The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Two proclsmationa in last night's Gazette, and a letter from M. Pitcher, a gentleman of Kent, both relative to the same deplorable subject, Will give rise, no doubt, to serious reflections among our readers. The 'conflagrations which, for some months past, have taken place In the above-named county,— anti which, with every appearance of being the work of incendiaries, bore been almost exclusively di. rested against agricultural produce and the property of tersters,-.-have never yet been clearly explained ; nor do we think that Mr. Piletter's smuggling theory, however just to a certain extent, affords Complete elucidation of the cause of these atrocious proceedings. Why, it has been asked, should tio county of Kent be disturbed and 'disgraced by such crimes as this, beyond any other district ? All we can say is, that Kent has been, and continues to be, so visited. Mr. Filcher ascribes the heroin of ferm.produce, farm-buildings, c, e to the contraband habits and fluctuating eircumstances of tho peasant population,of Kent, Who are enriched one day by the prosperity of the smuggling trade, and the next im poverished by its d ec li ne . W e d o not see any. tie• cessary connexion between a sense ef poverty among the people, and th e d estruc ti on o f h uman f oo d , b y which that poverty must (one might presume) be aggravated. At the same time it must be allowed, that despair -doetnot , reason accerately,. It is cer tainly possible, that if wages throughout Kent be so low as to create a severe pressure on the 'Trice!. tural population, and at the same time, if the prices of farm-produce be so high, as to persuade the poor that wages have been unduty'llepreelated, the pea santry may, under the iufluente of exasperation, wreak their vengeance on the supposed tyranny of the farmer, by . burning his ,otacka,andliouses. Bert it is fearful to think of the possibility of tbese crimes extending to other counties, and of the state to which the country will be reduced, if a combination spirit, for such guilty objects, should actuate its agricultural and naturally inoffensive people. But to prevent the evil, let the cause of ft be manfully inquired into. Crime at all events must be pressed; but the distress, Which is a main cause of it, should also be mitigated wherever it can be. There are rewards offered .by the Treasury for the detection of the perpetrators of two of these destruc tive conflagrations —one at. Borden, near Sitting . bourne, 'the other in the neighbourhood of Tun bridge,—.Times, "We have read with inexpressible disgust a State »tent in the Irish papers, of a recent transaction called an arar of honour," between. Sir Henry Hardinge end Mr. Daniel O'Connell. It began, us ,by the latter indisidual employing the most offenelVe and outrageous terms of personal insult Intrearde Sir Henry Hardinge; and, as usual also, ended by nn absolute denial of justice towards the injured gentleman, Mr. O'Connell declaring his re tiolutiou not to fight. Proceedings of precisely the same nature have so often already come before the public„ —we mean with regard to Mr. O'Connell, — that there are few people in society, and certainly no members of the press, who have not long Since felt themselves railed upon to pronounce on opinion upon the moral taste and gentlemanly feeling exhibited by the personage in question. A determination against duelling, .under ordinary circumstances, could reflect no disgrace on Mr. O'Connell, .nor on any other man professing the faith of a Christian. On the contrary, it is possible that the best of men would be the foremost to form such a determination, and the least ashamed to act upon it through evil report and good. But there is I second resolution, perfectly indispenseble towards explaining and justifying the above non-combatant system,'.—eit., that of scrupulously and religiously ebeteining from the display of, manners, or the ut teeltSce of language, likely,to wound the 'meow of Other individuele, and to place them in the predicts stunt of receiving insults *Watt they are forced t o put up with, from the :ithown impossibility of ,obs 'flatting fedi** at. the bands or a calumniator 'shoot • leg poisoned wawa, end , cased from top to toe in Impenetrable is now the value and amount of Me:: O'Connell's' decision against ling 2 Is it a pledge of peace and forbearance towards the rest of society .? If it were, there are none who could fail to respect and epithet' him.— But it is no such thing. It is a claim to play the persecutor, tyrant, and ruffian, with itnpunity,—to slander every man, however innocent and honest,--- to hold up every political or private adversary as a mark for abhorrence, and perhaps assassination, to a brutal mobs—to inflict at will the grossest injuries on hits neighbours,---to point his own transient caprice, whatever it may be,' with the hornet's ating,--sand, when taken to account for all this baseness, to deelere that hi* conscience, thus fiber tine in crime—his conscience t--is too straight-laced for penitence, redress, or restitution I Words cannot paint an extremity of baseness beyond this.--Tintes. The consequence of allowing an ambitious and worldly-minded priesthood to obtain too great an influence in political affairs is seen in the wretched and deplorable condition of Spain and Portu ga l. Tu these countries, so great is the debasement of the public mind—so abject the spirit of the community In general—that there seems scarcely any possibility of the most extravagant abuse of power exhausting the patience of the people. When, Indeed, it was the interest of the Clergy to resist foreign invasion, as iu the case of Buonaparte, who had abolished the Inquisition, and was known not to be very friendly to the political ascendancy of the Priests, they 'kindled a spirit of enthusiastic resistance among the. people, which led to the most successful results- Subsequent events have shown that what theta ap peered to be the patriotic devotion of the Spaniards - to their native laud, and to the cause of its inde pendenee, was only the manifestation of the bound itsupoiver which the Church exercised over the po pular WO, and which could with equal facility, make men the worst of slaves, or convert slaves into , the moat resolute