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THE LONDON JOUIt,NAL‘J. /mom' pAILY MORNING rAPERS, S'eptember 21, /8'22. [MORNING CRRONICLE.] The Parliamentary influence of the House of ileitford, which, in consequence of the long ill neas and political indifference of the late Mar quess, had fallen into decay, has been recently revived, and, in fact, recovered by the present Noble inheritor. The Marquess, it is said, di rectly and indirectly commands thirteen votes in -the Lower House of Parliament. The Duke of 'York, Mr. Croker, of the Admiralty, and Mr. 401 mes, whose utility in the House of Commons it pretty well known, are now on a visit to the Noble Marquess, at Sudbourn. Couple this fact :with the absence of the Marquess of Conyngham In Ireland, and his son, Lord Francis's, permis sion to travel, and perhaps the veil of mystery may be removed in a certain high quarter," given to change." , It is industriously rumoured, that the office of Secretary at War will be abolished. Lord Pal liaerston is to resign upon a Pension and a Peer age. The Pension, however, is but to equal one moiety of his present emoluments—the other moiety to be made up to his Lordship from an other source. The friends of the Duke of Buck ingham have pushed hard for the appointment of big Grace to the Head of the Admiralty, in the event of Lord Melville going to India ; but the claims of his Grace, although backed by the pompous phraseology of a NOble Relative, dis tinguished for his proficiency in the art of ma neeuvring, have not yet been acceded to.—(lbid.) [3IIITISII PRESS.] While the Ministerial Papers have vauntingly reftgred to the impulse given to our domestic manufactures, as evidence of an improvement in trade, we have repeatedly expressed our fears that it was not a solid and healthful improve ment, but the result of an impatience for em ployment and excessive speculation. The pre sent state of the trade to South America, which caused this excitement, fully justifies the fears which we originally expressed, that .its fruits Were greatly over-rated. The Captain of a vessel recently arrived at Guernsey from the Pacific Ocean states, that no less than 80 merchant ships were at 'Valparaiso at his departure, and that, from the disastrous state of trade, it was pro bable that most of them would be obliged to go to India for return cargoes. [MORNING POST.] Paris Journals to the 19th instant reached our Office last night by express. The Constitutionnel, we rejoice to find, has redeemed its pledge, and published two official bulletins of the advantages gained by the Greeks over the Turks, since the irruption of the latter into the Morea. These details are therefore posterior to those given by the Austrian Observer, which only announced the arrival of the Ottomans, and shewed that the exultation expressed by that Journal and its confreres in this country, at the anticipated destruction of Greece, was at least premature, and may ultimately turn out to have been unfounded. The Turks indeed penetrated into the Peleponnesus at the time when its arms were fighting the battles of independence in Thessaly and Epirus, and it , might not be unrea sonable to suppose, that under such circum stances they would gain easy possession of the whole of that Peninsula ; but the patriotic he r*ism of the calumniated Greeks, and the firm ness of their aspersed Senate, having resisted and repelled the blow, however sudden and un expected, their cause, instead of being ruined, must have gained additional strength by its triumph over so severe and so perilous an ordeal. [NEW TIMES.] Bayonne Letters of the 12th instant were re ceived yesterday ; and their contents seem somewhat unfavourable to the Royalist cause.— Quesada is stated to have sustained a serious defeat ; but this we have no doubt is much exaggerated in the occurrence s and still more in the anticipated results. Navarre is not the strong-hold of the Royalist cause. Catalonia is the scene where it seems to spread and flourish with the greatest force. We do not believe that Quesad a has ever been able to bring into the field so large a force as that which is said to have been routed. lie has principally carried on a sort of Guerilla warfare ; and his troops, if dispersed, are likely soon to reunite under their former ban- ARCS, The English reader must be very carefully on his guard against the financial speculations of the predominant faction at Madrid. Their hopes rest entirely on the loans which they may raise in foreign countries; at the present moment it is urgently necessary for them to induce the capitalists to advance money ; and for this purpose fabricated accounts will certainly be resorted