The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-02 00:00:00

'SPIRIT OP .TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS, If there be any truth' , in the report which the Loudon Journals , copied from a.Windaor Paper, elating . . that . his Majesty has - prevailed on Prince Leopold to relinquish 10,0001. per annum of his income—if there he any truth in this rep nrr, WO very inueh doubt—we presume his majes'y in tends to follow up so auspicious and unexpected beginning of the great work of retrenchment by trying what effect the Royal persuasion can have upon the great sinecttrista of the reslm—the drones in the public hive—that, : while the laborious bees work hard and fare seamily, flutter their glittering wings in the sunshine, fatten in luxurious l'iziness upon the national industry, and contribute nothing to the public wealth. We have observed of late the Ministerial sycophants, Who are ever ready to offer some servile excuse for the grossest acts of prodi gality on the part of the Government, take oectiliar pleasure in alluding invidiously to the large income of Prince Leopold, and suggesting its curtailment. This sort of attack is evidently more personal than patrioties—more the emanation of political pique than public spirit. We recollect that, at the time when it was supposed the Prince would have allowed him self to be made the tool of Lord Aberdeen's silly arrangements relative to Greece, the praise of virtue and wisdom was abundantly lavished on hiM by the Government Journala and Court parasites; but no sooner had he declined to be made a mock King with a bauble sceptre and a crown of straw, than the estimable qoalhies of mind anti heart ascribed to him were instantly withdrawn, and it was said that Greece had a very lucky escape from being governed by one who was never qualified to he u Sovereign. This was certainly not saying much for the political sagacity of the Cabinet that selected him for that office, and that never:discovered his in competency until he had declined the proffered ho nour I His character having beets thus assailed, it was thought he might be, in point of income, still more vulnerable. The writers, who are ever ready to use their pens, as the Swiss use their swords-- for any GoVernmeet . that will employ them'—received their cue, as the players call it ; and a pretty con stant fi ring has been kept up on his salary ever since. Now this is paltry revenge, anti not public principle. We can see rte good arising from the curtailment of the salary of a single individual, though we can an ticipate great public bensfit from a general measure of retrenchment, without reference to person or party. If it be Only fair that, tinder the existing circumstances of the country, Prince Leopold should give up 10,0001.11-year of the i ncome se cured to him by his marriage settlement with the lamented Princess whose untimely death plunged the nation in affliction, surely there is no sound reason why every sinecorist in the empire should not give up a proportionate amount of the salary which is taken from the taxes of the people to support him in indolent splendoer, while thousands of the industrious population want the necessaries of life. We would be glad to see Prince Leopold make this aucrifice of his own ac cord, and we are sure that the popularity that would attend the act would be cheaply purchased; but then, as an isolated act, it would be as a drop of water in the ocean, and could not sensibly affect the conditicet of the suffering population. it ia' the general application of the principle of retrenchment that would be a national reliet—that is what we want to see. Why should Prince Leopold give up one-fifih of his ineonie, if such a sinecurist as Lord Arden, for instance, who is said to derive about 30,0041, per annum from the public taxes, continues to revel in the full measure of this unearned opts. lance, which, by the change in the currency, was enhanced in value, at least, one-third what it had been berore ? Why should Lord Ellettborough continue to receive upwards of 90001. a year for a sinecure office in the ICing's Bench, along with the 5,0004 which he enjoys its n Minister of the Crown ? Could not tattoos Such as his be purchased by die nation on somewhat more economical terms ? Is there any other country on the face of the earth that would purchase them on any terms at all neve Ministers, too, any intention of making their own salaries the subject of an equitable adjustment, by paying back to the country the amount in which they have been enhanced since the passing of Sir Robert Peel's Cnrrency Bill ? Cannot his Majesty prevail on them to do this ? or are they more in exorable to Royal persuasion than Prince Leopold ? —Morning Herald. The following very singular document has ap peared in the two Paris journals which are the pecu• liar organs of Royalist opinions. It bad, as repre sented, been sent to the President of the Chamber, of Peers, who refuted to rend it, and took no notice of its receipt at any public sitting. The nonjuring Peer then, anxious " that murder should be out, sent it to the Quoiidienne and to the Gazette de France, both of which inserted it in their columns RS a rich treat to their ultra readers. 't hough it was. not heard of in the Chamber of Peers in the first instance, it bas since been denounced in that as sembly. Proceedings, however, were not taken by the Chamber itself to counteract its effects, as the Ministers . informed it that the journals above-men tioned were to be prosecuted before the ordinary tribunals. The opinions of the noble Peer oboist his allegiance, though not singular, have never since the deetion of his present Majesty been so boldly espreased; and if the Royalist press may thus with impunity dispute the title of the head of the Go vernment, his only protection is in the weakness of the party which embraces its doctrine*. " - TO TUX rXISIDSPIT OF MI CUAMSTA OF rim. " f. Le Prefident,...Bighty«sieven Peers coward on the. 30th or Anguat hilt, to declare personally deprived of the right of sitting in the Chamber of Peers. of which they are members, all thow who should not have, after the lapse of a month, taken all oath to the king newly elected, and to a new Charter. " I tan ignorant in virtue of what right this election and this Charter are made. " As to' myself I have taken with sincerity a solemn oath to my Kings and to the Constitutional Charter whieh one of them gave to France. In taking this oath I al. ways underetood that it engaged my fidelity, nut only to them, but to their legitimate