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THE LONDON JOURNALS, EXTRNCTS PROM 'ME DAILY MORNING PAPERS September 4, 182. [MORNING HERALD.] One of the Morning Papers recently criticised the diplomatic fitness of the Duke of Welling.: ton, with the solemnity of a lecturer ex cathedra. Yet the Ministers had the rashness to persist in sending the Duke to the approaching Congress, against the opinion of so experienced a diplo matist. Yesterday his military capacity and reputation were de=canted and decided on by the same authority. Those, who had read the for mer article, were alarmed lest the Duke should be found as deficient in military as in diplomatic ta lents. They found, how everovith no small satisfac tion; that the learned and consistent critic has not only pronounced him a great and successful Com mander, but moreover discovered him to be a ju dicious and active Master-General of the Ord nance, and even qualified, if not revoked, the former judgment of diplomatic incapacity. This amende honorable will no doubt be a great con solation to the Duke. The Journalist's compe tency to dictate in military matters may be esti mated from the specimen, which he has, on this 'very occasion, afforded of his skill in those 'two importa . nt branches of the art of war—attack and retreat. THE TIMES.] The State of Tenessee has, through its Go vernor, Carroll, presented a sword .to General Jackson ; and the speeches of the Governor and the General, delivered on the 4th of July, the anniversary of American independence, have been ektracted from the Franklin Gazette. General Jackson's oration, on receiving the gift from his countrymen, is remarkable for the same inflated and boastful style, but likewise for the same decided and masculine spirit which have equally distinguished his former 'harangues and writings, his public acts, and his pri vate' history. lie justly calls New Orleans the 'Emporium of the West (the west, in relation to the other ports of the United States,) and refers directly or indirectly in almost every paragraph of his.speech to •the successful opera tion against the British army, of which the scene was.laid in that important province. The " Hero of Orleans," like the " Maid of Orleans," has performed valiant deeds ; and in modesty, the resemblance of these noted personages is not less striking than in valour. [NEW TIMES.] It is astonishing to hear a certain' class of men boast so much of the wisdom of the age, and at the same time to witness the barefaced impositions of which they attempt to make the age the dupe. They call themselves the exclusive friends of the Constitution ; and to prove the reality and in tensity of their friendship, they slander the Sovereign, and cry down loyalty. On one day they attack the Crown and the Aristocracy, on the next they assail the Clergy and the Magistracy ; now they revile the Legisla ture, and then they cover with invectives Judges and Juries in the gross. Their hostility is directed, not against the errors, but against, the very existence of these institutions ; and there is no constitutional maxim which they do not COD travert, nor any • constitutional body which they do not labour to destroy. If their counsels were acted upon, the Constitution to morrow would be nothing but a heap of frag ments. We can only account for such persons calling themselves the friends of the Constitu tion, by supposihg, that, in the new 'doctrines of which •we hear so much, the terms friend ship and enmity had changed meanings, and that the most valuable act Of friendship which a man can render to his friend is—to cut his throat.— Let his-• Majesty follow his present conduct— let him-gmanifest the same di3regard for every thing but meririn-the choice of his Ministers— the same anxiety to- patronise and promote every thing that is calculated to benefit or ornament the State—the same alacrity to sacrifice his personal feelings for the good of the nation, and the same lofty impartiality bet Ween conflicting parties, which he has hitherto manifested. Let him shew himself to his People, and by his presence dis sipate the clouds of delusion which faction is eternally raising between them and himself; and let him still travel through his dominions, the extinguisher of party feuds, the destroyer of faction, the restorer of national unanimity, the originator of public benefits, and the real father of his country.—Let him do this, and he need fear no " constitutional" slander. lie will find that the hearts of his people—assailed as they have been by every art that wickedness could invent—have not yet been frozen into republican ice, and that their virtues have not yet been de graded into republican vices. The enthusiastic and chivalrous attachment, which he knows so well how to appreciate, will ever greet his foot. steps ; and the voice of the whole empire will award him that which is the highest object of his wishes and the most splendid reward he could obtain. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We have received most positive, and, in our opinion, indubitable assurances, - that the practice at the Colonial Office, to which we alluded yes terday, has prevailed for a considerable tune,, to the serious annoyance and detriment of a parti cular class of merchants concerned in the Co lonial _Trade. The name of the favoured house in the City has even been handed to us, together with a request to use our influence i❑ whatever way might be necessary for correcting the abuse. With these facts, publicly brought before Lord Bathurst's, or rather Mr. Wilmot's notice, we only do our duty in not merely requiring him to investi gate the charge,but demanding that the nuisance, as it may well be termed, shall be forthwith abated. Trusting that this'appeal will have the desired ef fect, we shall for the present content ourselves with remarking, that the discipline or a public depart ment must be extremely lax where abuses such as we have stated could be suffered to exist. We should like: to know if they constitute the grounds of recommendation of Lord BathurSt as a fit and proper successor to the late Marqviss of Lon- 'donderry however this may be, such a quail. fication may well bear canvassing,*at a time when report states that it is indispensable kir outs Foreign Minister, in the opinion of the highest authority, to possess the aristocratical accident of nobility ! Were talent as well as title hereditary, something might be said 'in favour 'of such an exclusive claim ; but as Lords may be both very indolent and very stupid, and the accident of -talent may not at all times be found in connection with titles, the public advan tage might occasionally be promoted by the ap pointment to the foreign office of a Commoner of active habits and high endciments. Whether or not the disinclination to a certain Commoner may have led ,to the entertainment of this opi nion, we pretend not to say. We suspect, how-, ever, the interests of the Nobility will hardly be promoted by running a wall of separation be tween them and the untitled Aristocracy. And we think we may safely say, that if they were to he consulted on the ,subject, they would declare against an innovation so pregnant with danger to themselves. God forbid that we should be thought to insinuate that a Peer may not be an excellent foreign Minister. This is one thing, and the idea that at all times all Peers must necessarily be possessed of all knowledge, is another. A few inquiries into the manner in which business has been conducted at the Co lonial Office, might assist in the forming a cor rect judgment respecting this last position. [MORNING POST.] H We received last night, by express, Paris Papers to the 2d inst. • They have brought some further confirmation of the victory of the Greeks, but the official accounts are still wanting, which, we trust, will place the fact beyond the possibility of a doubt. A n article from the Augsburgh Gazette, given in the Constitutionnet, says: 46 Couriers ar rived at Belgrade on the 14th August with letters from Salonica,Serrhes, and various parts of Mace donia, which confirm the total defeat of Chour schid Pacha, at the pass of the Thermopylm.— It appears nearly certain that three Pachas, amongst whom Choarschid himself and Diam Ali are named, have been taken prisoners and conducted to Livadia. The Turks make the greatest preparations for defence. The Go vernor of Salonica causes all men, young-and old, to work actively to increase the fortifications of that town. The Greek official Bulletin has, however, not yet reached Germany, Italy, nor France." The same Gazette states, that the di plomatic visits and interviews which were to pre cede the opening of the approaching Congress, had already taken place at Vienna. The first occurred as early as the 28th of June last, when Prince Metternich, M. de Tatitscheff, Marquis de. Caraman, and Mr. Gordon, had a meeting. Prince de Hatzfeld, the Prussian Ambas sador, attended the second on the 17th of July, and the third took place in the first days of August. The objects taken into consi deration at those different interviews are those which are to form the topics of discussion in the Congress."—The only intelligence from Spain is the result of the census of the population lately taken by orders of the Government, and in cluding that of the Balearic Islands. The whole amounts to 11,248,626 souls; a population too strong, when the nature of the country is consi dered, to allow either France or the other Allied Powers to entertain any serious hopes of being able to reduce it to subjection. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Congress which will shortly be opened at Vienna excites an increasing degree of interest in the political circles of Europe as the time of the Meeting approaches. The Emperor of Russia was to leave his capital on the 16th of last month for Warsaw,, whence he was to proceed to Vienna, and we read occasionally in the various foreign Journals of the departure of several Ministers from their respective Courts for the purpose of repairing to the same scene of delibe ration. Our. Government has not been backward in recognising the projected assembly as the representative of European power, and Earl Bathurst has been commissioned to express, upon all subjects of general interest, the sen timents and principles of the British Cabinet.