The Sun. — London, England, 1822-11-15 00:00:00

•~ 0,7 1411e().m • Nl k ,, lig fl . • " . . . . _ •k.*' .1 , ..x . • . n ,Vi . --, ~-,., ,• -,-,....„ : 1 ) , ) . . i :A : , •:-.- -- 0 *look..— 4 , -- ~ ...c, " ai,f-,-- , a/t7-,1 ...„,.....„ 1 :4,1„..m ,:...,,...: ' / / / 2 -/Li-:.--L-4/14.."---: 4/ ; "(---- --- • fl• \''' ' . , - 11 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1822. NUMBER 9431. PRICE SEVEN PEN CE. L. HESSE -4, NT. MARY, NEWINGTON, SURREY. SUNDAY NEXT, TWO SERMONS /IT of SIX w ill be Preached fin this' CAURCH, for the BENE 'L HUNDRED and TWENTY-FOUR CHILDREN, I ,"lat r'ng to the UNITED SCHOOLS of this PARISH, , s tle Morning by the Venerable CHARLES GOD ' ". 1 3. Archdeacon of Lincoln, Chaplain to his Ma :ti(foißl4l Rector of St. James, Garlick Hythe,. in - the City of Wy c l i i and that in the Afternoon by the Rev. JOHN ; ic e we, A.M. Curate of St. Mare Southwark. - So.- -4 tk 'ti at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning and at Four Afternoon. .Yit,ll4iCliarity has recently been enlarged on the Madras ei pe a nd united with the National S o ci e ty. It now con ed Boys, and 214 Girls, 240 of whom are annually 4 -- ' - ' - ----p ir , JUWO DAYS OVER,. and the following 1 \44.. s ts are the only Capitals yet Drawn, viz.:— 1742 i s ,• • ........ 41,000 2,809 , .1 . . 7 .,: .. . ......... 1,000 11,7 .09 40 442 , i 2 ............ 4 ,s •• .... ..... 300 i 17,082 aP •7; 500 .13,6 • ......... 300 1_ 1 % 6 55 The Third Day of Drawing is 1 1 : 4 0 w i TUESDAY, 28th NOVEMBER., II -4 Ye t b "el is very rids, as No Prize of any consequence l e W h e eli Dram an, and ...L the ap,t' als are 1 loating in " 1 , and ybe Drawn Tuescfay November 23.• , . .0 7 ,,.,. Tills Day was published, price 55., , G.% , P.?. ESSI ONS of. an 'ENGLI S H OPIUM I\-- 1...".:-11., originally published in the LONDON MA h .It i s with a Preface by the Author. . ii ii •• l o ng. sin have oassed an evening of such en k„ ii,„. ii ,, . ce we . • • fe sions,of - t-, I. 'lciest as that which we owe to the Cori s g "I ' () Plum Eater." • ((,quarterly Review, July, 1822,) Nrit e n for Taylor and HesieY, 93, Fleet-street, , Il l ; 1,, . te r -s ,"dy was published, p rice 3s: Gd. serer'', ja ht 11 ) "ND . LETTER •to the Right on. r, i '. ti. 4.EARL of LIVERPOOL, in reply to that front the ' ll tild e Z°RRIS, on the Subject o f th e Br i t i sh and Fo ciet by t . Y• 14 Ile Rev. JAMES SCHOLEFIELD, A.M. A i 'lil t , 4 Pellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 11443 113 4 1 ‘ c ' t L.: 8 . . Seely,'l69, Fleet-street ; sold also by NUOJIdge. - ~. 1.. dece„ t wo use tve l oc let . ° r nt noc e octi in he w - t he ity to 1 1 , riprlii`' h ~0a• eir io°1 1 1 ; '6 LO Oll O t t tl( • / or our t i , o tO he ' , of agor ei i , o ttp oc e ig, ec . a do loe jo; •ea 4i Mfi ia 0 0 : dog , $0 tore 0 o h ad ti o ! be , b , og; f oci' ad the e Pipise°l 0 ' 311134 O f xpef ras er',eo• a leel to so ing th e u oo pae ,l Atte tivo the so , ires' o f alle g s d Isses e ,„ tht: es tome A I.I I P ni; prod Vr i rice' 0 the 54 ~s. 41111111RAL7'Y-OFFICE, Oct. 30 , 1822 . NOTICE is hereby given, that a Session of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, for. the Trial (tr Offences con: nutted on the High Seas, Within the Jurisdic rkn 0/ the Admiralty of England, will be held at Justice ,p , 4 7 11 , in th e Old Bailey, London, on Monday, the ; 2d day of 2 "ember ne x t, al Eight o'clock in the IWrning. J. W. CROK,ER, tfl iftN LOTTERIES, PRIVATE LOTTERIES, LIT TLE GOES, AND RAFFLES. LOTTERY OFFICE, SOMERSET PLACE, Nov. 14, 134. *WHEREAS by several Acts of Parliament passed respectively in the Reigns of George the Fist and George the Second, the offence of selling Foreign °tt erY Tickets, or publishing Proposals . for 'selling the amen is punishable as a Misdemeanour, and Persons'guilty 41.1 .le !eof are subje c t to the Penalty of £5OO for each offence: thejAnnual Lottery Act for several years last past, the offe nce of selling Tickets in7any Lottery not authorized by Par- , Merit (which has been held to include all Foreign and Private nte 'ries and Raffles) or publishing Proposals for the same, subjected the persons guilty thereof to be punished as goes and Vagabonds,- and' made them liable to be sued for the Penalty of Fifty Pounds for each offence. And whereas the Offences above described having become l° f requent as to requ i re i mme di a t e a tt en ti o n, to put a stop 1° th ens, Notice is hereby given, that all Persons offending in the mauve particulars will subject themselves to the above uuned Pains and Penalties. CITY, 'THURSDAY EVENING. From Paris 'several expresses again arrived this morning; bringing private letters from that capital dated late in the evening of the 12th current. One of those letters states, that the rumours (which within these few dap have created so much misery to families and, to individuals) originated with a certain foreign Prince in the French capital, who, although it was generally known that his authority was of the worst de scription, was yet able so far to warp public opinion as to cause a general belief that advices had been received by him from Verona of a very hostile nature to the repose of mankind ; and an English Gentleman, supposed to be connected with the London Press, had made himself exceedingly prominent in cir culating the intelligence reported to have been received by this