Nuccessors, and to the na ties), even to the fundamental law which has regulated for so many ages the supressien to the Crown amongst us. In taking this oath to my Kings, I believed that I took it to men liable to error like myself, and I' did not think that the errors which they might commit could release me from my oathi, either towards them or to. wards their legitimate suecessore. Neither did T think', that they warranted me in agreeing to an act of violence which %staid deprive my fellow-eititemi of the salutary in stitution of a hereditary throne. I have always consi.. &red this institution as the most solid guarantee of all our liberties, and I refuse to concur in its destruction, be. smog I am OW equally convinced that its destruction would have no other effect than to open amongst us all sorts of tyranny. " The Charter to which all the Peers have sworn de rime; in its Iflth article, that the person of the King is • sacred and inviolable, and that Its Ministers are re , sponsible.' This fundamental principle of the Charter does not permit the Kiog to be; responsible fiir grievances which have been caused by his Government. The sponsibility of his Ministers is the constitutional way opened to obtain the redress of those grievances. A. con stitutional fiction does not permit the faults of his Go vernment to be imputed to the King. The reality, even, of things permit them still less to he imputed to the Royal "noir she is a stranger to the acts of the grandfather, " Pi 1 40 by the, simple fact of the double Abdication of hit Majesty King Charles X., 'wane at that instant even —the of Angnst lafst—the King to whom my fidelity is engaged. „" The Chamber's, without being able to allege any thing against the right of the Duke de Bourdertwx, trans. fermi, on the 7th of the sante month. his crown to th e first of his subjects, 1 shalt never ally myself by an oath t " 1 " 1 set WWI which I thoulti ihink myself etilpible in e4trieurring "in ileiatilt ref right, it has iota alleged in ftvnur of tit* King whom the Chernher4 have elected, ti. it. he alone emagi Feeite e . I think, tin th e central y, tliet be of all Praochnteo *cau tho' nova incapable el saving it ; be „Atm of all PyttlichatOti i* Ont try Whlliti the inturit tion to which he weiititfitti stir, liaye appeereil the toilet criminttL 44 (Inc o f his alsrotom KtPitrt ranee toolly, was at 'tut a faitlittil lenitive itrul t tlittiog the minority of an infant King,' *nos,: life only lay lietweeb him and the throne. 'This example deserved to be preferred as a tole of conduct to recellettinns less distant. " As to the Charter, I have on this point two constant convictions. The first, that a King who has sworn a Charter has not the right of violating it; the second, that even when modifications would be useful to a Charter, the Chamber who have sworn this Charter have not the right of giving the expu!sion of their King as a basis for those notlifications. " I shall wait, the a, before taking the oath to a mo. dified Charter, till the modifications which Frenchman may desire are presented to them under the authority or the legitimate King. Educated by his noble mother in the deep feeling of his ditties towards his people, the Royal infant will live for the happiness of France, and will one day be restored to us. " There is, however, one of the articles of the Charter, on which even now I feel myself bound not to keep silence. " Two hundred and nineteen Deputies declared on the Ith of August last the throne vacant—created .t new Charter—one article of which excluded from the Cham ber of Peers all those whom Charles X. had nominated, and offered Royalty to the Lieutenant- General of the king dom. Eighty-nine Peers expressed their adherence the snare thy to the new Charter, and to the election of the new King, declaring that they referred to his prudence, as respected the exclusion of their colleagues. " The excluded Peers have the same right to the Peer age as all the rest. 1 was 3ftied to the Peerage by Lewis XVIII., and I recognised in those who hail received it from Charles X. the same right as my own. " But their exclusion bears in particular, relatively to the accusation of the Ministers of Chat les X., which is in progress, a character the most sinister. The natural judges of the Ministers are not some Peers, but all the Peers.— At tide 62 of the Charter, which all the Peers have sworn, hear., that none can be hied but by his natural judges.— Article 63 adds that consequently there cannot be created commissions or extraordinary tribunals. " I am ignorant how it can be maintained that the arbitrary exclusion of nearly a fourth of the members of a tribunal would not transform it into a commission or extraordinary tribunal, and I know with what a name ore inevitably handed to posterity, capital condemnation* when they are decreed by tribunals of this kind. I shall not associate myself therefore, by an, oath, with an act of ex clusion which transforms the Court of Pears into a corn mission or extraordinary tribunal, and which stigmatizes beforehand the sentences of death which it may pronounce with the name of a judicial assassination. " Posterity is the more severe in awarding this title, when the Judges have an apparent intemt in the sentence of condemnation. Thus the Peers who adhered in the sitting of the 7th of August last to a declaration of the vacancy of the throne, can only pretend that they are re leased from the oath whirls they had taken to Charles X. and the constitutional charter, because they impute to that unfortunate Prince the violation of the same charter by the advice of his Ministers, These same Peers, therefore, have an apparent interest in finding guilty the Ministers whose impeachment is in progreis; and I shall never associate myself by an oath to a system which gives these Ministers for judges men who have created to themselves an apparent interest in condemning them. "I have explained the motives of my refusal to take the 'oath required of me. 1 have thought it my duty to declare them to my colleagues. I pray you, then, M. le 'President, to read in the sitting of this day my present letter, and I request the Chamber to order its insertion on :the Minutes. " A member of the Chamber of Peers, deprived of his right to sit because he remains faithful to his oath, cannot validly believe himself discharged of his obligation to deli berate and to vote in the Chamber of which he is a mem ber. His will does not render him an accomplice its the obstacle which prevents him from fulfilling his duty yields to the abuse of material force. "The Count FLORIAN DE KERGORLAY, " Peer of Prance. " Paris, rue St. Dominique, No. 102, Sept. 23." Times, The following letter is from a Belgian gentleman of station, judgment, and constitutional feeling, whose disposition i 3 pacific. He feels very indig nant at the manner in which his countrymen are Calumniated day after day in the papers of this me tropolis, subject to the influence of Government. The people of Brussels have, we think, proved that they are not a rubble, but a set of us brave men as ever existed; and the manner in which the people throughout Belgium have sympathised with them, sufficiently refutes the statement of which this gentleman complains. No man who has under standing to connect two propositions can now be the dupe of the iniirepresentations in which too many of our contemporaries indulged; for if the population of Brussels had not been united, they could never have resisted 15,000 well-appointed re- Oars. We were told day after day by some of our contemporaries, that the middle classes were all eager for the appearance of time King's troops, that they might protect themselves against the rabble. Now it appears, that in the part of Brussels occupied by the more wealthy inhabitants, the soldiers were assailed from every house. When a disturbance takes place in any of our mnnufaCturing towns, the pcipitlice are easily dispersed, beeanse the houses in the principal streets are shut against themomd they have no shelter from the soldiery or civil forec, But we proceed to the letter, the occasional foreign idioms of which weleave unaltered " Antwerp, 28th Sept., 1830. this moment I know your attention will he more than ever directed to my unfortunate country, anti as your piddle Press often represents matters in a light as it is most convenient to its views, I, think myself called upon to give you a few statements of the unfortunate overthrow of our Government in the southerly provinces. " The conduct of the inhabitants of Brussels Will now convince the world that they are not that drunken rabble which the bigotted part of the English Press endeavoured to represent them ; but that, if courag,e is a virtue, as it undoubtedly is, they are the noblest and the most virtuous people of the world, history not furnishing us with an example of a braver act. It must he said that the heroes of Brussels must have considered themselves strong by a sense of justice of their cause, more than ever a people considered itself are such. It proves that it is not the act of a bigotted priesthood, as the Courier represents it, but of au enlightened, liberal class of people joining in one cause, no matter what religious feelings, in the cause of freet;om, and to have redress of the grievances of which the Government itself has acknowledged the existence. The newspapers will haveinformed you, that after a con test with an army of from 15 to 20,000 well disciplined and devoted troops, in the very interior of the town of Brussels, the inhabitant* have forced the soldiers to leave them unmolested ; the loss of the latter being twenty to one of the Burghers. This without any assistance of the interior or southerly part of the country, with which the town had no communication. " The King might have spared himself the best of his troops, and a part of the finest town of his dominions, which have fallen in the contest, if he had uttered openly and readily one .word towards to iking theee concessions which it wits in his power to grant. In redressing what the Ministers had done ageing: the fundamental law, he might have made himself the moat popular King of Europe: lie sstight have premised to distribute offices equally—not to have interfered with religious matters, nor with the Prase, all of which the Constitution grants, without calling the Assembly of the States-General, and the people of the whole of the southerly provinces would have cried out Viva le •Rol' But Counsels have been listened to, the English Press in particular. The above-mentioned Paper and the Times have represented the people of Brussels in a most illiberal and foul manner; the King to have acted as he ought to have 'done, and of course been the cause of all that has happened ; they hive by their impolitic, Short-sighted viewar s 'dentroyeal the harrier for which their countrymen have spent their money, and shed their blood ; and what remains to be alone now ? In My opinion, to show the Government of this country that under the present state of the spirit of Europe, and' principally the most neighbouring country, that under the present Goa,ternment of France there is only tine way of preserving Belgitnn as a barrier against Prance and which we are sure may still be accomplished ; antl'iitat the only way to obtain this is that the claims of the Belgians (which the last accounts from Brussels seem, even after their complete victory, to confine the:natives to the' fair exeention of I the fundamental laWs) should be graciously granted; that England therefore should use all its info enee'itt the Hague,. and Once the voice of these blood thirity ' representatives of the norther* provinces— these Donkey Curtiuses and COnsorts.' The party that ever desired to belong to France is very small, but it would be to a man, if concessions are not male itontediatety, and troops should lie called in : fiareign interkence wmild, maw the Belgians have ehown their decision and their power; induce Prance to wine or enter one part of the country as Soon as the Pressians wield enter the other. Fflitet7 would now, leafs than ever, suffer the prietiple of non-interference' to be arodangeted, nor Suffer her own existence to be menaced, by seeing assembled upon her frontiers an army of Prussians, Englimb, or Comme l ks ; nor would these be rettain of suc cess in depressing the most just of causes, in irritating any longer a nation where a woman has become a man and a soldier. Hos very irritating it was for the Belgians to, see one day the King accept the dismission of the odious Minister of Jnstive, M. Van Maanen, and to see the sane man risen a few days after to be tae supreme judge of the two flagons. This, again, may be attril u ►ted to the Englimbed bigoted Times and Courier, Morning Post and Co., and Docker Curtin,: and Consorts in Holland. Could you make use of this in f 'your of our country, and to re-establish peace between all parties, you would ren der a great service not only to your own, but our King and Country. 