— A Ilamburgh Paper which arrived yesterday at our Office, puts forth an article of intelligence from " the Russian Frontier," which announces " that in the approaching Congress important and very comprehensive measures will be proposed against the Liberals or Carbonari in all the countries of Europe." We cannot doubt that in an assembly of Kings, or "the Representatives of Kings, a question so fraught with deep and anxious importance to all, as the most effectual means of upholding theirauthority without reserve or limit, would, under any circumstances, occupy a large share of their attention ; but there are circum stances in the present aspect of public affairs throughout the world which may well justify a more than prdinary concern. There is a spirit stirring throughout the world, which teaches the people every where that Governments ought to exist solely ror their good, and that where this object is obviously neglected, the character of the Government ought to be modified or changed.— This is a principle of policy far more ancient than any which would sanctify by usage alone the ex istence of a cruel and capricious despotism; but, with a few bright exceptions, it had not influ enced the conduct of nations until within the period of our own memory. Of these exceptions England offers the most remarkable instance, and who can be so enamoured of despotism as not to acknowledge that it is to the liberal action of a system of government coinciding with the wishes and the wants of the people that England owes her career of glory and prosperity ? The people ottEu rope every where feel this,and since the close of the revolutionary war, the progress of publicopinion has been rapid and decisive. It is easier now, in looking at the map of Europe, to point out the countries 'which are not blessed by representative Governments, than to specify those where libe ral principles prevail. The immense extent of the western hemisphere offers ao instance of ar bitrary government, and it is the march of public opinion such as this vie*" of the world presents, ,that the Congress of Vienna proposes to check. It is hard to conjecture what may be the nature; of 46 the important and comprehensive mea-: sures " which are to be proposed ; and especially difficult to imagine how the assembled majesty ! and wisdom of the Congress may resolve to Carry . their measures into effect. The most contu-, macious of liberals are the present Governments of Spain and Portugal, and it is probable that their Majesties, irr Congress assembled, could devise any scheme for.punishing the offences com mitted in the Peninsula against the sacred prin ciple of deSpotic power, they would very gladly embrace it. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. [From the Dublin Correspondent, August 31.] Among the various Whig or Radical Journals which are dis tinguished for a rancorous detestation of our Church Esta blishment, the London Morning Chronicle stands conspicuous. There have been lately more calumnious discussions and more slanderous sophistries in that Journal, concerning the Church and its Ministers, than in any other which has fallen within our observation. They who observe any policy in the indul gence * of their antipathies commonly look out for some event, or avail, themselves of some occurrence, to qualify the introduc tion of a subject which their malice loves ; but the Morning Chronicle scorns to practice this little species of finesse, and, without regard to time or circumstance, seizes upon the Church as a wild beast upon its prey, and lacerates the victim only to glut itself. Three successive Numbers of . this Journal afford a continued example, Of this sort. Happily the ability of the Chronick is . greatly inferior to the zeal of Its hostility; and though it would willingly lay the Church in ruins, yet, as it is compelled to work only by the mode rate powers of its reason, and the immoderate powers of its malice, it cannot be as mischievous as it designs to be.— We will give a specimen of its reasoning, which may afford some comfort to the friends of the Church. Replying to a paragraph in the' New Times, written, as it would seem, in defence of tithes, the Morning Chronicle observes of the writer—" He does not, seem to be in the least aware that tithe is often one-third of the rent, and seldom less than one fourth." That nothing ever had less authority on its side than this remark may be safely . averred—no proposition ever was more false in fact, if there were any question depending as to the proportions between the rents par able to lay and to ecclesiastical landlords. There can be, in trutholo question of this nature depending; for it is of no concern to the nation at large whether a man in holy orders or a layman receive rent out of lands. Neither