The Sun. — London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

LONDO_N DAILY EXTR.ICTS FROM VIE MORNING 'PAPER!, December '25. • [MORNING POST.] We" '.received Gibraltar Papers yesterday to the 4th instant. They contain the message sent by the Spanish Monarch to the Cortes, and the Report mace by a Committee of the latter on the con insubordination displayed by the people of Seville and of Cadiz. Both these documents haVe already appeared in our columns : but there are many .additional particulars from other places in Spain, which prove' that the spirit of resistance to the G overnment and the Cortes is not:con fined to the two rebellious cities, or even to the tingaom of Andalusia. In this state--of things, the mild course recommended by the Cortes tray appear a very inadequate - remedy to the existing evils ;. but it is upon the whole the most politic. It abstains from exasperatinr , the dis contented, and affords them, if they have any love for their country, an honourable opportu ti:v of returning to their duty ; and what is still /77:7,-.-e important, it does notexpose the real weak tees of the Government. There is no doubt had . the Cortes felt iltat it was possible 'to rely on the fidelity of the whole, or even of part of the army, they would have recommended a more spirited course. But conscious that it would not be in the power of the King, or in their own, •to enforce any measure of severity against the inhabitants of one of the richest and mist populous provinces of Spain, they have wisely abstained from venting menaces to- which they could give no effect. As long as their weak ness remains untried, they may retain the repu tation of strength, and obtain credit for the mode ration of their conduct' with those who have suf fered 'themselves to be misled rather through icinorance ,than through any political feeling or sinister views. The following are extracts : From the GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE.] • The Authorities, Militia and Inhabitants ofilledina Sidonia, have adopted, in their fullest extent, the principles of Cadiz, and bound themselves to resist any authority, the object of which should not be the preservation of their freedom. Complaints of the Ministers have been signed at Corunna, by the Authorities of the place , at th; call of the inhabitants who had met and drawn them up. The Patriotic Society of Montoro has been dissolved by the Civil Governor of the Province of Cordova, and accordingly the • liberal part of the population has petitioned his Majesty against that Magistrate and the Town Council. The meeting of the Society of Saragossa, which argued against the present system of pensions, &c. was interrupted by one of the hearers, who thrice cried out—" Down with liberty, 'what we want is a King and Religion." This individual was taker, up, that he - might be dealt with as directed by law. A band of 40 Anti-Constitutionalists, who had assembled in rums at Borrado, and in Catalonia, has been dispersed by a detachment of regtilars and militia. [From the same Paper of November 30.] Cases of the Epidemic Fever in Barcelona and Barcelonetta, on the 13th Inst. 367—Deaths bf ditto on the same day, 18—On the 14th, 12—and on the 15th, 7—Cases of ditto on the 15th, Wl—Burials on the three days, 58,47,36—Number of Patients io the Lazaretto ()Malaga on the 24th inst. 25—Deaths in ditto the day before, I—Deaths in town on ditto, of suspicious fever, I—ln the harbour on ditto, and of ditto, 1. [NEW TIMES.] The accounts from Spain are almost, litera copies of the occurrences which took place in France in 1792. The Cortes who have climbed to power by dissolving all the bonds of social order are much surprised that their power is not field together by those bonds. In Lerida an addteSs has been carried for the death of the Ministers and the banishment' of the King. In one of the chief towns of Navarre a placard has been posted beginning " Death to the King who opposes the freedom of his subjects." Mina, it is said, is fortifying the passes of Gallicia, which province he proposes to form into a Republic. The King's orders are openly set at naught by the inha bitants of Seville and those of Cadiz. A Commit tee of the Cortes has passed a gentle censure on these, acts of open. rebellion ; but punishment it is not in their power. to inflict. Meanwhile the wretched Ferdinand: - declares that he will die sword In Inind ! It has already come to the point which we predicted, that the King's life is openly menaced, and with it the subversion of the Monarchy. Were we wrong• in anticipating these