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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS, October 20. [MORNING POST.] The object which Sir Robert Wilson's friends have hitherto had in view, has been to make him appear in the light of a person unjustly hated and persecuted by Government on account of the nature of his. politiOs. Now the gallant Knight has fortunately, though we will not say intentionally, supplied a complete refutatimi to this unfounded calumny, by publishing the fol lowing- letter addressed to him in 1815 by the Commander in Chief. It is impossible that the most inveterate Radical, who still ‘,retains a glimpse of reason, should not feel whilst perus ing this letter, that instead of hostility, the most sincere respect and friendly disposition were en tertained by the Commander in Chief, by his Ma jesty and by his Majesty's Ministers,- towards Sir Robert Wilson, as long as he behaved-as be came an Officer in the service of his King. If any alteration has taken place in their sentiments, this letter proves it to have been solely occasioned by an alteration in his conduct. The publica tion of this document is therefore highly impor tant, and we insert it as the best answer 'which can be given to the assertions of Sir Robert Wil son's friends, and to the insinuations of the gal lant Knight himself. TIIE DUKE OP YORK TO SIR ROBERT WI LSON. HORSE GUARDS, 24T11 JANUARY, 1815. SIR,—I h a ve to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 21st instant, with its enclosures ; and in assuring you of the very favourable Manner in which I am impressed by the merit of your zealous and, distinguished services, I have to convey the expression of my regret, that the principle of limi tation, under which the Order of the Bath has been extended, did not admit of your name being included. The invidious difficulties, which are apprehended as being likely to arise, 'from a system of individual selection, upon the first estblish ment of a distinction, which necessarily possessed a limitatitin, render it expedient that a line should be drawn to guide the decision, where so wide a field of merit was brought under the Prince Regent's consideration. This lintitzd line did not embrace a period when you were 'materially erfiployed, with the British army ; and having, by 'your distinguished conduct, obtained the honours and distinc tions of all the foreign armies, with which you have so emi nently served, I tat comparatively satisfied, under the im pression that, in your ase, the nature of the principle adopted would be apparent to yourself and your friends. 1 have only to add, that, 'upon future occasions, I shall lx most happy to bring your !lathe Under the Prince Regent's `consideration, NOT ONLY for PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION, BHT AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE COHHANH OF A CAVALRY I am, Sir, your's, FREbERICK, Commander-in-Chief. 111ajor-General Sir Robert Wilson, &e. REGIMENT. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The Ultra Journal, coMmenting- on the sub scription to indemnify Sir Robert Wilson, re marks, that the people " like to know what they give their money for." They do; and this curiosity Las been matter of serious charge against them ever since taxes were drawn from their pockets, to embellish state pageantry and enrich the coffers of placemen and pensioners. But they have also a more generous desire to know why a gallant and distinguished officeris deprived of the means of sup port—why punishment has reached a native of this country of vaunted justice,without the intermediate stages of accusation and trial. Sir Robert Wilson has been punished, not convicted, and must be considered by all honourable members of the community, and according to every principle of justice, an innocent and injured man. The people must say, in the words of Constantius, " we can not suspect a person who has wanted an accuser, whilst he did not want an enemy." The first and most honoured names in this kingdom are enrolled in the cause of Sir Robert Wilson, and vouch at once a sense of the injustice with which he has been visited, and a noble resolution to make reparation fot. the wrong,so far as it can'be made by pecuniary indemnification. [NEW TIMES.; The advices from Spain, like those which we have been but too long in the habit of receiving from that country, are gloomy and distressing.-- A private letter from Madrid, of the sth instant, states, that great agitation prevailed in that city, and it was reported that the Ministers would re tire in consequence of the disapprobation of their conduct towards Riego, expressed by some De puties of the Cortes, and the submission of. the King to popular clamour. . The accounts from , Barcelona are .to the 3d instant. The violence of the fever had not materially abated. —The project of the territorial division of Spain has occupied the three first meetings of the Cortes. It has excited considerable opposition; the objections to its being adopted seem to be the increased expences which it would occasion, and the inequality which must necessarily prevail in the population of some of the provinces as compared with their extent. 