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THE LONDON JOLTIOTAL. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS December 22. [THE TIMES.] We have before spoken of the accession of foree'to - :Ministry by the introduction of the Grenvilles in the person of a relative of that family,. Mr. Charles Wynn, and the consequent adhesion, as the French call it, of th 6" whole interest. We mentioned,. also one of the terms of this new' connexion, as that ..Mr. Wynn was at liberty to introduce any measure he might think proper into 'Parliament, for the relief of the Irish Catho lics, and give it all the support of the office over v,hich he presides. Upon this subject, therefore, we say no more at present but we have heard also of another condition of a yet more singular kind, and which we likewise learn that Lord Grenville is anxious to make known : it is to this effect—that Mr. Wynn may . withdraw .himself from Ministry .whenever he pleases, without giving those previous intimations which a regard for the general convenience of the body, and a sense of bienscance among colleague, have ren dered customary. This, if we may use a homely comparison, is like yoking a proud horse upon his own terms, and who may withdraw his neck from the collar, if he either dislikes the weight or materials of the load, even while the whole team is engaged in drawing the machine up a hill. If Ministers have accepted the aid of the Grenvilles, in order to overpower the complaints of the coun try gentlemen (for this is supposed to be the ob ject of the league), upon these terms, we say, they have made a disgraceful alliance for an un worthy purpose.—but with respect to Lord Wellesley and Ireland, we fear the terms are wholly different. How is his Lordship to manage his new charge ? What measures is he to intro duce ? We have heard that he is to introduce no thing but himself; and that Ministers speak of him as a mere agent—an expletive of Govern ment; not as that man, who undoubtedly in his better days was able - to have thrown order into a more turbulent population than even that of Ire land. There is Mr. Goulburn, his Lordship's Secretary, a very steady man of business, we believe; but if all the men of detail were swept from all the offices of Downing-street and Lom bard-street, and Fenchurch-street, and the Mar quis of Wellesley were bound to govern Ireland by the maxims and according to the rules of these men, he would do nothing for his own ho nour, or the good of the country. We find that Lord Wellesley has not yet left England, and that he has several visits to make before his de parture. [NEW TIMES.] The French Funds continue to improve ; they were on the 17th 88. 10. The public business cf the Chambers is of course suspended until the retie official arrangements are perfected. One striking circumstance occurs in the common rou tine business of the Chamber of Deputies. The two new Ministers, Messrs. De Villele and Cor biere, had previously been appointed Members cf the Committee of the Budget. - From this I ,..in t aca them to withdraw, on being appoited Ministers of State. Their col leagues on the Committee, however, re-elected them as Members, thereby shewing the entire confidence they placed in their integrity, and the high opinion they entertained of their ta tents.—Whatever turn the foreign politics of France may take, we can never regret the acces sion to power of men so unimpeachable in point of principle as the present Ministers. Idle and trifling objections are made against some of them ; but what is the fact ? Here is a com bination of talent and integrity from no pe culiar source, and upon no exclusive prin ciple. Here is a private gentleman, M. De Villele, unknown to all political party till 1815, but whose eloquence and knowledge have ever since commanded the admiration of all parties. There is nothing ultra, either in the origin, in the speeches, or in the conduct of this personage. He is associated, on the one hand, with a Member of one of the most ancient fami lies in Europe, the Viscount Mathieu de Mont morency ; and on the other with a soldier of fortune, who has risen from the lowest to the highest military rank, but whom nothing could induce to violate the principles of honour ; there is nothing ultra in such an alliance. M. Corbiere, another of the Ministers, was merely an Advo cate ; the Marquis De Clermont Tonnerre was a military man—both of distinguished ability in their respective professions. Is not this intermi tare of ranks, professions, and characters, one great pledge of moderation ? Is there any truth in the alarms held out to us, that the Royalists were an exclusive party, supported only by the high Noblose, and -hostile_to any alliance with the other classes of society ? It was supposed that the present FrenCh Ministry would be simply aristo cratic. We see that the contrary has taken place; their body embraces men of very different origin, and no one with the requisite patriotism and ta lent has been rejected because his birth was in ferior, or his political path less straight and un deviating tham it might have been. Nothing is looked to but the means of serving the King and the• State most effectually, and it is now happily felt that to serve the King and the State it is not absolutely necessary to have committed treason. A man may be fit for a Ministerial situation who has neither been a Prefect of Police under Buo- naparte, nor a Clerk to Buonaparte's mother.