consequences from a monstrous Constitu tion, established bymeans as monstrous ? Were we wrong iu saying that the weak and vacil latinp-, conchict of Ferdinand must be fatal to himself and his country ? It is too late for him now to . talk of dying sword in hand ; he should have long ago contemplated the pos sibility of being driven to such an extremity, and should have preVented it by a firm, manly, but liberal and patriotic conduct. When he annulled the Constitution of 1812, which it was his. duty .to have done the moment he ob lained his freedom, he should have convoked the Cortes on their ancient, legal foundation ; he should have chosen enlightened and loyal Mi nisters, and have maintained them against popu lar clamour, so • long as their labours tended to the security of the Throne, and• the im provement of the State. Instead of this, no thing was ivitnessedi but the most capricious changes of Ministers : and the King, without any plan or object of his own, would not seek, in the wisdom of . a well-chosen Representative body, the means of sound and. rational Govern ment. Be the fate of Ferdinand what it may, it will excite little regret for himself personally ; but the evil consequences of breaking up a mighty monarchy cannot be calculated. W e have seen them in France : and it seems we are fated again to behold them in Spain. There are per . •sons who argue that France has obtained .from her Revolution more good than suf fices to couterbalance the evils she has suffered. Such persons may and ought to . look complacently on the present state of Spain, who is in progress toward a similar change. For our part, we dis tinctly avow our opinion, that France is in a much worse situation now than she was before her Re . - volution- 7 --worse in power, worse in wealth, worse in,manners, worse in morals, worse in Religion.-7 Could she, by a miracle, be replaced in the situa tion in which she was immediately before the convocation of the Three Estates in 1789; but with the wisdom acquired by the sufferings which she has since experienced, it, would, indeed, be tp her a mighty gain. We. love, indeed, to - believe,, that the Revolution has profited, her best - Statesmen, by teaching them what to avoid ; but alas ! it is clear that this expe- rience has been lost upon tlie Spaniards.— fgreil execution on rriday, - *and two were to ex.' The same, we fear, is to be said .of the Portu- plate their crimes.b) death on the following day. geese, whose Se 7 riators' have taken as -a 'model ofi ft is probable .that the worst case's have been wisdom one of the most. stupid and senseless j selected for the earliest trials, ind that of the writers, without' exception, that England has large number which are to follow, according to ever produced. The French National Assembly their precedency. in guilt, very few of them will complinlented the notorious Tom Paine ; but require the dreadful necessity of capital puni•Al- Paine, though grossly ignorant, and impudently me regardless of truth, had at least some energy of manner and liveliness of style ; Jeremy Bentham's writings, on the contrary, are as dull as they are adverse to'cOmmon sense. It is lamentable, in an age called enlightened, to see men, who di rect the destinies of Nations, so utterly destitute of political science, and so incapable of guiding themselves by the accumulated wisdom of ages. .nt. [MORNING lIE - RAT , D.] The afflicting, but unavoidable experiment of exerting the utmost severity of the law, has com menced in Ireland. At first serious apprehen sions were entertained that the terror which ge nerally prevailed would bar the course of jus tice by its operation on the Juries and wit nesses. This does not, however, appear to be the fact. The Judges invested with the Spe cial Commission insisted upon the performance of their duties by the persons called to serve on the Jury ; and the witnesses, as far as the trials have proceeded, seem to have gWen their evidence with firmness and temper. There are several prisoners . ' on trial for murder. Of these, two have been condemned, and were executed on Wednesday—the assassins of a Mrs. Torrance, whose case some months since, appeared in the London papers. Of the culprits one behaved with the intrepidity of savage desperation during his trial—but appeared repentant, and regretted his conduct in Court when at the place - of exe cution. Both confessed their guilt, and exhorted the surrounding multitude strongly against perse vering in the career of outrage and crime which had proved fatal to them. The other cases of mur der are of a less atrocious