of heroes. How else eon we account for the triumphal march which the Duke of Angeuieme, with his troops, coming to re-establish the tyranny of Ferdinand and his "Apostolical" advisers, was allowed to make from the bunks of the Bidassoa to the walls of Cadiz ? the first invasion the French armies were hostile to the sway of the Priests, and the latter raised the country against them; in the lest invasion the French armies came to restore the priests to thei r ancient authority, end the Clergy kept down the ex pression of public feeling, so that Angoulerne aecorn. eished, with the greatest ease, what the genius of Napoleon *as unable to execute—namely, the ewe_ 000 OVerIbMW of Spani,4h independ e nc e t, Thnhc has the inordinate ambition 01 the church obtained the entire mastery aver the mind or the people and the destinies, of the nation. Still Sp&n has caeca. s i ons fl y s ho w n some partial 'symp . ttitns of public virtue ; but Portugal appears to be incapable of the,slightest, display of ,energy or manhood. Tin , clergy to those kingdoms are some of tho richest in the world; not, indeed, in the gifts and graces of of. Christianity—of such treasure they are not at all ambitious'--but in whatever ministers to worldly pomp and sensual indulgence. It is a fearful thing to see the • name of the }rarest of all religions so abused to the purposes of the moat degrading cu pidity that can 'diet mankind. Yet. this system, which in Spain and Portugal obliterates every virtue, and prostrates the intellect of man in the dust before the gorgeous shrines of u sanguinary asperstition, is called Christianity i When we read of the acts of ferocione folly end sportive cruelty which formed the pastime of some of the • itatatta• Emperors in the degenerate days of the Empire, we are astonished that, under any Nun of Paganism, human nature should have been so sense. iess and embruted as to bear with the pranks of those Imperial Triailliters, who, while env iting to them selres dirloe honours, need mid iuled like incarnate fends: yet there are rew of those tyrants whom ale usurps! of' Portugal lots not rivalled ir, his brutal amusements, and hi t still more brutal ambition. But peoplehis are as passive us a be were not only ittvelitelt wit the best of all possible titles, but clothed in the raiment of all the virtues under the sun • What ' is to be &miter ttlet people? Are not they knd their Sovereign worthysof each other ? Do not Asa subjects create such tyrants ? There are fre qeent appetite Made td the generous sympathies of Englishmen; both on behalf of the people of Portugal and Spain; but why squander' sympathy upon those Stho are unconseions of their own degradation ? libel more we hear of the grievances which they so passively put up with, the less we think them de ierving of commiseration. Countries, which have not within themaelvea.the materiel of regeneration, cannot import it, as they would an article of mer chandise, from foreign nations; and Portugal gives constant proofs that the demoralization of the people i. at least as great us the tyranny of the King. As to Spain, though not altogether so hopelessly de hased, it is so far sunk in the scale of intellectual ex igtenre, that if by any effort now in progress, ii should recover an honourable place among the na tions, the fact will constitute the greatest moral mi rade of the present age, distinguished as it is by ex traordinary events..—Aforning Herald. We know not what true eloquence is, if the ad. dresses delivered by his Majesty lust week to the company assembled to receive him and her Majesty at Lewes is not of that description. IVe should define that quality to consist in' the genuine ion- Image of the heart and understanding best adapted to the occasion on which it is uttered. Judging of King William's address by this rule, we would ask what could be more suitable to the occasion, or come "with more tests of genuine sincerity from the heart, than this off.hand, excelletit speech. It is true that it contained none of those high-sounding, well-rounding periods with which practised orators contrive to say much and to mean little, It is clear that the King meant all he Said. If we were to single oui.'any.expression 'calling- for our applause more than the rest, we should point attention to the happy after-thought, in whlch his Majesty returned thanks to the company for their attention to the Queen, and the well-turned strain of affection in which he so well marked the public sense, and his own, of the acknowledged virtues of his Royal Consort. Such expeditions as these are worth a hundred State pageants, and must do more than all the romp, and show, and splendour in the world, td fix both the King and the Queen where a King should reign—in the hearts of his subjects.—Morn ing Herald. En the lath numher,pf the .Foreign Quarterly Review, just published, there is an excellent article on the Belgian Revolution, evidently by the author of an article in a former number, which gave so mas terly a view of the industry of the Netherlands. Whenever the population of any country rise e n masse against their Government, we may be sure that things are not as they ought to be. It is well observed by the able author of this article, when alluding to the reproach of turbulence which has so often beers thrown out against the Belgians, that— " It is a common plan to consider them as eternally dis‘ati,fied with their Governors. Their annals, it issaid, present nothing but armed opposition, dissension, intes tine war : that succesaively they have shaken off the do nUnition of Spain, Austrit, France, and are again in re volt at this moment. This word turbulent is one of the epitl►ere invented by tyrants to deceive mankind : it has been adopted, with many similar ones, by hi,torians, who have, until lately, only written 'in the interest of the great and powerful. If the meaning of the word turbulent, as applied to a nation, be analyzed, it can only mean an im patience in supporting sotne oppression, which energy re sists and apathy sinks under. Let any one run over with an impartial eye the different revolutions of Belgium, and weigh the causes which have produced them, and he will be convinced that they had good reason to complain. Who can blame them for wishing to escape from the