. B. Petre to be Captain, by purchase, vice Everard ; Cornet W. R. Sands to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Petre ; John Dalton, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Sands, Sept. 21. 7th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Surgeon J. G. Hib• bert, ALD., from the 99th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Thomas, promote 3, Sept. 21. 13th Light Dm - goons—Capt. H. Vyner, from the balk pay, to be Captain, vice Sir A. T. C. Campbell, Bart., who exchanges, receiving the difference, Sept. 21. 16th Light Dragoons—Surgeon W. R. White, from the Slit Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Robinson, promoted. Sept. 21. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards. To be Lieutenant and Captain—Ensign and Lieut. G. S. Digby, by purchase, vice Rowley, who retires, Sept.2l. To be Ensign and Lieutenant—Ensign Hon. W. T. Law, from the 51st Foot, by purchase, vice Digby, Sept. 21. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant and Captain C. Shot t to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Girardot, who retires; Ensign and Lieut. Lord F. Paulet to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Short ; It. S. Hulse, Gent. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Paulet. Sept. 21. Ist Regiment of Foot—Capt. 13. Daveney, front the 57th Foot, to be Captain, vice Lame, who exchanges, Sept. 21. 19th Foot—Capt. S. J. Hodgson, from the 39th Foot, to be Captain, vice W. E. Sweny, who retires upon half pay 9th Foot, Sept. 21. _ _ 23d Foot—Lieut. M. A. Stewart, from the half-pay, to be First Lieutenant, vice E. T. Ellis, who exchanger, receiving the differenze, Sept. 21. 31st Foot—Staff-Assistant Surgeon H. Hart, M.D. to be Surgeon, vice White, appointed to the 16th Light Dragoons, Sept. 21. 37th Foot—StaffAssistent Surgeon T. Wahab, M.D. to be Surgeon, vice Franklin, appointed to the 4th Dra goon Guards, Sept. 21. 39th Foot—Captain C. Waldron, from half-pay 9th Foot, to be Captain (repaying the difference be received), vice Hodgson, appointed to the 19th Foot, Sept. 21. met Foot—H. Hopwood, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Law, appointed to the let or Grenadier Foot Guards,Sept. 21. _ . 57th Foot—Captain E. Lane, from theist Foot, to be Captain, vice Daveney, who exchanges; Assistant-Sur geon J. Macdonnell, from the 55th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Evans, promoted, Sept. 21. 62d Foot—Assistant.Surgeon 11. W. Radford, from the 46th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice 111Therson, appointed to the 64th Foot, Sept. 21. t•tth Font--Surgeon D. Al'Pberson, from the 62d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Ilateley, appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, Sept. 21. 734 Foot—Captain T. B. Bower, from the half pay to be Captain, vice E. 1... Godfrey, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Sept. 21. 84th Foot—Ensign S. J. Goslin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Adair, promoted, Sept. 21. 91st Foot—Assistant-Surgeon J. H. Divir, from the 79th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Lamert, promoted, Sept. 21. 99th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon W. Williams to be Sur geon, vice Hibbert, appointed to the 7th Light Dragoons, Sept. 21. HOSPITAL STAPP. To be Inspectors-General of Hospitals.---Brevet Inspec tor S. Woo!riche, Brevet Inspector C. Farrell, M.D., Brevet Inspector J. Robb, Brevet Inspector T. Thomson, Brevet Inspector S. Higgins, all dated July 22. To be Deputy Inspectors-General of flospitals.