4, Yours, truly, a Friend. " We hope you will not fail in publishing either this Or your own sentiments on this► subject, and caution the English public against many accounts which are created by the enemies of re-establishing peace, and which go even to sty that the hotel of the British Amba , astior is set on fire by the mob; while, it is circulating, the troops have done so; but we believe both equally false. What is notorious is, that the mob at Brussels, almost without a head, have not plundered a single hone." 'rho Courier of Thursday had some observations with reference to our strictures on the imprudence of the King of the Netherlands— " It will be recollected (says our contemporary) that, among the Belgian Deputies who visited the Hague fcr the purpose of attending the States-General, there were seve ral who had unequivocally declared in favour of the pro posed separation of Belgium from Holland, and otherwise taken an active part in the proceedings against the King's authority. Many of these Deputies, however, became so alarmed at the accounts which they received from day to day, of the turbulent spirit of the populace at Brussels, that, for the preservation of their property and the pro tection of the respectable inhabitants of the city, who were no longer able to protect themselves, they entreated the King to send troops against the populace, leaving the great points of difference between the nation and the King to be discussed by the States-General. If we are not misinformed, even the Count de Wes, who wus regarded as one of the Chiefs of the Revolution, concurred with the other Belgian Deputies in giving this coumel, and at about the same time the King received front the head-quarters of Prince Frederick despatches announcing that several of the most respectable inhabitants of Brussels had come to his bead-quarters to implore him to occupy the city. We do not think that, under these circumstances, there was anything unconstitutional or impetuous in the conduct of the King; although we cannot help expressing our regret that he should have been left in ignorance of the real state of feeling of the lower orders, and of their means of re. sistance. - The mob were getting the upper hand in Brussels—the respectable inhabitants apprehended pil lage and massacre—and, under this apprehension, they applied to the King for aid, preferring to leave the great question at issue t o the patriot i sm of their representatives and the generosity and justice. of the King, rather than to the dictation of an armed multi tude, from whose excited .passions they -had more to dread than from the most oletertnined apposition to th.'ir views by the King and a majority of the gates-General.— If the Sovereign had refused the required aid, and the pil, Inge of Brussels by the populace had ensued, there would indeed have been ground for censure. At present, how. ever, all that can be said is, that the King was ill-advised to adopt extreme measures ; the result of which must have appeared doubtful to persons well acquainted with the state of Brussels, and uninfluenced by alarm or interest; but the bitterest and most prejudiced enemy of the King will hardly deny that, situated us he was, in the absence of Counsel. lore who would have advised some temporising couese, compliance with the counsel of some of the Belgian Depu ties at the Hague, and wilt the request of the Deputation from Brussels to Prince Frederick at Antwerp, and being also urged. on by the Dutch Deputies, was despotic and unconstitutional. We sincerely regret the absence from the Hague at this juncture of llama Falrk, the Atnbm sailor of the Netherlands at this Court, who, if he had been summoned in time to the councils of the K'ng, might have devised some plan of reconciliation, as he possesses alike the good opinion of the Dutch and the Belgium, and enjoys, as we are assured by respectable and well-informed persons in the Netherlands, a high reputation for that essential quality so rare in a Statesman-.-that happy me-. ilium in which political caution is at work without subju gating the feelings, and the feelings have proper force without preventing the exercise of-political caution. 'Warm hearts and cool heads are hut too seldom found in the lame persons. Happy is the Prince who possesses Counsellors to whom there is this rare union of heart and intellect." The Courier ought to have said that the King was not only ill-advised in " adop.ing extreme mea sures, the result of which must have appeared doubtful to persons well acquainted with the state of Brussels," but ill-advised in creating the irrita tion in Belgium, which could not fail to lend to desperate courses. The writer of the Ant,ifelp let ter supposes him to 'nice been led away by the advice of certain English newspapers; and it certainly does not say much for his judgment, that he acted 'on such an advice. We, too, advised him ; and perhaps it would have been better for him had he taken our advice. The moment . the French Revo lotion %%as consummated, and before there was any rumour of a rising in Belgium, we told him, that if he were at all, prudent, be would retrace his steps will respect to Do Potter and the other distin- Oohed exiles, and endeavour to conciliate the , Bel gians. It was yet time ; and if the man had had a grain of discernment, he must have seen, that from the moment the French Revolution was consul- mated, he was left to his own resources, which could never avail him against the great majority of his own subjects. Was it not the height of infatuation, to refuse any longer the claims of the Be)00, who only demanded that his Ministers should be re. spowsible—that he should admit them to a know ledge of the application of the putilic money— give them a Jury trial ; to say nothing of his despotism over the press, exercised through venal Judges, his dabbling in Bubble Companies, to the great injury of trade; his Cabinet orders, issued in the spirit of a petty Ger Man Prince ? if the Dutch are indifferent to these matters, it was clear that the Belgians were not indifferent; and, how ever bitter the pill, to enter on constitutional mea sures, and throw Van Manner' overboard, he had really no choice. By this time we have no doUht the Provisional thivernment have organized a force tar beyond the means at the► disposal of the King. In the present agitated state of the Belgian mind; and with so warlike a population, 'as many men may be obtained sac arms can be provided for. The King is therefOre without hope. The Belgians will not submit, and they will not treat, because Confidence In, such cases once destroyed, never can be re stored. He must satisfy himself with