character, having oc curred, for the most part, in nocturnal rencontres between the night marauders and the police. Some few have been acquitted, and their acquittal is, under the circumstances, highly creditable to the Judges and Juries. Though in the centre of out rage, intimidation, and violent excitement of the passions, the benefit of every doubt in the evi dence for the prosecution is given to the prisoners with the most scrupulous retard to justice and humanity. There is, however, as yet, no visible abatement of crime and disorder. The guilty association among the peasantry remains unbroken. The terror of their unlawful oaths, and of the vengeance of their associates, has hitherto de prived justice of any aid from the evidence of ac complices. It is also stated, that the secret direc tors of these outrages, have by public notices de nounced manifold vengeance for every criminal who should be executed. But when the bond which binds them together shall be once broken by the terror and certainty of capital punish ment, there is every reason to hope that these outrages will be quickly checked, and almost removed. Desperate combinations of this kind, depending only upon the impulse of the worst and wildest passions,fall asunder even more quick ly than they are formed. We know not whether any new measure will be the result of the ar rival of the new Lord Lieutenant. Perhaps the execution of the law will have,already nearly restored quiet by the time he will have arrives] —at least by the time he will have been fixed in his seat with the reins in, his hand. If this should be happily the case, the Noble Marquis will find matter for his talent in government, and his hu manity, in the very place which is now the theatre of crime and punishment. The whole south of Ireland, but particularly the county of Limerick, it in a state of extreme misery, and threatened, we are informed, with a famine among the poor. [THE TIMES.] It may not be unnatural in the Austrian Ob server, as a regular instrument of the Holy Al liance, to exaggerate or even distort those unto ward occurrences which may be considered inci dental- to every country, which, like Spain, is toiling on to the establishment of rational liberty and equal law. lt is true, and it is a source of regret to every honest mind, but not of astonish ment, and far less of despair, that more or less of danger and'of suffering must be the price which nations long enslaved have to pay for the acquisition of their liberty, and it is a good well worthy of the highest price. Spain, it is possible, though we trust she v.ill be spared it, may have to undergo the common destiny; and of her we affirm, that if she resist bravely the bondage hich her old task-masters seem meditating again to impose upon her, she need not grudge, nor need her'officious neighbours deprecate, the life or treasure which victory in such a cause may demand. It is very well, we have said, for the official organs of the Holy Alliance to make topics of reproach out of news of daily fabrica tion ; but it is not so pardonable in French papers to adopt and circulate such misrepresenta tions. In the journals of a free country, or of one pretending to be free, it is treason to the cause of liberty to take part on all occasions with the declared advocates of civil and religi ous despotism, in whatever question concerns the affairs of the Spaniards. The French papers have indulged themselves in assertions of a widely extended plot in Spain, to efface every vestige of kingly government, and to declare the country a'republic. Now we do not believe that any such design, equally absurd and crimi nal, is entertained by any considerable body of the population of Spain ; but we have all along anticipated a series of plots against the Spanish Constitution, by those whose tyranny that Con stitution overturned ; nor can it be denied that in more than one inptance the vehemence exhibited against the Court has been provoked by schemes most unfriendly to the dearest, interests of the Constitution and of the Spanish people. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The intelligence from Ireland - is every thing j but consolatory. Murders are committed under " the very eye " of the Judges of the land. The laws are openly disregarded,. and the authorities of the country treated with contempt. Sir Wm Temple complains, that in his time Ireland was almost uninhabited ; and as he had witnessed the great prosperity of the thickly peopled country of Holland, he thought we had nothing more to do to make Ireland also prosperous than to in crease its population. " The number of people in proportion to the compass of ground they in habit," he says, " makes all things necessary to life dear, and that forces men to industry and parsimony. The want of trade in Ireland proceeds from the want of people; and this is not grown froM any in qualities of the climate or. air, but chiefly from the frequent revolutions of so many wars and rebellions, so great slaughters and cala mities of mankind, as have at several intervals of time succeeded the first conquest of this king dom, in Henry the Second's time, until the year 1 6 53. The country has by the last war and plague been left in a manner desolate." It is now, however, no longer desolate ; and if Sir William's cause of prosperity were worth any thing, it would be one of the most prosperous countries in the world.—Sir William Petty, who had excellent means of knowing, says, that In 1652 the number of people was . • . 850,000 According to Air. Song:, the computation in 1693 gave 1,034,100 By a p.ill-tax return in 1731, it was . . 2,010,221 In 1788, - calculating from the number of houses, it was 3,728,904 In 1791, - • • . 4,206,618 The increase since 1791 is, therefore, upwards of three. millions. When we consider that Ireland has sent nearly as many Emigrants to the United States as all the rest, of Europe taken together, and that a large stream of immigration is besides constantly flowing into both parts of this island from it, we need not go further for a proof of all 1 , that Mr. Malthus .has asserted with respect to the rate at which population may increase. [BRITISH PRESS.] The proceedings of the second and third day under the High Commission now sitting in the city of Limerick, Nv i 1 1 be found in another part Of our Paper. They are at least in one respect sati , ,factory, as they prove how utterly unfound ed were the apprehensions previously entertained, that Jurymen could not be found in the county of Limerick to discharge fearlessly the duty which they owed to themselves and their country. The event shows that there has been no deficiency of moral courage among the freeholders of that great county, and also that however extensively the system of intimida- I don had been carried previous to the arrival of the Judges, witnesses have not been wanted to 'bear testimony against every individual who has been charged with offences against the public. The Grand Jury in the first instance found to be true every bill of indictment that had been submitted to them, and of the accus( no less than seven have been already con. victed. The two ruffians who were found guilty of the murder of the amiable and fearless Mrs. Torrance were executed, in pursuance of their sentence, on Wednesday last. They were both permitted to address the multitude assem bled to witness the awful spectacle, and both confessed their guilt, and exhorted the people to return to their peaceful habits. Two more suf- [FROM THE JOHN BULL OF SUNDAY LAST.I It is most g ratifying to find that the Administration is again strengthened by the GRENVILLES. One hails their return to office with a feeling similar to that experienced by a fainily, when any of its Members, separated and disunited frorn it by some temporary difference, are happily restored to its bosom. We really believe that nothing kept together the present Wring party but the weight and respectability of the GREN VILLES.- Their support was powerful in a double proportion, as it not only was abstracted from Government, but thrown into the opposite scale. Their return to office is matter for congra tulation but not for surprise ;--the latter is rather excited by the length of their association with the Whigs. They have however, at length, found them out, and the OLD PITT PARTY (from which the GRENV±I.LEs alienated themselves only on some particular points of policy) are again united. This is as it should be ;—experience has shewn the efficiency and good policy of the present Administration. The GREN VILLE party are. ready to admit this also, and feeling confi dence in men who have, under an invariably-successful Mo narch, raised EN GLAND to the highest pitch of glory, flock to the standard of the Constitution, and rally round it, to the dis comfiture of Whigs and Whig-Radicals, who would destroy every principle of good government, social order, and public tranquillity, for the sake of power and place. We have cursorily alluded to the unvarying, success of His 'present MAJESTY'S Government from tile moment of his as sumption of the Regency, to the conclusion of that splendid war which gave peace to the world ; there is a document, the simplest, and . the easiest attainable, which most powerfully and unaffectedly declares those successes, and which, from being totally divested of remark, and replete with truth, i?i most striking ;—the document we mean, is a little Chronology pre fixed to the common Alinanacks ! which we will, without' one comment, extract ; taking only the two lines previous to the assumption of the Regency by His Majesty; and it really is worthy of more notice .than most of the purchasers of Alma 'lacks, we dare say, give it. 1807. French defeated Russians and PrusSians at Tilsit. Portuguese Court emigrated to Biazil. 