The Sun. — London, England, 1821-09-26 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY - EXTRACTS FROM TILE 11IORN IN G PAPERS, September 26. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We have authority for stating, that Sir Robert Wilson.has written a' letter to the Commander in -Chief, demanding a Court Martial. Should this lye refused, we are informed that it is his in tention to address a letter to his Constituents, containing a staterm.!:t of particulars connected with his removal, and to take no further steps till the meeting of Parliament. He is to remain at Paris till he receives an answer from his Royal Highness. [MORNING POST.] The friends of Sir Robert Wilson state from authority, " that,Sir Robert has not left Paris, nor, for the present, intends doing so. He has, however, written to the Commander-in-Chief to request a Court-Martial, and upon the receipt of an answer in the negative (which may be ex pected in course,) he will immediately address a .Public letter to his constituents, and take no Usher public step until the meeting of Parliament." .11 e own that we expected from an officer who has had the honour of serving in the British army, a greater eagerness to vindicate himself from the imputation, necessarily attendant on his dismissal, of having acted in a manlier disgrace ful to the character of that army. We could not conceive that any individual in Sir Robert Wil son's situation would rest satisfied with making a request for a Court Martial, believing at the same time that it would not be granted,and in fact know ing, thatin cases like his own, Courts Martial never ►•ere allowed. Neither could we anticipate that ven if he were guilty of so much duplicity, he would give authority to his friends to expose it, by acknowledging that he expected, as a matter of course, " an answer hi the negative," and had actually made that expectation, or rather con viction, the basis of all his future proceedings. — Can it ever be received as a proof of innocence that a man has demanded trial, when he knew and openly avowed that trial could not be granted ? But, then, in confident anticipation of a refusal, Sir Robert is preparing a letter to his Constituents, and will then abstain from taking any " other public step till the meeting of Par liament."' What private step has Sir Robert %Vilson in contemplation before the arrival of that period ? Does he intend to throw himself upon his Majesty's mercy and generosity, and by a frank avowal of any fault which he may have committed, to seek for pardon and the 'restoration of forfeited rank and honours ? If so, well may he adopt every expedient which tends to save him from the necessity of making to the public an immediate disclosure of all the circumstances of his case. Well- may he abstain from appealing to the country; if he can still entertain hopes. 'that-an appeal tb' his Mo narch will be heard.. Biltif he has no such ob ject in view, his backwardness in coming forward must appear, even to his best friends, a conscious shrinking from the light. They have ventured f..r and deep in his cause. They have published statements of all complexions to soften away his imputed offence ; they have contradicted and ex posed each other without the least hesitation or compunction, and it is rather hard that he should leave them to bear the whole brunt of the battle. Such champions deserve more countenance and gratitude on his part. They cannot fairly be •expected to maintain the contest much longer if they are thus deserted. They will begin to re flect in their turn ; and considering the gallant Knight's astonishing quietude after his dismissal from the army had been published, they may perhaps come to the conclusion that the intelli -gence excited in him no Surprise, and that his retreat from the field of action was occasioned by his knowledge of the measure intended to be adopted against him, and of its propriety. [MORNING HERALD.] The letters received in London yesterday state that Madrid was tranquil. Some of them, how !ever, express an apprehension of commotion. — But hitherto every effort against the Constitu ' Copal system has beeti utterly despicable : the little finger of the Adininistration, and that one of the feeblest, has been snfficient to crusts at-Al s, ilI be sufficyelt to put• doWn any* future ffe t. - We_do not hOld...the..present, Spanish Mi ters -Nell: blalLestimatiOri,. and We an ti cipat - cd, from communication with persons better -in formed than ourselves, thatl.heir'course would be - marked, as it has proved,, by imbecility and . public distrust. But it is the good fortune. of Spain that her liberty does not, depend upon the character of any Ministers:foe the time being, or upon the good faith .of .her King. No,—the sheet-anchor 'of the• Spanish Constitution ,is the Cortes. They are happily invested with great, power. 1 without the disposition. to abuse it. ,This as sembly has passed through a period marked by plots, treasons, and open rebellion, yet has borne itself with a deportment at once firm and mild, and with hands wholly pure of. human blood: I t has even the merit to haVe withheld from, not only the popular •fury, but from the justifiable vengeance of • the laws—Elio, the blood-stained Governor of Valencia; and the traitors of the affair of Cadiz. -The - Legislation of the Spanish Cortes will be regarded as a , monutnent of wisdom and temper, perhaps without a parallel, in that crisis of a nation's history whets the people are passing from slavery to freedom. Their legislation has been deliberate andcomprehensive, embracing but few . laws ; those relating to great objects, upon sound principles, and with a view to permanent opera tion. Not a single law of proscription, or vin dictive severity, has passed, and scarcely one of - temporary nature, excepting the indispensable ones relating to Finance. There is in the charac ter and proceedingsof the Spanish Cortes a strik ing and auspicious contrast to the fierce strife of - the French Convention, and even to the hurry and enthusiasm of the Constituent Assembly. • LNEW TI mts.] The letters from Constantinople are to the 85th of August, and from Smyrna to the 18th. Their contents are entirely of a commercial cha racter, and make but little mention of poittiCs. It is, however, gratifying to learn, that tranquil. lity continues undisturbed in the above two places ; and that the disgusting. scenes of car nage and plunder, of which they have lately been the theatres, have, for the present at least, sub sided. Much anxiety prevailed at Constanti nople, to learn the tenor of the reply of the Russian Cabinet to the Note of the Ottoman Government, which was expected every : hour. The Bazaars arid other places of business were gradually opening, and a general appear ance of returning confidence was manifested.-- At Smyrna every thing remained perfectly tran quil, and the fears of the English residents for the safety of their property had been greatly re moved by the arrival of the Cambrian frigate, which was well manned, with orders to remain there as long as the British Consul might con sider it necessary. The Turkish fleet was in the neighbourhood of Rhodes, having lately received reinforcements from the Paella of Egypt. It was still, however, not-considered equal to meet that of the Greeks in a general engagement ; but they were understood to be expecting some further addition to their force from the Barbary States. In the meantime the Greeks continued to. enjoy the uncontrouled •sovereignty of the Levant, and were daily gaining strength ; a circumstance which caused great mortification to the Turks who cannot but be anxious to obtain the ascend ancy by sea. [TILE TIMES. 3 The hardspips entailed by our corn laws on our Canadian fellow-subjects appear to have sunk deeply into their minds. The Memorial which we published a- few days ago has been followed tip by . a *meeting of the merchants, &c., of Quebec, interested in the trade and agricul ture of the Canadas, at which some strong reso lutions were come to, explanatory of the dis tresses of the province, and of their causes.— The resolutions import, that great distress exists —that it is owing to the restraint on the impor tation- of grain and flour, the growth of Canada, into. Great 'Britain—that a continuance of the restraint will aggravate the ruin—that the con stimption of British goods in the Canadas will be lessened by it; and that a petition be addressed to Parliament for relief. This appears to us•to be among those cases in which the argument is wholly on one side. When we restrict the trade of the Colonies to the mother country, why add tither limitations to the first, and such as derive no sanction from the prin. ciple on which that first limitation is found:: ed ?'The colonial policy may indeed'• enjoin a trade restricted to the parent state ; but no policy does, nor ever can, authorise -a contrac tion of the trade which is carried on with,it. The exportation of British wares to the Colonies will be necessarily enlarged or diminished with the extent of their exports to Great Britain. We cannot fetter their industry without pinching our own in exact proportion. Why. Canadian flour and wheat should be excluded, when those of Ireland and Scotland are received, it would be hard to explain to the satisfaction of any reason able person ; but we are far enough from acknowledging, as some of the Colonists con tend, that certificates of origin ought not to .be required, in respect of all goods which are admitted only on the footing of Canadian pro duce. If we- choose to carry on a free commerce with the United States, let it be done, and wel come ; bit not under the guise of an indulgence granted to subjects of the Br:tish Crown. Many frauds were thus practised in the Timber Trade between Great Britain and the Canadas, before the last increase of duty ; and_ had those frauds not becoine notorious, it is, Are believe, doubtful, whether the duty would yei'have been imposed. [BRITISH PRESS.] It is somewhat remarkable that every year since the return of - peace the regulation and im provement of our ,financial condition have been considered as the - primary objects of Parliamen tary care, yet that Session after Session has been permitted to'fiass away without a single effort having been seriously made hitherto to accom plish these salutary—these necessary purposes. In the mean time, however, we have not wanted professions in abundance from the Ministers, not merely of their willingness to me,eCtlie wishes of the public upon these points, but we have even had assurances frequently repeated, that schemes of amelioration were contemplated, and that plans of retrenchment were actually in the course of operation. The public cannot but re collect the imposing effect that was sought to be given to the appointment of a 'Finance . Committee—with what sedulous industry the members of it waded through the voluminous and perplexed accounts of our financeswith what candour they pointed out abuses, and suggested improvements and retrenchments—and finally, with what a semblance of good faith the Ministers of the Crown, who were also Members of the Com 'mittee, promised that they would abide in every particular by the recommendations contained in the finance reports. To be sure, these recommen dations, even if followed,were of very little value; still it shews the degree of credit which is due to the promises of Ministers upon the subject of eco nomy and retrenchment, when we know that even these recommendations, which from the constitution of the Finance Committee, must be considered as their own suggestions, have not been fulfilled in letter or in spirit. If the reduction in the estimates of the next' year be considerable, the Ministers must thereby either stultify themselves, or prove the insince rity, or perhaps worse, of their former declara tions; because it is certain that no change has been effected in the state of the country so great as to render a reduction proper in the ensuing year, which would not have been equally safe and necessary in the present: But what have the Ministers already done to redeem their own pro mise, and the still more sacred pledge which they gave when they instructed the King to re peat their promises from the throne ? What have they done ? They have reduced a few hundred men in the •Army, and they have published a Treasury Minute, extracts from which have appeared in this Paper, concern- mg the:Vromised reJuctions in :tile Civil Departments. But even in this Treasury • Minute there was still. but a promise - of retrench ment: The principal object of it: seemed" to be the framing of a superannuation fund, from which the public were undoubtedly to derive-no advan tage ; and in that portion of it which referred to the actual retrenchment of expenditure, the promised good was postponed indefinitely, until mouth or promotion removed- the present 'Memo frki;t9 in office and permitted their places to be • ' supplied by others whose salaries should be less considerable. Will such a scheme as this satisfy the hopes which must have been excited through out the country by the votes of Parliament and the gracious promises of the King-I Could any man in the empire, not being previously ad mitted to the secret, have 'fancied that any thing else was •contemplated - by the votes of Parliament than, an immediate redu6tion in the expences of the country ? What is there, we- should wish to know, so sacred.-in the salaries of persons employed in Government Offices, as the present day which should save them even from reduction, when we recollect with what little remorse thousands of the poorest clerks were a short time since thrown desolate upon 'the world ? The intention of reducing salaries at new men enter the offices will cer tainly be, at some future time, attended with advantage ; but if the' reduced salaries at the expected time be a sufficient remuneration for the labour, such laiour must now be overpaid, and there is no good Zir sufficient cause for pre ferring the interests of the present race of gen- tlemen in office.t . O the interests of the imblic in general, and - to the public wishes, which have been unequivocally ,expressed in favour of an immediate retrencluner.t.—(/bid.) PUBLIC DINNER- GIVEN TO JOHN WILLIAMS, ESQ. BARRISTER. On Thursday last, pursuant to public advertisement, the friends of JOHN IVILLI,..4ria, Esq., Barrister, invited that gentleman to a public dinner to be gavenin the Cabinet Ware room of Mr. 'Woodcock, in Fishergate, where it was intended that the piece of Plate, ,consisting of a silver Dessert Dish, which had been purchnsed by subscriptions -amongst the ad mirers of MY. 'Williams, rhould be presented as a testimony of their approbation of his conduct during the trial of the Queen. A public meeting of the Deputations from the,, different trades that intended to , join the procession tnat was to escort Mr. Williams into town, was advertized to take place at Hardwick's, in St. John-street, ov Saturday evening last, at seven o'clock. Tlie. Meeting took piece, and after a little discussion, some preliminary arrangements were made a* to the best mode of conducting the proceedings of the day. The dinner tickets were half-a-crown each, consequently a numerous company wewexpected to honour the dinner with their,presence. Preparations for the Piocession commenced early in the af ternoon, (though it was not expected that Mr. Williams would' arrive earlier than half-past 5.) The first thing that appeared was a small band of music parading down Church -street, but it seemed to attract very little notice, and its 'only attendants were half a dozen ragged boys. In about an hour after it returned with the acquisition of half a dozen colours, and portions of as many different trades : the whole procession at this time amounting to about 120. They proceeded down Fishergate, and from thence to the Lancaster-road, to await the arrival of Mr. Williams. After remaining some time on Gallows-hill, that gentleman's carriage appeared in sight, and was a signal for marshalling the procession which was to escort him into the town. The horses were taken from the carriage, and the pro cession moved on, preceded by a hand of music, up Friargate, through the Market-placsa T , •.1 to the Ring's Arms, in Church street, where it halted', and An Williams alighted from his car: nage. He soon appeared at one of the windows of the Inn. with an intention of addressing the assembly, which by this time (half-past six) was become more numerous, being about the hour of many people leaving their work. The speech did not occupy . more than five minutes in the delivery, the leading topic being the expectation of partaking of the good cheer to which he said they had invited him. The abrupt manner in which they were dismissed, had an evident effect on the disappointed countenances of many of the gentry present, (who probably had not a good dinner in vies) expect. ung Mr..W. would have expatiated on the," liberty•Of the sub ject," " a free press," &c. &c. topics which they were amused with by the radical host some time ago, and winch would now have had novelty to recommend them. The company, to the number of about 200, sat down to dinner at seven o'clock, John Lawe, Esq. in the Chair, and E. Rich ton, Esq. Vice President. After the cloth was drawn, " The _King" was given from the Chair with three times three. The majority refused to drink this toast, and it was received at the lower end of the room with marked disapprobation !—This was an ominous beginning. (We must here remark, that though we had prepared a report of the proceedings, we find ourselves under the necessity of giving but an. outline of them.) During the course of the evening, the health of Mr. , Hunt was proposed by his friend Mr. Huffman, which though objected to by the Chairman, was received by the majority of the company with rapturous applause. " Mr. John Smith and the Independent Press" was also drunk; on which occasion the said Mr. John Smith uttered a speech, in which for rant and violenee, he was more than a match for Blacow himself. He talked about " Massacres," &c. and denominated the Ministers, " vam pires," " bloodsuckers," &c. &c. most manfully. He also rambled a little about the Paper Currency in a dark and enig., matical style, much after the manner of our friend the Chro nicle. On the health of the independent press of the Metropo lis, not forgetting the Old Times, being drunk, an individual in the shape of a reporter to that ancient print, rose to return thanks. That he belonged to the OLD Times there can be-no doubt, for there was nothing in his language or manner to re mind us of any times that have occurred during the last hun dred years. During the course of the evening, several songs were sung, written expressly for the occasion, of which we are serrylo say we have not been able to procure copies. They would quite have sparkled in our Poet's Corner. One of them, however, the chorus of which was "till time shall be no more," quite startled us, as we begun to fear it would last till that pc nod. It was awful stuff—and yet Mr. 'Williams praised it.— What a blasting effect has politics, when they bring a man of learning and taste like him to stoop to such' flattery ! We would not have it supposed, that because there was much that was ridiculous, there was nothing that was respec table in the meeting. Far from it. There were some indivi duals of the highest respectability present, but they appeared to us to be much out of place there, and we think that they felt themselves to be - so. Many of them are, we know, actuat ed by real principles of independence ; and we applaud them for it ;—they are our own principles, and we shall ever profess and maintain them. But we think they have, on this occasion, taken a dangerous method of expressing their independence, and will, we fear, soon- find themselves entangled with fet ters which they will find it rather difficult to shake off. The radicals (who evidently formed the great majority) will in terpret their conduct at this meeting into a holdinn out to them of the right hand of fellowship, and a pledge of a future coali tion with them. This, we are confident, many of them by no means intend, and we would have them escape the snare be fore it be too late. If their cause be good, there is no necessity for stirring up the mob to second. it. They may raise the 'storm, but they cannot rule it--they have not the proper quali fications for_ the task--their moral sense is not sufficiently seared for that purpose. They cannot yet hear the Ministers called blood-suckers, vampires, &c. without shrinking a little they cannot talk lies by the hundred, and nonsense by the hour. Thus diiqualified for the task they have thus unhappily undertaken, we would have them to retrace their steps in time, and spew themselves 'independent of that worst species of tyranny, the tyranny of a LAWLESS 310B.—(Preston Sen tinel, Sept. 22.) A few days since, two persons were fined for exercising horses in the public market in Smith field. If this punishment was extended to the outparts of the city, a great security would be afforded to his Majesty's subjects. Yesterday morning nearly fifty led horses were exercising between the turnpikes in Old-street-road; one of them was'near kicking a nursery-maid, with two children ; and this nuisance is continued every morning, to the great danger of foot passengers. The parish authorities are bound to remove it. TURKEY. SmyrtNA, Auc. 17.—0 :sing to the cotitinued ranquillity of this place, all the g6ods belong lig to the merchants, which on the first alarm had been shipped on board the vessels in the harbour for security, have been relanded. The departure of Baron Strogonoff from Constanti nople has been known here for soar days. The French Consul and his suite have, hi consequegce of that event, quitted us, leaving the commer cial affairs of Russian subjects to the superin tendance ad interim of M. . David, the French Consul-General. CONSTANTINOPLE, AUG. 25.—We are in per fect tranquillity here, with every prospect of its becoming permanent. Trade has resumed its former activity, or I should rather say that there is more business doing here than before the recent disturbances. On the subject of peace or war nothing certain .is known, but every one seems assured of the continuance of' peace, and acts on 'that suppositlon.--=An affair of the utmost importance to the merchants here has just been decided.. .During the late- embargo a contract had been•entered into: by. the Turkish Govern ment for the purchase •of 'a great number of cargoes of corn, which .contract was' gradually fulfilling on their part at the time the embargo was taken off: but the'-opening of the port having much reduced the price of corn, the Turkish Government manifested a disposition not to take the corn then•remainina b of their con tract, amounting to the 'freight of -10 or 50 ves sels, chiefly consigned to English houses. This was. resisted by the merchants, who also put in a claim for compensation 'for loss by the deten tion of their vessels during the embargo. The influence of the British Ambassador was in a very prompt and spirited manner thrown into the scale of the merchants, and had so much weight with the Porte; that a conference took .placd - between the partie - s concerned, and such an arrangement was entered into as completely satisfied the Merchants; though the exact nature of it is not known. On the 15th the Porte issued firmans - to all the PaChas and Governors of pro vinces, _commanding them in very strong terms to afford protection to the Greeks and other Christian subjects of Turkey who had conducted themselves peaceably, and also even to those who, having. been in actual rebellion, had re pented and expressed a desire to return to their submission. Another public act of the Govern ment has been the proclamation of an amnesty to the different islands, with the exception of Samos, Ipsera, Hydra, and Spezia, which are excluded from the benefit of it on account of their having been the first to revolt. In those islands all the great naval preparations against the Turks have,been orga nized, and the supplies raised for maintaining that force on foot. The Patriarch of Constanti nople has, in the mean. time, been assisting the Porte to the best of his power, to bring back the Insurgent Greeks to submission. Circulars have been issued to the Bishops and Clergy, enjoining them to employ their exhortations and influence to that purpose.—The much-talked-of superio ' Tity of the Greeks by sea, if it ever existed, is ' , nearly at an end. No accounts of the movements of the Turkish fleet have been received at Con stantinople subsequent to its departure for Rhodes. It is certain, however, that a junction was effected there with 16 armed vessels belong ing to the Pacha of Egypt. The combined force sailed from thence folPrevesa, where they will unite with the squadron under the Capitan Bey, and will probably be employed in the relief of Patras. From all that we know of the state of the Greek force, it can have little or no chance in encountering such a fleet as the Turks now possesS. A recent attempt has been made by the Greeks on a village near Scala Nuova. The object was to procure a supply of grain, of which they were in great want. They had seourod only a small portion in their boats, and were returning a - second time to the shore, when a body of Turkish troops, which had been collected with great celerity on the spot, prevented their landing, and the vessels re tired. It has been reported here very confidently, that a general rendezvous of the Greek fleet is to take place at the island of Patmos, in order to take into consideration their relative strength compared with the Turks, and to discuss the ex pediency of continuing the contest or of returning to the different islands. Their chief encourage- ment for still maintaining the struggle for inde pendence will be the knowledge of the departure of Baron Strogonoff from Constantinople, which will be universally interpreted into immediate war with Russia. 'As far as the contest is kept up on land, this is known to be the case,and is the chief obstacle to the good to be effected by the amnesty of the Porte, the firmans to the Pachas, Or the exhortation) of the Patriarch. BLit if the Greek fleet is far less. terrible to the Turks. than before, it is become an object of the greatest alarm to the commerce of the Archipelago, and as its ultiniate dispersion is rendered more pro bable, the fears of the merchants that their vessels will subsist chiefly by piracy are increased. The French, as usual, on the alert in protecting their flag, let it float over the humblest vessel that navigates those seas. A Corsican fishing boat, under French colours, was sent lately. from Constantinople to Cyprus with despatches from the Turkish Government. It was stopped on the voyage by one of the Greek cruizers, .which took out the despatches and let the vessel go ; but, probably repenting their lenity, shortly afterwards sent two armed boats in pursuit of her. The master, apprehending that their in tention was to murder him and his crew, in or der to prevent discovery, set every sail he had, at the risk of upsetting the vessel, and thereby made his escape. On his arrival at Cyprus, he an nounced what had happened to the Captain of a French frigate ' stationed there. That officer immediately. caused the remainder of the crew to be Lrought before him, examined thern, and' took down 'their respective depositions in writing. Having done so, he took the master of the Corsican boat on board the frigate, and sailed immediately for Scala Nuova, into the midst of the Greek fleet, to demand, satisfaction. A. Maltese vessel, bound to Alexandria, has also been boarded by a Greek vessel, .which took rout of her eight Turkish passengers with , their., effects, and, it was feared, with the intention of putting them to deatk. 'When the Maltese ves sel anchored at . Alexandria, the fact became known to thePacha, who issued a .notice, that, as it appeared no respect vas paid by the G reeks.tq European flags, no sales of merchandise, either . goods, corn, or provisions, should be made to Euro pean merchants till the existing, troubles had sub sided. It is,now certain that,Austria, on the sub ject of the recent and still depending negociation, is in perfect accordance with Russia, the Austrian - Ambassador at Constantinople having urged" on: the Porte the acceptance of the terms proposed in the Russian note. . hiis .communication was,. however, expressed in the, most friendly terms,. and the answer of the Porte was also couched' in a tone so conciliating, that- urAesswar has been absolutely determined on by Russia,. right or wrong, the hopes of peace entertained here cannot . be frustrated. OLD BAILEY. E:ifilEZZLEMEXT.—Yesterday JOHN Wicxll. - s was Pu t to the bar on an indictnrent charging him with embezzling sum of 11. the property of John Leslie, his employer, in beginning of April last. The prosecutor stated,. that the prisoner had been emrloyed. by him as a clerk for about three'vears, and about the beginninPi. of April, the prisoner received from a Mr. Smith, the sum 0 ,- 11. 19s. It was the custom of the house for the receiving cI 3 TE to enter in the cash book what sums had been received by him in the course of the day, and this done the witness received.th e . amount, and put his signature as a receipt for the numey. On the 16thof April there was no entry, but on the 7th of there was eine for 11. 19s. the full amount of the sum due frou lf Mr. Smith to the witness. . Cross-examined.—On the 7th of May the witness examined', the copy of. the cash book. He was positiveas to having done ' 3 '' 4 The peculiar mode in which the witness gave his testimonY , called forth some severe animadversions from the Court; but on an explanation taking place, it appeared that the prosecutor, unfortunately laboured under some mental embarrassment. Mrs. Smith proved paying the prisone r 11. on th e pith of April, and also 10s. on the 7th of May. Each payment W 35 made on account of Mr. Leslie. A Clerk in the house of the prosecutor was called to corrobo rate the testimony he had given, which he did. But in th e course of his cross-examination by Mr. Adolphus, as to his be lief in the New Testament, and whether he believed in the re velation from God, the witness hesitated, and being farth er pressed, he said " Yes, I do believe it is a revelation fain, God." The witness was again p resse d on t h e same po i nt , persisted to the same answer. Mr. AnoLmus put some further questions of no p a rticular interest, and was about to put on e re l at i ve to t h e f ormer point' when Mr. ANDREWS objected to the question being put. Anox.ruus—This is the first time in my lif e that have ever heard an Infidel defended. The case for the prosecution being closed, the prisoner T, 33 , advised by the Learned Counsel engaged for hi m , not to in"„ e C any defence. There were se vera l p ersons i n atten d ance to g's" the prisoner a character, but they were not called. et The Jury, . after some cons i d era ti on , found - the Fist/ - n Guilty. - Mr. ADOLPHUS called the attention of the Court to the ci r " cnmstance that he could have called seven witnesses to chars c i ter, but he declined doing so un d er th e i mpress i on t h at his dill; would have been acquitted. As that had not been the case , t, trusted that the Le a rn e d J u d ge wou ld b ear i n m i n d t he fae.,. and in awarding punishment, so d e al w i t h t he un f ortuna te InQll 7 , as to answer the ends of ju s ti ce , b ut , a t t h e same t i me, d e al w i mercy towards the prisoner. GEORGE NAsH and ANDREW JOHNSON were found hr- t y of stealing in the month of D ec . l as t, s i x l oc k s, the pr°l:„rri of Thomas Wallis, first-named oilman, of Long-acre. Th e first-named sone: had become acquainted with the latter, and carried 0 . 11 regular system a peculation. They applied wherever tfig found an empty house, and h av i ng got.t h e k eys, strirredome building of locks, coppers, fire-grates, &c. and then made s excuse for not taking the h ouse . J o h nson i s an o ld o gen der, and has been tried at the Old Bailey several times. JAMES FLANERY and THOMAS WAsITER were cap ita ll Y „ convicted of breaking and en t er i ng t h e d we lli ni;- h ouse ezer Norman, and stealing three spoons and other article' DISCOVERY OF HUMAN BONES.-=-011 Saturi a l last, as some boys were playing in St. George' s " fields, near to the Borough-road, one of them, ©n jumping upon a newly-made hillock, was O nle : what alarmed to find that the ground g ave w 3, under his feet ! On examination it was discover" ed that he had leaped u p on a cons id era ble tity of mutilated human remains, that had o e , appearance of having b een recen tly deposit e d there. They were removed t o th e c hurch-Yar d ', c in two carts. It is supp ose d th at th e y are - refuse of the anatomical departments of the 105. pitals iu the vicinity. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, September 25. t ..,.. Arostodam Ditto, at Sight l2 13 Rotterdam l2 17 Antwerp l2. 9 a u s Hamburgh 3B 1 4 ,1 Vs. Altoria 2 - ,; ( 1 5 . Paris, 3 Day's sight ' Ditto 13ourdeaux, ditto 26 0 (31" Y Franktorton the Main Madrid.. 157 Ex.Mortei • e Cadiz Etre Bilboa 3 gd! c : 35;1 V {cc° Barcrlona :34 ieville Gibraltar -4 30 Leghorn 47 Get tia ..) X em ir , Ital. Liv. 27 60 Malta 45 -Naples 39j ne Palermo Lisbon 60 Oporto ltioianeiro as} per Cent. Dublin .... 9 Cork LULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin Foreign,Gold, New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in Bars, Standard 0 0 0 2' 1 1- 10 o 0 4 A o 4 -11 • • • BIRTHS. - , „r 4 616 Yesterday, the Lady of Joshua Mayhew, Esq. of Marlborough-street, of a daughte,r. Laoorfeii On the 24th inst.,. at her father's house, Finchmaon, I )- Mrs. Robert Hutchinson, of the Conituercial-road, a sm. ' _.......--• MARRIED. „, Bar rett, On the 24th inst., at Streatham, by the Rev. i. D.D., J. B. Smith, Esq., to Mary Anne, only dial late Richard Shave, EN. of Dulwiekaiill. Yesterday, at St. George's Bloomsbury, by the Ilev Berkeley, James Bishop 'Esq. of Woburn-place , t..° i t tJe, °l youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Berkeley, of I T r the' county of Essex. yze. •DIED. 1 74 014 On the .23c1 inst., at the house of her brother , Clifden, at Roehampton, the Hon. Emily Anne Agar• i meell us Yesterday, at Chalfont St. Giles's, Mr. Arnatt late of St. Julians St. Stephens, Hats, aged 54. ,„ Last night, most awfully sudden, in a lit of apor e ' + ',;o , " William Bowran, at Mr. Scott's, the Bull Irin, tni - *;011 it is something remarkable , that this Gentleman 10(1- '; f 7 riAt ° our office yesterday afternoon, the prtrtieulars of a 111 .,,01 that had been sent him by a friend, A nd w hich is ini n ir this paper that contains the melancholy announce ment death !—(Preston Sentinel, Sept. 22.1 To t, LONDON ; Printed by J. B. CI RSTAIRS, of 1 0 . ° A V Ormond -street, Queen-square; - and pol3lislied yr IJF ' trl't SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molten-street ,, at 7%4 31; ; OFFICE, No: 112, Strand; where ADVEILTISVI:;:, 01111EltS, LETTERS ecc. (post-pain? must.bo 044N6