The Sun. — London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. 1 / 4 ILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.I Plcrning Herald.] -It is said the Cabinet Council, on Tuesday afternoon, was occupied in soine very important discussions relative to an alteration in the-Mini stry ; and a report .was current at the west end of the town yesterday, that two of the .principal Members of the Cabinet purposed to tender their resignations. It is certain, that immediately after the breaking up of the Council on Tuesday even ing, the Earl of Liverpool and Lord Castlereagh had a long private conference; and yesterday morning their Lordships sat off together for Brighton, from Lord Castlereagh's. house in St. James'ssquare. There is nothing important yet arrived respect ing the affairs of Naples, or the meeting at Lay taeh. We observe something very inconsistent and contradictory in the diplomatic prweedings of the Emperor of Russia, relative to the present slate of Europe. When the revolution first broke oat in Spain, it was denounced as a rebellious outrage upon sociaLorder, and upon all crowned beads, by the Russian Ministry, in a note to the then Spanish Mirdster at St. Petersburgh. Since that time, however, his Imperial Majesty has been mollified, and there is a Russian legation at Ma drid. In like manner, when the Revolution broke out in Naples, a similar denunciation was ivsued from the Russian chancellery. It was at , the same time announced, that the Emperor Alexander was about to restore the integrity of the Kingdom of Poland. This could be effected only by obtaining their respective shares in the spoil of that ill-fated but interesting nation from Austria ana Prussia. This would necessarily call for an indemnification to both powers : that to Austria was obvious—the occupation of. Naples ; in other words, the command of Italy : but that to Prussia was more perplexing : it was intended to be made by a cession of territory from' the minor states of the confederation, which raised an alarm through the Germanic body, and gave rise to the Bavarian armament, which was for a mo ment so _ much talked of. This new scheme of partition seems to have been abandoned, and with it the integrity of .Poland. .There is nothing particular from Spain; if we except a wretched conspiracy at Saragossa, in which, like the Jesuit plot in The Beaux' Stratagem, the chief agents are a priest and a woman, who are both arrested. The lady is the Marchioness of Lazau, whose husband was former Captain-General of the Province, and son of the celebrated Palafox.— (itid.) [Morning Post.] The conduct of. the Whigs at the late public meetings was calculated to provoke unqualified censure. It was so intemperate and uncompro mising, that it has subjected them to the un avoidable suspicion, that they have made up their minds to risk the peace and tranquillity of the Country, in order to effect their designs. It is a subject of painful notoriety, that they joined on those occasions in the Radical cry—that the Government is so corrupt as to have forfeited all claim to support and attachment. They even in sinuated, and that pretty broadly; that obe dience on the part of the subject has ceased to be a moral obligation, and is become a simple ques tion of 'expediency. It would really seem'that they are desirous of bringing the discontents that unfortunately exist in the Country to an explo sion. We are aware that these are serious charges against men of their rank and consequence ;—we have preferred them with extreme reluctance, and only from a paramount sense of public duty. Their conduct, whether it proceeded from false principles, irritated self-love, or inordinate ambi tion,' is in the highest 'degree culpable ; and they -willfind it difficult to justify it upon any admis sible ground. A Country must be wrOched, in deed, when resistance becomes necessary ; and do the Whigs pretend to say that the people of this Country are "placed in. that dreadful condition ? if we still enjoy our fair share of the blessings Which' Heaven has bestowed on civilized man , --if I've possess then. in a more ample manner,Znd, in aatigh'er!&g.ree than other nations, it would be isnjust'und unwise to complain ; and we ought to treat those men as knaves, .or at best as dange yOus enthusiasts, who would throw them-away for some visionary or fanciful improvement.— , The Whigs may extol. as much as they please the Purity or their motives, but the conduct cif public men is to .be judged by the results, 'and not , by their intentions. Many of them, tc°e belle s e, are well=mearting. men, :-who would irOt support any plan they thought to be of *p.' dangerous or. even., doubtful tendency. But these are not the most active' members _of, the p - arty, Ahough -unquestionably the first in rank and wealth. There-are others again, who, with: • hOnest intentions, . profess. .principles .that are 'utterly inconsistent with the spirit•or: practice of the Constitution ; and . which,. if enforCed, would 'deprive the Government of: the means to - secure 'obedience at: home, And,respect abroad. In pre -tending to- extend the -liberties -of the _people, they wonld consign