1808. Throne of Spain abdicated. Royal Family . of Spain inveigled into France. JOSEPH BuoNAFAitTE entered Spain as King. 1811. The Prince of WALES appointed REGENT. French defeated, at Talavera, Allniera, Barrossa. 1812. French defeated at Salamanca. French invade RuSsia,e-Battle of Borodino.—Enter Moscow.—Defeated at Bautzen and Lutzen. 1813. French defeated by Lord NVELLINGTON at Vittoria, Saragossa, St. Sebastian, 4 3 yrenees, Parnpeluna ! French defeated at Leipsic.—Surrender Dresden. Prinee of Orange restored to his Sovereignty. • 1314. Allies Victorious at Montmatre.---Paris Capitulated. BUONAPARTE sent to Elba ! Louis XVIII. restored to his Throne. Treaty of Peace signed. at Paris. Russian and Prussian Sovereigns visited'England. Peace with America. 1815. B UONAPAR TE escaped from E l ba int o France. FEnDINAND of Naples a nd the Pope restored. F R ENCH defeated at W a terloo.—BuoNAPAATE exiled. Louis seated on his Throne— • GENERAL PEACE. Farther it is needless to go, for with the war ends of course the career of successes we allude to; but, upon this common unadorned detail, we would ask those who affect to love their country, and yet be discontented, —what page in any history-- containing only the events of four years, bears record of so many—so great—and such unvarying—and unshendowed suc cesses and triumphs, as that which hands down to posterity the Acts of the reign of KING GEORGE THE FOURTH? ed mimsumxc•mcw=r----,.. A desperate affray took place at Guildford on Saturday -evening betw een some soldiers belong ing to a party, on thei r route to Chatham (for the East Indies), and a few of the townsmen. Bro ken heads were freely bestowed on each side, and the soldiers ware getting worsted, when the timely interference of the town 11Tagistrates pre vented more serioo mischief. POLICE INTELLIGESU. .• •GUiLDHALL.—(A LEGAL DIEEICULTY.)-11 1 the course of a cause (Shiells and Co. v. Russell) which came oR for hear ing in the Court of Common Pleas at Guildhall on Saturday, before Chief Justice. Dallas, the report of which was inserted in our paper of yesterday, two witnesses, named John Painter and John Nightingale, examined on the part of the plaintiff, were directed by the Judge to be prosectited for perjury, and in con sequence taken immediately into custody. The mere direltion of the Judge that these witnesses should be prosecuted would not, it seems, necessarily have implied that they should have been taken into custody ; the commitment, therefore, if any commitment was ordered, would have been for Contempt of Court, in which case they should have been • • taken 'into custody by the officer of the Court, viz. the Warden of the Fleet. By some mistake Drinkwater, one of the City Officers in attendance, took charge of them, lodged them in Giltspur-street Compter, and in this way they were brought up yesterday for examination, anong the rest of the prisoners, be fore the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Birch. Mr. 11 tISIPIIRE es, who attended as solicitor for the prisoners, inquired upon what charge, and upon what authority they were in custody, when it appeared that no formal commitment of any kind had been made out ? The only warrant Mr. Teague; the Keeper of the Compter, could produce for holding them being the certificates signed by .Mr. Ccx, the associate, that the Chief Justice had directed that they should be prosecuted for perjury, and assigned JoSeph Green Walford, Esq. as Counsel for Mr. Russell, the defendant in. the cause, who, by his At torney, had undertaken to carry on the prosecution. against them. Under these circumstances, their Solicitor contended they were in custody illegally, and upon no proper authority ; and intimated that they might - have .their action for false im prisonment. The Solicitor for the prosecution intimated that a charge of felony might be preferred against them; but the parties were not present, nor did he know that they would be willing to prosecute. - On the other hand, the prisoners' solicitor was willing that they should give bail for their appeaearice to plead to, and an swer any, indictment that might be preferred against them ; ' but their bail was net in attendance, and if they 'had been, the Solicitor for the prosecution would'not consent to accept them, without time allowed for inquiry into their responSibility. The City Solicitor was called in, but no other alternative pre sented itself, except that the prisoners should consent to remain in custody till bail was procured and accepted ; and accordingly they were at their own Tequest remanded until Thursday next. Bow-SyugET.—Yesterday, a young man, calling himself Henry Peeke, was charged under . the 52 Geo. II i. cap. 155, with ' unlawfully, maliciously, and contemptuously" disturb ing the congregation at the Great Queen -street Chapel, during the time of divine service on . Sunday evening. Elizabeth Dyer, a pew-opener at the Chapel, stated that the defendant and several other young men had for a long time past been in the habit of coming on a. Sunday eyening, for no other purpose than. to " ogle the girls," and laugh and talk during the time the service was going on. Several of the other sex, too, she was sorry to say, behaved with equal indecorum, and _ the Chapel. was Made rather a place for flirtation and love making, than for divine worship. On Sunday evening last she saw the defendant and another man " ogling" as usual, and when they were applied to upon the subject, one of them burst into a " horse-laugh." Mr. Elworth, a respectable inhabitant of the parish; serving the office of constable, stated - that he had repeatedly seen the defendant conducting himself in the most indecorous manner in the chapel, and he had him in custody for that offence in January, 1820, when he was suffered to go at large, upon - a representation that he was just going to a 'situation in the country. On Sunday evening he resisted being taken into custody, and made so much noise, that a crowd of at least 100 persons collected about the doors ; the congregation 'were much &armed, and the Minister was stopped in his discourse. The defendant had .nothing to say- Sir R. BIRNIE said, that perhaps the defendant was not aware of the provisions of the Act of Parliament, upon which he was brought here, although he nun: be conscious that he was be having extremely wrong, and he would therefore read one of the clauses for the information of him and others of the same class.. The Worthy Magistrate then read the clause, which sets forth that any person " unlawfully, Sec-disturbing a reli gious congregation, shall be required to give two sureties of 501. each for his appearance at the Sessions, and there, upon convic tion, be fined in the sum of 401." He' (Sir R. B.) therefore called upon the defendant to give these sureties. The defendant was not prepared, and was committed until he found bail to that amount. APPREHENSION OF A DARING SMUGGI.T.II.—It has been ascertained that there were sixty in the gang of smug glers who were concerned in resisting the Officers hi the Pre ventive Service, in the desperate affray which took place on the 2d day of September last, near the Marsh Bay. Fifteen of them carried tiro arms, and eleven of them•are in custody, two of whom have turned King's evidence, A man of the name of Daniel Fagg was supposed to be one of the gang ; he was sus pected some time since of having committed a robbery, and when some constables were in pursuit of him on that charge, he escaped from them by. swimming across a river at Canter bury, and he had been heard to say he would not be taken alive. • However, Bond, an active Constable belonging fo 'Bow street, not intimidated by his reported threats, undertook to go in pursuit of him, he having previously apprehended six of them. Yesterday se'nnight he received private mtbrmation that Da niel Fagg was in a house et St..Ntildred's, in Canterbury ; he repaired there, accompanied by two =able and powerful men, expecting that he' should have a violea . and desperate charae. ter to encounter. • To guard against an escape he stationed one at the front and the other at the back door. Bond contrived to gain admittance into the house, but not without having used a considerable degree of management and maneeuvring, and proceeded with all speed to search the' house, having no doubt but that Daniel Fagg was in it. In the lower part he heard a noise, which he had no doubt arose from the falling or rattling of bricks. He followed the noise, and f o u nd it pro ceeded- from making an aperthre through the wall