The Sun. — London, England, 1821-07-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. July 14. [MORNING POST.] It must have struck many of our Readers as curious, that those who speak disparagingly of a Coronation, altogether describing it to be a vain and absurd pageant, are the very parties who have most distinguished themselves by clamouring for the admission of the'Queen to its honours. If it he the unnecessary and ridiculous ceremonial which they would have it thought, would not they consult the Queen's dignity by advisiiig . her to abstain from gracing the vain parade with her presence ? When they tell us, that the thing is in itself unimportant, and then add, that it is of groat importance that her Majesty should be in vited to share this unimportant proceeding, we should really be at a loss to understand them, if their former love of mischief did not conduct us to a just conception of their present object.— They do not call for the admission of the, Queen to the Hall or the Abbey because they think it would confer benefit, dignity, or importance on her, but because they hope it may revive tine expiring embers of discontent, and enable the factious again to menace the peace of the me - tropolis. But it is well that the first subject in the kingdom should suffer herself to be made the instrument of such persons. Could their designs succeed, would she profit by their triumph ? Oh ! no. Were Parliament reformed on the plan which the friends of the late Mr. Thistl e wcod would recommend, n o t even the great virtues of her Majesty would ensure the regular payment Of her 50,0001. per annum. Yet that, after 011, from the promptness with which our disinterested Queen made known her readiness to receive it, after declining it before it was granted, we sus pect is rightly valued at Brandenburgh House, and considered as only second in importance to the insertion of her name in the Liturgy.—But, much do her pretended friends deceive themselves if they suppose the peace of the Metropolis is now at their mercy. We speak not from mere surmise, tut from a positive knowledge of facts. If Englishmen, mistaking the Queen for an in jured woman, when a solemn question of the ut most importance to her interests was to be agi tated, were anxious to save her from the terrible penalty which seemed likely to punish her irre gularities and levities, they are net so mad as to run riot because her Majesty is not invited to a banquet, or assigned a place in a procestion.—lf she has been persuaded to the contrary, she will find her informants are not to be depended upon, and that it would have been quite as well " for little credit" she has left, if she had kept the promise which she made through her Solicitor- G eneral, and submitted to _the decision of the Coimcil to which she appealed, with resignat:on. [THE TIMES.] Human folly has no bounds. The Queen of England has been refused that to which all others of the King's subjects have been invited—nay, solicited—the privilege of seeing the Coronation of George the Fourth ! The refusal has even been joined with an act of indignity to her Ma jesty. It will be recollected that the Queen, after the decision of the Privy Council against her legal right to be crowned, addressed a. letter to Lord Sidmouth on the 11th instant (Wednes day last), demandinn as is already knoltn, a suit ab!e place at the Coronation. To this requisi sition, a letter, professing to be an answer, was sent in the course of yesterday, but without sig nature or address.—(Sec another column qf THE Sax.)—Disgusted as the public will necessarily be with this fresh instance of petty and unjusti fiable annoyance, aimed at this innocent and high-minded woman, there is a circumstance con nected with the transaction that will add the sharpest stings to the general contempt. We have reason to know, that Ministers themselves felt the propriety of complying with the Queen's demand for a place at the Coronation ; that the majority, if not all of them, had determined to grant the accommodation demanded : and yet they afterwards sacrificed their sense of what was right to the fear of losing their places. Some hints, it is said, were given which induced them to change a resolution of obvious propriety and of conciliating tendency. The Queen's mind is not to be so changed : her Majesty has deter mined to attend the Coronation, and will not be precluded, except by force, from that spectacle, which is open to the meanest subject of the nation. Her Majesty will be accompanied by Lord and Lady Hood and by Lady Hamilton. [moaxlNG cintomcm] A letter has at length been received by her Majesty, dated Whitehall, July 13th, 1821, but without any signature, or even address, stating in answer to the demand of her Majesty, that a suitable place might be appointed for her at the approaching Coronation ; that. 44 it is not his Majesty's pleasure to comply with the application contained in your Majesty's Letter," and refer ring to a Letter from Lord Liverpool to her Ma jesty, of the 7th of May, in which he informed her, that " his Majesty having determined that the Queen shall form no part o the ceremonial of his Coronation, it is therefore his Royal pleasure that the Queen shall not attend the said Cere mony." Her Majesty, on receipt of this strange communication, immediately wrote to Lord Sid mouth, that as it was without signature or ad dress, she should consider it as anonymous till she heard from him. Our Readers will find this extraordinary Correspondence in another column. —lt has been said by one of our Porsts, that " True no meaning puzzles more than wit."