The Sun. — London, England, 1821-12-13 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS December 13. [MORNING POST.) The interruptions occasioned by the late tea.- pestuous weather in the intercourse with the Continent had been such, that long arrears of in telligence were due from different countries.— These may now be considered as paid, the live liarriburgh Mails which arrived at once yester day, balancing the whole account. The mass of Papers thus brought together embraces a period of nearly three weeks, from the 17th of Novem ber to the 4th inst.; yet the intelligence is scant, and, with one exception, unimportant.— This exception is the announcement that a 'Me llish West India Company has been formed, to take advantage of the opening of the South Ame rican Continent, and to engross as much of the trade with these unbounded regions as our own supineness or indifference will allow. We were the first to point out the hnmense advantages - which might accrue to this country, from direct ing-the enterprise of British merchants to that quarter. We trusted that no impediment would be thrown by indecision or timidity in the way of a trade, capable alone of consuming the whole produce of our manufactures, large as it was at the period of their greatest activity, and there fore calculated to. revive that activity, and to restore the prosperity of which it is the neces sary cause. We expressed our conviction, that if we were not the first to mount the breach and storm the fort, others would soon occupy all its avenues, and we should find ourselves ex cluded from a place of which we might have held tmdisputed possession. What we then announced as a probable contingency, seems at present on the eve of being realised. Other countries are mustering their forces for the avowed pur pose of meeting " the powerful competition of England" in South America ; and the question, whether we will enjoy or resign the chief, if not the whole trade of the mighty empires now rising across the Atlantic, is become one for instant de cision. If it be not possible for our Govern ment to acknowledge at once the independence of Mexico and Peru, though we see no just reason why a measure which must of necessity take place at some period or other, should be delayed till its benefits should have passed into other hands, let our merchants at least act for themselves. The coalition of a few London houses, and the - weight of their united interest, would be suffi cient to secure possession of that trade, and to prevent its occupation by strangers. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The conduct of the present Ministers of France h not easily reconcileable with the notions of prudence entertained in this country. They seem singularly honest and candid for Ministers. It may be, however, that they are only beyond measure impudent. It is clear, at all events, that both they and their Royal Master have very different notions of a Representative Government from those which it is found prudent to avow here. When an English Ministry are unable to command a majority in the Lower House (a very rare occurrence, no doubt), they must either resign, or try what a new Election may do for them. They would never think of making head against a large majority, because in such a state of things desertion would every day add to the numbers of their adversaries. In France, however, they seem to manage mat ters otherwise. The Ministers of Louis XVIII. do not hesitate to avow that the Representa tives of the Nation ought, as a matter of course, to support every measure of the Government, and that, when an Administration, under the existing Constitution, can neither obtain a majority in an existing Chamber, nor hope for one from a new Election ; another Administration must not be formed to meet the wishes of the Chamber, but another Constitution to meet the wishes of the Administration. Of all the revolutionary lan guage we ever heard, that of the Keeper of the Seals is most so. ' 6 Undoubtedly," says this honest Statesman, " it would be a misfortune if the men whom the King has deigned to honour Ivith his confidence, had lost that of the majority of the two Chambers. However, that would not even be a reason for determining them to aban don the helm of affairs. It would not be a rea son sufficient to authorise Ministers to supplicate - the Monarch to place in other hands the confi dence which he deigns to continue to give them. There must be presented, gentlemen, a system completely formed—a system capable of suc ceeding the existing system. There must rise above the Chambers men moved by a long com munion of principles, to present to the King the assurance of a future majority in the two Cham bers, and of a practicable system of Government." [NEW T I M ES.] Accounts which reached town yesterday by express, from Paris, state the Monday's price of Teaks as somewhat better than on Saturday, on which day (as we have before stated) they had also made a slight advance on the quotation of Friday. Owing, probably, to this circumstance, our own funds also improved ; and Consols for the Account left off at 78, strong buyers.