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P 7 -44 77 45 - - T fi . -k 3 r4 1 , Y/ Ade s 4 /X4 I 71; NUAIBER 89931 CORONATION CEREINIoNIES. The preparations for the festival in the Hall are proceeding on the most extensive scale. Quan tities of a sort of double chair,, or settee, with backs, have been sent into the Hall, to be placed on each side of the long tables. They are stuffed, and have red coverings. For the furnishing of the tables, one manufacturer has orders for 300 dozen of plates, 600 dozen of spoons, &c.; and another tradesman has an order for as many knives and forks. CORONATION CIIAIR.-T his anciott seat, which is generally known by the naive of" St. Edward's Chair," is what is placed before the Altar, and is, that in Which the Kin g is seated, on the 'solemnity. of the Coronation b-eing'. performed. It is now ' being fitted up for' the purpose, according to or ders received on Saturday ; the style adopted during the last 400 years. (all the documents illustrative .of this curious and interesting subject, having been very recently diScovered), will be followed. This being the first Coronation. since " the Union," there. - Will be additional ornaments in the hack of the Chair ; the ornaments will now consist of an equal admixture of the Rose, the Thistle, and the Shamrock.: • CORONATION PRECEDENTS.-The forms that are generally followed in the several Corona tion arranaethents now in progress, are those. pur sued on the Coronation of ....lames IL Lord liar rowby, the • President of. the Court of Claims, .stated . this fact on Saturday, when adverting to the case of the City of London. The account .of the Coronation of James IL is the most minute narrative on that subject that exists. The crowning of that Monarch 'was performed on so extended and magnificent a scale, that a . writer on this subject in 1761, observes, a it was questionless designed for the model o f a ll f u t ure (..;oronations p and accordingly, by the King's ex press command, was recorded in the most pom pous manner, which - has been followed with little variation in the several Coronations since." In the, course of those valuable researches, however, that have recently taken place, as the contents of the State Papers, a -minute and interesting manuscript account of the Coronation of Jaynes I. was discovered . a few days since.. It gives, what was much wanted, some details on the sub ject of costume. It was vesterday laid before Lord Sidmouth, who forwarded the curious , menu-. script to the.Coronation,Commissioners. COMMON CO UNCIL. A Court of Common Council was yesterday held at Guildhall. CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. Mr. PAVE at said, that before he moved a question of privi lege, he could not help adverting to an extraordinary report which appeared in some of the public papers, relative to a certain legal Gentleman, high in office under the Magistracy of the City, who had ventured, on a solemn charge to a prisoner under sentence of death, so far to go out of the record as to panegyrize a certain society, pretending to be a Constitutional Society, but which appeared to be calculated to undermine the liberty of the Press, and through that, the dearest Constitutional rights of the people. He hoped this statement had been made in error, as he should be induced to think that the individual so offending de served to be superannuated. CONDUCT OF ALDERMAN BRIDGES. Mr. FAVELL then complained that the Committee of City lands had suspended the carrying into effect the Resolution of that Court of the 10th ult. ordering the Resolution of July last respecting Alderman Bridges assembling a military force to be written under the statue of Alderman Beckford, merely be catise a Gentleman had given notice of a motion to rescind that order. He now moved that the Ccrinnittee should be ordered to proceed forthwith to put that order into execution. After a debate of some length, in which an amendment was proposed, the motion was carried by a majority of 50 to 36. SPECIAL JURIES. The Report of the Committee of general purposes on the state of the list of persons entitled to serve on Special Juries, Was brought up. It stated that the names of many persons were on the list who were described as qualified, but who were in fact incompetent lo serve ; and that the list was extremely defective in the names of those who were really qualified. Mr. Sheriff WAITIIMAN moved that precepts should be issued, directing the Common Councilmen of the several wards to make returns of the names of persons in their r es p ec ti ve dis tricts qualified to serve on Special Juries. He cautioned them that none were so entitled who were not Merchants; and that the master struck out the names of all persons who were not so designated. After some discussion on this subject, Mr. Sheriff NVitithman's Motion was agreed to. LAw ASSOCIATION.