— •Thls is certainly one •step towards a rational and intelligible system of policy. [MORNING POST.I French Papers - to the 19th add but little to the intelligence previously received. The Cham bers-have ' , lad , no fresh sitting, and a suspension of political business - seems to have taken place in order to•allow • the new Ministers time to corn •plete their arrangements before they propose any moaluroAo,thet :Legislature. According to the stuiernert:tt crf-pvilate • letters, resignations ‘-ltiGh had. , :notila)Ce4l a•oticiisated by the Ultras were daily rtiaived from public Functionaries, who •had nett been dotisid-ered-devoted to the last Ad ministration. Tile inferexce drawn from this conduct is that the opposition which the Royal ists would have to encounter would be too stron: to be overcome, and that their triumph would be but temporary. Should the reported resig nations, however, have really taken place, it would by no means justify any sanguine hope, on the part of the late Ministers, of being forced back into office. The only effect would be to render the Left Side, or the Liberals, still more decidedly than they are at present, sovereign arbiters betwee❑ the contending parties. The two great bodies of the Ultras and Moderes being nearly equally divided, it would be in the power of the Liberals to turn tire scale as they pleased, and to occasion fresh changes of Ministry until they found men willing to associate them to the labours and dignities of office, in order to secure its undisturbed posses sion. The foreign intelligence in these Papers is highly favourable to the Greek cause. Vic tory is said to have attended its armies in every quarter ; and as a proof of the reality of their success, and of the weakness and distracted state of their enemies, it is added that 8,000 Greeks had left the Peloponnesus, passed the Isthmus of Corinth, and attacked and defeated Churschid Paella in the vicinity of Cinque-Pozzi. The Senate of Calamata has transferred its Sit tings from that place to Tripolizza, the fortress lately taken by storm from the enemy. rMORNING HERALD.] Tuesday's Paris Papers are extremely flat, particularly as to what relates to France. The now Ministers have just taken possession of their Ministerial hotels, and the Chamber had adjourn ed over, in order to give them time to arrange, and give the first impulse to their administrative ma chinery. The first questions before the Deputies will be a motion for a vote of credit, and the new projet for the regulation of the Journals. In the ac tual state of prosperity enjoyed by France, it is not likely that the former will meet with much opposition. The latter will probably determine the character, and perhaps the duration, of the )new Cabinet. It is somewhat ominous that the scissors of the Censors still continue to clip the wings of the Journals. The two principal Ultra .Journals bear the marks of two wounds—repre• sented by the usual blanks. From some obser vations in the Constitutionnel, we should con clude it to be the general opinion that the new law proposed relative to the Journals would be repressive, not preventive. But still this is quite uncertain. Some will have it that the Drapeaa Blanc is the organ of the new Minis try. The following is a specimen, according to this organ, of a new law to repress abuses of the Press. As a preliminary step, it proposes the abolition of the trial by Jury ! and the sub stitution of " enlightened Magistrates," with a great latitude in dealing out punishment—indul gent to the lapses of " thoughtlessness and good faith," on the right side of the question in poli tics—but inexorable to " perfidious calculations and concealed attacks" upon the Church and the Throne. Respecting the latter, it defines the discretion as to punishment in these words—" the application of so severe a punishment as should deprive the culprit of the possibility of repeat ing the offence." We know ❑o other punishment which would do this effectually but the guillo tine, or some other instrument of capital execu- tion. It is unnecessary to say that we are far from identify ins; the French Ministers with this specimen of a law of libel. [MORNING CHRONICLE.) Though the removal of a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is usually attended with the appointment of a new Secretary, it is supposed on the other side of the water that the change would not now have extended to Mr. Grant, but for certain cir cumstances which are confidently stated and uni versally believed. The recal of this Gentleman was, it is said, occasioned by an altercation which took