legitimate. Another letter received froth a Gentle ' matt, - not unknown in London for his high Ultra senti ments, and dated late on Tuesday evening, states, that M. de Villele had that evening sent for the Syndic of the Agens de Change, and informed him, for the satisfaction of the pro prietors of public'national securities, that the latest intelligence from Madrid had assumed a more pacific aspect, and that the proceedings against the Princes of the legitimate Royal blood, and also against the prisoners taken in the treason of 7th July had been stopped, and all the latter set at liberty. Nobody, in the slightest degree acquainted with the Spanish character, will for one moment give credit to this version of a transaction, as nefa rious as any on record. It must either be,founded on the well established wish of the Holy Alliance to deprive Spain of those liberties for which so many , of her virtuous sons have perished, or the high ROyalist feelings, which, unfortuhately for France, at presentdirect the Councils of his Most Christian Majesty, have really entertained the vain hope of trampling on the rising freedom of the Peninsula. Had the Holy Alliance possessed the confidence of mankind, no efforts of Stock Jobbers could have produced results so calamitous. The following are the prices of Foreign Funds this day : French * Five per• Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept. 90 91. Spanish * Five per Cent. of 1820, Dividend from Ist No vember, 74 2. Ditto Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from Ist Nov. 6l 24441. Ditto Scrip, 24 2 I.H dis. - Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist July, 82. Ditto * Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Sept. 82. Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept., 874. A. Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (Sterling) Dividend from Ist Oct., 874. Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 87i 8. Austrian * Five per Cent. (metall.) Div. froin Ist Feb. 84. Neapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from lat July, 78. Ditto Scrip, 79/. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 904 1. _ _ _ Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 88. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist Nov., 844 k. Chilian Six per Cent. Bouds (sterling) Dividend from Ist Oct. 82. Peruvian Loan, 80. _ Marked are subject to the rate of Exchange.. —(Morning Chronick.) GREAT ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. (EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTEFC.) Naples, Oct. 25, 1822. You will have heard, my dear brother, before this reaches you, of the awfully grand eruption of Vesuvius. Nothing similar has been witnessed since 1794, when the town of Torre del Greco, seated at about four miles from the crater, was partly destroyed. During th e eveningof the 21st, a little smoke appeared, and distinct reports of artillery, as it seemed, proceeded from that part of the Bay. Had the sky, not been perfectly serene, one would have considered it a s th u nd er . To wards nine o'clock, however, a little fire appeared at the old crater, and left us in doubt no longer of the cause of -the deto nations. At a few minutes past eleven it burst forth in all its fury, emitting stones to a great height. In three hours after wards the lava rolled forth in two grand streams, one taking to wards Retina, where the King's villa, called La Favorite, is situated, and the other inclining in a more southerly direction to Torre del Annunziata. At three o'clock on the morning of the 22d, there was a shower of ashes, and as the wind was from the north, they fell over Torre del Annunziata, Castel-a-mare, and Sorento. At the former of these towns, placed within five miles of the base of the volcano, is a manufactory of gunpowder, but no danger seemed to be apprehended until the ashes fell, for the lava made but little progress. About four o'clock an order was given to remove the gunpowder to the water side, and to destroy it if necessary. This was the signal for alarm, and two battalions of Neapolitans were the first to decamp. —I left Naples with some friends at four, and we reached Torre del Annunziata at 'six ; and at that hour found the cinders there an inch in depth ; but no pen can describe the confusion in which was the whole town. One general panic had seized the population, and nothing was thought of but the means of escape. Furniture of every description was being lowered from the windows, and every sort of vehicle was in requisition to transport it—they knew not whither. My friends and I went to Scafati, on the east side of Pompeii, at the base of the mountain, and there we witnessed the opening of the new crater, which took place at twe o'clock in the after noon. The lava from this mouth poured forth in torrents, and, joining in its tract the stream of the old one, made rapid strides towards the sea. At five o'clock TOrre del Annunziata seemed in imminent danger. We repassed the town at that hour on our return to Naples, and found it nearly deserted. The New. politan troops had been brought back to within half a mile of the town, where they were bivouacked, and I learned from some of them that the Austrians at Nocera had stopped their passage in ,that direction. The • shower of ashes continued, and increased in size as we approached Torre del Greco. There they fell as large as orange pips, twisted like tea, of a dark brown colour, and being pressed crumbled into fine powder. The noise was prodigious on the trees and umbrellas, and the shower lasted to within a mile of Torre del Greco, where we got tq windward of it. The depth of ashes was, at six o'clock, eighteen inches at Torre del Annunziata, and somewhat more along the promontory extending to Sor rento, which was the direction the wind continued to take. As night approached, the blaze of fire from the mountain seemed to increase, and the awful grandeur of the scene from Santa Lucia, where I reside, must have been seen to have a just idea of. There seemed to be three or more cascades of fire thrown forth from what appeftred the entire cone of the volcano, and several smaller streams, communicating one with the other. During the night of the 22d the lava reached the wood of Tre-Case, which burnt with great fury throughout the fol lowing day ; and yesterday evening nearly a hundred acres of land were laid waste, being, as it were, overrun with lava. The lire seems to-day to be spent, but as the wind has changed to the south-east, or as it is called viroceoi the smoke and ashes have' come over Naples, and the mountain, with Portici, and all along that part of the Bay are invisible; while at mid-day torches are almost necessary, and umbrellas abso lutely so. The Ring's villa at Resina was yesterday stripped of its furniture, and I may say, that the whole line of coma from Pprticl to Castel-a-mare, has been abandoned, un less we except the curious, who flock in crowds to see what is passing. The police from Naples have been on the spot from the time that danger appeared imminent, to preserve order as well as possible, andhave an eye on the gangs of robbers which appeared with the confusion, and last evening 19 men were taken at Torre del Greco, in women's clothes, visiting the . houses which their owners had abandoned so hastily. The King departed _on the 22d. for the Con g ress of Verona. He slept at Mole di Garta that night, whence he saw the erup tion of Vesuvius ;_and it is remarkable that when he left here for Laybach, in December, 1020, three was then, on, the night of his Majesty's departure, an eruption of the mountain, though not so violent a one as the present: • C. J. R. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 14. STAINMOOR RECTORY. MUTTER V. CHEADVELL AND OTHERS. . This case came on again in the shape of a motion foi leave to amend the bill. Itiwas partly- heard on the day before term, and the argument was this day resumed. The original ques tion was, the right to the living of Stainmoor. The defend.: ant has been in possession since 1811 ; but the plaintiff claim ed the right of presentation to the living, and of occupying it himself as presentee. The -.bill was filed in •1818, and af ter much Chancery litigation, and the death of many of the partfes, a motion came to be made in 1822, for leave to amend • the bill. • Messrs. HART, St:EIDEN, 4d. rircKWORTII, supported. the motion. The-grounds, so far as we c ou ld un derstand th em f rom the technical form in which the question was broug,.t for Ward, seemed. to be, that both parties had assumed the living to be a donative, while in fact it was a perpet ua l curacy; an d th a t t h e defendant.; Mr. Cheauveil, obtained ands held possession by means of fraud. Mr. HORNE declined-to reply to the arguments on the other side, aSlhe practice of the Court precluded the prayer of the motion. The fact was, that the motion was made, not for any. object in that Court, but to usher into the world a publication on the subject. Mr. 81,TADIVELL:, Mr. PEMBERTON, and Mr. PEPYS, spoke on the same side. _ . _ 'Mr. HART, replied, and was proceedihg to answer a ques tion by the Court, -as to the specific amendments proposed to be made, but Mr. HouriE contended, that he must have leave to addicss his Loidshlp upon that subject, if the 'practice of the Court suffered it to be introduced. Air. HART finished his reply. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after giving a general history of the cause, said he could not give leave to amend the Bill, with out having in writing the oniendments.proposed to be made. Mr, HORNE suggested; that a notice, too, must be served upon them (the 'defendants) as of a .new motion, at the same time with the amendments to be made. This was .ordered, and the next motion day, this dalse'n night, was fixed for the motion, VICEXHANCELLOR'S COURT, NOT: 'l4. • • GOILTON v. SMART. This Was a bill filed for the purpose'of obtaining the specific performanceof an agreement. Mr. HORNE, for the plaintiff, stated the facts of the cay.— Ile stated that the defendant had let a portion of land to his client upon a building lease. In the agreement which was en tered into by the parties, it was stipulated that the houses which were io lie built upon the ground should not be under third or fourth rate liciuses. The plaintiff had built several dwelling houses on the land, and also a brew-house : this was the subject of litigation between the parties. The defendant refused to grant a lease for this brewhouse; on the ground that the terms of the agreement did not authorize the building of a n y b ut dwellingouses, and he threatened to proceed against the plain tiff by ejectment. The Learned Counsel contended, that the terms of the agreement did not prohibit the plaintiff from erect ing buildings of any description upon the ground, and he there fore prayed that the Court would decree the specific perform ance of the agreement and enjoin the defendant from proceed ing by ejectment. .Mr. St: GREY, on the part of the defendant, maintained that the plaintiff had acted in contravention of equity by building the breiv-house, which was a nuisance to the surrounding neigh bourhood, inasmuch as it did not consume its own smoke. Mr. IIvALD, who was also counsel for the plaintiff, said the Court might be led to imagine from what Mr. Sugden said, that the atmosphere in the neighbourhood of this brewhouse was particularly pure, that it rivalled in salubrity Kensingtoh gardens ; but the fact was, that its immediate vicinity abounded in manufactures of all descriptions ; there were saw-mills, iron Manufactories, seven steam-engines, and two hrewhouses. The VICE-Cii.Axc Lr.oit was of opinion that the - agreement did not preclude the plaintiffs from erecting any description of buildings; it merely provided that the dwelling-houses which should he built should be of a certain rate. The plaintiff was therefore entitled to the specific performance of the agreement. If the defendant considered the brewhouse a nuisance, he could seek his remedy at law. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 14. THE KING V. AMBROSE CULLEN, The SoLicfroit-GIExERAL moved for the judgment of the Court on the defendant, who had been found guilty in Kent, of assaulting an officer of the customs in the execution of his duty. The COURT sentenced him to pay a fine of M. and give Security for his good behaviour for three years, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501.' each. THE KING V. VINE. This was a case of a similar desscription to the last. The defendant urged that his affidavit was lost, but that its material statement was, that he had a wife, nine children, and an aged mother dependent on him for support. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, on hearing this, said that he would refrain from praying any judgMent on the defendant, wbose recognizarces were accordingly taken, to appear and re ceive judgment if called on; and who was dismissed with an admonition from the Court, that the lenity shewn him by the Cross n should dispose him to refrain from all illegal dealings in future. _ _ _ THE KING V. HENDERSON AND ANOTHER. Mr. RUSSELL moved for a rule, calling on Joseph Hender son and another person, a clergyman and magistrate of the county of Carmarthen, ( whose name at present he would forbear to mention), to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them. He made this application on behalf of Mr. Saunders, a gentleman of property,‘a magistrate and Commissioner of Roads in the county of Carmarthen, whom the defendants had attempted to incite to fight a.duel with Henderson. On the 15th of October last, Mr. Saunders went to a public meeting in his official capacity, and; on entering, was addressed by Henderson in very opprobrious terms in re lation to his public situation as trustee. After this, terns, r— son left the room, and defied Saunders to follow him, and give him satisfaction ; when the clergyman told llenderson not to disgracaliirnselfby putting himself on a level with Saunders, hut, to treat him as he did. Saunders demanded if this meant to refer to him ; when the clergyman added other insulting language, intended, as the applicant believed, to provoke him to fight. Under these circumstances, Mr. Saunders claimed the protection -of the Court, which had often been granted on similar occasions, and was peculiarly due to a man of high rank, and of great public spirit, who had been insultid in the discharge of important duties. If the Court would grant the .rule it would probably he the means of producing a proper acknowledgment of the offence, and , an assurance that Mr. Saunders should not be subjected to such conduct in future. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. THE KING 71. JAQUEB.2 The COURT this day resumed the consideration of the case of this defendant, who was brought before them for practising at Leeds as an attorney in the name of a person named Thack eray, who has been struck off the roll for his share in the of fence. Mr. Jaques now urged thgt he ought to hav e b e e n tr i e d by viva voce t es ti m ony, a nd not on affidavit, 'and that the ap pearances against him were fairly to be attributed to the embar rassed.circumstances of Thackeray, whose clerk he really Was, and whom therefore he assisted by the advance of monies. He also put in an affidavit, stating that he had a wife and live chil dren dependent on him for support, and had already suffered great expenge by the proceedings against him. The COURT said, that by their invariable rule, all cases *ere brought before them on affidavit—a practice favourable to the party accused, who thus was etiabled to give to his defence the sanction of an oath, and necessary when referred to'the'ex tent of their jurisdiction throughout England. -A compari son of the affidavit, and of the books to which it referred, had , satisfied them of the tr u th of the charge„ for which, t a ki ng all the circumstances into consideration, they sentenced the defend ant to be imprisoned in the prison of the Court for six calendar months. THE KING (ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE DURHAM CLERGY) AGAINST JOHN A. WILLIAMS, FOR A LIBEL. The Court of King's Bench have peremptorily fixed on Mon daywhe when next, hi a the C an n l s fi e t i h wi n t move , for the an c a l rr ef e e a n t d a a f nt toacai in Court, judgment, or that a verdict of acquittal be entered, or a new trial granted on the grounds of misdirection of the Learned Judge, and the finding Of the Special Jury. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 14. The Court heard motions until 1.2 o'clock, when Mr. Justice Bunnotrou sat at Nisi Prius. DITNCOMBE V. FINLA,YSONS. Mr. Serjeant LENS stated, that this was an action brought by the plaintiff, a newsvender, to recover sornecompensation for an injury 'of which he would always feel the effect. The defendants were linen-drapers in Holborn. On the 11th of August, 1820, the plaintiff was going into their shop to get the amount of a little bill due from them, when he fell through a trap-door that had been improperly left open in the shop. By this fall he had broken his leg in such a serious manner as to be Obliged to lie in St. Bartholomew's Hospital for six months, whence he was at length discharged, a cripple for life. No.blame could be attached to the defendants personally, but still they were legally responsible ; and as no offer ofcont pensation had been made, the present action was brought, and the - Jury'riduld 'say to what, under all the circumstances, the plaintiff was entitled. _ _ John Duncombe, the son of the plaintiff, proved the injury; he had been sent for immediately on. the accident occurring ; the trap-door was just in front of a desk, where his father went to get his bill paid, being told by the defendants to do so. Cross-examined—Did not know that money was always paid at the counter; did not know that there was a bell which his father ought to have rung before going to the desk ; it was in the evening that the accident happened. Two surgeons, the first called in when the accident happen_ ed, and the 'Alex who attended the plaintiff at the hospital, proved'the extent of the injury. The 'plaintiff Would never again have the perfect use of his leg—it was broken.a little above the ankle, both the bones *ere fractured. -- Cowell, a butcher, proved the trap-door to be in the Tvay to the desk. Cross-examined--,There was a bell in the, shop; witness should always ring that bell before he went _foiward ; the trap door was a little behind the place where the bells hung. Re-examined—That bell was the house bell 't persons going into the kitchen would ring the bell, but not customers. • , Air. SerjeantVAuGua N addreised the Juryfor thedefendants. Though the case of the plaintiff was a most unfortunate one, yet the damages to be given him must be given in cool judgment, and not in the warmth of feelings occasioned by the recital of the accident. He should prove that the son was mistaken in his idea of the situation of the trap doOve-the mistake might, and probably did arise from the agitation he felton.seeing his father in such an unhappy situation, but still it was a mistake, and made a *re s t difference in the 'case. As it stood at present the plaintiffclatmed compensation on the ground that the defendants had improperly kept a trap door in their shop, and in such a part of the shop that any body had a right to go there, anti going there was liable by the defendant's negligence to accident. Now, if he could prove that this trap-door was situated in a remote corner of the shop, and was necessarily open, and only so for a very short time, during which the accident happened, he should put an end to the plaintiff's case. He' should be able to show, by evidence, that. a servant of the defendant's had gone down into the cellar by that trap-door, to turn on the gas, and though he had made no delay, he had not returned when the accident happened. This cleared the defendant froth the imputation of negligence and impropriety; and the Jury, on all the dream stances of the case, would act like men, holding the scales of Justice with an even hand, and would return a verdict for the defendant, whose conduct was in no respect blameable. Andrew Hill Gibbs was in the employment of the, defend ants ; at the time this accident happened, witness was iu the cellar, the trap-door was in a part of the shop where .no persons had a right to go; witness was turning On th e gas at the time, witness did not make any delay but turned on the gas as quickly as possible; there was no other way of returning but by the trap-door ; the bell which had been mentioned, was the house bell ; witness had not been below.a miante.when the plaintiff fell down ; money was always paid at thtr'cOunter. Cross-examined.—Witness IEI a light with him when he went down. Other shopmen were called to prove that money was always paid at the counter. One of them (the cashier), on cross-exa mination, said the order to receive only, and not to pay money at the desk, was given after the accident. Serjeant LENS replied. Mr. Justice nu Imo 130/1 summed up the. evidence, and told the Jury, that if they gave a verdict for the plaintiff', they must not include in the damages what would have been paid for the cure to a surgeon, that having been effected at the hospital. No proof had been offered to shew that the plaintiff had needlessly and wantonly gone into that part of the shop where.the trap door was situated ; leaving the door open was a negligence for which the defendants. were liable, and the Jury taking all the evidence into their consideration, would saw to what exent. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. SHIP AGENTS AND BROKERS. MANsIoN-HousE.—Yesterday Mr. Capp and Mr. King, who have been for some time actink as ship-brokers in Botolph lane, appeared upon a summons before the Loon MAYOR, to answer the complaint of a poor woman, whom with her children they had engaged to send out to the Cape of Good Hope for the sum of 401. It appeared .from the account given by Sarah Rigley, the complainant, that she received a letter , front her husband, it soldier in . the Gth Regiment, stationed at the Cape of Good Hope, inclosing a 501. note, and desiring her to go thither with her children to settle. She saw in a Liverpool Paper an adver tisement stating that the Dart, Captain Havelock, would sail direct for the Cape from London, and Messrs. Capp and King were referred•to as the ship-brokers. Those Gentlemen, upon .being written to, engaged to send -her and her children to the Cape for 401. She came up to town, and on the 29th of July paid the passage money, which was all she had in her possession, into the hapds of the defendants ; she and her children were then shipped onboard the Dart,,whieh was lying at Gravesend, and to. all appearance prepared for the voyage. A most at,raordinary delay, however, took place, and she remained on board, li v i ng on the ship's rations, until about a fortnight ago, when it was announced, that the ship could not sail at all, but would pro bably.be sold, the Captain being in prison, and in a state of in solvency. She went ashore with her children without a farthing in her pocket: Her complaints to the defendants were produc tive of no advantage; they disclaimed all responsibility, and. coldly referred her to a Court of Law for recompense. They had certainly promised at different times to obtain redress for her, but she had waited until all,hope had fled, and in her de spair she applied to the Lord Mayor. lir. King, who had a legal adviser at hi 4 elbow, submitted, before he made a single comment upon this charge, that the case was one which did not come within his Lordship's cogni. zance, and that a law process was the only means through which the complairiant could arrive at her object. The Loitn MAYOR was not convinced that the case did not come within his cognizance ; but he would ask, whether that observation was seriously meant as an answer to such a com plaint. The defendants (night to 'consider that a public charge had beeri made against them, which it might be of the utmost importance to them to rebut. Mr. King then declared, that so fo,r from neglecting the poor woman's claim, they had exerted themselves for her with'azeal as great as any case of extremity could demand. Their con duct in : every part of the transaction was unexceptionable. Upon receiving the 40,. theY immediately handed it over to the Captain and owner of.tlie Dart,. who engage& to take the com plainant and her children to the Cape. A delay, however, oe • corred in consequence of some pecuniary difficulties in which the Captain was involved, and the vessel was actually sold on the day the Money was put into his hands to a person named Smith. They had themselves sustained the loss of 3301. by the insolvencyof the person - who had thus appropriated the poor woman's money; and it would be too hard to expect from them an indemnification, especially as they had taken such pains on her account. They were' willing to continue their exertions for her, and had indeed come to the determination to -give to her out of their own pockets the whole amount of her loss ; brit they begged leave to withdraw that charitable inten tion now, as a compulsory course had been thus adopted. The Loin) Mart:tit begged to be informed whether the de fendants were sworn brokers ? . • The reply was in the 'negative ; and his Lordship observed, that, notwithstanding the absence of the necessary sanction, they had acted in the character of brokers. There was "a slight hesitation in the . answer to this observation. Ship agency, they said, was the nature of their employment, and they did not think it necessary to be. sworn as brokers to transact the busi ness which they had long been in the habit of undertaking in the most, reputable' manner. It was here stated to the Lord Mayor, that the names of the defendants were exhibited , ori their doors as ship-brokers. On referring to a letter which the defendants put into the Lord Mayor's .hands, his Lordship perceived that Mr. Kipg styled himself a broker ; and that gentleman admitted now that he had acted' as Such, but it was :under the impression that the terms ship-broker and ship-agent were synonituous. The.LORD MAYOR said, that in another place the distinc tion would be.shewn at the instance of the City Solicitor, who should be instructed to proceed against them for having acted as brokers without being legally authorised. Mr. Capp said lie had been engaged for eight years in a house of the highest respectability in the City in ship agency, and he was ignorant until then that any particular authority or form was necessary. Numbers of highly respectable persons were daily acting under this impression. Alderman ATxrivs, who took part in.the examination, said that all commercial men must know that no man had a right to act as a broker in London without