The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A letter from Ireland, which we annex to this article, will be read with interest, and, if we do not greatly err, with considerable satisfaction also. The deferred trials of the Munster circuit, for anti-tithe meetings and conspiracies, being eagerly looked forward to on all sides, some curious occurrences have taken place. At Lime rick several prisoners were to be tried, and pro tlifious things were expected from Mr. Daniel 0 Connel. Unluckily, the cholera had not altogether vanished from that city, and it was therefore altogether too soon for the rival nuis ance to appear there. The anti-tithe mania of the learned gentleman was rebuked and put down by the anti-cholera. Some annoyance may have been indicated, and some contempt ; but the trials were put off, and there was, as our cor respondent says, "no outbreak." At Tralee, however, there was no cholera; the trials there- fore proceeded ) and the Agitator, as counsel for the prisoners, spouted forth abuse of Lord Anglesey, &c., during four mortal hours by the time-piece. What next ? Mr. Woulfe, a Catholic barrister of great talent, replied to the Agitator on the part of the Crown, and three of the O'Connell clients and dupes were convicted. Twice, then, within a week has the spell been broken. The Agitator's dread of cholera has proved too many for his patriotism, and a jury of honest Kerrymen, from his own vicinage, proved too many for his rhetoric. He failed to come to Limerick, where he had been expected ; and at Tralee, where he did show him self, he failed to satisfy a jury from among his own neighbours, of the plain proposition, that black is white. The people no longer conceal their distrust of this idol of the last ten years, and from the tone of the popular papers of Dublin, persons on our side of the water suspect that it begins to be " mighty bad" with the Liberator. Here follows the extract of the letter referred to :—" In the deferred Munster Circuit several tithe cases were likely to come on for trial,—that is, the trial of parties implicated in the violent meetings lately held. To the result of these trials the attention of the public was directed with the greatest anxiety. The prisoners naturally looked for and claimed the advocacy of Mr. O'Connell ; but cholera had not altogether ceased at Li merick, and this physical disturbance repelled the spirit of agitation. -The greatest dissatisfaction ensued, but as the trials were postponed, no out-break of discontent on the part of the sub agitators occurred. The next trials were fixed at Tralee, in the very county which Mr. O'Con nell represents. Here his adherents knew that he must appear, and they anticipated that he must be triumphant. When the cases came on, every attempt was made for delay. Copies of indictments, containing 30 counts, were called for on the part of each traverser. The officers of the Crown were prepared, and this demand was instantly complied with. An attempt was made to postpone by a traverse in prox. This was defeated. A jury, composed of Protestant and Catholic was empannelled, a near relative of Mr. O'Connell being one of the number. The Crown set aside four persons only, and those on affidavits, uncontradicted, averring that the parties had themselves attended anti tithe meetings. The cause proceeded. The witnesses examined were all natives of the county, and from the vicinage. Mr. O'Connell made a speech of four hours, in which he exhausted his powers of eloquence, and exhibited his powers of abuse against tithes, Lord Anglesea, Colonel Gossett, and many other things and persons. The Court adjourned, The reply on the part of the Crown was by Mr. Woulfe, a most able and excellent Roman Ca tholic advocate. A verdict of " Guilty " has been returned against three of the traversers, a fourth being acquitted in consequence of the weakness of the evidence as applicable to him. The importance of all this will occur to you at once. The people have thus seen that the dread of cholera is somewhat more effective than all the professed zeal of pa triotism ; and that the argument and the autho rity of their legal and political oracle may be set aside by the verdict of a Jury of their own countrymen."— Times. The conduct of the Government towards the West India body has been sufficiently destruc tive; it needed not that Lord - Goderich should add insult to injury in the course pursued with ' respect to the Orders in Council. Certain mo difications of them have been ordered from the Colonial Department, which the colonists first hear of through the medium of the newspapers that have published Lord Goderich's despatch with reference to this subject, and which was sent out to the island some months since. To several communications that were made to the Colonial Secretary his answer was that he could not promulgate any information with regard to the course to be adopted as to the Orders in Council. There is a littleness in this conduct that one could scarcely have expected from the present Cabinet, for there could be no motive for secrecy beyond that of causing further anxi ous suspense to an, interest that had been already deeply injured by. the Whigs. It it is intended to be asserted that the despatch was a public do-, cument because it was among the Parliamentary papers, that is proof of still meaner conduct on the part of Lord Goderich, because it proves that he could have no real motive for conceal ing the contents of his despatch even for a point of time ; and he must also know that although Parliamentary papers are public documents, technically speaking, they are not accessible to every one, and many persons interested in the operation of the Orders in Council, had