bloody persecutions of Spain ; to have repelled the feeble and oppressive domination of Austria ; to have driven out the tyrannical agents of the Emperor of Franco, dur ing the latter years of his reign? Belgium, a country ' of no great extent, but consisting of a brave popu• lation, has for a long time been handed about from Power to Power, as 4 kind of make-weight in the balance. Its fertaity has always rendered it an objeet.of desire to the surrounding Powera, and just as it suited their convenience.they have disposed of it, with out consulting the subject of the bargain. Because the Belgiens have not been content to he thus hustled about, they are called turbulent. The French Government had, however, succeeded in attaching the affections of the ' people; manners, interests, language, all had become common : but the (fruits reunis, and the dreadful con scription, the two this istrous inventions of Bonaparte, and, in part, the CaUse of his ruin, alienated the hearts of the Belgians—it was generally with satisfaction that they witnessed his fall. It is something to set against the charge of turbulence, that all the great men who I►ave had to deal with them, have left a high testimony in their favour—we may begin with Clew and end with Napo leon. The authority of Char:es V. has been strikingly Isis! down; be Is said to have spoken of them to his son in terms of eulogy, like the following :— , Moderate its his prosperity, and equally calm in adversity, without pride, without ostentation, sober, naturally frank, the Belgian is, at the same time, prudent and circumspect, patient,to oh. stinacy, and Mama; iota to un excess; faithful to his re. ligion, and affectionate to Ilia Chiefs, as long as they re spect justice and the laws ; but so soon as his rigl►te are touched, his patience ceases and he becomes untimeable. Whenever tyranny has sought to oppress him, he has re hided, yielded, and died, but it has always been with a five spirit.' " With the manner its which they were saddled with the enormous debt of Holland, tricked into subjec tion to the h,i fundament ale, out-voted in the States- General, and harassed by tyrannical prosecutions, the public are now tolerably %veil acquainted. But the following description of the working Of Belgian taxation is much more perfect than anything we have yet seen ," One great evil," says the w r it er , "i n t h e B e l g i an t maim, was the multiplication anti variety of the objects taxed ; an individual never knew when he had done. Some were levied in so ty rannicel a manner, that is reading the explanation of them, the reader may fancy he is perusing the liLitory of come barbecues enaction of feudal times. The mouture, for instance, and the OnttOpe, The first was a tax on meal ; it wits forbidden to grind corn at home, and it could only be sent to the mill fluting certain hours of the day ; besides wbielt, the bearer of it was obliged to provide himself with a passuvent, or • a kind of meal passport ; and was forbidden to mix different kinds of grain, except in a certain proportion fixed by law. A whole army of clerks and collectors, charged with the duty of preventing fraud, hung about the country like wolves; them were entitled to a part of all the tern they caught mixed up, or proceeding to be ground, or ground in contravention of the law: The abatta9e is a term of a more simple kind at first view, but equally vexatious and hose in its execution. In the country, as well as in town, every ox, cow. heifer, calf, sheep, pig, &e., before it was killed,. was obliged to be shown to the receiver of taxes in order to procure a permiisien to - be . killed, and to fix the hour of slaughter. Tile rural commune", are often more than a league in extent ;. the peasant was con.equently hatred, in good or bad weather, to leave 111" work, and to go sod make a declaration of the kind of animal, of its Weiglitoind the hour he intended to kill it, And then' he had not done, Be was not entitled to kill his own pie ! Ile mist go and secure the services of the ' sworn butcher,' who mod be present,. Even this was not all. If the tax-receiver thought that the estimate of the animal, mule by the owner, was below kit real value, he has the right of pre-emption—that is to say, of plying without further ceremony the estimated sum, taking tbe beast, and gentling the owner about his business. " These grievances chiefly affeeted the country ; but the towns had their own vexations. The inliebitants no longer desired to possess furniture of beauty or value ; they stopped up their windows, their fire places, and sent away their servants, not only because all theee objects were hea vily taxed, but because they opened the door to the tax gatherers, .who were entitled to pay domiciliary visits, in order to Ascertaitt whether you had made a return of what you posscesed. " The municipal taxes---that is to say, those levied . at the eutrenees of the towns, and for their profit—had been also greatly augmented. Nut an egg, not a morsel of but ter, or a, loaf of bread, could be *named in a town with, out paying its W.. Every person, though this was nut pecolier to Belgium, on entering a town, was liable to be eisiied by the . clerks stairwell at the gatelk The fault of all these taxes . was not en much the amount, for that might he a matter of question, but that they were exceedingly vexatku!si and, above all, most expensive in their mode of collection." ..._,...,..... , The writer does not attempt to predict the result of the deliberations of the Congre*s summoned to meet on the 3d of November, to determine on the form of Government. Whether a Republic or Con atitutional Monarchy be adofitetl, theta are dittdu!.. ties to be overcome. To his concluding spirited Oh serVations we cordially subscribe : " Though the future destinies of Belgium are yet un certain, her deliverance out of the hands of Dutch oppres sion must be a matter of sincere joy to ell the friends of freedom. It is the second signal proof, within two shrott months, of the increasing impotence of tyrants'', and of OK ;rowing strength of the cause of liberty throughout En rope, That cause, varying only in local circumstances, is virtually the same in all countries. The struggle is uni versally a struggle of principles-.a conflict of ideas—a war of opinions. The time is at hand, when we shall hear no snore of treaties among Sovereigns, disposing of natiOns iike flocks of sheep. In vain bad the treaty of Vienna at firmed to the Bourbons the throne of France, and to the Nassaus that of Belgium, when the people res deed to cast from them the obnoxious dynasties. In vain do the tory monarchies of Russia, Au.tria, and Prussia, regard with fear and trembling these striking events ; they dare net interfere, however strong may be their wishes. From foreign molestation the Belgians are secure, and we trust they will not be disturbed by domestic disunion. They have already turned their swords into ploughshares; may freedom and peace be their household gods ! for, as a free nation, they will henceforth be the national and firm ally of Great Britsin."—Morning Chronicle. They who expected that Catholic Emancipation would give tranquillity to Ireland were shallow poll. ticians indeed. It has, however, been productive of great good, inasmuch as it removed the grand im pediment in the way of looking the evils of the so cial condition of Ireland fairly in the face. Ireland is not tranquil—and ought not to be tranquil. To tell the Irish they ought to be quiet, is like telling a man in whose veins a burning fever rages that he ought to be cool.. Arthur O'Connor, in his able and eloquent tract on the state of Ireland, published i t ri the early part of 1798, observed truly, that— " To every civilised country, the wealth gathered by in dustry-6ms a fund for the employment of the industrious, and as the existence of this fund is the great discriminating mark between civilisation and barbarism, so the state of this fund is what regulates the condition and character of every people upon earth. If the Government and Legit.. !atom protect the people in their industry and their na tional rights, this lund twill answer the population. It will grow with a growing population, and population will he a blessing; industry will flourish, and with it plenty. honesty, sobriety, cleanliness, and the rest of her delight ful companions wilt follow in her train. These are the effects of good Government ; these are the fruits of liberty; these are the blessings which. the Almighty showers down upon the people who have the spirit to assert their rights. and the courage to maintain them, against Governments which exist but by the means they have of corrupting, and against Legislators who live but on the wages they receive for betraying the people they pretend to represent. But when the funds for the employment of industry have been squandered—when the Government and Legislature, by treason and plunder, have perverted this fund from answering the population, or from growing so au to an• swer a growing population, population becomes a curse. It is the proportion which the fund for the employment of industry bears to the population, that stamp, the character of indolence or of industry on every people on the globe; it hi this proportion which regulates the happiness or misery of every nation upon earth." The complaint et as then what it is now, anti what we fear it is destined to be, till some calamity bring the remedy, that the people are in a situation in which it is impossible for them to acquire capital. The peasantry are without protection. Nothing can be saved to constitute u fund for the employ ment of labour. Potatoes and water, or at most skimmed milk, remain for the cultivators of the soil ; all the rest.of•the produce goes to the froges consumere nets. There is a class of writers who dwell adnauseon on the benefit of appealing to the sanction of past ages, and the authority of other, times. There is one lesson, which the history 'of all times - teaches—that no nation ever yet made the slightest advance in improvement till Aristocracy was overcome by a Monarch, or by u people goaded to desperatioo. The mode in which the relief has generally been etTected, has been through the strug gle between the !tingle despot and the Aristocracy. Poland, Sicily, Naples, Ireland, tell us how much the other countries of Europe owe to the victory of the sovereigns over the Aristocracy—the first step in civilization.—Morning Chronicle. We give, in another column, the particulars of an intended hostile meeting in Dublin between Sir Henry Hardinge and Mr, O'Connell. The latter, as he has always done for some years past, declined the meeting, as well as disavowed the offensive expressions repOrted to have been tittered by him ; but it is not so much to this subject that we are anxious to direct the attention of our readers, as to the speech of Mr. O'Connell at a mee - ing of the parish of St. Audcon on Thursday lust. The English public has long been accus timed to the vulgarities and falsehoods tittered by Mr. O'Connell and his crew ; but never, to this day, were our fair countrywomen treated to such a character as that which it pleased his High Mighti ness to give them on that occasion. The whole drift of his speech was not only to show the prac ticability of it separation between Ireland and Eng. hand; and to excite the spirit of the former against the people of the latter, but to hold up our fair countrywomen, not to the derision only, but to the contempt and execration of mankind. " Are Mey," said he, speaking of the people of England, " our superiors in morality ? Look to the Parliamentary &turns and evidence given by Clergymen Wore the Poor Law Conimiitee. lfre are told that, in the English counties, nineteen women out of every twenty that come to be »tarried Were ready to become mothers before the marriage ceremony was polormed." "1 do nut calumniate them," adds he; " such is the evidence given by English Illagistrates, Clergymen, and Governors rif counties." Women of England, hear this! Such is the character given of you by the great Liberator of Ireland I Husbands and brothers, is that man calculated -to regenerate a nation, who builds his premises upon falsehood, and to keep up a fading popularity resorts to the most atrocious calumnies ? The purity, the modesty, the chastity of English women, and their fidelity to matrimonial engage ments, are proverbial all over the world. No na tion can equal them ; all admire and wish to imitate their virtues—the great Liberator alone dares to calumniate them ! Is this to be borne ?-111maing Advertiser. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, O(.T. 27. Mr. George Seaman, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Enfield, was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth, the wife of John Stiles, with intent to ravish her. The proeecutrix, a woman of moderately good appearance, and apparently above 30 years old, de posed, that she lives now at Chesbunt, but in August last was living with her husband at Etifield. On the 20th of that month Mr. Seaman came into her bowie. it was early in the efternotm. She did not see him till he was dose upon her, when he, caught hold of her with his right arm, and fixed her against a large chest in the room. He had not been in the practice of coming to the house previously. All this took place immediately on his coming in, a n d without saying a word to her. .She begged of Itim to let her go, but he still kept his bold, and said he would give her a sovereign to five sovereigns if she would be for his purpose. Those were the first words he said to her, She did not understand what they meant. She again begged him to let her go, and threatened to tell her husband when he came home. lie undid his trousers and passed his left hand up her clothes. All this while he was still holding,her, tight with 11 . !S right hand. He isid if s h e would not tell her husband, he w ou ld a lways .supply her with plenty of money. She refused to promise, and begged him to let her go, as she was very ill. He then left her, and went away through the garden; but as he went, turned his head round, and --- her for a bitch, and said he would serve her mit. She went out soon Ayr to the cottage of Mrs. &Ott, 4110 lived about , twenty r o d s distance, and told her what lied happened. Cross-examined by Mr.Abouinua--Is a lawfully married woman. She has been married twice. The l ast time was at Norwood church. She had three children by her first marriage, She could nOt dissolve" how many she had before being Married at all. Peing bid by the Chairman she must 0' tr- , awer, she admitted having had a child prior to her first marriage, and while she was living at Lewis. ham. Her present husband was a labouring man, in tire employ of Mr. Seaman at the time she says he committed the attack upon her. The house they occupied belonged to Mr. Seaman, in fact it sva,.: the lodge of that gentleman's estate. He had giver, them permission to occupy it. She felt very ill, and could answer no more questions. She did not know her husband had notice to quit the lodge five days previous to the 26th of August. She had Token the truth; and could answer no more ques. Hons. Site never ran in the direction of Mr. Sea ma►n's house screaming. She did run screaming, (rut it was not murder. Mr. ADOLPHUS—Pray did you scream while Mr. Seaman was treating you in the manner you say ? The a fitness made no answer. The question was repeated, end the CHAIRMAN told her she must answer, but she notwithstanding persisted in remaining silent, as she did likewise to several subsequent questions. The CHAIRMAN addressed the Counsel, and re commended him to let her go down; indeed, it was evident that the Court and Jury had. for some time past been satiofied that the charge was base and un founded. The Jury said it was quite unnecessary to cal any witnesses. Mr. Amultus said he would rather they should be heard. Mrs. Atkins was then called—She deposed that she and her husband were rtaying on a visit with Mr. Seaman.. About three o clock on the afternoon in question she was ivulking with Mr. Seaman to meet her husband, who had been absent from the previous day, and who was expected to return about that hour. As they reached the lodge•gate they saw her husband approaching, and Mr. Seaman pro posed that she should wait where she was till her husband came up, and he would pass into the lodge and see about some repairs he had ordered to be done. She was then standing - within three yards of the cottage, and quite in view of its door, which was open. Mrs Seaman returned to her within three minutes. The doer had continued open all the while. She heard no scream or noise of any kind, nor was there any change in the appearance or man ner of Mr. Seaman on his rejoining her. Her hus band had previously come up. Mr. Atkins was then called, but the Jury and Court expressed a strong opinion of the inutility of hearing any more evidence in a case in which the vindication was already complete, and a verdict ac quitting Mr. Seaman was instantly returned. Mr. Seaman, with some warmth of feeling, ex pressed his regret that he had not been allowed more fully to establish the infamy of the prosecu trix, and vindicate his own innocence. They would then have seen that he had been the victim of a tnost gross conspiracy. Mr. BODKIN advised him to indict the woman. Mr. Seaman then left the Court, surrounded end congratulated by numerous friends. Mr. Henry Hastings was indicted for assaulting Mr. John Wutts. The prosecutor deposed that he was formerly music -master, but was now living retired. On the 30th of August he was in his bed-room, about ten o'clock at night, in the act of undressing, when the door was suddenly forced open, and the defendant rushed in and struck him most violently. He could not tell of any reason for such conduct, as he was on rather friendly t erms w i t h t h e defendant. Defendant—Did not I tell you, you —, that it was !remise you had taken liberties with my daughter ? Prosecutor—lt was a shame of you to suppose than an old man like me, 71 years old, would take liberties with such a child as your daughter. Mr. PRENDERGAST, in reply, admitted he could not justify the as-ault, but for the purpose of show ing that the defendant laboured under an impression that the plaintiff had attempted to injure bun in a way naturally calculated to excite a father's feelings, called the daughter, who deposed that Mr. Watts had called at the house in the afternoon ' and made her a present of some fruit, and befor e leaving had squeezed her hand, and putting his arm round her neck, " saluted her." He did nothing more. On the father's coming home in the evening, she told him what hod tuken place, and he instantly left her to go to Mr. Watts's house. The CHAIRMAN observed that the defendant was evidently a