7-7 We have taken from the Moniteur a Turkish Or dinance, addressed to the Catholics of Damascus and Jerusalem. The Ottoman Government dis avows all participation in the oppression to which they had been subjected.—The King of the Netherlands opened the Session of* the States General on the 15th inst. in a speech which gave a favourable view of the state of the kingdom.— There have been some rumours of disturbances in Sicily, in some of the English as well as' Con tinental Newspapers ; but they - are decidedly contradicted in the Journal des`DeLats of Tues day, which states that tranquillity universally Prevailed in that island. r . • - LURITISLI PRESS] The state of the county of Limerick seems to acquire from day to day a character of deeper and more settled malignity. Assassination And plunder are pursued with a daring effrontery s which marks how extensively organized is the system that so successfvlly oppoies itself to the ordinary restraints of law, religion, and huma. nity. The face of the county in its midnight outrages ; its concerted murders, its armed ban ditti, in all of which there Appears to be far less of private animosity than of some general feeling of public vengeance, exhibits in miniature the aspect of a popular insurrection, and it is with amazement, bordering upon other feelings still less creditable to the ehara der of the present Go vernment of Ireland, that we have remarked the very insignificant efforts that have hitherto been made to check the progress of so alarming an evil. To the shocking crimes already committed in the county of Limerick is now added the mur der of Major Going, who lately held the chief command of the Police of the county. This bar barous murder was committed—not in a retired part of the country, or by a single assassin, trem— bling at his crime, and seeking.to effect it in the silence of night, and with such caution as, might ensure concealment and secrecy—it was perpe trated in the immediate vicinity of the large and populous town of ltathkeale—in the middle of the day—by a numerous gang of armed ruffians, all of whom were distinguished by the uniform of a white shirt drawn over their ordinary apparel. This was no act of personal hostility., It was directed against Mr. Going, less as a private Gentleman than as a public Magistrate, and the manner of committing the crime shews that the deluded wretches who murdered this unfortunate Gentleman did not feel that they were violat ing ' any principle of justice or propriety.— This horrible event, seems to have had the effect of startling the Government, and we accordingly find that as soon as, the in telligence reached Dublin a Privy Council was immediately summoned, for the purpose of devising such measures as the exigency of the case might require. We further learn that yes terday morning a strong detachment of artillery marched from Woolwich, under the command of Major Gardiner, for Holyhead, where they are to embark for Dublin. This force will probably be directed towards suppressing the evil spirit , which now prevails in the county of Limerick, and which claims imperatively the instant atten tion of his Majesty's Government. [TiiETIMES.] The county of Limerick outrages have pro ceeded to an afflicting length. The ruffians of that country on Sunday last barbarously murder ed a gentleman of the name of Going, between two and three o'clock in the clay, as he was riding to dinner. Mr. Going had been Chief of the County Police a short time before, his murder, and in that capacity had, we presume, rendered himself obnoxious to the lawless wretches of the neigh bourhood. A Privy Council was summoned at Dublin, on Tuesday, to deliberate on the mea sures which it might become expedient to adopt. The writer of a paragraph in one of the Dublin Papers seems to think that " the resident Ma gistracy might have arrested the progress " of these dreadful, disturbances. NVe shall not be suspected . of a wish to undervalue the beneficial influence of an active Magistracy, or of a vigor ous administration of the laws—but the truth ought not to be compromised. In many parts of. Ireland, from the multitude of absentees, there exist few or no materials for a Ma gistrac.y. The habitations of the resident proprietors are several miles apart. The in tervening district swarms with peasantry, half fed, half clothed, untaught, unemployed, rest less and ripe for mischief. If a , gentleman stirs alone, he is impotent ; if he makes himself odious to the people by his eagerness to enforce .the legal authority with which he is invested, they shoot him from behind an hedge. If he joins with other g entlemen, he leaves a vast tract of country behind him to the sole dominion of the White Boys, Right Boys, Caravats, Shana vests, or- whatever may be the fashionable nick name: It follows, unhappily, that nothing short of a military force, in the shape of sol diers, or of police-men, disciplined and in con stant pay, can be reckoned upon in the abientee districts of Ireland,.as an instrument capable of subduing the disease. A small force, and but moderate courage, are required ; for the cowardice of .the mob is fully proportioned to their numbers: but a show of armed power is so indispensable as to sanction in these ill-fated countries a frequent departure from what used to be the English practice—that of resorting exclusively to the law of the land.—ln the better portion of the north of Ireland, where the linen manufacture is carried on by the inha bitants of the country at their own houses, the industry by which they live is united with those domestic and moral habits which make life respectable and delightful.' The weaver is a well-educated peasant, with a comfort able house and garden, and one or' more adjoining "fields :—" ease and alternate la bour" are theirs.— The absentee aristocracy of that portion of the north is replaced by a mere active, strenuous, and useful com mercial aristocracy. The mere agricultural peasantry are overtopped by a yeomanry of ma nufacturers, who fill the space, elsewhere vacant throughout Ireland, between the rich and poor. Society is there on its natural bottom. The sail and ballast are each in their fitting place. The parts of the machine have symmetry and connexion : they are impelled 'in one course by the same breeze, and when the storm conies they resist it jointly. BURGLAIIIES.—The house of _Mr. SOLOMON, a silversmith, in Poland-street, was broken into on Thursday evening, in the absence of the family, by forcing the shop door ; notes, sovereigns, plate, &c. to a considerable amount were stolen, as Nvell as linen and apparel, and no trace of the property has been had. The house of Mr. FANSHAWE, in Thayer-place, was broke into on the same even ing, and property to the amount of 1001. was stolen. DEATH occasioned Ay a BEE.—An inquisition was taken by JohiN WAYMAN, Gent. Coroner for the liberty of Bury, on the 27th ult. at Mil denhall, on John Harris, who had eaten some honey from the honey-comb, and a bee concealed in it getting into his throat, he almost imme diately died from suffocation. Verdict—" Acci dental Death." 13IBLE SOCIV,T Y. MEETING AT 3L4 GA TETo E TABLISIIAy•OLE SOCIETY FOR THE ISLE A highly respectable and numerous Meeting was held at the Royal Hotel Assembly-rooms, ,'"Margate, on Wednesday last, for the purpose of establishing an Isle of Thanet Auxiliary Bible Society. The Earl of ir,IVERPOOX. took the Glair amidst the Warm plaudits of the Meeting, sur rounded by a numberof Clergymen of the Established Church, and distinguished characters. On the motion that the Noble Chairman be solicited to become the Patron of the Isle of Thanet Auyiliar); Bible Society being carried, The Earl of I,l\7El:Toot presented,himself to the Meeting, and was received with the most enthusiastic cheers. As soon as the acclamations had subsided, his Lordship said he should trouble them with but few observations: but he felt it right to state the grounds on which he accepted the presidency of that 'Society. He would say that the objects and principles of the Bible Soiiety were in perfect accordance with his principles ; if for a moment he could consider them hostile to the religion, of his country, as by the law established, he could not yield them his support ; but believing, as he did, that • the labours of the BibleSociety.tended to promote Christianity in general through but the world, he felt it his duty. to promote its success by all the means in his power.. He was a Member of the Society for Pro moting Christian Knowledge; and aS.a Member of the Esta blished Church, from the conviction of his judgment, he felt it his duty to support that establishment, and should be Most happy ,could the Liturgy be always circulated with the Bible; but there were circumstances which prevented that desirable object. The operation of the Bartlett's-buildings Society, was limited, for the Bible might be circulated where the Prayer-book could not. At home, among persons of different religious opinions, the Bible might be circulated ; and believing, as he did, that the distribution of the Scriptures would tend to lead men to approve of our excellent Liturgy , should we withhold the Scriptures, because they would. not receive the Prayer-book with them ? In Ireland, religious prejudices would prevent the Prayer-book being