being duly sworn and 'admit , ted. Those who held out that they were brokers without being sanctioned, committed a fraud upon the public ; who were, by such an imposition, deprived of a security which they would otherwise have had. A broker was obliged to obtain certificates of good character, and securities for his good behaviour, before he could legally act; and he might be dismissed for miscon duct. The evil required to be suppressed by a rigorous en forcement of the laws against those who exercised such decep tion. A ship-agent was a different sort of person ; and he challenged those who assumed it to shew any Power of Attor ney for managing the business of a ship. Mr. King, with much warmth, complained that the Alder. man had attempted to cast an unwarrantable imputation upon his character. Alderman ATKINS said, his observations were directed against the practice, which he was convinced did great injury to the public. He threw no slurupon the - conduct of the de.. fendant. Mr. King said be should take care t 9 avoid any future at tack, by getting himself sworn the next day. In. the mean time, be should not hesitate'to pay the penalty for having acted as a broker. A Gentleman; who seems' determined to get redress for the poor woman, said that he should at once proceed against the de fendants. The Lord-MAYOR said it was his determination to order the City Solicitor to proceed against the defendants, fbr having act ed as brokers without authority. There had been so many cases of misery arising from the loss of passage-money, that great jealousy ought to be exercised in the permission to act in the capacity of broker. His Lordship hoped that it would soon be generally known, that prosecutions sho u ld b e i ns ti tute d aga i nst all who should be found acting in violation of the well-known rule. His Lordship said he regretted that he could no further interfere in this matter, and the defendants left the justice room, after having stated their readiness to give the poor woman one .half of her demand. BARBAROUS OUTRAGE. Bow-ST nEET.—A most distressing and extraordinary 111VCS , tigation took place yesterday before Sir IlicnAUD BIRNIE, Willidm Tucker, about 17 or Ili years of age, in the employ of Mr. Trumper of Warren's Farm at Heston, near Hounslow was charged with shooting William Beckett,,a boy 11 years of,age, on the 17th July, with a gun, by which he lost the use of his right eye, his face and head were severely wounded, and one.of the stones with which it was loaded had penetrated his bead ; and from the report of Mr. Frop.;ley, a surgeon who attended him, he tray not out of danger till the latter end of September. The poor boy is an orphan in every sense of the word • he is illegitimate, Ins mother's name is Beckett, and she put him to nurse to a woman of the name of Presbell, who received 9s. a week till Mrs. Beckett died, ' Being informed the father was a ,mar: of considerable consequence, she applied to Mr. Dyne, an attorney in Lincoln's Inn-fields, agent to the gentleman, who Paid her ; then I%lr. ThOinton, of Grafton-street, paid her, and afterwards a lady called god paid; but now no payment could be got; and the parish refused, because the mother's parish was not known and the poor boy was now hum ane ly k ep t b y Presbell, the nurse's litsband, although he had got eight child ren of his own.. . _ The prisoner came to work for Mr. Trumper, out of Berk.: shire, in the summer, who, 'in consequence of this affair, was answerable for his appearance, anti kept him in his service. The case has - beer under investigation before a Bench of Magistrates in the country, and last-Tuesday Colonel Clitheroe told Probell that nothing could be done, as no malice was proved, and advised him to take the. money for the doctor's bill; this did not satisfy him, and he applied to this Office, where a warrant was granted him, in which he was assisted by Mr. Riley, an attorney; of Clement's Inn, and yesterday the case_ came on. The boy's face and head appeared in a mangled state, and after being queStioned by Sir RICH A RD B I R NIE , stated as follows :—About three months since, while minding cows in a lane, two miles from Heston, and on Windmill-bridge, over Paddington Canal, he met the prisoner with a gun, who asked hiin to throw up his cap for him to shoot at; he refused; he took it off my head,-threw it in the air, and shot two holes through it; he reloaded the gun, and put several stones in, some larger than peas, and said, he'd be d--d if he didn't have a shoot at him ;. then standing on the opposite side of the road, he levelled his gun at him ; on which he put his hands before his face, and directly saw the flash of the gun, and received the contents in Ids hands, face, and one of his eyes. Mr. Frogley, the surgedn, was -prevented from attending by professional business ; but would attend on a future day. Sir R. BIRNIE said, he had no wish to interfere with any other Magistrate ; but, if any thing, it was a capital offence ; and he should request Colonel Clitheroe to attend the next ex. amination. EXTRAORDINARY CHAROE. UNION-HALL.