no means of seeing those documents. The. fol lowing are the modifications we have alluded. to:; —Permission has been given to the Governors of the Crown Colonies to admit of the considera tion of various points, in the Order in Council by the Courts, with a view to some modifica tion of them, and, in the event of their ap proving of the alterations sumsted, that they should be admitted ; but that in the promulga tion of such alterations no reference should be made to the authorities of such Courts, but that it should appear to emanate from themselves. The consideration of the Orders in Council is not pressed upon the Colonies having regular Legislatures at present, the reason given for not pressing the matter further at the moment be ing that Parliament has taken up the question. We repeat, what injury could the public service have sustained by Lord Goderich exercising common courtesy towards the West India pro prietors by informing them of the course be in tended to take ?—Morning Post. We receive every day additional proofs of the absolute necessity of the Ballot. Throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, the efforts of the Conservatives to coerce the electors are most scandalous, and indeed the country will not en dure them. The landlords have the audacity to speak of their tenantry as if they had an absolute right to their votes. We have a striking in- stance of this in the Welshman (Carmarthen Journal) of Friday last. The bissenters of Carmarthen, it seems, have objections to vote , . for the Tory Candidate, Colonel Rice Trevor, who is the favourite of the Landlords ; and Mr. Daniel Prytherch, Chairman of Colonel Rice Trevor's Central Committee, who was the Mayor of the Tory Corporation of Carmarthen last year, has the unblushing effrontery to write the following Letter : " Committee•room, Carmarthen, Sept. 28, 1832. " DEAR SlR—The Hon. Colonel Rice Trevor's Central Committee, having received information from undoubted authority, that great efforts are makinz by the Dissenting Ministers throughout this county to influence the tenantry to vote, in opposition to their landlords, against Colonel Trevor, which, in several instances, have succeeded, beg leave earnestly to request you will lose no time in seeing the tenants on your estates, or, at all events, communi cating your sentiments to them through some influential agent. " I remain, dear Sir, yours obediently, " DANIEL I'RYTHERCH, Chairman." A meeting of the Dissenters took place at Carmarthen on Thursday last, at which it was resolved—" Not to support any Candidate for Parliamentary representation who does not pledge himself to advance and support the utter and itn mediate abolition and annihilation of Slavery in the British Colonies ;" and " That the Dissenters of the day having been mainly instrumental in placing the 1-lou , e of Brunswick on the Throne of these Realms, and feeling as sincere and unqua lified sentiments of loyalty as any other body in the Em pire, we utterly deny the right of conceding to Incorpora tions, power, or influence, to enable them to erect a harrier to the dissemination of Christianity in any of the British dependencies ; and therefore we call on the British Go vernment to afford our cruse that protection, which in a constitutional, as well as religious view, it undoubtedly merits. " That it is the opinion of this meeting that all religious bodies ought to be supported by those alone who are at tached to them, and not by any involuntary exaction. " That, wishing to send our Candidates to Parliament with as little expense to them as possible, we pledge cur- selves, and recommend all our fellow Dissenters, to come to the poll at their own personal expense." This Meeting of Dissenters, it seems, greatly alarmed the Tories. The Welshman says, " The violence of the Tories is amusing. Colonel Trevor had his brigade, the staff of Carmarthen, under arms all day yesterday, lest the Meeting of the Dissenters should lead to riots. We would be glad to know who watched the Gallant Co lonel, for we believe he was full as riotously dis posed as the respectable individuals he thus at tempts to insult." We have no doubt that the proceedings of this assembly will have great influence. " This highly respectalde body (says the IVelshman) has, notwithstanding the discountenance of the rulers of the nation, risen to power and importance—it can no longer he denied that they now infinitely outnumber the ranks adhering to the Establishment, and they will them selves acknowledge the justice of the sentence of degradation under which they long have lived, if, in conjunction with the friends of civil and reli gious liberty in the Empire, they do not return a great majority of the Members to the House of Commons...— The meeting was held in a field at the back of the Ebe nezer Chapel, where a stage was erected for the Speakers by our spirited townsman, W. Phillips, Esq. The assem- b!y, although composed of little more than delegates from the various congregations, was immense ; there were up wards of a hundred ministers of all denominations present; and notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, the rain having driven hundreds from the field, yet the multitude that remained was truly imposing." _ A hundred dissenting Ministers present ! This looks well. The Tories of Carmarthen will find out their mistake in attempting to bully such a body. Though we have no doubt as to the issue, and are quite aware that the Dissenters know well their own strength, that they are every where the majority of the electors, yet it is not necessary that. they should in the mean' time be persecuted by the landlords. - The ballot .must be obtained.. If it be withheld, the whole country will be one scene of confusion.