—The French Papers of Sunday were occupied with two subjects of unequal importance—a debate in the Chamber of Deputies, and the trial of a se ditious song writer. No doubt, the latter will appear byfar the more interesting in the eyes of most of the Parisians. We, however, shall begin m ith the Debate. M. Berenger, the song writer, may 'be as great a man in his way as Thomas Little, Esq., or Childe llarolde ; but before we discuss his demerits, we must beg to wait on Messrs. De Castelbajac and Chauvelin, who, for the first time in their lives, have appeared in the Tribune as friends and allies, in a joint attack on the Ministry.—lt was remarked with as tonishment that among all the Ministers and their assistants, no one was found bold enough to encounter the united orators of the two Sides of the Chamber, but M. de Serre, an pp Emigrant, who courageously devoted him self like another Curtius, but not quite with so good an effect, for' he was utterly unable to fill the gaping chasm which threatoug,to swallo.,v up the whole centre of the Chamber, together with the Cabinet of composite architecture, which has been so elaborately raised on that sandy founda tion. Poor M. De Serre, after having been " severely punished, left and right," was at length dismissed with a general laugh, on M. Labourdonnaye's saying in a good humoured manner, " I think we really shew but little gene rosity in coming every minute to overwhelm the only Minister who has ventured to devote himself to our blows." Nor was this jest, or the laugh which it created, the only proof of the hopeless state of the Ministerial party—Not a single Member rose to support M. De Serre :—they would not even raise a question on M. De Castel hajac's motion, but allowed it to be carried nemine dissentients, lest a division should expose their daily increasing weakness ! [THE TIMES.] The proceedings of the French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday last were of lively inte rest. The first subject which engaged the atten tion of that body was disposed of in a manner not so creditable, seemingly, as might be wished, to the fair dealing and honour of the French Go vernment. The Committee of Petitions reported on one from a British merchant, Mr. Maedonnel —whose case, we believe, is well known to our Ministers, and hears upon it the appearance of very considerable hardship. On the strength of an ordinance of November, 1816, for encou raging the importation of foreign grain into France, the house to which this gentleman be longed imported a large quantity of corn into Havre and Rouen, receiving the bounty and en joying an exemption from the tonnage duty, as stipulated in the ordinance. Suddenly, however, the French Government, which had also em barked in the corn trade on its own account, was not satisfied with a fair competition ; but, em ploying an act of sovereign power to crush all rivalship in this commerce, to which it had for mally invited the foreign merchant for the relief of the French nation from the jaws of famine, it excluded the merchant from the corn-trade with Paris, the most certain and profitable market in the kingdom ; while, at the same moment, it opened its own stores, and undersold him in all directions, even going so far as to forbid the brokers to make any bargains binding but its own. The consequence was, that the specula tion failed, and that the house, according to the report, became insolvent. Our unfortunate countryman sought redress from one, and all of the French Ministers ; but conld obtain no in demnity for ever so small a portion of his losses. His last resort was to the Chamber, but the Com mittee treated the subject of his petition as an affair gone by ; and although M. Mechin bore a clear and honourable testimony to the hardships of which the petitioner complained, compensa tion was put off to the Greek Calends—in other words, the Chamber passed to the Order of the Day. We should be glad to learn with what degree of zeal and energy the cause of this in jured British merchant had been taken up and enforced upon the minds of the French Cabinet by our Foreign Office. MORNING HERALD.] It appears that several important political trials are to come on in the course of this week.