—The friends and sup porters of this laudable Institution held their An niversary Festival yesterday evening at the Free mason's Tavern, Great Queen-street, when a sumptuous dinner was provided for nearly 300 persons, who sat down about six o'clock, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Bart. M. P., in the Chair, supported by several of the Nobility and Gentry and most of the leading Members of the Law. ATTEMPT TO MURDER G EN% EDEN.—YeSterd ay the General attended at Marlborough -street Of fice, and stated the outrageous conduct of W. Pad more, as has been already described. It appeared that the prisoner had lived several years as servant with the General, but being much addicted to drunkenness was at Length discharged for that vice. Ile had for some time proved a greit an noyance by calling in an inebriated state at the General's house, and acting in the rudest manner. On committing, the outrage on, the General, he accused him of having seduced his wife, which accusation the General most solemnly protested to be utterly unfounded. The prisoner declined saying any thing for the present. The General, together with his nephew and others, were bound over to prosecute the prisoner at the next Old Bailey Sessions. The dangerof imitating .the gold sovereign with a mixture of platina and copper is so obvious, that tradesmen ought to be guarded against the fraud. it cannot be detected by the scales, as platina, though so cheap, is heavier than gold ; but a counterfeit composed, of such a proportion of patina as will give it weight, cannot be made to ring when thrown on a table-or counter. . . ... ~, ~r. 1,, __.,/ y (4.;,. ~_.... .„ 7 1......„,, 1 pL... 4_4.- FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1821 TilE LONDON J 0 UUNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM _THE MORNING PAPERS Jude 22. [MORNING rosT.] The Bills brought in by Sir. J. Mackintosh, and passed by the House of Commons, to abolish the penalty of death in cases of robbery in Dwelling-houses and on .Navigable Rivers, and to substitttte transportation, imprisonment, - and hard labour iny its : stead, were thrown out last night on the second reading in the Lords, by a majority of '27 to 17. They were opposed by the Lord Chancellor and Lord Sidmouth, who con tended that capital punishments increased, instead of impairing the 'efficacy of., the law; whilst the Marquess of. ,Lansdown contenit 'directly the reverse. The' Bills willr however, be again brought in next Session, at so early a period as to enable their Lordships to enter into that full in vestigation of the subject, which alone can jus tify so important an, alteration in our . Criminal Code. [TILE TI M ES.] The papers and letters supplied by yesterday's mail from Spain, bringing dates to the Bth inst. contain nothing to justify the desponding tone which pervades some of the recent letters from Paris, concerning the state of that country. They are unusually barren indeed in intelligence of an eventful nature, which is, perhaps, the best cri terion of tranquillity. Merino, we learn from one of the letters, is reduced to the last extre mity, and sheltering himself among the mounr tains with a few followers, in the constant dread of apprehension. The sentence on General Elio is not yet executed ; but it seems certain to be carried into effect, though there exists in Spain a lake party who would save him, or commute it for a milder punishment. Two memorials were presented on his behalf in the sitting of the Cortes of the sth, but that assembly would not allow discussion on them, and passed to the order of the day. Justice has at length overtaken one of the agents in the massacre at Cadiz.. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The'Debates in the House of Commons, last night, were extremely interesting. The length of our Parliamentary,Report will not allow us to indulge in any remarks at this time. We shall merely observe, with respect to the motion of Lord William Bentincli, that not a single argu ment worthy of a moment's attention was offered in justification of the conduct of • Sir William A'Court. [BRITISH enEss.] The Bills for mitigating the punishment de nounced by the existing laws against Robbery in Dwelling-houses and upon navigable. Canals were debated last night in the _House of Lords, upon the motion of the Marquess of Lansdown, and in a division finally rejected. The numbers were, for the Bills 17, against them 27. These Bills were the result of much earnest solicitude and anxious inquiry on the part of Sir James Mackintosh,and in the principles and details of the measures a majority of the House of Commons concurred, but the Lord Chancellor last night opposed them so vigorously in the House of Lords, that their Lordships thought it safer to refuse them their sanction. It is, we think, much to be la mented that maxims of policy founded upon long and painful experience- should, in the minds of such men as the Lord Chancellor; silence the claims of humanity and mercy ; but the principle of the Learned Lord is, that mercy to the crimi nals is the severest cruelty to society ; and, al though we certainly desire to see much of the se verity of our Penal Code relaxed, we do not he sitate to say, that, in matters of such a nature, no change ought to be too readily admitted, in oppo sition to the opinion of Lord Eldon. [NEW TIMES.] The accounts from Spain continue to be of the most painful character. It is lamentable to think, that with the awful lesson of the French Revolu tion.so immediately before them, nations should he found servilely to copy all the follies, all the crimes, and all the horrors of that fatal epoch. Gen. Elio, an officer of great merit and loyalty, has been condemned,without the pretence or shadow of law, t o be strangled: and it is to be feared that Fer dinand VII. will have the baseness to sacrifice this faithful subject to the fury of the reliels. This is indeed the great misery of Spain; that whilst a set of frantic democrats, on the one side, are driving the country to anarchy, the King has not the spirit to resist their infamous atrocities, and to call on the loyal part of the nation for support. Judging from the experience of all former ages, it is to be feared that this wretch ed Prince will himself add to the number of victims which have been offered up in our time at the shrine of popular delusion. The wife of General Elio presented a Memorial , to the Cortes, but those wretches passed to the Order of the Day ! Meanwhile the Members of the prevailing faction quarrel more bitterly among themselves than with their opponents. Such was exactly the case in France when Manuel was denounced by recite, and Danton by Robespierre. The Minister of the Interior is' attacked by his brother Liberales for not hav ing suppressed the hostile movements against the existing order of things ; and his defence is twofold. First he says that the Cortes do not allow him money enough to gain partisans ; and secondly—what is well deserving of notice— " that the public spirit is entirely hostile to the system which the Liberales are striving to sup port." In the country parts of Spain insurrec tion and civil war are daily spread. The militia of Castile are marched into Catalonia, and the ,/ ROY AL ACADEMY, SOMERSET PLACE. THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL•ACA DEMI' IS NOW OPEN. Admission (from Eight o'Clacit till Seven), One Shilling. Catalogue, One Shilling. H. HO WARD, R. A. Sec TO BE DRAWN c,' , lth of JULY, Is2l. T°m Tickets 31. 3s. each, KINS'S -PICTURE LOTTERY, Con sets siding of Olt, a nd vrEß.coLouß PAINTINGS; of the BRlT'S'''. 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It is necessary to inform the public that KEARSLEI"S F 4; t'e t,,,iy original and genuine Medicine, and h as barn re d by ;bent fu: more than thirty years. - T -7 4 k-A 4:k Royalist Merino seems to be wore than a counter balance for the Empecinado. S , ICh are the mi serable results of a Revolution which was hailed with rapturous. applause by some would-be Le gislators,,of C reat Britain .1. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.' [From " The Leecl Intelligeneer," of 'June. 18.] Whilst the foreign news afford little room for comment, our domestic intelligence is no less barren of incidents. Indeed, if it were not for the Constitutional Association, we scarcely know What topic of complaint the Opposition Scribblers would find, on which to animadvert, much to their awn regret, and the great loss of their readers. This society . now forms the. grand object of attack ; it is the Mark at which 'all the .daily and weekly vendors of sedition, from the Times to the Black Dwarf, "'direct the whole-of their artillery ; but; hieierto, there-efforts to injure and defame the object of their hatred, have ably recoiled upon themselyese and - have-contributed : to thaacehare of that_ society, whose destruction. is, their object. .As we hive more than once recommended this