-1---Morn ing Chronicle. The trial of M. Berryer, before the Court of Assize, at Blois, on a charge of High Treason, affords a melancholy illustration of the working of the spy system in France. In every country infamous employes may be had to trump up false charges affecting the lives of the most ho nourable men who happen to be obnoxious to the existing Government, if such Government will only encourage and reward the venal wretches who lay snares for innocent blood. The pages of English history, in former times, record but too many fatal instances of the most deliberate prostitution of the sacred name of justice to the purposes of political manoeuvre or revenge—but since the days that Titus Oates, Dangerfield, and others, destroyed the lives of men by their polluted evidence of fabricated plots, under the voluptuous and sanguinary Charles 11., there has nothing happened in this country, per haps, so audaciously infamous as the manufac tured charge of High Treason against M. Berryer, one of the distinguished Members of the Bar, and Deputies of France. Certainly a baser attempt never was made to immolate an individual, by perverting the course of justice, in rude and ignorant ages, and under despotic reigns, than that which now justly excites the indignation of enlightened France, and fixes an indelible stain on her revolutionised Govern ment. That a man so unprincipled as Colonel Tournier, the principal witness against the ac cused, might impose upon the Government is possible ; but it is only possible upon the suppo sition of the Government being in a very low condition in point of sagacity and judgment ; for never was there presented before a Court of Justice a more clumsy and incompetent fabricator of falSehood. But what is to be said of the arrest .of M. Berryer on the ground that he made certain admissions in answers given by him to the Procurcur du Roi on the 4th of June, although it turned out that he had not been interrogated by that functionary until the 11th ? 'What is to be said of the disgrace ful fact stated by the unimpeached witness M. Aristide de Granville in the following words:— : " On the 10th of June the Procureur du Roi -came to my house, and said to me, ' You are very intimate with M. Berryer ; he is in a position which may compromise you ; I am, therefore, come to ask you to allow the con versations which I had with you on the 3d to be considered to have been held with M. Berryei ?' " What is to be said of the re port of the Procureur du Roi, stating that, in a long conversation which he had with the pri soner; he (the prisoner) told him that Madame de Berry was about to repair to La Vendee ; on which report M. Berryer was arrested, although the Procureur du Roi has since admitted that he had not seen M. Berryer when he made the report of the imaginary conversation between them ? Still more astounding is the fact of a falsification of a note found in the cabinet of M. Berryer, for the pur pose of connecting him in recent correspond ence with the Duchess of Berry. The note be , ing signed C. 8., the two .letters were repre sented as signifying Caroline Berry ; but the letter, being dated 1817, would not exactly suit the purpose of supporting a recent charge of correspondence—the date was, therefore, altered, and the alteration made in fresh ink, while the ink of the letter, as it originally stood, was pale from the effect of time. Who can wonder that, when such a tissue of falsehoods were revealed to the public in the course of a judicial proceed ing, the auditory forgot political distinctions , where the great principles of morality were so violated—where the sacred name of Justice was so profaned, and that Constitutionalists and Re publicans united in their acclamations at the triumph of the acquitted Carlist ? The French people will not fail to connect with this infamous proceeding the pretended plot of the sth and 6th of June, by which so many lives were sacri ficed, and in which the police cut so distin guished a figure. The result of these things is easily anticipated.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday a sergeant in the Guards requested to have a communication with the LORD MAYOR rela tive to a house of public accommodation which was licensed by the Magistrates. He had gone into the Haunch of Venison public house,• in Bell-yard, Fleet-street, on the preceding day, for the purpose of getting some refreshment, and was, to his aurprise, prevented from sitting down in the parlour. There was no tap-room in the house, but there was a seat in front of the bar, on which his rank in the army would not allow him to sit, and he wished to know whether the owner of the house was at liberty to exclude him from the public-room, it which several persons were sitting at the time. Mr. Hobler said that it was quite a mistaken idea that because a man had a licence to keep a house of the kind, he was obliged to admit to any room in that house any person who chose to walk in. It would be rather di s agreeable to keep a house on such terms. Mr. Brown, the Marshal, said that the parlour of the house in question was frequented by gentlemen, who, it was very probable, would object to the com panionship of a sergeant in the Guards. The bar was, of course, open to everybody; but the parlour was select. The Sergeant—My Lord Mayor, I wish to know whether if I go into the Haunch of Venison, dressed as I now am, and paying my way, and behaving like a gentleman, I 'air) to be turned out ? The LORD MAYOR—I don't know what right you have to go into that parlour if the landlord objects to your entrance. I don't see why he is to turn out his company to accommodate you. The Sergeant—l look upon it in this