The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our belief in the preservation of peace rests on the inability of the powers of the Continent to go. to war. Those more immediately concerned may beter.no good will to the new order of things in. France, and under any other i c.rcumstances than the present would have entered Belgium, but they dread their own subjects more than the danger from the new order of things, While, however, we rely on the embarrassments of the Powers, and the pa cific disposition of the Duke of Wellington (who is known to have made strong representations to the French Government against the allowing French men to take part in the affairs of Belgium), we can not shut our ears to the language of individuals con nected with the foreign embassies here. They urge that these Governments are beset with dangers, and that the example of successful resistance is pro ducing effects which will drive them to desperate courses. They urge, too, that Russia is like the devil at the ear of a sinner, constantly tempting tltem to accept her aid. The Russian Government is under a sort of necessity of making war. The army cannot be with safety left in peace; and the Russian landholders are notoriously disaffected. On the other hand the Germans would to a man rise, were the Russiens to attempt to cross their own frontiers. However, the principal difficulty is to come. We shall soon see how Austria conducts herself in her trial,. It cannot have escaped the most obtuse observer, that much of the present embarrassments in the political world arises from the mixing up family affairs with matters of government. For instance, the connection of the Stadtholder with Prussia led to the invasion of Holland, under the countenance of England, at the commencement of the French Revolution. At this time the con nection of the Prince of Orange with Russia is also a source of alarm. Thus the nations of Europe are considered as so many family estates. Well might Jefferson exclaim, on the invasion of Holland by Prussia, that this system of a separate Royal caste, of which the families marry only into each other, is pregnant with dreadful evils ! Think only of a whole Contiwent being involved in war on account ore single family ! --Morning chronicle. The following letter is from an English gentle man of high character, and possessed of great in fluence in Brussels. According to him, De Potter is decidedly in favour of the Prince of Orange, as Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom, or a sort of guardian for his eldest son, the Duke of Brabant; and this party seems recently to have gained ground. lie complains of the statement which appeared some time ago in the Courier, and which we noticed at the time. The communication on which he ani madverts was so extravagant as to refute itself. The correspondent of another contemporary (the Globe) observes— " Persons here are astonished at the palpable falsehood contained in a London Evening Paper, in its attempt to, justify the conduct of the Dutch troops. If that journal still continues doubtful en the score of their dreadful pil lage*, I. can and will give it the names of the unfortunate sufferers." indeed, the Courier admits last night that the communication was a tissue of miarepresentations, and endeavours to account for the excesses com mitted by the Dutch troops : ."Phat excesses, " he says, " were committed by the besiegers there can be no doubt. But it must be remem bered that the soldiers (half Belgians) were irritated by resistance, soured by privation and hunger, and perpe. tually exposed in the streets to at murderous fire; and that they were obliged to fight inch by inch, and to carry every house by assault ere they could obtain a lodgment. They knew, also, that their comrades had been entrapped into the town at the Fiandeis gate, and there suddenly and treacherously wailed, not with the usual weapons of war, but with vitriol, lime, pepper, burning oil, 'and, in short, every destructive missile, liquid or substance, the most opposed 'to Acknowledged modes of defence, and ruin sequently the most calculated to infuriate regular troops, and to ratite a spirit of revenge throughout the army: They saw their fellow-soldiers fast felling by the heavy fire directed from the surrounding houses, and if in their first. bum of fury they did maltreat the occupants of those houses carried by storm, it cannot create surprise, still less can it he expected that they should be able to distinguish friends from foes, or passive front active enemies. " All military men are aware of the difficulty of pre serving discipline amongst soldiers quartered on citizens, even in peaceable times. They must likewise be aware of the proneness of troops of all nations to mischief and dis• order when nnresiated, and that cases of aggression and rubbery are daily and hourly occurrences. They, there fore, comprehend the difficulty of preventing acts of die order and plunder at the moment of attack, and, in fact, the impossibility of restraining men whom passions' are inflamed by opposition and cuff-ring---end, above all, when these men are scattered /Me oink through hon See in all the confusion naturally incidental to street warfare. 41 Our own army, the best disciplined and most orderly in Europe, can ferule!' a Iniudresi examples corroborative at this feet." lint we proceed to lay the Brussels letter before our reedere:— " Beessees, Ger. 13.—Little has transpired, within these few days worth relating, and the affairs of the Bel glans remain, in regard to settlement, in static 'quo. The National Congress I. expected to be convened the first week in November, when they will immediately proceed to the discussion affecting the appointment of a fixed forte of Government for Belgium, and they will in that die. cession decide whether the Prince of Orange, his son, or who else, shall lintel the sceptre of authority. A party of 2,000 volunteers are gone to complete the capture of Ghent, which, when effected, will leave but Antwerp to subdue. Don Juan Van Haien has retired front corn. mend, with a pension for his widow in eau of his decease. He is succeeded in command by Nypele: the second in command is colonel Fortson, and General Martinet it Chief of the Etna Major. De Potter ledevidedly in favour of the Prince of Orange as Lieutenant-General of the king. dont, as a sort of autos for his eldest son, the Duke of Brabant, and this party seems to have recently gained ground. Reports froth Antwerp this evening state, that they are there in a very unsettled