society to the attention otthe loyal and well - disposed,,ourreaders will pardon us for again alluding to the subject; but, if the objections, of its. opponents were vedl founded ; if its tendency was to break the law instead of en forcing it; if it was likely to impoSe shackles upon the real freedom of the press, ..instead of 'promoting that Preedom, by curbing its licentiousness, we should be amongst 'the last to advocate it. It is therefore our duty to point out the fallacy of the shallow sophistry by which die opposition writers endeavour to mislead their followers. This association is denounced as canting. within the pro Visions of the Act of the 3flth of George 111, c. 7.9;intituled . " An Act. for the more effectual suppres sion of Societies'establislied for seditious and treasonable pur poses ; and for better preventing treasonable and seditious prac tices." As. the purpose of this association is neither treason; nor sedition, but the suppression of both, it would appear, to us, that its proceedings rather tend to proMpte, then to'contravene the object of that act; and the furiotis philiples which are launched against . it, from the promoters of sedition, are alone proofs, that these proceedings have not beer without efrect.— ,We'further conceive the Society for the Suppre,ssion of Vice to come precisely as much within -the meaning of the said act, as the Constitutional Association; but that 'society has outlived all opposition, - and no one has ever pretended to assert, that,. under the provisions of that act, its members ought to be sent to-Botany .Bay ! As to the objections to- the legality of the As sociation, independent of the particular enactments of the 39th of the late King, 'they are too absurd to merit notice. If they were indeed well,founded, they would not only be decisiVe illegality of this Association, but also of all thtise numerous ones ' which exist in the kingdom, fertile prosecution of offences of vari ous denorninationa e ot some of which, the most inveterate enemies `Of the Constitutional Association are -active members-!—The opponents of the Association, exclaim against - the cruelty. of its proceedings. The mode which is adopted by it, to bring of fenders to punishment, appears to us, however, to be more fa vourable than ex-officio-informations by the Attorney-General. For this latter mode, the NVings seem all at once to have im bibed a remarkable penchant, though we recollect, when Hone was prosecutes - Jey. the Attorney. General, the persecution of that individual was the theme of complaint ; and they subs scribed amongst them, about Four Thousand Pounds, - as so reward . for .hime and an eneonragernent to others.—Their conduct on both occasions only proves, that no mode whatever, which is calculated to bring to punishment the calumniators of their King, and the seditious opposers of his Government, will be pleasing to these liberal - gentlemen ; who think it right, however, to visit. any individual who may chance to animad vert rather too harshly upon the' confect of any member of their party, with till the vengeance - . of the laws—Admirable consistency ! L.kW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 21. WAKLY V. BARRON AND OTHERS. This was an action of Assu NPSIT against the defendants, Directors of the Hope Fire Assurance Company, to recover a loss by fire in the plaintiff's. house, No. 5,_ Argyll-street. Ox ford-street, on the 27th Augu s t, 1820, under a policy of As surance, executed for 12801. on household goods, &e. on the 9th of May, 1820. This case excited very general interest from the singularity of the circumstances under which the tire occurred. The trial Lasted from half-past nine in the Morning until seven o'clock in • the evening. The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mt. REN leaae; Mr. Crnwoop, and Mr. Anoartiuss; and the defend ants!by Mr. Manna-ATI., Mr. GUTUNEY, and Mr. Poi.aocx. ' The particulars of the case have already been before the public. The plaintiff; a young man, of twenty-six years of age, had been a surgeon, in Argyll-street, where he had taken a House, No. 5, in December, 1819; and then insured his fur niture, plate, linen, See. in the defendant's office. fcr X6OO. In the month .of February MO, 'he married 'a Miss Goodchild, the daughter of a respectable gentleman of that name, residing at Hammersmith,. and in consequence of additional property then purchased, he doubled his insurance. to - the amount of Xl2OB. On the night the fire took place, his wife was from home at her father's house. Ile was then afflicted with inflammation in his eyes, and had