The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Standard of last night announces a wish, when possessed of more leisure, to have an " mica collatio" with us " on the subject of the Church of England—the most unjustly calumniated church in the world. Far be from us the presumption to settle the merit between different churches. We content ourselves with the humble task of deciding which is the best paid. If the Church of England be the most unjustly calumniated church in the world, it has the tithes as a set off against the calumny. No man will be deterred, we presume, from the acceptance of a good living in the Church on account of the share of the unjust calumny to which he may be exposed. When our contem porary begins his friendly conference, we trust he will not forget that it is the part of a friend to atone for misrepresentation. The Standard has uninten tionally, no doubt, misrepresented us. " We (says our contemporary) may hint to the Chronicle, that nine-tenths (not one-third of the people) of the people of England belong to the Church of Eng land. The want of churches, and their insufficient size, prevents this from appearing as prominently as it ought to do." The reference from this passage is, that we said that only one-third of the people of England belonged to the Church of England. Now, what we said was this—" The Church of England is not the religion of one-third part of the popula tion of the three kingdoms; and of the emigrants of late years, it is not the religion of one-twelfth." There is a material difference between one-third of the people (f England, and one-third of the people (f the three kingdoms. In England it self, however, we are inclined to believe, from the information we have received from those who have the means of knowing the numbers of the Dissenters, that, admitting all who do not belong to any dissenting congregation to be Church of Eng land men—a very liberal admission, as there arc not a few who trouble neither church nor chapel with their presence—the Dissenters are the majority. Wherever, throughout the country, there is a vil lage sufficiently populous to admit of a chapel, hav ing a chance of being filled, there a dissenting or a methodist chapel is to be seen. In all the towns of above five thousand inhabitants, the Dissenters and Methodists are unquestionably the majority; and any one who knows what a proportion of the inhabitants of England live in towns may form some idea of the number of Dissenters. One sect alone, the independents, have in England above 2,200 congregations. The manufacturing population are almost to a man Dissenters or Methodists. In se veral of the great counties the late returns exhibit a majority of dissenting chapels ; and, taking one with another, the chapels are much larger (in point of seat room) than churches. A dissenting clergyman cannot exist without a large audience. We were assured by a gentleman, whose special business it had been for years to make himself acquainted with the state and numbers of the separatists, that add ing the proportion of children to those who belonged to the respective congregations, and including the Presbyterians ithaScotland,dlh.leparatists amounted to ten millions. Say, howerier, that in England alone they amount only to seven millions, that would be the half of the population. However, wav ing the question of timbers, as a matter of right, in all the colonies acquired since the Union be between England and Scotland, at the common ex pence, and by the common exertions, it would be flagrant injustice to establish one of the Church ex clusively. Canada is one of the colonies which has been acquired since the Union, and it is with respect to Canada that the complaint is made. In the old colonies settled by Englishmen there will be less objection to establish the Church of England. But where the natives of the three kingdoms meet to gether on new ground, they should be considered as on a footing of equality in point of religion. To attempt to establish the Church of England in the woods of Canada, amongst Presbyterians, Catholics, DA Methodists, is to make that Church an object of general hatred. At the same time there may be truth in what fell from Sir George Murray, namely, " that the settlers in the woods of Canada were but ISO proms, from their situation and society, to in dulge in habits of religion bordering on what might be called superstition. He thought, therefore, that the labours of those who disseminated the principles of true religion could rot be considered as wholly unnecessary to the well-being of the colony." But admitting that the Clergy of the Church of England are less liable to time charge of disseminating gloomy and supelotitious views of religion than the Clergy of most other Protestant persuasions,those who go to the wilds of Canada to labour ill good earnest in instructive- the people, would be found, we fear, less fanatical than their rivals. We are not Alluding to the jobbers about the seats of Govern meet, but the working Clergy. The sensible Church of England Clergy take care to keep out of the woods. They are wise in their generation. The ground must be prepared and ready for the sickle before they make their appearance.