under the cellar stairs into the adjoining house, which no doubt had been previously arranged and prepared a the officer found Daniel Fagg stripped to his waistband in•ordeeto avoid being held, and he made a desperate resistance, but Bond at length sire ceeded in securing hiM by handcuffs, and conveyed him to Mar gate, where he underwent an examination before .the Acting Magistrate. From the evidence produced he i s sus p ected to be the man who attacked Lieut. Garr, wrested his sword from him, gave him a desperate wound on his head and forehead of about three inches in length, and afterwards threw the Lietitee nant's sword into Pluck's gutten—a•The Lieutenant was knocked doaei e and supposed to be killed with the wound ; however .it did not prove mortal. . The final examination of the prisoner was postponed to a future day, owing to the absence of Lieut. Carr, who is in Devonshire. In the meantime Fagg is to be confined on board his Majesty's ship Severn, under the com mand of Capt. lll 4 Culloch. - POACHERS.—On Sunday night the 9th- inst. it 'will be recollected, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, Henry Judd, gamekeeper to Thomas Asheton Smith , E s q .,' accompanied by six assistants, were attacked •in Ashdown Coppice at Tidwortif, in Hampshire, by a desperate gang of poachers, consisting of five•or six men, armed with guns and other weapons,one of whom shot at and killed Rob. Baker, one of the assistant gamekeepers. - The desperate gang were not content with having committed ' that miirder, but they fired at Henry Judd, the gamekeeper, and Noyes, Martin, Jackson ; Pinner, and Holmes were badly wounded, and some of them dangerously. The poachers 'Made a precipitate retreat, after having committed their horrid deed, towards Quarley, leaving two of their guns. Mr. ASITETON SMITH made every pos. sible exertion to pursue the murderers, and offcred a reward of 1001. for their apprehension ; but not being able to treee them out in the country, he sent an express to Sir Ricmann BIRNIE, at Bow-street, fel- the assistance of an active officer, when Taunton was dispatched. Taunton went in pursuit of the villains for some time night and day, and has at length succeeded in apprehending two of the gang, who prove to be Edmund Steele and James Turner, two well-known men as labourer in that part of the country. They have undergone several examinations before the Magistrates at Andover, and were finally committed last Wednesday to Winchester Prison, on a charge of the wilful murder of Robert Baker. The pri.. soner Steel has turned King's evidence, and from his confession it appears that the gang of poacher's consisted of five. The other three not in custody 'were labourers; who worked in and about Andover. TAMFEItING WITH SERVANTS.—A Gentleman of Leicester town has stated to us the following circumstance, which we conceive deserves being. made as public as possible, for we do not know a greater nuisance than that of tampering with servants : they may well assume to themselves such airs, when those who ought to teach them better, condescend to such servility :—lie en gaged a servant as cook, at eighteen gpineas per annum ; a fortnight previous to her entering upon his establishment, •a lady offered her something more ; she of course declined going to the former place ; the bargain had hardly been made, when another, knowing she was hired, actually bid her two.guineas more l and a new gown extra! b-- LONDON MARKETS: OF BREAD TIES WEEX . . ....... no iii : kiiest iirii:e of the best Wheaten lireatilittblietotit the NtetroindiS, is stated by the princival ital,eis to he 104 the Quattern Loaf.—Sale flahets se. the Quartet illittil, from one penny to two pence lower. lb. oz. 11).07.. Peck Loaf to weiet .. 17 ti Quartet n Lon t towelgh 4 .5i Half ditto.. (into .... ti 11 Half Quart ern ditto ..• 224 ,IMPOKTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. Irish: • Frireign: Wheat. Bariry Malt Oats Rye Beans 9` 2 9 Peas - -- Tares, 8 -- ---, Rapeseed - - -- Mustard - ---- e 3 Seeds 3ll . - ISO Flour - -- Wank - - • ---- Linseed - - - - 7 -- 300 NW; E OF 110 P Poelset . per Cwt., Dec. V. I __ Kent— ei IGs a3l 18s a5l Os Kettt 21 103 a3l lOb a4l 14% Sussex.. ei—ls a3l Os a3l ss Sussex 21 Os 42! 104 a2l Ifis E ssex 21 14 5 a 3l los a4l 4s Essex, , 21 105 a3l 6s. a3l IGs Farnham, fine, 71 to 101 Os—Seconds, 41 10s to 71 73. . SEEDS, Dec. 34. Red Clover (Foreign) 3os 4-es 5");60s G 4 to,i cwt. Ditto English White ditt , , Rye-Grass ... zSs Turnip Seeds. • 00 40, to White Mustard Seed os Brown ditto d 10, 12, 1.5 s Gd Red and Green ... —s nd Carraway Seeds 64Q to Coriander do' -Om:, (Ai Cinque Foin . —sod utiti,to 42s Od per qr. Treft)il ltilig - rass ... - 6 26 s liSs 10 :it;s Canary per qr 44s 413 s to 50s Od pt:r qr. Linseed nape Seed . Winter Tares 3s 4s to 4s tid per qr. SMITHFIELD MARKlcl2.