received, and should we forego the ad , vantage of circulating the Word -of God among all classes and all sects, giving them an opportunity of forming their consci entious opinion of the truths of the Bible ? The principles of this Society adapted it fp convey the word of life to the whole world. Britons have a duty, an important duty, toper ' form, arising out of our connection with our. colonies and foreign possessions. As Christians, we ought to deplore that this duty had been so long neglected ; but surely he might now appeal to them as Christians, and as Protestants, if the pure word of God should ,not be circulated through all our Co lonies and DependenCies ? The principle of the Bible SOciety was not a theory, but a practieal operation, which had been in exercise for fourteen years ; 'and by its exertions the Holy Scriptures had been translated into many languages, the names of some of which we were scarcely acquainted with. If, upon so solemn and important a subject, it could be allowed to feel pride, he should feel a national pride that so extensive, so benevolent an Institution originated in this country : an Institution which conveyed the best of blessings to every na tion—to every . people. And was it, he would ash, no means of promoting British influence and British power among the na tions who were thus blest with British benevolence ? It was a duty we owed to God, who had so benefited this country by bestowing upon us such innumerable blessings—who enabled us to weather the storm, to surmount the difficulties of one of the most momentous periods, and crowned the nation with a glo rious peace. It was a duty we owed to Providence, to make all , mankind feel that, in acknowledging the favours Heaven had bestowed upon us, we were anxious to convey to them the greatest blessing Heaven could, bestow, by circulating the word of Eternal Life in the most extensive way we possibly could. —(The Noble Lord was warmly applauded on the conclusion of the above address.) The Rev. Messrs. Bartlett, White, Border, Sandys, Taddy, Esq., and other Gentlemen, severally, addressed the Meeting in appropriate and eloquent speeches, after which the assemblage broke up. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. oxronD, OCT. 19.—The Lord Bishop of Exeter has col lated the Rev. John Bull, Student, of Christ Church, to the Rectory of Sowton, Devon. The following. Gentlemen of this University were ordained on Sunday, the 7th of October, at a general ordination holden by the Lord Bishop of Chester, in. the cathedral church of that city : DEACONS. John Leigh, M.A. Brazen Nose college. Oswald Fielding,"lll.A. Brazen Nose College. Henry Playsted Jeston, B.A. Worcester College. Philip Gregson Harper, B.A.lVadhanl Collese. Cieorge Salt, B.A. Christ Church. PRIESTS. William Whitby, B.A. Brazen Nose. College. John Baron, 13. A. Brazen Nose College, Thomas Johnson, M.A. Brazen Nose College. Thomas Stringer Mills, Magdalen College. • Charles C. Cholmondeley, B.A. Brazen Nose College. MRS. SERR,V;S. [FROM THE BRITISH MONITOR.] MANIFESTO OP 0141VE, PRINCESS OF CUMBERLAND, To the : High Dignitaries, Principalities, and Ecclesiastical Powers of the Kingdom of Poland, and its brave People. Whereas it has pleased Divine Providence to discover Our high and illustrious descent from your last reigning Sovereign : being the immediate heir and representative of Augustus Sta nislaus, your King, as well as the only daughter and representa tive of Henry Frederick, late Duke of Cumberland, by Olive, his Duchess, the legit - mate daughter of the Princess. of Poland, by James Wilmot, D.D., her lawful Consort. We, as afore said, allied and descended, claim your affectionate consideration and regard—confident that so great and brave a nation will afford its loyal protection to the last heir of your glorious race of Kings !---by restoring to ns all or any of the claims of a pub lic or private nature, that our birth and Royal descent merits at the Kingdom of Poland's hands, whose subjects have so fre quently distinguiShed themselves, and whose courage and vir tues bear the proudest pre-eminence in the annals of historic re cord ! Yes, brave people, you will form a phalanx round the person of your injured Princess,' and afford us that aid our unprotected situation, and injuries and deprivations, render in dispensable. Thus, we appeal to your,:-.justice and sense of moral duty to aid the wonderful workings of Divine Providence, who has rent asunder the adamantine barriers of political op pression, and given to our Royal knowledge the truth and facts that authorize our address to you, beloved people of Poland. The mercy of Heaven having led us to the knowledge of man kind, such as we really are. Believe us, braze and injured people, when we assure you (well read in the vicissitudes of na tions) that the welfare and independence of Poland is our first prayer ! and that in the deepest recesses of our heart the be loved name of Augustus Staruslaus holds its influence, reani mating that hope that for too great a season has been annihi lated by the despotism of ambition, policy, &c. Politically educated to discriminate upon the conduct of the Powers .of Europe, and devoted to the operative procedure of religious right, we declare that our heart bleeds for the situation of a country that should be proudly towering over the independence that at this moment strikes at ifs most ancient and sacred liber ties. Alas!. beloved nation of our ancestors, your Olive lives but to anticipate the emancipation of Poland from the - cruellest degradation. Invite us, then, beloved people, to the kingdom of our ancestors, and the generous humanity and wise .policy of Alexander will with religious justice yet .restore to us the do . main of our ancient house, that his Majesty has only presided over for a season, in order that lie might administer superior concord to secondary States. We inform Tau, that our legitimacy as Princess of Cumber land has been proved according to law in England, and that we have the most indisputable documents to satisfy the Prin cipalities anti high States of Poland of our being Olive, the heir of Augustus Stanislaus, and immediately allied to that great King by ties of blood. OLIVE. London, September 5, 1321, 25, Alfred Place. ' l .* The foregoing article, it seems, was not placarded in the streets, bat printed and privately circulated. LAY/ . INTELLIGENCE. PALACE. COURT-WHITETL&T,L, OCT. 1 r TI T . RIGHT HON. W. HUSKISSON, ALEXANDER MILNE, GEORGE. CORNEILLE, AND GEORGE THOMPSON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff; Charles Pitt, an auctioneer and appraiser, against the Right Hon. Wm. Bus kisson, M. P., one of the commissioners appointed for the pur pose of carrying the new Street Act into effect; Alexander Milne, secretary to these commissioners; Geo. Corneille, clerk; and George Thompson, agent tinder the same ; to recover corn.. permation m damages for an alleged conspiracy to deprive the plaintiff of employment in his abovernentioned capacity. In 1818 the plaintiff having preferred an indictment against the present defendants and two others atthe Westminster Sessions, it was removed by certiorari into the Court of King's Bench, where it was tried before Lord" Ellenborough, and the de , fend:tilts were acquitted. In a couple of years after Wards, Mr. Pitt brought an action on the same grounds in the Court of Common Pleas, which terminated in a verdict for the defend ants; and now Mr. Pitt thought proper to try his chance a third time, by bringing the present action in this Court, laying his damages under 51., whereby he disabled his opponents from removing it to a superior Court ; and varying the de= fendarits, by which they were prevented from pleading the former verdicts in bar. As the case has therefore been twice before the public already, it is only necessary to state generally that Mr. Pitt, who was his own advocate on this as on the former occasions, in an address of considerable length, accused the defendants of having in the years 1815 and 1816 concerted measures, which they carriedinto effect, to prevent the plaintiff from being employed to procure cOmpensation for persons to be deprived of their houses and premises under the new street act. He had been employed in this way, he Said; since 181-1, and had procured compensation for various persons to the amount of nearly 100,0001., until the commissioners, making a pretext of a house in the Haymarket, for the purchase of 'which he had en tered into, an agreement with the proprietor, and for which he had endeavoured to obtain as large a valuation as he could, en tered into a resolution to deprive him of employment and injure his character -by any means in their power. The only way in which he could conjecture that he had given - any offence, was by his exertions to procure compensation for individuals, who being only tenants at will, had thought that they were not entitled to any. If he could have prochred the house in question for less' than its value, and disposed of it the next day fOr a larger' sum, he thought he had a right to do so : in like manner as a man was at liberty, who purchased 'a horse for 51. to a sk 5001. or 5,0001. for him the next moment. Mi. Pitt next alluded to another circumstance at which the commissioners had taken offence which related to the negotiation with a Mr. Folsch, for his premises in Oxford-street ; and then took a view of the law on conspiracy as laid 'down by Lord Mien-, borough in Lord Cochrane's•case • and in that of Horn the distiller, by Mr. Justice Park. de.entreated the jury to con- . sider Isis case their own, and say what their feelings would be if from - the