place between him and the Lord Chancellor Manners. The story told is this :—At some conference on the subject of the dishurhances in the south, Lord Manners taunted Mr. Grant with the imbecility of his measures, observing, if his (Lord M.'s) advice had been taken, the country would have then been quiet. Lord M.'s whole demeanour and tone on this occasion is represented to have been so irritating that Mr. Grant felt himself called upon to make use of sharp language in return. An express was immediately dispatched to London with an ac count of the fracas, and Mr. Grant was ordered to be recalled. The most active exertions are now making, we understand, by the Orange Party in the North, to excite an apprehension of disturbances in that part of the country, though it never was in a state of more profound tranquillity. Our readers must recollect an extraordinary no tice among our extracts from the Dublin Papers a day or two ago, signed by certain individuals in the barony of tippet- Orier, in the county of Armagh, which includes a great part of the con siderable seaport of Newry, a notice which evidently betrays the intentions alluded to by us. Two of the individuals, subscribing this notice, are indeed Magistrates ; but many per sons find their way into the MagiStracy of I re land , who are by no means calculated to reflect much lustre on the body ; and those who• know any thing of the two i❑ question, will be at no loss as to the description to which they belong.—This notice is unfortu nately not a solitary attempt. A late resistance to a supposed illegal extortion of tolls, was also re l. presented as the fruit of an insurrectionary spirit. [BRITISH PRESS.] Upon the subject of the Legislative labours contemplated by the new French Ministers, we find it asserted by the Journal de Paris, that the first communication from the Ministry to the Chamber of Deputies will have for its object the provisional receipt of the first six-twelfths of the direct taxes for the ensuing year, and that this will be followed immediately by a project of law for regulating the Journals. The first of these measures was anticipated even under the late Administration, and was then considered by the parties in opposition as wholly indefen sible. Should it, however,, now be proposed, the new Ministers will be enabled to excuse them- ' selves upon the ground of their novelty in office and the iu►n:ediate necessities of the State ; and while they seek the benefit of the measure, they may throw all the odium of it upon their prede cessors, who had not completed a system of finance upon better and more permanent principles. The intended law for repressing the licentiousness of the 'Journals occupies much attention in Paris, and speculation is busy in striving to imagine what may be its object and provisions. it is as serted by the enemies of the present Ministers, that the new law will differ in title alone from the project of their predecessors, which it was the first act of their power to withdraw ; others affirm that it will not be founded upon the prin ciple of prevention, but that means will be adopted to punish offenders with severity pro portionate to their guilt. We think it probable that the proprietors of the Journals will be re quired to furnish large security to the Govern ment; and it may be hoped either that the amount required will prevent persons of desperate for tunes from obtaining the power of corrupting the public mind, or that the apprehension of forfeiting by misconduct a considerable sum of money, will deter those who might have the power of doing mischief from (riving free exercise to their mischievous talents. It is remarkable, that notwithstanding the seeming determination of the new Ministers to abolish the censorship of the press, there appear in the Paris Papers of Tues day sundry blank spaces, which afford ample evidence of the activity of the censors, and that the Ministers are not unwilling to derive every possible advantage from the obnoxious law, so long as it may continue to exist. Co N VERSI 0 Ns.-The Lausanne Gazette of the 11th contains the following article :—" The Go vernment of Thurgovia has enacted a remarkable law on the subject of converts. No change of religion can take place without the permission of the Government. Any ecclesiastic who re ceives an application for that purpose, must inform the magistracy of the place to which the applicant belongs, who is then summoned before his own pastor. If he persist, he loses all his rights in the commune which he abandons, and must acquire new privileges in that of the con fession he chooses to adopt. Every conversion in which these regulations are not observed is de clared null." This article may give occasion to useful reflections on the manner in which certain persons interpret, with regard to religions different from their own, that great principle of toleration which they loudly claim for themselves. The Government of Thurgovia is a Protestant Go vernment ; and it is surely a very singular circum stance, that an inhabitant should be obliged to address a Protestant authority, which in matters of faith acknowledges no other rule that► the rea son of individuals, to ask permission to believe or not to believe this or that dogma. It is also very whimsical, that a conversion, that is to say, a change of opinion, should, like an act in the exercise of a civil right, be declared null for a defect of form. This appears to us a very plea sant chapter to be added to the great volume of human inconsistency.