—Morn. Chron. Mr. Homes motion on the expediency of with drawing from the pestilential settlement of Sierra Leone, was acceded to so far as the appointment of a Committee to inquire. One consideration only as it seems to us, has hitherto prevailed with Par bat-dent or Government to maintain an establish ment so destructive of English life, and to that con 4doration we are willing to allow its full weight,— Parneiy, the connexion of these settlements on the coast G( Africa with the great system of policy (whether eiTectual or not is another question) adopted by Great Britain for finally extinguishing the ;Jaye trade. That the trade still exists, is be yond dispute ; but we are also of opinion, that our African colonies have tended at least to clippie, though certainly not to crush that barbarous and revolting traffic. The grounds presented in favour of a continuance of Sierra Leone and Fernando Po, as British colonies, were the following t—l. The fact, that English functionaries—military and civil --have been much diminished in numbers of late years, and their places supplied by men of colour. Sd. That the Right Hon. Secretary anticipates the day when the African settlements, now so gratui tously destruetive of human life, sedi be wholly oc expied by a free negro population,—a monument at fence of the beneficent policy so long, and under such difficulties, pursued by England towards the Africans, and a substantial check upon those prac tieez on the part of Christian nations, by which their own religion has been disgraced, and the pro gals of Africa toward:; knowledge and virtue so ,extensively and cruelly impeded.—Times. The world has heard a great deal at different periods a the commercial advantages which Eng land derives from her treaties with Portugal, which by foreigner; Wye . beets viewed as the result of political tyranny acting under the direction of mer candle rapacity. That part of the Peninsula has been declared our vineyard, ealtivated by Portu guese slaves for our profit—it has beau pronounced our colony, whose wealth and resources Luisa been rendered subservient to our power arid prosperity. 7 4 12 c " poor Portuguese," as they have been called its relation to this trading despotism of Great Britain, have been pitied, because they were obliged to wear our woollens, and to eat their dinner with our eualery, while we robbed them by making them pay for our clothes and our hardware with their ex cellent wines. Even jesting Frenchmen have be come pathetic on the hardships of our Portuguese allies, and, together with other foreigners, Lave de nounced our oppressive moiwpoly. The imposing appearance of our ships of the line in the Tagus— the former influence of our Minister at the Court of Lisbon—the power of our factories and merchants among the trading community of the country, have all been considered as so many proofs of tlic in justice practised on the Portuguese, and so many indications of the com merc i a l a d vantages en joyed by England. Now nothing can be more erroneous than such assertions and inferences. However important our alliance with Por tugal may have been, or may still be, in a political point of view,—whatever additional weight it way hate given us, or may yet give us, in the ' wavering balance of power hi Europe, when the great influence of Spain was thrown, or shall at any time be thrown, into the scale of our rivals or ene mies,—of whatever consequence it was to have an access to the mines of wealth in the new world by our connexion with the mother country of Brazil, — it may safely be asserted that our commercial inter course with Portugal, as directed by out treaties, has been less profitable to us than to our allies, and probably profitable to neither. If it was to be called our vineyard, we have paid more for our cul tivating it than would have purchased better wine from other countries ; if it is to be called our co lony—like the other colonies of England—though it might add to our power and consideration, it has been maintained at the sacrifice of our commercial wealth. These truths, IN hich we believe are now very generally acknowledged, were again advanced, and not denied, in the debate on Mr. Villiers's mo tion, published in our paper of yesterday. The Methuen Treaty, which for more than a century re gulated our trade with Portugal, but which was far fi.om founding British influence in that kingdom, bore on its very face the evidence of its impolicy. It se cured for the wine-growers of Portugal a monopoly in the market of England, by admitting their produce at one-third less duty than the tax imposed on the wines of France; and it did not, as the experience of late years has shown, secure to us a corresponding advantage for our woollen in the markets of Portu gal. It thus cut us off from a profitable trade on equal terms nearer home, and made us drink inferior wine, by raising the price of a beverage better suited to our health and palate. But this was not enough. Had we possessed the whole range of Portugal to replenish our cellars—had the whole of our vineyard been completely at our disposal upon paying the proper charges—there might have been less cause for complaint in being obliged to go to the mouths of the Douro or the Tagus, instead of the Garonne, for our supplies; but we had not even this ad vantage for the restrictions which we imposed upon ourselves. The Marquis of Pombal, seeing that he had a monopoly in the English market, and ascribing, probably, a greater consequence to his country than it deserved, invented a plan for aggravating the hardships of that monopoly, by creating another at home, in the exclusive privileges of the Wine Company of the Upper Douro. The powers of this Corporation are so extensive as to destroy all com petition, and so oppressively exercised as to aggra vate all the evils of monopoly. By their authority over the cultivators—by their power to limit the dis trict where the wine allowed to be exported is pro duced—to fix the quantity for exportation at every vintage—to settle the price at their own discretion, and to select for their own stock the best qualities beim e any other parties are allowed to make their purchases—they have the whole of the Oporto wine trade entirely under their control.