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well entitled to the franchise. The plan is pre posterous apd impossible. Indeed the Right 110. nourable 'tistriniet himself does not say by what proportion or, description of electors the sub altern Parliament . is ; to be, chosen. If by universal suffrage; it will soon surneriede the old House of Commons; if in ' ceunties and other places which already return members, the - new gentlemen be elected by the same constituents as those to whom the country is indebted for its present ones, it may be questioned whether such an addition from such a source will be considered any public benefit. The House of Commons is, in fact, too numerous already. If the business were well distributed, half the number of representatives would get through it with more ease and effieacy than the 658 sages to whom it is now entrusted.; lint at all events there is too much . to be done, end the new House of Common's 'recommended by Sir J. Sinclair would tun theriek of being an assembly where, instead of jobs booming the incident or by-play 'of the Session, they must be st evicts established as its chief or ex. elusive bpsinesi. We give the plan in the very words Of the projector • "1 do not ;think that the British House of Common* would be prevailed upon to give op any part of its privi leges to any body of then that was not in some measure a part of itself, end elected by the people. My plan there fore is, that there shall he a second chamber of the House of Commons, chosen in the same manner as the first chamber, consisting of a number not exceeding 200 mars bers ; and that to a chamber thus constituted, 'the decision of all private BIN, and of all contested elections, shall be delegated.' " If the general principle is approved of, there can be no material difficulty in filling up the details. I should consider 200 members quite enough fur this new branch of the Legislature t 100-. members to be elected by the counties of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland; 60 by the principal cities, in the kingdom ; and the remainder to be amen by Menchoeter, Birmingham, and other towns which are not represented in. the first chamber. The lipeaker of the first clamber to nominate a deputy to the sec ond ; all &irate Bills tribe sent from the second to the !tree chamber, thence to be sent to the Lords; private Bills originating in the Lords, to be sent from the het to the second &Amami., and roamed to the first, to be transmitted so the Hone °Oars. " It in evident 'that a body of men, elected 'for special purposes, eould carry through the business with which it VAS tattested mach more , effectually, and would be more likely to give gaunt satisfaction, than say other tribunal that could he thought of, or that might be appointed in any other way. " it would hoof immense consequence to have an addi tional number of aide men, thus interested in support of the constitution, who would be early trained to public busi near, and who would likewise have an opportunity of esta blishing their characters for diligence and capacity. " The first chaniber of the House of Commons, being thus freed front a load of subordinate matters, would be Able to direct its undivided attention to public concerto!, and would be enabled to carry on the business of the nation with much greater attention and success. " The principal objections to the manner of conducting the business in the House of Commons being thus removed, there is every reason to hope that the character of the House would be raised, audits efficiency augmented, while the Miniatere would haie snore time to attend to r the .arduu mut" than it is possible fur them under the present system"— Times. • It hes been sometimes said that all which is to be found in the pages of history ought to be received with distrust and suspicion, except the mere exist ence of its leading events. The causes of these events, and the character of the actors in them, are carefully handed down by the historian to posterity, but it has been said that the pages of the novelist might as well be consulted for authentic information. Horace Walpole tells us, that having been asked by his father, Sir Robert Walpole, on some occasion, to cad to him, on his inquiring what he wished hitn to read, Sir 'Robert answered, any thing but Jiistory, for that must be lies. It may be said that moo reliance 'may be placed on history since the ge neral ,?Stablishment of Journals, in which transac lions are recorded when they take place. It is sin gular that this view should have been most stre nuously controverted by an individual who of ell great public characters was the most devoted to the liberty of the Press, and who had the merit of show. i hg , hi his exa mple, that the Oovernment of a great State could be conducted without calling law to its aid against newspapers. We allude to Thomas Jeftersett. Writing to a friend in 1807, he observes " It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the Press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits thin is done by its abandoned prostitution to false hood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinfortnetion is known only to those who are is situations to eonfrout facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commisserutiou over the great body of my fellow-citizens, who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have *sumo something of what has been passing in the world in their Woe; whereas, the accounts they have read in newspapers sre just as true a history of any other period of the world se the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to these fables. Cienerel facts may, in deed, be collected front them, such as that Europe is now at war ; that iluonaparte has been a successful warrior ; that be has subjected a great portion of Europe to his will, Sic. Ste. ; but no details can he relied on, I will add, t h a t t h e man who never took' into a newspaper is better informed than he who retitle them ; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truths than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. lie who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false." We would not tie President Jefferson too closely to these sentiments, which indicate rather a woueded sensibility than a dispassionate exercise of judgment. Still, however, what lie says with respect to history is not without some foundation in truth. We have been led to this train of remark by a