man of quick feelings, and likely to be easily excited, but still his tnisupprehension of a matter was no reason why he should go and vio lently assault a person, The Jury found him guilty. The CHAIRMAN a ked the plaintiff whether, tinder all the circumstances, he should wish to press for a severe judgment. The plaintiff said be would take none of his money himself, hut he should certainly wish him to be punished by being made to pay a handsome sum to a public charity. The CHAIRMAN then sentenced the defendant to pay a tine of 10/. to the King. MR. ST. JOHN LONG. At the rising of the Court yesterday evening, the Middlesex G►and Jury, among a number of other presentment►►, brought in a true bill for manslaughter against Mr. St. John Long. The names of nine witnesses appear on the back of the indictment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE. The justice-room was crowded yesterday with licensed victuallers who have been plundered by a men who calls himself Captain John Smith, who contrived by his ingenuity to remove all suspiciat of his character in the hundreds of houses which he has visited and robbed. Several of the complainants requested that Sir PETER LAURIE would remand the prisoner until some of those who might be able to substantiate cases agninit.him should appear. Sir PETER LAURIE.i , -WO must not let a person of this kind escape if we can help it. A licensed victualler—He came to my house, and had a becl,,.and he stole a lawyer's watch and money; but as he was slipping down stairs, the lawyer ran after him, and took the property from him ; and the prisoner escaped out of a window at thC top of.the house. . Sir Pane LAURIE told the prisoner that a bed should be supplied to him, withodt payment before- . hand. _ _ . vridoner—All I want is justice. Sir PETER LAURER.—YOU may depend upon having justice. • MA RLBOROUGH-STR Yesterday two . gentlemen, wh o gave t h e i r names ' Sheppard and Puma, the former said to be an officer of dragoons, and the other belonging to thAUni veraity of Cambridge, were charged with assaulting a youth named Henry Armstrong, The complainant stated that he was standing the evening before in a crowd of person«, who were ii,tersing to an playing in the street, and suddenly he received a vio lent blow on the head from the defendant Sheppard, who stood behind him, which knocked o ff his hat, and while his head Was thus bare, he received a Revere blow with some weapon (he believed a glass b ott l e ), which cut his head desp era tely. He could no ( positively swear, he said, who it was that gave him the last blow, but from the direction in which i t came, and the situation . in which the defendant Points stood at the timeZhe believed that Points was t h e person who struck h ii i k m e , a a g n i d mi t s h b is ot w fl a e s . confirmed to him by two pers o n s in saw w e cr owd,him im ai w e tvd h il o altoe tta lsy t t v aatt t ei h ed e r, throwy , blow o T t w t gQ l 4l l e vwl y evanl sate iblseyiPei) : B li Mr. Points 1 t t i k e the coMpininant over the head with what they believed to heft' glass bottle, from the noise it made on the pavement when he threw it away ; and At the suggestion of sev era l persona in the• crowd both the defendants were taken to the police station, for -at), wanton an (image on the b -s Mr oy .';hePPa rd, in'tnsWef;to the charge, slid; that he could only 'speak for himself, as the other de fendant was an entire stranger to him, and as to his guilt er innocence he could say no'hing; but for himself, Mr. Sheppard said, he would tell the Ma gistrate precisely how the matter occurred. He was standing, he said, at the door of a cigar shop in Newport -street, smoking a cigar, when a band of street music stopped exactly opposite the door, and commenced playing the air of a sew loyal song that has been written in honour of his present Majesty William IV., and while the air was being performed some one in the crowd called out " Hats off." " Not being deficient in loyalty," said Mr. Sheppard, " I immediately took off my hat at the call, as did most of those present ; but the complainant, who stood exac►ly in front of me, did not do so, but refused; and I then certainly did, I admit, knock his hat off, hut not with any intention of striking him, nor, in deed, do I believe that I touched his head at all, hut if I did hurt the lad, I am really sorry for it, as I meant no such thing. • Mr. Point; in his defence, denied altogether that he struck the complainant, or that he had any such weapon as a glass bottle, or any other in his hand, as had been stated. He merely stood like others in the crowd to listen to the music, and took off his hat when others (lid, but he utterly denied the truth of the charge alleged against him. Mr. ROE said that it was distinctly sworn to by two impartial witnesses, strangers to the boy, that they saw Mr. Pointz strike the complainant, and with a weapon of a most dangerous description, as they believed. The assault, he said, was an ex tremely wanton and gross one, and for it he should convict Mr. Pointz in a penalty of til., the largest the Act of Parliament allowed; and in default of payment to be . committed to the House of Correc tion for one month. The Magistrate then said that the assault com mitted by Mr. Sheppard, although by no means of so aggravated a nature as the other, was quite un justifiable, for no man had a right to strike another or knock his hat off because he did not choose to pay deference to a particular t tine, alt hough, probably, most persons would of their own accord feel &- posed, very properly, to do so in the instance alluded to; and he should therefore convict Mr. Sheppard in a penalty of 20g. Mr. Sheppard paid down a sovereign, observing, " I'll be - if I ever knock any mart's hat off again fur any tune." The Magistrate told Mr. Sheppard that he had incurred another penalty by swearing in the presence of the bench, and convicted him in tis. more for that offence. Mr. Sheppard paid the fine, lidding, but without an oath, that he should knock no more hats off for loyal tunes. Mr. Pointz was lecher] up until he should have paid his fine, and wad not liberated when the office closed. The neighbourhood of this office was yesterday for several hours the scene of the most audacious riot and uproar, to