—Those against Messrs. Thelwall, Dolby, and Benbow, stand for this day and Friday. These prosecu tions are instituted by the Constitutional Asso ciation, which has every thing at stake in the re sult. The public will naturally look to the names of those who are to compose the Juries. We are far from soliciting indulgence or pallia tion for the dissemination of sedition or scurrility, when we suggest, that where prosecutions for public libels originate with, and are insti tuted, by any other authority and intelligence than the Attorney-General, who is the known and proper organ for avenging wrongs done to the Crown and the public, it behoves Jurors to meditate and weigh their verdict with a vigilant and jealous feeling of the functions which the prosecuting party (with whatever motives) have assumed, and the effect generally upon the free dom of the Press, which should be dear to, and defended by, every Englishman of whatever party. EBRITISII PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which have arrived at our Office, furnish an account of a short but animated discussion that took place on the preceding day in the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber had met, in pur suance of the terms of its previous adjourn ment, to receive the Report of the Com mittee of Petitions, but an opportunity was quickly found of discussing the topic, which, since the first debate in the Secret Committee on the Address, has occupied every mind and every tongue in Paris. A Petition had been presented from a citizen of Paris, named Italy, against the censorship, and desiring - that the Journals might he prevented altogether from discussing political questions, but be confined exclusively to the humble task of recording events as they occur. M. Castelhajac proposed that this Petition should be referred to the Committee appointed to exa mine the project of law for continuing the Cen sorship of the Press ; but quickly leaving this subject, he adverted to the Answer which the King was lately advised to return to the Address of the Chamber of Deputies, and inveighed in bitter terms against the Ministers for having, as he said, calumniated the Chamber to the Sovereign, and interrupted the confidence which ought, for the public good, to subsist between them. Ile urged that if the Chamber of Deputies had lost the confidence of the King, it ought instantly to be 'dissolved, that the country might, in the ensuing elections, decide between the Members and the Minister ; but that if this confidence had only been inter rupted through the calumnies of the Ministers, and that the latter had in fact lost the confidence of the representatives of the people, they were bound in duty to their King and Country to resign their seats. These observations were warmly applauded. The only Minister present was the Keeper of the Seals ; he who in the first stormy discussion, or rather in the angry alterca tion which had arisen crin the subject of the Ail- 1 dress, had been told that he had exchanged his solemn robe of office for the garb of a Harlequin, and to him now it fell to explain to the Cham ber the intentions of the Cabinet upon the matters referred to by M. Castelbajac. The Minister denied, as every Minister will, in similar circumstances, that he and his Col leagues bad lost the confidence of the Cham ber; but be went a step farther, and plumply told them, that however unfortunate it migh he for Ministers who enjoyed the confidence of the King to fail in uniting that of the Cham ber, this circumstance alone ought not to in duce them to resign their offices. lie then talked something mystically about the neces sity of " preparing the elements of a new sys tem," it' a change were required in the Cabinet ; and it would seem that, between his stout decla ration that he was resolved to stand firmly upon the King's favour and keep his place, and his subsequent observations about the necessity of " preparing the elements of a new system," that he effectually mystified the Deputies, for in de scending- from the tribune the defeated Minister was loudly and very generally applauded. LAW INT ELLIG ENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Drc. 12. Middlesex Adjourned Sittings after Michaelmas Term, before the LORD CHIEF JusTicE and a Special Jury. MAY, GENT. V. GWYNNE, LL.D. This was an action by the late Vestry Clerk of the parish of St. Matthew's, Bethnal-green, against the defendant, lately one of the High Sheriffs for the county of Middlesex, a Doctor of Laws, and Barrister, for publishing an alleged libel of and concerning the plaintiff's character as an attorney, and of and concerning his conduct as late Vestry Clerk of that parish. • The defendant pleaded a justification of the libellous matters set forth in the record. Mr. SCARLETT, Mr. GURNEY, and Mr. Hone' conducted the plaintiff's case; and the SOLICITOIt-GENERAL and Mr. MA/MYATT the defendant's. The circumstances of this case afforded very little of interest to the public. The transaction which was the subject of the present inquiry arose out of the long continued disagreements in the parish of St. Matthew's, Bethnal green. In April, 1819, there being about to be a contest for the election of Vestry Clerk of the parish, a warm canvass took place on the part of the friends of Mr. May on the one hand, and a Gentleman named Brown on the other. The interests of the latter Gentleman were espoused by Dr. Gwynne, who joined the Committee nominated to conduct his election. It was alleged against the defendant that in order to blacken the character of the plaintiff, and injure him in the estimation of the Vestry at the approaching contest, he had caused a packed meeting of certain inhabitants of the parish, under the influence of himself and a Gentleman