light, that they do net think a soldier fit company for them to sit with. The LORD MAYOR—You must know, if you know any thing, that gentlemen will not sit with soldiers under a certain rank. It is nonsense to say that people object to sit in company with a soldier ; association is regulated by the rank of the individual, and the army itself is a strong instance of it. The Sergeant—There is but this one public room in the house, and can't I go in there if I act like a gentleman ? Mr. Hobler—No, you can't, if the owner choose to keep you out. Is a publican to have no power in his own house ? The City Solicitor, who was attending on other business, said that there were plenty of houses where there were rooms for the accommodation of all sorts. The sergeant could easily find out such places of general resort, but as for his right to take his seat in a room set apart for those of a higher grade in society, it was quite ridiculous to entertain a thought upon it. He might, after that, walk into any room in the London Tavern. The Sergeant, who did not at all seem willing to consider any men who were not military as an atom above him, repeated the question once more, and observed that he was quite sure that so long as his conduct was that of a gentleman, and he paid his way, he was entitled to sit in the parlour. The LORD MAYOR—Pooh ! you'll not pretend that you dine or are at liberty to dine with your com manding officer ? (A laugh.) The Sergeant--Cep- : tainly not. • ..• . _ The LORD MAYOR-- , Very well, then your en trance into parlour amongst gentlemen is a similar intrusion. The Sergeant seemed disposed to argue the mat ter further, but the Lord Mayor desired the next case on the list should.be called. Mr. Blencairn, of Fresh-wharf, summoned two persons, named Bayliss and chandler, for a nui sance caused in rather an odd way. The City Solicitor, who appeared for the prose cution, stated that the barge-owners adapted an in genious way of disposing of a cargo of mud, which they were paid for taking out of one part of the Thames. They moved a little way up the river, and then shovelled it into another barge, for the os tensible purpose of removing it finally to Chelsea or some other place, where it is received on shore. The barge, however, into which it was last shovelled was what was called a hopper, or without a bottom, so that down the mud went into the river, and ob structed the navigation, to the great prejudice of several of the wharfingers. Witnesses proved that they saw the barges of the defendants working into, or rather through, hoppers, under London Bridge, so that the mud must have been hurried by the tide directly to the neighbour hood of Mr. Blencairti's wharf, near which the na vigation had suffered greatly of late. The accumu lation of mud had actually caused a change in the depth of the water of eight or nine feet. , The defendants, who, it appeared, were following the example of higher authority, declared that they did not think they had been engaged in an illegal or improper act.—They were fined 40s. each. GUILDLIALL. buried. John Bryant, a labourer at Messrs. Crawshay's, in Thames-street, attended before Mr. Alderman COWAN yesterday, upon a summons, for threatening to assault and beat a young man named Briscoe, a clerk in a mercantile house. Complainant said he suspected there had been an improper intimacy between him and his wife. Well, said the Alderman, is that suspicion cor rect or incorrect ?—lt is incorrect, replied the com plainant. ' The defendant said be had been in a comfortalle situation thirteen years, and had been married nine years. They lived happily together till they ven tured to take a house in Little Carter.-lane, and let a room to the complainant as a single man lodger. He soon discovered a change in his wife's behaviour, and had some suspicion of the cause. One night she said she was going to a woman's club in Old street, of which she was a member ; and upon his making some objection, she seized a knife, and swore she would run hint through if he refused to let her go. She was so excited that he yielded. He sus pected that she had made some appointment, and followed her unseen, and, as he expected, saw her take the complainant by the arm. He reproached her, bat told her he would forgive her if she would give up the young gentleman's company, and do her duty to her children. Subsequently he had more unequivocal proof of her faithlessness, and he turned the young man out of the house. She chose to follow him, and they had since been living toge ther in Angel-street, St. Martin's-le-Grand, as Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe. Mr. Alderman COWAN, after consulting his legal adviser, asked the complainant if he could seriously swear that from the threats the defendant had ut tered he went in fear of his life ?—Complainant said he certainly could. The husband assured him he might rely on his promise not to annoy him hereafter; and The ALDERMAN again urged the complainant not to press for sureties, but he was inexorable, and the husband was accordingly locked up in default of bail. BO W-STREET. Yesterday, a man of rather respectable appear ance, named Henry Curl, was charged with having attempted to utter a forged 5/. Bank of England note. The Magistrate should remand the case unt' Friday next — , and the prisoner was removed in cus tody, application to bail him having been refused. A miserable-looking old woman, named Ann Drib coil, whose brogue afforded sufficient evidence of the country from which she came, was yesterday brought up on a charge of vagrancy, for the purpose of being passed to her parish in Ireland. Mr. HALts asked her what could have induced her to have quitted her own country, and thus to become a burthen to this ? Mrs. Driscoll replied, hat an trough she had come over to look after her husband. Mr. HALLS—And did you find him ? Mrs. Dris coll—Upon my conscience, 1 did'nt, Sir, burin' I had had him pult out of his crave. Mr. HALLS—What ! was he dead ? Mrs. Dris coll—'Fore God, he was, Sir. At any rate he was Mr. HALLS—And were you not acquainted with that fact before you came to this country ? Mrs. Driscoll—Why, your Honour, he wrote to tell me he was dead, but [ didn't believe him, and came over to be satisfied that it wasn't a lie he was tell- nig me. Mr. HALLS —You do not mean to say your hus band wrote to you after he was dead ? Mrs. Dris coll—By my sowl, I do so ; and I have got the let ter he wrote at home.