sent. his two servants, man and wife, to' bed, intending to relieve the pain in his eyes by applying leaches.to,his temples,' which he did. accordingly ; ; and when be was retiring to bed, about'half past twelve at night, he was called to- the door by a person who desired his immediate at tendance upon.. a Mr. Nall, an innkeeper in the City, an old patient of the plaintiff: He excused himself by saying that it was impossible foe him to leave his house that night, feoM indis position, but that he would wait on Mr. Nall in the morning. ['he person at the door then-said he had run very fast, was warm, and asked for some small beer to drink. The plaintiff gave him his choice of beer or cyder; the man chose the,latter. He was let in ; the plaintiff wrapped a towel round his head, and, went down stairs to draw some cvder e leaving the stranger in the hall, and ou his return up the kitchen stairs he received a violent blow on the 'head which deprived him of his senses. On recovering about tweahours afterwards, as. he supposed, he found the house in flaines,'and was almost suffocated with heat and smoke. He attempted to escape by the front of the house, but could not ad vance from the density of the smoke ; he then crawled into the back •kitchen,.and in the terror of the moment he raised himself by means of a meat screen to a sky light, broke the' ghiss, and escaped into the adjoining house. The house was discovered to be on fire befween one and.two in the morning; the neighbour hood was alarmed, and the rlaintitrs servants escaped in a state of nudity. The plaintiff himself was missing for .about three quarters of an hour, andwas at length found in the passage of the adjoining house., covered with blood, his clothes wet, with two or three wounds, as from a dagger, on has breast, and in a state of mental derangement. . He was taken to a neighbour's house, and medical assistance procured ; he afterwards sent in his claim for the loss, the house and furniture being completely destroyed. His loss was estimated at 11800, and he delivered in vouchers for goods destroyed to the amount of about £1000.. The dcfendant.s.resisted the claim on account of the extraordin ary and apparently incredible manner in which the fire was supposed to have occurred. The defendants now resisted the claim on two grounds. first, that the plaintiff had attempted to support his claim by fraud and perjury, contrary to the provi sions of the policy; and second, that he was himself the in cendiary. Several witnesses were examined on both sides ; on the one hand, teprove the noatA Firms of the plaintiff's case; and on the other, the MALA-FIDES. The ca 'se went to the Jury under the Learned Judge's direc tions, and, after retiring for about half an hour, the Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff—Dapages Xl2OO. Yesterday John Gold, and Sarah, his wife, were indicted at the Surrey Sessions, for assault ing their child at Camberwell, in May last. The little girl was in Court, and appeared about Six or seven•years of age. The details are too hor rible and disgusting to relate.—The Jury found the prisoners Guiky, and the Chairman sentenced them to he imprisoned for 36 calendar months, and afterwards to find sureties for their, good behaviour for seven years; PRXCE SEVENPENCS PARLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS, JuNL 21. Thp Earl of SHAFTESBURY reported, as Cliair. man of the Committee of Privileges, that the Marquess of Ormond and Viscount Moleswortit had made good their claims to rote at the Elec tion of Irish Representative Peers. The Thames - Lastage and Ballast Bill was rend the second time. The. following Bills were brought up from tr,4e Commons, ails' read each the first.time Vagrant Laws Amendment the Ordnance. Las t 3 Bill, the el Ire!and Bill, the Naval Stores Bill, the Ex. the:quer Bills But; the Irish Public Coal Yards Bill, the Sir x. Eur.ci Loan Bill, the. Baat India Trad6 Regulation Bill, the bash Treasury 131118 Billy the Coal Minis-Diawbv,il:- azia Privat; , . Pills. following f3iils were read eaeli the -third time : Th Irsh Priaouc Regulatis,rz Dill, the Poor Enaplcquierit - Bilt, .the kriSh.