receipt of 5001. or 10001. a year, they had been reduced by the machinations of the defendants to that of hs. a week to support their families. After many other observations, he con- , eluded by contending against the, validity of any defence ' grounded upon the circumstances of the defendants being pub lic servants ; Sir Robert Wilson had-been a public servant, and yet that, had been no protection to him. He then called several witnesses.. Geo. Brooks, a solicitor, in 1815 had a tenant of the name of Parr, residing in Charles-street, St. James's-square ; and re. collected-Mr. Milne and .31r. Nash, the surveyor to the com missioners, coming to him in reference to Parr's claim for com pensatlon, and asking him to use his interference with Parr, to get him to employ some other person than Mr. Pitt. He could not say . whiel used those words, but he believed they both took a part in the conversation. James Hargrave, jun., recollected the defendant Thompson coming to him in 1816, with reference to a similar, claim of his father's, and saying, upon being told he was to treat w ith M r . Pitt, that his father was in bad hands ; he might have had some compensation if he had, not employed Mr. Pitt; but since he had, he should not have a farthing. The defendant Corneille also called afterwards, and advised his father to recon sider what he was about in employing %1 r. Pitt, and to recol lect the power he had to contend with. His father, however, was only tenant at will, and the Commissioners havin g pur. chased his landlord's interest, had served his father with notice • to quit. Elizabeth 111 - eyres proved a similar interference with her, on the part of the two last mentioned defendants, with respect to her having emplOyed the plaintiff: Thomas Walker stated that Corneille had told hini that NITS. Meyres had done wrong in employing Mr. Pitt. James Burion, Esq. proved two letters written by Mr. Hus kisson to the plaintiff, in one of which he stated, that he should not be accepted as referee in future. The witness had been ap pointed referee on the part of the Crown on some occasions ; and in one case, he and Mr. Pitt . agreell upon a valuation of 1,1301., where the plaintiff first named a sum of upwards of two thousand pounds. After calling one or two other witnesses, whose testimony is not interesting, the plaintiff closed his case ; and Mr. THESIGER stated that of the defendants to the Jury. He commented in severe terms upon the conduct of the plain tiff, and strongly:reprobated the third attempt, the two former having failed, to calumniate the characters of the defendants, particularly that of Mr. Huskisson, for which, even upon the plaintiff's own shewing, there was not the shadow of a pretext. He contended that his clients not only had a right, but were bound, as servants of the public, in the correct discharge of their duty, to decline treating with 'Mr. Pitt as a referee, after' having sent circular letters about, soliciting to be appointed a general referee, - and particularly after his conduct respecting the: house in the Haymarket; which, after having purchased it him self for 850 L, he represoted to the Commissioners as still in the possession of the former proprietor, a feather-merchant; and, on his behalf, . demanded 2,000 _guineas for it. After.= address of very great length from the Learned Counsel (for which we have not space), and the examination of several witnesses in support of it, Mr. Pitt replied; and the Court charged the Jury, who, after a few moments' deliberation, found a verdict for the defendants. The trial continued till past nine o'clock at night. • WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, OCT. 19. THE UNNATURAL MOTHER. Mary Mason, the wife of- NVilliam Tomlinson Mason, was put to the bar on an' indictment, charging her with having de posited two of her children, both under the age of two years, at the doors of the house of Mr. Knight. and another inhabitant in Marlborongh-street, on the sth of June last, between the hours 'of 10 and 11 o'clock at night—Mr. ALLtir conducted the pro secution on behalf of the Overseers of St. James's parish, to whom the children became chargeable. Edward Thew, the servant.of Mr. Knight, stated, that on the night set forth in the indictment, he answered a knock at the door, and on opening it found a child, sitting on the thre shold, about 18 months:old, crying bitterly. Mr. Knight came and viewed the child, and on examination found that a scrap of paper was arached to t'e clothes of the little outcast, with an inscription, of which the following exact copy : " With reluctance I am obligAlto:leave these two poor help less children to the care - of The Almighty, being as I am unable them,to provide for and they are' forsaken by their Unnatural father, who refuses to Zo any thing for them. Their father is a baker, and