—.Bre vet Deputy Inspector J. M'Mullin, M.D„ Brevet Deputy inspector J. Arthur, M.D., Physician to . the Forces J. Arthur, M.D., Brevet Deputy „Inspector J. Q. Short, Surgeon to the Forces ; Brevet Deputy Inspector Charles Collier, Surgeon to the Forces; Brevet De pity Inspector John Maling, Surgeon to the Forces; Staff-Surgeon J. V. Thompson; Staff-Surgeon J. Murray; Staff-Surgeon H. Marshall ; Staff-Surgeon J. Howell ; Brevet Deputy Inspector It. Hartle, Surgeon to the Forces ; Staff-Surgeon Sir A. Halliday, M.D. ; Surgeon A. Brown, from the Rd Dragoon Guards; Surgeon M. Lamert, from the 91st Foot ; Surgeon I. Robinson, from the 16th Light Dragoons; Surgeon R. Webster, from the 4th Dragoon Guards; Surgeon W. D. Thomas, M.D. from the 7th Light Dragoons; Surgeon S. Peacocks, M.P. from the 3d Dragoon Guards; Surgeon J. Evans, from the 57th Foot, all dated July 22. To be Surgeon to the Forces—Assistant-Surgeon H. J. Jeinmett, from the 13th Light Dragoons, July 22. The King has been pleased to appoint Colonel J. Guille to be hi 4 Majesty's Aide•de-Camp for the Service of his Militia in Jersey, dated Sept. 14. 11YMORANDUM. The King has been pleased to direct, that H. Bristow, E4q. late Major upon half•pay 38th Foot, be restored to his rank in the Army. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. John Godwin, Bristol, corn-factor. BANKRUPTS._ Jatnes Kensington, 14Wdieser, merchant, to surrender Sept. 24, 28, and Nov. 2, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Shepherd, Thomas, Lepard, and Wil liams, Cloak-lane. John Parker, Oxford-street, linen-draper, Sept. 24, 28, at twelve, and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Jones, Size-lane. Robert Wilson, Bishopsgate-street Without, woollen draper, Sept. 24, 28, at twelve, and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Wilda and Co.; College lilt, Queen. street, Cheapside. William Wentworth Drake, George-yard, Snow-hill, feather-merchant Sept. 24, at eleven, 28, at twelve, and New, 2, at eleven, at the Court of Commiesiouers. Somers, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street. Joseph Scott, Bread.street, Cheapside, shawl-warehous man, Sept. 28, Oct. 12, and Nov. 2, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Wingfield and Hemming, Great Alarlborough.sireet. John Ashton, Liverpool, wine-merchant, Oct. 1!, 13, and Nov. 2, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Morrow, Liverpool ; Blackstock and Dunce, King's Bench Walk, Temple. John Garnet, Shap, Westmoreland, innkeeper, Oct. 7, 6, at twelve, and Nov. 2, at nine, at the King's Head Inn, Appleby, Westmoreland. Addison, Verulam-buildings, Gray's-Inn, London ; Atkinson, Appleby. John Bell, Liverpool, master-mariner, Oct. S, 9, and Nov. 2, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Norris, Allen, and Anthony, John-street, Bedford-row ; Toulmin, Livepool. OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 20. Denis Mahoney was indicted for stealing a 51. flank,rh The prosecu t or, r E o n se g e b i l i td note t i or,n reg fr u o l m ar the ju pe r son Jack Tar, the liith of July— stated o ( W . t h at ‘V l o i i t ; The COMMON .SERJEANT (interrupting him) — y o u lost your money? Witness—Lost it? Not I. It was taken from me, but I recaptured it. The COMMON SEWANT—TheAtrisoner was a shipmate of yours, I suppose ? Witness—He a shipmate I He is a land lubber. The COMMON SERMANT--Well, tell us what hap pened to you. Witness--I was going along the etAr'siTn ciiiiiraergte:d the j , C o mmercial-road when I was hailed by a coach, in which that chap and his wife were (pointing to pri soner). Well, we were going to the East India Dock-gate when the coach stopped, and a female got in at the larboard side, am& presently arter she faints away. I opens the coach-door to give her some air, and then I feels the prisoner's wife put her hand int o . my larboard pocket and take out my mone y. She saw that I twigged her, and she gave it to her husband. theho ar t i ll: t ' e so o on the ilt;a p s p e l n e:s g olfwl°ti iltill:/elotiamsea,iy:ateltd:;ttila:eikrnaestIeistsenoepisi and then I sung outifor and it?i p , c laari:ds gaveit i in my themy lEi:slctokitEel The CimitoN s C. t., • ury to acquit the prisoner, there bein g no, proof that he ever had possession of the note. He was acquitted 'accordingly. ELECTION OF CORONER FOR MID• DLESEX.