can receive it but as a right, and each has a right, under the sanction of the laws,, to receive his respective proportion. What that proportion may be is of little public concern. Prejudice may weigh it partially ; but to the nation it is the same, whether the owner preach and pray as a duty, or whether he do neither the one or the other. Whether Church property has risen with other property, or fallen as that other has decended, is a matter about which the country at large has no need to itself. When the prothict of land declines _ under one name, it will also decline under every other designation, for high tithes and low Tents cannot cd-exist. When we give such rea soners as the Chronicle the right to assume a . proposition to be true, without any proof whatever that it is so, they will find no great impediment to the. working out of their favourite conclusions. The Chronicle first assumes that tithe is a tax, and next that the tax is increasing with the necessities of the country and its diminished ability to bear the burden. We have so repeatedly proved the fallacy of both propositions, that we will not enter further upon them than to give them a direct contradiction wherever we meet them, and to retort, that none but a factious writer could persevere so obstinately in either, or one who was too ignorant to knOw any thing about the subject. Writers on political economy. are obliged to use certain terms technically, for clearness sake; and, as contradistinguished from the rent paid to a landlord, we sometimes meet with tithes constdered as a quasi tax upon the produce of land ; but this seems to be a distinction without a difference in fact ; and even where tithes are taken in this sense they are commended for the equality of their operation, which could not be if' they were rising while rents were falling, as the Chronicle most prepos- - terously asserts. If we appear to have asserted any thing of, the Journal in our contemplation with too little qualification as to terms, we hope the following extract will excuse us with the most moderate persons : " The Church of England, we believe, at all times possess ed many able and learned men, though there certainly has been lately a great falling off. In the present day, the Protestant Churches of Germany are, beyond all comparison, superior in learning. The Roman Catholic Churches had also an abun dance of men. But the essential point is, what has been, and is the practice of the Ministers of the English Church ? We shall find—lst, That in discipline and in discharge of duty the English Church has long ranked below every other Pros testant Church ; and next, that this remissness and neglect of discipline have regularly increased with its increasing wealth." If by the first part of this remark it is intended to compare the ability and learning of the Divines of the Church of England now existing, with the illustrious men who - se masterly powers of reason and whose vast erudition, united, threw a radiance over a space of three centuries, certainly it is placing the Church: men of the present day in a severe point of comparison, but most unfairly and unjustly. instead of their being " a falling off lately," we apprehend the contrary is the .case. There is more general learning in the world now than there ever was, and the learning of particular individuals is less shining and extraor dinary. The works of theology and divinity now are not as voluminous as those of our Reverend predecessors, for their mighty labours have lightened the tasks of those who follow them • but we believe that 'there has never been a time when the Press had a greater number of 'examples to shew of the industry of the Church of England. And, indeed, it be hoves her Ministers to man her works with zeal and courage, and unremitting effort ; for there is nothing in the land which is desperate or discontented, fond of change, or greedy of acquisition, that is not leagued against her, and carrying on either an open or an insidious siege against her.— The Chronicle is pleased to assert, that in discipline and in dis charge of duty the English Church has ranked below every other Protestant Church. It leaves us to look for prods of this impudent libel in such antinathies as those by which it is itself influenced, and there they shall remain for us. if we see blasphemy increase—if we see it revealing itself in the Courts of public Justice, insulting the administration of the laws, and opening marts for the traffic of its depraving products in all quarters--it is not fair to charge upon the Established Church the ill effects which such open popular blasphemy is; in the na ture of things, calculated to produce. The vices engendered in London alone, and the desperate profligacy dits multitudinous poor; are sufficient to shew that the influence of religion is un fortunately but too limited in this kingdom as well as in all others ; and if' the progress of society has led the present age to the enjoyment of many things unknown to our predecessor's, it 'has also sprinkled