The Sun. — London, England, 1833-08-22 00:00:00

iPIRIT OF TM: PU81.14: JOURNALS. Opinions are confidently expressed on both sides as to the remit of Bourmont's abandonment of the siege of Oporto. The Miguelite prints in this coun try assure us that he is about to revenge on Lisbon his failure to take Oporto by assault,—that he is to effect a junction with Cadaval, who occupies " the impregnable lines of Torres Vedrae," and with Mo lelloe, and that their united force is an overmatch for anything that Pedro can bring to oppose them. «%e have already st a ted, w h a t might indeed be obvious to everybody, that the announcement of such a de sign on the part of Bourmont would be one of the best reasons in the world for doubting that he se riously meant to realize it. If Bourmont wished to take Don Pedro at a disadvantage, he would en deavour to surprise him, and for that purpose to prepare his attack upon the capital with all practica ble secrecy, as well as expedition. To publish his project would, in that respect, have a visible ten. dency to defeat it. After giving the Lisbon Re gency due notice of this march, he would enable them,. by the time th a t h e h a d h a lf completed i t,— that is, before he could have advanced as far as Leyria,—to transport in steam-vessels the whole garrison of Oporto, immediately disposable for the reinforcement of Lisbon, and thus to in crease the strength of Villa Flor by at least eight thousand well-disciplined troops--a num ber not inferior to that with which Bourmont would be able to join the Duke de Cadaval, after pushing through a difficult country, with soldiers ill provided, dispirited, and, as all the accounts in form us, deserting by whole companies at a time. The letters published in the course of yesterday, represent the force of Molellos to be nearly, if not altogether, broken up, and that under Cadaval to be greatly thinned by desertion. As fcr the asser tion that the latter personage occupies the " im pregnable" lines of Torres Vedrae, it is a stupid rhodomontade. The lines of Torres Vedras were designed by the Duke of Wellington to be impreg nable, not against Lisbon, whence Cadaval might expect an attack, but against an army coming from the north—that is, in the present instance, against Bourmont, who, they tell us, is hastening to join him. It is just possible, therefore, that Cadaval, who with 4,000 or .5,000 men ran away from Villa Flor, who had but 1,500, and when, moreover, it was the duty, and must have been the wish, of the Miguelite Governor to keep possession of the capital, if he could—it is just possible, we say, that now the Duke of Terceira has been considerably recruited, the same Governor may show some of his charac teristic alacrity in decamping from Torres Vedras, which is formidable only towards the north, and leaving it to be defended, as in that case it would he, by the united garrisons of Lisbon and Oporto, against the new Massena of the Miguelites. How ever, we have been forced upon these speculations, which are seldom safe for persons at a distance from the spot, by the Tory flummery of what was " going" to be accomplished by Miguel and his beaten Generals for the recovery of Lisbon. If Bourmont and Cadaval, with their ten thousand or twelve thousand men, were to attack Terceira in front of Lisbon, with but half or a third of the number, allowing the people of Lisbon to be neu tral in the contest, no doubt superior force might succeed, though at Oporto it was otherwise. But is it probable, that if the plan of an assault on Lis bon beame apparent, the garrison of Oporto would not he instantly conveyed thither ? And, at any risk of losing Oporto, is not Lisbon in all respects an acquisition of tenfold value? Should the Queen's troops concentrate on the Tagus, we see no more reason to question their success against the enemy than when the Douro was the scene of their brave and victorious efforts. With regard to the Spanish Court, our Madrid letter of yesterday presents, we have good reason to believe, the true prospectus of M. Zea's policy and intentions for the over throw of Portuguese liberty, and the frustration of any approach towards liberal measures in Spain, in the event of Ferdinand's dissolution. He therefore corresponds secretly with Don Carlos, exiles the Queen's confidential servants from Madrid, thwarts all her attempts to exercise a sound ascen dancy over the dark and suspicious spirit of her hus band, and silently prepares the means of setting aside her authority as Regent, and her daughter's accession to the Crown. As an essential accessory to the triumph of Spanish despotism, the said Zen intrigues, cheats, lien, and, even tinder thin dis guises, makes war upon Donna Maria and the Por tuguese charter, by encouraging Spanish adven turers to enlist in Miguel's ranks; while no sooner will the Queen of Portugal's authority have been recognized by the c'eovernment of Great Britain, than the old game, played so cunningly in 1827 by Calomarde, the Holy Alliance reptile, who after wards turned traitor to his own master, Ferdinand, will be revived by his worthy counterpart, Zea Bermudez. Miguelite refugees will be entertained, clothed, armed, and organized ; every outrage against the Queen, short of formal hostility, will be prac tised, amidst perjured professions of neutrality, and England and France alike ridiculed by the world, for pandering, through mere feebleness, to the ruin of their avowed protegee,and to the utter degradation of their own character, and extinction of their own just influence throughout Europe. Nothing can so ap propriately av er t thi s tra i n o f c a lamities as auinstan taneous recognition of Maria 11. by the allied Courts of St. James's and the Tuileries. Nothing but that prompt, manly, and consistent recognition, can at onc e dis concert t h e pro j ects o f t h e H o l y Al liance, baffle the dishonest and rancorous hatreds towards both Governments which actuates the Spa :FIJI councils, or establish the political institutions of the south of Europe on a basis which may for ever bid defiance to the insidious machinations or tyrannical violences of that league of despots which acknowledges the Csar of Muscovy for its chief. We publish two more letters from the Intercepted correspondence of the Miguelites. M. d'Alptiim has already given us occasion to notice him. He is the attache of the mission in Paris, who demanded of the faithful Minister there the delivery of the ~.- r chives of that Legation ; hut, as it is five years ago, he may have recovered from the smart. It ap pears lie is nOw employed with one Dr. Heliodoro Jacinto Carneiro, formerly a spy upon the affairs of the loan of Don Miguel. INTERCEPTED CORRESPONDENCE. Copy of a letter from Senbor Francisco d'Alpuiin de Menezes, to the Conde da Lousam, Minister of Finance. " PARIS, JULY 10. " Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—l have to iafnrm your Excellency, that I have this day received, conjointly with Heliodoro Jacinto Carneiro, of the house of Outriquin e Jange, on account of our loan, the sum of 12,325/. 12e. 2d. sterling, in 31 bills of exchange, in favour of the house of Gower, of London, to whom we have this day sent them, in order that an equal amount may he drawn for in favour of the Royal Treasury of Lisbon. " These bills, as well as those of the previous remit tance, begin to fall due from the sixteenth of September to the sisalla of October next, and all at the rate of 25f. 75c. of exchange upon London per pound sterling. " Our loa, thew. had been restorer'. lately in this Exchange to price of 70, at which it had formerly been, now begins to fall a little again, ePr which the in cons equence o f gars' the unfavourable news from the Al re volutionary journals exaggerate and distort i n order to do us injury. However, the depces e iou is not at present considerable, for it was yesterday negotiated at 70 to-day of 691, not making, upon the whole, m ore than difference. " Tbis is all that I have at present to say to your Excellency with respect to the state of the commission with which I am charged. " God preserve your Excellency, &c." LETTER, PROM COUNT DA PONTE, DON IN(IGUEL'S MI NISTF a is ?AIM, TO VISCOUNT DE EANTAftEM. " /Private. ) " PArds, JULY 12, 1833. " Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor,—l have the 8. honour to acknowledge the receipt of the despatch, No. 303, of the private series, and the circular , No. In the present circumstance„ there is i little or nothing of an interesting nature passinghere with respect to our municat i,, g to your affairs. I have nothing worth communicating lately circulated a Excellency, except that there has been; ia da Gloria is to I report that the Sent:lora Donna Ma of result' leave Paris for Portugal, ye won tle the rim/t 1 of the expedition of the rel-els to Algarve shall arrive. In fact, I believe her Serene Highness has left Paris for the purpose of going to some French sea-port during the bathing season. I must not, however, neglect to assure your Excel lency, that the English Government strongly recommended the Algarve expedition to the Marquis de Palmella, in order to augment, by the possession of that kingdom, the ter ritory acknowledging the authority of Donna Maria, which would facilitat e her recognition as soon as Ergland re solved on that step. The Russian Minister told me the day before yesterday that the English Government was at this moment doing everything in its power to prevent :the sucrecsful issur which we might expect from the ,departure of Marshal Bourmont, and it was necessary to exert every effort to bring the business with the rebels to a cot:elm:ion. " The journals of to-day publish accounts of the pro gress of the rebel expedition in Algarve, and though these accounts are exaggerated, it is impossible not to be sur prised that the rebel forces should he able to hold Oporto, and at the same time to attack another point of the kingdom—that they should pass off Li-bon with seven or eight steam-boatv, i❑ the presence of an armed nation, and in the face of a squadron ready in the Tagus of more than double the enemy's strength " Such are the observations which I have to-day heard made by many of our friends, and I have not been able to answer them. God preserve your Excellency." Times. The inhabitants of this metropolis are heavily taxed in consequence of the Gas Companies having almost a monopoly of the article which they supply, and which is nearly as necessary an article of con sumption in these days as water itself. The charges made to householders by the different Gas Com panies are unequal, and in some districts quite exor bitant. In a few places indeed, where there is com petition, a reduction of from 20 to 50 per cent. has been allowed, but in no instance has such a reduc tion been made as the inhabitants of parishes had a right to expect from the low price of coal and iron, and every other material used in gas establish. ments. But while the inhabitants of parishes feel aggrieved by this state of things, they ought to be informed that they have the remedy for the grievance in their own hands. There is no doubt that gas could be supplied at a cheaper rate than it now is by parochial gas associations, nor would the cheap ness of the article be the only advantage derivable from supplying it to parishes through the means of such associations. The poor might be beneficially employed in and about the works, under the imme diate direction of the parochial authorities, and the profit arising therefrom might be applied in diminution of the poor -rates, instead of being swallowed up in the ocean of expenditure upon the surface of which directors, proprietors, salaried secretaries float pompously along in the gay and gilded vessel of monopoly. That there are difficul ties to be overcome cannot be denied, as there is in the creation of every new institution for purposes of public utility. But every individual, rich and poor, who is not connected with one of the existing companies, has an interest in cheapening the supply of so necessary an article as gas, and as, by a recent invention, the nuisance arising from the smoke can be obviated, we see no good reason why gas-works should not be erected in every parish. In Man chester the experiment has been tried, and has suc ceeded so well under a board of manaaement that we understand the gas-works now produce an income' ; of 6,0001. per annum, exclusive of the public lights. Surely it is not too much to suppose that equal good management of the affairs of parochial gas as sociations in London would be productive of equally good results, and secure to the respective parishes considerable revenue. By a clause in the first Gas Act, passed 50th George 111., cap. 163, see. 32, it was provided that commissioners or trustees might purchase the pipes, &c., be longing to the Gas light and Coke Company at a reasonable price to be settled by arbitration, whit h clause (the parishes not being attentive to ther own interests in this matter) was repealed by the 4th George IV., cap. 119, sec. 36, withou t giving any equivalent power to parishes in lieu thereof. Great exertions have recently been made to prevent a re-enactment of that clause, and to secure monopoly by not allowing parishes to intro duce any beneficial provision for themselves into the Bill for lighting and watching the metropolis. But the inhabitants of parishes have only to un derstand their own interests and act with union, intelligence, and determination in vindication of their rights to overpower all such sordid opposi tion, It would tend greatly, in another point of view, to the public convenience that London were lighted by parochial gas associations, as, in that case, there would he but one set of main pipes in the streets, whereas there are now two, and even three sets in some places, which causal the frequent breaking up the pavements of our thoroughfares, to the great interruption of traffic, the inconvenience of all who ride or walk the streets, and the annoy ance of the public at large.—Morning Herald. The fate of Turkey is axed. The bond of her destiny is sealed, and in the pocket of the Northern Autocrat, who had long coveted the splendid prey, The weakness of the Sultan has only been equalled by the inertness and incapacity of the diplomatic representatives of the interests of England and France, whom the superior cleverness of the smooth barbarian, Count Orloff, has completely foiled— foiled in such a manner that they had not a suspi cion of the Russian intrigue until the object was accomplished, and the imbecile Sultan, enamoured of his doom, had, as it were, assigned his empire over to the safe custody of the Czar. Among the strange events of which Europe has become the theatre since the first French revolution, there has been nothing more extraordinary than to see the head of the house of Romanoff become the pro tector of the throne of the descendant of the Atnu raths and the Solymans, while the Polish nation, that first checked the prowess of the Ottoman chi valry, exists only in the recollection of its glory and its wrongs. Our diplomacy was deaf to the cries of Poland, when the manly expression of British sympathy would have averted her fate, and scared the spoiler from his prey. Now they, whose lips were sealed, and hearts were frozen while the warriors of Poland were struggling alone with their giant antagonist,uffect a mock corns miseration for the sufferings which they raised not a little finger to prevent, and pretend to be indig nant at the crimes of which they were at least the passive accomplices. In betraying Poland to Russia we betrayed our own interest. We said so at the time. Every day's experience confirms us in the opinion that when the Polish people, whose national independence we were bound by solemn treaty to protect, were figthing for existence, that was the time to stay the ambition of Russia; and if the English Government had acted with good faith and becoming spirit at that crisis, we should not now see our influence beaten down in Turkey, our naval flag insulted, and our "ancient ally" torn from our side and dragged an abject captive at the chariot-wheels of the Muscovite conqueror. Our intelligent corre spondent, whose communication from the capital of the Turkish empire we inserted yesterday, does not say what our embassy at Constantinople costs the country, (that we must learn from another source,) bat he shows how worthy of their hire our diploma tists in that quarter are, by the following exposé : "Count Orloff, while he was apparently complying with the wishesof France and England was preparing a stroke which only became known the day after his departure, which has since covered the Am bassadors of those countries with confusion, and has filially placed Turkey in the hands of the bear. He prevailed on the Sultan to sign a treaty offensive and defensive by which Turkey is bound not to outer n :n u y on tr i e o a r ?, or ye a r c s a . l for on assistance of the articles fron ca, firms all prior tre e a n ti s, in particular that of Andria nople; another binds etevreritayi aassn i dstael:s.cteernee: R nsa t i ls y s . ia to to p f r u o r t n e i e s t h T he u r rk fr e o y m w i i n th . her from resorting to and the third inter dictscourse of that ten Powers for ten years." years the Court of St. P beu ill either take t n e t r o t s h " Y other European t e v eupation, or the Turkish empire into its marigiul7oO it will grant a renewal of his term . ea, Thus i: 4 O l g Y . d th ca e it S l t y il i t t a b n, th a e ft k r bi t ln he o which Li7fac?ldge land repaid for the moral cowardice and violation of the faith of treaties which her Government stands charged with in the case of Poland. Thus is she repaid for the splendid bribe which she gave to Russia, under the pretence of a treaty, which, by the severance of Belgium from Holland, had ceased and determined, and which bribe is known by the name of the " Russo-Dutch loan job," the golden fruits of which job enabled the Russian tyrant to raise new levies to retrieve his disasters in the first six months of the campaign in Poland. It enabled him to pour fresh hordes upon the devoted country, until the inundation of barbarians swept from the face of the earth the rampart of Western Europe. For our truckling and our tribute to Russia what have we received in return ? In the Netherlands her influence has baffled our policy through three years of protocols, and rendered our diplomacy ridiculous. In Spain it inflicted on us new humiliation, by the complete discomfiture of the mission of Sir Stratford Canning;--in the Ger man States it sets up a vast fabric of despo tism, in conjunction with the two absolute powers of Austria and Prussia, the latter of which is, by the introduction of its own commercial regulations, ex pelling our manufactures from all the markets; — in France it induces our almost only ally, the citizen King, to make himself odious to his people, and of course render his throne insecure by arbitrary mea sures, police plots, the erection of Bastiles, and an incessant persecution of the liberty of the Press ; in Greece it foments disorders, that it may, at no distant period, take advantage of them for its own aggrandisement; and in Turkey we have described what it has done, while the overtaxed people of this country pay the incapable Lord Ponsonby a splendid salary, to prove to the wily barbarian at what ex pense to herself England can afford to be bullied, duped, and betrayed.