named Merceron, to be assembled for the purpose of passing resolu tions of censure upon the conduct of Mr. May, as to the ap propriation of the parish money towards the expenccs of a pro secution instituted against Mr. Merceron. These resolutions tended to impute to the plaintiff that he had made out fictitious bills of costs fOr that prosecution, and that he had misappro_ priated the parish money in the expence of the eating and drink ing of a party in the parish called " I .l.'he Constituted Authori ties." It was alleged that the defendant had caused these re solutions, with a prefatory address of his own composition, to be inserted in "rile Sunday Monitor' of April 2, 1819 ; that he afterwards caused 2,000 copies of the same, and other resolu tions of a like tendency, to be printed on la handbill, and circu lated amongst the parishioners ; and that he had also written and published a pamphlet of a still more libellous tendency, for the like purpose of blackening the plaintiff's character, and de feating his election. The plaintiff's case occupied a considerable portion of the day in proving the introductory averments of the declaration, and the publication of the alleged libels by the defendant. One of the principal objects of the first-mentioned head of evidence was, to shew that Dr. Gwynne had changed sides in the parish disputes, which seemed to have'been originally generated in the imputed corruption and misconduct of Mr. Merceron in the management ot the parish funds. It will be recollected that about two years since that gentleman was prosecuted for this alleged corruption and misconduct, and also for an abuse of his office of Magistrate, in granting licenses to public houses of which he was the owner, ,and that upon conviction he was sen enced to 18 months' imprisonment. It was prated that on that occasion one of the principal instigators of the prosecution was Dr. Gwynne, in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. King, Rector of the parish, and a few other respectable inhabitants. Before the conviction took place, it was alleged that the Doctor, for some reason not assigned, had begun to repent that he had taken any part in the proceeding, and actually paid Messrs. "Knight and Freeman, the solicitors employed to conduct the prosecution, a sum of 1251., to reimburse them the expence they had already incurred, and on his part abandoned all further proceedings in the business, and then became a partisan of Mr. Merceron. It was further alleged, that after the conviction took place, the Doctor became extremely anxious to defeat the ends of justice, and prevent Mr. Merceron from being brough, up for judgment. Upon this and other points the Rev. Joshua King was examined, and he swore that after the conviction took place, Dr. Gwynne waited upon him at his house, and said, that in consequence of the affliction of Mrs. Merceron at the misfortunes of her husband, and urged by the intreaties of friends, lie called upon him to endeavour to induce him and the other gentlemen who had brought forward the prosecution to forbear bringing Mr. Merceron up for judgment. Mr. King expressed his concern for Mrs. Merceron's sufferings, which he seriously deplored, but said he could not lend himself to defeat public justice. Upon which Dr. Gwynne said, " He was duly authorised to offer 10,0001. to save Mr. Mercemn froni the sen tence of the Court of King's Bench." Mr. King instantly ex pressed his indignation at such a proposition, and said that if Doctor Gwynne laid down the wealth of the Indies at his feet, he would not become a party in averting the jus tice of the country. The conference then broke up, and the witness broke off all further communication with the Doc tor. In his cross-examination by the Solicitor-General, Mr. King denied that Dr. Gwynne had said that the 10,0001. was to be devoted to the poor of the parish ; on tile contrary, he un derstood that the money was to be divided as a bonus among those who were concerned in the prosecution, to induce them to abandon the farther proceedings against Mr. Merceron. • The case for the plaintiff having closed, the SOLICITOR-GE NERAL, after a short pause, stated that it would not be neces sary for hum to call any witnesses on the part of the defendant, as the plaintiff had consented to take a verdict of 501. to be ap plied to the purposes of some public charity, with the further condition that Dr. Gwynne should pay all the costs of this ac tion. It was clear that the libel which had a pp eared in " Th e Sunday Monitor" could not be justified,. and his client had ap parently acted under erroneous impressions. With regard to what had been said in the course of this cause as to the sum of 10,0001. it was due to the character of Dr. Gwynne to state, sted ichpad a complete on that it was not a private transaction, that no concealment was sought•by him as to the appli cation of that sum, that in his 1: insi wh u h endeavours to prevent dir. Merceron from be in g brought up l for judgment, he had been influenced by the distresses of Mr. lllercer on' compensations family, but b that h l e u h a a d t e u to n i i t h h rernilYind been defrauded. Mr. ScannETT observed, that in acceding to this proposition after the case had been gone through,. which lie was ready in the first instance to have acceded to, his client had given the strongest proof of his moderation, and had shewn that in bringing this action he was actuated solely by the desire of vindicating his cha racter. Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, 501. THE KING V. THE MAYOR OF CAMBRIDGE. This was a proceeding on a return to a writ of mandamus, calling upon the Mayor of Cambridge to admit certain persons as burgesses of that borough. Mr. SCARLETT, in stating the case to the Jury, observed, that this was a case of considerable importance, as it regarded the exercise of the elective franchise. Upon its decision would depend whether the borough of Cambridge should be subject to the domination of particular individuals, or whether its free men should enjoy the privilege, which had been transmitted to them from their ancestors, of sending independent Members to Parliament ? The individual at whose instance this proceeding had been instituted, was a M r. Nash, who was the son of a freeman at Cambridge, resident in the borough, but not the eldest son ; and the question which the Jury would now have to try was, whether all the sons of Freemen, or only the eldest son, were admissible as Burgesses ? Ile was prepared to shew, by a long series of customs and charters, from time immemorial, that ell the sons ,of Freemen were intitled to be admitted. A Vast body of documentary evidence wes produced ; but as it appeared, that in the reigns of the Henry VI 1 orati . anon, s d Queen zabeth bye-laws were made by Corppecifying what persons were admissible as burgesses, and under what conditions, • The LORD CHIEF JUSTIC E was of ops th se inion, th bye-laws sons at it was un- I necessary to go through the whole case, a i;letely defeated thc I;laii4iff's allegation, of custom from time immemorial. If the t.istom had existed immemotially as a matter of right, these arrangements would not have been made by the Corporation, as to the number of Freemen who were admissible, and the terms of their admission. The Lord Chief Justice accordingly directed the Jury to tind a Verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLNAS, DEC. 12. (Adjourned Sittings in London, before Chief Justice DALLAS.) COOKE V. JONES.—WARRANTY OF A HOUSE. This was an action for abreach of contract in the sale of a horse. The sum claimed was 501. which the . plaintiff had given for the animal to the defendant, and 12 guineas for its keep. Mr. D. POLLOCK opened the case. Mr. Sergeant PELT. stated it to the Jury. Mr. Cooke, the plaintiff, a brewer, residing in the neighbourhood of Blooms bury-square, having seen an Advertisement in one of the papers respecting the sale of a horse by a person named Bmwn, and being at the time in a delicate stateof health, thought the horse described was just such a one as would suit him. He saw the horse, and offered 301. for it ; but Brown refused to part with it for that price. Mr. Cooke declined the purchase, and the animal was at length bought by Jones, the defendant, who is a cheesemonger, residing in the Borough. When the plaintiff heard that the horse was purchased by another, he became more anxious to have it than before, and for this purpose he sent a friend to Jones, to know whether he would sell the ho - :se, and that he (th e plaintiff) would give him a handsome profition him. Jones at first refused to sell, but after some further ne gotiation, Jones consented to sell it, and did sell it to the plain tiff for 501. Defendant himself had given 351. for the horse. — Plaintiff demanded a warranty of soundness with the horse, which the defendant gave. In a few days after this, the horse turned out to be unsound. In consequence, the present action was brought upon the warranty. Mary Jones, the daughter of the defendant, proved the signa ture of her father to the warranty. She had seen the horse : and her father drove him to Farnham in a gig a few days before he sold it. The horse appeared to her to be sound. Mr. Field, a veterinary surgeon, proved that on the sth of October the horse was unsound. One of the bones forming the fetlock joint was about half as big again as the joint of a sound and healthy horse ; the leg had a great number of windgahls on it. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, for the defendant, contended that the case was entirely against the plaintiff, except by the evi dence of Mr. Field, and to that Gentleman he should oppose Mr. Sewell, who was well known to be of as high repute as any Gentleman of the same profession, and whose evidence might be weighed against that of Mr. Field. Browne, the former owner of the horse, had kept him from the 11th of June to the 20th of September. lie had worked the horse every day, .and had ridden down to Win chester on him in one day, where he remained,another, and re turned on the third. The horse was perfectly sound. John G. Smith, clerk to the defendant, deposed that while the horse was in the possession of the defendant it seemed per fectly sound. James Harrison, ostler to the defendant, thought the horse sound while in the possession of his master. Mr. Sewell thought there was nothing in the horse's leg but what might have arisen since he was purchased. The horse's leg was slightly inflamed in consequence of a sprain. Mr. Sergeant PELL, in reply, insisted that the evidence pro duced by the defendant had confirmed the plaintiff's case. The injury appeared, from the evidence both of Mr. Field and Mr. Sewell, to have been recent, and the Jury must remember that the defendant refused to sell the horse before he went the journey. Lord Chief Justice DALLAS then charged the Jury, and after observing, that the question was entirely for their consideration, he arid, that if a person warranted a horse, having at the time a latent defect, of which nobody knew any thing, it was, notwithstanding, a breach of the contract, and the party would be liable, on his warranty, In this case, he considered there had been no fraud in the conduct of either of the parties. From what (lid the lameness of the horse originate ?—There was not the slightest ground of presumption, on which to charge Mr. Cooke with improper conduct in riding the horse, and the Jury would therefore decide whether either the seeds of the disease, or the actual unsoundness of the horse, haul existed at the time of the sale. The Jury consulted together for about ten minutes, when the Foreman turned round, and on being asked by the Officer of the Court, whether the Jury had agreed in their verdict? he replied, " We find for the plaintiff ;" but on being checked by some of his brother Jurors, he said, " Oh, no, I beg your par. don, it is a mistake." The Jury then considered a few minutes longer, when the Foreman again addressed the Associate, and said, they must retire, as a great difference of opinion existed among them. An Officer. was accordingly sworn to take cus tody of the Jury, and they immediately retired.—Soon after this the Lord Chief Justice left the Court, and in rather more than half an hour afterwards, the Jury returned. The usual ques tion was again put, and the Foreman then replied, " We find a verdict for the plamtiff."—Damages, 501. The Court broke up at half-past five o'clock. OLD BAILEY. COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS. Yesterday John Crutchfield, a young man of respectable ap pearance, was indicted thr feloniously disposing of five counter feit sovereigns, at a less value than the price fixed by Act of Parliament. The first witness called to prove the case was 'William Henry Findlay, who described himself as a warehouseman out of em ployment. lie said that he had known the prisoner for the last six or seven years, and was very intimate with him. He saw him one evening in last October at a public-house in Bedford bury, and in the course of conversation he told the witness that he had been purchasing some canaries from a person near Port man square. Witness had since understood the terns canaries to mean counterfeit sovereigns. The prisoner said he had been dealing in them for some time, and he thought that as witness was acquainted with several persons in a particular quarter of the town, he would be able to pass some without risk of detection, and endeavoured to persuade him to purchase some. Witness had several conversations with him afterwards on the subject, and in the interim gave information to Plank the officer, and Foreman, another police-officer. By their advice he told the prisoner he knew a friend who wanted some, and he would purchase some for him. The witness then described se veral dealings with the prisoner at different times and places, when he purchased from him several counterfeit sovereigns. The prices were, nine shillings for a single sovereign; eight shillings a piece, if purchased three or four together ; and seven shillings, if taken by the score or half score. In order to make these purchases, witness received the money from the officers, which money was previously marked by them. With this he purchased five sovereigns of the prisoner, and the officers being in waiting, apprehended the prisoner. The last transaction took place at the Crown and Punch-bowl, in Rupert-street. Plank the officer, corroborated the statement of the last wit ness in the greater portion of his evidence. After the last pur chase was made, he, accompanied by Jeffries and Furzmen, apprehended the prisoner, and on searching bins found on his person all the marked money he had given to Findlay, except ing one shilling, which he afterwards received from the landlady of the Crown and Punch-bowl, who had taken it from the prisoner. The prisoner accounted for the possession of the sil ver found upon him by saying that his mother kept a lodging house, and he had received the silver from a Gentleman who had lodged there. The sovereigns, he said, he had kept by him