*=pl)lltiesll, the Justice of Pewee 1101, as:d the lush Ir.sorvent Debtors' Bill. . . • - CRIMINAL LAWS. The Order of the Day for the send reading of the Privately Stealing in Dwelling r house Bill having been read, The Marquess of LANSDOWN stated., that it was also.his intention to move the second read ing of the Bill for mitigating the Punishment an nexed to the Commission of: : Robbery, upoa Rivers, which was founded on the same principle, fie thought it would be most convenient to the House that he should state the purport of both Bills together. The object of the tvi'o_Bills was to take sway the penalty of death from the of fences to which they referred, and to Substitute . transportation for life, or imprisonment and. hard labour. The provisions of the Bill relating to robbery on navigable rivers was extended in the Committee to robberies committed on Canals, and he thought that7no difference of opinion could arise as to the propriety of extending .the same protection to property in both cases. In propos ing an alteration of this nature, it was to be ob -served that the change would extend no further than the particular subjects specified in the en actments. It did not, therefore, affect the gene ral system of our laws. The fact was, that Or Criminal -Code had grown up unlike the Codes of other countries, which were founded upon one" general system; it consisted of particular laws, which were urged by temporary and local cir cunristances, and the consequence was, that the penalty of death had accumulated . in a degree unparalleled in any other nation. The Govern ment, he contended, must find, it: inconvenient and inexpedient 'to maintain those severe penalties in cases where..they were opposed. not only .to public opinion,-but,to the opinion of those whose property they were intended to protect, as well as to those of the Judges and Juries by whom. they . were ultimately to be administered.—Their Lordships would find, that in the general opinion of this country, the laws which the present Bill; were intended, to mitigate were too severe,' and it could be proved, that instead of deterring from crime, the effect .of this operation was to increase it, by the impunity which the reluctance of_ir:di-i• victuals to prosecute held out to offenders. It might appear, on the first view, that. the removal of these severe penalties would have._the effect of encouraging crime, but their Lordships would. find, with regard to certain crimes .made caps= tal under the .Excise Laws, that in the opinion of the Solicitor of the Excise. himself, the attempt to increase the penalties had the effect opposite.to that which was intended, aud that the attempt to protect the Revenue by increased punishment:in, general protected the fraudulent trader, not the Revenue. it was well known, that in many cases where robbery in dwelling houses came to to be tried, Juries had rated property at 3Ds. iu order to evade the law, which, in reality, amount ed to 10 or 20 times the value. Whether that was a system deserving to be continued,. be could hardly ask their Lordships. These Bills did not proceed upon mere speculation, there were facts to support the principle upon which they were founded. In 1811, the Pro prietors of Bleaching :-rounds had petitioned' against the severity of the laws enacted to protect: their property, on the ground that it prevented convictions. The consequence of the, mitigation was, on a comparison of the five years precediog with the five years succeeding the change, 'that in the first five years the prosecutions amounted to 28, and in .the last five years to nine ; .that in the.- first five years the acquittals were one-third, and in the last none. In Ireland .the_ case was still more striking ; during the first five years, out of .61 • prosecutions, there were but three convictions ; but during the last, the convictions were five fold. When he found, in addition to these facts, that the opinion of the Common Council of London was in favour of the mitigation of punishments, he felt himself authorised in stating that the trad ing community would not be injured, but berm fitted by those Bills. .Both Bills stood .upon the principle of making the law more conformable•to public opinion, and by that means more likely to secure the conviction of offenders. The Loan CHANCELLOR admitted, that if the tendency of these Bills was to prevent crime, they. ought to be adopted ; but the House would do well to hesitate before they adopted that ocl nion. He regretted, that Bills of so-much irn portance were not introduced at an earlier period of the Session, so as to afford an opportunity of investigating the facts upon which they profes sed to legislate. He would admit, that when first he held a situation connected with the ad ministration of criminal - law, he entertained an opinion that the coole ought to be rendered more lenient, but after the experience of many years he took a different view, and entertained a different opinion. He would admit that if a man • entered a house w ithout breaking in or breaking out, antrstole