— ' Not a pipe can be sold till they give command, — net a pipe can be exported without their permission. Towards the end of November they send their tasters or quaVeadores, to the country of the fochoy vineyards. These persons traverse the district, exa mine the wines in the cellars of the different cultiva tors within the prescribed limits, divide the wines in three classes, one of which only is allowed to be exported to England. As these gentlemen decide on the quantity of each kind without any very minute inquiry, and often by their mere arbitrary will and pleasure; and as, according to the extent of the vintage, they can only take a fixed proportion from each farmer (who keep their wine in large vats of 10, 20, or even 30 pipes), it sometimes happens that their experienced palates find the three dif ferent qualities of wine in the same vessel ! In other words, they order the farmer to take three dif ferent prices, while they fit three different destina tions on the same wine, saying that the first is good for John Bull, the second may be exported to Brazil, and the third must be consumed at home.— The unfortunate portion against which this last decree goes forth is called vinho separado, and is or dered to be sold at the vile rate of 51. per pipe.— Besides these and other oppressive privileges, which we have not space to enumerate, this Company enjoys a monopoly of the brandy trade. No private merchant or proprietor can distil brandy for mixing with his wines in th e w h o l e di s t r i c t. Th e C ompan y manufactures all the spirits used for this or other purposes, arid even brandy which was brought into Opoi to as prizes during the war, was claimed as the right of the corporation. It need therefore excite no surprise that the wine which we are obliged to drink from the vineyards on the Douro should be fiequently so bad and so dear. A corrupt, over grown, oppressive association like this, wielding all the powers of its exclusive charter, and sometimes usurping all functions of government, would be enough to harass or destroy any trade. Accordingly we find, that notwithstanding the continued faeour which port wine enjoys in the English market, its consumption has much diminished since the peace. The following are the quantities exported to Eng land from 1802 to 1810: Ily the Douro Company Pipes. in addition. In 1802 1803 ..... 56,300 1801 1805 1806 1807 ISOB 1809 1810 We have not the accounts of the three last years before is, but the following is the number of pipes exported from the Douro from 1818 to 1826 inclu sive : In 1818 1819 1820 1821 1!.22 The English have the benefit of nearly all this ex portation, whether great or small, as no other nation in Europe, Asia, Africa, or America, has yet acquired a taste for port. Thus, in 1818, the whole quantity exported being 32,843 pipes, 32,465 of them .were for England; in 1819, only about 300 pipes went to any other country but England • in 1822, out of 27,758 pipes, 27,470 were destined for the English market; in 1823, out of 23,578 pipes, 23,208 were exported to this country ; and in every subsequent year we have nearly the same result, the whole civilized world, with the exception of England, consuming only 250 or 300 pipes, while we pur chase all the rest of the exportable vintage. Now, as it cannot be proved that Englishmen are born with a taste for port any more than Americans, Germans, or Dutchmen, it is our fiscal regulations which create such a difference in the consumption between this and other countries similarly situated, as regards the wine trade. The wine, we admit, in its best state is excellent, and well deserves to be popular; but why force the consumption of it by partial laws—why suffer the country to be deprived of the means of procuring its choicest specimens, through the impudent system of monopoly sanctioned and enjoined by Portugal ? There is every reason therefore to expect that Govern ment will resolutely redeem its pledge to re view at no distant period the conditions of our com mercial treaty with Portugal. We owe no grati tude to the present possessor of the Braganza throne, nor would we lie under any obligations to the more liberal portion of the nation, though the Monarch were changed to-morrow. Don Miguel has insulted us as much as such a creature could insult the Go vernment of a great people;_ and the Cortes, when ffi in power, dismissed our ocers and threatened to break our ti'paties. Nor need we be apprehensive that any equalization of duties on wine which would he otherwise advisable would destroy our political relations, or materially affect our trade with Por- 1 tugal. There is pp rival ready to assume our Pro tei:torate in the former, or to fill our place in the latter. The French, though they might furnish her with woollens, would not take her wine and fruits in return, nor would the manufacturers of Germany or the Netherlands be in a more favourable predica ment. Our commercial establishments at Lisbon and Oporto would flourish as before; nor should we transmit one bale of goods less to Spain through • Portugal though we resolved after the present vin tage to exchange our hardware against the wines of Bordeaux instead of Oporto.—Brous. The retention by Government of the colony of Sierra Leone, at the expense of an enormous waste of human life, has long been a subject of just re monstrance and complaint on the part of the public. We believe that colony, which existed as a mercan tile station about twenty years befoie it came into the hands of Government, was put upon its present footing in compliance with the zealous, but mis taken, intentions of persons friendly to the interests of humanity; but tl:e event has proved quite the reverse of their anticipations. Since the abolition of the slave trade this colony was thought well adapted to the purpose of a military and civil station, to repress the clandestine traffic in slaves, and pro mote habits of civilization among the natives of that part of Africa. The increased importation of slaves into the colonies of those powers who, for value re ceived, entered into treaties with us for the sup pression of this disgusting traffic, will show how far we have succeeded in one object, and our wars with the Ashantees