comes from Newark; near Nottingham; his name is Tomlinson." This note caused a further search. At the next door was found an infant about four months old, and Mr. Knight had thein conveyed to a place of security till morning, when they were taken . to .the Workhouse, and froth . thence removed to Wimbledon to be nursed. The officers made every inquiry, and at length offered . a regard: of 201., soon after which the un natural mother and her husband were apprehended. Several witnesses were examined, among whom was Eliza beth Balls, a neighbOur of the prisoners. It appeared from-'ner statement that the ptisorier had told her of dropping the chit- dien, and said that her (the prisoner's) mother was with her at tb time. There being a link wanting in the chain of evidence, namely, that the prisoner was ;he person who so deposited them, and that she didpo with a view of forsaking them, the Chairman' lamented that it was so : there could be no 'doubt but the priso ner had been very inhuman, but without evidence the Jury could not convict her. The parish had acted with very great prOpriety in instituting the prosecution, but he was bound to charge the Jury to acquit the prisoner. • Mr. ALLEY said that a woman who had burst asunder the most tender ties of nature was not to go unpunished, and he wished the Magistrates to detain her, as he Should proceed against her to-morrow under the Vagrant Act. The defendant, whe is a young woman of good appearance, was taken from the bar with the young child in her arms, and sent back to prison. RIOT AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. •. At the rising of the Court yesterday, Mr. WALF ORD moved, that the recognizances of John Fry . and William Griffiths he estreated ; they were indicted for a not at Knightsbridge, on . the 14th of August last, the day 'of the funeral of Honey and Francis, and had not since appeared to take their trial at this Sessions. They were bound so to do by their recognizanCes, and in default thereof, he applied to have them estreated. The CHAIRMAN 'remarked that the . Learned Counsel might give notice of his intention; but he could not carry his notice into effect at the present moment, as the defendants might still, ac cording to.law, come in and demand.their trial. Mr. WALFORD said he 'would wait until the last day of the Sessions, and then make his application. • BIRTHS. On Wednesday, the 10th inst an t,. at Fourtain Dale, near Mansfield, the Lady of General Need, of a- son. On Tuesday, at Bath, the Lady of Doctor i%luttlehury, Edgar-bUildings, of a son. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS, Yesterday these Sessions commenced 'before the Right lion. the LORD MAYOR., the COII4MON SERJEANT, the FilGll BAIMIE, and Alderman J. J. Siiirrn. DANGEROUS ASSAULT.—The first of the traverse cases tried was - a chance made a ga i ns t a respectable looki ng man , named Stephen Tidy - , for. having committed a violent and un provoked assault upon a married. female, named Margaret Newton. - The Prosecutrix is the wife of a builder in the Borough, and on the night of the 13th of March was going down.the Eoroagh. road upon some business, when she was attacked by the delta.. dant, who immediately hit her over the head with the lid of a large 'Saucepan several times, and ultimately left- her on the ground in a state, of insensibility.. lie was immediately taken into custody by' some bystanders, who pursued him. She was at that time about eight months advanced in pzegnancy; and a premature labour followed t he same night, in consequence of the violence. .The child i s i m p er f ect ly formed, and blind of one eye, she judged in consequence of the violence she re. ceived ; her temple, where she was struck, still bore the mark of a most Violent blow. The case having been established by evidence Mr. BARRY addressed the Jury on behalf of the defendant, and pleaded, in mitigation, that he was intoxicated, and that he now felt most poignantly for the injury he had inflicted in a fit of drunken madness. The COMMON SERJEANT said it was a case of such unpa= rallelea brutality that had not the defendant had a large family depending upon him for a lilielihood, the Court would have thought themselves justified in sentencing him to be imprisoned for 3 yearS ;' but in consideration of his subsequent contrition, and other. circumstances which went in mitigation, they merely sentenced him to be imprisoned for six months. DARING BEGINNING OF A YOUNG THIEF.—)HREDERIG CANNON, a lad of only hi years of age, was tried upon an in dietmerit, for having stolen 1, 4 ,100 weight of Spanish tare, the property of Mr. John GriffithS, of Fell-street, Wood-street.— The Jury found the prisonet GLILTY'; and the Court sea tenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. RE-EXAMINATION . OF MR BLOOMFIELo.—Mr. DAR 3IER, on the case-being 'canal on, .said, that his- client, Mr. :Shirley, found that he could not convict on the charge of re-, 'cetving money under false pretences, as he, before advancing his money, had received the Bond of Mr.-Bloomfield and Mr. Dunbar. • The Solicitor for: Mr. Rolfe, another claimant, applied to have the case stand over for two days, as he had not been aware of the time which it had taken, and was consequently unpre- , pared to proceed. The case was, after some further conversation, ordered to stand till Wednesday next, when it will be finally disposed of. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. OUTRAGE IN CHARLES-ST RE ET.—The four prisoners concerned in the above atrocious outrage were to have under gone a further examination yesterday at this office, before Mr. MANwAin.mo, who despatched a messenger to Nliddlesex ho'spital, to ascertain the condition of Thayers, the wounded' man. He returned with the following bulletin : " James Thayers still continues too weak to bear removal from the Hospital, though in other respects he is completely recovered. " J. SWEET HAN, House-Surgeon. " Middletex Hospital, Oct. 19,1821." The prisoners were accordingly remanded. • , - - Yesterday ,morning, ab ou t eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of Charles-street, Middlesex flos4 pital, were thrown into sudden alarm by the re-. port of a loaded pistol having been fired through the'shop door of Mr. Parker, a respectable gold smith,, residing at the corner of Beiner's-Street, opposite the Hospital. The report was so loud that several persons soon arrived on the spot,. to know what mischief had occurred., On inquiry at the shop of Mr. P., it was ascertained that one of the Young men,while holding a pistol in hii hand (not knowing it. was loaded with powder acrd ball), it accidentally went off, when the con tents passed through the shop door, which was principally glass, and shattered it to pieces. The ball went .through the pannei., took a standing direction across the road, and struck the brick wall under the gateway of Suffolk Mews, ad joining the Spread Eagle public-house, where it was found. At the same thne a number oir persons were listening within a few yards of the gateway, hearing a man play on hand bells, and other individuals were also walking along the street at the above moment, but very providen tially escaped without any injury. Prim 36 s Octto 46s 61 .373 6d to 47s ed COAL-MARKET; OCT. 19. Ships at NlarkeL Ships sold 894 Nevkastle -1.12 i 28 Sunderland ' - - 19 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, October 19. Amsteidam .. l2 17 C. F• , Ditto, at Sight l2 1 , 1 Rotterdam.., t2 13 Antwerp l2 10 liantburgh 33 1 24 ITS Altona ...., ...... o 8 2 94 Us. Paris, 3 Day's sight 9.5 7 dt-J- Ditto ' 96 5 1 (Is. Bourdeaux, ditto Frank fbrton the pain Nladrid 36 I , .flectite Cadiz ' ' 36 cAleci ire • Bil boa ... , 35i Eftecti" • Barcelona 353 ierille . • ..... 35i Ciibraltat • 30t Leghorn Ci,t.oa 1: , ..1--Venicr, Ital. Lie. 27 .60 Malta - 43 ---Naples 3D4 _ 2 Palermo - par S. Lisbon Oporto - - 5 O 5O Rio Janeiro Dublin .... Ei Corl: 9 tier Cent. BULLION. Portural Gold, in Coin... Foreign Gold, in Bars New Doubloons New DoPars Silver in Bars. Standard .0 0 0 per Of. 3 17 0 6 o 0 4 9 0 4 LO MARRIED. On Wednesday last, at Croydon chazeh, Far. Walter, Of Kingston-upon-Thames, solicitor - , to Frances, daughter of v.,' late Mr. Thomas Turner, of Croydon. At Glasgow, by the ReV. Mr. trtitliei's, Mr. James merchant ere, to Margaret, eldcst daughter of ,Robert Watt/ Esii 7 , merchant, Montego-hay, Jamaica: On Ilth inst.; at CiucinSev, Thomas Carey, Esq. of Rbtcl.; in that island, to Barb a r a , eldc..st. daughter of the late Colin , " Jackson, .11. P. for the county of ithtyo, Ireland. ' DIED. On Saturday, the 6th insumt, at Bath, in the 39th year ail° age, Miss. Susanna Falkner Neale, daughter of Pendock.l3ar'4 Esq. (late Neale), of Roclavcston Manor, in the CO:notf.„' Nottingham: 1-ler remains were interred 'at M' a leot, Bath, on. TtieFday, the 16th instant, and attended to the 1- . 5.° 0 -171 .by her only brOther, Pendock B a r r y B arr y, E sq ., a s Mourner, On Wednesday last, at his house in Gower-Street, Bedfool square, Edward &ince, .Esq., in the 69th year of his age.. t On the 4th inst., at Brighton, John Walters, ESq,, archite c 'of l'enchurch-httildings, aged 39.. Yesterday mOrning, at her house in Park-row, Greentirch, Miss Lavie, late of Vt"oree:tter. Yesterday, the 19th instant Dlr. William Rhodes, se.r ) •l _ aged 70. la s in consequence of N a fall orri ra Not tin On horse on the m l e Y. 3( i o n rrii st.7 on r h Charles Chawner, surgeon, of lireal.an, in Derhysnire. or ntui ' 'I I r i 5. Printed and Published, for the Pitov.atuTclus, tx the --Ls:il3l.- OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. 13. CAIOTAiIt:i. sus