—(Journal des Debuts.) To-morrow morning, at eight o'clock, accord ing to annual custom, a quantity of bread and cheese will be thrown froth the belfry of Pad dington Church amongst the populace. The as semblage on this occasion is generally immense, and a great scramble takes place. The custom, which has long been observed on the Sunday morning before Christmas-day, had its origin, we are told, in the will of two sisters (paupers), who travelling to London to claim an estate, in which they succeeded, and being much distressed, were first relieved in Paddington. TRAVELLING EXTRAORDINARY.—A paragraph in the (Plymouth) Dock paper of Saturday last, informed the public, that " in consequence of op position among the coach-proprietors, the fares from thence to Worcester and London had been reduced to a few shillings ;" and as a further in ducement to travellers, stated, that on Sunday the safety-coach would leave Weakley's Hotel, at any or no fare, just as the passengers chose that breakfast would be provided at Weakley's in the morning ; lunch at Goss's Seven Star.;, Totness in the forenoon ; and dinner and wine at Congdon's Hotel, Exeter, on the arrival of the coach, without any charge! In compliance with this notice, Mr. Congdon, we understand, pro vided a very handsome dinner, over which was exhibited a placard to the following effect : " J. C. will feel obliged by the parties partak ing of this.—N. B. All free—shall be glad to see our friends again to-morrow." As Mr. RICHARD Pre, of Birling Place, was on his return home on horseback from Rochester market, on Tuesday evening, between ten and eleven o'clock, when coming along the Pilgrim's Road, between Hailing and his own house, he was shot at from behind the hedge ; the ball taking an oblique direction passed through his knee-cap and his breeches, but most fortunately only grazed the skin of his knee. No trace of the perpetrator of this diabolical act can be dis covered, and whether the miscreant sought out of malice and revenge to take away the life of Mr. PYE, or whether it was his intention to have wounded and robbed him, still remains a mystery, but it is much to be feared the former was the object in view.—(Kentish Gazette, Dee. 21.) AN IMPOSTOR.-011 Wednesday evening last, a man, who calls himself William Terroll, was found in a field near Spalding, with his throat cut. After surgical aid had been procured, and the wound sewed up, he said he had been robbed and his throat cut by a man who was travelling on the road with him, and whose name was Joseph Cannon. lie added, that he knew him, as they had lodged together at Boston last sum mer. Proper Officers were immediately dis patched in different directions in search of Can. non ; and on the day following he (Cannon) vo luntarily came forward and proved himself to have been in a different part of the country at the time of the alleged outrage. It is now sup posed that Terroll himself h;id been committing some depredation, and that to prevent detection he committed the rash act upon his own person. •He is now in custody at Spalding, and is in a fair way of recovery from his wound. I,AW INT ELLIG Excn. .00 4 cIRT OF CHANCERY, DEc. 21. When the Lord Chancellor came into Court, a Lady of the name of Stubbs proceeded to address the Court. She stat;ll that she was unable to employ Counsel, and wished his Lord ship to take the cause in which she was ccucerned into his im mediate consideration. The LOUD CHANCELLOR said, that he could not hear the cause without notice. If the Lady would mention it after the holydays, a day would be appointed for hearing : he could do no more for her at that time. Mrs. Stubbs bowed, and left the Court. Another person, who said his name was Clark, and that he was a ladies' shoemaker residing at Bristol, next presented himself to the notice of his Lordship. He said he was entitled to a considerable property, which was unfairly kept from him, and he requested that his Lordship would read some petitions, which would explain the circumstances of his case. The Loup CHAN cELLou said, he could not read affidavits which might possibly impugn tile conduct of individuals, un less they had previously been inspected by some Gentlemen at the bar. Mr. Clark then retired. HOWARD AND GIBBS'S BANKRUPTCY. Mr. HART begged again to mention to his Lordship this Appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor. The ob ject was to induce his Lordship to fix an early day for the hear ing; and when the great importance of the question was taken into consideration, he felt confident that the request would be complied with, Mr. flonst said, that he and his clients were completely in the hands of the Court. He should be ready to meet his Learn ed Friends at any time; but when it was stated that the hear ing would not occupy any length of time, he must beg to ob serve, that so far from that being the fact, they would now find they had still greater difficulty to contend with than they had befbre, for notwithstanding the case itself, they had now to contend with the order. Mr. Mo:; TAG U E felt that the question was one of the highest importance, and would greatly affect the practice of the Court, as, if the decision should be against him, this Court, instead of being occupied in the hearing of important questions relative to the disposal of property, would be converted into a Court of Scrutiny in all elections relative to assignees, elections which he considered to be of the highest importance. The assignment, though the Act of Parliament directed it to be done, had not as yet been made to the assignees ; and though his Learned Friends were so fearful of the danger that would arise from his clients not being tremoved ; for himself he could only say, that knowing as he did the whole of the case, those fear:, were com pletely unfounded. Mr. HORNE felt confident, that the practice would not in the least be affected by the decision come to in this instance. A desultory conversation ensued, in which Mr. Hart, Mr. Horne, Mr. Agar, and Mr. Treslove participated: at the conclusion of which, M r. JIoNTAGUE again enforced the propriety of not making any order for the re-election of Assignees until the petition had been heard, anti expressed a hope that an early day would be ' fixed fcr so doing. The Loan CHANCELLOR—Mr. Montague, what do you call an early day Mr. MONTAGUE—My Lord, I should say that day which would be most convenient to your Lordship. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the next Seal would be on the 14th, and he did not know that this case ought to be placed before the others. For his own part he would have no objection to hear the case on, an early day if Counsel would attend him, and therefore he would come down on Friday and Saturday previous to the Seal for that purpose : but, said his Lordship, I beg it may not be understood that I am the cause of the post ponement. The case will therefore come on for hearing on those days. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Drc. 21. There was nothing of the slightest public interest in this Court to-day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 21. Sittings before Lord Chief Justice DALLAS, and a Special Jury. NOBLE V. ItEALE AND OTHERS. Mr. CAMPBELL opened the pleadings, from which this ap peared to be an action on a contract for the sale of 210 hogs heads of Virginia tobacco, shipped on board the Eunice. Mr. Sergeant LE: , :s stated the case to the Jury. The to bacco on the contract, fOr the sale of which this action had been brought, was consigned to a house in Rotterdam. While the ship was on her voyage, tile plaintiff received some haters from the owner in America, requesting him to sell the tobacco, and describing the cargo as fair and merchantable. The de fendants purchased the cargo through the medium of a Mr. Scholey, a broker. Before they finally concluded the purchase, they desired t!i± broker to get it warranted as a fair and mer chantable cargo of Virginia tobacco; but the plaintiff refused to warrant it in that manner, and would only give a warranty that it had passed inspection at Virginia. The defendants ac cepted the contract with that warranty written in lead pencil under the original note, and they now defended themselves from payment on the ground that the tobacco was not fair and mer chantable. .Alr. Scljoley, the broker, was then called. He proved that he was employed by the plaintiff to sell the tobacco to the de. fendants, who objected to complete the contract except the to bacco seas warranted to be fair merchantable tobacco. Several communications then passed between the parties through the medium of the witness on the subject of this warranty. The plaintiff refused to give such a warranty as the defendants re quired, but at last consented to write these words on the sold note :—" The whole warranted to have passed the inspection at Virginia." This warranty was written in lead pencil marks, without any signature. The ship containing the cargo of to bacco was then ce:pected at Cowes. After the warranty had been introduced, the defendants accepted the contract, saying " Well, we will take it." Cross-examined :—The defendants did not finally accept the contract until the pencil marks had been added at the witness's request. Defendants said they must be satisfied of the quality of the tobacco. The words were written by the plaintiff's clerk, in the plaintiff's presence. William Coffin, mate of the Eunice, proved that he received on board that vessel 236 casks of tobacco ; the inspector's mark was on the casks ; no tobacco was allowed to be exported from Virginia without the inspector's marks. Jeremiah Rhodes was at I'etersburgh, in Virginia, when this tobacco was inspected ; lie made out the invoice front the in specting oflieer's manifest. Mr. Serj,.a.nt VA(' o HAN submitted to the Jury, that in this case fraud and imposition had been practised, and the contract could not therefore be enforced. Mr..lohn Osely was a partner in the honse at Rotterdam, to which the tobacco had been consigned. The ;hip Eunice came from Cowes to that place; he received from the Captain die bill of lading, the note of weight, and the charter party ; lie never received the manifest; the cargo came up in lighters ; in the spring of this year, Mr. Scholey examined the cargo at Rotter dam, as did likewise a Mr. Minderhoch : the cargo was of an ordinary nature ; there were different sorts of tobacco in it ; cargo never;cOnsisted of one sample only; some hogsheads in it might be good; witness had not inspected any other cargo dur- „ in k ,;the season Jonas Joseph Minderhoch, sworn by an Interpreter—Was a broker at Muer:.lam ; had examined the cargo ; in tin it rinr- Izt it would be called a common cargo of tobacco ; by common he meant the -lowest quality. Mr. Serjeant Lrxs replied, contending that the contract had been completed by the plaintiff Lord Chief Justice DALLAS charged the Jury, observing that the conduct of both the plaintiff and the defendants was perfectly fair, The Jury, after five minutes' deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole amount of the demand. The remains of the late Countess of liEsno- ROUGH, accompanied by the Honourable Colonel PONSONBY, and part of her household suite, have been weather-bound, for the last five days, at Calais. Yesterday the remains of the Hon. Mrs. FITZ GT.P. ALT/ were removed from her house in Glou cester-place, with great funeral pomp, for inter ment in St. Mary-le-bonne new burial-ground. She was sister to the late Earl of GALLOWAY, and relict of the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel FITZGE RALD, who was killed at the battle of Water loo ; and, by a former marriage, of the Honour able Admiral KEITH STUART, who was drowned at sea. ANDREAS ROMBERG, the celebrated composer and violin player, died lately at Saxe Gotha lie has left a widow and family nearly depen dent on the precarious bounty of relatives. age did not exceed fifty years. SCOTLAND. COURT OF SESSION NIPOI:TANT DECHION FOR NEWSPAPER AGENTS. JAMES STUART V. THE PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS OF Tnr. " GLASGOW SENTINEL." This is an action concluding for 5,0001. damages, against the publishers of the " Glasgow Sentinel," and Mr. David Ro bertson, news.agent, Edinburgh, for an alleged libel said to be contained in the first Number of that Paper. The case came on before Lord ALLOWAY, Ordinary, when the Counsel for the pursuer moved his Lordship to remit the summons and defences to the Jury Court. No objection to this motion was taken by the Counsel for the publishers and printers. But on the part of Mr. Robertson, Mr. WIIIOIIAM con tended that the charge against him was altogether irrelevant, and could not, from its own shewing, infer liability in Mr. Robertson in any sum of damages whatever. The only allega. lion against him was, that " orders for the said paper are re ceived at Edinburgh, by David Robertson, Chronicle Office there." It was not alleged that Mr. Robertson was a paper in the concern, or in any shape liable for its debts. There. fore, assuming the statement in the eummons to be the foulest libel ever penned, there was nothing alleged against Mr. Ro bertson which m law or justice can subject him in damages to the pursuer. But to explain the defence more fully, Mr. Whign..m stated, that his client had seven years ago con nected himself with a most respectable Newspaper in Edin burgh, the Weekly Chronicle ; but finding a portion of time still at his own disposal, he was advised by many of his friends in the profession of the law, and in the commer cial world, to establish himself as a general Newspaper and advertising agent—an establishment, the want of which had been much felt in this part of the kingdom. Mr. Robertson had accordingly inserted in the different newspapers, and circulated among his friends, an advertisement, mentioning the fact of his having commenced business in that line. ll e, at the same time, circulated a list of all the papers in the kingdom for which he would receive orders and advertisements— from the Courant to the Scotsman—from the Courier to The Times—and from John Bull to the Ilugh and Cry. In England, agents of this des cription arc found in every quarter; and nothing is more com mon than to see at the conclusion of newspapers, that " Orders and advertisements arc received by all the newsmen." Yet in England no lawyer ever dreamt of making all the newsmen, or any one of them, liable in damages for the numerous libels which appear in the papers which they circulate, and for which they