will prove what progress we have made towards the other. In the mean time the colony, which, as ve have said, was established for humane purposes, has become productive of consequences most afflicting to humanity. We have failed in our object of procuring any substantial mitigation of the condition of the oppressed and kidnapped blacks, and we have opened a grave for the whites, whom we send out but to perish on that pestilential shore! It was stated by Mr. Hume, in the House of Com mons, the other night, that the rapid succession of Governors and of official men who fell victims to the impure climate, and the loss and destruction of papers, made it difficult to know the etate of the population, but lie believed he was not far from the truth in stating that, in the year 1825, the popula tion consisted of 11,500 free blacks, liberated Africans 2,500, and about 3,530 soldiers and others —making in all 17,500. To these were added negroes that were landed from other colonies in 1826 and 1827, 2,900 in the former, and in the latter 2,800 ; since 1827, he would estimate that there were about 3,000 more landed from other co lonies, which would make altogether between 25,000 and 26,000. There were now remaining 16,078, so that about 9,000 or 10,000 were missing. It was not ascertained whether all those had died, some probably escaped to other colonies, arid others went into West India regiments—but the climate was destructive to most of them. This is a melancholy picture of what, after years of fatal experience, we must now call the wanton expenditure of human life. But there is another sort of expenditure which has been as wildly and 113 uselessly indulged in ; life is not only thrown away here in great abundance, but wealth is profusely squandered—it is the grave of both. It appears that immense sums have been laid out in attempts to cultivate the colony, but in vain ; the soil is as unproductive as the atmosphere is pes tilential—barrenness and pestilence are the natural and inseparable characteristics of the place. With great labour and expellee, indeed, the soil was made to produce two crops, but it was not in the art of man to force a third, and the land was left to its ori ginal desolation. Mr. Hume asked what is to be done with the slaves brought there ? He states, on the authority of returns made in 1825 a nd 1826, that, from the establishment of the colony up to those years, upwards of 2,000,0001. had been ex pended on it, and that he may fairly calculate the expellee up to the present time at above 3,000,000/. Time keeping up of this colony is one of the objects for which grants of money out of the public taxes are made every year. We should think the friends of the negroes must be convinced by this time that a place which, without producing any public advantage whatever, is continually adding to the number of widows and orphans thrower upon the world, is not very auspicious to the inte rests of humanity. It appears that the climate is equally fatal to blacks and whites, and that the mor tality among Europeans varied from 35 to 73 per cent. It is only fair to say, on the other side, that Sir George Murray stated, on the authority of re ports from medical gentlemen in the colony, that the climate was not so unhealthy as it was considered, and that the great mortality among the European soldiers originated in a great degre e in their own drunken and dissolute habits. But surely it is not pretended that the great mortality among Governors, Judges, official men, anti others, also originated in their drunken and dissolute habits; but we sup pose soldiers are as dissolute in one colony as in another, and, therefore, that is no mew!' for their dying off more rapidly in Sierra Leone than any where else. But Sir George Mur ray says, that arrangements have been made to prevent tire recurrence of the evil occasioned by the presence of European troops, and that it is the intention to effect such changes that all the civil situations shall also be filled by men of colour. Pursuing the system further, he does not despair of being able, in some years, to raise the colony to the situatiou of a free African station. He is of opinion that the present condition of the settlement offered a fair prospect of realizing the original intention of its foundation—namely, the introduction of religion and civilization among that race of people. lie Therefore saw no reason for abandoning the colony, or transplanting the inhabitants to the settlement of Fernando Po—although it is superior in soil, and not so liable to destructive malady. There is one point in which we perfectly concur with Sir George Murray, and that is, that it would be unjust and barbarous to abandon the poor Africans in the settle ment, and leave them exposed to the cruelty and cupidity of those from whose dreadful treatment we had rescued them. We hope no vicious view of eco nomy will ever induce us to dourly thing so monstrously inhuman. But that is not the question. Government is not called on to abandon those poor people but to abandon the place which, to them, as well as others, is a place of pestilence and death, and to convey them to some healthier station, and where the soil will admit of their industry, becoming more productive. Need we remind Sir George Murray of the account given by the late General Turner of the approaching destitution of the free and liberated negroes, who, he said, " would be obliged again to retrograde into the woods and deserts in a state of nature." If, indeed, there was any chance that the colony could ever realise the benevolent visions of social and religious improvement which glowed upon the sanguine imaginations of the benevolent but inconsiderate promoters of this calamitous settle ment, we would say to the Government, " Perse vere"—but, really, perseverance, after all that mournful experience has taught us, seems more like blind obstinacy, which, once wrong, is resolved never to go right, than a steady adherence, in spite of difficulties, to a well-considered and practicable principle, which is one of the first qualities of a genuine statesman.—Horreing Herald. A statesman should sometimes act upon that rule which Lord Bacon recommends to a Judge ; namely, to decide without giving a reason for his decision, lest it might happen to be a bad one. The Earl of Aberdeen had .not the fear of this maxim before his eyes, when he announced to the House of Lords the unsatisfactory termination of the ne gotiations between the Government and Prince Leopold relative to the sovereignty of Greece, and laid uponthetableeertain papers connected with that extraordinary affair. He has reflected too late upon the consequence of presenting. those papers, which let out a part of the secrets of diplomacy only to make it necessary, on the part of his opponents, to call for ethers. The others he declines to produce, but it is quite clear that he ought to have laid be fore Parliament all the papers w hi c h could serve to explain the subject in question, or none. By prc ducing some he has established a precedent against himself, and cannot, consistently, refuse any further documents requisite for the full an d comp l ete eluci dation of this matter. Though the documents al ready presented to Parliament are exceedingly volu minous, arid would make a greater show in a library than any history of Greece extant, not ex cepting Herodotus or fltueydules, yet they serve 'only to make the affair more perplexed and confused than if the unassisted imagination had been left to its own conjectures. Rightly did the Marquis of Londonderry state in his place, the other night, that " such was the contradiction contained in those papers, he would defy any man to understand them without further explanation; and if there were points inexplicable to him, he had an undoubted right to ask for further explanation." When Lord Aberdeen laid the papers upon the table, he gave an implied pledge that the House should know every thing tending to clear up the transactions to which they referred. By that pledge he was bound to let the House into possession of " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." But as to the papers on the table, it is objected that they are so unsatisfactory, as to put Noble Lords under the ne cessity of coming down to the House to ask ques tions respecting certain portions of them. It is oh jeered also, that many of the statements contained in them are garbled—others are ex-parte; and, there fore, to have a proper and full knowledge of the whole affair, further information is essential. Docu ments produced to Parliament for the purpose of ex• plainiug any transaction, should be so clear and ex plicit as not to require other documents to explain them, or, if they do, the other documents ought to be also produced. Lord Aberdeen professed him self ready to give all the intelligence which Par liament could require ;—and, indeed, if the part he has acted in these negotiations be worthy of a British Statesman, or, in other words, if it be a manly, intelligent, and judicious part, lie is bound, in duty to himself, and for the vindication of his own character, to lay before the House every paper which can, in the most remote degree, throw light Upon this subject, and guide the public judgment to a correct conclusion. We imagine that, if Lord Aberdeen relies for reputation as a diplomatist upon the proofs of his competency to manage the foreign relations of a great empire, which his wordy and mistified dccuments on the Greek question supply, he will not make it difficult for the future historian to ascertain how much little wisdom is requisite to make a great Minister. We have, when alluding to this subject before, expressed our satisfaction that Prince Leopold had declined the throne which our Ministers had erected out of the ruins of a portion of the empire of our "ancient Ally," as a so►t of trap for future wars, in which England would have hail to pay dearly for the gratification of intermeddling with the affairs of others. And it is in this point of view that what is called the " settlement of Greece" be- conies a question of great importance to the people of this country, as, indeed, every question must, which is at all connected with the prospect of a future war. The decision of Prince Leopold makes it less likely that this country shall be involved in a conflict respecting the independence of Greece than if he hal accepted the crown. It does not appear there is any member of our Royal family, or English subject, to whom it can now be offered; otherwise we should think it u subject of rational alarm to a country so incapable of going to war as England is, that Lord Londonderry should state in the House of Lords, without contradiction, that " Austria and Prussia were inimical to the late transactions rela tive to Greece, and that neither of these States approved of what had been done or was now going on." Thus has Prince Leopold escaped a dan gerous elevation, likely to be productive, to himself and this country, of most calamitous consequences.— Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA "TSION-HOUSE. A woman, who has been frequently before the Lotto NlAron, charged with having committed as saults and other acts of disorder, was again brought up. She .was charged with having insulted several persons in the streets, and with having broken windows. Upon being asked what she had to plead in ex cuse, she said very candidly, that she really had little to say for herself. The LORD MAYOK—You have but lately come out of Bridewell ? Defendant—Very lately, my Lord ; and I never acted badly until I came out of it. The LORD MWOR—Then I had better send you back. Defendant—Upon my word, my Lord, I think it is the best thing von can do with me. These are bad times, and Bridewell is not so bad a place as they say it is. The LORD MAYoft—Yon will behave well there I dare say. Defendant—Oh yes, my Lord, there I shall behave well enough ; but upon my word, my Lord, I can't answer for myself out of it, especially when I come across the lush.