becoming. once more Stadtholtler of the Seven United Pro vinees. Foreign assistance would only snake mat ters Worse; fur the King who regains his kingdom by foreign aid, may make up his mind to being ab horred in all time coming. Rumoura are efloit,. however, and we regret to say that many respect able, people give credit to them, that the Duke of Well►ngton hos determined to interfere in this minor rel. It is Well observed by a contemporary (the Globe) that If, for the purpose of preserving intact the (autistic arrangements of the Conga ess of Vienna, the peopled Bel gium are to be crushed by some of the great Powers of Europe, who can see the end of the evil ? Reports are already spread that the Government of the Netherlands has applied to this country for assistance. These may be pre mature ; but it cannot be premature to warn the people of Europe against the consequences of foreign interference with Belgium. " There can, we are satisfied, be no cogagements by which England can . he Loma. to interfere between the people of Belgium and the Government; hut it must be foolish in the present posture ofaffaire for any P ower to d o so . Th e on l y pretext for such an interference would be the value, by way of protection for Enrope against France, of the fortresses of the frontier line; but the recent events exemplify; in the 'lleum manner, the coneennences' which would ensue in respect to these fortresses front forcing upon the Belgians an unpopular :form of government. If the Belgians are not appeased, but tubdued or overawed, they would merely wait their time ; the declaration of a war would be a signal for the people to , take the fortresses, as they have shown themselves able to• do note, and the fortresses, 'instead of being defences against the French, would be points of support for them. They can only be of use as defences for Europe if in the hands of a popular government ; not in the temporary potsession of a Stove. reign who would find them expnsal, on the first danger,' 10 mote formidable assaults from within thairfrem without." That the Delre of Wellington could' enmity obtain Parliamentary renjorities--aye, large majorities—to support him in any . crusade, against Belgium,' we firmly believe. The Ariattithl i ey and Clergy of this tiountry are filled with the most deadly hatred against that proiniseti to raise and improve mankind in every country, and the late .Revolution in France has almost deprived them of their senses. If the Duke, therefore, on whom at this moment so heavy a - responsibility rests, 'Were to plunge the country and Europe (for to that it would come), we cand'illy own that we are without hope. The people of England are so completely the slaves of the Aristo cracy, they are so eccustomed to be trodden on, that they would be found, we fear, without the proper spirit to act as they ought to act in so trying an or, casi - n. The passion of the Aristocracy blinds them ; and it would, therefore, be in vain,to urge to them the consequences of plunging Europe in another war—of loading this country with heavier burdens— and the dreadful re-action which might one day fol low the breaking loose of a people no longer able to bear their sufferings. Passion never listens to reason. The English Aristocracy have not yet shown in any one instance that they were governed by any regard for the millions of their countrymen. Our able reli ance is on the Minister; and may he in this trying conjuncture be guided by a spirit of wisdom and moderation ! Is it not a melancholy consideration that two or three thousand families at most, fattened on the fruits of the productive industry of this most enterprising nation, should have at their absolute dis posal the welfare of twenty millions of human be ings, who may be dragged into a desolating warfare without being able to oppose any obstac4 to the at tempt ? How deeply England is interested in that question of questions, the clipping the wings of the Aristocracy ? Till this is done, England can never know security, and Europe can never be secure from England.—Morning chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Several watermen were brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged by the Water Bailiff with having assaulted some of his men in the execution of their duty, and with having threatened to murder them. Buff (one of Mr. Satinders'a men) stated that ha and an assistant went up the river to Barnes, and observed, between ten and eleven o'clock, the de fendants in a boat throwing out a net. As there was reason to believe that some unfair work was in tended, witness rowed over to the boat, in the name of the Water-Bailiff, and endeavoured to board it. The most violent opposition, however, was given to them by the watermen, who proposed to put it out of their power, by one desperate act, to interfere any more with fish or fisheries. A blow was aimed at witness, who, with difficulty, evaded it, and was con vineed that had it not been for one of the party who interposed, murder would have been com mitted. The witness, after some remonstrance, succeeded, however, in getting away ; and after a considerable lapse of time the watermen were taken into custody. The Water Bailiff stated that if conduct of this desperate kind was endured, the river would be left without protection, and his men would be constantly in danger of losing their lives. The eldest of the watermen denied that he or his brethren had either done, or threatened any violence to the prosecuting. They were just rowing about a bit when Ruff wanted to run them down, and threatened to " bore a bole through them;" and they got out of his way as they did not like to be slaughtered. The LPRD MAYOK—Whut could you have wanted at eleven o'clock about the river? Water man--I wanted my living, and they came to pre vent me. If they had boarded us, they would hare had a right to have taken us, but they could not. Mr. Hobler told the defendants that they sub jected themselves to a penalty by making off.. The Water Bailiff had at all times a right to board them, and examine their ne!g. The wuterman sai.l.that he had acted, and would still act, as if he was a smuggler. When he could escape tt King's boat he would ; and, except he was caught, the officers had nothing to do with him. It „ . was j ust so wi th hi s present case. The Water B aili had not been able to board him, and there could, therefore, be no charge against him. The LORD MAYOR said he quite plainly perceived the spirit by which the defendants were actuated. He had no doubt that, if one of them had not op posed the general tendency to an act of desperate violence, murder would have been committed. He should, therefore, make examples of all, except the person to whose humanity the Water Bailiff's men were indebted, most probably, for their lives. Ruff declared that he' was Convinced that be should never have lived to complain if there' had not been one merciful person in the gtoupe. The Lour) MAYOR then sentenced each of the defendants, with the above-mentioned exception, to pay the One of 101. The excepted watermait was discharged. Those who were fined swore that they were not worth ten farthings; and they were sent to prion, after having been informed th a t execution would be immediately entered up against them. 01.711..D11ALL. Yesterday a man named Charles Woodman, re-, siding at No. 7, Little Collingswood-street, road, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, charged with obtaining good. under false pretences. Mr. Henry George Brown, of the firm of Jones and Brown, stationers,' 34, St. Paul's Church-yard, stated that, in the month of Pebreary last, they re ceived a letter, purporting to come from a person named Butcher, at Tring, in Hertfordshire, with whom they had done .business for some years, re questing them to send a quantity of stationery to a relation of his, named Woodmsn, who was opening a shop at Hadley, near Barnet, and charge it to the writer's account. A quantity of writinkpaper and various other articles were accordingly sent .as di rected. Some time after Mr. Butcher Called upon ., them, and, upon the subject being mentioned to him, he said the letter was a forgery; and that the prisoner had obtained goods in the•aame manner from several other houses. The prisoner, however, it appeared, was not inclined to suffer Messrs: Jones ead'Brown to escape with the loss of one parcel of goods, for on Thursday they received a letter, aigoed by himself, and dated Hadley, stating that he had a great demand for children's copy-books, and requesting they would send him six dozen, together with eight reams of writing paper, of different sortc On receiving this letter they determined to hure the prisoner taken into custody, and, gulped ing.that4nc. would be watching at the coach-office in London to see whether the parcel was sent off, witness went with a constable to the Cross Keys, where, as they had expected, they found the pri s on e r waiting, and took him into custody. He had as.; pertained that the prisoner bad obtained goods from many other tradesmen. The prisoner, when,asked what.he had to offer in his defence, admitted that what the prosecutor had stated was correct, and said he had been un fortunate in Liminess, and had , ten Children, who were in a state of starvation. Sjr P. LAURIE told him that it was a very serious charge,uul he would be remanded till Tuesday, to give the other parties an opportunity of attending. The prisoner said he was willing to save the Magistrate and all parties trouble, for, to his shame, he must admit that be was guilty of all he was charged with, Sir P. LAURIE told him he feared he would find the consequences of his offence more serious than he imagined. It was a charge which it was impossible t o puss over, and if having* family in distress were to be admitted as an excnie, th ere would be no wi f e ly for any person's property. Ala own admis. 4 4, 0 of his guilt was.not sufficient, and he must be remanded till the witnesses could come froward. The prisoner was accordingly remanded till Tues. day. I}OW.STII E ET. Information was forwarded to this office that the house of Major Nicholson, of Dow \Vater-crescent, Dulwich, wai entered on the night' of the With ult. and robbed of property to a considerable amount. l'he thieves effected a►i entrance by boring a hole through the shutter of the kitchen window, and they carried oft a considerable quantity of plate, besides about 30/. in money and also the will of Major Nicholson, which he ;lad trade during a voyage at . sea. A writing desk, containing mere of no u.e to the thieves, was found broken open on the follow ing morning, on a piece of waste ground facing the Major's residence. Information IN as also received that the house of the Rev. E. B. Pussey, one of the Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, had been entered by burglar., supposed to be about three o'clock in the morning of the 2-Nth ult. The house of the Rev. Gentle man adjoins the University, and the thieves obtained access to the premises by rearing a ladder against one of the bed-chamber windows. Property to a considerable amount, comprising plate and articles of value in domestic use, were packed tip and carried off. The plate bore the crest of a cat. The Rev. Mr. Pussey, upon learning his loss, sent a letter to this office requesting the assistance of an experienced officer to investigate the affair, and Riithven was sent down for the purpose; but he has returned to town without being enabled to effect the object of his journey. - It is supposed, however, that the rob. bery was "put up"—that is, planned by some person well acquainted with the premises. Four men, in the garb of mechanics, were charged by police serjeant Stacey with having created a dis turbance in the streets at three o'clock in the minning. It appeared that the defendants were returning from a carouse in the neighbourhood of Clerken well, when, in passing down Drury-lane at the hour mon. tinned, they began, according to the serjeant," to kirk up a rumpus," and one of them in no very, melodious tones sung, or rather bawled forth, the song of " Cease, rude Boreas," &c. Several of the inhabitants, at this ungainly interruption to their rest,put forth their night-capped heads from the win dows of their respective dormitories, and called to Stacey to take the noisy rogues into custody. This, however, was no easy matter, .for the mechanics stood upon their privileges as freeborn Englishmen to get drunk when it suited their pleasure, and sing and be merry in spite, as they said, of the li-1 or the new police. Indeed, one of them, more valiant than the rest, threatened the serjeant that he would " Smith him," that is, serve him as Smith (or Sap well) served poor Long, the policeman, while an other of the defendants said he intended, God wi!.. ling, to oppose the new police, tooth and nail, at a meeting of the parish to which he belonged, and which was soon to take place. Three of the de fendants, upon expre , ing their contrition, were dis charged; but the man who had used the threat to Stacey was detained. MARYLEBONE. Two master bakers of the names of Banks and Vernier were charged with having created a riot and disturbance in Mary-street on Thursday night. From what we could tolled from the statement of one of the Inspectors, who spoke in a very low tone of voice, we understood him to say that during Wednesday and Thursday evenings, a considerable mob had assembled in Mary-street, ampstead-road, in consequence of a young gentleman of ,highly re spectable connections, who was a lunatic, having taken up his residence there—his family not being able to recover him. Ilia parent and a medical gen tleman applied to Lord Tenterden for a warrant to oblige him to be given up; the refusal occasioned the mob to assemble. On His going there on Thurs day evening, to endeavour to remove the mob, the two defendants charged the police with not doing their duty, and observed that a glass of gin would buy them. On hearing this he gave them into custody for creating a distinbince. A police constable, of the division S, No. al, deposed that the mob was of the most tumultuous description; and upon speaking to them the de fendants said that five shillings would purchase all the pollee, and alierwards said even a drop of liquor would do it. The mob joined in the cry, and to disperse it the two defendants were taken into custody. Mr. IlitwurisoN--Did you take them into cus tody ?—No. How came they here then ?—The Inspector told me to take them. Then you did take them ?—I did not charge them. Mr. RAWLINSON observed that be should wish to have some explanation on the case. Mr. John Styles, of No. I, Mary-street, deposed that last week a young gentleman came and took the first floor of him ; at the same time he gave a refe rence to the person who lived in the second door. In the beginning of the week he had occasion top to Seven Oaks, and On Thursday morning he re ceived a letter,-stating that a large mob had assem bled before his house; upon his arrival he found between 200 and 300 persons round his door, and a gentlemen violently knocking at the door. He forced his way up and inquired what was his busi ness, when the gentleman said he wanted to see Mrs. Mathews. He replied that it would be per feci ly impossible for any person to see the lady until the mob was gone. He then succeeded in getting into his house, when the violence of the knocking induced him to look out of the window. He then called the police and desired them to do their duty, but they never offered to interfere; from the opinion which he formed, he was confident that the police had identified themselves with the mob while he was calling on them to do their duty. Mr. Banks, .who is a neighbour, came up, when it was stated that .ss. would buy them. Mr. Banks then said that, from the conduct of the police, he should say a glass of gin would buy therh, on which the In spector seized hold 'of him and took him to the watch-house, leaving the mob remaining, although the young.gentletnan had left the house four hours previously. Mr. Venner Said that he went up on Thursday night to bring his wife home from a fri e nd, w h en , seeing a large mob he stopped to look on. While he was standing, he heard Mr. Banks make the remark, and on seeing him dragged to the watch-house he went down to bail him, on which he was charged with being one of the mob, and also with being drunk and disorderly. After an explanation, as . far as we could collect from the low tone of the Inspector, upon part of the statement, / Mr. RAWLINSON observed there were two things before him.. The first was, whether the two defen dants were properly charged or not; and in his opi• Ilion,: they had been Improperly charged. The next thing which occurred to him was the conduct of Cie Police. There was proof before him that a great disturbance had taken place, and that the police had grossly neglected doing their duty; for, upon seeing such a mob, they ought to collect sufficient force and remove them; but, instead of doing their duty, they appeared to mix themielves up with the mob, and, when' they attempted to diaperse it, they had taken and brought two persons before him Who had the least to do with the transaction. Under these • circumstances they were discharged, and he should advise them to go and make a complaint to . the Com. inissioners.. The Inspector replied, that when he went np the people were standing quietly, and it was only the defendants who were speaking. Mr. RAWLINSON Observed that he had decided upon the charge. The two defendants' thanked the Magistrate, and said they certainly should apply to thaw Conimis ionera on the subject. TIIASIMPOLICa Yesterday A rc hib a ld C amp b e ll , a stamen of the brig Paragol, from Gibraltar, now lying in the St. katharine's dock, rem brOught before Captain IlicnnELL, the sitting Magistrate, charged with assaulting the first and second mates of that vessel on the high seas during the voyage, and also with attempting to strike his Captain with an ace, and with having been guilty of mutinous conduct. It appeared from the evidence of Captain George Whitwell, the master, and the first end second mares of the Paragon, that about a fortnight ago the Prisoner was ordered to serape the top-gallant -mast, Whieh he refused to , do, and went below. The Captain a second time requested him to obey his brders, but Campbell swore with an oath that he would'itt scrape the mast for no one. Another mini then did the work, and went 'aloft, -and the maser or.lered Campbell forward as a prisoner, anti 4.1 he should put him in irons and stop his grog . The prisoner exclaimed that no one should put him in irons or confine him; and before. h a could be pre• vented he rushed to the cahoots) and seized the rook's IMP. He then ran aft towards Capt. Whit well and the two mates, kilned a blow at the former, which luckily missed him, and swore he would cut any one down who would attempt to seise hint. The two mates, however, rushed upon him and took away the axe, but Campbell struck them violently with his ti.t, and ilia creel severe punishment art both. After a severe struggle on deck he was se• cured, put in irons, and brought home a prisoner. In reply to the charge, Camptlell'said that being a heavy man, he merely requested that Root her of the crew should be sent eloft - to scrape the m ast, as he was not exactly fi t for ' that duty, when the Captain seised him, and, suspecting he intended to flog him, he made some resistance, more portico lady as others of the ship's company had been started, rend he was determined not to submit 10 such it degrading punishment ; in fact, he would ra ther die first. He complained that his hands had been tied behind him in a manner to give him m ad pain, and he had been fed on bread an d water, and treated very harshly since the alleged affray. Captain whit Hell declaTed that he had n o inten tion to 1 the defendant, nor did he ever inflict corporal punishment on any of his crew, As t he y could prove if called upon. . When Campbell re itenhg4afigtreles v s a e s r h y atd v o i violently greatly anno y ffaaern,cod:iyf it fused to obey ordets, he merely told him to consi a der himself prisoner and to - go below, when h e b fatal. The prisoner, several times during the voyage, had been very mutinous, slid used such bad on barn!. The two mates confirmed the master's statement. Captain RICITBELL said the assault was distinctly proved, and the conduct of the' prisoner, who had br hived much unlike a British sestrsn,Was exceeding y bad. It was his duty to obey orders, or otherwise the thmettebtlohwavhee p a r o i m v e e d d ship could not het avigated andthberoltingdyh :l a t e e n [ g el s . Had the blow he aimed a t the master w ith the dnt gerous weapon he seised in his passion taken eftr he would have had to answer with his life for th e e attack. The worthy Magistrate then ordered the prisoner to find two good and sufficient sureties appear and take his trial for the assault on the too The prisoner, in default of bail,. mates at the next Admiralty Sessions. Clerkenwell prison. THE PORTUGUESE ADV ENTURga/ was commi tte d to DIOGO ALvAREZ. ,t ' ' ' A. Portuguese adventurer nam ed ' l4° Al.' varcz, a native of Viana, while seeking a cor d of dye-woods on the coast rof:Bratd,'haPPreof to be shipwrecked among the shoals nada the bar of Bahia; some of the crew in drowned, the rest were captured and detrat . , by the natives. Diogo, aware that he lieu l !'.. chance of escaping a similar f a te but ht,c°". vincing the savages of his utility, exertr!l:l self to the utmost in saving whatever he from the wreck and he gamed their 40 01 completely that his lile was spared. , M i rl) the articles which he had the good fertrr bring to shore, were some barrels 000007 4 and a musket. A few days afterwartkHher, a bird in the rresence of some of thatOMr7 who called him, in consequence, CaramtllVL the man of fire. His reputation vistr!ww: established among' the sav a g es ; and, aa-kr, wised to make war upon their enemies, ri immediately marched forth with him setfri the nation of the Tapuyas. But the &Ma Careworn had gone before him ; the "raPtr fled, and abandoned their country to the 1° W et of the shipwrecked marine h r. e adopted by the Indian tribe, a rank proportioned to his abilities; and fro g sooWnis'onlitaVei a slave he became a sovereign. He i. marries the daughters of several chieftains, wn° proud of his alliance ; and the 'princiP 6 , ll _, ani i, ll : l : in 'Bahia at present trace their descerit ;rota '..; After the lapse of some years, he em bari d i ; board a French vessel with his favourite !f. c ii s , wife Paraguaza : his other wives were. ) , h i t consolate at the thoughts 0f losing' hir",i h t . e f t they l . attempted to swim after the vesee"l. lea carried poo him away from them ; and ono , • ii; the mad effort until her strength ` v rhea hausted, and she sunk before his eYes. t o r Diogo arrived in France anti related hiaill ° it r adventures, lie was received most favou rab k l ' . court, but was not allowed to proc eed to ' 0 0, gal according t o his intention. lie found nr:ch nevertheless, of conveying to his sovereign stti'sa information respecting the country whic h h . e „, o r visited as might lie serviceable in prnloPtilibi directing the establishment of a c01° 11 ,,P,,, 0 the court of France, though desirous i tt ) ; "„ l ot v or exclusive bene fi t of his experience , viu, - ,ii for pose his returning to Brazil. fill tt e ,,,„'' " am ong that country accordingly, taking wit h "'"d - st ock other things, some artillery and a I°° o daney of ammunition, so as to ensure hilt t he car' among the native tribes. In return tor .!--,. t, 4 th PA goes of the two vessels that he too. !! /1 „ Ot hie. tie undertook to freight them with the ,P a - binet lions of the country.—Dr. Lardner's ''''' Cyclopirdia, Vol. XI. —..... ----"*On n the 28t h 2 Bt t h inet . li t o B IS I atR R . di T tal l aE l gm . l:4lleke: lady Viel e t f in t i h il e l.."r—fde ll ' eV 4l'o . 4l: ' ' Alice, of W ilmin g ton, nit , a t Ih )ver, t h e -:47c..e v d a f d . n : l : );.ivin t i niiiit tl . ' t li el e hrg ug t ot h ro a t is e e r: h. j e l L o i r i it t P ee le g o . R f etohvf.e Jall.o"Poulenennfoecld,,:oofiCliScfer:74-10:;:ed.' o , rt. and on the tame day the ceremony lit P r e :b. r lAirkiitoiti, the _ v sci 3 l. o , : t h oinE j u s i t.i t z44o . tia a tt. t d. alitotitutrunteOrisatdmil::firpti.;rt-cdoirteether', 70e: shopsgate-with . l" W Abearlatie, . at Into - street, Edinburgh, to Elisabeth' 1,, n . the 30th ul iCi t. in a t t ,- CE.lifirist4'lCl'artrehnotialNiat"lll,,;,':rt Olt; Ca late- Ca p s. 1.... J.., R ub ins to Alias 'Janson , °A l i d"5 1 Oa rill"'"'''''', of Weymouth. ~.. fil ter %Verret', E.q or the 2 9th ult. at Boekingi SOO, ',, _Ater o f W. Tayioe E ighiffirYlinee, to Wilheltnine, u' 1 sq. of acking. utler, 001) Olt the 30th o h . 1 • il fa. Alt ° • t, at slington, . , icen,iagtoit, surviving fon of J. Alexander, VA.; m 'I% 14111h' Ciweol:?linliElat6h;e9o34ooltyfhCsultiarvlPt.hiviAamntg-cT.°‘rlinsiu"mig't°ll;fr. - a r t :a l: I'l lb t e' i ll:4li h°n def e R l' FeEleonora, uli sesecondodfauQgiieacerli-aolfreethie Itfit081.181" 47thillilull rg diere, the Em(l 2 " 9 o th f Duelnr.lerT".ra:ilysatp.i! Eq. of Catf r °g in a-t- -1)1l u el t one of his Maje s ty'. Justices slid ee Peace, and '''` P Lieutenant for the county of lex. . Fog , ' OO the 29th Ult. Mary, the wife of 11. floudi Upper 161 e of ight, Tooting. ~ ligi" A ,), 14 On the 29th ult. at Br ie, W William Irish, of ClarWe-terrace, Cannon-street roe,i, S Genrge's Rest. Os the 30th ult.' at Awbridge Clou se, son of T. Sergeant, En. • 4:,eywou On tbe r ItOtti tilt f lathe Mre. 31arthe ,-• of ti only slaughter of the Wm. 'Seymour: E'l".. E,, New. road, '.llarylibone, illtdr eister of Wm. &I mp, of Brighton. ' . On the 13th ult. perisheil in a snow-410TM, 10 ' u , the Col do Ikehomme into Savvy, ,thcßev, 11.-131217-, and his brother-in-law Augustus Campbell, FAR. 'i, fi l i t i ol the 27th ' ult.: et Southeutpton, Miss M. Fletti° l4l of the latter. .., ; nano, the iofil J Pltititgi AND Pu i staettitt), eirlifint6o' 1 - YOU N9' TUJI SUN OffiCh I IS, ,81.1tAltD, LOSPOS'