among the mass the " little learn ing" and all its perils ; and if, in times .past, one or two learned sceptics distinguished an age, there are tens of thoUsands now who look upon religion as a farce, and its Church, when it has any thing to lose, only fit to.un dergo a liberal and an enlightened spoliation., We own we were a little surprised to find the Chronicle hardy enough to assert, that the Church was exceedingly poor at former periods of the English History. Before the Reformation- its wealth was immense. All the revenue of the modern endowed Clergy could not build those noble nionuments'of taste and opulence which have escaped the puritanical phrenzies in England. Since the Reformation more than a third of its possessions were torn from it by a tyrant hand ; 'and, from that era of its plunder down to the present day, neither donation nor endowment has been conferred upon it. If it be rich, the wealth, which offends the puritanism of the Chronicle so much, is the result of the improvement of sooiety in wealth and arts, and in essential im provements. We presume it never was a part of English po licy to inhibit particular property from being improved—to doom it to stand still and remain in its scanty and unprofitable state, while the wealth of all the community was swelling around it. The property of the Church in lands, if' cOnveyed over to lay possessors, would be quadrupled in value ; and, for our parts, we never could see any politic reason for prescrib ing a specific limit to the letting of the estates of the Church:-- a matter which always restrains their improvement, and conse quently lessens their value. it is a very whimsical thing to see the Chronicle quoting a writer of 1688, to, establish that the Church of England is at the present day too rich not to be re miss and negligent of discipline ! We shall hereafter resume this subject. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HousE species of imposition has been for a length of time'carried on in the City, which we regret to state ' has not been reached by any Act of Parliament. Some fellows, who contrive to keep good clothes on their backs, are constantly in the habit of lurking about the Bank, with the view of ob taining money for good news, which they communicate at the rate of ss. a head, and which consists of assurances that those who are willing to pay that sum, and whom they yoint out as having claims, shall get possession of certain sums_m the Bank of England. tis the practice of these fellows to procure lists of unclaimed dividends, and to write to people whom they think they can impose upon; stating that the undersigned is able to inform them of something to their advantage, on receipt of ss. for the trouble. Letters of this description have been sent to, all parts of the country, and poor people have been frequently induced to scrape together all the money they could command, to discharge their expences while employed in the important task of making their fortunes by a journey to London, and a visit to the Bank, to prOve their claim to some of the cash that lies there without owners. The disappointment which attends the application of these poor dupes has almost broken the hearts of some, while others in their rage have gone in quest of the gentlemen who supplied them with ss. wo r th of information, for the purpose of inflicting immediate chastise ment upon them. In most instances the fellows have escaped, and the unfortunate adventurers, who left their homes full of hope, have been obliged to walk and perhaps beg their way back. The clerks in the office of unclaimed dividends have frequently the disagreeable task to inform applicants who pro duce a statement of their claims, that the money they demand had been paid long before to those who had a more established right--and to witness scenes of the greatest distress, arising en tirely from the misrepresentations of the class of speculators to whom we have alluded. Yesterday a man who corresponds very extensively upon the subject, and sends printed circulars stating that he can render benefits for five shillings, was brought before the Loan` MAYOR in consequence of having threatened a Gentleman who exposed him in the counting-house of Mr. Samuel Thornton. Mr. Samuel Read, a respectable merchant in the City, de scribed the occupation of the prisoner, and stated that he (Mr. R.) was threatened by him for exposing the secret of his craft to some person from whom he was claiming ss. for the purposes above-mentioned ; but the complainant stated that his object being to caution the public against persons of this description, he should not persevere in charging the defendant. The LORD MAYOR said, that if any complaint of the de scription alluded to were to be made on any future occasion; the closest investigation should take place, and, if possible, a Jury should decide the fortune of the accuzal. QUEEN-SQUARE.-CHILD MURDER.—Elizabeth the young woman who was remanded on suspicidn of murder ing her male infant, was yesterday brought up frem Tothill fields prison to be further examined. Millard, the constable who apprehended the prisoner, said, that an inquest was held upon the body of the infant on Monday night, before Mr. Stirling, Coroner but the body was in such a state of putrefaction that the medical gentlemen could not ascertain whether it had been born alive. It did not appear that the child had been heard by any . person in the house on the morning the birth took place, but it seemed to be a full grown child, and the Jury, after ma ture deliberation, returned a Verdict of Still-born, but impli cated the mother for concealing the birth. It seemed that she had some baby linen prepared, which circumstance was much in her favour. The Magistrate ordered her to be brought up again this day, when the mode of disposing of her will be de termined upon. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a customhouse-officer, named John Hammond Hedger, was brought before R. J. CRAM. BERS and M. SWABEY, Esqrs. charged with having presented a pistol at, and threatened to shoot, John M'Donald, a watch man. M'Donald stated, that about two o'clock on Tuesday morning, as he was going his rounds, he observed the prisoner standing at a door in Hughes-street, Union-street, in close con versation with a female • he desired them to move on, but the prisoner swore he would stir an inch from the spot—said he was an officer—and that no watchman should presume to inter fere with him. The witness proceeded on his rounds calling the hours, and on his return he found the officer and his com panion in the same situation. He again desired the prisoner to go away, when Hedger immediately pulled a pistol out of his pocket, and presenting it at the watchman, threatened to blow his brains out if he did not go about his business. The witness instantly seized the prisoner, and conveyed him to the watch-house. The prisoner, in his defence, insisted that he had acted right, as no watchman had authority to interrupt gen tlemen in the street, and added, that it was very fortunate for the watchman that the pistol was not charged, as, if it had, he would have been a dead man. The Magistrate told the prisoner he was a most unfit person to hold any situation under Govern ment, and care shoUld be taken to inform the Commissioners of Revenue of his conduct ; he should also be held to bail to take his trial for the assault at the Sessions. ,TowN-HALL,ScluTHWAßK.—Yesterday, iri consequence of a Gentleman being summoned by a hackney-coachman for his full fare, having agreed at the time of hiring to take a less sum, the Magistrate (Alderman J. J. Smirar) adverted to the deci sion of a Bow-street Magistrate, in the case of Mrs. Hyde Solari on Monday, in which the Magistrate decided that that lady was bound to pay the full fare of Gs., although the coachman had agreed on hiring to take 3s. The Alderman was sorry that a de cision should have been given at Bow-street (consciously he was sure) contrary to decisions on the same question at the Mansion house, Guildhall, and i Town-hall. The clause of the Act did not prevent a coachman from agreeing to take less than his fare, nor did it empower a Magistrate to grant a coachman his full fare from - the persons that had hired him, after an agreement between the . partiesie. take a less sum. The Act was passed to prevent im position on 'the part of drivers, and they were lible to fine and imprisonment, if they took more than theirlegal fare. The Magis trate then read the clause of the Act, which was as follows • " And be it further enacted, that no agreement or engage ment whatever, at any time or on any occasion,' made with the driver of any hackney-coach or chariot, for the payment of more than his established fare, shall be binding on the person or persons making the same ; but any such person or persons may, not withstanding such agreement, refuse, on discharging such coach or chariot, the payment of any sum beyond the established fare ; and in case such person or persons shall actually pay to the driver of any hackney-coach or chariot, whether in pur suance of any such engagement, or not, any sum exceeding . hiS established fare, which shall have been demanded or required by such driver, the person or persons paying the same shall be entitled, on complaint against such driver, to recover the overplus paid ; and such.driver shall be subject and liable, to a penalty no. exceeding al." &c. The worthy Alderman saw nothing in the above clause to prevent an agreement between the coachman and the person hiring to take less than his fare, and dismissed the case before him, the driver having agreed to take less than his legal fare, which was paid him. - LAMBETH-STREET.