—(Loud laughter in the office.) There now, you're making game of me ; but the devil a word of lie I am telling you. Mr. HALLS—There is no person making game of you; but we are not disposed to believe that your husband possessed powers not possessed by other persons placed in his situation. Have you got the letter which 'your husband wrote? Mrs. Driscoll _ . —I have, Sit 7; but it's over in Ireland beyant. Mr. HALLS laughed, and observed, that he had heard of " Dialogues of the Dead," but this was the first time he had heard of the departei corres ponding with their relations on this side the river Styx. If such a posthumous talent did exist, it must be peculiar to the Hibernian race. ifs Wor ship then directed the overseers to make some in gully into the truth of the story told by the pauper, as in all probability some person had written a letter to acquaint her with the melancholy event to which she alluded ; and, in order to give a greater appear ance of authenticity, being from the same side of the water from which she had come, had signed her husband's name to it. The wretched woman was then taken back to the workhouse, evidently surprised that any doubt could exist of the fact of her husband having written to her after his departure from this world. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Eliza Daniels, a female of prepossess• ing appearance, was brought before Mr. RAWLIN• SON, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with violently forcing herself into Captain Dighy Willoughby's house, No. 11, Montague-street, Portman-square, and putting that gentleman in bodily f!ar. The prisoner went to the Captain's house about three o'clock in the . afternoon on the previous day, and knocked at ,the,door, which was opened by a servant, when she inquired if Captain Willoughby was at home, and without waiting to receive an an swer, rushed up stairs into the back drawing-room. The servant immediately informed his master of the circumstance, but Captain Willoughby refused to see her, having experienced her violent conduct on former occasions. Upon learning the Captain's de termination, all entreaties for her to quit the room were in vain, and she ultimately locked herself in. Police-constable Charles Lake, D, 71, was then fetched, and he knocked at the door and requested her to open it, to which she replied she would not, and if any person dared to enter she would blow his brains out. There were two loaded blun derbusses in the room, and fear was entertained lest she should carry her threat into execution; for tunately, however, the ISre-arms did not appear to have been moved on the policeman bursting the door open, and she was conveyed to the station- house. Mr. RAWLINSON here asked her what she meant by such violent conduct ?—The prisoner had known Captain Willoughby for upwards of l 4 years, and had a child now living by him. She was formerly the Captain's mistress, and until lately he allowed her a maintenance; but having stopped it, for some tifttVe 'that she was totally ignorant of, and being completely destitute, she went to his house for the purpose of coming to an explanation with him, and on his refusing to see her, she certainly would net quit the house. He had also prevented her seeing her child, which is.at present at school. Captain Willoughby denied the latter part of the prisoner's statement. He said he certainly had given orders to the schoolmaster not to let her take the child away, but he had never refused to allow her seeing it. The prisoner also accused him of living with a common prostitute, whom he had taken off the streets, and whom he had suffered to take charge of her child. A letter was here handed over to the Magistrate by the Captain's present mistress, which she had received since the prisoner had been in custody, threatening her life. Mi. RAWLINSON read a part of it, but it contained such horrible imprecations, that he threw it down, and immediately ordered the prisoner to enter into her own recognizance in 401., and find two sureties in 201. each, to keep the peace, in default of.which she was committed to prison. Jane Banning, a middle-aged woman, was placed at the bar, charged with being a common cheat and impostor. The MAGISTRATE sentenced her to three months hard labour in the House of Correction. William Stormont and John Williams, the latter dressed in the garb of a sailor, were brought before the Magistrate, charged with selling cheap publications. Robert Currie saw the prisoners selling the Cos nzopolitc and Poor Man's Guardian in Newman street yesterday morning. He purchased a copy of each from both prisoners, and then took them into custody. The prisoners admitted that they were aware of the consequences of selling such publications, but said it was better to do so than starve. They were committed for a month. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday, Joseph Slater, a constable belonging to the G division of police, was brought before Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER, on a charge of having written and sent two threatening letters to Sir William Blizard, one of the principal surgeons to the London Hospital. After the case had been gone into, the prisoner was discharged. HATT ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mary Bond, a fine-looking middle aged woman, Was brought to this office, charged before Mr. ROGERS and Mr. LAING wish having committed an assault upon a policeman of G division. The prisoner was fined 20s. for the assault, and in default of payment to be committed for one month to the House of Correction. UNION HALL. Yesterday John Martin, a bald-headed old man, was brought before Mr. MURRAY, charged with selling the Poor Man's Guardian in High-street. The charge against the defendant having been proved, he was asked w h et h er he was not aware that he was breakiug the l aw by vending such pub lications. He replied, th a t he was a native of .11irillingham, and that being unable to procure bre a d, e was forced to commence to try and earn a liveli hood by selling the work in question. Mr. MURRAY said that there were numerous other sma ll publications by which he could earn as much in the sale of, as of the obnoxious papers found in his possession. Defendant —We get sd. profit in every Is. for the sale of the Poor Man's Guardian, but in the other publications the profit is not sufficient to keep a man whose dealings are in a small way alive. Mr. MURRAY would not give credit to the above assertion. Defendant—l tried what I could do with reli gious tracts, but I soon found that the.public would' have them at no price. I then tried the penny pub lications, but discovered that there was very little sale for them in the streets, until at length a young man advised me to sell the Poor Man's Guardian, so I took his advice, and sold treble what I did be fore. Mr. MURRAY said that he committed the offence with his eyes open; and must have been aware that he rendered himself liable to be punished. Defendant—What am Itodo ? What brought me to London was to get work ; being old, and having weak eyes, nobody would employ me, and I was forced to enter into this line, rather than thieve. The Magistrate discharged the old man, who ap peared quite indifferent as to the result. PORTRAITS BY BENJAMIN CONSTANT. THE ABBE SIEYES was some 35 years of age at the commencement of the revolution. He embraced the party of liberty, because that party was the enemy of the object of his bitterest hatred—the nobility. From his infancy this hatred (of the nobility) ryas predominant in him, and as he had more penetration than his contemporary revolutionists, this passion was exacerbated by a feeling that its object (the nobility) could not be destroyed. After a heated declamation he would say, with a sigh, " After all that, I should never be a Mont morency." When the question of driving all the nobles out of France was under considera- tion, no argument could make any impression upon him. " Those who are not of my species are not my equals : a noble is not of my species —he is a wolf; I shoot at him."—Je tire dessus ce constituunte. _ vV On his entry into the Assembly the feeling of hostility to the clergy was still more violent than that which prevailed against the nobles, and this was the more annoying to him, as he was a prie,t as much in disposition as by profession. He defended his order with a courage which he has never since evinced, and on the occasion of the sale of their property, gave utterance to that celebrated declaration which has been too faithfully verified, " You wish to be free, and yet know not how to be just." Mirabeau, who disliked Sieyes, thought to foil him by overwhelming him with panegyrics. He declared from the tribune that " The silence of the Abbe Sieyes was a public calamity." Sieyes had the sagacity to persist in his silence, and the saying of Mirabeau served but to add to his reputation. Next to hatred fear was the most vivid passion of Sieyes. He believed himself to be perpetually menaced, and it then became his object to endeavour to find out some person whom he could expose in his own place. One day that it was announced to him that one of those persons whom he saw most was arrested, " that wretch," said he, " wants but to com promise me ;" and he dwelt with all his ener gies on the charges against him. At the commencement of his career he was very disinterested, because he was ignorant of the value of money ; lions are not cruel till they have tasted blood. When he discovered what money could procure him, his character changed, and he then believed he never could have enough. He replied to one of his female friends, who reproached him on this head, " You see, when I used to go about on foot, I heard all the bad things the people whom I met said of me ; but now I ride in my carriage, and do not hear them; there is the difference." Once embarked in the revolution, his two master-passions of fear and hatred rendered him terrible. He was not a prominent figure during the sway of Robespierre, but after his fail was the promoter or partisan of almost every measure of severity, without, however, wishing to attract attention to himself by putting himself forward in the foremast rank. On the night of the 18th Fructidor he was behind a kind of curtain which divided into two the recess of the gallery (l'es trade) in which the deputies from the School of Medicine used to sit, anu he passed his arm (only) through an opening when adding new names to the lists of proscription. When he was proclaimed Director, his first and only object was to new-model the constitu tion, in order that he might get rid of his col- leagues. When they objected, his answer was, " I am good