state indeed. Prince Frederick appeared a day,since on parade at Antwerp, and was obliged to retire .in consequence of the Moses of the people, Some one should call at the courier Office, arid tell the Editor that he either receives from his Brussels Correspondent very partial information , or that be is at . • no pares to sscertuin whether tire intelligence which he receives he true or not before he inserts it. Perhsps, in deed, be cares nothing about inserting untruths, provided they blacken the Belgian cause and the conduct of indivh deals with sufficient malignity. But felsehoods, however never again hand Belgium over to Hollerith Xt is easy to see how it happeni that thin English Govern gout is so uninformed as to the real state of things in Belgium. What can he expected from such a prejudiced mid empty-headedi of Correspondent as tire _Biggish Secretary of Legation'?" , It does not follow because Mr. Cartwright, the Secretary of Legation, is not exactly a man to, set the Thames on fire, that the English Government is uninformed as to the red state of things in gium. The Duke of Wellingtoe, during his Penin sula empties, was remarkably distinguished fur the Correctness of his information, and We doubt not he has not yet forgotten the secret for obtaining . • correct information. His Grace knows too well the nature of the meteriels of our diplomatic men to rely on any information to be obtained Val a them. He is obliged to name persons to. situations abroad, not because they are fitted for therm, but because they possess on interest which he cannot disre g ard : tut he is not obliged both to ,try these men anit to believe their statements. The country suffers, no doubt, in being obliged to give a large amount of money to a parcel of empty-beaded coxcombs, who are merely made Diplomatists because theycannot be otherwise disposed of ; and much mischief is often done by them in retch cases es ' the Belgian insurrec tion, which the Government at home cannot easily undo. They carry with them the weight- of the powerful Government to which they belong, and from that circumersuce, if weak in judgment, they may give a mischievous direction to affair.. If, for Inoternee, Mr. Cartwright had been a man of sound jtitignient, he would have prevented the assault on meastire Which. as Mr. Wood stated ire his letter, could even if tutcestiful, only serve to add to the difficulties of the King, Any soars Who knows the ofteetitianey of English Councils in the Nether. Nods will readily believe that Mr. Cartwright, if h e did not persuade Prince Frederick to that disastione measure, could et least have prevented it. This is the great evil to which We are exposed from the manner in which our Legations are filled. The cor respondent or the Courier soya "As far , as Prince Frederiek rs coneerned with the ex-, ceases committed •by Ma troops, it is Merely necessary refer the public to his.daily milers ; and if this is not sof& cient it can be proved beyond all possibility of contradic tion, that be took every possible measure to disc Over and punish offenders ; and moreover called upon all the /Mho dries of the villages or towns occupied by the troops to arrest any soldier offering stolen articles for sale. Patrols of marechanssi:e and dragoons were, anti are, established in every direction to prevent all marauding ; and, in fact, everything has been done by his Royal Highness that hu manity and anutiance could suggest, to diminish the evils necessarily attendant upon his operations. " I say humanity, because any person gifted with a grain of :tense must beconvinced, that had Prince Fre derick not been restrained by feelings of this nature, he might have bombarded the town, and converted it into a heap of ashes, without exposing a man. It suffices for any military man to.exemine the points of attack, to be come persuaded that it was the Prince's object to spare the city as much as possible, and, in a military point of view, he must be condemned for exposing his people to all the disadvantages of street-firing (when tactics and dis cipline are rendered nugatory), instead of establishing his batteries on the adjacent heights, and thence bombarding the city, without risk to his army. " The fact is undeniable, that he could have burned the town to the ground. Why, than, if be were animated with sanguinary intentions, did he not take advantage of the means within his power to injure the place? Why, if be were the heartless person we are taught to believe, did he confine his attacks to parts the least populous, and pre fer expoiing his troops in the Park and adjacent parts to bombarding and firing the lower portion of the city F It is notorious that not a single red-hot shot was fired, and the number of shells thrown in did not exceed twenty : these ohm were directed as nearly as possible to the imme diate vicinity of the principal point of attack. In short, no unprejudiced person, who has the commonest know ledge of the rules of war, can avoid seeing that Prince Frederick's efforts were directed as much as possible to spare the city; had lie been less scrupulous, he might in fallibly have reduced it, if not to subjection, at least to a heap of ruins." This defence of the humanity of Prince Frede rick is the severest libel on the judgment of his ad visers. The Courier observes, "We do not think that the provocation received by the troops was suf cient to justify the excesses which they are acknow ledged to have committed." This may be true; but what a fool must that man be, who would ex. pose troops to provocation, in the belief that they might not commit excesses ? In the state of ex citement in which the population of Brussels notori ously was, it was clear that they would resist the troops ; and the General who did not take into his calculation the probability that such resistance would lead to the most dreadful excesses, may be a very humane man, but he is assuredly also a very weak man. The Courier says : " That Prince Frederick's conduct throughout was hu mane, almost to a fault, will be admitted by every unpre judiced person ; but wo do not admit that lie acted with good judgment. Our correspondent Bays, that he was blameable in a military point of view for not battering the town to pieces. To allow this, would he to acknowledge a principle against which reason and humanity declare. In no point of view, military or otherwise, would snob a course have been proper; and to the high credit of Prince Frederick, he rejected the advice which was given to him to lay the city in ruins. A great military fault had been committed in proceeding against the city at all with a force unequal to its reduction, by cutting off its supplies and starving it into a surrender, in the event of its being as certained that resistance would he offered to an open at tack; and it is too much to insinuate that a military fault ought to hare been repaired by a military' murder, for such, under the circumstances, would have been the course which appears to have been recommended by some persons less humane than the Prince Commander." Prince Frederick, we understand, makes no secret of the advice under which he acted. It is, we be lieve, a settled muter, that whew Mince Hilts (to use the nomenclature of another contemporary) or Prince Frederick are entrehted with troops, there should be akeeper assigned to him to guide his move ments. All we can say of Prince Frederick is, that he has been in very bud hands. The least knowledge of mankind would have withheld a Prince from rouzing against hiMself the indignation of his own subjects, by subjecting his capital to the horrors of an assault. The misrepresentations in English Newspapers are of less moment; end if our Diplomatists had only occupied themselves in representing the Belgians as a contemptible rabble, so long as the Government were not the dupes of the misrepresentation, the breach admitted of a remedy. The gentleman ;hove alluded to is not the only , correspondent who has figured in this precious correspondence. There are at Brussels a set of fellows who left a well known school, not far from this metropolis, under circum stances which did not reflect the highest credit on them, us those who have been beggared by their debts of 40,0004 have reason to know, who also figured away in the honourable ocenpatton of en lightening the British public us to the baseness of the Belgians, through the columns of some of our Ministereal contemporaries. The motives of these worthies are as well known at Brussels as their exertions are there correctly appreciated ; but the British public are not in the same situation.— Morning Chrimiele, The House of Commons in a few days will have a most important duty to perform when it meets, in electing a Speaker. The person selected should have great knowledge of the usages of Parliament, patience, suavity of manners, an excellent temper, and dignity in his deportment to ensure attention tend respect. These are qualifications rarely corn bitted in the sittrie individual, but they should be the guide to the Members in electing one.of their body to preside over their proceedings. So tenacious formerly were the Commons to have un efficient Speaker, that all parties expressed a wish that the late Mr. 'lateen, first Clerk of the House, in con sequence of his - great Parliamentary knowledge, should fill the: Chair, which he modestly declined. The Chair was subsequently occupied by a Lord Grenville, a good speaker. Lord Sidmouth was stiff and formal, but still better. Lord Rr desdale sat in the chair, but was totally incompetent to the ditty, and presided only during one Paige merit, when Mr: Abbott (the late Lord Colchester) was appointed Speaker, who was decidedly the best that ever filled the high and important situation. It is now said 'that Mr. Goulburn is to be proposed by Ministers to fill the Chair. If this gentleman is c onsidered ao,inefficient Chancellor of the Exche quer, surely it is not probable that he will be an excellent, or even a mediocre, Speaker ; ant this subject the House of Commons is imperiously called upon to do its duty. There are, in our opinion, fifty Members in the House more competent to fill the situation then Mr. Goulburn—and from these they should make their election.--Morn. Advertiser. The pamphlet published a few weeks ago, and entitled What has the Duke of Wellington gained Iv the Dissolution? made, as is recollected, and as the author intended, a noise in the political world. From the resolute,--nay, fierce party spirit in which it was composed, and the acute and sarcastic power ethibited in ,every page of it,there Was little proba bility-that the partisans of Ministers would take altogether without resistance the chastisement in flicted on them by the author. An answer to that pamphlet, or whet is meant for an answer, ac cordingly been pet forth within the last two days. But, in tke good faith of criticism, we are compelled to acknowledge that the writer has demonstrated more zeal thee wisdom in 44 laying himself along side" an antagouiet so far above his match. Some filets in correction of a few of those which were thrown out by the Whig adversary are, parlor, well founded; but whatever light they may let in upon the composition of the House of Commons as to votes, they undoubtedly shed none mien the Composition of the Ministry, with regard to that intrinsic strength or , weakness which re sults from their character as statesmen, and on which, after all, their active influence over the great Cody of their political supporters will be found -elm/duo/0 to turn - refutation of the : tables in the former pamphlet, which made out a list: of 51 votes, inimical to Ministers, beyond the limits of the old Opposition, the author produces a rival list, which represents 33 Ministerial Members in the ex isting Parliament,' in hen of as many who had for merly allied themselves to the Whigs, or interthe diate opposition. We are not enough acquainted with the new Parliament . to judge how, far Ove las. sumptiens tyre accurate, but such as it is we insert the list its follows. The column of old Members, it will be remarked, contains the names of ousted or self-dismissed opponents of the Wellington Go vernment,—they are 33 in number : Places. New Members. Old Members; Arundel Lord D. C. Stuart Edward Lambe.. Bedford. Frederick Polhill Lord W. Russell. Bristol Tames Evan Millie Henry Bright. Caernarvon W. Ormsby Gore Lord W. Paget. Derby . Edward Strutt Samuel Crompton. Dover Sir Jan Rae Reid W. H. Trant. Evesham Lord Kennedy E. Prot heroe. Hastings Maidstone .... Ald. Winchester J. Welk Northampton Sir It. H. Gunning W. L. 'Maberly. , Peterstield Sir W. Jolliffb W. Marshall. Reading Charles Russell J. B. Monck. • Rye Francis Bonham Col. De Lacy Evans. St. Alban's Charles Tennant John Easthope. Old Sarum J. Du Pre Alexander Sir Strat. Canning. Southwark J. Rawlinson Harris Charles Calvert.; Stafford John Campbell 'l'. W. Beaumont. Tregony r James Ad. Gordona James Brougham. James M'Killop j Dr. Lushington. Wareham James Ewing C. B. Wall. Wmehilsea .... Scotch Places. Aberdeen Sir James Carnegie Joseph Hume. Dysart Fortrose Colonel J. Millie Robert Grant. Lanarkshire Hon. C. Douglas Sir M. S. Stewart. Irish Places. Cork Drogheda Henry North P. Van Homrigh. Dublin Monaghan Wexford County Hon, Mr. Blaney Hon, H. Westenra, Westmeath r Colonel Chichester ) Lord Stafford. /Lord Vale:Ala 3 It. H. Carew. Wexford Town —( Tithes.) In considering the settlements of England on the west coast of Africa, few persons have of late years been hardy enough to deny that a large price was paid for the object—even the ostensible object —of the policy under which those settlements had been established,—viz., the releasing from unlawful bondage, and the admitting to some chance of civili zation, the negroes found on board captured slave ships, and, generally, the diminution of the nefarious traffic. The price paid by England has been for a period of many years a sacrifice of British lives, most unexampled and dreadful, scarcely. one English man in twenty who visit those pestilential shores having ever the good fortune to escape from them. Every Governor who has been sent out within our memory (one only, we believe, excepted) is said to have died on the spot of diseases unavoidably con tracted in the performance of his duty. The govern ment of these possessions, therefore, is regarded as a fatal, not a friendly gift. The officers named to it feel, for the most part, like Mussulmans when the bowstring is presented to them, they bow their beads, and perish. But has the main purpose been yet fulfilled for which the nation undergoes these terrible sacrifices? Has the slave-trade been in reality, and sensibly diminished—first, by its abandonment, on the part of Great Britain, us a commerce; and secondly, by her persevering and well-meant efforts to arrest it on the African coast ? We are much afraid that if the truth were known, it would appear that not Only full as many slaves had been kidnapped since England had virtuously abjured the traffic, but that the seizures made, and the negroes liberated by her cruisers, had borne no higher comparis on than that of a drop of water to a mill stream with the mass of wretehesswept off to irretrievable degradation in another hemisphere, through the horrors of the middle passage, now a thousand times more bar barous than at any former period. Neither, there fore, in the price paid, nor in the article pu rc h a s e d, if we measure them both by th e i r qufintity, can there be alleged much ground for encouragement to longer retention of these miscalled colonial pos sessions. But it would appear, that even were the loss of life to our countrymen less extensive, and the preservation of life and security to the Africans snore so, the settlements of Sierra Leone, &e. gm., ought not to be maintained an hour longer, unless an important amelioration were to take place in the mode of administering . the powers and.pa tronage of the executive Government. It is not surprising that under the Parliamentary system of this country, the creation of offices in any quarter should be almost commensurate with the numbers of individuals qualified or riot qualified to hold them. But on the coast of Africa death outstrips die Mi. nister. He kills off loyal officers of the kingdom so expeditiously, that the sponge of the Treasury cannot keep pace with the scythe of the stern de stroyer. The Minister cannot put an end to places so successfully as the career of their several occu omits is terminated; and as it would be disloyal to leave a lucrative post without a tenant, we find, by the letter of one of this day's correspondents, that several offices are heaped on one pair of shoulders; —that from the havoc made by the climate, the few survivors are compelled to do treble or quadruple work, in the way of collecting, fur their own use, as- many sets of • salaries—a task which they can no otherwise find time to execute, than by fore going the official and less bearable business, for whose discharge the said salaries bad been granted. Thus, a " beardless boy " steps in to the situ ation of " Colonial Secretary," " Chief Justice of the Colony," Judge of the Admiralty Court," " Colonel of Nlilitia," and a " leading member of Council 1" for each and all of which we presume the youth may have been equally well qualified. A Jew shop-boy stuck in as " King's Advocate," " Re. gistrar of Vice-Admiralty," and " Member of Coun cil l" The instances, or rather system of low-lived oppression, practised by creatures like the above on the coloured population, have led, as may be learned from the letter alluded to, the greater part, if not the whole of the Maroons, who had been sent out as colonists from Jamaica to SierrusLeone, and who are said to constitute the great body of intelligence mid industry among the people of colour, to petition to be re-transported to Jamaica, us a refuge from the evils they have been enduring. We do not say, therefore, by u sweeping inference, " abandon all these aettlements of Western Africa, but be consistent with the principles on which they were planted : if they be for the benefit of the blacks, let black men share the favours of the Government and the duties and respect ability of public office." Let a Governor and Chief Justice, if necessary, be sent out from Eng land, but let all the rest of the place-holding com munity he men of colour, capable of .standing the climate, and of being drawn towards the King's Go. vernment by_ kind and fostering usage, instead of repelled by insolence or negligence, and induced to petition for release from the liberating colony. olo m ny o . reo‘ S . V er e , recommend, for the sake of English life, that negroes should be the administrator s of these possessions, as well as negro happiness their osten sible object. Our correspondent's letter may be read with hilventage, for its suggestions on massy interest ing points.—Times. If this be the age of intellect, it is also the age of quackery. We have all sorts of new and strange projects devised and submitted for, public encourage ment daily, upon the moat generous, noble, and dis interested principles, the beginning, middle, and end of which are explained by the one word, subscrip tion. Among the most recent of the ingenious' con. trivances, which are to ufford John Bull the plea aure of patriotically getting rid of some of his super litmus cash, is the design of er e ct i ng a , national monument" to Shukspeare. Nqw, if ever there ex isted a writer, whose" name should be his monu ment alone," it is the Bard of Avon, whose works are as imperishable as the language whi c h they: en rich and adorn. Well might he have exclaimed at the 'close of his immortal labours, like the Roman poet, but with a more justified 'confidence in' the eternity of his own fame .Eiregi monumentum sere p erm -pawl But there are, among the great and atikent classes of this country, many who would 1 ;0'44 subscribe to raise a statue to - a celebrated poet or artist when dead, who would net be equally ge nerous to promote his interests when living. This it the country, ha it remembered, in which Dryden, w ho, eirtaialpnen•after Shekspear e and Milton, was the greatest and most original poet that England has produced, died in a state of abject poverty;` the country in whicii ()way and Butler—the one never -• • 4 - • . . surpassed in pathos, the other never rivalled in humour—perished of absolute Want. Even the Scotch, who are now so enthusiastic in paying post humous honours to the indignant shade of the, in spired and neglected Burns, allowed that exquisite master of the Doric reed to accept the unpoetic livery of an exciseman, or starve. Irt short, the spirit that stimulates men to make a display of their veneration for departed genius, while they are negligent of living merit, is not a generous sympathy for mental worth, but an ostentatious affectation of patronage, which vanity alone inspires. Of this vanity there are always cunning and needy projectors ready to take advantage, who convert it into the prolific source of " jobs.' We admire not the " liberality" of the post-mortem patrons of genius, as they may be called. They deny the means of living to those to whom they afterwards erect a tomb. They are literally of that class who " are asked for bread, and give a_ atone !" They would not put out a hand to assist. the noblest nature that was ever born to extend and adorn the empire of literature or the arts, while it struggled for a great renown with adverse fortuae and the ills of life— but when its glorious agonies have terminated, when it has reached the heights of its intellectual am bition, and achieved immortal fame, then they come forward to obtrude their assistance where it is no longer required. Talk, indeed, of a subscription for a national monument to Shakspeare—a poet whose fame, pursuing its own career, without any aid but what was derived from its own intrinsic ex cellence, has become so resplendent and universal, that we might almost with as much reason talk of raising a monument to the sun ! If a monument connected with the fine arts is said to be wanted, we deny it. One of the noblest monuments of that kind ever raised to the memory of a poet was the splendid work known by the name of " Boydell's Shakspeare." That was not, however, the work of a little junta 'propping their spurious generosity upon a public subscription. It emanated from the energies and resources of the truly patriotic and public-spirited individual by whom it was devised and executed. To accomplish that work, he called upon the talents of such artists as Sir Joshua Rey nolds, Northcote, Fuseli, &c. What sort of patron age did the public give it ? Until this can be satis factorily answered, it would be better to be silent about another " national monument to Shakspettrer —Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Jacob Botfield, a green-grocer, in Addle-street, Wood-street, Philip Pijle, a porkman in Silver street, and - Cotterell, an oilman at the corner of Milk -street, attended before Sir PETER LAURIE and Alderman C. SMITH yesterday, upon sum monses to answer the complaint of the Inquest of the Ward of Cripplegate-within, for having defec tive weight found in their shops. Botfield said, he was inspector of the watch, and with respect to the scales, they had been acciden tally broken, and to correct the falseness of the ba lance the piece of lead had been used, which a dis honest man might certainly remove, during the weighing, without inconvenience. The foreman of the inquest said, the defendant had a large family, and it was his first offence. The Siagistraia convicted in the mitigated pe nalty of 10s. Philip Pyle was charged with having in his shop a 71b. weight deficient by ioz.; a 41b. weight by ioz.; a ilb. weight by nearly ioz.; a ilb. deficient by something less than ioz.; and a 2oz. weight alto deficient. The Magistrate said they must disgrace him also, by fining him 10s. The case against - Cotterell was, that be had in use a lb. weight deficient by }oz., and a weight by not quite }oz. Sir PETER LAURIE said, he and his brother Ma• gistrate must protect the public by disgracing the defendant with a fine of 10s. The tines were paid, and the weights and scales were ordered to be destroyed. BOW-STREET. Last night James Jdfreys, a young man in the dress of an ostler, was brought in custody before Mr. MINSIWIL by John James Smith, charged with having , been concerned with others in a burglary committed at the Royal Oak Inn, Devizes, on the 25th of September last. The prisoner was remanded until Monday next, to give time for the prosecutor to come forward. Information was received at this office in the course of the afternoon, that on the night of 'Tues day, or morning of Wednesday last, the dwelling house of Sir John Reado, Bart., at Shipton-courr, near Burford, in Oxfordshire, was broken into by thieves, who succeeded in carrying off 50 plain silver spoons, 44 dessert spoons, 54 table forks, 24 dessert folk; 8 soup ladles, 7 gravy spoons, 2 fish slices, 3 marrow spoons, 18 King's pattern tea-spoons, 24 gilded table-spoons, 24 gilded forks, 1 silver pu►►ch ladle, 6 silver salvers, 4 epergne baskets, 8 dishes, 2 two-handled cups and covers, and a.great variety of articles, all of considerable value. The spoons were engraved with a falcon with its wings ex tended, and all the other articles bore the crest of Sir John Reade, with a baronet's hand. A reward of thirty guineas has been offered for the detection of the thieves. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday William, Oddy, a corporal in the Foot Guards, and Rachel Oddy, his wife, who have been several days in custody, charged, the latter as prin cipal, and the husband as an accessory after the fact, in a robbery committed on a young lady named Whitfield, residing at No. 73, in the Regent's quadrant, were brought before Mr. ROE, the Sitting Magistrate, for re-examination. There has been a great deal of difficulty in bringing home guilt to the prisoners in this case by sufficient evidence, owing to Miss Whitfield's not knowing the dates or numbers of any of the Think notes that were stolen from her ; but yesterday for the first time the evi dence as taken down by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Chief Clerk, supplied a chain which the Magistrate deemed sufficient to connect bath prisoners with the robbery. Miss Whitfield deposed, that the female prismier had lived in her service for : some time, but left her in the beginning of June last, and soon after she quitted, she called one day again, to request a written character, as. she was going again, she said, into ser• vice, and did not mean to live with her husband any m ore. Witness told her, however, that her conduct 'while in her service was by no means satisfactory, and she certainly should not give her a favourable character, and therefore declined altogether giving any.. A few days before this occasion on which the prisoner called about her character, witness went to a drawer in her sitting-room, in which she kept some money, and took from it a sum ()ISO!, part of which was a 504 note of the Bank of England, and paid it into the banking-house of Messrs. Barclay and Co., in the city, where she had occasion to deposit that sum, leaving behind in the drawer 1801. besides, also in Bank of England notes, and,amongst which was another for 601. It was not until after the expi ration of nearly a fortnight from the prisoner's visit, that the witness had uguin occasion to take ti otn e mo re money from the drawer, when, to her utter astonishment, she discovered that the whole o f the 1801. was gone ; and she immediately had the circumstance communicated to the office, was employ e d to trace ant and Ballard, the officer, the prisoner, on whom suspicion fell. Witness was reit aware that the female prisoner, while in her money in thi s d rawer; ser vice, knew of her keeping but as the prisoner was frequently left Of the house, and the keys often lying al one in charge ling about , might have examined th e d rawer on those occasions, anti seen the money there, O n the day that the sitniii prisoner called about her character, she had ,o opportunity for a few minu tes of taking t he money, a " as she was left alone for a short tim e li the room, where :the drawe r s sto o d. open, the whole of the sum originally deposited by positively .sa the itness in the drawer, she cou ld ythere were only two notes of 601., and one of these she had, as be- 1 fore stated, paid into Messrs. Tlarelay's bank. Al though. she did not know either the numbers or dates of ►hese two notes, or had any mark by which she should again recognize them, she recol lecged that she received one of them front a Major Harrison, and the other was paid to her by a gen tleman named Voittier. Ballard, the officer, produced all the notes found on the prisoners, but Miss Whitfield could not idea• tify any of them. Charles EdWard Waller, did 'clerk in the bank note pay office of the Bank, of England, produced two 50/. notes that had been paid into the Bank and cancelled, one No. 19,830, and the other No. 2,996, both dated in April, : _ 1830, but by whom they were paid in witness could.not say. One of these notes, however, No. 2,996, witness had him self originally paid out of the Bank to a Mr.Voutier, in part payment of a Treasury order for 901. Henry Mark Chadwick, a clerk in the Treasury office of the South Sea-house, deposed, that the 501. note produced by Mr. Waller (No. 19,850) was paid by the witness to a Major Harrison, in part pay ment of some dividends, amounting to 2641. Mr. Curdle, a wine -merchant, residing at St. Mary-at-hill, deposed that this 50/. note (No. 19,850) was given to him by Major Harrison, and that he paid it in on Major Harrison'? account to the banking-house of Messrs. Bosanquet and Co., amongst other notes. Mr. Vaughan, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Bosanquet and Co., deposed that this very note was afterwards paid back again to Major Harrison on a cheque drawn by him. This being the whole of the evidence at present, Mr. Roc told the prisoners that the evidence, as far as regarded the two 501. notes that had just been taken down, had nothing to do directly with their guilt or innocence, but merely went to tracing these notes to the possession of Mr. Voutier and Major Harrison, from whom Miss Whitfield said she had received the two 50/. notes that were in her pos session previous to the robbery : so that it would not, he said, be necessary for the prisoners to say .any thing on this part of the case; but still if they wished to say any thing on this or any other part, he was ready to attend to it. Both the prisoners declined saying any thing, and they were remanded for another week, to have the attendance of Mr. Voutier and Major Harrison, who are at present out of town. All the witnesses now in attendance, however, were bound over to prose cute, and they were told that they need not attend again until the Sessions. L A.3IBETH.STREFIL Yesterday IVilliam Murphy, a policeman belong ing to K division, was charged before Mesas. WALKER and WYATT with assaulting Mr. Cheese, one of the churchwardens of the parish of Bow, Middlesex. The policeman came forward, and said he was ashamed of his conduct, lie had been with a few friends, and had taken too much of the cheap beer, which caused him to miss his way, and finding him self in a lonely street, and a gentleman coming to wards him, he stopped him for the purpose of ques tioning him. He was now ready to make any apo logy—a submission which he hoped would satisfy Mr. Cheese. The Magistrates remarked that the course which Mr. Cheese must pursue was to make his statement to the inspector, who would report to the Commis sioners, and the pUnishment of the man would be, in all probability, his dismissal. .ilfary Smith, a gaunt, wretched-looking female, was charged with stealing an infant of six monthsold. The prisoner was remanded until this day. QUEEN-SQUAXE. Yesterday John Lawton was placed at the bar before Mr. GREMORIE, charged on suspicion of steal ing► from the dwelling-house of Mr. Cowley, of No. 11, Cadogan-street, Chelsea, an opera-glass, for merly belonging to Marshal Dumont, and an an tique gold ring. It appeared from the statement of Mr., Cowley that in August last a person came to him, and re presented himself as the Hon. Adolphus Frederick Montmorency Prendeville, by courtesy called Lord Glencairn. He stated that be was in some diffi culties, from the part he had acted in the late French Revolution, and, believing his story to be correct, be did his utmost to assist him, and be had his meals with him daily : he also introduced him to a tailor, where he got a suit of clothes. The honourable gentleman told him that he expected a remittance of about 100/. in October; and he would accept a bill for him for thirty odd poundo, but when it became due it was protested. The prisoner acted as his servant, and he asked him if it was likely his master would receive any money in October. He replied that he Would most likely receive either 2001. or 1501.• The prisoner's master also represented himself as being the brother of Lord Killmurray ; and, in fact, by his account, l►e was related to one half of the nobility. On Monday last the prisoner's minter absconded from his house, leaving the prisoner, who was the only person who had access to the property of which he had been robbed. The prisoner declined saying any thing, and he was remanded for further examination. HATTON GARDEN. Thomas Ilaughton, a haberdasher, residing in Aylesbury-street, Clerken well, appeared upon a summons before Mr. LAINa and Mr. RocEns, to answer the complaint of the parish.officers of Clerk* enwell, for exercising his calling during the hours of divine service on the Sabbath.—The Magistrate fined him in the penalty of 6s. BATTLE OF OTUMBA. The Spaniards were now pressed with such vigour, that they saw no hope, of safety but in retreat. They commenced their march in the dead of night, hoping that they might cross the causeys conducting from the city 'to the shores of the lake, before the enemy should be apprised of their movement. The Mexicans, however, were on the watch ; and they .poured on their oppressors with such irresistible fury, that not withstanding the valour with which the Spaniards defended themselves, they lost . all their horses and artillery, and some of their bravest troops. Cortez endeavoured to animate his dejected sot• diers by his exhortations and example, as they marched through deep swamps, harassed ley parties of the enemy, who hung upon their rear, and who shouted to them, " Go On, robbers tilt you arrive at the place where just punish ment awaits you." I his menacing intimation was not understood. by them till, on ascending the heights which look down on the great plain of Otumba,. they saw an immense army drawn out, and readTto receive them. At this sped.: tacle the hearts of the Spaniards were ready to faint within them ; but the heroic spirit of Cortez always appeared to greatest advantage in. the most desperate eonjettures. Without allowing hie soldiers tiMe•to contemplate the fearful array of the enemy,. but, reminding them that they must choose between .death and victory, he gave the signal of battl e ; rus h e d, w i t h a c h osen band, into the thickest of the fight ; and, having seized the sac re d stan d a rd o f th Mexicans, pined; with littl e l oss , a most d ec i s i ve v i ctory . "'his remarkable battle, in which a handfUl of .Spaniards defeated the whole forces of . the Mexican empire, was fought on the 7th of July, .1520. On the following day Cortez reached Tlascala, the inhabitants of which continued faithful to him in all his reverses.'—Dr. Larut-. ner's Cabinet Cyclopeedia, Vol. XI. The inhabitants of Caine, not being allowed to vote for Members of Parliament, hare set up a claim not to serve on JUries, but which, on an appeal to the Magistrates, has not been admitted. THE NEW POLICE; (From the Morning' AbeW:o 4 We have received frommiriotia .' several letters on.the subject Ae of , 1 ' l '''' and have been urged from tie-to-061i 4 ,43 m " fish our opinion with regard to their ; 17 ' and their expensiveniss. We, itt44; al once declare that we are favourable to the : o" blishment of a more effectual Police 'their Oil which existed under the old system e and thiwe feel convinced, notwithstanding the °nem Old them, that the present Police have-done duty more effectually than the old. But Still we admit this, we confess that we° are nal& , mirers of the present system.- It is unceetteu• tional, oppressive, and expensive , and ought hi all means to be instantly changed. We de a l to its being under the controul and supine' tendence of, and its o ffi cers being appointed by, the Secretary of State. We think this is: to ° near an approach to the infamous system 0 th e French Gendarmerie, established by Ns p , °ill and that it tends to destroy our libertietkeeu places in the hands of the Ministers tremendous power, which may be wielded egaind the pe9l e • And, when we consider the instructions ree, we find sufficient to to the men, and the enormous expense a nt i i u upon the parishes where the system is elloP teu t sive and expensive. There are `,Spine, el where the expense is not. only douli Iti, hut nearly trebled; and in none whets it krill full operation does it relieve tho 'pinvie frog parochial taxes, or add to the eeturity of party. We therefore think the p arochial bon! are fully justified in their opposition to the pro sent system ; and we trust they will not let 101 complaints evaporate in empty leilesit. strenuously follow up their meetings jprstir e Prove 604 is boll! apples. to Parliament, and resolutio ns not 19 VIP: rates until the power of appointing. Shorit. police is wrested from ' the hands of'the lei sters and given to themselves. ' Out, 11 0 , 1 ! : d e remember the present condition a nn/ `Owni s the foreign countries, and obseiva tbe Willi:L b t ote of person, and freedom people over despotic goverirleal s - " -- 1-bertv from - e a g- d e, ' lit : d e . force, we are constrained to ssr*bet her ! I ' ‘ , 6 be the birthright of Englishman -4P !lithe It will be understood liberate) y and conscientiously.atuffergoliiped, present police system is COUDIUItd lal . ,l f .re to the system, and date the instruments c ployed. that our objecou...•;. THE MAlt"--- ------ —net, ID. I rk uouTIIALL MARKET. -- m ai: , , In our market of to-day, %Well Iv" „ rh supplied, and not rely numerously ft , L . 1 , i s the each kind of meat experienced a * ava il.- n . a.....• ill. Ww" ed following prices per stone of 81b. to s ink : 4 „ 40. 041, • Beet ............—.. 2s. 3d. to Ufa I Vea1........" Id i 10 Mutton ....... 3 0 4 2 Pork .......1 ig, Limb.............. as. Oa. MO_ , v et ir; The foregoing quotations are Beef and v ..,. 6 6 0 1 higher ; and Pork W. per stone lower than on .it iP in pnces of Mutton and Lamb n0_,51T,4,, t • Pi* Sheep and Lamb 5,2,752; Calves, 50; Pigs, fi: • portion of the supply left t he market unre • $ LEWES M A RKE'F.--Ocl- JO. '644° 4I Beet ....,......•• ti. Sd. to 3s, FM. 0 Veal 46 r i Mutton .—...... 3 0 4 4 ( P0rk ..............2.,. , ...... .. .. 6 s. O. 4"•*"'" SuPPIY ...... and trade dull , 0. - k 4. RUMFORD MARKWE --. " , ,11, ,, w , 14 4 4 s. d.loo. d. , . it ~,L 4 Weer—. ............. “. 4 2 4 0 6 Veal .. .. ••••••I.erti I 4 Mutton ....... . . ...... 2 8 3 8 Pork ..........tor." . .. Lantb.,—..........-2.1. lid, t w o 3s. lual, db libli CH ' Suckling Calves from 14s. to 345. ; A good supply, and a dull • i - --...._-_,----- -----=.-- - -- =-7 -:-------- * !Olt CiIuNTHY CORN MARKKTS w.wewung.......-- -- A good supply, anu a ww . .....„- , , , . 6. CoUNTItY cot lri mAx - K. wrsinittlo44ll, Wheat. .1/0 0 7 1 ..1.3.... ..••• •` ' ' ~ -. ' --,..... r . .....;;;'........i....1 w , 0 ,‘,...,„,, t e Per Quarter. Is.to I. L': g it'lf: ~ - , e4 1 si , Blandford ............... ' 56' ' '9l ''' ' Ca E l l i o uEn tgit i r : s n gu a gd li gi tarnt o o n gn .........,...... „.....: 1 ressu E 6 62 ,437... , t 97 4 02 'i '. . . .1 3 : 2 1 , . _ 44: 4 1, 0 45 _ . ,40, : . 0 ' oi ' : 11 : : 9 6 5 .. 1 1 , i 3 i ' -18' 1 ' 40 11 : . 1 ,' ' 0: 44 : 4 ft _. _._ eii , . ... ,...' 0 Chan! M la '3lv ms's - _ 60 Louth ..................... 65 10 ,...: f il "'' 28 50 - Lynn........-........... M of -- l i 01 - 41 Newark .........-..... 64 Peterborou h wo 24 .4, , 44 Plymouth .......,,,..... 53 68 01 z ' • r . i 4 2 Pout etraet...-....... .... 66 _.-- " AR ..."' 4 . A I Sleaford ................... 54 64 r„ l A -- 911 a „, 11 50-" U_ppingham ........ 60 70 • 17 4 • '"" oa FP • obi, . .. , Mabee)) -............ 65 66 ...• '-- ' ~..„,v.VI II - . 6A ,I PP . " . . ..a o g rts i0g.11d1.1 4.111' . ' pil l* toiltr - to 4i. Cis , per 751 b. 108.0 tO Ss. 3d. to acrs Ss. d Wherit d. ; Oati, 491 b, Os. M. d. to 48 Nverwicm—Wheat, per 7519. I,ls. Irbil. ss. Cd. to do. td. ; Oats, 5/9b. 48. ea, ---;---------,--r-- LEEDS CORN JRAIIKEI. u. to lh i/ ~,t We lave bad a good supp l y of 'Oast u f Oa. 14 market, with a fair supply of other kinds t;' , , sw ., pritt' f samples of Old Wheat dull sale at last e t h er T°l 1 tido ' best New fall Is. per quarter lower, ,tad. 101' Old and damp New full ev. lower. • marl ri woity 0., ~,.. to 2L per quarter lower, &cording to 4 1 i o in r, do. ; in grinding qualities but little vioia t : i, o ,lBe u: Oats id. to Id. per atone, Shelling 2 1 . Pe r 1° ,1,4 will' 6" le. per quarter lower. Pease nomina. bly O rr ,iderl the variation. Rapeseed has been beld at a can foul price, on account of the unfavourable rood., whale fishery. ..0 1, 1 -......... York. and Lincoln. alb. ............."" 04 , t° 3 9‘. W Barley, Norfolk and SOCA ~.. ~ . , .... ........„ . . .... 4 , , 0 • ~ Wheat, Norfolk and Sutibik, 601 b. ... ... „....„ .... .. 0 444 ' I - 0 0, 65 ,, 1 --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ....... . ......... :;‘, to e I ---- Grinding ............. .„..............„ ..... . ..... ,pt t,:: 7 B eans „........... ....... ... toltt. ..,...........”0':: 00, r';ar Ft. Oats, l'otatoe chased on the smallest .................... ... ........... .........51„ 1:00.1,03,1. —3lealmg. Foreign Rid. tot:ld...English ' ~,. * PLF fait' Shelling ....... • „.. . ... ... ..... - to ...1. RaPeseed, ............... Bi . i. . 1 . 0 - iii. ...... •ForVall. • -1 ' ~, LIVERPOOL CORN NXCHAN°S'.4, IC:0710 Phtleri; The millers and dealers at thiv morniNlll i for 1 1 oronlY Jr. immediate necessities, and pricca wer e f i g: ill l 'o„ii pressed. We quote Old Wheat 8, 1 l ilt ,' ht Ple fog possible tica e, . . for to, per 701 b. lower than an this, day selor"g ' an j ,rrf ,e , were also 6d. to '7,1. per 4611). cheal ier 's,, io 4, ' I r ., transactions in either article. ll° 4 4 l ; i s fbelow °lt P il:' 2801 b., and Oatmeal fully 7e. par lie v 7l„ trade the vioue currency.. For other article. al "- . 8,1. riteli ' Of , mand.was very limited, at about forli er • IN, Oa to :I Make. English, White, per 701 b; .............. 8 9 Q 0 Red ....... .......... ... „ 5 ~..., 4 -----• Scotch, Welch end Mans ... ...... ..... ri ;ti -'—'"— Irish, wt i t ' ........... .. 4 . 3 1 ...... ................. ....._ 8 . 0 . Red ............ .... ................... : 10 u 4 u . ----- Foreign ill '3 I) PllllB, WayF , _ •.........•.. ob.. ............. t ... 4.. , , 0 . .*lg.dth. Welsh, and Scotch, per ' o ' 6 P 'rim . ........ .. .............. ... 3 6 5 3 0 Foreign . 7 ,... 7 ;7.: ......... : ... .... ................. ....... ar 0 9 f t : BARLIIIV, Englun, stalling, per rim; ii.... t.t •' • 4 1 4 0 Scotch and Irish, per Nibs. ...••••••••• 4 ~ 4 0 ----...-- Feeding , ',„. ~.... .. .... ..... 4 5 , i 4 3 g , Beams English, pe 6. .............. .47;;ter..... ........ 4t , , v , 0 5 ----: high. gre. ..... -.. ..... .....". 4 1 ,1 'o v , 44 0 English, per Imp"erlal quarter . ....... ~ a.. 8 , 0 —.--- Foreign ..... ... .... . . ~...............****•''. .:n ti .0 -- 0 ----- Foreir ........,,.. ............ .. ..... ...,•• 48 0 4 1 ' Ftoua, Engl h, per 'Much. .. ‘"'''' ..... 46- 0 ° ........... .... ... ..41 ~, • 4 - - Irian ... .. ..... • -.. ........... ..... • . ~, al 0 7 6 OAT,IBAL. English.and'iriali,per t34011 14 ' ....... 4 : 4 5 0 4t ,s ) 0 WM" Coax, per 4401 b. ...................,"' ..... f, 0 ilkl. pee Imperial quarter ... ...... „..... ........ . ""' It.' .d HALT, per Imperial quarter •.... ............... „• Oct. opt IMPORT or OIAIN for the Week e n ....,,4 LOH „ 4 6 1 . Wheat. Oats. I Barley 1 Fleo r 'h gc. el , " 'OP ro. Ora, Ors. Foreign,adxlins 1,450 5 2 , 523 11.697 (Hi a,adi I -V - pali~Ysn.olll Pust:istivi Ny E.olo°s` TXX SOX Orrict, I ~...._..,_______:_____... ~ 'A`. *3 111 ; 5971 1 ...__'. 3 .,2.. —.f.- - --" --Ir-. BIRTIIS. ',41., On the 9th i dy of 11. wilco Stowlengtoft, Soll.no'ltk. t o h f g a idesughter. ioly 4 On the 13th inst. 'at BayfortlburY, ge r" ' the Lieut.-Col. G. Baker, of a son. , ,i MARRIED. ' ~0, ..I Re O T n the t . 12th inst. at Crettiug St- AlarY' 6 *.i,:., not .R. i'ichards of Datchet, Chaplain to . ', ode Highness the Duke of Susses, to Carotins Aullao daughter of the Res. J. Briggs, Fellow of Stol l and Rector of Creeting. Jehol°64s On the 14th inst. at St. George tbt ifertyr, - Lor, son of the late J. Seeley Esq. of the Escholuitwhorti only daughter of the late ' t Wilts. T. S''tone, ltlsti. 01 1111.- 1 Strett°l On the 14th inst. at Chelsea, LieutsColont OW (!ifauslirton Priory, Nottinghamshire, t" ' B / 10 , 1 1 g1 ' 1 10 0-.4 ter of R. Ilandcock, Esq., °I i ttbhglit' Viscount Castleman. DIED. . tv - 0, : pdo On the 1 1 th jolt, Edwin, , a pti pop Pf io " Es l l , M.D., aged 11 months. . L . : ' r i irt O f th'- the Igo inst. at Newark, ,W.,.,DrOdritaf .SR 4 rilltir4l-1104 and a letobrr of the 110""Pr' r,, ; Lincolns-inn, --------).-iip....AV iith