—.A loquacious old man, named West, appeared to a Simmons, 'to show cause why he refused to de liver up a watch, the property of a Miss Wilson, of Hackney. road. The complainant, a young Lady, who took her seat near the Magistrate, accompanied by two Gentlemen, stated, that while out airing on Thursday last, she happened to lose her watch from her bosom, and since learned, from good authority, that the defendant had picked it up. She consequently ap plied to him for it, but his answer was, that he would not give it up until hand-bills were distributed, offering a reward for its recovery. The defendant admitted having picked up a watch near Cambridge-heath Turnpike, but produced a common pinchback watch, whereas that dropped by the Lady was a - fine gold watch. The Magistrate regretted that he could afford the Lady 'no redress, as no felony had been committed. MARYLEBONE OFFlCE.—Yesterday Susan Petty, a young woman of prepossessing exterior, was brought before the Sit ting. Magistrate by the pass master of Marylebone Workhouse, for the third time, to be conveyed to her friendS. The circum stances attending this case are as follow :—On Wednesday last the said female was observed liy.two gentlemen walking in a most disconsolate manner on the batik of the Regent's Cr.nal in a pitiless shower of rain ; they, suspecting her intention of destroying herself, remained on the spot, and very soon after she was observed to descend the bank ; the gentlemen instantly ran to the spot, and succeeded in preventing her plunging into the water; she was then conveyed before the sitting Magistrate, who ordered the parish to take every possible care of her, which they humanely did ; and on Saturday she was so far recovered as to attend before the Magistrate, when it appeared she was formerly in service, but had left her situation about eight weeks since ; she had only an uncle in town, who resided in Cavendish square, but understood he had left 'town. Her intention was to return home to her parents at Taunton, in S,omersetshire. The poor girl, during her examination,. appeared in a very weak state, and it was not until yesterday that the .medical gentle man in attendance at the workhouse considered she was able to return home. Nothing transpired to prove the, immediate cause of the rash act to. destroy herself, but she appeared per fectly sensible of her folly in attempting such a proCeeding, and apparently_ seemed to feel the remarks of the worthy Ma gistrate. INCREASE or CRlME.—There appears to be a great increase of crime in the metropolis and suburbs ; up wards of three hundred prisoners have already been committed for trial at the ensuing Sessions, which commenced this day, being one hundred more than this time laseyear. Many of the charges are of a very serious nature, and among them are a great number for highway-robberies. It istcalculated that up wards of 400 will be committed before the Sessions conclude. From the LONDONGAZIETTE of Sept' 5' Admiralty-Office , 'ffept 2, 18' 7 1 flopt The KING embarked on board his Majesty's George, at Queen's-ferry, in the Firth of Forth, at ha a t three'o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of last month."' nine o'clock in the morning of the 31st, his MAJESTY, st yacht, passed through Yarmouth Roads ; and yeste rcls/ ' ' four o'clock in the afternoon, his MAJEsTY landed a t 0 wick Hospital, and proceeded to town. yac ht the Downing=Street, August 31, 1822. a i the The King has been pleased to a pp o i n t Lieut.-Creoe r t he Hon. Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole, G.C.B. t o b e Governor " Island of Mauritius. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. D amon• N. Gribbell and M. Hellyer, of East Stonehouse, shire, builders. BANKRUPTS. , 10, H. A. Low, Sunderland near the Sea, merchant, our" 11, 11, and Oct. 15, at eleven, at the Bridge Inn, BisheyweaD"a 31 . 1'• Durhan?. Solicitors, Mr. Blakiston, Symond'sann ;an Thompson, Bishopwearmouth. 16 at G. Papp s , North-street, Lambeth, horse-dealer, SePt• erS five, 17, and Oct. 15, at eleven, at the' Court of Cnnutn aa ,i s os, of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Richt' . Golden-square. 15, ' lt W. Yates, Bristol, baker, Sept. 13, 14, and Oct- i4r. twelve, at the Commercial R ooms, Bristol. SolicitnriVi r . Edmunds, Exchequer O ffi ce, ncoln's-inn ; and Jacques, Bristol. 2 3 J. F. Smith, Regent-street, linen-draper, Sept. 14, "",; a nk , Oct. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners of I;_ pe , 'rupts Basinghall. street. Solicitor, Mr. D. Jones, Sisel 3, a t R. 'Hesseltine, Thirsk, Yorkshire, innkeeper, Sept . 1 5, at five, at the King's Arms, Thirsk, 24, at ten, and eight, at the Golden Lion, Northallerton, Yorkshire. 6 ' tt , s , .ytoardrs,,ll.l3lri;sTh...laßniee,hardcansnoonn, -street. ; and Mr. H ighmoor, Sco DIVIDENDS. 26. 1, Sept. 26. A. J. Brown, Portsmouth, grocer—Septt o wert Harrison, Portsmouth, tavern-keeper—Oct. 19. 0. York, victualler—September 26. J. Aunger, Exeter W ig, .1. draper—Oct. 1. J. Wobd, Bi r min g h am , broker--Oct•oth Sharpley, York, merchant—September 26. W. Bradley , . oft Lincolnshire, linen-draper—Sept. 24. J. Knight, CoPP le s" . hatOt Clerkenwell, iron-founder—Oct. 4. G. Harris, Birminford japanner—Sept. 28. E. Nicoll, Hemel-Hempstead, Bert :er.