enough as a single cart-horse, but am worth nothing harnessed showily in a row with others." When he had succeeded in expelling two of his colleagues, he was anxious that their places should not be filled up, or that they should be creatures of his own. He wished that they would of themselves sound his meaning, and became enraged at their not divining his object. The Jacobins waited on him to ascertain whom he wished. He fixed his eyes on them sternly, with folded arms, and then exclaimed, " Go to the Devil, and think for yourselves." They did as they were desired, and were felicitous enough to choose the very two men whom he least of all desired. Sieyes, however, might still go vern as he liked, for his new colleagues were willing to obey him implicitly. But he pre tended that they saw through him, and 'never answered one word to the questions they ad dressed to him. M. DE TALLEYRAND. The character of M. de Talleyrand was de cided by—his feet. His parents finding him lame, decided that he should enter the church, and that his younger brother should be the head of the family. M. de Talleyrand donned his priest's habit as if it were armour, and embarked in his profession with a determination to reap from it what harvest he might. Up to the revolution his reputation was merely that of a wit and a man of gallantry. On his becoming a member of the' Constituent Assem bly, he at once attached himself to the mino rity of the nobles, and took his place between Sieyes and Mirabeau. Perhaps he was then sincere ; every man has been sincere at some epoch or other of his e xistence. Besides, at that particular period a man might be sincere and yet s u iw e n c a e tsh e n d e e , Ac e b ss e ss c ea a mr uy Assembly, e l tyo, opinion blaubivuir h a d i a l er d dT i n iani t l e e r yo e r s ra t dne w dr e t r io e s then in accordance. t e le s a s dl e t ntially indolent: to make amends he pos sessed a—l know not what to call it—imperato rial talent to make others work for him. I saw him on his return from America, when he was without fortune, and in bad odour with the authorities, and limped about in the streets in going to make his court at this and that salon. Notwithstanding all that, 40 persons awaited him every morning in his ante-chamber, and his levee was that of a Prince. He was not engaged in the revolution but by his interest. Great was his astonishment when he saw the result to him of that revolution was his proscription, and his being compelled to fly from France. Embarked for England, he fixed his eyes upon the shore he was just quitting, and exclaimed—" You will not again catch me en gaged in a revolution for others !" He has kept his word. Very unjustly compelled to leave England, M. de Talleyrand sought for refuge in America, where he pined away three years. The com panion of his exile and misfortune was also a member of the Assembly,. the Marquis de Bla cous, a wit and a desperate gamester, who ; • bn' his return to Paris, ended his days by blowing out his brains, weary of his life and his creditors. M. de Talleyrand passed with him through all the towns of America, leaning on his arm, for he could not walk alone. When Talleyrand became Minister, M. tie Blacous, having returned to France, invited by hi►; petitioned for a place of some 600 livres' value. No answer from M. de Talleyrand ; he is not received by him, and Blacous kills himself. A common friend, moved by his desperate end, accosted Talleyrand--; " You are the cause of the death of Blacous, and vehemently reproached him for his conduct. Talleyrand, leaning against the chimney, listened, to him unmoved, and his only reply was, yawn ing, " Poor Blacous." Having learned, while he was in America, that Madame de Stael had returned to France, he charged his friends to fill her .head with the projects of his return. This was by no memo; a difficult matter ; of all women Madame de Stael is she who most loves rendering services. She seems to believe that they are things not to , be refused,—as if there was anything which could not be refused in the world. She exerted herself with admirable zeal in favour of M. de Talleyrand. Thanks to her efforts, Chevier, painted him to the Chamber as the purest of re'. publicans, the sworn foe of monarchy in all times, &c. &c. The Convention, which at that epoch voted with equal enthusiasm for the pro' scription of its friends and the recall of its end', mies, voted the recall of M. de Talleyrand. Once restored, he soon wanted to become Ml' nister, and Madame ,de Stael was once more his' nstrument.—Portraits et Souvenirs, par Bee' jamin Constant. Le Livre de Cent-et-01 .ome vii. • CORONER'S INQUEST. SHOCKING CASZ. Yesterday iiGs, e i v n en t i h n e g inquistion was orem of taken before w be e fo; Mr. iG house of Sr. James, 'Westminster, in Poland-street , : on the body of a woman named Mary Phillips, aged 65, who, it appeared, died in the wretched back attic at No. 6, Church-passage, Piccadilly, and where, extraordinary as it must appear, her remain ° continued undiscovered (although the house O le fully occupied) till they had become one entire tnal ° of putrefaction. Mrs. Ne.bitt, of No. 6, Church-passage, Pic dilly, and her husband, occupied the front attic,en! the deceased the back attic. Witness had live d in the house four years, and knew the decease d the whole of that time, but never saw the insid e of her room till since the door had been broken open. She was very close and reserved, seldom ate anything at home, and admitted no one into her room, not even her own nephew. She kW'; every crevice of her room carefully stopped up 1 1 all times. Her habits were very dirty. She w ool , ' frequently absent herself for months, and witnee e has seen her