— Without presuming to dispute Lord Sidmouth's claim to wit, we should observe that his con duct on this occasion is puzzling in the extreme. It is, indeed, altogether beyond our comprehen sion. ft may, for aught we know, be a very re fined and ingenious piece of policy to send a Letter to the Queen without signature or ad dress; or his Lordship may, perhaps, have been waggishly disposed, and wished to see what curious or sagacious surmises this proceeding 'would give rise to ; anticipating probably, that' some would conclude that he meant to offer a studied insult.to her Majesty, while others might suppose that he had been profiting by the lessons of some pettifogging attorney, and avoided put ting his name to the letter that he might keep himself clear of all responsibility. But, as we have already said, the matter is altogether beyond our comprehension. We can comprehend, how ever, that it is determined to exclude the Queen from the Coronation. But we understand that her Majesty is, on the other hand, fully deter mined to attend, accompanied by Lord and Lady Hood, and Lady Ann liamilton. , If such is her .‘lajesty's determination (and that it is we have every reason to believe), it remains to be seen, whether Ministers will dare to make use of forci ble means for excluding her. We know not by what right they can prevent her appearance at the Coronation if she chuse to attend. By the way of Odessa, we have received ad. vices from Constantinople, to the Bth .Tuner: Baron Strogonoff, the Russian Ambassador, has shut i''-nself up in his house at Buyukdere, with the determination of havin g no further communi cation with the Turki s h Government, until he receives answers to the dispatches he has sent to the Emperor at St. Petersburgh. The fact is his conduct towards the Turkish Government has been irritating in the extreme, and he has done every thing he could to bring about a war, and he has refused time offers of the other Am bassadors to bring about a reconciliation. lie cannot have acted, we should think, without in structions from the Emperor. Capo D'lstria is with the latter, at St. Petersburgh, so that we cannot look to him without reflecting that the events in the Morea have been chiefly brought about through his intrigues, and those of his subordinate Agents. As a Pretest, Baron S. has made a formal Protest against the Turkish Government, for detaining at Constantinople the Cargoes of Corn coming from the Black Sea. But of all the European Powers Russia has the least to complain of, as the prices paid for the Corn are such as to induce specu lators to make further shipments from Odessa (where the price has risen in consequence), for the express purpose of sending them to the Con stantinople market for sale. \Ve have very little doubt that the Turkish Government possesses in formation that the correspondence of Baron Strogonoff with the Morea, which he carried on through the medium of his banker, Danesi, was not of the most friendly nature, and the execution of this man, notwithstanding the very great exer tions made by Baron S. to save his life, is a con vincing proof that he, at least, was guilty of some high crime against the Government.—The Russians sent, some time ago, two small ships of war down to Constantinople, but this being con trary to existing treaties, the Turkish Govern ment are determined to get them out of the Bosphorus.—(/bid.) [BRITISH PRESS.] The question of the Queen's Coronation is un doubtedly one of great Constitutional importance, and we should expect, from the well known vigi lance of the City of London, and some other great corporate bodies throughout the realm, that the discretionary power exercised by the Cabinet of capriciously withholding from the Queen an honour never before refused to any Queen Consort in England, will not be suffered to pass unnoticed. The resolution of the Privy Council upon the claim recently made by her Majesty, negatived in general terms the Queen's right to the honours of a Coronation, at such time and place as to herself might seem proper; but the records submitted to the Council in the argu ments of the Queen's Attorney and Solicitor-Ge neral, strewed very clearly that