to, if none should be really ob tained. The faction eagerly give out that they are supported by the English Ministry. The English Ministry will of course maintain a rigid nvutrality ; but if . they were ever to depart from it, it certainly would not be in favour of a set of democratical adventurers, whose avowed principles are in such decided op position to the British Constitution, and who have already plunged their own country in to the horrors of anarchy and civil war. The doctrines perhaps of the Chiefs of the A rmy of the Faith-may not be much nearer to our own notions orsound'and rational liberty. There is, chOwever, a moderate party in Spain, whom the Liberales now, persecute more unsparingly than they do even the Serviles; and to these Mode rates we may perhaps ultimately look for the establishment, of a liMited Monarchy like our own. . [THE TIMES.] C Letters dated Wednesday last were received listerciay from Paris, which state that the fall of the funds which took place on that day, was _caused . .by ft rumour that the postponement of the Duke of WelliTigton's departure for Congress arose solely from political motives ; and that England, prompted by zeal in behalf of Consti tutional liberty in Spain, meditated an entire separation from the Holy Alliance."—lf the above paragraph be worthy of attention, it is not that it assigns the protracted stay of the Duke of Wellington in England to the true cause, or to any thing like the truth. We at the same time feel that no mean value does belong to the state ment contained in the Paris letters. An hypothesis wholly false as to the main fact which it as sumes, may throw a strong light on the connexion of other facts which are undoubted, with prin ciples and consequences of the very highest im portance. We are now to understand that the mere imagination of England supporting the free Constitution of the Spaniards, and separating from the Holy Alliance, produced a fall in the French funds—that is, in the public credit of the Royal Government. Hence are two obvious conclu sions to be derived :-Ist, That the Holy Al- Hance, and the French Bourbon Government, are unquestionably hostile to the established Government and Constitution of Spain ; and 2d, that England has been considered by the great French Fundholders in the secret of that Court, as leagued with the Holy Al liance, and with the Bourbon Princes, against the liberties of the Spanish nation. Of the wishes and inclinations of arbitrary Princes, as between the cause of freedom and that of despotism, there is probably no reasonable man who will hesitate to form his judgment. With the sentiments of Courts, however, nations have hut small concern, unless they break out in posi tive acts, or appear armed with the spirit and with the necessary means to enforce themselves upon society. Now sufficient ground may have been afforded by the State Papers of the Rus sian agents, to prove the unfriendly dispositions of their Cabinet towards the Spanish Consti- tugon ; and more than enough in the Cordon Sanitaire, to evince the tendencies of the French Government in all that related to the Spaniards; but we have hardly yet seen an evidence so glaring of the designs by which their hostile propensities are likely to be followed up, as in the simple fact of the French Funds having actually fallen, because those schemes, whatever they might be, were about to lose the support and countenance of England. If no operations were to be undertaken—if nothing were to be done—of what importance would be the agreement or disagreement of this country with the Councils of the Holy Alliance ? Au abstract assent to, or denial of, the doctrines, or a purely sentimental acquiescence on the part of England in the feelings, entertained by the French Government and the Holy Alliance, might be matter of pleasing or ungrateful reverie to Cour tiers, but could have no effect upon the funds ! [MORNING lIERALD.I At the General Meeting of the Court of Pro• prietors of the Bank of England, there was a short but not uninteresting conversation relative to Bank forgeries. We shall specify a few facts that came out. It appeared that the commission of Bank forgeries had been greatly diminished, and the cause assigned for this diminution, was the retreat of one and two pound notes from cir culation. It also appeared that the return of these small notes into circulation was no impro bable event ; and lastly, that the Bank of Eng land had hitherto found all its efforts fruitless in the search of any expedient or invention to diminish the temptation to this crime, by rendering the process more difficult.—Now, in the contingency of these small notes being launched forth, the commission of forgeries will probably be greater than before. The facilities are always the same, and the appetite for the crime will be but sharpened by the interval of suspension. What then remains to be done ? As it appears to us, simply this—that the invention of some plan, and its submission to Parlia ment, should be made the sine qua non of re-issuing their small notes. It was contended at the Meeting, that the Bank has within itself the discretion of re-issuing them. Of this we cannot speak, not having the Act of Parlia ment before us. But supposing that the Bank has this power, it only renders its responsibility more exclusive and awful. Will the Bank, after its own confession, by the lips of the Go vernor, that the commission of forgery and the shedding of blood have decreased with the dis appearance of the small notes—will the Bank, we ask again, throw out these tempting baits to the reckless desperation of those, who, from an evil disposition or the pressure of want, are easily won to the commission of a crime so easy, and having so many seeming chances of security? If such were the case, and that the scaffold at the Old Bailey were again so abundantly drenched with human blood, and at such short intervals periodically, that the blood had scarcely time to dry, how unhappy the situation of this powerful and respectable Corporation in the eyes of the people ! SHOCKING CASE.—The unpleasant circum stance at Grantham, to which we alluded in our last, has been thoroughly investigated by the Magistrates of the borough and those for the parish of Kesteven, whose united exertions in bringing the delinquents to justice are extremely praiseworthy. The young man, the dupe . of the party, has been committed to Lincoln Castle, and two other persons are charged with misdemeanours, one of whom has entered into recogiiizances to ap pear at the Sessions at Falkingham; the other is yet at large. We are happy to find that the reports of the number implicated (and which raised it to as many as 36) are entirely without foundation; the above persons, and the three committed last week, being all in any way concerned. It is not true that W. ARDEN, Esq. had apartments at Gran tham during the hunting season ; it appeared during his examination that he never was in the town but once, and that he lett London for the express purpose of committing the offence. It is singular that, with the exception of the young apprentice, and JOHN DOUGHTY, the uphol sterer (who had lately established himself in the place, and was also from London), the parties all lived at a considerable distance from Grantham, and were, comparatively speaking, strangers to each other.—(Boston Gazette.) OLD BAILEY. Yesterday T. Je.ff's was indicted for stealing a dozen of wine and other property belonging to William Allen, from his dwel ling house. Elizabeth Odd lived at Newington with Mr. Allen. A quan tity of meat was left in the safe on the morning of Saturday the 18th August. On Sunday morning the safe was broken open, and they were gone. She saw part of them after Wards at Wor ship-street. John Mann, a . police officer, searched the prisoner's house ; found some provisions, a bunch of keys, and a bottle which had contained white wine. He took the prisoner into cus tody next day, upon which he told witness that he thought he should go this time, but he did not care so that he escaped the dancers. Other witnesses identified some of the property. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty ; and Mr. Alley inti mated that he had been tried and convicted before. _ _ _ Peter Doran was indicted for maliciously killing and slaying Thomas Waylan, in A uguA last. Mr. ALLEY stated the facts of the case. The parties met at a public house, where they quarrelled. The deceased charg ed the prisoner with having robbed him of a sovereign. A pugilistic contest ensued, in which the deceased received a heavy fall. On opening the body the rijit lobe of the liver was found to be enlarged. The deceased survived about a fort night. The Surgeon gave it as his opinion, that the deceased did not die in consequence of external violence, though it might have been accelerated by the blows which he received. He felt convinced that the deceased could have lived only a short time. The evidence in support of the prosecution went to proVe that the prisoner was in the act of dressing himself when the deceased again struck at him. The prisoner handed in a written defence, which however was not read. Peter Dunn spoke as to the provocation which the prisoner had received. Mr. Justice BEST summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Win. North, aged 54, for a nameless crime, was found Guilty.—Death. Walter Blanchard, aged sixteen, was indicted for stealing twenty-nine towels, value 20s. the property of Lord Viscount Barnard. Win. York, servant to Lord Barnard, stated, that he left the hour. in Portman-street, fastened, the 17th of August, to go into Cie yard, - and on his return found the prisoner in the door-way, with the property on him. The prisoner begged for mercy. Sellers, the officer, produced the property, which was identi fied. Verdict—Guilty. Lord Barnard's servant asked for his expences. Mr. Justice BEST—Did his Lordship desire you to ask? Witness—NO, my Lord. Mr. Justice BEST—If his Lordship desires you, you may ask again ; but I am sure his Lordship would be offended at it. Alexander Brown, aged 10, for stealing on the 11th of July seven sovereigns and other property belonging to William Furneaux, in the Parish of St. Anne, Westminster. Furneaux stated that the prisoner lodged with his mother, in his house. Left the money which he had collected to pay his rent, in his breeches pocket, in the drawers in the kitchen ; had got part of it from the prisoner's mother, who lodged in his house still, hut the prisoner absconded immediately. The prosecutor's daughter stated, that she went to open the door, leaving the prisoner in the kitchen where were her father's small clothes containing the money. When she returned the prisoner was standing near the drawers. No other person had been in the room. She carried the key of the room to her mother a few minutes before the robbery was committed. Mrs. Furneaux corroborated the other evidence. Prisoner said they had offered to make it up. If he would have paid, they would not have troubled him. This was denied by Mrs. Furneaux ; but John Price, schoolmaster, spoke to the character of the boy, which was corroborated by the testimony of two females. Verdict—Guilty. John Pavey was brought to the Bar charged with feloniously marrying Mary Thomas, on the 14th of July, his wife Bridget being then alive. Mary Thomas—The prisoner introduced himself to her and walked with her some time about Whit Sunday, and was mar ried to him at St. Clement's Danes on the 14th of July, he de claring that he was a single man. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Mr. Knight, by banns, and in the presence of witness's mother and other persons. A person came to their lodgings and claimed the prisoner. The prisoner said witness knew all about his being married, when she agreed to marry him. This the witness positively denied. The mother of Mary Thomas and another woman swore to hearing the ceremony. Prisoner—She knows nothing about it, my Lord, the cere mony was all over before she came to church. John M‘Carman knew that the prisoner was married to Bridget Towell at St. Bride's, and that she was still living.— They have been married upwards of seven years, and have one child alive. Sarah Webb had known the prisoner's first wife. He was married to her in the month of May, about seven years ago.— They had four or five.children. The prisoner left her about 12 months since. . . Richard Pearce, the officer who apprehended the prisoner, produced copies of the marriage registers, which were put in and read by the clerk. Mary Thomas was re-examined—The prisoner had no pro perty of her, and had behaved very kindly to her. The prisoner said the certificate was not right in the church books. Mr. Justice BEST—Though the church books were in the sea, there is evidence enough against you, and you render your case worse by every observation you make. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, without hearing the summing up by the Judge. At two o'clock Mr. Justice Best left the Bench, which was taken by the Recorder. W. Strade, aged 19, was indicted for stealing a handker chief from the person of W. Richards, in Great Russell street, Bloomsbury. The robbery was committed in the pub lic street. Verdict—Guilty. The REcoaDER immediately sentenced him to be trans ported for life. The unhappy mother of the prisoner interceded for him on her knees, but was told that no mercy could be extended to wards him. She left the Court in the greatest agitation. Three other boys, one of them only twelve years old, were indicted for a similar offence. The evidence against them was very clearly given by two of the Bow-street patrol. The owner of the handkerchief did not appear, nor was his name known to the officers. The prisoners were in the crowd which had as sembled in Pall-mall, when the King was going to prorogue Parliament, on the 6th of August. A JURYIVIAIs'—Is there any reward to the officers for such apprehensions ? RECORDER—Not the least. ' Verdict—Guilty. Recommended to mercy; but the re commendation was repelled by the Recorder, who dwelt on the enormity of their offence, and the dexterity with which it was committed. The younger two were to be sentenced for seven years to the prison-ship, and there educated ; and the older, Towler, aged B year, transported for life. Leadbitter, the officer, intimated that Towler had been in custody before, and that he had taken him out of the company of thieves, and conveyed him home to his father. SMALL Pox.—On passing Saffron-hill, yester day, we perceived several windows closed, and on inquity, learned, that no less than 15 chil dren had died of the small pox.—(illonthig Paper.) Suicinr.—On Thursday morning, a wheel wright living in Baltic-place, Old-street, St. Luke's, had a quarrel with his wife, on which he went down into the cellar and hanged himself; he was found shortly after quite dead. He has left five children to lament his untimely end. Cutt,n DROPPING.—On Wednesday evening as the watchman WaS cryibg the hour of nine o'clock, in Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, he found a fine male child, apparently four months old, wrapped up in a blanket upon the step of the door at No. 24, and quite asleep from the effect of laudanum, or some sleeping drops, ad ministered to it by its mother, po doubt. The child was well dressed in a fine linen shirt, a white dimity bed -gown and robe, nankeen pelisse, a dark ground coloured shawl with a rich border, a lace cap, and a light blue check handkerchief. There was another handkerchief bundle close to it, full of new dresses for the child, and a written billet in a good hand, recommending it to the protection of Providence. The child was taken to St. Mary-le-bone workhouse, and the parish have offered a reward for the apprehension of its unnatural mother. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDIIALL.—BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—A ilia& looking young fellow, named Thomas Fitzgerald, who hasbeen detain- bd in custody for nearly a fortnight, until it should be ascer tained whether an unfortunate female, upon whom he was charged with having committed a most brutal outrage, Would survive the effects of his barbarity, was brought up yesterday before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Aldeiman Cox. Eliza Simpson, the female in question, although apparently in a very enfeebled and dangerous state, was sufficiently re covered to attend. She stated herself to be a servant at a house of ill-fame, No. 6, George-alley, Fleet-market, and knew the prisoner as one of the constant frequenters in that diigraceful sink of vice and infamy. A little before twelve o'clock at night, on last Saturday week, he came to their house in company with another man, who was much intoxicated, and sent for two pots of beer; she told him that was not a public-house, and if her mistress was at home she would not suffer it. The porter, how ever, was brought, and in her endeavours to prevent them drinking it there, a great part of it was spilled. The prisoner insisted that she should give him money to replace it. This, however, she refused, and wished them to go away. He then said he was sent there by her mistregs, to take care of the house, and insisted upon her giving him all the money she had taken during her mistress's absence, and on her refusing knocked her down, and knelt upon her stomach with all his weight to keep her so, while he forcibly took the key of the cupboard out of her pocket. He then stamped upon her with great violence, and stood upon her body while he unlocked the cupboard, and took 18d out of a cup. There was money to the amount of 13s. 4d. in another cup, but it was out of his reach, and conse quently escaped his observation. The outrage she had suffered occasioned her to vomit a considerable quantity of blood, and the medical gentleman under whose care she had been ever since, declared that she would never completely recover from the injury she had sustained. She had called out for assistance at . the time, and there were persons who had witnessed great part of the prisoner's ill-usage towards her, but they could not be prevailed upon to come forward and give evidence, from their dread of the vengeance of the number of Irish inhabiting and frequenting the alley. The prisoner exhibited the utmost unconcern and indifference while this story was telling, and did not contradict any part of the brutality imputed to him, but seemed to think the whole of his conduct fully justified by his having, as he said, found the complainant's hand in his pocket. He, however, denied the robbery. The principal charge on which the prisoner had been appre hended at the time, was the violent assault, there being reason to apprehend that the unfortunate woman's life was in danger; but upon hearing the circumstances, the Worthy Alderman was of opinion that the due punishment of the prisoner would be more certainly effected by committing him for the felony, and he was accordingly sent to Newgate to take his trial for stealing in the dwelling house. MARLBOROUGEI-STREET.—CURIOUS CASE.—Yesterday, in consequence of the complaint of a foreigner named Gilderoi Francis Paule, Captain Gordon, a respectable military officer, appeared before JOHN EDWARD CONANT, Esq., the sitting Magistrate, on a summons, calling on him to account for ille gal?), detaining some clothes and papers, his property. The foreigner stated his complaint in the French language ; and it appeared from his detail, that he, sometime about the 30th of last June, engaged with the Captain at the Cape of Good Hope as his servant, and on the 2d of the following month he sailed in the Sophia for England, still considering kin s lf, and acting as, the Captain's servant. On the 12th of the same month the vessel touched at St. Helena, and, wishing to pay a visit to the tomb of Napoleon, he procured leave of absence and permission from Captain Gordon's lady to go on shore for that purpose. He certainly was most anxious to get ashore, as he had been in the army and had served immediately under the eye of Napoleon in the celebrated Legion of Honour, and had obtained the grand cross of that order through the particular recommendation of his immediate commanding officers. The Frenchman very enthusiastically declared that he was in Russia, and when only a subaltern officer he was before Moscow, and had followed the Emperor through most of his campaigns; and even had he returned to his service when the " Eagle of France" was again raised, and the remnant of the " Legion" rallied round it, but he only had the misfortune to see that well-known banner torn to the ground, and its devoted de fenders crushed on the plains of Waterloo, where he lay co vered with wounds, unable either to defend his colours or assist his master : all these recollections crowding on his mind, he determined, " as a true Frenchman" to drop a prayer and ad miring tear over the grave of that illustrious and wonderful man. However, while with a commissary of the island he was performing this vigil over Napoleon's grave, his conduct and clamorous exclamations of grief, with some other inconsistent acts, drew some attention, and he was taken into custody by the English guards, which caused some considerable delay ; and by the time he could get to the shore, he had the misfor tune to perceive the Sophia under weigh, and he offered all he had, a Spanish dollar, to the watermen so follow the vessel, but they spurned his offer, and amused themselves by laughing at his distress. Consequently he was under the disagreeable necessity of remaining where he was ; but in a few days after, another homeward-bound East Indiaman touched at the island, and he was received on board, and allowed to work his passage home. On arriving in England, he obtained Captain Gordon's address, and called on him, demanding a trunk of clothes which were on board : the Captain turned him out, and was asto nished not only at seeing him in London, but at his impu dence in calling on him after deserting him (as he called it) at St. Helena, in such a disgraceful manner. Finding he could not obtain his property from the Captain, he applied to the Foreign Minister, who advised him to make application at a police-office. Being in very great distress, and wishing to re turn to his native country, he had procured the summons for the attendance of the Captain at this office : he valued his clothes that were left in the ship at 201. Captain Gordon, in a very gentlemanly manner, listened at tentively to this detail, and in the way of reply, said, on his return from India with his family, as passengers in the Sophia, the vessel stopped at the Cape of Good Hope, where, being in want of a servant, the complainant was represented to him as being in the most abject distress, and also that he wanted to get back to France ; and, receiving a very good character of him, he (the Captain) from motives of humanity took him into his service, and was then informed by him that he bad no clothes or necessaries for so long a voyage ; therefore he (the Captain gave directions to his agent to advance the man 25 rix ? dollars a rix dollar passes current at the Cape for 4 5.), and sub sequent y some more money ; this was done from a humane motive towards the complainant. On the 2d of July the ship sailed, and on the 12th arrived at St. Helena; there Paule, who proved himself but an indifferent servant, whatever quell ties he might possess as a soldier, took French leave, and went ashore without consulting any person, or even asking permis sion ; he knew the vessel was to_sail at ten o'clock in the morn. ing, but he never made his appearance even when the signal gun was fired at one o'clock in the day, the time of sailing being protracted to that hour. Ile was not to be found, and to oblige him a boat was twice sent on shore, yet the sailors could not find him, although some of them in the morning had perceived him in an ecstacy of delight, with tears in his eyes, dancing and capering before a portrait of Buonaparte s consequently the vessel sailed without him, and another man, named Portello, for the remainder of the voyage performed the duties of his situation ; and on the ship's arriving in the River, the Captain gave the trunk to him, directing him to restore it to Paule, on his paying back the money which had been advanced him. Now, were he inclined to pay back the money, he should re ceive hack his clothes; but his disgraceful conduct in deserting at St. Helena, and subsequently the display of such bad prin ciple and ingratitude in London, entirely precluded the possi bility of any other arrangement being entered into. If he had no clothes at the Cape, how could those purchased for 25 rix dollars (about 51. sterling) be worth 201. ? That was absolutely impossible. The foreigner said all the clothes were distributed and sold by Portello. He called a French sailor, who proved having seen them sold on board by Portello, who said they were given him. The Captain also said there was no, certain wages agreed upon, but it was understood to be 25 dollars a month • Paule only entered his employ on the 2d of July, the day the vessel sailed. The Magistrate said 'it was the young man's misfortune in not catching the ship, and certainly he had an undoubted right to go ashore ; he was not under any restrictions, and his being taken prisoner might have caused his delay ; certainly nothing could authorize the defendant in giving the man's property away, having no controul over it ; the man's clothes might now be worn out and worth nothing; perhaps they were sold and de stroyed ; the complainant might conceive himself entitled to the money he received for previous services done. The Captain said Paule had done no previous service, and the clothes were not sold ; besides, he was not to be compelled to look after and take care of his servant's wearing-apparel. After some few remarks between the parties, they, by di rection of the Magistrate, retired to endeavour to arrange the affair. They did so, and the complainant shortly after quitted the office, being desired to call at the Captain's house. TIIAMES POLICE.—John Budd Tarring, a man of very gentlemanly exterior, whose connections are stated to be very respectable, and who formerly was himself in affluent circum stances, was charged with the following felony : Henry Shields, mate of the Kane, lying in the West India Docks, stated he saw the prisoner walk over the deck of the Kane on Wednesday forenoon, and go towards the Thomas. —He had no great coat on when he went on board the Thomas, but, on leaving it, witness observed he had one on, and that he went from the Thomas to the Augustus : then he lost sigh Of him. Alexander Gibson saw the prisoner come on board the Au' gustus, and throw a gnat coat down the forecastle, and run on shore as fast as he was able. Witness picked up a pocket-book that had fallen from one of the pockets, and dehvered Downer the officer. Richard Smith, second mate of the Thomas, sworn.-- - A t 8 o'clock on Wednesday morning, he put the coat and pocket book into a drawer belonging to the Captain, which was 1 10- locked ; he did not see the property again till Gibson, the LP' witness, produced it. Thomas Downer, an officer, stated he was at the West India Docks, and heard the cry of " Stop thief." He saw t he prisoner running; he pursued and apprehended him. The prisoner exhibited strong feelings of remorse at the un happy situation in which he had involved himself. He diem' no defence, and was fully committed for trial, Bow-STREET.— Yesterday William Janes, a suspicio n character, was examined before THOMAS HALLS, Esq on sus picion of stealing property found upon him, under the following circumstances : —A bout 11 o'clock, yesterday morning, Anthony' Harrison, one of the city inarshalmen, and William Lucas, I I city-officer, were proceeding in company together along Carey" street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, and observed the prisoner coming, towards them, carrying something bulky, tied in a handkur" chief. Harrison knew him to be a bad character and susret ing that it was stolen property, crossed over the way to Jai n '' , and asked to see what the bundle contained. The prisoner hesitated in complying, and Harrison seized hold of the bun dle, and upon examination of the same, found it to conta in two white handkerchiefs, marked T. C. G. some tea loose in one of the handkerchiefs, a pocket book with five sovereigns in it, some plain cards, a silver pen and pencil case t h ree latch, keys, some pawnbroker's duplicates, and a turnpike ticket 0 2 Nottinghill Gate, dated 20th September 1822, by which i t i s . presumed that he had just come off that road, and that the property is the produce of some robbery committed in that , rection during Thursday night. He was then secured , and the Officers having ascertained the place where he lodged, we nt . and searched his apartments, but did not find any thing con cealed there except a large riding whip. He alleged in his defence that the money had been_ in , ":: possession for some time, and was his own, but he refuseu " say from whom he received it. lie was committed for re -e 0 =nation. -------- LAMBETII-STREET.—A Mr. and his wife (we f(4.' bear giving the names at present), professors of embroider)`* lace-making, &c. residing in Prescot-street, Goodman's-fie lds, appeared to summons before Sir DANIEL WILLIAMS , t i e l Sitting Magistrate when the following charges were prefe rr d, against them by a'little girl named Thompson, one " their apprentices : c g The poor little girl, whose wan and emaciated apßeara n i s were strong proofs of her having experienced an insufficiency o nutriment to support nature,being questioned by the a,aagl- , e a as tc the nature of an oath, and having satisfactorily exliisntd, it, v, as sworn. She then stated that she was " eaten I,I P /1 f vermin and the itch ;' that the defendants had twenty-one F:'; male apprentices besides herself ; that they all lay upon slit scanty beds ; she was obliged to be out of bed by four o'el°' in the morning, and work from that hour until half-past nix!? when she got her breakfast, which consisted of half a round t" a quartern loaf, buttered, and half a pint of hot water, Or times enriched with coffee grouts ' • she worked then unti l '7l o'clock, at which time she got her dinner of boiled potatoes , he meat not half done, nor even half enough of that same ; . s e a did not often get meat for dinner, which was mostly , comPr s t of four potatoes broken in hot water ; she worked from tilaf hou r until eleven, when she had her supper of a half s lice i° bread rubbed over with " stinking fat." 9 MAGISTRATE—What did you get to drink at your me ' — 'l. Complainant—Nothing but water, your Worship ; I w as lowed to drink as much as I pleased of that. nil These were the only meals she had during the day; no clothes but what she had from the parish when benincl a l prentice, and was often three and four weeks without ent° l: 7 l _,, a Church at all. The rest of the apprentices were tra ms the same manner as she was. A young woman who lived servant with the defendants cf.; roborated the girl's statement in every respect ; and added , ;, , sl.e and the other apprentices got clean linen only once t h s t night, and often went a month without having any; and they were kept as hard at work on Sundays as on week da , 37 ere , The girl's mother said, that the present proceeding s al)* instituted in consequence of her daughter having reP ea ' „ of. complained to her of being half-starved, and otherwisesrish used by the defendants. The child was bound from the P of St. Giles's. The Magistrate inquired of the mother, if she had any 11.:: son to have the girl turned over to ? She answered in the orb o i - e tive. His Worship then addressing the defendants, w.r„ A rt of the Jewish persuasion, said, they had acted a most voeArie towards this child, and the others entrusted to them ; t ,Apa marked, that although the laws of the country protects 1 10 in their religion,. it did not allow them to infringe li c b, established religion, as it was clear they had done, W,oe when satisfactorily proved, would form a very serious off in itself. 4l The defendants denied the charge in Coto, alleging t ha t originated out of an old grudge. The Magistrate said, that as the case required a eonsi „va degree of consideration, he therefore felt it necessary t o s t j,,,des the consideration for the present. The address of all the Y7 O la' was then taken, with a view of bringing them forward &gal ' order that the matter may be finally discussed. • COAL-MARKET, SEPT. 20. 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