the country . to :the rage of faction ; and substitute a. turbulent democracy for the strength, orderiiand - security of: the .pre sent systei m. A love of= singularity is mixed up 'vlith the rectitude of: their intentions; .and per haps their honesty has . no other practical effect than to render their principles dangerous,- by, giving them a 'value, which :they do.; not in reality m exit. . I .l'herschool rom which:they are• derived is evideritiftif a :modern. date;' arkLthey .have, more affinity to the -ievolutionaryi philosophy of. France,:thah.to the tried wisdom which drew up the' plan of Englislr. , libOrty., At feaSt one 'thing: is certain, that they could not be carried into. eifect,.without:endangeririg, - and - eventually, over-. taminglll6 • laws, religion; .and government of : -the cotittq;' avat present'esta.blished, and .ccur-, s i c uently exposing to the hurrest hazard all the intere.stS that.are connected with their preserve- - 'tiOn. • A third class of :persons, belonging ,to. the Pgrty . , a pirear; to be:impelled, by. selfish mo tives alone, and would probably barter the peace, honour ) and liberties of the nation, for the re wards which an inordinate ambition holds up to their view. They are the most mischievous, be cause the most• specious and unprincipled politi cians in the country. Whatever they say or do, is suggested by a cold, calculating, andmachia, - - velian policy. They watch the conduct of the Government, in order to underate what is really praise -worthy, .and to heighten every difficulty, and exaggerate every error. In war or peace, they pursue the mine course. The glory of the nation is painful to them, because it obstructs their views, and poslpones the accomplishment of their hopes. Whin the State is secure at home, and respected - abroad, they never acquire a dangerous 'importance. They may, it is true, gnaw at the monuments of its prosperity, but it is only in times of trouble that their influence be comes formidable. They require to be vigilant ly watched, and faithfully portrayed, at this time; for the public mind is too heated to be able to see through the selfishness of their mo tives, and the dangerous tendency of their de signs. They are perhaps the worst subjects that can exist in a free, moral, wealthy, and enter prizing country. [Morning Chronicle.] The Tories of Scotland are sufficiently aware that they have long lain under the imputation of stupidity, and, what is more, they appear equally conscious that the imputation is by no means un founded. From an absolute inability to find any man possessed. even of decent abilities; in their own ranks, they have been obliged more than once, to endeavour to seek in the ranks of their opponents for persons to fill vacant places of im portance, such as that of Lord Advocate, &c. where some talent is at least not superfluous.— Whether this endeavour originated in something like a sense of shame, or in the dread of the con sequences which might follow from a repetition of Mr. M'Connochie's exhibitions in his Crown Pro secutions, we know not ; we know, however, that the attempt to ,get a Whig Advocate to till that office has been made, though hitherto with out success. It would appear, from the , Report of the Pitt Club. Dinner, that the Tories begin now to entertain a sanguine hope, that a new zera is about to commence with them. Toryism and length of ear are Ito longer to be associated toge ther in public estimation. Great exertions, we are told, have been made to obtain an infusion of some young men of talent and promise into the effete body of the Tories, that the party may not be composed exclusively of silly and imbecile Peers, lazy Sinecurists, guzzling and overgrown City Magistrates, superannuated Principals, time serving Divines, without the least alloy of useful talent, and with no genius of any kind among them, except what is monopolized by Sir W. cott. We regret, indeed, that Sir Walter should carry his genius into a Body so ill calculated to - - it; , appreciate it does not require the presence of Edinburgh Tories to set it off to advantage ; and the proud consciousness of worth, which genius ought always to possess, should have preserved him from a degradation that Burns, poor as lie was, would not have submitted to—of prostitut ing his talents for the entertainment of such an assembly as that of the Pittites of Edinburgh.— But genius and independence, unfortunately, are not always united iu the same person, as in the case of Burns.—Mr. Boswell, by the by, seems to have been the only person who could put two or three sentences decently together (from our respect for the Peerage of Scotland, we shall say nothing of the brilliant orations of the members _ . of that illustrious body), concludes a speech, in which he tells the world that he is neither a Whig nor a Tory (perhaps he may not be able to de termine what he is till it be ascertained whether Ministers will be able to keep their places), with expressing " his gratification at seeing so many young men who had come to fill up the places of those who were advancing in life, and must soon drop off; and to defend, after they were dead and gone, the glorious principles of William Pitt." These hopes of the Tories were a little afterwards brought forward with due. formality, " as a corps- of young active recruits," who . would fill the places of the old fellows ; and there was proposed " the health of Mr. Lockhart, and all the young men of his age who had joined the Club." This Mr. Lock hart, the Corypheus of the young band, on whom the hopes of the Reverend Principal of the Uni- versity of. Edinburgh (who, with his brother Academicians, expressed himself so keenly alive . to the interests of religion and a pure morality), are so fondly fixed, is, it is true, the.son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott, but he has also long been the principal writer in Blackwood's Magazine; a periodical. work, distinguished, above. all others for want of principle, either religious, moral, or political, and the most outrageous calumnies of any which have appeared in this country, between the death of. The Satirist and the birth of John Bull. • So much for the religion and . morals in which the Reverend Principal delights ! We may know from this what the Reverend Gentle mawmeans by ,pure religion and pure.'morality. Mr. Lockhart , seems, however, perfectly aware, that whatever might be thought of his.connexion with Blackwood's Magazine in its .worst days, he was still conferrinr;a great favour on the body which he had joined. With .an assurance not always possessed by genius, he seems. to think that, his accession must, be decisive of the direc tion :%vhich the genius of the Scottish Bar- shall , hereafter take.—" Th e d a y was," quo th h e , when it was a common thing to .say,, that all .the young men. of .Scotland • were.. Whigs ; he hoped that would never be .said again ;, but that not °Wye!l the. most distinguished men of rank and Talent,: ,but also'.ali .the, young .men .in Scotland, would be found ambitious to pin their .faith-to the sleeve of William Pitt."—After_the example which 'Mr: Lockhart has set,, what. youn g man of abilities will, hereafter join the ranks of the Whigs'? -.lt. is true, there, appeared fewer Lords ,at. the , Fox:Club, but. by Nvayof, compe,nsation for the numher•of Peers and paper. Lords who, swel led the ranks of the. Plttikes,,their Chair/was. fill; ed by ,the .ablest and- most, accomplishe e d..of the .Scots. Peers,. II is true . that Messra..Clerki..Ter f(-4, Crapstoun>..T.,Murray., : Sioncrieffend all the rest of the men who are now eminent at the Scots Bar, form some set off against the expected eminence of Mr. Lockhart and those who are to follow his example. We do not, th9refore, ab solutely despair of the future. Indeed, there is so little affinity between such an inert' mass as that under which the Edinburgh Assembly rooms groaned on Friday last, and acquirements and talents, that we are little afraid of this ex pected Millennial of the Tories. A needy roan of talents, with little principle and less delicacy, may occasionally follow the example of Mr. Lockhart, and, for solid pudding, consent to Hatter silly Lords .and heavy-witted Baillies ; but the sacrifice is too severe to be frequently made.—The finest genius would soon be extin guished in such a quagmire. [British Press.] The Gazette still teems with Ministerial Ad dresses from various villages, and hamlets, now for the first time ".known to fame," and honour ed by an insertion in the State Journal. It is a pity that to each Address are not annexed the names of the ten or dozen persons who have re spectively signed them. it is almost unneces sary to state that the Addresses contained in The Gazette of Tuesday evening are said to have been sent from places, where no public meetings were held to collect the sense of the inhabitants. They are therefore probably for the most part the handy-work of the clergymen of the several places, and bear the signatures of the parish clerk, the tithe collector, the excise officer, the keeper of _the post office, with sundry constables, beadles, &c. The Treasury Journals, while they contend in. the - face of common sense.that such Addresses contain the expression of the real senti ments of the Country, as opposed to the Addresses that pray his Majesty to dismiss his present Mi nisters from his presence and counsels, offer at the same time a most unlucky excuse to spew why the partisans of the Ministers do not appear at public meetings. They say that any individual professing sentiments , favourable to the existing Cabinet at a public assembly of the people, would be clamoured down, and that consequently it would be an idle and vain proceeding to propose a Ministerial, or, as they would call it, a "Loyal" A ddress,under such circumstances. I f this be really the case, and of the truth of the statement we have no doubt, what can afford a more satisfactory assurance that such sentiments are not pleasing to the vast majority of the nation, and that the present Ministers and, all who advocate their claims to public confidence share the like unpopularity ! The Ministerialists know this from experience, and they know also that they have been foiled at their own weapons, for at Derby a strong body of the Requisitionists ap peared on the