perusal of the various effusions to which the death of our late Sovereign has given birth. Of the various historians of the day, no two agree in their ac.eounts of the character of the Monarch, in their representations of the state of public feeling during his illness, when he breathed his last, or when his remains were deposited in the earth. Our own statements are in the recollecton of our reader% Otte of our Aiming Contemporaries, speaking of the day of the funeral, observed that— " Never wee public feeling more universally or im pressively disployell than on this occarlion. Throughout the whole of yesterday the Metropolis exhibited one con trast emu of deep regret...a regret evidently manifested, not merely at the loss of a great and at go od Ki ng , but at the'bereiteentent se it were of a beloved father or to e th e e.....an aeeoraptielled companion soil art eieleaßsi friend; the latter he wilt to ail who knew his:private worth," lea. " The melancholy interest felt on the occasion of the last obsequies paid to the illustrious mimes of such a Prince was naturally of the most intense deseription— alike just to the glorious departed, and creditable to the grateful living." Another Morning Contemporary obeerved of the same day— " The troth ia—eod it speaks volumes about the man .....that there never was en individoul lean regretted by his fellow-creatures than this deceased King. 'Whet eye has wept for him? What lutirt has heaved one throb of enmercenary sorrow ? Was there at any time a gorgeous pageant on the stage more completely fort/00;0i than he heent even (Mtn thin day on which this heralds pro. claimed his successor? Has not that successor pitied nit" sat bittsultjects, be the blunt and unarmed—even should it be the groteeque—cordiality of his demeanour, within It, few hinge weeks, than Cleorge IV.—that Le viittbsu of the ;:laut ears-ever did dialog the (8 years of las existence?" Eiyoning Centempontry, endeavouring to re , corile these two eeeflieting statements, observed— Scsreeiy any men who has filled a hi 1 station 't fall under the common eta:la ms o r 1, -• ` g y l without 4..4 L it a itt u t Etile tt ; i sh ilztte,Aniitzt,rktenctiAbit istiner:re.. the Morning PostTatioisnatme tt e mbo t„47,l t*4ll i c i t ur l iti n " Eris death or life could nat . have 'hem or the' slighte st queued; eonrnn but the iustaurApt aro cus intirvhaiislt w, and fortunate-4A millo-iteal for ma s yl ,„ 4: 1 17" 10 testy tat_, co e aubjeetionable a King Ilea hem fvllstvvwl t„, thrr with less heartfelt sorrow. T 1414 was more telf.l7l. gray, rot t 411 m eli any popular Monara we do- not theliev li t; but his eelf-indolgence took at lest tot unsocial diremien ; he oufartaustely kept too touch f ac t, D1t„,8444,t aloof from his people; and the blandness and kindness of his manners seem scarcely to have compensated, in the opinions of those who approached him, for his morbid at tention to etiquette, and his too great disposition to con vert freedoms, or even blunders, into grounds of affiance. Kings sometimes, like other men, become popular for small merits, and unpopular for failings which are of no great consequence to their people." . _ • . We question if our Evening Contemporary,.with his philosophy, is much nearer the mark than those on whom he comments. The truth .is, men do not shed tears for Kings, except when they happen to lose something by their death, or are delivering a funeral sermon, or some similar composition, written by themselves. This is in all cases a very hard trial. Even Frederick of Prussia, though not used to the melting mood, on reading to Voltaire a funeral sermon he had composed on the death of his reader, could not finish the first sentence without shedding tears, though he would not, perhaps, have given 100 dollars to Have his life. Our Contempo rary will find that the, affliction of subjects on the death of Kings, though great in the mass, presses very lightly on each individual. There is a sort of conventional language, which it would be as inde corous not to observe on such occasions as it would be to omit at the conclusion of a letter subscribing your most obedient humble servant; and as the matter is as well understood, as the denial by a ser vant when an inconvenient call is made, it would be reckoned unpolite to question the sincerity of this conventional language. The' mourning for a King, never perhaps, since Kings existed, caused one sub ject to eat an ounce less at his dinner, if the cook did his duty. We demur, therefore, to the test of our Evening Contemporary.; George the Fourth was as much regretted as any other Sovereign, ex cept Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth by their Nobles, and their sensibility was excited by apprehensions for themselves. The attachment to one a native country is an attachment to all that a man loves. Attachment to a Constitution is an at tachment to that which gives that country its chief value. Loyalty, when understood in the sense of at. tachment to the institutions °fa country represented by a head, is intelligible; attachment to an indivi dual merely as the head, is unintelligible on any other than private and personal grounds...'--But the Rev. Edward Irving, in his sermon pretteod at the National Scotch Church, Regent-square, July 1.5, 100, called God to witness that the repfOienlations of our Contemporaries, with respect to tre indif ference on account of the illness and detail of the late King, are utterly unfounded. But let us hear his account, as given in extracts in The " Elul, surely, if ever a verdict of acquittal from every hasty and inconsiderate charge was given to a Monarch by a free people, it was given to him during those many weeks of sickness by which he was confined. I hail the opportunity of witnessing the conduct of many classes of society, and of many families, and I can truly say, that if it bad been the father of any of these families who bad been so afflicted, there could not have been manifested greater' concern for his affliction—there could not have been more fervent prayers fur his recovery. And this feeling was universal. The prayers of the people out stripped the tardy orders of the church, and found ex pression in their own plain and simple language. Ile was not forgotten ! 