the interruption ev e n o f t h e business before the Magistrates, and the disturbance of the whole surrounding inhabitants, occasioned by an assemblage of •upwards of 300 journeymen shoe makers, belonging to that class of the trade who will neither work for moderate wages themselves, nor suffer others more industriously disposed to do so. It appeared that on Monday evening, a party of industrious workmen of the trade, who are employed by Mr. Gilbert, of Bond-street, and several other respectable shoemakers, at what both patties consi. der a fair rate of wages, had a supper amongst themselves at the Jew's Harp Tavern, in the Re gent's-paik, and that when they were returning home quietly and peaceably, they were waylaid by an immense body of those who will not work ex cept at Immoderate prices, who lay in wait for them and attacked and assaulted them in a most desperate manner; but, with the assistance of the police, se veral of the ringleadere were secured, and lodged in the watch-house, and were yesterday brought be. fore the Magistrate, which caused the vast assem blage of their refractory colleagues, with a view, as it would seem, to obstruct, by intimidation, even the course of justice itself; for whenever soy of the complainants or their witnesses who . lutd' beim exa mined, or any of the masters whe-employed them, came into the street from the office, they were as s in the most ferocious manner by the assent:loi multitude, so that it required almost the whole po lice force of the district, and of this office, to pro fret them. Several of the leaders of this daring and desperate proceeding were dragged in from the street by the police before the Magi-trates, and, with the original aggressors of the night before, disposed of as follows :—. James Harrison, henry Pelre, John Oakley, Daniel Ivers, and John James, were convicted in the penalty of 51 each for assaults; and in default of payment, were committed for two months to the House of Correction ; and Paul Eastlake ' John Morgan, George Parson s , J ames B arry, and Thos. Bell, were order to find,bail for the riot,and to give 48 hours' notice of the bail they intended to offer, with an assurance from Mr. ROE, the Magistrate, that he would take good care they should be in dicted at the Sessions. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a man named Evans was brought be fore Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with having coin mitted a violent it , :sault on William Glover, in at tempting to evade the toll on Southwark-bridge. The complainant stated that he was collector of the toll in question, and that on the 11th of Sep tember, while he was on duty, the defendant drove up in a cart, and attempted to pass through the gate without paying the toll. Seeing what his intention was, the complainant held the reins, and told the defendant he must pay before he went through : the latter, however, instead of doing so, struck the bottom of the cart in which he was seated, with his feet, and at the same time struck the horse, with the view of evading the toll. The horse was no sooner struck than he plunged forward, knocked down the complainant, and the wheel of the vehicle passed over his shoulder, while on the ground, and inflicted irreparable injury on that part of his body. The defendant, notwithstanding he must have wit nessed the accident arising from • his gross miscon duct, instead of waiting to ascertain the result, drove down the Southwark bridge-road with the greatest speed. _ The complainant added that he had been laid up ever since the accident occurred until very recently, and should net have succeeded in the discovery of the defendant had it not been for a gentleman who witnessed part of the transaction. Mr. .Whitmore, the banker, stated that he hap. pened to be passing on horsebjck on the day in question, sad witnessed the scandalous conduct of the defendant in drivinitover the complainant upon being asked to pay th e to ll. llie defendant was tined 51., the highest penalty allowed, and the complainant was told that he could bring an action against him besides. LAWRIE TODD.—This work, of which a new and cheap edition has just appeared, has been pronounced equal, if not superior, to those early volumes which as serted the author', claim to the highest order of comic genius, " Lawrie Todd" is worthy of the talent which rave birth to Me Ayrritire Legatees and Me Annals of the Parish, and, like them, it deals in vigorous picture. of character in human life, to which it adds sketchirof the new world iq the beck woods of America, wherein ti hero, a shrewd, but patient Scotchmso, was his way gra. dually to fortune, EX•KING OF FRANCE.--About half-past four o'clock the Royal party arrived at the Palace, and immediately proceeded along the south side of the qua drangle towards the Strathmore apartment+, which have beer, devoted to their accommodation. Yesterday, about one o'clock, the Duke DE BORDEAUX walked out into the Km's Park with his prCceptor, and one or two other attendants, and did not return till past two o'clock. The Royal patty'spent the greater part of yesterday in repose; but the Kasa stepped out in the evening, with one or two friends, on purpose, we believe, to take a walk incognito through, the town. The Duke and Duchess n'Awcroo- Latta are not expected for coma day,. --Ndinlourgh Ad vertiser of Friday. sURREY SESSICOS, 044.1 C. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY SY SENVAPITOci G m l! s h t f i e f a i r e t a k y n , d a i g V e e h m d ite p 3 a l s o r ,: e w n r e:r e t e d h e p S u ß t i : I v o a . n w d the m li bar: : d i a g i nl on f ort l" : o.l on mix indictments, charging them witbrebbiet of 11:Inkside. The first ind'crment charged* with stealing two china dishes; the second h third with stealing counterpane 3; the fitarth on stealing two silver spoons and a slyer fork' till with stealing a table cloth, three handkirellittoro silver spoons, a gold ring, a pair of eilver . 0 crackers, and a child's silver coral; and the til with stealing a gown and a shirt. . 