hustings, and endeavoured by a clamour that was disgraceful to them as gentle men, to drown the words of the Duke of Devon shire, and others who spoke in support of the amended Address, until they were at length dri ven from the Hall by the indignation of the meet ing. At Liverpool, a knot of partisans, whO had collected in one corner of the Hall, would not, in the vehemence of their zeal, suffer even the Mayor himself to speak to the meeting on points of order, and the worthy Magistrate was,.in con sequence of this rude interruption, compelled to dissolve the meeting. We do not complain that any portion of the lower orders of the people, not accustomed-to the courtesy that ought to pre vail in public discussion, and unable most pro bably to express their sentiments respecting, pub lic men and measures by any other means, should seek by loaf applause or censure to testify the tendency of their opinions ; but it is most revolt ing to every principle of civilized society that gentlemen should seek to enjoy this vulgar pri vilege of clamour, and not less absurd than when foiled in their attempts enforce_ it, they or their partisans should complain of the populace for having practised it with more effect. [New Times.] The grand Loyal Dinner on the Anniversary , of his Majesty's accession to the Throne conti nues to be the theme of general conversation in the City. It will be a most glorious manifesta tion of attachment to the Sovereign if the exam ple is followed throughout the kingdom ; and we particularly call upon all those Cities and Towns which have laid their Loyal Addresses at the foot of the Throne, to join in one grand simultaneous attestation of their common sentiments. That they will out number their antagonists three to one we have not the slightest doubt. It will not fail to be observed that in Edinburgh, where the Whigs made such an unprecedented struggle for the pre-eminence, their public dinner was attend ed only by three hundred and fifty persons, whereas at the Loyal dinner (besides many who were turned away, owing to the. want of room), the number of the company present was seven hundred and fifty ! ! !—The result of the County Meetings throughont England is, upon the whole, highly satisfactory. We have shesvn, that, in most instances, the Nobility scarcely sent a single representative to the Infra Meetings. Such was the case in Hampshire, and yet the Address was entitled that of the Nobility ! In the same manner it was called an Address of the Clergy, while not a single Clergyman was present. The Cambridge Meeting . formed a sort of exception from the general rule, but this was manifestly owing to the extraordinary exertions of the friends of Lord Fitzwilliam, in whose minds his Lord ship's removal from office, as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire, still deeply rankles. •We are among those _persons who cannot lose all remembrance of the high character so long maintained by his Lordship as a firm supporter of the Constitution;; but when we see party feelings so far prevailing over his better judgment, as in the case alluded to, we cannot but regret the unnatural and dis cordant union of this distinguished Peer, with persons as far below him in rank, as different in. principle. [The Times.] We have to notice a circumstance this day, which. of itself might appear trifling; but which, in the .clear, obvious, and iqcontrovertible infer ences_ which,cannot, fail or beir?g universally de duced from it, is of vast importance to those who,- like us, are convinced of the Queen's innocence —that is, to the whole of the independent part of the country. Her Majesty has been some time in treaty, and has at -length concluded the treaty, for Marlborough House—a mansion not unbecoming her exalted station and high birth, and situated between Carlton House and St. James's Palace ; contiguouS to both.. Let all England look to this important transaction. Her Majesty has been accused of being a woman ca pable of indulging in sinful propensities —nay, even given to indelicate and shameful habits. And how does she reply to these foul and in famous charges? By boldly placing herself in the midst of her enemies—by exposing her whole life to their observation. " Here I am,." she says, or seems to say, " in the 'midst of you ; watch, observe, spy all my ways ; 1 know no guilt, and, therefore, I practice no con ceahnent. Am I the creature that you have represented me to be ? I have put myself under your surveillance. My house., its doors, its windowS are open s to you : your spies may now surround me with ease ; I shall be sub ject to their inspection and yours, every hour : let them report, and do you remark, my life and conduct." Is not this, we again ask, a great and magnanimous proceeding? Yet how strongly ould prudence point out to her Majesty that course which her native courage has impelled her to adopt! Had her Majesty been really a woman who had secret vices to indulge, or had she be come the slave- of unhappy propensities, she would have skulked into obscurity. Every thing gives way to the darling passion. Nay, her Ma jesty-'s friends, who know her habits, would have recommended privacy, had