0 no, he was not forgotten by his people ! If his reign had not been a blessing ; or if the transient errors of his early life had not been forgotten ; or if his people had merely borne with him in the hope of the fu ture, would not their wish of change have been expressed ? Would not something like pleasure have been manifested at the idea of his removal ? Would the whole nation have clung thus around the throne of a King they dis liked? I confess that to me it seemed as if something more than the death of a mere mortal man were resting on that event. It seemed to many families as though their head were about to be removed ; to the whole nation at though their mediator, their puce-maker, were about to be taken away. The lowest among us seems conscious of some change ; we feel as if we were on the edge of some crumbling precipice. Each One seems to feel the ground swell of a coining storm, and to wish that be who bad weathered so many storms bud remained with us as our pilot. But we must not speak thus : we must not despair. We must still rally round the Throne, and do all we can to resist the consequences of the coming storm. This dis course has not been written fur the purpose of eulogy, or to answer any private end. It is to remind pm of the importance of doing all you can as Christians, to break the confederacy which is forming against the Lord and his Anointed, and at the same time to remind you of what is due to the memory of our departed Sovereign, whose re mains are this day to be consigned to the grave." Who of all these writers is the correct expositor of the state of public feelingj, on this recent event ? How is history to distinguish between the true and the false? We trill even give her the benefit of Mr. Cobbett's contemporary labours. From the following announcement in the Register of the 10th of July, it would appear that we shall have a History of the late King from his pen, even more true than the History of the Protestant Reforma tion :--- t , Peel says, ' we are too near to the blessings enjoyed under his Majeity'a mild and beneficent away to enable us duly to estimate them.' What, too near? Why, then, e man can judge beet of a bottle of wine, I suppose, a year or two after he has drunk it. Poor Ogden, for instance, was, while hi the dungeon in Horsemonger-lane, too near to Sitimouth's blessings to be able duly to (*haute them. Tie starving Melt are too near to the blessings of bent& cent away ; anti the poor Queen was a greet deal too near to the mild and beneficent treatment which she received, to be able duly to estimate it. She should have lived thirty or forty years longer, and then she would have beets better able to judge of the real character of the proceedings against her. A trial of any sort in a Court of Law must be much more likely to end in justice when the transac tions to which it relates have all taken place many years before. In short, this is the old cant of the rascally rabble of mercenary writers, who are hired to keep silence while tha facts are froth in the minds of the people. Tao near,' indeed! IloW can the narrator of transac tions and the describer of character be too near to the transactions and the actors ? This is monsoonal When a witness sweats in reference to a written memorandum, he ought to be told that, to make it good for anything, it must have been written long and long after the occur rences took place. 'l'oo near, indeed, to write a falae history, and :mike it pass for truth ; but not too near to write a true history. There is something so monstrous in the idea that those of one generation are to write the history of those of another generation, I will dissipate all this cant—if it please God to give me life end health, I will drive this Cant out of use---this lying, cheating, this base cant; I will let the nation ace that we are not a bit too near• to the blessings conferred by this Ki ng , t o be to estimate them. We shall have lies enough about him plenty of histories in praise of him ; but from me, his memory will get that which will stick to it." We rannOt quit this subject without noticing the goo d eon e e diwplayed by Mr. Irving in his ullusion to the ecendahnni (Ammeter of the Court " If from there tokens of his piety towards Clod, I come to speak of his behaviour to his fellow men, I may well ask, where shall we find such a model of courteous. um 1 He exhibited the most perfect grace of Milkers : in him it was not a mere form, but the certain mark of a genuine loving-kindness to all lie people. Hence beloved to witness the joy of his subjects, and patiently bore with their rude applause. Not that he eagerly sought such ap probation, or that he was ever forgetful of the respect which was due from all to his exalted station ; for while he manifested such amiable condescension, he could, in a moment, rouse all his Royal feelings, and rebuke and chasten those who presumed to trifle with his dignity.— He was 'well worthy to be the King of a free people ; be was brought up among tie, and could bear with those boisterous ebullitions of feeling which we so frequently indulge in, either from want of the respect due to Ma i . Aesty, or from the momentary and mistaken want of loyalty. He was frequently assailed by the shafts of ca. loamy ; and ;lit few have been aide to shake them off with more perfect good nAture. often have I pitied from my ' very heart the situation of a King who could not enjoy 1 the friendly society of females without exposing himself to the most shameful slanders. lie nobly asserted and pro ' tech:it the boners of a free press, at the same time that he had so much to bear from its aspersions." This is speaking like a gentleman. We have always thought it one of the worst traits in our its- tiolllll character, that guilt should always be pre , sinned when even age bus destroyed the fuel of the plosions, and that to the other evils to which age is subject, it should be attempted to deny to it the 4olitee of the kindness which is alone to be found in female friendship. Mr. Irving takes a more liberal view of thc matter. May he, when his athletic furtin,rio longer recommends him to female attention, 1. ,/ ( 1 as hie reward, the friendly female society which he so willingly conceded to his aged Mo narch--Morning Chronicle. , Tho popularity of a King is so cheaply purchased that wO wonder the instances of that sort of regal fame should be comparatively rare. To make a Sovereign of a free State popular requires little or no effort on his part. He need only show that he , values the love of his people, and it is conferred, — His *esent Majesty is not, by the laws of the realm,; more firmly seated on the throne of his an cestorS, than he is by manners securely fixed in the affections of his people. His courteous and unaf fected- condescension—his frank and, numly, senti ments'--his disdain of unnecessary parade—and the preference which he gives to that enjoyment which is to lie derived from familiar contact with faithful peoplet over the selfish pleasures of seclusion—are eminently calculated to give him that popularity which:is the best protection of the kingly power. Although there was no Monarch that ever swayed the sceptre of Great Britain with a higher hand than Queen Elizabeth, she knew how to temper her Windless notions of the prerogative with a due edmixture of those minor virtues which soften the sternness of despotic grandeur.