--(J.A ST DAY.) It would be utterly impossible to describe the ex citement which prevailed during the whole of the day amongst the immense mass of people who had congregated in front of the hustings. Towards the latter part of the day it was calculated that not less than 40,000 persons were collected. They extended as far as the eye could reach, even into St. John street. The windows were filled with respectable well-dressed persons and the tops of all the houses that could command a view of the hustings were covered with spectators. The greatest rigour was exercised by each party in finding out defects in the qualifications of voters for the opposing candidate; and their objections fur nished ample work for the Sheriffs, who were occu pied . the whole day in deciding disputed votes. During the day Mr. Wakley complained of his voters being objected to merely to create delay. At four o'clock the poll-books were closed, and the Sheriffs retired into the Sessions House, to ascer tain the state of the poll. As they were absent a very long time, Mr. Wilkie) , and Mr. Hunt ad dressed the assembled multitude. Mr. WAKLEY said the Sheriffs had thought pro per, in the discharge of their duty, to close the poll at four o'clock, although he had freeholders enough, on and in front of the hustings, to secure his elec tion half a dozen times over; and he said that .the conduct of the poll clerks during the morning was most infamous.—(Cries of shame.)—He declared that if the, poll should be declared to be against him he would demand a scrutiny.—(Applause.)—The Act of Parliament said that the poll should be kept open ten days, seven hours a-day at least; the Act axed the minimum, but left the time in other re spects at the discretion of the Sheriffs; and he con tended, that as there were numbers of freeholders present ready to poll, the Sheriffs should have kept the poll open until at least five o'clock. Ha was sure the election was void : and that if it had been kept open an hour longer, he should have been elected.—(Applause.) Mr. Hume then addressed the people, and in a most energetic manner impressed upon them the necessity of conducting themselves peaceably, and not to give their enemies any reason to believe that they were otherwise than the friends of order and decorum.—(Cheers.)—ln this respect he begged them to let him be their leader and adviser.—(Ap plause, and cries of "We will.") He was aware they had confidence in him because they knew that, for 2.5 years, he had never refused to come for Ward to advocate the cause of the people.—(Cheers.)— As, however, the Sheriffs had not returned, he had a little business to transact with the people.—(A , laugh.)—Mr. Hunt then put a resolution to the meeting, conveying the thanks of the inhabitants and freeholders of Middlesex, and particularly of those there assembled, to Mr. Wakley, for, the op portunity he had afforded to the whole county of expressing a decided opinion on that occasion, and for his conduct during the whale contest.—(Cheers.) —This resolution Mr. Hunt put, and it was carried unanimously by the multitude: Mr. Hunt then called for three cheers for Mr. Wakley, which were immediately given. The Sheriffs then came on the hustings and de clared the state of the poll to be as follows : For Baker - S 670 For Wakley 3,534 Gross majority for Mr. 8aker....... 136 The polling for the day was— For Waklcy 544 For Baker 421 Majority for Wakley 123 Mr. Under-Sheriff Wilma; then declared Mr. William. Baker to be duly elected Coroner for Mid diesex.—(A loud and long uproar succeeded this announcement.) Mr. WAKLEY then handed in a:paper demanding a scrutiny of Mr. Baker's votes. The liiheriffs then retired again, for the purpose of consulting upon. Mi. Wakley's demand, and directly afterwards Mr. Baker and Mr. Wakley shook hands, and the friends of each candidate gave a hearty cheer. During the Sheriffs' absence Mr. Hunt again came toward. He put another resolution to the meeting, to the effect that this election had been carried on in favour of Mr. Baker by a combination of arbitrary and unjust influence—by cant, hypo crisy, fraud, perjury, bribery, and every species of fraud which had been resorted to by the enemies of the liberties of the - people. This was also, of course, carried unanimously. Another resolution, also condemnatory of the proceedings, was put and passed