those habits been snch as could by any possibility have reflected disgrace upon her : yet not only does her Ma jesty's own consciousness tell her that she has nothing to dread from the exposur e o f ever y ac t of her life to the severest scrutiny, but her at tendants and confidants also, who know her most int'inate'y, join in the report ; and publicly an nounce to the world, and to all Europe, by the sanction which they give to this act, that their Royal Mistress is one who has nothing to fear from being placed in the midst of her enemies : she challenges their observation. The agreement for Marlborough-house was executed by Alder. man Wood with the Duke's trustees on Tuesday. The public are already aware that a second meeting of merchants, bankers, &c. of the City of London was in contemplation, in order to coun teract tlx! effects, or expose the pretensions of a preceding meeting. Our opinion of that first meeting was certainly that its declaration contain ed little that was objectionable. The meeting, however, was secretly got up ; and that, we think, not very gallant or courageous in any class of men ; and then a declaration which meant nothing was, to say the best of it, but a useless concern. Indeed, the public would not have known the precise sentiments of the parties addressing, with such cautious timidity were they expressed, had it not been for some of the names which were at tached. It is not, therefore, without the strictest propriety that a second meeting, of a more deci sive character, is called ; and we have this day to notice Its iniatory proceedings. Its votes and resolutions will at least be intelligible, and so far will be becoming the open and ingenuous charac ter of Englishmen. Yesterday a meeting was held at the Mansion-house, at which many of the most considerable merchants, bankers, traders, and members of great public bodies (including seve ral members of Parliament) were present, for the purpose of considering the propriety of calling a public Meeting of Merchants, &c. upon the sub ject of the late Declaration, professing loyalty to the King, and purporting to be the Declara tion of the Mercantile Body. The Gentlemen present determioed to request the Lord Mayor to preside at the intended Meeting ; and it is the design of those 'who are to take a principal part in the discussion to propose a Resolution with reference to the late Meeting, to which they re ceived no invitation, and which, in fact, was got up without the knowledge of the great mass of the Citizens of London. The proposition being submitted to the Lord Mayor, his Lordship im mediately consented to take the Chair, and offered the 'Egyptian Hall for the accommoda tion of the Meeting, which will be held on Wed nesday next.—( Ibid.) [Public Ledger.] • New political commotions are said to haVe broken 'out both at Oviedo and Saragossa: A number of individuals were arrested on the.night of the t-29th ult. among them the Marchioness of Lazan, wife of the Captain-General of Arragon under the late Government, and father- of the celebrated Palafox, four canons, and .several minor ecclesiastics. Tranquillity was restored, happily without any loss of lives. General Riego arrived on the 30th at Burgos, into which he made his entry in a carriage decorated with _laurels, escorted by the military in garrison and the national militia. He was conducted to the Piaza Mayor, where, stationed near to the con stitutional pillar, he pronounced a discourse, which produced a strong impression upon the people. The inhabitants gave him a grand ball and entertainment at the Theatre. He pro:- ceeded .next day to Saragossa, to assume the Government of Arragon.. In the clubs that have just been suppressed were found a number of foreigners, particularly English and French.-- Accounts from the Tyrol, to the 4th inst. say, that there are frequent communications between Milan and the head-quarters at Treviso, where several General Officers have arrived from Vienna. A part of the army was to advance on the side of Pavia, to make room for those who wßre expedted to arrive in the Venetian territo ries from the interior, but there was no talk of passing the Po. On Monday-:evening, on the Earl of WEsT- M 9 I, AN. WS entering into town, the trunk was cut off from behind his carriage, but the foot man having had the precaution to tie a cord underneath the trunk, brought it under the dickey on which he sat,. while he held the cord in his. hand ; on the trunk giving way. he receiv ed a check, when• he inqtantly gave the alarm ; the thieves decamped, leaving the trunk behind. St:RREY StSSIONS, tONVIcTION Or A LOW METHODIST f.r.EAcuEn. Ygsterday Isaac Topper., who had been a long time. a Methodist Preacher, and had a chapel of his own in Lock's-fields, bras indicted for haviog received ten books and a table-cloth, k now ing y them to be stolen. The articles in question were the property of Mrs. M. Schroder, of Clap' ham-rise. The circumstances of the case were shortly these :—On the 14th of October last the house of Mrs. M. Schroder, a German Lady residing at Clapham, was robbed of considerable property, amongst which were 10 volumes of a Germs° work, Martin Luther's