—When she curbed the ambition of haughty Nobles and proud pelates in language of imperious authority, she tas affable and conciliating in her manners towards the people. She knew how to gain their heartslty the expression of national sentiments and general confidence, which were sure to attach to her both their honest pride and their kindly affections. Her memorable answer to the Spanish Ambassador when he expressed his surprise that she ventured abroatj without military guards, is an instance of her capacity forgiving to regal power the most at tractivp exterior. " Behold," said she, pointing to i the us'embled crowds by whom si t e was surrounded, " beh ld the guards of the Crown of England I" .Who an wonder that a Sovereign, capable of utter ing such a sentiment, should be popular ? Burke has elOquently alluded to that chivalrous spirit which constiOuted what he called the " cheap defence of nations." Here we have an instance of that Royal magnanimity which constitutes the " chief defence" of thrOnes. Where the people are the " guards', of the Crown," it can equally defy foreign hostility and internal treason. It has no cold support—no mercenary protection. It is, therefore, with peen- , liar pleasure we observe the kindness of feeling arid the affithility of demeanour which William the Fourth evinces towards his subjects. It was an unfortunate circumstance for the popularity of the last reign that the Sovereign passed the latter part of it in such deep and habitual seclusion. This has been made the subject of bitter and invidious re mark, ,but we are convinced It arose from a con sciousness of bodily infirmity, which made his late Majesty averse from appearing much in public, be cause it was painful for him to endure the fatigues consequent upon such condescension, and perhaps unpleasant to endure the gaze of the people. But, from whatever circumstance it arose, it was certainly unfortunate, and did much to detract from the popular effect of the many virtues which his Majesty possessed. Royal seclusion in this country, unless it arise from inevitable necessity, reminds the sub ject more of the stately pomp of an Oriental Chief, than the dignified, but familiar, deportment of the Sovereign of a free people.—Morning Herald. An indiscreet and incorrect article appeared yes terday in the columns of a morning contemporary, on the subject of the Beer Bill, which is now about to receive the Royal Assent, to the effect that— " The respectable and industrious, and now oppressed licensed victuallers, who yield to none in loyalty, are de termined to manifest their duty and attachment to his Ma jesty by going in a body, preceded by the children of this school (which school is not mentioned), to pay the homage of their respect to their patron and Sovereign; and that for this purpose a meeting has been already called to make the necessary arrangements to be the first, as a public body, after the city of London, to congratulate his Majesty on hie elevation to the throne of these kingdoms." It its further added, that— " It has been suggested, and is now under consider ation, at the same time, humbly to petition his Majesty to direct his Ministers to reconsider the measure regarding the sale of beer, now on the eve of becoming a law, and cause this pernicious Act to he suspended for further con sideration until after the meeting of the new Parliament; and thus, for a time at least, avert the ruin that threatens this meritorious and unoffending body of men, who are about to be stripped of their hard earnings, which have beers invested under th e faith of Parliament, and all their charitable institutions, which his Majesty has been gra ciously Pleased to patronise, at once destroyed; the means being Wien from them, by this measure, of giving these institutions their further support." We do not really know what may be under the consideration of individuals; but we can assure our readers, that no such matters as those mentioned are under the consideration of the Licensed Victual lers of the metropolis, as a body ; and farther, that not only has no public meeting been called to con gratulate his Nhijesty, but that no determination whatsoever has been entered into " to go in a hotly, preceded by the children of this school," (we pre sume the Licensed Victuallers' School is meant) " to pay the homage of their respect to their patron and Sovereign." With regard to the remaining portion of the article, which states, that " It is intended humbly to represent to his Majesty that the extension of the beer trade is not a new measure; that it has been already tried since the restrictive Act of Edward VI. ; and that the trial produced most mis chievous consequences to the community, - is proved by a document not hitherto produced in evidence by the opposers of the measure, but which may be found among the City records, and a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum." We have only to Observe, that saute individuals may have thought of such a proceeding, but that its propriety has neither been admitted, nor any step towards the proceeding itself adopted, by the Society of Licensed Victuallers. They are wise enough,:indeed, to know, that although the King has a veto on all bills which are presented for the purpose of receiving the Royal Assent, he never, or very rarely, exercises the privilege, and, in fact that a petition or address of the nature alluded to, although literally constitutional, would place his Majesty in the very awkward situation of opposing that which his present Minivters have used their utmost efforts to promote. There is, in fact, no truth in the article—it is a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end ; and we are frank to own our surprise that it should ever have found its • way into the columns of our cotemporary. When any reso lution to the etTect mentioned above has been adopted our readers may rely on our furnishing them with the earliest intimation of it.