—Juhn Cott:ins, who stood suspected of being accessary in stealing the dead body of Sarah Crouch, with whom he- cohabited, the particulars of which have appeared in our Paper, was in attendance the whole of yeste: , day, in order to answer any charge that might - be preferred against him. Glennon, the officer, said, that according to the order of the Magistrate he went to St. Thomas's Hospital, to inquire if a corpse answering the description of the one stolen had been brought there for dissection: The gentlemen of the dissecting department behaved in the most handsome manner, and con ducted him and Mrs. Barney, tilt: cousin of the deceased, over the theatre, and exhibited the whole of the subjects therein, but none answered the description of Sarah Crouch. Be then went to the houte of Mr. Granger, the Surgeon and Professor of Anatomy, to make further inquiry, but to no effect. Both the gentlemen at the Hospital and Mr. Granger said, that should such a subject be brought to them they would take especial care that it should be restored. . • _ . . Hall, the officer, said, there was not the least doubt but the body had been sent to Scotland, as vast numbers had been sent there lately. The Alagistrate then asked Cousins if he was prepared to s a y any thing that might lead to a discovery of the execrable wretches who had stolen the body ? • He replied, he knew nothing at all about it ; all he knew was, that the body was gone. The Magistrate said, that by his own chewing he associated with body-snatchers, and was in company with one on the very night when the body of the unfortunate woman was stolen. Cousins said, that he only knew Hollis, the resurrectionman, by his having laid an information against him some time ago for selling fire-works. He never kept his company. The Magistrate said that the case must rest as It was for the present, and ordered all the officers to be on the look-out after the corpse. Cousins was set at liberty on his own recognizance, to appear when called upon. SOUTIIWARK AUXILIARY JUVENILE TRACT SOCIET Y. A General Meeting of the Friends and Subscribers to the -above Society was held yesterday evening at Mr. Urr 0 N's -Meeting-house, Church-street, Blackfriars-road. Soon after six o'clock the Rev. Dr. COLLYER took the Chair, when the Report of the CoMmittee was read, and presented a very grati fying detail. Much good has been effected, and a material change for the better has taken place among xhe ittvenile classes in the neighbourhood. Several Gentlemen delivered able speeches in the course of the evening. The Officers for the en suing year having been appointed, and thanks voted to the Chairman, the Meeting, which was numerously and respectably attended, adjourned. WHEREAS by an Order of the High Court I n , of CHANCERY made in the Causes " GIST v. ICE," and " PEARKES v. PEARKES," it is referred t c ,: 4 M-ES STEPHEN, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Z utt to inquire, and state whether any person or persons, and h . "° is or are entitled to the Legacy of 3501. and interest given L Y th e Will of SAMUEL GIST, late of Gower-street, in the 1 114 tY of Middlesex, Esq., deceased, the Testator in the plead a.; of the said Causes named to the Child or Children of tf - RN HISCOX, or to the Representatives of the said John t e°l s an Child or Children of the said John Hiscox, (late Qf 7 tic lm, Y rnerebant), who was or were living on the 16th day o i r .:•"‘aarY, 1815, the time of the decease of the said Testator, cli'aip4el Gist, or the legal personal Representatives . of such °or Children, if since deceased, and in case there should littebeen.rio such Child or Children, living as aforesaid, then oe tile I egal personal Representatives of the said John Hiscox, is are on or before the eleventh day of December next, to come 1413 04 e the s a id M aster at hi s Ch am b ers, i n Southampton ings, Chancery-lane, London, and prove his, her, or their ght and title, as such Child or Children, or such Represen ive or Representative s to the said Legacy and Interest; or rudefault thereof they will . be peremptorily excluded the bene °f the said Order. THOMAS ALLAN, Solicitor, Frederiek's-place, Old Jewry. I iEREAS by an Order of the High Court /ro• tv of CHANCERY, made in the Causes GIST v. J4 l4 ;t and PEARKES v. PEARKES, it is referred to C O4l 7'S STEPHEN, Esq. one of the Masters of the said t ° inquire and state whether any person or persons, and t 4 - 17 ,, or are ent i t l e d to t h e L egacy o f £lOO an d I nterest by sti e : lll "Of the Testator SAMUEL GIST, late of Gower in the C ounty o f Middl esex , E squ i re , d ecease d ( w h o of cal the 16th -day of January, 1815), given to the Children Pr the ' a te JOHN WILKINSON, and in what shares and ;i re 'ams the person or persons, if any, entitled to the same entitled thereto. The Child or Children of the said John la ku ilki°Bl3 o (who resided at Stockton, in the County of Dur "d Who was fo r me r ly concerned with the said Samuel 1 6 . 1 1° a certain mercantile adventure, of which William An thZ, of Virginia, was the Consignee), in case such Child or u t : e gte n is or are ent i t l e d to any prop o rt i on or share of the for- Q , L, Of the sa id John Wilkinson, under his Will, is or are, on kiit 7re the 11 t h day of December next, to come in before the cez), Master, at his Chambers in Southampton-building, Chan adLondon. an d prove hi s , h er , or t h e i r re l at i ons hi p to t he —1 J ohn Wilkinson, and the proportions of the fortune of or hl John Wilkinson, devised or given to him, her, or them, Refit ocefault the thereof tOrder hey will be peremptorily excluded the be said . THOMAS ALLAN, Solicitor, Frede , (.. ,'s-place, Old ewry.