for some time. Cross-examined—The public-house in Bedfordbury was one of the most notorious houses in town, and was the constant re sort of thieves and the most abandoned characters. Jeffries and Furzman fully confirmed the evidence of Plank, and the landlady of the Crown and Punch-bowl also corrobo rated the evidence given as to the shilling received from thepri soner. He gave it for a glass of rum he called for. The prisoner in his defence put in a written paper, in which he stated, that his first acquaintance with Findlay was about 15 months ago. He had not, however, seen him for some time un til three weeks before his apprehension. Passing accidentally through Bedfordbury, he saw Findlay standing at the door of the public-house. Findlay addressed him, and said he was in great distress. Not knowing the character of the house he went in with him, and had a long conversation with him. At length Findlay persuaded him to go and purchase some sovereigns of a man who was to bring them to a house for him. He was prevailed upon to do this several times; and when he engaged to go with him to the Crown and Punch Bowl, he told Findlay that it should be the last transaction with which he would have any concern. He solemnly protested that he had only engaged in this business to serve 1 indlay, and had derived no profit from it whatever. _ _ Four respectable witnesses gave the prisoner a good character for honesty. He had formerly been footman in the service of Sir Dudley 11 ill, who was now in Ireland. The Jury retired for about ten minutes, and returned a ver dict—Guilty. Jacob Barnett was convicted, on an indictment under the same statute us the last prisoner, of selling to John Isaacson 39 counterfeit shillings. Mary Holly was also convicted, on a similar indictment, of selling to John Isaacson 40 counterfeit shillings. When she first brought them they were in an unfinished state, and in the pre sence of Isaacson she put them through a process which brought them into a proper state for circulation. Thomas White, formerly coachman to Capt. Cocks Johnson, of Southampton, was indicted for robbing his master of several articles of wearing apparel, and other property. Mr. Curtwoon stated the facts of the prosecutor's case (which have already appeared in our Bow-street report) at con siderabiL He then tailed tl support ills statement ; but the Court, after Furving - tes:.Jnony of one or two witnesses, interrupi:.:il the furtLt:r prcscutio:i of the trial, it being evident that the prisoner 14:1,! 1,:1011:0 - , when he took the clothes, of which he retl;ned•fne possession to secure to hinis',ll . the paynien , -., of his wages.-- The Commws- :SEIIJEANT therefore Sirt,..ted the Jury,to”;:r4 quit the prisoner, and the . !' accordingly found a Verdicr—,.N9%, Guilty. • . . . _ . The prisoner's Counsel strtted that it was his intention.to.p.w- , secute the boy Nleade, who gave different evidence here from, what he had given at Bowintrect, for perjury ; and Captai% Johnson for malicious prosecution. An application was then made to the Court, on behalf of person named South, to detain Capt. Johnson or. a ch a rge of horse-stealing, which the Common Sergeant declined to ac cede to. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 12. A PRETENDED .12"l'OENLY Henry Corts was indicted for frand. :dr. WALCORD State(' the case for the prosecution. The prisoner, he said, was one of those who by false representations induced persons to believe that they were Attorneys, and obtained sums of money on pre tent :e of carrying on suits for them without having ariy authority' to perform their undertakings, by which those who confided in them lost the causes they intrustti to their rare, as well as the money they advanced tit carrying in their suits. Tne present case was a very aggravated one of this kind, as llr. Everest, the prosecutor, had not only paid the pri,ion , ,r 7'.1. for his costs, but in consequence of his conduct hod 1191. costs to pay to the Crown, which he otherwise should not. Peter Everest, the prosecutor, stA:cl tl:at, previous to the 3d .July last, he kept a wil.lie-house. in the flay market, and iit consequence of improvements making there, he was, on the 4th of May last, served with a declaration id* ciatrnent at t.le suit of the Crown, a copy of which he produced. The prisoner, whom he had known as clerk to Coleman, his attorney came into his house a few hours aft-r. Witness said, " You are the sort of man I wanted to s , :e," and shewin: , him the paper, added, that he was just going to Like it to I`.lz.Coleman to see what was to be don.'