in a similar manner. Mr. Hunt then in formed them, that on Monday next a meeting would be hold on Kennington-common of the middling and working classes of the metropolis, to present an address to the middling and working classes of Paris on the late glorious events in that capital— (Cheers)—and he wished to see every person now present at that meeting. Mr. Hunt then expa tiated at considerable length on what he termed the corrupt London Press, in not inserting reports of this important election at greater length than had been done in the different newspapers; and he stated that a society had been formed termed the " Northern Union," for the purpose of establishing a London Journal, to be called the People's Press. (Cheers.)—Mr. Hunt then put another resolution, which was carried, thanking Mr. Stirling, the co roner of the western division of the county, who was old and infirm, for the " little mischief" he had done during the many years he had been in office, and begging that he would be pleased to re tire upon a pension. —(Laughter and cheers.) The Sheriffs then came on the hustings, and it was understood that the scrutiny had been abandoned. Mr. BAKER,' having been sworn in as Coroner, came forward, but met with a noisy reception. lie begged to return his sincere thanks to the 3,670 'voters who had given him their support; and though he had been taunted with addressing the nobility and clergy, he was not the less disposed to conciliate the good feelings of the middling classes of society. —(Cheers and hisses.) As for the support that lie had been stated to have received from lawyers, he declared that in his canvass in Lincoln's-inn to-day, he could scarcely find one at home, nearly all of them having gone into the country. He had carried this election single-handed and entirely through the energies of the freeholders at large. He had, therefore, accomplished the object of his ambition, and he concluded by thanking the freeholders for placing him in so high a situation,—(Cheers and loud uproar.) Mr. WAKLICY was received with loud cheers. He began by saying that his opponent had just addressed them as Coroner of Middlesex.—(Cries of " No," and cheers.)—lf they thought there was any thing unfair during the election they had a right to ex press their disapprobation of it; but he (Mr. Wak ley) having engaged in the contest on public grounds and as the advocate of a great public principle ' he would now exercise no ac t o f h ost ili ty toward* Mr. Baker , —(Bravo and cheers)--or any of his party. He wished them happiness and longiives.—(Cheers.) When engaged in such a contest as this, all private considerations ought to be forgotten, for they ought not to divert any party to the right or to the left. He (Mr. Wakley) considered that he had achieved a most brilliant triumph.--(Cheers.)—What mattered it that there were 136 transferred cattle from Limehouse, who knew not whether they were voting for Mr. Baker or Jack in the moon—who knew not whether the office was for the benefit and protection of the public, or whether a lawyer was the most proper or the most unfit person to preside in it ?—(Cheers.)—Mr. Baker was the last attorney who would be appointed to the office.--(Cheers.) It was said by Mr. Baker early in the election, that he (Mr. Wilk ley) had no friends ; if he had no friends had not the cause of a Medical Coroner found friends, and in despite of every scheme had triumphed over prejudice, passion, and ignorance ?—(Loud cheers.) It was the grossest fallacy to place a lawyer in the office of Coroner, who was ignorant of a particle of mediOine, and ilto ruinsfittratitit the prosecutor. This last litet alone was 114604 1 to keep lawyers from the °Mee, becanse tifey"bal direct pecuniary interest in getting a: varcics manslaughter or murder returned by a ge,reAtl Jury. Mr. Wakley then alluded to severilmotfrgqir showing the importance of having a niecliol Pap presiding at Coroners' inquests, and again adverted to his complaint against the Sheriffs and tba , clerks. He then said, that though he bad' ren notice to have a scrutiny, yet be had abandoned