1 The prisoners were first tried for Stealin g the y china dishes. plii ll Bol l r r n .. e j J rs k E. :ststerr conducted the case fo r the pm cation, and Messrs. BACON and DUNBAR fort 3IMETT, in stating the cases Sid* the p r secutor was extremely grieved to We test' against the prisoners, who bad been for years in his service, and who had gained tbeemil confidence and respect of the family; ' Oat aP° llOl ing that he had been robbed to a very, trot °l g r no less than 59 duplicates, nearly all of tbtiO !wing to his property, being found,. he felt AO I then had a duty to perform towardstbiltr th lk# °II he was reluctantly obliged to resort ;WOO r ... ceeJings. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the RIM Dr. Hoti o rt I Bankside, deposed that the prisoner Chileick ol been nine years in her service, and was co o l 4l , in her confidence; Whitear had been nemy,lf same time in her service. From October hut ell nest had suffered much from &IA 0d . ,.. -c ", l : i h rA attend to her household affair... l) , n 1r i ,,,• 1 „ - e i l April she went to reside at Peeldieln lot v."' - of her health, and she took Cbilwiek with her: t T o h , e l y itio r k e e t n u l r 3 n e e siii d a to nd t f o ro w ni n 11o:caw 18th when, from Chilwiek's having been Ava n t ad dle stances regarding Whitear, did not return for several day she gave them both. _ lice to quit. Chitwick, on the 21st, reeutitroi be allowed to go our, whielfvess et ed i 1 ., /1 0 shortly dismissed. The witOoolit e l l ,; " „,f i be l el to examine the house,. and uPou'i uY "'"' ' !IA kitchen she perceived a cupbottrd wile : ° s ke CihtfieCii : 4l , g : ie f igg' asked for the key; the prisoner.Whitrar' gglq`b7; was nothing of witness's there; 1 , 11 e wit „„„ "11 ,:1. - esi ever, persisted in having the ao°r ° ,r o ilie tit , b " r l o s k e r n m o u Whitler said she would go up stairs to i°,_ A, in j i key ; she went up stairs, but never tearllguono plen:haendhaagtetia.nemittdeddy th w e s, h o ofool&d: the then in the presence of other persons Ou' i 'l w ficl i H deteriPlion. 4 these were 58 or 59 duplicates er au , f s he tit property. The police were ieformeafiended., cumstattres,and the prisoners well gr e e ksh post Edward Burn, shopman to 31G „ . .., 1 - - , I do of broker in the New Dover-road, pro"' ',ulna china dishes which he had received from o 1 named Mary Junes, on the sth of Febitlarl 461' ~,. pledge. Mary Jones stated that she was gligfe rtiilli gl i n' r i e r. stl SOT charwoman . She , that `,"tbeise saner a C s hil sick, an d at times st as:reotit ked at of February the two prisoner ' re P e ` t wo china dishes, and desired her to go and W% l b, that — he G a r p7r i e m h i e t She did so, and gave them the 010 0 4", optio duplicate. . Mrs. Feathers, in White-sti est, nes!! the Jo e Whitear did not seem tows:much for PLio in which she was placed, but.Chilwigk Ile distressed, and said she was as guilty 0 ° +L . OI II: jeadnihoeffiperearonoefaVinthrniht;loolllo:oo4o, The witness received all the 59 duplieste# Pr'sie and lV Harrison, who hail identified Head, all' the to which they referred. prisoners to have conducted th 00 10 1 " ... . well until these transactions teek. 0° 44 , ' . N'iltrnse.ssielso‘rviewren stated that to I,Vbehi4nitir;orocilise:Gortgoth ,;11"Pl circa; butTihtempitrissonnoetrsprwoceereeodfound fiVoihil: and ietg: , witTbdherayw‘uvetrbeetihrepni:shsaufrgerl e n - ii"g WI' h i d" in, owkig I°.g pl ea A Gittli'lhtye.CHAlßMAN thougb l : ° ;irr ul firiti-bla' cos advisedly in withdrawing the ' . It . 7 lead fie be no doubt of their guilt. The ib w ing ! r S o k 0110. most disgraceful situation, in r . , °- _,...i, co galeat i them. The r'i e s e y n e t a e r ri s c e h g o d f P t i h a rC u ° s- o rt-4-.' be transported for 14 years; . ' ' 11 0 .cor.i:t. Dr. Harrieon then applied to the _ , .. ti .ie Watt" whether the remains of the proper. 7 • r, ,g him was to be restored to him. r d e ith s . pawnbrokers, should be given all T th h e e pCrelipAeltßiyikertcisettair: in Ce r t t h a s i n i l : y igp , n di ll os O d:tiet°tito:4,4, ~ i; 01 Ann limit, a very respectable -le ? , ont oini Woman, was indicted for stealing e tu p ri• k i ats o 22a. 6d., a writing-desk, a number oulrootrioio ibex petticoats, towels, handkerchiefs, ligullvwdoeff articles, the property of her master, J.,l,itire 11l It appeared that the prisoner s a t Chdie thg service of the prosecutor by mel .... .. ° or ;•sbo_t ratter, having robbed her former trg7 t ore , ' been but a short time in the prosocuteriocele when Mrs. Lightfoot missed frorn h . . to odir g purse containing 225. 6d. Mail Ol t ; ro liber, that one of the servants had commuted L oc heri" she, in the presence of other pereenotroo bo boxes of the servants, and in the prrithodu were found all the gowns, pelticostligl ' no g big articles of wearing apparel, whic h h i ' 0 Orel previously missed. Mrs. Lightfoot t ..i o too t her conviction that the prisoner hot, a ss 0° money, and the prisoner the n drew l'" r. a " ,_ money from her bosom. • O The Jury found the prisoner Gu ilt Stoi fo° l Chairman sentenced bet to be transpor7 teen years. c=ps— ..,1!.- -r:,-?!''' „ j ' a rrie II ! e -- AIIitAILAM NEWLAND, Vlb.°Setilool,lo. once as well known as that of th e gralol, floor,b4A, malt,;E1?lull , vac where iinene:::geecci inte rr e d dl:i t parts ar i lle d ie l is' ° Ci N i Infirnefewttel::::ade liken °g c nhd o r t t r A ac n ile : b t n t r ef : 4° ;: a • ;::: : :? : 4s4o : lll4ll4 : rw-.41114 , I 7 P 1 ; 4 : 7 ; -$1 monsters pewit through their pr .-.--: farmers can scarcely bring their g r011i ....45000 16 _.,.....--- .. -, CI :4 the 24th intt. at OBalkßirriiilllL,4krot' 111°14'11..14N W. O B n ini t P h w e " 2 ' 6t l l l ; N of a N` . 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I P - Icl, ° I t yougest twit of the lsie Co tan Robert :ishll 0 0: t t h h e e 2256tthh lust, J• JE:lDgaire,kison n o of mi 31 1 :. : I : l l ' l s te e : tb7 i , 3 l b P lic strtrt, Aldgate. $ , se, Cro2.ydon. it to l m/ He n the .ith inst. at Acri.lane, . 141i° ' 0...,40 4 ' . Rife of Mr. J. Miller, of Queen-s tre et -plate, - bridge, aged 37. m i , "11 3 11, 6 , At Calcutta, on tine 234 of Alai. in '"- B : t' the ' I I uS.etpairl:torntbenk:Atclan.,dSeprreptutatyrysectoroGiaovriOrirfaiset g e n c r - .simi et o ' o 4 ; litieal departments. Mr. Sailing_ wa s do , 1° . 5191 4 Admiral Stirling, of Woburn:4oloo 14 " rry/ ' 1 sided in India nearly 17 years. PRIN ar* 2, fHivorl":, TED m AS-33-IC-4--1.-USLIsli-S-D SY MVO°