receive orders and advertisements. In October last, the first number of The Sentinel appeared, in which was inserted the alleged libel of which Mr. Stuart com plains; and, without any previous communication with the de fender, Mr. Robertson, the publisher, stated, in terms of Mr- Robertson's own notice, that orders and advertisements for The Sentinel would be received by him ; and it is for this, and. for this alone, that he is called upon, as conjunctly and severally liable in 5,0001. of damages to Mr. Stuart. Mr. WI-mita...3r was here interrupted by Mr. CLERK, who stated to the Lord Ordinary, that he meant to withdraw the libel against Robertson. Lord ALLOWAY remarked, I am glad of that, Mr. Clerk. On winch Mr. Witronam objected, and stated that hit client was entitled to decree of absolvitor, with full expenses. Mr. CLERK again broke in. What is a party not entitled. to withdraw his own j libel on paying expenses Mr. NI ACKENZIE, .who was also Counsel for Mr. Robertson, answered, certainly not, after parties had joined issue. You moved that the case be remitted to the Jury Court,and we were in the act of objecting to that motion when Interrupted. It is therefore clear, by our having given in defences, and joined issue at the bar, that the defender is entitled to decree of ob . solvitor. if the pursuer does not now insist in his action. Dec. (i.—flaying heard parties procurators--in respect it is ad mitted by the pursuer, that the conclusions of the libel against the defender David Robertson are irrelevant, sustains the de fences pleaded for him, assoilzie , . him from the action, and de earns :—finds the pursuer liable to the said defender in the expenses incurred by him t appoints an account thereof to be given in, and when lodged; remits to the auditor of court to tax the same, and report;- and, quoti ultra, remits this cause to the Jury Court. Another instance is furnished of the incera tude of life, in the decease of Mr. \VILDEas, of our theatre, at the age of twenty-four years, after three days illness.. lie departed this life yesterday, about ten o'clock in the morning ; and, like hundreds who have preceded him, he has left nothing but the recollection of his pro mising talent, and the regret of his fellow-la boure►s. Thus circumstanced, the Manager has shewn his good sense in allotting the Tuesday, which was intended for the benefit of the de ceased, for the purpose not only of meeting the engagements of the amiable young man just snatched from us, but likewise of defraying all incidental expences.—(lloll Packet, Dec. 18.) COAL-MARKET, DEC. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 30.1- N,?wcastle - - 7 - :113 Od to 441 01 1 , S , inderland - - 0 - .--s Od to ...-3 01 COUILSE Decci.oL:r 21. Amsteidlin Ditto, at Sigla Itotten!ani Antwerp l2 7 ildllihnigh 37 6 it Us Altona Paris, 3 D:ty's sight Ditto - 25 90 2 Lis. Bourdcaox, 4iii to Frankforton the .... I 5 Ex.Moncy Sladrid Cadiz .. Ultima 36 1. Eitrctic* Barcelona !;eville (iibraltai Legtiorn Gtn . . 4ai-Venice, lial. L 27. 00 Nlal!a 45 -Naples 4O Palermo Lisbon ()polio k~io.l mein. I)nb .... Si Curl; 9 pct Cent. BULLION. Portugal Goltl,i Coin 1.0 @ 0 per 01. Foreign B:trs 3 17 101 NVNV New Dollar.; •;ilver n 1)11,.'4711 , 1,•i BIRTHS. At Edinburgh, on the lgth inst., Lady Berriedale, of a son anti heir. On the lgth inst., at Summer-4)in, Du:,in, the Lady of Capt• Bowen, of the Royal Navy, of a son. Yesterday nierning, Mrs. William Stevens, of Great Comm street, of a son. 31A RRIED. Yesterday morning, at St. Maurice Church, Winchester , Anthony Todd, Esq., Solicitor, of that city, and principal Co tuner for the County of Southampton, to Mrs. Faithfull, widJ W of the late Mr. John F.:ai't'll. On Thursday last, at Ellingliam Church, by the Reverent! Francis Evans, Fitzmouriee William Colthurst, Esq., t°, Marianne, eldest daughta of the Rev. Dr. Taylor, late 0' Moyle's Court, Hants. On the 20th inst., at Hartlebury, Worcestershire, by the Rev..l. Netherton Hayward, M. A., .John Griffiths, Esq., ° I the Weir Herefordshire, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of t he Rev. J. narward, of Ilartlebury. On Tuesday last, at Eling, Hants, Robert Aitchison, E* Captain R. N. son of William Aitchison, of Drummore, E ot Lothian, Esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late Matthew Munro, • Esq. of the Island of Grenada. Lately, at All Saints' Church, Cambridge, (by the Rev. Dr' E. D. Clarice,) the Rev. Lort Manse'', B.A. of Trinity €,Vlege, Oxford, Vicar of Minsterworth, Gloucestershire, to Isabella Alonso . !, eldest daughter of the late Lord Bishop of Bristol. DIED. On the 14th instant, William Gerald Bagot, Esq. of Castl e Bagot, County Dublin. At Birr, William, third son of Michael Hackett, Esq. , 4e/ 17 years. At Greenhill, N.B. on the 4th instant , the Hon. Sir Jahn Stewart, of Fettercatrn, Baronet, one of the Barons of his 31A' jesty's Court of Exchequer. I S Priuted and Published, for ti.: PROPRIETORS, at the S' OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS.