The Sun. — London, England, 1822-03-21 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. SITRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, March '2l, 18'2'2. [N EV/ TIMES. A. Meeting. of the West India Ship-owners took place yesterday, but as it was rather of a private and preliminary nature, we only think it neces sary to state, that a Committee was appointed to watch over the interests of the parties concerned. A general Meeting of West India Planters and Merchants is announced for to-morrow ; and thus the great measures proposed relative to mercan tile navigation, will be successively brought un der the consideration of the different bodies most likely to be affected by them. We have already said, that we shall feel it a duty to the public to allow a free but temperate discussion of this great question in our columns ; and two letters relating to it,from different correspondents, will be found in another part of our paper. It is needless to say, that we in no degree commit ourselves to the opinions of the writers by giving them insertion. The public will judge for itself of the force of the respective arguments ; but we conceive that their fair and candid statement cannot but be productive of public good. [BRITISH PRESS.] The various and contradictory rumours respect- 1 ing the return of the Marquis of Hastings from India are at length set at rest. The subject was adverted to yesterday in the Court of Proprietors at the East India House, by Mr. It. Jackson, for the purpose of calling forth a full explana tion on the subject. In answer to some questions from that Gentleman, the Chairman stated that the Noble Marquis had tendered his resignation, that it was a spontaneous act, that it did not arise from any cause of dissatisfaction, and that the Directors regretted his determination. From the subsequent conversation, it appears that there is an adverse feeling in the Court to the person who, it is presumed, is intended for his suc cessor. Report has hitherto assigned only two candidates, Viscount Melville and Mr. Cannitig. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The effort which was made last night by Mr. Curwen to obtain a Tax on imported Tallow, with a view to afford relief to the agriculturists, did not receive much encouragement from the House. We certainly were not sorry at this re sult; for if Mr. Curwen had succeeded in his object, the landholders would have been enabled to levy a considerable tax on the people of this country. It is curious enough to hear the sort of reasoning by which it is attempted to be proved that a duty on imported tallow would be beneficial to the people. According to the state ment of Mr. Curwen, one-third of the tallow consumed in Rigland is derived from abroad.— The proportion of this foreign tallow furnished by Russia is said to be 19-20ths. A small duty of V. per ton is levied on the exportation by the Russian Government. Assuming the correctness of these proportions, we may ask how it happens that this duty only is imposed by so needy a Government as that of Russia ? Is it not the conviction, that instead of one-twentieth being supplied by other countries, such a tax, by rais ing the price at which the Russian producer could afford his commoditity, would enable these other countries to send a greater proportion ? for it is not from any want of supply that Europe and America do not at present furnish us with only one-twentieth, but because they cannot fur nish more at the present rate. We may safely assume, therefore, that the Russian Tallow is furnished at nearly as low a rate as possible.— The effect of imposing a high duty per ton would be the raising the price of foreign tallow by the amount of this duty, and consequently raising the English tallow to the level of the foreign. This, of course, would put so much in the pockets of the Landlords, but it would take as much from the pockets of the rest of the community. [MORNING POST.] The Irish Papers which arrived yesterday mention a confident expectation, that the Duke of Devonshire, instead of visiting the Continent, intends to reside the greater part of the ensuing summer at his seat in the county of Waterford.— j We have already stated, that the extensive estates of this amiable Nobleman (unlike those of many other land-proprietors) are under the most liberal and excellent system of management. — The consequence, as has been justly observed, is that his Grace's rents are paid with punctua lity—his property is improving daily—and his tenants are . grateful, prosperous, and contented. The Duke of Devonshire has, for some years past, expended large sums annually upon his estates in Ireland. Many thousand pounds have been laid out on his magnificent castle and demesne at Lis more ; and numerous works of general utility, such as bridges, roads, &c. have been planned and completed entirely at his Grace's private cost. Thus the public have been benefited, the poor employed, the Devonshire tenantry served, and the country improved—and all this is the work of a single great proprietor. What an ex ample to landlords, and how fortunate would it be for Ireland if other owners of the soil would imitate it even in part. It is scarce necessary to say, that there is not a single Whiteboy on the whole of his Grace's extensive estates. A meet ing of the Magistrates of the county of Kildare was held oa Monday, in consequence of the pas sage in the Marquis Wellesley's dispatches re specting the state of that county. The Duke of Leinster, Lord Cloncurry, and several others, bore testimony to its tranquillity. The Earl of Mayo and a few others asserted that several out rages had been committed ; but his Lordship at the same time stated that the county of Kildare was inseated through mistake for the county of Kilkenny, in his Excellency's despatches. [MORNING lIERALD.I Recent accounts from Spain, particularly the proceedings of the new Cortes, are calculated to inspire confidence respecting the actual and pro spective state of that country. There is none of that wild spirit of democracy—of that substitu tion of unchained passion and hot-headed theory for moderate and practical Reform, which had been anticipated with so much assurance by the enemies of the Spanish Constitution. It appears, on the contrary, that the new Assembly con ducts its proceedings with the same gravity, decorum, and moderation which distinguished the last ; and that the only point of diffe rence between them is decidedly in favour of the former—namely, their examination of the real evil which works mischief at the heart of Spain, and their application of the best, if not the only proper remedy. Those who viewed the state of Spain with an impartial eye, and a knowledge of the real causes of the strength and weakness, the concord and disunion of a people, never regarded the Government of Spain as endangered by the mere drivelling foam of some frantic or unprincipled priests, bigots, pea sant mountaineers, and discarded unliveried courtiers, although magnified into an overwhelm ing torrent so frequently, and, as it since turns out, so falsely, by the fosterers of slavery and superstition throughout Europe. No : the really vulnerable point has been the inadequacy of the resources of Spain to meet her charges ; and it is to secure this point that the Cortes are labouring by the simple and efficient method of universal and unsparing retrench ment. The commencement of the reductions has the merit of rigid equity and excel , lent example. The Cortes has proposed to re , duce the allowances of its own members by a fourth part. There is as yet no statement of the plan of retrenchment; but the Minister calcu lates that it will reduce the public charges by such a sum as to bring them within the public income. The deficit of the revenue at present is 197,000,000 of reals. A perfectly good un derstanding appears, so far as the reports of the public proceedings afford the means of judging, to subsist between the National Representation and the King. [THE TIMES.] By the Admiral Cockburn, arrived at Dart mouth, advices from Pernambuco to the 11th ult. and from Rio de Janeiro to the 19th of January, have been received. The intelligence from both places is highly important, as indicating a decided disposition in both those provinces to become in dependent of Portugal, if, indeed, the events that have occurred may not be considered an actual severing of the ties that held them to each other. It appears by the advices from Rio de Janeiro, that on the arrival there from Lis bon of the order of the Cortes by which the Prince Royal was recalled to Europe, the dis content of the inhabitants of all classes, which had been suppressed while the event was doubtful, was very distinctly manifested, and threatened the most dangerous consequences. A meeting of the Camara, or Legislative Assembly, was forthwith held to deliberate on the measures most proper to be adopted in the existing emergency. Little time was al lowed, and little time, therefore, was spent in the decision. They agreed on preparing a me morial or remonstrance to be presented to the Prince Royal, representing the dangerous results likely to follow his departure, and conjuring him, in the name of the people, to remain in Brazil. To give greater solemnity to the pre sentation of this remonstrance, they determined on walking in procession with it to the Palace. —They were received by the Prince with the deference due to their functions, and their re quest, after a short hesitation, was acceded to. The Prince, whatever his real sentiments, had apparently no alternative but compliance. — His assent was celebrated with great demonstra tions of joy by the whole city, which was illumi nated for three nights in succession. In the midst of the rejoicings, however, a movement of the Portuguese regiments, amounting to nearly 1000 troops, excited very general apprehen sion. They marched out of their quarters with arms, and took possession of a strong fort, situated on a hill which commanded the Royal Palace. The Brazilian Regiments, also un der arms, were extremely numerous ; and as orders were sent out on the first alarm to call in all the militia in the neighbourhood, who poured into the city with great promptitude, an engagement with the Portuguese troops seemed to be impending. The latter, noticing the de termined conduct of their opponents, faltered in their resolution, and a negociation took place, which ended in a compromise that the Por tuguese troops should be allowed to retain their arms, but that they should consent to be conveyed to the opposite side of the bay, until vessels should be prepared to carry them to Lisbon. This arrangement was instantly car ried into effect, and tit - Mr embarkation for Europe was expected to take place almost immediately. They were surrounded iu the mean time by a cordon of native troops, while two or three ships of war were anchored immediately opposite to their quarters. Their numbers, were fast diminish ing by the desertion of those who determined to re main in Brazil, and to become private citizens. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PREROGATIVE COURT, WEDNESDAY, lllAncii 20. - - SIR GEORGE POWNALL AGAINST MORLEY. Sir JOHN NICIIOLL gave sentence on this cause to day. It was a question as to the competency-of the late Mr. Pownall to execute a codicil, by which he bequeathed one moiety of his personalty, 6,0001., to an individual of the name of Morley. It was proved in evidence, that the testator, in consequence of a nervous disorder of long standing, became, after the fire at the Custom-house, in which office he held a situation, in 1815, childish and imbecile, subject to extravagant fancies and un founded alarms. After the death of his wife, the care of his per son and property devolved on Sir G. Pownall and Mr. Morley, with whom he had been long acquainted. Sir George residing at Brighton, the deceased was left almost under the sole control of his intimate friend and relation Mr. Morley. Mr. Morley, shortly before the testator's death, told Mrs. Wiglesworth, the conh dential solicitor - of the testator, that he had fixed his dye" upon a nice little sum of 3,7001. Navy 5 per cents. standing in the de ceased's n am e;":an d that deceased was going to give it him; there fore he requested Mr.Wiglesworth would attend to make a codi cil. Mr. W., feeling some suspicion that all was not right, cau tioned 'Morley to beware how he acted ; and having 2 or 3 times attended on the deceased, was convinced, from his silence and childish conduct, that be had neither the intention nor the power to execute such a cocidil ; and therefore firmly declined to have any thing to do with the transaction. Subsequently, a codicil was written out by a Mr. Jacques, the deceased's apothecary, by which he bequeathed 3,0001. to Morley. This was the paper opposed by Sir George Pownall, on the ground of having been unfairly obtained from an incompetent testator. The Court concurred in this opinion, and after severely commenting on the conduct and evidence of Morley, the legatee, and Jac , ques, the apothecary, pronounced against the paper, and de• creed all costs to be paid by Mr. Morley. FOR THE SUN. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. MR. EDlTOR—Certain observations I sent to you on the state of public affairs, and to which you obligingly gave place in your valuable Papers of the 2Gth ult. and the 14th of this month, having, as I understand, excited considerable attention, I am induced again to trouble you with some fur ther thoughts of the same description and ten dency. As they consist of many parts, all indeed appertaining to the same subject, but dispersed under many heads, I must hope for the reader's excuse if I put my thoughts miscellaneously in the order in which they occur to me, without a too nice regard to order in the arrangement. First, then, as to County Meetings. The pressure on the landed interest of the country having been tut too clearly proved by the feelings of every individual connected with its cultivation, Public Meetings for the ascertainment of the causes of that pressure have been held in almost every county throughout the kingdom ; but though in many instances convened under an express ex ception to all party or factious motives, yet have they generally deviated in the very first instance into debating and party clubs, where the first subject discussed is the supposed necessity of an immediate Reform of Parliament, and the next that of lowering taxes, so as to bring the Revenue with strict economy within the means of payment by the public, seldom or ever touching on the real causes of the immediate griavances and then only as it were en passant, and without giving them that weight to which they are so well en titled. With regard to the primary object of their attention, Reform of Parliament, at all meetings held for the consideration of that sub ject, it has seldom been found that any two of the leading debaters are agreed upon the means to be proposed for the attainment of that sup posed salutary object : one proposes triennial, another annual Parliaments, a third universal suffrage, a fourth subject to certain modifications, and so on with different shades of opinions ad in finitum ; all, however, tending to demoralize the Lower House of Parliament, and render it more independent of the other two States, consisting of the Sovereign and Peers ; as if the placing of the purse and the sword in the hands of popular de magogues, and laying the foundation of such an other bloody Revolution as we have lately seen in a neighbouring kingdom, would in effect re store the famed Constitution of England to its pristine elements, and give vigour to every branch of its administration. The madness of this is but too apparent to every reflecting, ho nourably intentioned mind ; yet to this are all other considerations sacrificed, and the public good lost sight of in endless squabbles for what is in itself impracticable, and, if obtained, would only tend to involve the whole community in one common scene of ruinous convulsion and distress. The next outcry raised at these Meetings founds itself on the necessity of strict economy, which, with the lowering of taxes, might equalize the Revenue to the just and necessary demands made on it. No man can be better inclined to a strict observance of the former than the writer of this, who advocates no extraordinary expences that can be saved with any degree of advantage to the public, or common justice to individuals, whether creditors, ministers, or others employed under them ; but, at the same time, he is of opinion that the loaf may be pared too thin, and, when reduced to the crust, leave little or nothing for the necessary demands of Government, or the remuneration of those whose services have been, and are, most useful to it. With conquests and Colonies dispersed through every region of the habitable globe, fleets and armies, and establish ments, are necessary, which were not so half a century ago, and every considerate mind will make its allowances accordingly. As to taxes, with a debt of from 8 to 900 millions, the interest of which must be duly paid, and such an esta blishment as is absolutely necessary to the sup port of our empire, a certain revenue must be obtained by taxes, few, if any, of which can be spared from the.latest estimates of Government. Sixty millions and upwards must be annually raised to provide for all these necessary demands; and were we to dismiss a thousand meritorious and hard-working clerks from our offices, and superannuate as many more upon trifling allow ances—were we to deduct 10, 20, or even 25 per cent. from the salaries of every officer, great and small, employed under Government, it would be found, that whilst thousands of individuals wei e subjected to the greatest distress, the savings to the State would be too inconsiderable to justify that general outcry that is raised about them, and become as it were comparatively but a drop of water in the ocean to the general burthens of the State. It is sufficiently obvious that a million or two saved this way would necessarily subject hundreds to the greatest and most un merited distress. Whilst it would remain to be shewn that the distresses of the people would be materially relieved by such measures, however popularly, and with seeming justice, the general i demand of strict ()economy has been pressed upon the attention of all public assemblies. To meet the interest of the public debt, and the payment of an establishment reduced as low as circum stances permit, 60 millions are to be annually raised on the subjects of this country. Let every thinking man then consider what the compara tively trivial savings of revenue produced even to the heart's content of the Lynx-eyed Mr. liumE will effect towards relieving the people from their burthens, and doing away even in part the dreadful and immediate pressures on the landed interest of the Country. The sole means by which these pressures have been hitherto borne were dependent on the credit of a paper cur rency. The Bank of England, issuing from 25 to 30 millions of this currency, now reduced at a single styoke to 18, and perhaps private bankers nearly in the same proportion ; which issues alone constituted the principal resources of the country, and enabled it to bear up against all the circumstances tending to depress it. These done away, or at least diminished, in a very considerable ratio, that almost universal distress, now so loudly complained of, has ne cessarily followed ; and should those issues by the Bank of England and private bankers be further diminished, the ruin of the country will be im mediate, and things, instead of finding their level, become every day more desperate. The measures suggested in the writer's former papers on these subjects are the only means, at least within his limited ken, at all likely to furnish an adequate remedy, and to their speedy adop tion he confidently recommends the immediate attention of the Gover►►ment, and the assent of all well conditioned subjects resolutely minded to promote the interests of their country, or at least to preserve it from total and irremediable ruin. It has been shewn, and the writer hopes satisfactorily, that all the arguments drawn from i relative demand and supply are founded on mis conception, and the premises once shewn to be fallacious, every conclusion drawn from them falls of course to the ground. The increase besides of the pressure to its present intolerable degree has been too sudden to proceed from any such source, and is solely attributable to the sudden change of currency, and little if any thing besides. This, the almost sole effectual cause of all the mis chiefs, seems to have escaped notice, or has been but slightly touched upon in all the public meet ings convened to consider the most important subject that ever engaged the attention of any nation iu the universe ; these meetings are called for one distinct purpose, and their attention is im mediately directed to others, and Reform of Par liament, reduction of taxes, and strict ceconomy, recommended as the sole panaceas for all the evils of the State. Open but the doors of the Lower House of Parliament to the dregs of the people, and strip the Revenue of what is absolutely es sential to the payment of the interest of its im mense debt, and the support of its establishment, and they consider all necessary purposes answered, all useful objects attained, than which nothing can be less true in the eye of the dispassionate reasoner, or less calculated to promote a single practical object for the real and substantial bene fit of the State. Before the writer concludes, he conceives it may not be amiss to say a few words on the subject of paper currency in general, on which he will endeavour to be as short and ex plicit as possible. Paper money does not con stitute wealth any more than the precious metals themselves, but is merely a representative of so much credit, and passing from one hand to ano ther, as such becomes the incentive by mutual assent to further industry. When issued from an absolute Government, solely at the will of a despot, or by any other Government upon the emergency of State necessity, and not supported by real wealth, it always sooner or later falls to pieces, as the assignats in France, and the issues under different denominations in America, a thpusand dollars of which nominal currency, in a very short time after their first issues, would not purchase the commodities of a single one in the precious metals. In fact, they were built on no solid foundation at all, but simply on the credit of those ephemeral Governments, whose immediate pressures were relieved at the moment ; but certain objects having been gained, and their wars and their establishments carried on for a limited period, they fell to pieces, as the natural consequence of their unstable foundation in the hands of the last holders. But not so the issues of our Bank of England paper; created indeed on the spur of State necessity, like the others, but supported by the solid and substantial credit of the country, they always nearly maintained their equality with the precious metals, and never ex perienced any very material depreciation. They fully answered every purpose of the State, with out loss to individuals, and enabled us to raise more monies within the year than would be found in gold and silver throughout all the kingdoms of Europe. That currency continued after the war ; prices were very tolerably sustained till lately, when that deleterious vote of the Commons was passed, by which the whole system was at once overturned, and things brought to that unfortunate pass which so feelingly presses at this moment most especially upon the class of agriculturists, whilst the funded and monied property of the kingdom is enhanced in value, and combined with the depreciation of marketable commodities, enables the holders of that species of property to purchase twice as much at market as they could before with the same money. It was stated with ,a view to produce acquiescence in a vote founded on such evident injustice, such substantial injury to the best and most substantial interests of the community, that the difference occasioned by it in marketable prices would not exceed 2 and 3 per Cent. and that a return to the old established currency of the country in the precious metals would be cheaply purchased at that rate. It is hoped, for their own honour, that such was the opinion of that Com mittee, though selfish motives might without any extraordinary stretch of the baser passions he very fairly attributed to those who advocated the cause in which their own interests were so per fectly secured at the expence of other more im portant classes of the public at large. This has been, as the writer thinks, so completely esta blished in his former papers on this subject, as to need no further proof ; but how men of clear understanding, honest hearts, and unbiassed minds, could ever be brought to acquiesce in a plan fraught with such evident ruin to the State, remains still a matter of astonishment, and requires some exertion of mind to discover and explain. The fact seems to be, that nothing was looked to but the simple depreciation of the paper cur rency at the time, which upon nice calculation being found not to exceed 2 or 3 per cent. they supposed that such only would be the difference, whereas the immediate consequence was the di minution of issues by the Bank of England and all other Banks proportionally, which almost instantly rendered the depreciation of prices equal to 20 or 25 per cent. and perhaps even more, of the consequences of which the wretched cultivator of the soil now so very justly com plains. 'When that great and respectable body, the Bank of England, was left at liberty to pay in money or notes, no necessity existed for the diminution of discounts ; the larger they were the greater the profits ; but when compelled to take up every note in metallic currency, they naturally guarded themselves against possible contingencies, and dis t counted no more bills than the gold and silver in their coffers could meet. Upon that goad discounts were reduced from 25 and even 30 millions to 18, and should they think it expe dient to reduce them still lower, say to 9, there would be no money left in the country, but those g millions, the issues of private Bankers, and the precious metals in our hands, for the abso lutely necessary currency of the country, and the payment of 60 millions annually to the tax gatherers, to meet the demands of public credi tors, and sustain the establishment of this great, powerful, and, so far as real wealth and the sub stantial credit derived from it goes, this truly opulent country. In that case, instead of that level that we are told is to be found, when things come round, we shall proceed from bad to worse, till prices be absolutely lowered to no thing, and not a marketable article to be found in the kingdom : for what, after the annihilation of paper credit, remains in it, but the aforesaid' diminished resources? It will be asked what was done in the country before the Bank Re striction Act was passed. The plain answer to which is, what were our then comparatively to' our present burthens ; what our taxes to meet them ? To which another question remains to be asked to render the answer complete. Could we have maintained our war a single year without those restrictions on metallic issues ; and might we not, at this moment, have been prostrate at the feet of a victorious and ins suiting enemy ? By what means, with no more than the metallic currency of the country, could we have raised upwards of one hundred millions► in a single year, assisted some Allies, subsidized others, and taken the lead we did in all Euro-- pean politics ? The very supposition of such a possibility teems with absurdity, and cannot be for a month supported. If you are wise their (I address myself to the governing' Powers of the country), or even commonly - prudent, do not hesitate or delay to confess your error, retrace your steps, and restore the country to that state of peace and plenty from which you have prema turely drawn it, and do not by pertinacity of the worst description persevere in measures that plunge the most substantial and productive por tion of the community into absolute despair, and will soon involve all the remaining classes of it in one common scene of irretrievable ruin and destruction. I. S. EAST INDIA HOUSE. A Quarterly General Meeting of Proprietors of East India Stock was held yesterday at the Company's House, in Leaden hall-street. After the routine business had been gone through, The CHAIRMAN (T. Reid, Esq.) informed the Court, that the grant of 2001. per annum to Dr. Gilchrist, and the remu- neration of 2,0001. to Mr. J. H. Polly, were sanctioned by the Commissioners for managing the affairs of India. MIDSHIPMEN IN THE COMPANY'S SERVICE. Mr. R. JACKSON said, he had, on a former occasion, felt it to be his duty to notice the manner in which young men who entered the naval service of the Company were treated. He had then stated that there was not that attention paid to their morals and education which he conceived ought to be exer cised towards them. He requested to know whether the Court of Directors had done any thing on this interesting subject ? The CHAIRMAN said, the Court of Directors felt much obliged to the Learned Gentleman fcr his suggestion on this subject. They had, in consequence of his observations, taken the subject into their serious consideration, and adopted a re solution which should be laid before the Proprietors. The Clerk then read a resolution of the Court of Directors of the sth of January, 1822, which pointed out, in clear and spe cific terms, the manner in which the Midshipmen, in the Com pany's service, are to employ their leisure hours, with a view to their education, moral, literary, and nautical. Mr. R. JACKSON expressed his sincere gratitude to the Di rectors, for their efforts to introduce moral and religious feel ings amongst their young servants in the nautical department. He hoped, as the expense would be very trifling, that the reso lution would be published. Such a notification would enable parents to form a just estimate of the beneficent views of the Company. MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. Mr. R. JACKSON then inquired whether it was or was not true that the illustrious person at the head of the Bengal Go vernment had sent in his resignation ? The CHAIRMAN answered, that the Marquis of Hastings had signified a disposition to be relieved from the duties of his go vernment. He felt very sincere regret at the determination of the Noble Marquis, because he believed that no individual ever conducted the affairs of the Company with more talent, or with a, greater desire to add to its prosperity, than the Noble Marquis had done.--(Hear, hear !).—He thought it right to state that, in order to comply with the anxious desire of the Noble Marquis, the Court of Directors had been occupied in nominatin a suitable successor. Mr. S. £IXON wished for a more explicit statement on the subject of the Noble Marquis's resignation. If something more were not said, it might perhaps be supposed that the Noble Marquis had retired from disgust, when, perhaps, ill health was the cause of his resignation. The CHAIRMAN—He is coming home, not from disgust, but at his own earnest and anxious desire, and much against the will of the Court of Directors.--( Hear, hear !) Mr. R. JACKSON pronounced a handsome eulogium on the character of the Marquis of Hastings. Mr. D. KINNAIRD also bore testimony to his exalted merits. It was not, he observed, his intention to propose any motion to the Court on the subject, because he felt that, when the documents connected with the Government of the Noble Mar quis were laid on the table of the Court, they would speak more strongly in his favour than the eloquence of his greatest admirer could do. Mr. HUME hoped, when the documents alluded to were pro duced, that it would be seen from them that the Marquis of Hastings had exerted himself in removing the abuses con' nected with the administration of justice in India. The Noble Marquis had been thanked for his military achievements; but if he had devised the means of rendering the administration of justice more pure and effectual, he deserved more than it was in the power of the Company to repay. After an irregular conversation on the subject of Mr. Hoin' blower's penalties, which gave rise to some incidental obser vations on the subject of the 20001. to Mr. Pelly, (a gr ant whi - eh Mr. Hume strongly condemned) the Court adjourned sine die. COAL-MARKET, MARCH 20. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 28 Newcastle - - 14 -29 s 6d to 40s 9d 6 Sunderland - - 61 -33 s 6d to 42s sa BIRTHS. On Sunday, the 17th inst. at Croften House, near Titchfieltit Hunts, the Lady of Thomas Naphten, Esq. of a son. On Tuesday, the 19th inst. at house in Clarges-street, the Lady of Henry Jeffreys, Esq. of a daughter. On Tuesday, in Gloucester-place, the Lady of East Clayton , Esq. of a daughter. iIIARRIED. At Meadow Place, Edinburgh, on the 13th instant, Andre!' Fraser Esq. of the Honourable East India Madras Military Establishment, to Isabella, eldest daughter of Archibald COl' quhoun, Esq. Calcutta. DIED. At his father's house, in Burton-street, on Tuesday last, o f a decline, Charles Walter Wetten, in the 17th year of his age' On Sunday, the 17th instant, in her 21st year, at Whitbt Hall, in the county of Durham, Elizabeth Anne, the daughte r of the late and sister to the present Sir Hedworth Williarnse , Bart. At Kirkcudbright, Scotland, on the 14th instant, }I elerl. Wight, eldest dau g hter of the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, Minister 01 the Gospel at Gladsmuir. Printed and Published, for the PROPRIETORS, at the i4/2( ORricE, 114 Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIP.S,