—Morning Advertiser. TILE OLD LIEUTENANTS IN THE NAVY. ....(F rom a Correspondent.)-1t is sincerely hoped that his MAJYATY will take into consideration the ease of 300 senior Lieutenants, Royal Navy, at the ensiling promo tion; the junior officers of that OM hove been on the li s t SO years, and many have !wryerl from twelve to twenty y ear . In different ships both in the American and French wars. The greater part of those officers have strong (lama for promotion, hut have been neglected or passed by for want of interest. fly giving pro. motion to the 300 senior Lieutenants his MAJaspy will raise 300 front the 6a. to ris. list, and 800 from the ss. to the thus making a general pragreesive !litany of above officers are men advanced in years, there. fore cannot be expected to enjoy their promotion above ten 1 years at the utmost...Devonport Telegraph. Dltis BAILLIE.—One so enwsged in the daily toil and laborious duties of 4 great metropolitan doctor, may easily be conceived to have enjoyed little leisure for the cultivation of any literary or scientific pursuit, not immediately connected with his pr o fes s i on; and BAILLIE) it must be allowed, was wholly and en ti rely a physician. A few years only before his death, during a visit which the late professor Climoriv of Edinburgh rustle to London, these two eminent countrymen,, equally distinguished in their respective departments, convened tbgethor on several occasions; and the judgment they. jocosely passed upon each other was expressed in the following , manner t —d! " BA pt,te," said the accomplished and classical professor,' I , knows- nothing but phisic.u. Gunony," exclaimed the skilful and esperienccd London practitioner, qg seems to nee to know every thing but physic."—Fomily Li. brary, No. XIV. POLICE INTELLIOENCL MANSION-HOUSE. Three men, named Clarke, Cooper, and Holmes, were brought before the LORD MAYOR charged upon suspicion of having stolen a horse and cart in the country, and with having stowed the cart with property, in their way to town, from premises of various people between London and Suffolk. Several geese, it appeared, had been brought to market in London, without being lit for sale. Some of theSe geese were smothered, and some were alive, but they were all in the most wretched condition, and of course they were sold at very low prices. There, are always about the fowl-market numerous touters for the eating-house keepers, and by those every goose or other bird, either dead or half dead, is bought up, and however skinny or aged it may be, soon made tender by the operations of beating and steaming. Those dealers, however, purchase at very insignificant prices, as they are not able with all their skill 'to communicate the flavour of goose to the animal of that name in which they trade. Seventeen of the geese in question were sold for less than It, and it was observed that the fellow had a horse and cart of Suffolk quality with him. Several suspicious circumstances connected with the three prisoners were observed by the city officers, who watched their motions, and at last found one of them disposing of the horse and cart, after hav ing got rid of the contents of the cart. An officer from Suffolk , app eared, and requested NLORDat the MANOR d permit him to take the prisoners down to that county, in order to have the examination conducted before one of the Ma gistrates there. It was said that the owner of the cart had in dulged himself on the night of the robbery in too much sale and grog, and that those who stole his horse and cart committed the robbery under cir cumstances of a very ludicrous description. Finding that he was lying drunk in his cart, which stood amongst other vehicles, in some of which were calves and lambs, they bundled him amongst the calves, and took away in his place a well grown calf, leaving him covered with hay. The owner of the calves happening to have a drop in himself, did not knew any thing of the exchange until he had nearly reached home, when hearing a noise proceed from the substitute, whose stomach began to revolt at the severe jolting, he shoved a stick in amongst the calves, and soon found out his mistake. For some time the impression on the mind of the driver was, that the man ho was driving was an accomplice in the robbery, but the surprise and terror of the latter convinced him of the contrary. The prisoners were immediately sent off to the gaol of Suffolk. A Scotchman, named James Grey, and his wife and two children, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, having been found by an officer looking, but not asking, for alms. The melancholy group, after walking about for a length of time, sat down apparently exhausted on the steps of a hall door, and the officer seeing that there was no hoax in their distreis, procured them some food and a lodging. fbe LORD MAYOR asked the man what brought him to London whets he could support his family at home P—Grey said very candidly that he came to town for the purpose of bettering his condition. lie came to town with money enough to support his family for five or six weeks, but failing to get employment on account of the heavy rains, he was, when Ills money was out, driven into the streets. The LOUD MAvolt—Why, what a fool you were to leave a certainty for an uncertainty. Why did you not ask some of your countrymen about London before you left Scotland ?-orey said he had pro ceeded cautiously. From some of his countrymen he had heard there was plenty of money to be had in London; and he found that those who spoke against it never returned home.—(Laughter.) He therefore thought he stood a good chance of doing well. The LORD MAYOR—And what do you wish me to do for you ?---Grey begged to be sent home to Glasgow with his family. He was sure of obtain ing his livelihood there, whatever might be the state of the weather; and he vowed that he would never leave it again. The LORD MAYOR told him, that if he would promise not to come to London again to make his fortune, something should be done for him; and his Lordship having received a very solemn assurance to that effect, applied to a society for benefiting poor wanderers from Scotland, and sent the unfortunate adventUrer and his family home. 110W-STItEET. Yesterday Jamei Crest, the driver and part pro pietor of the " Telegraph"' Brighton coach, ap peared before Mr. MiNsuull., to answer to an in formation laid against him under the provisions of the Act of Geo. 111., c. 48, for abuse to u fare. Augustus Amyott, Esq., of College-house, Wor cestershire, and at present residing in James's -street, Westminster, stated, that on Thursday morning last he took an outside place to Croydon in the de fendant's coach, at the Ship Inn, Charing-cross. On arriving at the Elephant and Castle, there were some persons to be conveyed to Brighton, and the defendant asked witness if he would be good enough to go inside, and after some hesitation, he consented to do so. A f ew m i nutes a f ter he had taken his place, the defendant wished him to get out alto gether, which he (witness) refusedto do. The de fendant then told him that a Croydon coach had just drawn iip, and had room outside for a passen ger. Witness, to accommodate the coachman, got out, but finding that the only place which the Croydon coach had vacant was one inside, he re fused to take it, and resumed his place in the de fendant's coach. On reaching the Horns, at Ken nington, the defendant took up a wan and a boy more than he was licensed to carry. This cir cumstance was objected to by some of the other passengers, and an altercation arose in consequence. The defendant, thinking it was he (witness) who hud raised the objection, said, " Are you not u pretty f e ll ow to: prevent one from taking up a pas senger ?" When the coach arrived at Croydon, witness told the defendant that it was his intention to lay an information against him for carrying mme passengers than the law allowed, to which the de fendant replied, " Oh, you may do as you please; I should like to give you a - good hiding. When such fellows as you can get nothing to steal upon the road, you turn informer', but no Magistrate will listen to what fellows lik e you can say." - Wit ness made no answer to this abuse, but having paid his fare, walked away, having first, however, taken the number of the defendants coach. The coachman in his defence denied the expres sions imputed to him, but admitted that he was irri tated on finding that the complainant bad prevented him from taking up two fares to Brighton, by which be would have got I/..56., instead of a 36. fare to Croydon. Mr. Mtssuur.r. severely reproved the defendant for his insolent and unbecoming conduct. Ile had, it appeared, got into an ill humour at starting, and had curried it with him to Croydon, for no other cause than that the gentleman did not choose to re sign his place to accommodate him. Such conduct was not to be tolerated, and must be visited by the highest penalty which the law allowed. The defendant offered to make an apology for his cond►►ct to Mr. Amyott, but Mr. MINSIIULL said, it was a case in which be could not allow any such compromise to take place. Ile regretted that the penalty was not higher than 405.; for certainly if it had been, he would not have mitigated any part of it. The defendant .was fined 405., which he paid with a very bad grace, and was discharged. Lieut. Charles :Daniel Houghton *as placed at the bar, charged with having, on the 19th inst., before Sir John Dayiey, Knight, one of the JustiCes of the Court of King :a Beach, at his Lordship's Chambers, i n serjetines km, feloniously personated Otte Charles E ve lyn :Houghton, for the purpose of entering bail for W. Fowle, ha the said VV. Fowle being at the time a prisoner in the custody of the Marshal of the Marsha'sea prison, at the suit of Mr. Charles Eicke, a The prisoner, before any evidence against him was taken, requested a postponement of the case until next Saturday, and there being no objection made to this course by Mr. Eicke, who attended to prosecute, Mr. HALLS ordered the prisoner to be remanded until the day mentioned. MARYLEBONE. Mistress Joseph:, the Jewess who keeps a brothel in Dean-street, Lisson-grove, was brought up yesterday for re-examination. She employed two solicitors in her defence, and a person from the office of. Mr. Greenwell, vestry clerk of Marylebone, at tended on behalf of the parish. The disgusting detail respecting the four little girls and the footman was repeated, and she was fully committed for trial, with an understanding that the parish would come forward and prosecute. Her solicitors requested that she might be liberated on bail. Mr. RAWLINSON and Mr. HOSKINS consented, on condition that twenty-four hours' notice of the same be given to Mr. Greenwell, and he be satisfied respecting the competency of the parties. A poor little girl, about five or six years old, was brought into the office by a stranger. A dog had bitten away from the under part of her right thigh a very large piece of flesh, and her mother had ne glected it so that in ten days the wound had become dreadfully aggravated, and the sufferings of the child had attracted the notice of this stranger in the street. The Magistrates sent the child immediately to the infirmary, intending afterwards to investigate the conduct of the mother, who followed the child to the office in a state of intoxication, with an infant at her breast, and a child with but one eye in her hand. Dutch, the officer, was sent with the stranger to the infirmary, and he brought word back that the situation of the child was uncertain, so the mother and the other children were sent to the workhouse, to be detained until its fate is known. The mother was not questioned by the Magis trates, but to bystanders in the office yard, she attempted to exculpate herself, by saying she had no remedy against the owner of the dog, for it was properly chained up, and the child went (for the purpose of begging, it is probable, at the instigation of her mother),within its reach. L A hi BETILSTIt EET. A sailor, named James Mackay, was brought before Messrs. WYATT and WALKHR, charged with the following brutal outrage and assault : Henry Wright, one of the County firemen, said he was standing near the engine•house on Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock, when be saw the prisoner come down the street with a stick in his hand. Wlien he came to the engine -house gates he deliberately stopped, put the end of his stick under the gate, and attempted to force it off the hinges. Witness requested the prisoner not to do this, when he declared if he came near him he was a dead man. Directly afterwards some new idea seemed to enter his head, and he rushed into the house of the gentleman who horses the engines; and on being prevented by his wife, he rushed by her, knocked her down, and, had not himself and some other men gone to her assistance, he would have killed her. • Mrs. Frances Carver, the lady in question, cor roborated Wright's statement. She stated, in ad dition, that she still suffered most severely from the injury the prisoner had inflicted upon her. The husband of Mrs. Carver produced a part of the stick which had been broken over his wife's head. The Magistrates said it was a most brutal out rage, and ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 54 to the King, or be imprisoned for two months in the House of Correction. wousnimrßEET. Yesterday a young fellow named Thomas Cush way, a weaver, was charged with embezzling silk, worth upwards of 10/., the property of Messrs. Ap pling and Co., his employers. The Magistrates sentenced the prisoner to be im prisoned for three months, and flogged for the space of 100 yards. The prisoner's mother fell upon her knees and implored for a more merciful sentence upon her son ; but he was removed from the bar, and the order for imprisonment and flogging made out. UNION.HALL. Yesterday u poor woman named Riordan, who has jwst come out of one of the Borough Hospitals, owing to injuries alleged to have been inflicted on her person by a serjeant and constable of the new police, attended to prefer the complaint against her assailants. The case was postponed over from Thursday last in consequence of the illness of the complainant, who, on the present occasion, exhibited severe bruises about the head and arms. The complainant stated, that on Wednesday night last, while waiting at the Mint-gate for the purpose of obtaining the numbers of two policemen who had ill-treated her about three weeks previoesly, Serjeant M'Craw, and police constable 161, came up to her. The former, on seeing her, asked her what she had in her lap, and she replied a few old bottles, upon which he exclaimed with an oath that stie was the woman who had hurt a policeman of his division, and immediately seized her by the arms. She struggled to get loose from his grasp, and he then called No. 161 to his assistance, and told him that she was the -- that kicked one of their men. M'Craw and the other defendant then seized her by both arms, and on attempting to extricate herself, the former struck her a blow under the ear, and she fell to the ground. She got up, and was no sooner on her legs than she was struck again, and the de fendants dragged her along the street towards the station, the serjeant repeatedly desiring the other defendant not to spare her. She cried out for mercy several times, but the more she besought their pity the more cruel they behaved to her, and when she endeavoured to break loose front them, they both fell upon her, beat he r , and Mille she was on th e ground one of them gave her a violent kick in the side, and broke owe of her ribs. After this inhu man treatment she lay extended on the ground in a state of insensibility, covered with blood, which flowed from her head and face. She was ultimately carried to the station, and the next morning taken to this office, and from thence to the hospital, where she had been confined since. The defendants declared that on the night in question their attention was attracted by seeing the complainant lying in the street with her face and clothes deluged in blood. They were anxious to as sist her under such circumstances; but the moment they attempted to raise her she became qidte-furions, and swore that they should not interfere with h er . It was evident that she was intoxicated at the time, and us their instructions were to convey persons found drunk in the streets, and incapable of takin g care of themselves, to the station-house, they were' only anxious to do their duty, and fulfil this order. On their way thither she kicked and plunged most violently, and it was only after great labour they suc ceeded in their object. With regard to her state ment that they had kicked and beaten her in the manner she bad described, there was no truth ; they were under the necessity of using some force to take her to the station-house, and the only injury she re ceived from them were the bruises in the arms, which were done in keeping her up as they carried her along. A woman who heard the complainant's screams on the night in question, stated that she went to the window, and saw two policemen dragging her along in the most shameful manner. She (witness) called out to them riot to kill the woman, but they disregarded h er entreaties, and still dragged her as if they were dragging a dead dog instead of a human being. The witness added, that she could not iden tify the persons of the policemen. The inspector said that the complainant was drunk when she was brought to the station-house, and was exceedingly violent in her behaviour. She certainly appeared to be much beaten and ill-used, but the men who brought her there declared that she was in that state when they first saw her. Mr. SwAnEY—The complainant asserts that those two men formed an aversion or hatred to her, Owing to her having issatilted a poliesceenAila some time ago, and that was the reason they attacked her on this occasion. The Magistrate slid that he perfectly recollected the morning' she vas . brought before him, she was in a dreadful c,Onditiont, and appeared bruised all over the body. He ha!! her taken to the Dispensary next door, and the . or. nion of the medical officer there was, that the bralfn visible on her person were not produced by felling down, but were the effects of blows. It was td:; the opinion at the time that her ribs were broken. Under all the circumstances, the Magistrate added,' that he should refer the case to the Commissionerni and if they, on investigation of the affair, found the statement of the complainant borne out by the let, timony of other witnesses, they would no doubt 4M 1 , , charge men capable of conducting themselves atol l such violence towards a female from the service.. The complainant said that she should be enabled'„ ',: to prove the truth oilier statement. ; flie defendants declared that for the sake of till! own characters, they wished the affair to be fullynnt vestigated before the Commissioners. THE MARKETS. COAL WIAR Adates 90 8 Dean's 30 6 Holyw ell - 31 0 Peiam 3O 3 Canfield 3J 0 Townley 3O 0 WallsEndHewlelce&Co. 33 9 tric. du °l' K w ET aii —.J asa nly d : e l. wni _ s 0 ' 1, Ditto Perkins and to. , 6 Ditto 111dde11'a1........./ a Iii)= 1 ; Ditto Ruston ........,4 1 7 : i Ditto Wa1ker........... F Walls End Belton .... ii , 0 4 Walls End Slewan's .„, Z i s ): Russell's nekton's Wa-r"' s I 30 •' • _ _ Ditto Bell itoissonlCo. Rua sel'al4 o2 '" Walls End Boundary 22 6 Walls Did Tees Ditto Iturraton 32 6 Cowpen * • Ditto Clarke and C 0... 31 R Fordel & Ditto Crainlington...... 29 8 Ditto (:allerton ............ 30 0 Llangenneeh Coal .1 * Ditto Gosforth 33 9 Wall's End Elgin ;: Ditto Hilda 32 0 Twitted Trader....: , 0 H Ditto otspur 32 4 lietaburn Ditto Northumberland &I 3 ships at market, 4934....-Sh ps strid E SS....MIUOI4 k r RAW HIDES. tic& Per Stone. s. d, to s. d. I Per Stone. 1. 11 : $ Rest }lei tvrs & Steers 3 0 3, 2 Ordinary Middlings 2 6 2 8 Market e s sift«..vom au "' '4i SHEEP SKINS. 94. 1 Polled CU. toes. Od. Sheathing...A: eks: 4 • t 0 0 00 I Lambe .„ l." ° PRICES OF LEATHER. A tiliStr" Per lb. d. d. Per lb. • 0utt5..........50 to 561 b.... 18} 19 Tanned Hoof 4114140.et s Dittn.........110 to 661 b.,. 21 tV Spanish Ditto Dressing 14 16 Per doren. Fine Coach Hide....,. 17 19 Calf Skins..S6 gib 14 ~ ,f Crop Hides, 95 to 401 b. 14 15 , 1 Ditto to 7014$ Di tto to 501 b. 14f 17 Ditto W 70 Ditto 18 1 Small Seale, 0 se' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 1112 Ws ...a06," 31 4 1 6 ‘1 Wheat. I Barley. 0 4111 . 1 ' Per Quarter. s. to s. Lto L s. to L • o .'‘ 55 02 32 38 21 32 "' 55 65 22 34 20 2 3 Birmingham.... 56 66 32 28 93 • , Bridport ......... 56 74 32 :26 tlO j(` Cirencester...—. 48 65 20 37 18 23 54 86 36 4 0 26 PI •' Fr : Guildford .......... 48 74 04 05 20 au Henley 54 al 20 33 28 _ Hereford 64 134 38 43 36 4 0 Highworth 62 80 30 42 26 34 "" ft Maidenhead 65 84 28 38 22 30 r: ' 4 Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 Reading . 41 89 18 41 16 3 1 ". •Or Salisbury 56 68 27 37 20 2 6 "" ___ Southampton 54 76 37 40 21 44 1 Stroud 64 74 34 38 32 : 44 Tewkesbury ...... 65 78 40 49 30 38 48 Uxbridge 48 74 21 32 19 22 44 Wa5tage.....,.,.,.. 413 73 20 36 16 28 . "2, 46 , Warminster.... 441 74 21 42 24 32 7_, 46 48 84 26 34 15 88 fa • Worcester........ 60 tr.l 32 36 24 26 CHKLTENHAM MARKET • Per Bushel. ad.to a d. Pi Wheat 7 0 9 0 Beef Barley ...........—.. 4 0 5 6 himton Oats ...„ ........ ...... 2 6 4 8 Veal 8ea1a.t.... ..... ....... 4 9 5 6 Laud) Pease... .. ... 5 0 8 0 Pork Ti;; ............ U. 101. to 31. 8 T.-July's 2 en 'er lb. m* 6 fs 15s. per tors. 00000 lIMININII LEWES MARKET..—JuIy '2O. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 9 0 to £3 3 Id Red ditto 3 4 0 g Barley Oats. New 1 1 0 12/ 0 Beans Oil Cake. New so 12 0 0 per 0010_4, 0 0 HULL MARKET...JuIy 20. The show of farmers' Wheat today is very Irmitw, prices of.this, as well as free foreign, are telly sti_ i _Pri; o Oats have been in conside r abl e request, free parel l ' abo sa realized Is. to 2s. and bonded 2e. to Ss. per quo° b oa the prices of last week. Beans and Pease may stilnd is ' be noted le. to 2s. per quarter dearer, both frol stle bond. Nothing passing in free. Batley, amll 6 p o s at inquiry after lock Corn, alth oug h t h e balden l 4s, our all disposed to press sa l es . Li nsee d i s held ot a ir doing highest quotation, a n d very li tt l e here. 'vu in Rapeseed, and prices nominal. M i t Wheat, Old — 5 . M s. 72 5. N e w " .44 Foreign —s. fY3a 745. bon.'" 2 .....14 , Oats, Poland — s tbs. 245, 01d......... Small or Feed.... —l. 20s. Foreign —is 545. 265. Barley, Norf. & Sul. — e . 30 s . 3:is. Line. is W° ld Foreign Beans ...... ...... 3ds. 40s. 424. F0reign ...... ... —. Pease, White —s, 40s. 441. Grey ........... Ws. Tares . . ... —a 30a. 3fis. Foreign ..... Vi. 3111. Rapeseed, in bond. n one . ......... Free, per lut 11KE15.--July 14. DUMFRIES MA Wheat Imp. Bush 79t0 8 Butter, 1601. ..... , Barley 4 0 4 9 Eggs, dosen ............. Oats ..... Flour, 141 b......... O at meal ...... •••••••• 2 8 3 0 Veal.•••••• ..... ••••••••••I Potato', csrL IRIS. d d 0 0 04 h otit) COTTON WOOL. LIST OP IMPORTS AND RIM] SirOA p; Hap, Stc, Bap, kc. mg'. Liverpool 513,907 472,2(12 10 a 338 London 13,771 h 0896 l 290 Glasgow 38,11M 22,211 1 Total expo; ted in !WO 15,0=5• Same period ntrOnmst). Same pe. This riot' last year. rear. Ea 4" li3SO 0 4 Prince WILLIAM HENRY ROW onr gra ° Sovereign, was brother midship man ' tk a lst o. KJ/AT& and Otavaa, and Mr. Alderman B. it Copt;, on beard Admiral DIGnY'S flag-ship, in t i i e i c sb r, e in the orated engagement of Lord Room ICY with Count Pr GK West Indies, on the 12th of April, 1782. A strange st or y appears i n a D u blin 1 )0 l Aft concerning a passenger's jumping overheard the Dublin steam-boat (on the voyage from LlYere fr o Dublin, on the Ist instant) and being rescue d w to, drowning principally by the exertions of a seettl ° ' b 0, 14 dreaming at the instant of the man's leapilog 't Ivo that such an event had befallen, sprung from 1 flew to hie rescue, when no one else bad sail sl° 7 of what had happened. to A gentleman wh o h a d amused d use l f „30 f making a collection of the loyal addresses of the reign ui ~ Groner 111., has communicated a delectable sP eciu tro' the Bath os , i n an a dd ress f rom a certa i n b orou gh in % - ,;,141 wall, onithe m e m ora bl e occas i on o f t h e attac k of the :,, I ; MARGAIIILT NICHOLSON, On the KING'S Donlon. !"- ,i ‘ l dress, after congratulating m • o vobP' IS AJZSTY on WS escape from the knife of tbe awassin, concludes neatly beseeching his Ala/Barr to take care of s il' oe ti` precioust t te these realms, for reasons too tedious to tion." i The Chat of then Week. 11. 0 NO n .n' the 20th 4 2 1 0 0d t ta h hu i gi n n t ster t. t. . a t t lp hlik e Iladß rks Ty , dv 1 1C% P. Ho nYwualli ylAq., M.P. of a eon. . of On the 20th inst . at Camberwell, Mrs . ll' l'°4l°4l a daughter. MARRIED. gal 00 1 , 1 On the 20th inst. at Harwich, Captain 3 b n in Pr' 0 ro e of his Ma* t ' 'es y s packet the Earl of Leicester, to eldest daughter of J. Ransom, Esq., of tha t P il/t* DIED. MO' On the Ilth last. suddenl at Kinnaird 11ouse , „ o w Diehl wife of colonel Dick 34 T!I not. 14 , C.D., of u Y shire. ' illsoh On the 14th inst. at Rath, after a fee' JAY. w itio Charles. the eldest son of Colonel Payne, w h i u " li s 0 HiumifSi.,thEeneßxo,n.thce7: f:Iiolf lug manners and a ff ectionate disposition rowe r ) irreparable to his afflicted parents and family. 4.1,e5t," On the 12th last, at Runinterrille, ne ar Dia" 11." Mni. Jane Waugh. the On the 13th inst. at Great Staughtula , 11 ° 11 ' T. Clare, A M., Vicar , aged 15 8, Imear.lissrmo PRI Wild) ;141) PUILISKED BY 11111RD0,3oilr; t" Tin SuN °mot, 112, STJA le°34l)°