an usage had prevailed in this - kingdom, from the earliest times, which went very far towards establishing a pre scriptive right in her Majesty, although in some few instances the right bad not been exercised. Allowing, however, that in the strictness of legal construction there may be a marked difference between the enjoyment of a continued usage, and a right to claim it at any indefinite time and place, a question then arises how far it may be consistent with propriety to withhold the enjoyment from mere caprice, when such con duct tends to inflict a stigma upon a personage of the highest rank in the State. The ceremony of the Coronation may, indeed, be what the King's Attorney and Solicitor General described it, " an act in itself perfectly indifferent, bestowing no addition either of power or dignity, and which might or might not be performed at the dis cretion of the King ;" but considering the painful and peculiar circumstances in which the Queen is unfortunately placed, the performance of the ceremony becomes to her Majesty any thing but a matter of indifference. The refusal of coronal honours is to her a punishment of the severest kind, because it is meant to operate in the eyes of the world as a stigma and disgrace.' The real question, therefore, for the country now to consider is, whether the Queen, having been acquitted according to the forms of the Constitu tion of all the extravagant charges that were pre ferred against her, shall now be punished in one of the most interesting particulars, as if she had been actually convicted of the crimes imputed to her. The question of the Queen's absolute and legal right to be crowned is in no respect in volved in the question of the propriety with which the Ministers have exercised, or mean to exercise, their discretionary power. With the former the people, we think, have no concern whatever ; but the latter is open for public anim adversion, like any other act or omission of the respcnisible advisers of the King. The people, therefore, are not barred by the judgment of the Council from addressing the King in the way of petition, praying his Majesty to cause the Queen to be crowned at such time and place as to him self may seem meet. [NEW TIMES.] It happens singularly enoug, that while in this country our would-be patriots are uttering loud lamentations that the most atrocious libels should be punished after publication, the French Legis lature, by above two to one, have passed a law for establishing a Censorship • before publication. These are the •twd extremes, and both are equally to be avoided. It is a remarkable fact, that among all the, discussions in Parliament and else where on the subject of the 'Constitutional Asso ciation,"among all the virulent attacks on its members, and all the shameful misrepresenta tions of its proceedings, not one individual ever ventured publicly to mention, much less to de fend or apologise,, for any one of the libels which the Society has prosecuted. What was the rea son for this ? There was, there could be but one reason, that the libels were too infamous to bear repetition or description. This single considera tion not only shows how deeply the country is indebted. to a Society which has prevented the circulation of such poisons among the people ; but it also proves that the Society has exer cised its functions with the greatest judgment and discrimination, sparing every thing question able, and even among licentious and seditious publications selecting only the most atrocious for prosecution. lire wish to put Mr. Alderman 'Wood on his guard against a measure, which would otherwise lower him considerably in public estimation.— Circular Letters, it seems, have been sent into different parts of the kingdom (we have one nonA lying before us), marked Private and Confiden tial, soliciting a Half Guinea subscription, under the imposing title of 44 National Tribute of re spect to Mr. Alderman Wood !" it is calculated that Twu or ,Three Thousand Pounds may be got together by these means ; and one of the reasons assigned, for thus 44 paving tribute," • that 44 the venal part of the Pub lic Piess daily asperses the character and libels the motives" of the Worthy Alderman. —Now, we have no doubt, this is a hoax, built upon that other grand hoax, 44 The Queen's Plate Subscription." Mr. Alderman Wood cannot certainly let the begging box go. round for him, as it did for Hunt, and so many others of the ragged fraternity. Independently of the Worthy Alderman's - high spirit and large. fortune, expe rience has shown that these baits don't take. — Even her Most Gracious Majesty's subscription came to nothing, the moment she pocketed the Fifty Thousand Pounds from Government. The Alderman, we are sure, would say with Brutus, " I can raise no money by vile means." And therefore, we suspect, that some crafty knaves have put forward his name, in their " Private and Confidential" Letters, with a view to chouse the subscribers, and run away with the proceeds.—(lbid.) PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. As certain pseudo-Patriots and shallow Politi cians have thought proper to attempt to degrade and throw ridicule upon that national solemnity which connects the SOVEREIGN with the PEOPLE, by the most awful ceremony known to the Con stitution, we feel great pleasure in submitting to the Public the following observations on this august subject, taken from The Hull Packet of the 9th instant. As they are written with the true spirit of Philosophy, and the sagacity resulting from experience and rellection,they must expose to still greater contempt those zealots of Party who, blinded by ignorance or stung by disappointment, abuse what is really of the highest national im portance in the estimation of all wise and honest men : " THE CORONATION. ".On a cursory view, State Pageant and Ceremonial appear to be abundantly absurd and unreasonably expensive. a fundamental pnnciple of English law, the King can never die :' and when the spirit' of the late venerable King re turned to the God who had made it,' that instant was the next Heir, his present Majesty, invested with the plenitude of regal authority and dignity, as rightful and lawful Sovereign of these Realms. " Since that period he has exercised, unquestioned and un controuled, all the functions of Royalty: wily then, it might be asked, this idle and cumbrous ceremony to proclaim what has never been denied, and confirm what has never been disputed ? But the most plausible objection to the Solemnity would ap pear to flow from its lavish and unavalling.costliness : crowns, vestments, and robes, processions, theatres and banquets--why this profuse expenditure of the dilapidated resources of the people ? Of the first objection to the Coronation—its inutility-- we shall speak presently, after we have briefly proved that the clamour against its cost is founded upon a momentary forgetful ness or mistake of facts. . " The price of the Pageant is unquestionably drawn from the Public Exchequer : but let it never be forgotten that were no ceremonial whatever to occur, the burdens of the people would not be abated to the value of a single shilling ; that last year no reduction was made in the taxes in consequence of its postponement, and next year no circular will compel the taxgatherers to remit or refund upwards of £lOO,OOO, though the budget will not be encumbered with this additional charge. Thus then the condition of the people is not " worsened" (as the Laureate phrases it) by the approaching courtly festival; that it must be somewhat improved by it will admit of little controversy. " The amount of decorations, ornaments and entertainments which might, but for this ceremony, be grasped by the in satiable rapacity of a court minion, is diverted, by it into the possession of more equitable and meritorious claimants; in dustry through different branches is roused from its mel a ncholy stupor, and ihe superfluous treasures of the opulent arecirculated in a brisk and invigorating current through the various de partments of trade and manuactures. For the principal benefit conferred upon industry is not the amount derived from the Royal purse ; this is but " as the drop of the bucket" when compared with the increased expenditure of the nobility and gmtry from all quarters of the Empire. What with travel ling, town-houses, robes, ornaments, equipages, banquets, and other countless e:ipznsz, attending this rare and splendid fes tivity, the total -amount of wealth which it will transfer into the hands of the industrious, cannot fall far short of a million sterling. " In this view, it is to us an occasion of concern and regret that the public money is not rather expended upon Court pageant and festivities, than be lavished in other modes, which dispense amongst the people neither satisfaction, hilarity, nor emolument. Would that his Majesty's Ministers had thus scattered amongst the industrious classes those £12,000, which now sparkle as a gewgaw in the turban of the Persian Am bassador ! Would that national festivity or kingly parade had consumed those numerous twenty-thousands, which have been voted away in " pouncet-boxes" to titillate the organs or minister to the foppish vanity of foreign Diplomatists ! It was by the costly " bravery" of chivalrous tournaments that our patriotic Elizabeth was wont to delight the hearts, multiply the comforts, and win the affections of her devoted people. " If a nation exalt an individual in- Majesty, approach him with homage, and nfinister,to his enjoyments with profuse splen dour, they wis?ly judge that it is not primarily with a view to his satisfaction, or in consideration of his personal, intellectual or mo ral me_ it.. The community in this instance emulates the prudence of the man who commutes a portion