—Morning Herald. The proceedings of the Duke of Braganza, now that he is in possession of the capital of Portugal, ex cite considerable attention, and nothing can be more evident than that he, Don Pedro, is in extreme danger of becoming as much the object of hostility to the intriguers without principle, who pervert the course of English policy, as Don Miguel has ever been. Don Pedro has discharged Palmella to begin with, and this is a great grievance in the estimation of those who make it a point to think as Lord Pal merston thinks he thinks. Now we are decidedly of opinion, whatever may be the defects in any other of Dm Pedro's titles, that he has a right, above all question, to do precisely what lie pleases with Palmella, and a fortiori with Lord Palmerston, a man in all respects immeasurably the inferior of Palmella. The intrigue to force upon the Portu guese people a Government which, whether they judge well or ill, is in point of fact hateful to them, gives to Don Pedro, the only man who is abso lutely necessary to the existence of the plot, rights the most absolute and unlimited, as against all the other conspirators, of whom Palmella is one and Lord Palmerston another. Shall not Don Pedro pursue his own interest in the developement of a drama in which all the other actors are pursuing simply the interests of their own ambition or vanity. And is there anybody so insane as to to doubt that Don Pedro will promote his own interest among the people of Portugal, upon whom, after all, the issue of the struggle will depend, and ought to de pend, the more effectually, in exact proportion, as he heaps indignity upon such creatures as Palmella and Palmerston ? The esele of Braz I may yet, for what we know, become popular in Portugal; but, if this be his destiny, it will certainly be accom plished, not by his subserviency to the policy of Palmerston and Palmella, but by treating that policy with the contempt which it unquestionably deserves. We observe that the conductors of the Ministerial Press of England have, within these few days, become excessively nervous as to the conduct of Don Pedro. The Ministerial tools cannot conceal their apprehension that Don Pedro may think it quite fit that he should be King of Portugal before his daughter, who can have no title but what she deriver through him, shall he Queen. Of Don Pedro's vigour and capacity we leave our Ministe rial contemporaries, who for the last three years have been the unceasing eulogists of that Prince, to be the judges; but if Don Pedro have resolved, as our Ministerial contemporaries apprehend, to be King of Portugal, rather than allow his daughter to become Queen, we can only say that in the same cir cumstances we should certainly have arrived at the same conclusion. If the ancient law of Portugal is to go for nothing—if the treaty by which the inde pendence of Brazil was estalkshed is to go for nothing—if the total alienation of Don Pedro and his family from Portugal and Portugue,e dignities and rights is to go for nothing, there seems to be no very good reason why Don Pedro's abdication in favour of his daughter of what he did not possess, of what he had doubly given away already, should go for anything. When he transferred his no-. right to his daughter he did it to preserve the mutual independence of Portugal and Brazil, for then he was Emperor of Brasil. When he trans ferred this nc-right to his daughtetehe did it for the generai interest of his family, for then, being Em peror of Brazil, he could not be the King of Por tugal. And why, now that circumstances have changed, should he not, if it so please him, revoke the transfer ? The act was strictly a nuduinpactura. It has acquired no validity from subsequent events. Nothing has been done in consequence of it. No Portuguese habits, or attachments, or institutions, have been formed with which Donna Maria or her rights are essentially connected. There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as a Donna Maria party in Portugal. If there be any party in Portugal op posed to Don Miguel it is a Pedroite, and not a Donna Maria, party. Don Pedro then, as it appears to us, if the brigands who fight for him should be eventually successful, has an unquestionable right to make what use of the victory he pleases; and he must be the greatest noodle the world has ever seen if he pays the least regard to the pretensions of a Palmella or the wishes of a Palmerston.-- Afore/tag .Pet. TILE Moons.—Long before the approach of day-light on Monday morning the 12th of August, the Rothes road was quite enlivened by the number of gen tlemen proceeding along it in gigs and on horseback, to enjoy a day's sport in the moors. The day turned out very fiat fur sport, being neither too hot nor too co;d. A good many brace were killed, although the birds are not so plentiful as they have been on former occasions. Many gentlemen have this season been under the necessity of proceeding further north, the whole of the shooting grounds in this quarter having been already let, in many cases whole parishes exclusively to one person.—Elgin Courier. THE MOOES.—Monday morning the voice of the heath-cock was hushed on mountain and on muir, by the din if not by the clash of arms, and as early as three o'clock in the afternoon, some parcels of grouse had arrived in town. From certain districts in this county, we learned that the birds proved numerous, strong on the wing, and consequently afford good sport—a party of our friends killed, respectively, 7i, 12 and 16 brace before six o'clock Monday evening.—Ayr Observer. TITHES OF COPPICE WOOD.—A great sensation has b?.en excited within the last lortnight, in the western parts of the bills of 111entnouthshire, by a novel demand of tithes on coppice wood, and by Exchequer notices having been served on Capel Hanhury Le,gb, E-q,, of Pontypool Park ; J. Jones, Esq., of Lanarth ; Hall, Esq., M.P. for Monmouth ; and J. H. Moggridge, Esq., of Woodfidd, the principal proprietors. Ve under stand tithes of these woods have never been paid, and without entering into the circumstances of the case, t do confess that it appears 3 strange way for any person to show his attachment to the E•tablished Church, by choosing the wry time when the increasing share of public odium is manifest against the tithe tax and church rates, to endeavour to bring new subjects within its claws.-- Cumbrian. AWFUL NEWS.—We find the following very awful intelligence in the Evening Mail of last night. We hope it is not true:—There is an end of the compact be• tween the KING and the p,uple—the Coronation Oath is rescinded. This Act (" the Church Temporalities Act ") received the Royal Assent on Wednesday evening, and now forms part of the law of the land.....Duldin Morning Regi.ster of Saturday, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, Au°. 19. John Roach, who was convicted last Friday of the murder of corporal Maggs, underwent the awful sentence of ;he law this morning, in consequence of which the Courts did not proceed to business until half-past nine o'clock. WRIGLEY AND ANOTHER V. rATCHETT AND OTHERS. Mr. PocLocK stated the case to the jury. It appeared that the plaintiffs were paper-manufacturers at a place called Bridge-ball, about ten miles from Manchester, and that the defendants were the proprietors of a newspaper, called the Mancliceter and Salford Advertiser, which had been established among the licensed victuallers in Manchester, Salford, and other parts of this county, by subscription, and the business of the paper was conducted by a committee of which the defendants Patchett, Line say, Cuff, and Wolatoncroft were members. They had ordered paper and stamps of the plaintiffs to a considerable amount at an early period of the concern ; but about the time of the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester rail road the paper " took a turn" in its politics, and the de fendants kept aloof from that time, and interfered little or not all with the business until last spring, when an action was brought against them for a libel contained in the paper, and considerable damages obtained against them. This aroused them, and thinking it time to look about them, they publicly disclaimed all connexion with the paper, and gave notice that they were no longer responsible either for the materials furnished to carry it on, or for what it might contain. Evidence was given of certain paper and stamps having been furnished by the plaintiffs for the use of the paper, which, including three bills of exchange, amounted in the whole to the sum of 8471., and for this sum the plaintiffs claimed a verdict. Mr. Wittraus, on the part of two of the defendants, Patchett and Wolstoncroft, contended that they bad long before ceased to have anything whatever to do with the concern, and had declared themselves "off." lie, how ever, failed in proving tbat they had given any notice to the plaintiffs before the trial last spring ; and upon their disclaiming all further connexion with the paper, the plaintiffs immediately refused to give any more credit, and had since been paid in ready money, thereby showing that if they had received a similar notice before, they would not have allowed the credit to run on. The LORD Cturtr Jusztcs told the jury that unless the defendants could show a distinct notice to the plaintiffs that they would not be responsible, they would be liable for the debt which had been incurred. The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 8471. The remainder of the day was consumed in trying a question of a right of way over a piece of land occupying 2.9fhs of a square yard. COURT OF REVIEW, Aug. 21. His Honour Sir Jour; Caoss presided alone in the Judges' private room, Southampton-buildings, this day, and disposed of several cases, which were by consent submitted to his sincle adjudication; nothing, however, of public interest transpired. Mr. MotaAatr begged to be informed by hie Honour wh,n the Bill empowering one Judge of this Gout to hear disputed petitions during the vacation would come into operation ; lie had reason to think it was now the law of the land, as some time since he had written to the Lord Chancellor's secretary, suggesting the propriety of inserting in that Bill a clause, giving to the Lord Chan cellor the power of discharging from prison any bankrupt or witness who had been committed under a commission of bankruptcy, after such person had lain in gaol for the space of five years, as the present state of the law in this respect was a great grievance. He knew two instances which well illustrated the working of the present system. In the first, a bankrupt bad been confined in gaol for twenty years ; and in the next, another for fifteen years; although in both cases the protracted contumely of the parties cuuld only be attributed to aberration of mind. He received for answer to this suggestion, that be had been too late, as the Bill was passing through its final stage, and could not then he amended. From the period which bad since elapsed, he should think the Bill had by this time received The Royal assent, and the profession were much interested in learning when it weal , ' be acted upon. Sir Jolts CROSF; intimated that he had not us yet re ceived official communication on the subject ; but for the convenience of the Bar s he should immediately institute the necessary inquiries. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday four Ptedmonrese gentlemen, who have been nearly three weeks destitute of the means of supporting life, except through the charitable assistance of the Loan MAYOR, appeared at the justice room. They had sold the last shirt amongst them. One of them stated that they hal been at the University at Lucerne, and were members of a society there for the support of liberal po lirical principles. Papers having been found imputing to them views hostile to the ruling powers, some of the members were seized and sent to the gallies. Those who escaped, amongst whom were the three ❑nfortunate appli cants, contrived co get into France, where for some time they were able to support themselves by means of their niechanical and classical acquirements. The French Go vernment, however, probably apprehensive that a row might take place in Paris on the anniversary of the me morable struggle of the French people at the end of July, caused them to be taken out of their beds one night, put on board a vessel, and transported to this Country, whete they were left in a destitute condition. Those who were tradesmen managed, though without any knowledge of the English language, to live, but those who merely had edu cation, though of a very high order, were actually obliged to beg for a morsel of bread, and lie under the cover of the elements. One of the applicants was a medical student, the second a law student, the third the eon of an affluent inhabitant of Piedmont, and the fourth a captain in the army. _ _ _ The LORD MA Yox asked why they did not, if they were so respectable, endeavour to communicate with their parents upon the subject of their misfortunes. They replied that tteir parents or friends would he sub ject to very great penalties if they dared to enter upon any correspondence. Their principal object in applying to the Lord 111 iyor was to endeavour to obtain a pissage to Bel gium, where there was an asylum for them, and they would he relieved from their present horrible and degrad ing condition. The LORD MAYOR —Why have you not applied to the Society for the Relief of Foreigners 'in Distress ?—The Piedmonte ,, e had made application to the Cumrnittee, but the gentlemen who eampo,ed it said that they could ren der no assistance to persons whose calamities were the re sult of political conduct or opinion. _ _ The 'Loan AIATOR expresßei much surprise at this state ment, and sent Mr. Brown, the Marshal, to the Com mittee, with directions to say that the unfortunate gen.. tlemen, who were thus cast upon a foreign land against their will, inust liar,: mistaken the meaning of the society, and to request that assistance_ might be given to them, in order to enable them to go to Belgium. Mr. Brown, upon his return, informed the Lord Mayor that the Committee considered the case to he one with which they could not meddle. _ _ Tile LOAD MAYOR, said that nothing could exceed his astonishment at such a return for the exertions he had made to serve the charity, when he lent the use of the Mansion house for the sale of goods at the fancy fair. When he saw a poor fellow-creature suffering privations, and without a shirt to his hack, notwithstanding the former bril!ianey of his expectations, he never for a mo ment thought of the line of polines to which the misery staring him in the Leo might have been attribu►table. His Lordship then give to the tour gentlemen immediate relief, and told them that, however unfavourable might be the determination of charitable societies in their unhappy case, they should, by tome means or other, be enabled to cross over to Brussels. B OW-STREET. Yesterday, Mr. C. F. Barclay, of Halliday-loose, near Charlton, in Middlesex, came to this office with a letter of introduction to Sir F. Roe from Mr. Broderip, the Th a m es police magistrate, in order to contradict a state ment which he had read' in the newspapers of that morn ing, respecting a transaction alleged to bave taken place at the house of Mrs. Forest, of Charlton. Mr. Barclay proceeded to state, that it was with great surprise he read the statement alluded to as he sat at breakfast that morning in the Bedford Hotel, and lie felt so convinced, from his knowledge of Mrs. Forest and her family for the last twenty years, that there was no foun dation whatever for the story, that although he had taken his place fur Cheltenham that morning, be felt it Lis duty to forego the journey, in order that he might lose no time in coming forward and contradicting the statement in the most public manner. He left Charlton at 7 o'clock on t h e preceding evening, and had any such transaction ta k e n place at the house of Mrs. Forest, as had been described to Sir F. Roe, he must have heard of it, as the sam e tradespeople who served Mrs. Forest were in the habit of calling daily at his house for orders, besides which he was in hourly c ommunication with the village. Mr. Barclay Went on to state that Mrs. Forest was the daughter of the late Dr. Carmichael Smith, and Charlton. S]r G. FARRANT—..WhO are your employers? De fendant—Jahn and William Aldridge. Sir G. FARRANT.—What is the house appropriated to ? Defendant—l don't know. Sir G. FARRANT-What is your occupation there ? Defendant—l attend on Mr. Theobald and Mr. Abbot to " wallet " them. Sir G FARRANT—You said you were employed by Mr. Aldridge just now? Defendant—Yes, I "wallet's" him too. Sir G. FARRANT-What do you mean by " walleting ?" Defendant—l brush clothes and boots. Mr. DYER—Do you act as doorkeeper? Defendant— Yes, Ido sometimes. I told Mr. Aldridge of the boards, and he told me to put them away from before the house. Mr. DYER inquired of the complainant Hyman if the boards were carried about at the request of the parish au thorities. Hyman said he had been employed by a gen tleman named Fleming, who had lately lost vast sums of money at that house, and who wished to caution the un wary against being entrapped in a similar manner. Mr. DYER ordered the defendant to find good bail for the assaults. Mr. Clark, a hosier, No. 153, Piccadilly, accompanied by Mr. Payne, the proprieotor of an ho►el in the same street, waited upon Mr. Dyer to know if he could not charge an individual with swindling under the following circumstances :—. A person with whom Mrs. Slack, who maniged the business in Piccadilly, had a slight acquaintance, came into the shop yesterday, and selected goods to the amount of 121. 9s 6d., tendering Mrs. Slark a bill for 15/., payable at Masterman and Co.'s in ten days, for the amount. Mrs. Slark, from the plausible representa•iona of the individual, took the bill, handing over the differ ence, and sent the goods to Mr. Payne's hotel. In a short time afterwards it was ascertained that this person had persuaded a young lady, whose friends live at Exeter, butt who was on a visit to a relative in Ludgate.l ill, to elope with him, and that, in fact, he had been living with her for some days past, although a married man with a wife and four children, at Dawlish, but on perceiving two of the young lady's friends coming towards the hotel, he had bolted out at the hack door with the girl, and had had not been heard of since. On making further in quiries, Mr. Slarke ascertained, within an hour after the goods had been obtained from bis wife, that three pieces of Irish linen had been pb-dged at a pawnbroker's for seven guineas and a half. The applicant wished therefore to know, as he had found out that a great many trades men had been defrauded of goods in a similar manner, if be could not apprehend the person on a charge Of swindling. Mr. DYER said the law looked at the proceeding aq a transaction of business, and though there might be no reasonable doubt of the fraudulent intention of the person who obLined the goods, yet a magistrate could not in terfere. 31r. dark said the person he alluded to sometimes as sumed the title of Captain Williams ; hut, though of military appearance, he had no pretensions to military rank. He hoped that puh:icity would have the effect of putting tradesmen on their guard. Mr. Slark and Mr. Payne then quitted the office. QUEEN S Q UARE. The following is the condonation of the unequalled love letters from Hannah Veal to Mr. Catleugb, of Hans-street, _ . . Chelsea, which were produced by him to the magistrates at this office on Tuesday, when he charged her with cre• Ming a disturbance in his shop, and annoying him to marry her, although he ❑ever made her the slightest offer of marriage, or acid anything to induce her to think he ever bail such intentions. It Will be seen from one of the epistles that this love sick matron ig a married Woman. " Deer trend i am sorry to se yu in rich a agitadun w, n cum in to sure shope, deer frend i mo u ld B e the Last that wou!d ivir giv yu one momens on esey ness, or on happy ness. Deer frehrl i am surrey i did not giv yu a factry anser wen yu menshund the sercurnstants to me But i was a frade to anwer the questyn. I thort you Did 'peke it Reomecolly But by the manures of at presents it mus t he Realleallity. But if so an if agreahel on all sides i slinld fele moste happy to Joyn yu bothe in hand an hart an iam verry surrey for my past kondock to yn. I beg yure 'littler). But if thi.l dont do i can not say moore fur i usit to moore leberteys an ).11 was niv r angray wirh me. But if that is not the kase i abuld like to noe the re colt fore i can not forme anny ide wat it can be elce. i Dont wish to take tinny on be cumin lehertey with anny pursun on ertb. iam truly ombel an submisif to the hole of your famley an truley a Bligan. yu wuld finde me a tru harted erector an a moste loven wife. But i must bag of yu niver to put yure mother fore to in molt me, for i think all things can be setiled in that revea( very quite ly without anny wurds. Deer frend i was to moddist to menshun anny thing to yu in the preisens of anny pur,un dee. So no moore at pr,ssent from yure very truley um bel and most 0 Bedent sarvent " HANNA VEAL." " De , r frend, i hope yu wil pardon the lebertey i hay tuck in a Riten this to yu an i most ombeiley Bag a anser if it is But to or thre words, that will be so fishunt, But i must Big ytt to he frends with me fore i never ,go to bed with mallish on my tender hart with anny parson an ant truley on happey to se yu so Itery distin with me. Yu wornt luck at me as yu us to do an take a Gese of me— my dear ptt i luve you Better than all the men up on the erlti Be s , des. But if you Don't luve me, do not ekspoa me, But born this, an do not let army won else se it. But as you or not so koin to me, praps yo wil do som thing koind to me; but i shuld brake my pour tinder hart if yoi, d o sa pi es , to e k s use this uric!. Deer pet; i think yu hay don aom thing to me, or else i hay yore horse up on rue, for i hay not got a bit of rist in rn t , this to months, so no more at pre-ent from your O b e ~, en, ,t iisua:elr::NlnAtilavi:Aa tf, . y " ,, re um iyt b oe le t i e r o l S n, a vt ta neinia9n;owirnornin for him ; But i "verry truly is Deer frend, i am surrey to indmaf:e,rtmheimy,otaintha:tthioratmhea marred wumman, an hay Bin for 10 yeers; But i hay not y o u that i had Bin a marred wurnman, if you sin,3h,oats, house :; ehd h e o ns s ti y i r eu n e, ,r, f sn o ,t r ai 9 nn shuld to! had konsented, but i to! my masture wen i corn hear that i hat not Bin marred, Bekase i wuld not beer anny thin a Bout it. Y" g3V me the denial!, But for feer yu shuld think anny thin moore of me i wish to tel yu the throothes, i I , ay a Bread to liv with him a g a i n wen we can m a k e 4 'villa, where she resided, bad been his own freehold for many years. She was the widow of Colonel Forest, of the East India Company's service, who had also held a high civil situation under the Company up to the period of his death. Her brother, Sir James Carmichael Smith, Bart., was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo, and lie was now Governor-General of the Bahama Islands. She had two other brothers, who were officers of high rank in the British army, and her son, not her nephew, as had been stated, who lived with her, was also in the army. Mr. HALLS observed, that there could be no doubt of the respectability of Mrs. Forest, and it was quite evident that there was no truth in the statement made on the pre vious day to Sir F. Roe. Mr. Barclay then retired, and in about half an hour after he left the office, Mr. Squire, of Coleman-street, who had made the statement in question on behalf of Louisa Wurchett, the young Swiss woman, came forward, accompanied by two gentlemen, friends of Mrs. Forest, and stated to Mr. Halls that he regretted to have been the medium of giving circu latio❑ to a statement which was utterly false. In conse quence of the reports in the newspapers of that morning, the two gentlemen now present called upon him, and re quested to see the young woman on whose behalf he bad come forward. He showed them into the room where she was, and after a short interval they told him that the young woman had confessed to them that there was no truth in the statement she had made to him (Mr. Squire), and that she invented the story in the hope of exciting his compassion, as she was quite destitute, having been dis charged from her situation by Mrs. F.,rest. He questioned her himself upon the subject, and she made the same ad missi•.n to him. The parties then retired. MARLBORO U G H. S TREET. George Whitby, a well-dressed fellow, engaged at No. 6, St. James's-square, was yesterd iy brought before Sir GEORGE FARRANT and Mr. DYER, on a warrant, charged with having assaulted two individuals named Hyman and Self. The complainant Hyman said that the defendant, although he was dressed like a gentleman, was nothing but a poor man like himself. On Thursday afternoon, as he and his partner were exhibiting boards containing a printed caution to the public to beware of the gaining house No. 6, St. James's-square, the defendant came towards them, seized the board which witness carried, and broke it into pieces. The defendant then broke the board carried by Self in the same manner, and finished by striking witness a slap in the face. The defendant denied having assaulted either of the complainants. For some days past the complainants had paraded with their boards before the house No. 6, St. James's-square, and had thereby caused a crowd of per sons to assemble. He told them to go away, but they pushed their boards in his face, and he certainly smashed them. The complainants then seized him by the collar, and called for the police. Sir G. FARRANT—Pray, what was your reason for interfering at all ? Defendant—On account of my em ployers. Eton ►anent Ai he it rem on happy , fore his miss kondock fore he wumman wen i furst marred him, not do so no moore. as yu giv me se anny ne sessity of riten, but marred at that time But now i am Bidder that i most giv my hone host my regordes, But if yu had not a si yu did i shuld not a spok to to him not a had anny klaw up on me, ' dres makkers in toe with him but solemmennest mannure in the er Gether, But i am de teermin to gel me fore i will not !iv singel not man fore i wil take the Lor of him Deer frend i has been 9 yeers a live liv so no Long ger. so no more truley ombell an 0 Bedent Survent MRS. MARGAREf- This lady, who was a single able fortune, well known duri the last century, in several plact nicknamed Peg Pennyworth. Sh... been possessed of about 200,0001 inofensive oddities, but more made a present to her nephew of thousand pounds--an act of generosity P ni. few. She chose to b e h er own cateress. sool some eels, she put them into her pocket, her coach, and called upon a lady to take .1 0 an airing. Th e warmt h of the body reviii condemned prisoners, one of them took Pori, of creeping o ut f or a li tt l e a i r, b e i ng deP water. The friend cried out in horror , Ma•tarri ! you have an adder creeping n,h ° ""o Coachman, stop, stop ! let me ge t out. Ir e , need not be frightened, Madam," she said " I protest one of the eels is alive I" 'a Though she resid e d i n York, she V' ; s 1 tey borough i n t h e season; and frequently se rld'i o a pennyw ort h of strawberries, and a penny i o cream for supper, the people conferred on name of Peg Pennyworth, which never fonWri, Her charities were boundless, but alwaY9l3o nothing hurt h er so muc h as to have thetn,lei An accident occurre d , i n which she disP',"s'io aversion to public charity. Some gentlerne°6 ing her favour, whom she could scarcely ti ';', ; 4 pulled out a number of guineas, the lightest. This produced a few W ir smiles; but the matter did not end here. of comic memory, laid hold of the inei dell :o drew her character in a farce, under the - Peg Pennyworth. „ i ptg When she was informed of this circa' e i she exclaimed, with a smile," I will see / t : i ' t ` j I live." She did, and declared with .1 0 i'a had done her great justice." A e ntlet°, 6 l her in his arms, before the whole g audier,hil and selected cried, " This is the greatest fortune in Y° r tol which deli g h te d h er more. The entertainrnegl'ill a cry was repeated, " Peg ' s coach."—" have called me Margaret, however," sniu >rb i In one o f h er v i s i ts to Scarborough, she's ett," usual econ om y, h a d a family pie for cilq,-01 directed the f oo t man to ta k e i t the I'B'4 who r a th er d ec li ned it, as not be " to place. She then moved the question.oo, coachman, but found a stronger nhie e/1 save the pride of both, she resolved t o b herself; an d or d ered one to harness he and brin g out the carriage, and t h e dia l s mount behi n d, an d took the pie, thus -tile; to the bakehouse. When baked, eottc-pat ordered to put to a second time, and th e hoe , to mount, arid the pie returne d i n the lolle,g able state. " Now," said she to the c i ° f et`J " You hav e k e p t your p l ace, wh i ch i s to °l v o ° I She yours (to the f oo t man ) is to wait."eP t l and of a spa re habit, and lived nearly So the ninety-one.—Scots Times. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI Per Tori, s. d. Beaument „ 13 0 Dean's Primrose 12 9 Hehburn Main 14 Holywell 14 9 Ord's Redhingh 12 9 Canfield 14 9 lownley 13 3 West Hartley 15 6 Willingtcn 14 9 Wylarn 14 6 Walls End Bell & Brown 14 9 Ditto 11,11, Hobson, & Co. 14 9 Walls End Carr and Co. 14 3 Walls End Heat0n.,..,,,,,.,,,, 15 6 Walls End Hilda 14 91 Walls End 14 6 Ditto Killingworth 14 9 Ships arrived since ET. —A ug. rer Too, Walls End N evilot.T 3 lo. l Ditto Walls End 11 F Lamhtnn's Prinir ° ' o ," JO, Walls End Hette ll a Walls End Liunuto toe d p W E. Russell's Walls End Si r t d , Walls End Adelw W. E. Musgrave Walls Eau fee. Cowper Howard's Nethe rt Stone C0f .....„ ..12 .. „: 0 ', , V 1 Nei lie s Aubrey .••••***- LlanellY , 64 , last market-dab or t 4 TH___lffi; COUNTRY CORN aIARNE;•B DtptlNG T H„,..... 1 1#,' Wheat. .. it Barley. :,..., f. . Wheat_ .•••••-•••....• ...."... Per Quarter. a. t o a. s. to s. 11.. t 0 0. 0.. 5O o . Abingdon " 62 81 31 43 = .... / And0ver.......—..... 50 61 24 28 --; al „.. Birmingham.-- 56 58 30 40 lu 30 , Bridport ...............". 56 74 32 36 26 20 ~• Cirencester .......... 46 56 21 24 I, ' ~„ Of E ..• aringdonw. 54 86 36 40 xu 35 .., Guildford ............. 48 74 23 32 26 SO ,/ H enley 54 83 30 35 2 0 23 ~ Hereford ............. 64 68 32 34 ~.,a 2 3 4 9 6 Ilighworth ........... 62 80 32 42 xu,., 50 / Maidenhead .......... 56 68 34 44 2. 2 6 _ 9 1 , Monmouth , 64 68 32 36 24 T 0° Reading 4O 66 22 36 201' 25 / 5 a1i5bury, , ,,,,,..,,.,,,, 48 58 26 30 ,_.„ 32 / Southampton 54 58 33 40 1 : ,, , 3g / Stroud ........_ 64 78 97 38 2.- ' 3 9 /_, Tewkesb ur y o ",,,., 2 6 r, : Uxbridge ......... 48 74 26 34 "Au„,., 2 5 i Wantage............_. 58 SO '27 43 20I' a 3 / ' Warminster.,,..,,.,, 48 58 126 ~ 95 . .. , Windsor...„ 59 ~„• !.', I 0 Worcester--- , 50 57 130 32 .. 0 ---- LE (peWES AIARKET.—Aug. ~ ii 16 0 White Wheat r quarter)......... X 2 16 0 `" v j Red ditto .210 0 ! p Barley--- _ I 2 0 i i i . 1, PeaseOats, New - .........0001M11.W.1...W.0H . 113 u , th- , Oil Cake, New. 12 0 OPe 4 1 9 0 ' i' ' CHELTENHA bl NIA RICET.--Aug• a 1 Per Bushel. s. d, to s.d. Wheat Barley )ats Beans ?ease Hay .1 4 , ..1A 55 4 46 00 0 00 3 1. 76458100036: to Pork Veal Laube a t : f. l t . °. i . .. 5 n .: . s : .. . P .. .. . 0 . : . e .: d .... 1 .... ..... . 1 . . p b . .: ..:::: 1. 1 : 1 : 1 il, CHELTENHA M Per Bushel. s. d. to s.d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease Hay 3/. 10s DUMFRIES M. s.d. 7 0t07.4, It 36 19 21 30 34 16 18 16 20. Speedily J. R. J. Hone,ri ,ali iy. brought u ui i N n i: . i mk , ii . . . . .. . . 1. . . . . . . ... e o e n Co, h . at: . ,4 ,6 , 0 1 ; P e RKETS.—Aug.' . At II Beef, per score ****** , ii 4 8 Mutton, per 1b.",,,:ei) 0 Quadern leaf -------- 0 0 Of' A T THEMEETINGS COURT, (From the London Gazette.) sr To-MORROW, AUG. 9 - 3 . use'.',. 'f I Vallatton,groe F e g rocer, nßerhi g . : a o ri n e)ii . i . voll . l) l.. - N ::: ' : ''''''''' . ''''' ::' ' . 4 J. R. Cace, grocer, Honter,.street, Brunswick-7 ''''' • ~, ~,, I , W. Potter, grocer, Broad-street, tiolden-squ ar ' . ''''' . ',',., i T. S. Flude, wineroker, rasing -lane ............. , ... .';',3 1 P. .1. Paul, baker, Hounds Itch . ... .. ....... ...... . 'aj' '''' 0 1 T.Ford , coal-merchant,Canal- r .. ,ad . Vhart;ls•il o .'',.,'' B O A F s 1 N C G R H E A D L Ic . 0 its 0,101 , J. Langridge, stay maker, Sali,b "ry ''''''''''' . ' ''''''' ' Eggs,Btit te r2.,216..0........................... ti iii 1, 00. :1 J. Dudderidge, woolle g n r - o d e r e a r p s e :. r . % 7 V ° lll ................................................................................... R. Cripps, i ii o ld u H m a lte a s t o r u e ; „1 . e, .:: ::::: :: :: 1 1 1 1 0 The suspension-bridge and ral o f ge l eri, are forming Di3tl jet Committo-s to u la ir iis t ,"ii•fl e aim' for donations and subseription a t " to pu ° and the R iil-road Committee are abo ut report without delay.—Bristol Mirror. Wheat, Imp. Bush Barley ...... Oats ........ Flour, 14 . 1 b. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. 0 ';( r fin 'W i r e s ", Linnto the 2 I n s n y t n o s t z a s t 3 fl a p j t ß o:n i i l a C E h T p u i r e . c i h a s! n g y : ir; 1 11 0 `; ( 1:1 0 1 John Tielawn y, Esq., and granddaughter °- pey Brereton. an brf o t On the 21st, at Barnes, Surrey, Thomo P o f Mortlake, Esq., to Frances, sixth daughter JefFreys, rector of Barnes. 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' ,to Frances, sixth claUg—ter . 1 00 Jeffreys, rector of Barnes. • DIED. :.seve l ed‘ol , On the 27th ult., at half.past five, Lim , '" - i i ro ",,," ilf r if f i cholera morbus, in his 39th year, and 091 % 0 01 1 "0 0 01° . the surrender of Lisbon, Major Andrew Wh „, 0 III; d British Marine Regiment in the service of 1 4 ; t he e ' • J O On the 18th inst., Elizabeth, the wif e °- OP Dyson, rector of Wexham, B uc ks. „,„ Infos t 9 lif 1,, o On the 18th inst., at C a dd es don Farß. t " 7 Al Pr ro cS W. T. Drake. _,Aipseirt & On the 20th in ,e 0 it., at Tottenham, o- 17 aged 67. 11. , : On the 18th inst., in Osnaburgh-ter"eilq, . 0° Rebecca, relict of the late Adam ChadWiekt '''' ir