. The prisoner told hint, that had left 31r. Coleman, and was following busine s'.or tdruseif, and would 'defend him. Witness a.!rrCC4i to employ hint, say ing, " 1 know you won't deceive me." The prisoner replied, " he'd as soon cut his arm off." In about a fortnight the prisoner came to him, and told him the business was going on rapidly, and asl:cd . for M. on ac count. Witness gave him nine guineas. In a few days after the prisoner came again, and said all was going on well, and got more money ; and continual, by representations of the same sort, to get various sums, which in August amounted to 741. On the ;3(1 of July the witness was put out of his house by execution under the ejectment, and his goods all sold to pay the costs. The prisoner still desired him not to be afraid, for he would make them suffer. On his cross-examination by Mr. A s DRE WS, 'he admitted that on inquiry of the prisoner in the month of July, whether he was carrying on the defence in his own name, he told him that he was not, but that he was beating them all to bits ; he gave the prisoner several sums of money after this information. A witness proved that he had examined the roll of attornics in the Court of King's Bench, and that the prisoner's name was not there. Mr. ANDnEws addressed the Jury for the prisoner, but call ed no witnesses. The Jury without hesitation found, the prisoner —GUILTY. The Cuarnmais• said the of once of which the prisoner lad been found guilty was one of great enormity, and was become so frequent that it must be checked by making an example the judgment of the Court therefore was, that he should be transported for seven years. MURDER IN WHITECII PEL.---A few nights since a horrid murder was perpetrated in the neighbourhood of WhitjA.hapel, on the person of Richard Neads, a labourer. It appears that on the night of the murder, the 'deceased was, with some of his companions, at the Green Man pub lic-house, in Castle-street, \V hi techa pel, where a man, named Mahoney, with whom the deceased had fought a pitched battle about twelve months ago, interfered with their conversation, and brought forward this circus►sta►►ce, which gave rise to high words. Mahoney coolly observed-- " that he was not done with the•deccased, and it would not be long before he would do for him," or words to that effect .; and on N cads' quit ting the place with his companions, about one o'clock in the morning, Mahoney, in com pany with another man, followed him out side. the door, and made an attack upon the deceased, who was knocked down by him, and beaten in a dreadful manner. On the deceased getting np to defend himself against the attack of his opponent, the latter seized a tremendous stone, and with the greatest violence, gave the deceased a blow upon the back of the head, which felled him to the ground in a state of insensibility, and the blood issued in profusioa from his nose and ears. Assistance was imme diately rendered to the unfortunate man, who was taken to the London Hospital, and put to bed. A Surgeon attended hie►, and on cxan►in ing his head, a dreadful injury Was found on the back part. Every attention was paid to him, but after lingering in the greatest agony until Monday, he expired from the effects of the vio lence he had received. Ile has left a wife arid two children to deplore iris loss. Mahoney was taken in custody, and examined at Lambeth street Police Office, when evidence was heard against him, and he was remanded for the result of tine Coroner's Inquest. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT TO MU 11 DER.-- Mon day evening, a little after dusk, as a young gen tleman, residing at Poplar, was passing on his way home along Whitechapel, ire was allured by a female to one of the infamous brothels in George-yard, where he was assailed by a number of women, and robbed of his purse containing 7 sovereigns and some silver. To save his life, he jumped out of tire window into the street, leaving behind him his hat, and effected 'HS escape. SCOTCII SEQUESTRA TIOYS. ExAmisAposs. DivIDENDs, Robert Burrell, saddler, Cupar-Fife, to b examined in the Sherif Court-room there, 20th December and 7th January, at twelve. Creditors of the late Samuel Gilmore, rope-maker, Edir - burgh, will receive a dividend from John Crawford, merchant, Leith, 9th January. States of the affairs of William Ritchie, merchant, Edin burgh, lie with the trustee.—No dividend. States of the affairs of Thomas Barrie, late spirit-dealer, Cowgate, Edinburgh, lie with the trustee.—No dividend. John Mathew, haberdasher, Glasgow, and Adam Dickin• son and Co. booksellers, Edinburgh, have applied for discharges. COAL-MARKET, DEC. 12. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 441 Newcastle - - 31 is Od to 44s oa 4 Sunderland - - -46 s Od to —Red BIRTHS. At Kensington, on the 10th instant, the Lady of Harrison Gordon Codd, 1::;1., of a daughter. On Sunday last, at Weald Hall, Essex, the Lady of Christo pher Thomas Tower, Esq., of a daughter. ---• DIED. On Monday night, in the 82d year of her sge, at her house in Queen Anne-street West, the Hon. Mrs. Anson, grand mother to the present Lord Anson. Suddenly, on Wednesday night, at his house in Queen Annc street West, Sir Martin Browne Folkes, M.P. and F.R.S. On the 10th inst., after a short illness, the wife of Thomas Oliver, Esq., of Bayswater, in the 75th year of her age. On the 10th inst., at Blackheath, Mrs. Catherine Cale,. 'n the 79th year of her age. 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