of his gold for the viler in strument which secures the remainder. By depositing with the Monarch a part of its wealth and all its distinctions, it enableshim to organize a physical and moral forte, to protect the posses sions of opulence, the fruits of industry, and the personal safety of all. The page which commemorates our own calamities, and the volumes which record those of neighbouring States, furnish conclusive evidence that national glory and individual happiness are to be ascribed chiefly teethe influence of temperate and sober freedom; and that this is most permanently secured by the institutions of a lithited monarchy. We array, therefore, with magnificence, we approach with reverential awe, the personage through whom we derive such important benefits. But splen dour is procured by wealth ; and the reflecting portion of the community is sensible that wealth cannot be separated from liability to be wasted, or its possessor be totally divested of the power to abuse it ; and that this partial evil bears no pro portion to the k);encral benefit which occasions and ovxbalances it; and that ii all thaCßOyalty - necessarily ekpends, or may profligately Javish, were distributed ,amongst the indigent, it could not furnish one scanty morsel to each individual sufferer. Dispassionate reason dispels the mist of ignorance, and recti fies the judgment, which cupidity . and discontent combine to distort. " Of our natural propensity to ,eonfound.accidents with es sence, to mistake for intrinsic and prOper that which is only ex ternal and adventitious, the fancy most liberally avails itself in behalf of a illonara. The vestments with .which he is robed at the Coronation, are consecrated ; hiS person and his office are . both sacred. The s t a t e w hi c h surroun d s a S o V ere i g n h as li tt l e - in commorrwith ordinary modes ; the man who stands in the presence is embarrassed by the whispers of Fancy—that- the per sonage whom he behOld s b e l ongs t o a different class of beings. Society has invested him with authority •to controul; to Com mand, and to enforce submission ; obedience is the tribute offer ed to personal superiority and innate grandeur., In the course of its descent, through ten centuries, the English Ceremonial .has received constant accessions of new fornis and more appro priate solemnities. if we resolve it into its leading principles, we shall perceive them variously adapted to enlarge the corn_. prehension of its effect. The Patriot who associates the insti tutions of his country with its ancient glories, is transported in imagination back to the brighter period of 'its, history, by the Splendid panorama of menial services discharged by the Barons, according to the stipulations of their tenures in grand ser-. geantry, the advance and defiance of the Champion " in guise of warrior old, with ordered spear and shield," and homage rendered to the King of England by the representatives o f hi s vassal states on the Continent. The votaries of fashion; whose estimate of consequence is founded upon costlinesS of parade, are here fascinated by unrivalled magnificence of costume, by the multitude; state, and dignity of the attendants. With those whose conteinpiations and hopes are of other worlds, the chief figure in the spectacle assumes a. character awfully sacred, from the invocations .and rites by wh*h he is inau gurated into the vicarious authority of the Supreme Being. " We need hardly inform our readers that the preparations for this magnificent spectacle are proceeding on the most ex tensive scale and with the utmost alacrity. TI4 is all have room to say. When it takes place we shall devote all our columns to its - proper description: Lord Gwydir, the Deputy Great Chamberlain, having with a liberality and considerate ness which reflect the highest honour on his official administra tion, spontaneously made such arrangements for the 'accom modation of the Gentlemen who will attend from the different Newspapers, as will enable them 'to satisfy the just curiosity of the public mind throughout the Empire, with respect to all the details of this august ceremony." POPULATION RETURNS OF THE PARISHES IN THE CITY OF LONDON. The following are . abStracts of the Returns made by the City Marshals from the Parishes.in the City by direction - of the Act of the first year of his present Majesty, - entitled " An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution there of," &c. The questions answered in the schedule relative to the occu pations are, How many families chiefly employed in agricul ture ?-2. How many families chiefly employed in trades, ma nufactures, and handicrafts ?-3. How many families not com prised in the foregoing classes ? There is one question—" Referrinr , to the number of persons in 1811, to what cause - do - you attribute any remarkable differ ence in the number - at present ?" From the answers made it appears that from many of the parishes no returns were made in 1811 ; that many of them could not obtain the returns made at that period, and consequently could make no answers to the question. The peculiar or material answers that were made from some parishes have been given. In other parishes the an swer is L° we don't know," or "we can't t e ll." One Overseer wisely answered that the increase of population was owing to there being 54 more inhabitants. In some places it was found extremely difficult to obtain any accurate return of th e i r a g es . On the whole it will be found that the numbers have increased in many parishes considerably. In others there are many more uninhabited houses than on. the last return. ST. STEPHEN'S, COleman-street.—lnhabited houses 388, occupied by 689 families, of whom 543 are in trade, 10 houses building,'l7 uninhabited.—Topulation, males, 1487, females 1575—Total 3062. ST. "AvE's, Silver-street.—lnhabited houses, 145, occu pied by 392 families, of whom 28( are in trade, &c. 4 houses uninhabited.—Population, males - 554, females 1,135. ST. Algonrw, Holborn, including Barnard's Inn,—Houses inhabited 666, by 1,415 of whom 1,178 are in tr a de, 237 no t, 36 houses uninhabited.—Population, males 3,073, females 3,156—T0ta1, 6,234. There is an increase of 649. The overseers return that the difference is occasioned by, " We presume, a more general vaccination, as .Well as the country enjoying the blessing of peace." _ _ ST. 111AnTIN's, Ironmonger-lane.—lnhabited houses 28, occupied by 29 families, 1 house empty, all the families in trade, handicraft, &c.—Number of inhabitants, males 66, fe males 66—Total W. ST. 1111ellAEL-LE-QUEEN.—lnhabited houses 41, occupied by 43 families, all in trade, 9 uninhabited• houses.—Popula tion, males 129, females 123—Total, 252; - The decrease of dwelling-houses and inhabitants in this pa rish is attributed to the pulling down houses to make a suffi cient space to build the new Post Office upon. Parish of ST. LEONARD, Foster-lane.—Number of houses inhabited 49, occupied by 81 families, of whom 77 are in trade, 5 houses uninhabited.—Population, males 136, females 191— Total, 377. The difference in the number at present is represented to be occasioned by the taking down houses to build the new Post Office, which measure is represented in the return as a griev ance, and as it now exists, a nuisance, that greatly impairs the trade and prosperity of the parish. ST. MATTHEW, Friday-street—lnhabited houses 35, occu pied by 35 families, of whom 34 are in trade, 3 houses uninha bited.—Population, males 130, females 363—Total 493. ST. MICHAEL, Queenhithe.—lnhabited houses 85, occu pied by 189 families, of whom 177 are in trade, 4 houses unin habited.—Population, Males 355, Pemales 363.—T0tal 718. ST. PANCRAS, Soper-lane.—lnhabited houses 31, occupied by 33 families, of whom 33 are in trade, 2 houses uninhabited. Population, Males 96, Females 94.—Total 190. The difference in this parish, since 1811, is ascribed in the return to merchants no longer residing at their houses of bu siness. ST. MARY-LE-BOW, Cheapside.—lnhabited houses 62, oc cupied by 69 families, 11 in trades, 16 houses uilinliabited.— Population, males 174, females 194.—Total 368. The decrease of this parish is attributed by the return to a number of the inhabitants being so reduced as to be unable to pay their taxes, and many who kept small houses being now obliged to seek relief from charitable societies, or obliged to, hawk things about the streets. ST. MARY, Aldermanbury.—lnhabited houses 72, occupied by 98 families, all in trade, 4 houses uninhabited.—Popula tion, males 223, females 21)6—Total 429. ST. G LES'S Wi T, Cripplegate.—lnhabited houses 1,495, occupied by 2,988 families, of whom 1,874 are in trade, 99 houses uninhabited, one building.—Population, males 6,593, females 6,445.—T0tal 13,038. The increase which has taken place in this parish is attri buted to the number of prisoners in the New Prison, White cross-street, and other general increase of population. The Returns from the remaining - Parishes will be given as soon as completed. A machine has recently been invented by a Gentleman'of Shropshire, for the breaking of stones on the roads, by which a saving of 50 per cent. is made in the labour, and with much less waste than by the old method. MIEADrU L ACClDENT.—Yesterday, as Mr. BELL, a master bricklayer, residing in Goodge street, Tottenham Court Road, and two la bourers, were erecting a scaffold to the hack front of a house, No. 30, in Portland-street, the top ledger being about five feet from the parapet, a fter laying across the pudlocks to receive the scaffold ing-boards, the master and the two labourers de scended on the scaffold from the parapet, when the ledger which supported it being rotten, snapped in two, and the three unfortunate men were precipitated to the ground, a depth of 35 feet and upwards. Mr. BELT, had his leg broken and was otherwise dreadfully bruised all over. He was taken up insensible, and carried home on a shutter. The two unfortunate labourers, one of whom has a wife and four children, had each several bones broke ; they were taken to the Middlesex Hospital without hope of recovery. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, jULY 13 NICIIARDSON V. SIR T. NEAVE. ”ATIT: AND ANDlTttr.lt. • This was an action against the Sheriff of Essex, and his of. fscer, for an assault and false imprisonment. The • - defendant pleaded first the general issue, not guilty, .taitl - secOnd, a pica of justifying the alleged assault anti tllse imprisonment, -by virtue of a writ of capias ad'aatistaciendumissuea againSt the plaintiff. To this the plamtiffieplied de injuria, and uenled the existence of the supposed writ _lssue thereon.. Mt. SCARLETT opened the plaintiff's case. He represented that the plaintiff was nGentleman of fortune and respectability, residing at Oak Hall, near Wallet:ad, in'Essex. • On the 30tH of October, whilst travelling in a post chaise near to that place, he was stopped by SaCkett, the detendant, an officer of the She riff of Essex, who arrested lam fbr LOOl. by virtue of a writ which he produced. The plaintifF,TOnscious that he owed no man 5001. desired to see the writ, which the officer produced, and it appeared to be su e d ou t upon Warrant of attorney given to a Mr.. Willis, and stied out: by a Supposed, attorney of the name of Jahn Mills. It'waS directed against William Ri chardson. The plaintiff immediately said "My name is Wil liam John Richardson ; I atn quite ignorant of the persons whose names are mentioned in tuts writ ; you are mistaken—l am not the man." The officer, however, persisted that he was right, and took the plaintiff to a lock-up house,, where he was detained for three days and three nights. The plaintiff sent for his attorney, who made every exertion to find out Mr. Mills, the attorney who had • sued but the Writ, but in vain. The plaintiff was then' set at liberty, on his giving his word to. ap pear when called upon. Ile was in fact never called upon, and it turned out upon inquiry, that there had been no judgment in any cause against the plaintiff; or in any cause in which the writ was supposed to have issued. The writ. had been inclosed to the Sheriff's office' in a note, with a Mr. 'Mills' compliments,' begging that it might, be executed immediately, and describing the plaintiff, without his residence. Under these eh-- cunistanceS,"the plirintasought curapensation- in damages for the injury he hats sustained'. • - %Ir. GunNEY, for the Celndants, contended that the Sheriff; being an executive. offices, he was bound to execute the process delivered to him, and therefore he was ex,mpt from liability if he arrested the person named in the writ. The writ had been sent to the Sheriff's office in the manner already stated. A per son of ' the - nacre'nf 'William Richardson had been in fact ar rested, and though the plaintiff said'his name was also John, vet that made no difference as to the question of the Sheriff's liability. No malice nor laches could be imputed to the de fendant, and in the execution of his ministerial duty, he we:s not bound to take the word of the person arrested, as to az.y supposed mistake. The CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury, that if they be lieved that the plaintiff was the person intended by the wri!, though all his names were not set out, and though the 1)r0c...:5.4 was sued out.by -fraud, and from motives of malice on the Pa rt of other persons, the Sheriff, as as executive officer, was n ot bound for the consequences This however might be a matta for further consideration whichever way the verdict w ent.-- - The Jury found their verdict for the defendants. CHESHIRE V. I= ALT TON. This was an action Of assault and battery. Mr. MARRA-ATI! was for the plaintiff; and Mr. GuliNny for the defendant. Me laintiff was the driver of the Walthanistowe Coach, al which the defendant had been an occasional passenger. Some dispute arose between the parties as to a supposed debt of &i• due to the plaintiff from the defendant for coach hire of himself and wife. The defendant denied the justice of the claim; high words arose, and the plaintiff saying that to deny the debt w'a• as bad as a robbery, - the defendant 'struck him across the noi.e with an umbrella, which drew blood. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found their verdict for the plain tiff—Damages, 40s. PRY V. PERRY AN'D GALLOWAY. This was an actiom to re over .C-150 for types, provided for.' but not deliver;d to, the Statesman newspaper. The only tion in the cause was, whether, in April, U;10, the Statemna 3 belonged solely to Mr. Samson Perry-, or whether Mr. Ga l - ,1)- way, the machinist, of Fleet-street, was his partner. After co -- denee at some length had been given, a juror was withdrawn at the suggestion of the Lord Chief Justice. • COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 13. GREGORY V. WORRELL. This was an action of trover, brought, under the direetiorrftf his honour the Vice-Chancellor, by an alleged bankrupt againA h - s assignee, to try the validity of a commission of bankrtipicY• Toe trading and act of bankruptcy were satisfactorily P!° and also the existence, at one time, of a good petitioning creditor's debt; but the plaintiff contended that . this was des troyed by the statute of limitations; which objection % en deavoured to be met, on the part of the defendant, by l'r" ln g that the plaintiff had been absent from this country from 1319. It appearing, howevtr, that he had been seen at Du i in . 1111-1, the Jury found for the plaintiff, with 47) damages• point was reserved as to the effect, in this case, of a Writ, iss"' before expiration of the six. years, and continuances thereon ; but not further proceeded on in consequence of the bankruptcy of the party. 1311 !o WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JULY 13. ELLISTON V. RODWELL AND ANOTHER. . Mr. ALLEY informed the Court, that the defendants, sensible that they had acted in a manner which they could not Just , f4 had put themselves into his hands entirely, and in purs -a ice an arrangement to which his Learned Friend Mr. Adolphus ha"' assented, the defendants would plead guilty. Mr. AnO LPHus said, that Mr. Elhston, a publk character, had brought .forward this prosecution without any vindictive feeling, but merely in performance of his public duty: It W`l3 impossible, as men could not shut their eyes against what was contained in the Newspapers, which are presented every morning, that this transaction should be hushed itp in silence. The defendants, after the wrong of which they n" L ` acknowledged themselves guilty, had been very fortunate air having the advice of a very discreet and sensible Solicitor, an . : in that of Mr. Alley, whose gentlemanly feelings never failed him. Mr. Elliston, who had the education and the sentiments. of a gentleman, did not requira the vulgar concession of t newspaper apology ; the-defendants, in pleading guilty. ha", made an acknowledgment of error which was quite sufficient for him ; and as this dispute was cne which particularly in terested the theatrical world, in which Mr. Elliston occupied i „ very considerable station, and had a large property under 1, 1 , , command, it had been thought right that the defendants shot u t ,, to th era as a mark of their proper feeling on this occasion, pay 201 ' each of the Theatrical Funds. Mr. Ellison acceded to this arrangement, in consequence of the representations which . 1 1, been made to bim, as to what the defendant ( already suffered from the chastisement he had received. 11 defendants were accordingly fined Is. and discharged. the FitAun.---James Simrnonds was indicted for a fraud on Westminster Regiment of Militia. Two serjeants o f t he re m . i ment proved that the prisoner in June last, when the regir' e t i e l , was called out for the annual training, joined as a subst it 4 r i e and received five guineas bounty ; he served during the the regiment was out, was afterwards claimed by the Militia, to which regiment he had actually belonged surr%Ye Rodwell)1!lei joined the Westminster. Verdict—Guilty. He wgis sentenc'l to be imprisoned six months, and kept on the county gaol a _ when John Connell was found guilty of picking the pocket of Blackman, - Es'..—The CH A T am,irr, addressing the Prisoner, said The Court is satisfied with the evidence, and yoitr, sentence is, that you be transported for seven years." Prit;Oe' —" I thank you, my Lord, I shall not trouble you again durilig that period."—(A laugh.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, July 13. Amsterdam .... 12 18 C. F' Ditto, at Sight l ') 15 Rotterdam l2 19 Antwerp l2 11 i r" Hanihurgli 3B 10 e ~, Aitona n Vo' -; Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 85 go Dit to - rja, 0 v Bourdeanz, ditto Frankfort on the :vain Madrid f 0 ' P ti" 4 Cadiz llilboa 351 .EP Barcelona Seville Gibraltar Leghorn Gisi oa . . 43i l'enict., Ilal..Liv 27 60 Malta 45 —Naples ...... ... • 39} ,OP Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin .. • • 9/ BULLION. 0 pet OS. Portazal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 101 t • Foreiii Gold, in Bars 3 17 " New Doubloons New Dollars • •—. 0 0 04 9 1 ' 0 4 I° ' ....---"-* Silver in Bars, Standard •M•••4.0.10.••••••••••••••1! ••••••••16 AIM 0.0111 ; rent LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS of S °.‘2l4 ''' A• ' 1 bY /' • Ormond-street, Queen-square ; and publiille, .4TS SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Moltonstrect, at "- rs, ' OFFICE, No. 112, Strand ; where AnyzaTisr3`.*'::4l. ORDERS, LETTERS, Bt.e. (post-paid) must be address..