it, because the Sheriffs had not the power to :nulls it an effectual one, as they could not summon ' nesses before them. He, however, expressed his determination to go to the Court of King S 'llO, in consequence of the ill usage he bad received, for he was confident, if only legal votes had been allowed to be received, he would have been 500 a-head of his opponent—(Cheers)—and he related one or two instances of what he called misconduct in the poll-clerks. Mr. Wakley expressed his opi• nion, that before long there would be another elec tion, and from what had passed during AU contest, it was not probable that another attorney svould bs found to he ready to step into Mr. Baker's. ba shoet;l (Laughter and cheers.) —The lawyers enough of it.--(Laughter.)—Mr..Wilder jdeated himself, that if he could not oust Mr. Pao by legal proceedings, he would solicit 01'0, 1 M the freeholders at the next vacancy-41(0a a te , o f", —when he hoped to solicit their nnprot,t begged them, therefore, never hereafter to Pr0w",,,,, vothoreteitrshveotveasr accordingitoo u the e tcoa p nt e dh r s who fi rst asked to exercise their cool ;aim uPon , c —d vy e e e d e a ( d r : C o i i n pe th g: ::s s t l h . v e) t o o d— o u u g l l e s d i i de t e eo l be oh l o k o i i k :e l d v eP m adPe a ti l d . e r r:d e st e Pti e a r iet g ial ienn o ts p d u l% btftlr then Courts, r i °sll) 11:1 (P 4 I:ll4llrine° in the tnaetls pt M ori r vc . oa Vi tme Takley concluded by req h u t e ig ir disperse after the business was over quittlY"'": peaceab pi l l y iaf , ein. a — nd o:L to ot put it out of the power of on et i, u h d eir che c e o rs nd .) uct. He a th in k di them for the great number of votes he had ger," for the present he would go into the retkimeg t d ' bwehhoplurh.baldi cpublicly HUNT , given h f mr their e e r third supp support, t, time, sta r t i, s w 1: 4; da 4.0 the ter meeting, and after eulogizing the Conduct' l•'r-r; fTmWoalrievo.ke,lrveinyia:g,kilaidelnyd wasthe itaiddedpreeansdinegncethoefmthhee3,lo.s7,:wo:k.tilldini.. others had actyh d h e e a( t it irseee chaired.—(Loud n n Tt e : d u:. oe as t udn h dda a y t . c)a t h h ie eta a et t r sr wt g .. e )an n r d . t o l i e t r wt e jtu ; : : :4o , r ing at Kennington-co mm on was to take pikl.r. Monday next, the chairing would coke plsci " 1 clock id the morning, to commence at th e Crow! aP",.",T; to say, at five o'clock—a moderate dined provided, at which lie (Mr. Hunt) for w s _ 2 nt s P better Chairman, had been requested to pre"ue''. (Cheers.) Dr. TuostsoN then briefly addresse d the Multi' tude, after which they dispersed. A THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON All° OLD SoLntra...—lmmediately on the Duke of Wlttlar - Tote leaving Mr. BIRLEY'S factory on Monday be t, bulb t s ,rl; teran named Jesus Wutrwoaxii, who Idol been.f.ad e el„i d " , to the 7th Royal English Fusileera, was desirous to 1 1 "7" his old General a salute ; be consequently struck ePl a the Royal Kent bugle, the national salute , ending Wit% British Grenadiers. The Duke turned round, he ll! some of his suite, with a pleasing smile on his Conateatect' touched his hat, and moved very politely to the d l bf and seemed well aware th e c ompliment was plif" d ies one of his brave companions in anus. Joan particularly distinguished himself in many sag o kog during the Peninsular war. At the stormmn( of Bedajos ' on the , fith of April, 1812, Ca_nit. 11; wtct and Lieut. Ruonas were killed on sseeera lee t t ly ramparts; Wistrwowrit ained the top, and sounded his bugle; his companions, who had,e17 0 11,, 0 1, tamed the heights, " eager fur the fray, w hen " there's Wntrwoartee bugle; they have got 1 ° 1, 104. they accomplished their purpose, and the city settle law On Wednesday last he played throng* ~tieli r e t s : ts!: stationed near the Rail-road-bridges " -- „ - p i e 010 ing Hero comes ; " and had , the honour of a e e. shake of the hand from the Duke and Lord Hitt. Plow claimed, on shaking the Dukes hind, ltg i n e ord pleasure to shake hands with an old cotrulav e c , l HILL asked him where he had served ; be l'en:!Er