Commentary on the Bible, and some table-linen. One volume of the word in question was left behind by the thieves. Cu the 4th of December the stolen work was offer ed for .sale by the prisoner, in company with sr woman with whom he cohabited, to a Bookseller in York-street, Covent-garden. The Sum de , manded by the pristiner for the Work was 71-- He said he had had it in his family for 50yearsi but the account which he gave of the possession being disbelieved, he was taken into custody and aho the woman who went with him. The books offered for. sale by the prisoner were sword to by the son and daughter of the prosecutrix her property. The prisoner when he was taken into custody gave a false account of himself, a nd refused at first to disclose his residence. An Officer searched the residence of the prisoner ill Temple-street and found there a table-cloth and harp-cover, the prOperty of the prosecutrix.----Thd Jury found the prisoner Gztilty, `r lie Court, in Passing sentence, observed, that I tney never saw a stronger instance of determined depras ity than the case of the prisoner at the bar, who had been before the Court no less than five times for heinous offences since ISIS, and it was no late!' than July last since he was tried before the Court, when he was cautioned -and particularly athnonished against continuing in his iniquitous course of life ; but he had disregarded those 'admonitions. Ile was, however, at last within the meshes of the and the Chairman regretted that in this case it did not go farther than ir did, for certainly the prisoner had been for years °lie of the most flagrant and. successful reC"eivers of stolen goods in the Borouzh of wark. The turpitude of his course of life wai particularly aggravated by his setting himself op as the promulgator of that law which said. " Thou shalt not steal," and " thou shalt not do any manner of injury to thy neighbour,' and upon which they had now his practical comtneat.--: The Court sentenced the prisoner to be impri soned in the common Gaol for a term of Twenty four Calendar Months, the full punishment ale lowed . by the law. The Prisoner begged leave, before. he left them, to undeceive the Court. lie had not, he said, " bought " since he was cautioned by them iu July last, but had sold " his business."--(Merit ing Paper.) MIDDLESEX SESs;ION'.. Yesterday the trial of W. G. Wilmot, J. Wad, Eliza, his Bi , ife, and Maj .flatter, was continued for cuntrpiring to charge Eliz. Gage, at the. ola Bailey Sessions, with conspiracy. The Counsel for the prosecution, however, waived all charge ai , rainst Mrs. AVant and Mary Butter, but, after hearing evi. deuce for the defence, Wilmot and Want wefe convicted of the conspiracy. The former was sen tenced to 15 montts imprisonment ; and the lat ter to pay a fine of 2001. and to be imprisoned till it is paid. MVRDER.-About twelve o'clock on Wed riesday night, the Bth, a set of villains, armed with pistols, attacked a btrat•laden with a cargo of different merchandize, on the Grand'Canal,aC Colgan's Bridge, near the town of Edenhurn, is the King's County, Ireland, proceeding on her passage from Dublin to Shannon Harbour, and, after shutting the hatchways on the crew, one •1 whom they unmercifully beat about the head with a butt-end of a pistol until parr of the scull was completely discarnate, they sunk the boat by breaking in a plank in bet stern with an axe, having plundered the most valuable property. Several Gentlemen resid ing near to the spot have subscribed a very liberal reward to any persons who shall cause the delinquents to be apprehended, and brought to condign punishment ; and the Directors of tilt:: Grand Canal Company have, in a Manner 'rigid/ commendable, offered 1001. to the same purpose- Several reports having been promulgated, which promised at first to be a clue which would lead to the detection. of the offenders, a prompt and strict inquiry was set. on foot by the Magistrates, which has not yet been attended with any effect; It is however, sincerely to be hoped, that the monsters will not escape an ignominious death, ;rich the demands seem so justly to entitle them to. DARING . 11ConathiBetWeen five and' :lc o'clock on Tuesday evening, as CHRISTOPHER, SCULTIfORPE Esq. was proceeding alon g the Borough High-st ree t, h e was surrounded hy_at gang of pickpockets, five or six in number ; and' although more than five hundred persons - Were within pistol-shot on either side, the villains' pushejitirn abOut'in the most audacious manner, till they contrived to rob him of his watch and pocket-book, but fortunately the latter contained nothing of value. Mr. S. marked the fellow who , had the property, and pursued, aided by several of the passengers whom the cry of " Stop thief V' had alarrried ; he ran through the various courts, and finally escaped, but the watch was picked up by a young woman, dud returned to the owner. • BIRTH. On Sunday last, at Cirencester, Mrs. C. Lawrence, of * daughter. • • MARRIED'. On Tocsday last, at Lutterworth, H. Wright, Esq., of Manchester, to Mai ia, only daughter of Marston Buszard, Esq., of the former place. DIED. 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