—Dec. ('l'o sink the Offal—per Stone of Sibs.) Beef 2s 4d to 4s Od I Veal Mutton .... 2s 4(1 to Ss 8d I Pork es 0(1 to 45 od Lamb Os Ott to Us Ott HEAD OF CATTLE THIS DAY. Beasts 1,351 Caivcs-• Sheep 11,570 `Pigs . NEWGXTE AND LEA By the I DENIIALL 111.1KKI.TS. Carcase. ikeef ..2s Od to 3s 4d 1 Vcal ls Od to 4s Rd Mutton-- 24 Od to 3s Od i Pori - Y s lid to 4s oci Lanilt Os Od to Os od. ST. JAMES'S HAY MA ItKET, Dtc. Hay.... 31 3s 04.1 to 41 4s Oti - j Clortr, ies,to 41 lOs .ittaw.. 11 4s Od to II lis 611 SMITHFIELD. Hay 3l 5s Od to 41 Os Od--Averaze, 31 15s 0(1 Straw .....- ll 6s Otl.to 11 13s v tat:. e, 11 9s 6(1 Clover 4l Os Od to 41 15s 04--Avt - rage, 41 us 0(1 WIIITECHAPEL. [lay 3l lOs Oil to 41 Os 041--Average, 4) 6s Od New ditto O l. OS ad to 01 Os od-Avkiage, 01. Os Straw • 11 lOs od to 11 16s mcl-Average, 11 11s ad . Clover . 41 Os ad La .51 0, 00--Average, 41 lOs RAW HIDES. Best Heifers & Steers, per st. ihdinary .... 2s 4d to es 6d; 3, 011 to 3,4 d Market - Calf .. each .. D Od Nliddlings 2s ad. to - 2: 10d E. Horse Os Od to Os Od • SHEEP SKINS. Polled Downs PRICE OF LEATHER Butts, 50 to ritilbs each ...... per. to 22,1 . Ditto, to ti(3ll.is each Dressing. Flittre Fine Coach Hides. • 114101 to 2111, Crop Hides, 35 to 40ibs for cutting l7ld to tAd Ditto 45 to sOlbs Calf tiliins..,;.lo to 401hs Ditto 5O to 'Nibs •Ditto 7O to 801 bi /Oil tu •2.9c.t Small Seals (Greenland) Large ditto l'ani)ed Horse Rides 2t►u/ .1 TA ter .1t;t1 to tfild Spanish Horse fiidrs .19 , 1 to 22-tt PRICES OF 'NUM: , Town Tallow 47s --s od 1 VeHow Russia 47s od tiV :lite ditto .• -s Oil -s *11,11) ditto— 42s NI Od Melting Stull 39 ( H i Od Ditto Rough.. 25s od —s Od PP, ICE OF CANDLES, Frtom TALLow CllANOLga's HALL.. Price of Candies. per dozen, 9s Gd Mtwlds, lls Od. 'lid per dozen allowed for ieady money. SOAP, B,u. pal I 21b. Yellow Scat, ROs tl uttied (its b: Curti Cioutl e.L:s PRICE O 1 RAW FAT, per Stout of 8117,—Dt-c. Price of 'f allow (as stated by the Tallow Metiers', Qs rut FOREIGN ‘t . Span. Sheep. s. d. s. d. pur H). s. d. • s. d . Saxony, 1;t .. 5 "6 'a ,7 :j I,rontaa 3 6 a 4 6 Segovia '3 0 a 3 .9 Sofia Seville 4 0 a .5 3 BoLetn. I,t .. 4 9 a 7 'f) .. 3 fl a 4 OF Slit;Att RL:FIN D RAW. - , Jamaica, BroA n 53s a 59s Sieglt , Loavcs.... 795 a 8:5 60i a• 61;.; lititil>le du lo6s 4 hiss Gond Autigua, Brw.vn.. 52% a .57s li.istal4s 4laddlittgs9i a 6,,c Ciuod COAL ,NIARKET, DAN. Ships at Market. Ship , so:(1 . . 24 Newc.,stle 1 Skiiit:eriatift • • • Price. 34s Gti a 43s 64 -16 s (id a —s Od _ LpFulin , Wtieat 'WI' I. SI 0:4 to 171 ICs i Batley, to w, 01 ISs to 117 s New Wheat.. 0 Os to 7—l Ok 1 r . ..,. - 111 , v7 po• qr.) I 4s to 11145 Oats, per qr. 01 0;s to II t-;!, I'vii,,, , ,,er, qt. II 7s to 11 ICs Ne w ditto.... 01 (is to r , l 0,, :ivr,tsctt prrq.ol Os to of (Js Corso: - Eu's IsayEsT..—Yesuirel:ly evening an inqu:Li,u.u. was taken at the Old Rose, Itattiirf li!ihway, before J. W. UN I .I.r, Esq. Coroner, on the botly•of J'a ane lrihns, The de- • ceased was an elderly. woman, and kert house 'the fur. Thomas Young, in illoreton's-court, Highway. On Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, came home in.P..state of Intoxication,. and all mtreatks wiiich were used to prev4l on 'her to go to bed were fruitle;:s on the family retiring to rest, she was left in her room on the ground floor hy-hevself, and nothing seen of her until ycsterday morning, about seven o'clock, when she was found lyiqg on the fibor on leer thee, quite dead, with her clothes or.. Her right cheek was eaten 'Ai' by the rats, as also the flesh of her right arm, and. two. et her fingers were gnawed by the same vermin.—Yertlicz.—" Died from excessive drinking." BIRTH. On Monday, the 17th instant, at the Lady of VII. Mairis, Esq., 6th Dragoon Guards, of a son. MARRIED. On the 2'll instant, at Brilthton, by tho Very Rev. the_Dvan of Hereford, the Rev. Dr. Styles, to Sophia. second. danghter4)f the late Josiah Lane Co Esq., of Pa.cii'ament-street, Woit ininster. DIED. On Friday last, aged two years and two months, Louisa, youngest daughter of D. of Biwa*. wick-square. On Sunday last, aged 29, deeply and leservedly lamented, Lydia Margaret, eldest daughter of Alf. L. Johnson ; City road, . Finsbury , after a short btirsavere Printed and Published, for the PROP aiETORS, ttw OFYICE, 112, Strand, by, B. •