was with your division under the command of rt fit, WARD BLAKENET." Be was also field bugle 10.1%'0( General PmcitnrrAlt (brother-in-laW to g m ' Ill! WELLINGTON) at Copenhagen and Martiniqur,„ ots at the battles of Buser*, Almavir a, so f Rodrigo , Salamanca, Vittoria, Pampelallst °r w "' Toulouse. : CO 4l A Scotch Paper, n ot under the mi xer! tor Matlhusian it may be presumed, has the follawi!toette graph a--" We regret to hear, that the 0 000 1 , 1 t 100 nieuce has been experienced in the island of 10 1011 ;: t or taming a Population of 400, from their being. n° ,_, diiget m hi i s cl a is t , t sf e t. nuo. mArobor/Lls:riopierriaidelor. 04°' o OP t EARTHQUAKE AT CONCEPTIOpe" itytioar 44th of May, 1750, tha ancient town or „ u e litrOr i otherwise called Penco, and Chili, WO t 441117 PO P , by an earthquake, and the sea rolled over Ihoolti cient port was rendered entirely useless, nad :I,,oasto Mr' tants built another town ten miles from the le " — order to be beyond the reach of similar inunditise;timet ing a late survey of Conception Bay, C a P ti ter Itt en"ct and BeLcur.a discovered that the ancient ltsr se formerly admitted all large merchant veleer 00 016 _ round the Cape, is now occupied by a reel °: loo ,sratt certain points of which project above the ocne:A o f p F i r j the greater part being very shallow. D ot 0 ._., 1t ; inhabitants, a half in length, where, according to the. "` Ago jrltlialbeitoaini.gtsi,natih,elepwthaternrawy was formerly f c o o r n m e e iu rl d y ed fou fro r deep, is now a shoal. The correctness of thi s ,: c i r ca" tly stance, that the large trading vessels which forw tho foer quent the port could not have anchored in le ll e o to ea r . fathoms water. Our hydrographers found the r dop ofti siat of hard sandstone, so that it cannot . b t t - e 'r have been formed by recent deposits of the N pd an arm of which carries down loose the same side of the hay. Besides it is W* ll ,'" - h0 i,,.! that ever since the shook of 1750, so Ve glieli . '7 s°C able to approach within a mile and a half of she, h o of port of Penco. That shock, therefore, u plifted s i : 4 0 4 the sea to the height of twenty-four feet et the ' O O O most probably the adjoining coast shared in 'ht. 0 il 3 / for an enormous bed of shells of the some,_, lt P ec .,. i jagb i t s- t now living in the bay, are seen raised 11 '''" 0 1 jiki. jh ' mark along the beach, filled with raiebetOtil , 00 , which the Biobio now conveys to the ltY• s f dye acshlivsetlitoastohethleirseighvthicohf cove rfrom tlhe,oo‘olilol3ll:,s6rugigifeltio' lately been examined by experienced concu r " no goers don, and identified with those taken at the fat living state from the bay and its neighboorhvv- Geology. elatt--nu,olinßl)ToefrlictS—biaept-loten,-: 5 . .1 7. 010 ' $ t On the 10th i nst . of a daughter. thei lady of olfn a, you ng .............--t lard, III illf: On the 18th inst. . in Great George-streett l t~ Dr. Lushington, of a 11011. ~ : . v.. MARRIED. i,vl llll , ' ( At St. Mary's church, Bryanstone.square• I 0 4 , 14 : n L er n a c hlo Archdeacon Croft, Charles alchistireltieW''; „ n f g i ii , Esq., of Northover Horse, in the ,c 00017.- OPT and Wood House, Doer, to Mira Carolial 1,01)1r7 ton, youngest dangling . of his Grace the 1 10 • , '..1 of Canterbury. r O W' 1.1 WOO ' 4. J . On the 20th inst. It H. Young, or m a ' ils Se'' States, to Elizabeth, eldest diughter of the ' 1 - 19' Cundale, of Kingston-upon-Thames. . 43a/14010f On the 20th inst. at St. Itlartl,' o °, Jones, of Prince's-street, Bank, to Flissb4lipotrot, daughter of Griffith Foulkes, F,sq., of Wi le - vent-garden. of Otinpptehreple9dtfhor.idt..ispti.a:: lllll:a4rll2BEpispi4qta.sdn,areT., in his be t s , l os tfiv " H. Ant" „ o f On the 18th lost. at Ilrixton, C,ostartea. late R. Detnain. E o f ill' *q. aged 69. bui l d ' s On the 19th inst. Mr. R . Stuckey, hot" ~ Curtain-road. .1 101 P l o ° On the 18th inst. at his brother-in-1aw'0t..,..-°,,bv a - " Esq., Wedmore, Satuersetshire, Mr. i T• Wel'. ' nal d-street, Russell. lig nitre. It V PRIMO) AND Ptlll4ol ll t o volP o* TUE SUM OW" M .1 1,. W OOf