—(A laugh.) The LORD IllAYoß—Then you shall go for a month. Defendant—Thank you, my Lord ; Bride well is the only place I urn it for. She was then committed to gaol for a month. 6 UILDIIALL. A lad about eighteen years of age, named Frederick Joseph, an apprentice with Mr. Davis, a furrier, in Bull's Head-court, lNewgate•street, was charged with assaulting, or rather intending to se duce, two of his master's maid servants. The first complainant was a tall, powerful young woman, named Mary Steward. She stated that she and her fellow-servant went to bed at twelve o'clock, having fastened the room door. They fell asleep, but at a quarter past onw she awoke and found the defendant lying by her side in the bed. She called to her fel low-servant, " here's Frederick in bed ;" upon which he started up and ran out of the room. Alderman KEY—What did you say to him ? Witness—•l did not say a word to him. Alderman KEY Did not you express surprise ? Witness—Oh, yes ! I did the next morning, when we got up. Sir J. PERRING—Then what did you do after he ran out of the room ? Witness —W e both went to sleep, and at a quarter before two we found him in bed again, lying by the side of Betsy. Betsy Roberts, the other young woman, imme diately came forward to finish the story. When she awoke and found him lying by her side, with his hand over her side, she gave him a smack in the face, and he rushed out of the room. She called out aloud, threatening to tell her mistress and master in the morning. The defendant denied that l►e was in the bed on either side. He admitted having concealed himself in the cupboard, in the maids' room, from half-past eleven o'clock, and said if liberties had not been given to him he should not have thought of taking any. Mr. Dav►s said be was one of the most depraved lads in existence. He was ordered to find sureties to keep the peace for two years, himself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each, BOW.STREET. Thomas Phair,a printer, residing at No. 69, Great Peter-street, Westminster, was yesterday charged before Sir R. 131uNt1; and Mr. HALLS with aelliug a song of an indecent and immoral description. Mr. HAus asked the defendant if he had not been charged at that office, about a year ago, with a similar offence ? The defendant admitted the fact, and added that he had a wife and five children. Mr. HALLS---You are then doubly culpable in placing such vile trash within the reach of your own children. Skinner, the informer, said that songs of this description were at present selling all over the town, and he believed that the majority of them were printed by tile defendant. Sir It. BIRNIE observed, that the songs were really of a most indecent description. The defendant was then convicted in the penalty of Jul., and in default of payment was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Collection. QUEEN-SQUARE Yesterday John Nowlan, who gave his address No. 6, Ball's -gardens, Thackland's-lane, Chelsea, was placed at the bar, charged by John Bate, one of the policemen, B division, No. 75, with exposing his person to some females of tender age, on Tuesday evening, in Little Chapel -street, Westminster. It appeared that the prisoner's conduct was ob served by some females in the neighbourhood, and they followed him to other places where he repeated the same indecent exhibition, and they gave him in charge to the police-man. Two girls dead: , proved the guilt of the prisoner, who, on being asked what he had to say to the charge, said that he had met One of the girls by appointment. Mr. MArtittorr sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and to be kept to hard labour. On hearing the sentence the prisoner pretended to faint. By some papers found on his person, it appears that he had formerly been in respectable circum stances as a soap-boiler. Mary Ann Rowe, Jane Grills, .31ary Ann Phib bins, and Henry Bailey, were charged by George Thatcher, B division, No. 17, with being found, at one o'clock in the morning, in an upstairs room of an empty house, No. 4, Ttnk's-row, Chelsea. The female prisoners said they were out of situa tions, and had no home to go to. The male pri soner said he had been locked out of his lodgings. The prisoners were committed for six weeks to the House of Correction. HATTON.GARDEN. Eliza Crouch, a pauper in the workhouse of St. Andrew's, Holborn, was yesterday brought before Mr. Serjeant SELLON and Mr. ROGERS, charged by the parish authorities with being a lewd woman and burdening the parish with three children within the last five years. Mr. Wilks, assistant overseer, stated that on the 16th of June, 1825, and on the 30th of August, 1827, the defendant had been delivered of two illegitimate children, of whom an apprentice-boy in the family where she lived during the time as ser vant, was the father. The first of those children died, but the second was still living. On the 23d of September, 1829, she being then a pauper in the house, was delivered of the third child, which she swore to a pauper named Charles Carter, who had been gate-keeper in the workhouse at the time, but was now deceased. The parish did not question the fact of Carter's being the father, for it was well known that the parties had been most intimate, and neither remonstrances nor threats were sufficient to keep them apart. Mr. Hewitt, the master of the workhouse, was certain that no connexion had ever taken place be tween the defendant and the gate-keeper in the house; but as two days in the week were appointed for the inmates to go out, if they pleased, he sup posed that the parties must have taken advantage of those occasions. When he reproved the defendant for her last child, she had the audacity to tell him that she would swear him to be the father. The Magistrates considered the case to be one of great hardship to the parish, and Mr. ROGERS said it would be quite right to bold out some terror to females of this description. They then committed her for three months to the House of Correction. A wretched-looking female, in widow's mourn ing, was brought before the Magistrates under the following circumstances : About a fortnight ago her husband, who kept a green-grocer's shop in St. John-street, and was pretty comfortable, died, and from that moment she has been quite disconsolate, and in all her behaviour has betrayed symptoms of a disordered mind. She has wholly neglected her business, and night and day has been o andering about the streets, abso lutely indifferent to all the means of preserving life and health, and equally regardless of shelter and re pose. She has occasionally created serious dis turbances in the streets, and alarmed those who have seen her with the apprehension of a determi nation to lay violent hands on herself. Under one of those paroxysms she was taken up by the police the night before, and conveyed to the watch-house. Mr. Sejeant SELLON said this was the second time the poor woman had been brought before him, and he ordered her to be taken to the woikhouEe. THAMES•POLICE OFFICE. Yesterday Simeon Howard, commander of the Pearl steam-boat, appeared to answer a complaint laid at the instance of the Watermen's Company against him by Mr. Charles James White, one of their officers, for suffering his vessel to be propelled at a faster rate than a]owed by Act of Parliament, on the 7th of June last. The defendant pleaded " not guilty." Mr. Charles James \Vhite—Tl know the de fendant, Simeon Howard, and I also know the Pearl steam-boat. I saw her on the 7th of June, about four o'clock. She was coming away from the Custom-house stairs. I was myself in a four oared boat,. myself and three other watermen row ing. The Pearl was then between London-b.idge and the eastern end of Limehouse. Mr. Howard was on board, and seemed to have the command of the vessel. When I first saw her she seemed to be going at the rate of three or four miles an hour mail she reached St. Katharine's. The Eclipse seemed to be lying by for her, and on her arrival oil the spot where the Eclipse lay, the latter put out, and the two boats had nearly got foul of each other : in fact, if the Pearl had not backed her paddles, this must have been the case. The Pearl was at this time astern, and the Eclipse put on her w h o le power, as did the Pearl, and they both went away as hard as they could go. I am positive the Pearl went at the rate of between nine and ten miles an hour, and she continued this pace until she was out of sight. Our boat would carry 20 per sons, but so greet was the swell occasioned, that I am sure if we had not had our wash-streaks on, we must have sunk. Mr. BALLANTINE—Mr. White, this is a very portant question, and the first that has come before us. I am sure you will not answer my question without serious consideration. Was the Pearl going at the rate of more than five miles an hour ? Mr. White—She certainly wag, Sir. She was going at the rate of from eight to ten miles an hour. Mr. BALLANTINE—If you go at the rate of more than five miles an hour, you act contrary to law, and are liable to the consequences. I see Mr. Evans is in the room, I will ask him a question. Mr. Evans, how does the Pearl conduct herself—does she go with great speed ? Mr. Evans—She goes with very great speed in fact they all do. Captain RICIIBELL—I have myself seen her go at the rate of eleven knots an hour. Mr. BALLANTINE (to the defendant)—r find that you have exceeded the speed prescribed to you by the Act of Parliament. This proceeding► is only meant to prevent accidents, and I had hoped to tind that you had conducted yourself more moderately on other occasions. A conversation here ensued as to the amount of coils to be given, the Act of Parliament prescribing the payment of all reasonable costs in addition to the fine ; in the course of which it was intimated that the costs were a minor consideration, at the conclu sion of which— Mr. BALLANTINF. said the object of this prosecu tion is to prevent a recurrence of the offence, and not to ruin the defendant : therefore let bins be fined 31., and 21. costs. The next case was against Mr. JVm. John Reed, Captain and Commander of the Eclipse. The fact of the defendant having been admitted a freeman of the Watcrmen's Company on the 6th June, 1816, having been proved the same evidence was adduced as in the former case, the complaint arising out of the same transaction. The Magistrates, considering the defendant to have been the aggressor in the first instance, fined him 5/., and 21. costs. In the course of the investigation Captain Melt- BELL observed that it WEIS only a few days since that several of the police-boats were staved at their moorings by the steamers being so close in shore. Before leaving the office the Magistrates thanked Mr. White for bringing the cases forward. Mr. White declared ►hat not one farthing of the penalty would go to himself, but to the poor of the Company. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Thomas Buckley, a young man about 22 years of age, was finally examined before R. E. BIM::GIITON, Esq. on the following most extraordi nary charge of bigamy : Martha Blaney, an interesting looking young wo o man, residing at No. 8, New-street-hill, Shoe-lane, stated that she became acquainted with the prisoner in May, 1829, and lived with him as his wife for three weeks, when he left her ; about six months afterwards she saw him at the Blue-cost Boy, Is lington; he then proposed to marry her, and told her to go to the gentlemen of Christ Church parish, in the city of London, and try to get some money. She immediately went to Christ Church and rc ceived 24 and a wedding ring. They were mar ried on the 2d of February last at St. Botolph's Church, Aldgate, and lived together seven weeks, when, in consequence of his beating and ill-using her, she left him. After she was married to the prisoner he told her that he had been before married at Cler kenwell Church. Edmund Gardiner, sexton of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate, produced the register of a mar riage between the prisoner and Martha Blaney, on the 2d of February last. • _ William Doran stated, that he was present at Clerken well Church when the prisoner was married to Sarah Dilby ;he was married in the name of Wilijam Johnson. Joseph Penry, Parish Clerk of St. James's, Cler keriwell, produced the register of the marriage be tween Sarah Dilby and Wm. JohNsou on the 21st of April, 1828. * The prisoner made the following ingenious de• fence : He said he was a blacksmith, and on the morning of his marriage with the first wife, he was at work at a smith's shop in Old-street-road ; the witness Doran and another man were at work with him. The first wife looked in at the shop window about ten o'clock, and asked him if he knew a young man working there in the name of Johnson; he replied he did not; she appeared somewhat disconcerted, and told him that she was going to be married to Johnson on that morning, and he had disappointed her; he (the prisoner) could not help laughing at the joke, and told Doran of it; being Monday,they determined not to work, but have a lark ; Doran said she was a very pretty girl, and she should not be disappointed :of a husband, for he would have her; he (the prisoner) then said he would have her ; the lady was then requested to make her choice, and it fell upon him (prisoner); she had the money and the wedding ring ready, and they went to Clerkenwell Church and were married; Doran gave the bride away; he never saw her in his life before the morning he was married to her; she told him the banns were put up in the name of Johnson, therefore he must be married in that name, to which he did not object. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you seep together that night ? Prisoner—No, Sir, it was merely a frolic ; she was in service, and went out to her place; so I thought no more or it. _ _ Mr. BROUGHTON—I'm afraid you will deeply pay for it. Sarah Dilby, the first wife, said she first met the prisoner by accident, when he accosted her, and asked her if she would marry him, which she agreed to do. Mr. BRouGwros—What without any other ac quaintance with each other than merely meeting in the streets as two strangers ? Dilby—Yes, Sir ; I then want and put the banns up immediately. Mr. BROUGHTON—Who told you to put them up in the name of William Johnson ? Dilby—The prisoner. - Mr. BROUGHTON—When did you see him again ? Dilby—l saw him two or three times, bat did not speak to him until the morning we were married, when I went to him, and he accompanied me to Clerkenwell Church, where we were married—l paid the fees. - M. BROUGHTON—The story is quite improbable; (to the prisoner) how long did you live together? Prisoner—A week, Sir; when I saw her preparing baby-linen, which I thought was too much of a good thing, she then told me she was pregnant by John son, and I told her it was time for me to cut it, and I left her. Vann, an officer of the establishment, said he knew a William Johnson, a painter, who has ab• scowled, and who had worked for Mr. Felton, a coach-maker, in Old-street-road. Dir. BROUGHTON said the whole story Ivits the moet improbable and extraordinary he ever heard, if the prisoner had not committed a felony, he had a fraud, he should therefore commit the prisoner to Newgate for trial, and let a Jury decide. ATROCIOUS PIRACY AND MURDER. His Majesty's ship Atli()11, Sierra Leone, May 3. SIR,-1 have the honour to acquaint you that the Hon. Company's schooner St. Helena, arrived here this day on her way to England, with despatches from Commodore Collier. She was attacked on the 6th of April, in lat 1. 30. south, and long. 90. west, by a piratical felucca under French celours, aad manned with a crew of from 40 to 50 men of all nations, who, I regret to hear, murdered Captain Harrison, the chief officer, and 12 of the crew, be sides Dr. Waddle, of the Hon. Company's medical • service; and plundered the vessel of all the money that could be found on board, a great deal of her cargo, cut away her masts, scuttled the vessel in order to sink her, and after they left her fired many shot through her and abandoned her, not knowing that the carpenter and five men were left on board concealed, by whose exertions the vessel has been saved and brought into this port. I am sorry that the mail, the Commodore's de spatches, and almost all the letters, appear to have been destroyed, at least they are nowhere to be found. From the description of the vessel (which I have forwarded to the Admiralty) she appears to be one well known to the ships of the squadron, and as it is probable she has no idea that the St. Helena escaped,. I am in great hopes she may proceed to the coast and be there captured by one of the ships of the squadron. It is my intention, in the absence of Commodore Collier, to render every assistance in the re-equip ment of the schooner from the public stores, and to put her in charge of Lieutenant Warren, a deserv ing officer on half-pay, lately in command of a ship lost on the coast through the ignorance of the pilot.--I have the honour, &c. (Signed) ALEXANDER GORDON, Captain, and Senior Officer of his Majesty's ships at Sierra Leone. To the Secretary to the lion. East India Company, London. BIRTHS. On the 16th inst., the lady of Dr. Moore, Lincoln's .on-fields, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., Mrs. Robert Johnson, Crescent.. place, Bridge-street, of a son. 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