-- shire wine-merchant--October 10. W. Fifoot, Bristol, ba.tivi., Sept: 28. M. Atkinson,/ Great Russel -street, Bloonis u ltiv money-serivener--Oct. 1. J. Ashford and E. L. Ireland, "" mingham, factors. CERTIFICATES, SE PT. 24. /et% P. Quirk, jun. Liverpool, corn-merchant--N. Lill, linen-manufacturer—E. Harris, Copthall-buildings_t 1 30 01- J. Newman, Clerkenwell, br ewer —J. Gayleard, Newat• street, habit-maker—L. Levy, Great P re scott-street, ril_•-• PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. Bacchus and J. Green, Upper Thames-street, pOtrad< W. By and G. A. T. Bruggenkate, George-yard. 101 11 0 0 . street, stationers—T. Kirkpatrick and A. M'Culloch , mersmith, bleachers—A. (1. King, J. S. Lewis, and J. PS ur st, Bristol, cheese-factors—M. Beeken, M. H urs t, a nd ff. Worcester, grocers, so far as regards the said M. Hurst onjoio T. Bayly and J. Bedingfield, St ow M ar k et , Suffolk, su,rip-• —G. Sterry and T. Amphl e tt, W orces t er , carvers a nd giL S. Darke and J. T. Church, attornies—J. Gilbert and J., tuet i, bert, George-lane, m ea l men —W. C. Wi t h ers an d J. Al Bermondsey, leather-sellers—A. Buxton, B. BlllEt° ll ' Hitchen, and G. Wharton, Sheffield, file-manufacture rs, E. Buxton, Liverpool, ironmonger. ru A very dreadful accident happened on bc 3° o3 the Fortitude Excise cutter, Capt a in CARR9the Sunday last. At half-past 11 o'clock, a s , cutter, which was moored at G ravese nd, a' ° ,": t ; side the Flamer gun-brig, was fi r i ng the sa'" i , while the Royal squadron was p ass i ng , RonwE l : ii ; the carpenter of th e F o rtitud e , w h o - was assist fr ce at one of the guns, suffered terribly in consequ en , of his anxiety to do his d u ty i n a credita bl eba manner. The guns having b een fi re d more once, and the salute,s coming thick upon other, the poor fellow forgot to use the sP n rt ; and on ramming down 'a cartridge, an exPl's.d, took place, by whidh his right arm w as so fully shattered as to render immediate ainP u ` Lion necessary. The operati on was perforf ile e , by Dr, Rogers, of Gravesend. It is also APP, r , c hended that the unfortunate sufferer Will the sight of both eyes. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, September 3. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 9 Antwerp l2 6 i tji fiamburgh as 0 o ...a, o h , Altona e 9 Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 60 a° 115: Ditto - V ° ' Bourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the Main SO gffec ill Madrid KIW I Cadiz Bilboa 3B/ E ire Barcelona Seville Glibraltat Leghorn Gre.t.oa .•• • 43k-Venice, Ital. Liv. 27 50 Malta 45 -Naples - -- 391 01 Palermo Lisbon Oporto IttoJanetro Dublin 9.1 Cork 9i pet Cent. Portugal Gold, i n Coin L.O 0 0 P erOP Foreign Gold, iii Bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 9 . Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 HS' BULLION. apoi ° l . On the 30th ult. at CovBRTHS entry, M sr. Barrett, wife of - c Barrett, of the 14th Light Dragoons, of a son. „_l., of Si r On Saturday last, at Par k House, - Maidstone, the Lau , 11. Calder, B. of a son. Same day, art at the Bower, Maidstone, the lady of Chaocs Brenchley, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. At Christchurch, Liverpool, William, second son of - 1— 0 1 . , Clay, Esq., Finthorpe, near Huddersfield, to Anne, onli (1 of the late James Kissock, Esq., Dumfries, and gran ter of John Brown, Esq., of Liverpool. - Wield' Saturday last, at alaidstone Church, Thomas Scar „lot, Esq., of Littlington, Caibridgeshire, to Miss Jane Rol'°' of Earl-street, Maidstone. On Friday, the 30th ult., at St. George's, Hanover-:plion: by the Rev. Edward Williams, P. G. Patmore, ENV," r tso ll7 don, to Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Henry Esq., of of Perth. DIED. On Saturday, the 31st ult., at her residence in Grcen-iscthre:J Grosvenor-square, - Mrs. Mary Miller, sister of the late & ct on, in Mil K le e r n , t Esq H . c o r f v N irt o u rth es wElermehro,winn to many, and N arbj •ainP le an d het.,, a nd as a pious good Christian was manifested through Bi:tole evinced until the vital spark was extinct; to all she w as fn haal and kind, and very afictienately proved herself the the friend. After only a few hours illness she died e the w Der. 93, most sincerely and deservedly regretted by all who C ust oms GRENADA, JULY 15.—Mr. Ash, Collector of the die d PO at Grenville Bay, and Mr. Slinger, Postmaster here, week. ea 61, On Friday last, of apoplexy, Dr. Robert Wright, ag Physician of Greenwich Hospital. hi s 35 e, On Sunday afternoon, at Loose, in the 72d year of John Wetherall, Esq, 1,13511 i , l4O n SUDDEN DEATH.—Last week, Mrs. Keeler, 0 "' years " was found in her bed a corpse. The deceased wag I nqu est 9 / 3 age, and had gone to bed. in good health. A n t " taken on the body, and a verdict found—" Died hY tion of Gov." Printed and Published for the PROPRIErons, a t tbe S Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIIti• for a e„,l kle, t) jeti 3 the 44 1 Ens deq ~~~ ~~ 41) t , 1 ti ro 11, 1',,,, \vt, N ato h ep ?'• r ev "re, nett t eeq th e I No t• 6 q 4d cr 4d ' 1 1)/, f,„t i tke r eQi • th e ari a r,