eating her meals on the steps of differe nt doors. Witness bad frequently heard her in her rootn moving about for three weeks together, without onc e seeing her. From these circumstances witness was tin e surprised at not hearing or seeing anything of her fa 4 several weeks past. Her first alarm was produce l on Friday, when the deceased's nephew called, an d inquired for her. Witness till then had thought eh: was staying with him. Witness, a twelvemon t ° back, had, from motives of curiosity, bored a hole in the wainscot of the deceased's room, which the d v ceaed pasted a piece of paper over on the tM side, immediately en discovering it. This PP; witness pierced through on Friday, after the neplie s had left, and fancied she saw the deceased lying . % the floor. She alarmed the neighbours, and I, hole being enlarged, they could distinctly see 1 : lying on the fluor on a quantity of rags. Infori n tion was given to the beadles, who broke open ' door. The body was qui te putrid. She clothed in mere tatters. The deceased was a Ye r f, sober woman. Witness did not kn ow whether a L pursued any occupation, but she had been told 1 4 several, persons they 110 seen her begging, and . P . d . believes she used to collect rags, bones, and broli7 bottles. i 0 B -njamin Webb, a beadle of St. James consequence of information he received at l t , borough-street, went to the house on Monday s ° o noon, and broke open the door. The deceased / / 1 stretched on some rags on the floor, vermin 0f.,; kind 3 were most abundant, and the stench so 050 ribly offensive that he was compelled to retire. d o recovering he again went into the room, end' A g, lifting a kind of garment fastened round her a w e d, he found the entrails were completely destroy of and the cavity filled with vermin. Thousands.) large maggots were crawling about in all par t O the room. He sent for an undertaker, and n w i t lt being procured, and the men supplied well t o brandy, they were at last prevailed on to lift t he body into it. He had previously sprinkled ttei room with chloride of lime. He saw no appa ll/ II of food in the room. Beneath where the decesso,4 head was lying there were found a tea-caddy o gh a small box. In the former was 163. 6d. in 61 and in the latter 45.; and in another part of t room they found a box with a crown piece Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God. 140 05 e Ever. OMEN.—In the journals of the of Commons, during the reign of Queen ELizAarri';,oo pears the following entry :—" This day a blaekdaj, came into the House, which was considered a s omen."—Mirror. A de Peterborough-bridge narrowly escape" p p% truction a few days ago. A kettle of pitch w's s sti pfli e , t over the fire in a boat, when it boiled over, and the A set fire to the boat, and comrnunic ited to the ir s ';',tre 6' of the bridge. Had the wind been brisk the wbo te i a rrir tuie would, doubtless, have been destroyed.-- 1 " .1 ton Free Press. ds CURIOUS LAW SUIT.—At the R o t e e IV, Court-leet, on Friday we ek, a case w a s brought beit'A'bot' court, arising under the following circumstances :"*" 1 , 10 e A seven years ago, a gentleman of Rochdale made hi s h ":1 11 ;i keeper a present of two pairs of top boots, whic h et" . l ceased to wear. But " ladies not wearing we b h a l ic jf' : housekeeper sent her perquisities to a dealer in for with a request that he would dispose of thee' ', ° b 0 5 : The honest Crispin po'ished the boots, expo se( ' . h e / it ; his shop for sale, but at the end of two yea rs ' % g ill them still upon his hands, be stowed thew s tey re ; lumber-room, along with other lumber. He re tim e r mairaed about four years, at the end of which ket,r'ej itinerant merchant made his appearance in the in° ,110,1 chased seventeen pairs of boots of the dealer bet bre te of ° ,„,' to, including one of the pairs in question, at the ra doe shilling sterling per pair. No sooner bad the w e e od ) o ceived the money than he sent one shilling and t • log ' pair of boots to the original vendor, politely d tells ori t t. o el • charge anything for polishing, commission , ‘v o t P h ') room. The lady, however, thought the boot s ' l3 d been sold for more than a shilling, and that her sg, 0 0 0 played her false ; she therefore brought the pres; f ° dia ° O O to recover the (fancied) difference. The plain t ' VI 1 ,0( adduce any evidence to warrant her suspicion', t o i t ' e ce journeymen thought with her that the boots ,„ 0 fetched more than twelve-pence, and " the twe"o-00 DC kept in deliberation two hours before an una ni' l the D t diet was come to, when they decided in favour of 001 fondant. We believe the fair plaintiff's costs Nil to at least IN.—Macclesfield Courier. - . BIRTH On the 23d inst. the lady of Phili C. Moore, EA' °f 0" 1 Commons, of a daughter. t R RIED. P 4,1 tif' e On the 22d inst. at Badminton, G eorge Fineh , .oe , q G Lady Louisa Elizabeth Somerset, fifth daughter of Beaufort. OtO t r iVi On the '23(1 inst. at St. James's Church, Robert otoa, Esq., of Castle Otway and Lisson Hall, in the co e j tt, t 3 rare, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir Francis 13 ,0 " e „p! l i DIED. On the 20th inst. Sir William Rowley, Bart., et r p io , o 0 In May last, at Nussooree, in the Hinudah Moun A e. ‘ e Thomas, the infant son of Colonel Harry Thoinso!l;,sre,,Oio, On the 3d of June last, at Qossoor, _near I.3aool;ent ' few days' illness, Lieut. Anthony Brady, 33d Reg' of ft Infantry, Madras. loth Ye3roV On the 13th inst. at Malvern Wells, in the --„d e r9o age, Julia Harriet, fifth daughter of William SO" Wandsworth. „ SO S PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU EDO YO" Sore OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON!