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THE LONDON JOURNALS. 31-IVERAVIS.. FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, March 29, 1822; [THE TIMES.] The discoveries made respecting the state of our Ambassador-people have shocked all thinking men beyond expression. We shall, before we conclude, present a more detailed account of such facts as : offer themselves but we cannot help first adverting to the Switzerland job—a job which does not certainly plunder the public to the greatest possible extent, but which yet ex ceeds, in the profligate principle which it evinces, any thing that was ever heard of in modern times. W ynn is the name of the man that is to be sent out to Switzerland, and he is somehow or other connected with the Buckingham family, who have lately gone over to Ministers. This man is to receive ire one way or other, as diplomatic agent in Switzerland, upwards of four thousand a year; the sum paid to our resident there before the war, being 2501. We do not conceive that any fo - rce of language, that any new-invented ex pression•of abomination or term of reproach, can affect the mind more strongly with the infamy of such, a transaction than the simple narration of the fact_ If Switzerland continues at peace with us—what then ? Our couriers can pass to Italy without obstruction, if they like, from Yverdun to Duomo d'Ossola, instead of crossing by Mount Cenis or the Fyrol. This is all the good she does us. If she were to declare war against us— what then? It would signify as much to Eng land as a tempest in the lake of Geneva, or an insurrection among a shoal of anchovies in the Mediterranean. Four thousand a year, while our farmers are starving, for an Ambassador—to what or to whom, we ask—to a Kin g ? To a Duke ? To a Tetrarch ? No : to a herd of poor senators, who can only feel themselves insulted by the presence of so superior a person. Oh, much injured Right Honourable George Canning ! Deeply-wronged, fourteen-thousand-pounds-Am . bassador to the Bar of the Tagus! But it is said, " Let us look at the map of Europe! Let us " observe the geographical position of Switzer " land. Why, it is actually between Italy and " Germany ! Therefore it is the key of those 4 ('' countries !" The key of Germany and Italy ! - What! are not Germany and Italy each acces sible to us without going through Switzerland ? This, in the first place, is a geographical posi tion of Germany of which we were never before aware, that it cannot be approached from Eng land but by Switzerland : or, can the success of any negotiation at the Court of Austria depend upon our having an Envoy to the Swiss 'noun tains.(for with the people we can have, compa ratively, no relations whatever), at the annual expense of four thousand pounds—the usual salary being 2501. ? And as to Italy, which is also as accessible as daylight, without go ing through Switzerland—why have we any Envoys or Ambassaders there at all, but to insult the wretched dependent princes, and waste British gold ? Italy and Sicily are Ger man altogether : they are occupied by German troops from Girghento to Venice. Lord Burg hersh lives at home ; and he acts rightly if he does but give up the salary attached to his ex tinct and useless situation of Envoy to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Mr. Hamilton is an able man at Naples ; but is the King of that country in a capacity to decide upon any one measure, as an independent Sovereign ? No, not even-to say what companies of Austrian or Hun garian troops shall do duty at the theatre of St. Carlos, while he and his enlightened son attend the performances. there during the present happy and ease inviting state of their country. But, in plain English, we say Naples is extinct, and can have no business whatever to transact with us, that might not, and must not, be settled at Vi enna,through the medium, ou our part, of that grave sage prudent personage Lord Vane Stew art ;-with• 'whose presence, therefore, the Em peror.of Austria and his Ministers cannot dis pense far one moment. The toils, indeed, which this man sustains, having the affairs of all Italy as well as those of A stria. upon him, are incredi ble; and Europe rings with his diplomatic feats. [NEW TIMES.] We call the attention of our readers to . our Assite . .4epift:from Lancaster, by which it will seen - be that a true billfOr perjury has been found against itidgway, who, at the last Assizes, was conVicfed, on the prosecution of the Constitu tional Association, of having published a sedi tious libel; and also against one Daniels, who joined in an affidavit, with a view to procure Ridgway a new trial, after that conviction. It is not for us to anticipate the final result of this indictment; but if it should turn out that Ridg way has perjured himself and suborned another individual to commit perjury, the case ; will be one evincing as flagrant a degree of impudence as ever was known. Ridgway appears to have acted as an agent in the circulation of Carlile's seditious, and blasphemous publications at Man chester.. A person named Mellor purchased one. .of him. On the evidence of 'Mellor, Ridgway was Convicted ; but he• applied for a new trial. , In this application he did not ven ture to swear. positively that he never had sold the libel.iri question, but he rested on the al legation that MellOr,in the course of his evidence had mentioned a certain board as having been over the shop window ,at the time ; whereas Ridgway and Daniels both sWoreat it had been removed some months previously.. Whether there was a board . or not, was in itself perfectly immaterial ; but Ridgway charged Alelior to have sworn falsely onthat point. The charge was rebutted by the affi davits of five or six other persons who had seen the board : and the Constitutional Association has very properly thought it due to public justice to put this fact in issue, ititlit Most solemn manner possible. There is another point of in which the find ing of this bill deserves particular notice. When the new trial was moved for, a Learned Barrister ventured to : , surmise that the Members of the Constitutional Association might have been guilty of subornation of perjury. This insinuation drew from the Judge a proper reprimand ; inasmuch as it was , totally unsupported by the evidence in the case. Not a shadow of ground for so font an imputation on the prosecutors has ever appeared'; but it is very remarkable that the party himself, from whose instructions we must presume the Learned Counsel to have spoken, now stands indicted of that very crime. This reflection will probably teach some gentle men to be a little more sparing of the abuse which they are pleased to level against individuals as honourable as themselves. The Constitutional As sociation has become the object of most virulent attack, for no other reason that we can discover, except that it puts the law of the land in force against a class of offenders most pernicious to the peace and good order of society. Is this—we ask any candid man—is this a reason for attribut ing evil motives to the Association ? Why should sedition and blasphemy not be punished ? What harm is there in restraining those offences? If, indeed, the prosecutions of the Association had been directed against trivial, insignificant, or du bious publications, we might think them super fluous. But that is so far from being the case, that every libel which. they have prosecuted has been confessedly of the most gross and infa mous nature. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The discussion upon Mr. .Western's excellent measure for " more frequent gaol deliveries," gave occasion to the expression of an opinion, that the Judges are inadequately remunerated. That a period at which all their expeuces (excepting taxes) are reduced full 30 per cent. below the average of the last twenty years should be chosen for the augmentation of their salaries—a period too, when the call for an unsparing retrenchment is loud and universal—has excited no little sur prise. The independence of the Judges is doubtless one of the greatest and most valuable securities of the liberty of the subject. But, it may be asked, are there no other methods of rendering their independence above suspicion ? Perhaps the declaring the Puisne Judges incapa ble of promotion to the Chiefships would be a step, beyond all others, of the highest importance to the purity of the administration of justice.— I The Puisne Judges, nine in number, now receive 40001. per annum. It is under- stood that out-goings for Circuits, and what is called Land-tax, &c. reduce their stipends to the net sum of 32001. The Chiefs, including the Lord Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of the Rolls, are six in number ; their profes sional incomes vary from 25,6001. per annum to 60001., and some of them possess patronage to an enormous amount. It has long been the pride of England, that justice has been administered more impartially and ably than in any country in the world. This has in a great measure been owing to the description of the individuals who have filled the judicial office. They have been gentle men in general issuing from the middle class of society, and some even from a still lower class, who, by dint of their own personal abilities, legal acquirements, and private character, have raised themselves by their peculiar and superior fitness to this most honourable distinction. Had the office been paid at a higher rate, it would have been questionable whether it would often have been enjoyed by this class of lawyers. It would have been an object with Parliamentary Pa trons, for their own immediate connexions. There would have been upon the Bench of Justice, the same tribe of Beresfords—Veruons, Manners Sut tons—Barringtons—Cornwallises—Pelhams, who now, with a score of other relations of Peers, hold all the richest Sees in the United kingdom. The best interests of the Church have long con fessedly suffered from the enormous prizes it holds out to the cupidity of great families, who seize upon them as the price of their support of Government, regardless of the total want of pro fessional merit or reputation in the individuals with whom they thus burthen the establishment. It is to be feared that a similar calamity would befal the law, were the labour of the Judges much reduced, or their salaries much raised.— While there is a great deal to be done, and not more to be received than is sufficient to support duly the dignity of the office, the public may ge nerally depend upon having promotions to the Judicial Bench, from among those who may have other claims than those of relationship to Peers, or recommendations of Borough-mong.ers. [MORN ING POST.] • *A discussion arose in .the House of Commons last night, on Sir Robert IN ilson s presenting a Petition from Bethnal Green, praying, in one breath, for Hunt's:release and a Reform' in Par liament ; the latter. , of which .was demanded in terms which .could-onlybOntentled to insult the House. The Ilon.7Veinber «rho preSented the Petition was so conscious of‘this that a'sense, of the respect he ovikl:p :Parliament'prompted him, though on no - Occasion a.CCaSedi:oftoo much_ discretion, to specify and read aloud certain manifestly obnoxious passage's. Thes§•passages it was knaVisbly attempted , to palm upon the common sense of , ,Parliarnent,'-as'..not con veying the sentirtients.Of *the Petitioners them, selves, and perhaps the assistance of some Special-Pleaders of practice did enable them, to . skulk from :the ..legal responSibility of such conduct. But is it to be endured that, as in this instance, a studied preparation of every calumny which . every destriPtion of persons for every purpose may have uttered against the House is to be thrown in its teeth with impunity, by some anonymous Club of Quidnuncs at Bethnal green, under the name of a just and lawful Peti tion for the Redress of Public Grievances ? The immediate decision on the question for bringing up this Petition showed that Parliament were not to be thus treated, the numbers being-17 to 67. So far all was smooth water. Mr. Hume, however, or as the Hon. Gentleman might, in his own constant phrase, be called, Mr. ‘C Trouble the-House" was determined to disturb all the mud at the bottom of the Opposition, and, ac cordingly, on rising to present a Petition from Monmouth, did contrive to effect his object. The previous division, he confessed, quite bewildered him, and he was, as unfortunately for all his au ditors he usually is—at a stand. The Monmouth Petition prayed for a .Reform in parliament, like' that from Bethnal-green ; and Mr. Hume, alwayi diffident, could see no difference between one man making a request of another in the most abusive or the most respectful terms! The Hon. Member went still further in compounding simples—he proved that the House had no right to reject any pe tition without hearing it read, by proving his own ignorance of the common Parliamentary forms. Mr. Hume's brain, we are sorry to add, became so heat ed with the attrition of these incongruous ideas that the Speaker, to prevent combustion, was obliged to throw cold water on the Hon. Member, and call him to order. Forgetting that Sir Robert Wilson had read the objectionable passage, and thus, himself, condemned it—forgetting that peti tions have frequently been rejected before being brought up, he, in asserting that the House had no right to do so, also forgot that the question, which on every Petition is put from the Chair, viz.: whether it be brought up or not, would be nonsense if the right did not exist. We must also say that besides the exception taken to this Petition, there are many other reasons for ob taining the sense of Parliament, at that early stage of the proceeding. Although the substance or wording of a Petition may not be censurable, the manner of " getting it up" may be very im proper, and form a solid ground for refusing to receive it in the first instance. For our own part, we are unchangeably of opinion that the only way to render the inestimable right of Peti tion worthless is to abuse it ; and therefore, that when the people so far betray their own inte rests, Parliament is bound to interpose and pro tect those interests for them. [BRITISII PRESS.] The Newspapers of the south of Ireland still continue to exhibit scenes of outrage on the part of the peasantry. But though our indignation be excited by these statements, we cannot withhold the expression of our regret and pity when we learn that distress, amounting in some instances to absolute famine, presses upon the great mass of those unfortunate people. The south of Ireland has now suffered for many months the infliction of a calamity hardly to be equalled in the sin gularity of its circumstances in any page of the history of that country ; but as yet no attempt has been made to ascertain the motives that have influenced the conduct of the criminals. The arrivals yesterday from Ireland shew that mere force alone is inadequate to pre vent the continuance of the outrages ; we find that murders are still perpetrated, assemblies of armed men are held, and the usual acts of noc turnal violence are committed. No one can tell the cause of this shocking state of society, and the Marquis Wellesley says that no one shall in quire into it until the evil has ceased to exist. We suspect that, should this time ever arrive, the Statesmen who now discountenance inquiry as unseasonable, will then object to it as unneces sary. Fears are in the mean time seriously en tertained that the misery of the peasantry will be still further aggravated by a failure of the po tato crop ; and if such should unfortunately be the case, we will venture to predict that the Marquis Wellesley's time for investigating the causes of the present outrages will be deferred much longer than he seems to anticipate. [MORNING HERALD.] Mr. Canning is, it appears, on the eve of dis appearing from the great stage of politics. He proceeds to India as Governor-General, which to him is a political demise—honourable, no doubt —but still substantially a demise. The peculiar character and uniform direction of his talents—. and, undoubtedly, his personal ambition—point ed him out as one of those whom nature and circumstances had destined to figure in the agi tation of domestic politics—whose element and whose triumph Was in the House of Commons. Yet has he been, in the maturity of his talents, and at the zenith of his ambition, laid aside in honourable exile---for, at least, five or six years to come—and Heaven knows how long after ! —lt is somewhat singular that such a man should be thus forced against every bias. The reason, however, may be found in his per sonal character, and in the use and abuse which he has made of the finest talents, and of a mind endued with some of the noblest disposi tions. As an orator, his place in the House of Commons is vacant, and will remain so. lie was, without comparison, the most endowed and the most disciplined of its public speakers. Wit— raillery—fancy, if not imagination—a power of analysis calm, methodical, and clear—an impe tuous, redundant current of eloquent declamation —a command of logic, even to the rigid forms of syllogism—a familiarity with the elegancies of li terature, modern and ancient, and an unrivalled fe licity in quotation and allusion; with these he might, and, should have governed the democracy of Eng land, as with a talisman. What has been the fact ? His wit obtained him the dangerous, but flatter ing distinction of being feared—and his elo quence the tribute of a barren admiration. His taste was even fastidiously refined. He not only rejected those homely and vulgar words and phrases, which so frequently escape, or are sent forth by the most eminent of his rivals, hitt he studiously avoided terms admissibly familiar.— On one occasion he made an allusion to a cat ; but, instead of the plain monosyllable employed by the naturalists and by the people, he used the periphrasis of " a cer tain domestic animal." Yet, though so fas tidious in language, his good taste sametimes wholly abandoned him in the choice of his topics and occasions—his wit, " a libertine," betrayed him into some expressions too pointed to be for gotten, and too inconsiderate to escape the un charitable comments of men, without a fraction of his sensibility or humane feeling. No man has been more frequently assailed with the im putations of corruption in politics ; yet it is well known that he is liberal even to negligence of pecuniary fortune. No one has been more care less—more prodigally careless, of that sort of management by which public men, without seem ing to do so, keep up a certain theatrical eleva tion of public character. We state upon the best authority, that all the Brewers in Bath have enabled the Publicans to reduce the priee of beer one penny per quart. —( Morning Post.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 211. The LORI? CgANCEILOR on coming into Court at ten o'clock, observed that it might be useful to the bar to know that he wuutd the at two o'clock, as he was obliged to attend elsewhere to receive the Recorder's Report. PRACTICE IN BANKRUPTCY. Mr. MoNTAGUE said he was desired by the Vice-Chancellor to ask his Lordship for his opinion on the following question : " Whether an election of assignees would be legal where only one CommiSsioner attended at the meeting ?" The LORD CHANCEL'. on observed, it was too nice a point for him to give an immediate opinion on. He had had much conversation with Mr. Cooke on the subject of many Petitions which had come before him, where only two Commissioners at tended at the meetings, on which he had come to the conclusion that the commission was not gone, but that what was done by the two Commissioners went for nothing. He desired that the case which had been mentioned by Mr. Montague should be put at the head of the bankrupt petition paper. MARCH 24. LAWRENCE'S LECTURES ON PHYSIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY, AND THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MAN. LAWRENCE v. SMITH. Mr. WETHEREliio — Wreplied to the arguments of the plaintiff's Counsel. He had little more to say in addition to what he had already urged to the Court. Mr. Lawrence had asserted the materiality of the soul for the purpose of denying its immortality. He did not content himself with stating cer tain premises, and leaving it to his readers to draw their infe rence from them ; he had deduced his own conclusion with ma thematicareciion? and asseted t as mater bond all conjecture. l p s He h ad said that the i mind a kept t ey equal progress with the body ; like it, it was feeble in childhood, gained strength with puberty, declined in old age, and was annihi lated in death. This was not a work containing the doubts of a sceptic, but asserting that of which it said there was no doubt. It stated, that unless you were prepared to admit that an immaterial principle existed in the whole class of animals down to the animalcule, you could not ascribe it to man. He did not go on to inform his pupils, that although zoological reasoning did not enable them to ascertain this principle, yet they might learn from revelation what it was impossible for the imperfection of human science to discover. Had the book made such a reservation in favour of the doctrines disclosed in Scripture, then, indeed, it might be said to contain what had been called by his Learned Friend, Mr. Shadwell, the antidote to the poison. But that was not the case. He denied the au thenticity of Scripture, and scoffed at religion, rather than made a reservation in its favour ; abstaining from anywhere stating that that which was inconsistent with zoological reason ing, existed, nevertheless, theologically. Mr. Shadwell had quoted a passage from page 7, which he (Mr. Wetherell) had abstained from reading in his opening of the case, out of deli cacy to Mr. Lawrence ' • as he thought it was sufficient to charge him with what he had directly asserted, without alluding to that which bore a doubtful construction. But since Mr. Shad well had used the passage for the purpose of showing that it contained a corrective to the offensive passages, he (Mr. We therell) should be allowed to use it also. (The Learned Coun sel then read the passage alluded to, which spoke of the theo logical doctrine of the immortality of the soul, as depending upon a different authority from that of natural reason, and call ing it a sublime doctrine ; and one, the introduction of which, as it had existed in all ages, and amongst all nations, &c. was not suited to that place. He contended that this passage was not meant'to create respect towards the authority of revelation. The word " sublime" seemed rather to be used in a sense of ridicule than otherwise, for it was put in antithe sis with the powers of the anatomist and the physiologist, by which the immaterial being could not be discovered, and that therefore the doctrine was too sublime to be true. Its introduction not being "suited to that place"—namely, the Theatre of the College of Surgeons, seemed also to be meant as a sneer.—He should have gone on to state, that " what we cannot demonstrate is made clear by divine revelation." He did not do so ; but rather put the Bible on the shelf altoge ther ; and therefore the passage contained none of the antidote ascribed to it by Mr. Shadwell. And then as to the passage in which he denied the truth of the deluge, and the peopling of the earth by the descendants of Adam and Eve, as being zoologically impossible ; there, also, he refrained from stating that it might have taken place by miraculous interposition of the Deity. There was also another passage in the work which he (Mr. Wetherell) was compelled to say, so far from its reserving a saving to revelation, was intended to revile religion. It spoke of the peculiar virulence of religious controversy as being proverbial, and said the odium theologicnm was a fiend that should not be suffered to intrude into the fair garden of science. Now, although the words odium thcologicum might, taken abstractedly, be said to apply to the controversy, yet when coupled with what went before and what followed, it was pretty evident that they were intended to apply to the dogmas themselves, as constituting the ugly fiend whose admission would deface the beautiful parterres of the modern garden of science. The passage that followed, also, in which churchmen were railed at for the abusive epithets they were in the habit of pouring forth upon their controversial antagonists, when placed in contact with what went before and came after it, particularly when contrasted with the term " sublime," shewed what sort of corrective was intended for those parts of the work which impugned the doc trines contained in revelation. Mr. Shadwell had quoted pas sages from the works of a long list of eminent divines. He (Mr. Wetherell) was not a little astonished to hear the names of Butler, Locke, Paley, Warburton, and others, cited in sup port of the doctrines contained in this work. There certainly might be some terms in the holy writings which had engaged the attention of great and learned men, as throwing some doubt upon the state of existence in the intervening period between the death of the body and its resurrection: but they had never said that it was therefore to be inferred that the annihilation of the soul took place with that of the body. The term Exot,th,Esly7ctv, as.used by St. Paul, Mr. Wetherell contended, had not the - meaning imputed to it by Mr. Shadwell. It was used in a neuter, not a positive sense ; and did not imply the extinction of the soul, but was meant to express the intermediate state, whatever that state might be. So the word Psyche, which was used in the Septuagint, as occur ring in tie book of Genesis, did not merely because it had a comprehensive sense therefore imply an immaterial principle in the brutes and fishes as well as in man. An allusion had been made to Mr. Locke. He had amused himself with giving a definition of human ideas, and his work contained a passage in which it was said not to be impossible for the Deity to have imparted to matter the property of thinking. But he had not asserted that doctrine in the sense in which it was used by the scoffers at religion ; for he contended that the soul was im mortal; and that we should be accountable hereafter for our actions in this life. It therefore did not signify whether the soul was combined with matter or was an abstract essence of immateriality; since its future responsibility was admitted. But that was very different from the doctrineheld forth in the school of Lincoln's-inn-fields. Mr. Locke not only allowed that the soul was immortal, but it was the object of every part of his book to•establish its immortality. Mr. Wetherell then referred to Dr. 'Builer's . analogy, which Mr. Shadwell had quoted ; and said, that so far from supporting his argument, he had contended that, putting religion out of the question, the strong preponderance of human reasoning was in favour of the soul's immortality ; and that, neither from the reason of the thing, nor the analogy of nature, could a conclusion be drawn that the soul was annihilated by death. He belonged to a class of writers who far excelled those of our modern school, and drew very different inferences from them. For this eminent writer says, that it is not even clear that immateriality does not exist in all animals. Dr. Paley's name had also been dragged in, in sup port of this doctrine, which gave him (Mr. Wetherell) considera ble surprise ; for in his concluding chapter he tells us not to, bind ourselves by the analogy of nature ; for in every object of nature there seems to be something ultra the ordinary powers and functions of nature itself, as it appears to us. But, taking the hypothesis one way or the other, all those great writers re serve the doctrine of revelation, except our modern sciolists, who would engross the garden of science, with all its flowers, and walks, and parterres, to themselves. He (Mr. W.) ex pressed his regret at being obliged to make these observations ; but unless this school of infidelity were put down, the effect upon society would be most injurious. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that this case had been ar gued at the bar with great learning and with great ability.— He would explain in a few words the principles on which his decision should be founded. On the observations which had been made upon the College of Surgeons as the place in which these lectures had been read, he would not touch : he would only treat the plaintiff as the author of the work. This case had been introduced by a Bill filed by Mr. Lawrence, in which he stated that he was the Author of this book, which the defendant had also published ; and that he was entitled to the protection of this Court, in the preservation of the profits resulting from its pub lication. Undoubtedly the jurisdiction of this Court was founded on this principle, that where the law will not afford a complete remedy to literary property when invaded, this Court will lend its assistance ; because, where every publication is a dis tinct cause of action, and when several parties might publish the book, if a man were obliged to bring an action on each oc casion, the remedy would be_worse than the disease. But then this Court will only interfere where he can by law sustain an action for damages equal to the injury _he has sustained. He might'then come here to make his legal remedy more effectual. But if the case be one which it is not clear will sustain an action at law, then this Court will not give him the relief he seeks. The present case had been opened as an ordinary case of piracy, and he took it that nothing was then said by Mr. Wilbraham as to the general tenor of the work, or of par ticular passages in it. He (the Lord Chancellor) was bound to look, not only at its general tenor, but also at particular pas sages unconnected with its general tenor ; for if there were any parts of it which denied the truth of Scripture, or witich fur nished a doubt as to whether a Court of Law would not decide that they had denied the truth of Scripture, he was bound to look them, and decide accordingly. There was a peen liar circumstance attending this case, which was, that the defendant possessed no right to the work, but said to the plaintiff—" This book is so criminal in its nature as to de prive you of all protection at law against others and myself, and I will therefore publish it." Now he (the Lord Chan cellor) knew it to be said, that in cases where the work con tained criminal matter, by refusing the injunction, allowed the greater latitude for its dissemination. But his answer to that was, that this Court possessed no criminal jurisdiction. It could only look at the civil rights of the parties ; and, there fore, whether a different proceeding were hereafter instituted against the defendant, or the plaintiff, or both, was a circum stance with which he had nothing to do. The only ques tion for him to determine was, whether it was so clear that the plaintiff possessed a civil righti in this publication, as to leave no doubt upon his (the Lord Chancellor's) mind that it would support an action in a Court of Law. Now his Lordship had read the whole of this book with attention, and it certainly did raise such a doubt in his mind. It might probably be expected that after the able and learned argument which had gone forth to the world upon a subject so materially affecting the happi ness of mankind, he should state his answer to that argument ; but if he left these parties to a Court of Law—and he should leave them to a Court of Law—his opinion might have the effect of prejudicing the question to be there determined. All he would say, therefore, was, that entertaining a rational doubt upon some parts of the work, as to their being directed aga nst the truth of Scripture, he would not continue this injunction but the plaintiff might apply for another after - he had cleared away that doubt in a Court of Law. Further than this, his Lordship would not interfere.—lnjunction dissolved. LENT ASSIZES. HORSHAM, MARCH 27. The business of the Crown Side for this County finished this day. Of the thirty-two prisoners named in the calendar, eleven were capitally convicted and received sentence of death, but none were left for execution. TILE RING V. NARY MATHEWS. This was an indictment against the defendant; a young woman of about twenty, for keeping a disorderly house at Brighton. _ The case opened and proved against the defendant was one of considerable depravity. It appeared in evidence, that the de fendant kept a brothel, of the very worst description, at Brigh ton ; that she had seduced into her service several young crea tures under the age of 14, and one not more than 11, to solicit custom for her illicit traffic. Three girls, all under 14 years of age, were called to prove the case, and several witnesses proved that the defendant kept, in other respects, a most disorderly house. The Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found the defendant guilty, and she was sentenced to pay to the King a fine of 101., and to be imprisoned in the House of Correction wr the term of two years. NORFOLK. The Commission having been opened on Saturday evening, Mr. Baron RICHARDS went into Court on Monday morning, and immediately began to try causes. LOCKE v. THE BISHOP OF NORWICH. This very important cause, for which Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN . was specially retained, came on about ten o'clock. Only three special jurors answering to their names, a tales was prayed. With Mr. Sergeant Vaughan were Mr. Robinson and Mr. Rolfe. Sergeants Blossett and Frere, and Mr. Storks, were the Counsel for the defendant. Mr. ROLFE opened the pleadings, which stated that Dr. Locke was seized of the rectory of Hilgay, otherwise Helga'', in this county ; but that Dr. Hewlett, who was the real de fendant, had been inducted by the Crown, on the ground that Dr. Locke had first simoniacally obtained the living, then had simoniacally sold it, and had by like means regained posses sion ; all which the plaintiff denied, and thereupon issue was joined.' No witnesses were called for the plaintiff. The Learned JUDGE summed up with little or no com ment, and the Jury having retired for a short time, returned with a verdict for the defendant, thereby, establishing the acts of simony. The trial lasted till five o'clock. LANCASTER ASSIZES, MARCH 26. The Grand Jury this day found true bills against David Ridgway and James Daniel, for perjuries alleged to be con , tained in the affidavit made by them in support of the motion for a new trial of Ridgway, as to the libel of which he was con victed at the last Assizes. RECORDER'S REPORT.—Yesterday the RE' CORDER made his Report of the following prisoners in the Gaol of Newgate, convicted of capital offences at the last Fe bruary Sessions, viz.—Robert Grout, Charles Marshall, Jonas Barnet Solomons, Daniel NiTithey - , William 111 4- Irene, Wrn• Osborne, and Edward Cochrane, for burglaries ; Edward Chid ley, Henry Newbury, Henry Stephens, - and lltattha Bettelley, for stealing in dwelling-houses.; John Fleming and William Flashman, for highway robberies ; and Robert Christmas, for horse-stealing ;—when William C3borne and Edward Cochr.ne were ordered for execution on Tuesday n4t. The others were respited during his Majesty's pleasure. - EXECUTION.—On Monday, Phillip:Chappell, convicted of the wilful murder of Mary Stevens, Was executed on the drop in front of the Devon County Gaol, in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators. This unhappy you ng man, after receiving the awful sentence of death on Friday, still persisted in his innocence, but on his return to the Gaol that evening, a respectable 'Dissenting Minister gained admittance to him and obtained a confession of his guilt.. He said that while walking with Mary Stevens, near the Mill-Leat, he stunned her by repeated blows on the head with a stick, and then threw her into the water ; but that the act was not pre meditated. When brought out. of his cell, a., little before twelve, for execution, he cried a great deal, and appeared stupified. He ascended the - drop very firmly; and during the time the executioner was ,adducting-the.. rope, and the Reverend Chaplain reading the prayers, he' swat vacantly around him, and appeared to pay but-little attention either to the one or the other. He shook hands with two or three persons, and after a pause of a minute he dropped the handkerchief, and was launched into eternity. All the other prisoners capitally convicted, (twenty-one in number,) have been reprieved except John Terry, for maliciously .setting fire to his house, in Ottery, with intent to defrailet the 'Royal Ex change Assurance Office ; who, it is expected, will be executed on Easter Monday.—( Exeter Flying Post, March 2E.) _ . SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.--- , 011 .SClRdsay last, a young man took a large quantity of laudanum, for the pur pose of committing suicide. The ileaaV opiate, hoWever, had a contrary effect to what he Intended, and instead of death, brought on such a violent Volll4ing . :as to completely dear the stomach of its coptents, and amongst what he • emitted was found a large worm ! It is remarkable- that he immediately got better, and boasts of being more: cheerful in spirits, and more healthy in constituti.v, since the occurrence than ever he was before. MARRIED. Yesterday, at Marylebone-church, Capt. Charles Gill, C. 8., R.N., '1 Harriet White, second daughter of Captain W. White, R.N. At George's church, Dublin, on the 23d instant, Robert Hume, Esq. of the 41st regiment of Foot, to Miss M. E. Pent land, niece of Charles Pentland, Esq. of Fitzwilliam-street. Yesterday, at the New Church, Mary-la-bonne, 'Frederick Francis Thompson, Esq., to Caroline Amelia, daughter of the late Adam Callander, Esq., of New Cavendish-street, and grand daughter of the late John Callander, Esq., of Craigforth, Stirling, North Britain. DIED. On Saturday last, Joseph Ashe, Eq., son of the late John Ashe, Esq., and brother to the late Rev. Samuel Ashe, marl, years Rector of Langley Burrell, Wilts. On Monday, 25th instant, at Wirksworth, Philip Gel], BM! aged 73, for many years one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Derbyshire. On 'Wednesday, the 20th inst., in the 69th year of his age,. the Rev. George Bossley, M.A., thirty , three years Rector 15 1 Clowne, and forty-one years Vicar of Chesterfield. ,; At Ballycasey, county of Clare, of apoplexy Roger Seal? Esq., aged 67 years. He has left an only son, who now be comes entitled to his large property. On the 18th inst., at Brsdckirk village, near Annan, a t the advanced age of 93 years, Mrs. Janet Jardine relict of the ha, Mr. John Jardine, farmer, in Hoddam Mains. She enjoye d all her corporeal and mental faculties to the very last moment of her existence. 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