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TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. IXTRACTS FROM DMY MORNING PAPERS, April %), 1822. [NEW TIMES.] By the liamburgh Mail of yesterday, various rnthours of warlike preparation were received; "'preat magazines," " fresh divisions of troops;niid`" " a Russian army of 280,000 men on the Pr rilth, with 500 pieces of cannon," are spoken of with formidable confidence. These are, how ever, mere repetitions of reports of some months' Mantling, and seem to have been so regarded in the City, for Consols remained immoveable. The private letters from St. Petershurgh are silent on the question of peace or war, and the Paris Journals of Wednesday, which arrived at a late - hour last night,,contain nothing decisive. [THE TIMES.] As every measure adopted by Parliament for completing and confirming the extinction of the Slave Trave, in so far as British capital, the British flag, or British subjects could directly or indirectly hear any part in its promotion, must be viewed with pleasure by the friends of virtue and humanity, we are happy to see printed, and seemingly well digested, " A Bill to amend and " consolidate the Laws relating to the Abolition "of the Slave Trade." Although there is no large portion of new matter contained in the pre sent Bill, a good deal seems to be done by getting rid of the repetitions, the intricacies, and sometimes the, at least apparent, inconsistencies, almost inseparable from the disjointed and piece meal manner in which the Legislature had been driven to proceed upon this question, from the first resolution to abolish the trade, through a series of ten or eleven Acts of Parliament, down to the year IS2I. The Law, as it affects the subjects of Great Britain merely, we should hope, will not require any further efforts of Parliament to amend, or of the execu tive Government to enforce it. 'With regard to foreign nations, unfortunately, much remains to be done. Although we have removed the guilt from ourselves, we have but transferred it, undi minished, nay aggravated, to our neighbou,rs; and for the miserable Africans, it is certain that their sufferings have experienced no relief. — Quarrels among tl:ese untaught beings are still provoked by the agents of Europe, and wars in stigated, for the monstrous purpose of multiply ing prisoners, and cheapening the market of slaves. All the islands of America, all the colonies on or near her coast, but those of which England only is the mistress, swarm with daily importations from Africa ; and those who call themselves the most refined and cultivated of Christian nations are busied in desolating one Ereat division of the earth to degrade and cor rupt another. [MORNING II ERA LD.] There were various foreign arrivals in the course of yesterday, but none that brought intel ligence of particular novelty or importance. — Still nothing decisive has been received respect- Itig the question of war. The German papers merely repeat that the negociations are resumed, with the expectation of inducing the Turkish Government to recede from its solemn rejection of the terms proposed by Russia. In order to form any thing like a well-grounded opinion, it would be necessary to have the data which con stitute the state of the question more clearly known than it is possible beyond the circle of offi cial confidence. At first sight, however, when one considers the characteristic obstinacy of the Ottoman Government, and the length and solem nity of deliberation which preceded its resolution, the hope of a change of determination seems quite visionary. It is somewhat singular that we have latterly heard so little of the progress of the war between the Turks and Greeks. It has been frequently stated in the French papers, that the Greeks are chiefly occupied in framing and consolidating their system of government. At Sea, they have an unquestionable advantage ; and on land, the progress of the war depends much on the Turks, whose chief strength is in the fortresses which they have hitherto, for the `most part, proved inexpugnable. [MORNING POST.] The return of our Sovereign to town has af forded an opportunity for the display of those sentiments of loyalty and affectio'n which have welcomed him-in all parts of his dominions, and which prevail with no less fervour and sincerity in the breasts of the inhabitants of the capital, than in those of his other subjects. Nothwith standing the occasional unpropitiousness of the weather yesterdayi never before did greater crowds repair to the palace to pay their respects to their Monarch, and rally round his Throne. — The Levee was attended by perhaps an unpre cedented crowd of the most distinguished No bility and Gentry of the land, and the Father of his people felt himself once more in the midst of his children. Were so cheering a spec tacle witnessed in times of universal concord and prosperity, it would only be considered an or dinary and 'natural expression of public attach ment, and no other remark would be made than that due justice was done to the merits of the Sovereign ; but at a period when so many evil spirits have been, and are still at work, to ca lumniate the Throne, and pervert the loyalty of the people—at a time, too, when the distresses or one of the most important and most numerous classes of the community, the cultivators of the soil, render thousands open to the seductions of the artful and active promoters of sedition, the bursts of loyal feeling which greet the Monarch ) wherever he directs his course, are doubly gra tifying. They announce more than mere ordinary fidelity to the Throne, because that fidelity has been tried.. It is its triumph that they proclaim, and with it, that of good sense and sound prin ciple. Let' us not therefore congratulate our King alone on the pledges of affection which he receives from his people ; let us congratulate that people itself on its victory over the arts and delusions of revolutionary traitors ; let us felici tate the whole country on this rising up of a just, grateful, and discriminating spirit, amongst all its classes, even those which in former years ltad most easily been misled. The times of disaffec tion and of danger are past—those of difficulty and of distress will also vanish ; and what can more powerfully contribute to the happiness and prosperity of the country, than a sincere and in dissoluble union of interests and affections be tween the Sovereign and his People ! [BRITISH PRESS.] We have received the Paris Papers up to Wed nesday last. They contain no intelligence re specting the state of the negociatious between Russia and Turkey. There is an article from Augsburg which represents the recent attempt on the part of the mediating Powers to renew the ne gociations with the Divan, as being the result of a conference at Vienna, where it was resolved that these steps should be taken simultaneously by all the Christian Powers having representa tives at Constantinople. If this statement be correct, we must presume that these several Governments have determined upon taking up arms jointly against the Ottoman Porte, should the Divan obstinately adhere to its ori ginal resolution. An angry altercation took place in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. This assembly seems, without any exception, to be the most tumultuous and disorderly that ever ventured to discuss the affairs of a nation. The members want some training, for they appear to be wholly unaware that the freedom of debate presumes the right of one side of the Chamber to express their opinions as well as the other. M. LAFITTE'S speech was perhaps too animated ; and it must be admitted, that in the infancy, as it may yet be called, of the restored Government, the praises of the Revolution and of the imperial sceptre might with some propriety be spared. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The German Papers which arrived yesterday, bring intelligence of which the complexion is still more warlike than the preceding.—There is a curious article in the Allgemeine Zeitung, in the shape of a letter from Frankfort, which our readers will find among our extracts, probably from some of the holder:, of Vienna paper. it would seem to indicate that a new piece of tactics has been had recourse to. The writer, subscribing to the general opinion that war is now inevitable, turns round and says,—Why should this be a source of apprehension to the holders of Austrian paper ? Austria can only gain by taking an active part in a war in the East, because it would thereby enlarge its power, and if it should require a new loan, it would easily raise it without depreciating its paper already in circulation. We were not aware that the credit of Austria rested on such a firm foundation. Is Italy, then, quite secure ? or is Italy nothing in the balance when compared to the East ? There is one point, however, re specting which this Frankfort speculator has not altogether convinced us. " Never," says he, was a war more popular than that which is now at hand—never was one which was approv ed in such a degree by public opinion through out all Christian Europe. If the Powers of Chris tendom required an extraordinary contribution to make war on the Turks, they would find the purses of their subjects open to promote, the noble object of expelling hordes of incorrigible bar barians from civilized Europe." All Christian Europe! Who are Lords Liverpool and liar row by, and Mr. Vansittart, pray ? Does he take them for Jews ? Are they not Christians of he very first water, even leading Members of those Bible Societies which are now communi cating the blessings of the Gospel to the remotest parts of the earth ? Yet we know, that so far from wishing well to any war against the Turks, these Evangelical Ministers haveuot only been labouring hard to promote the extermination of the Christian Greeks, but also to encourage a be lief in this country, that (as the. Turks are so much more merciful and humane than the Greeks, and as living under the same Government, the dif ference must mainly be ascribable to religion), Mohometanism is much more likely to exalt the character than Christianity. As for the Lord Chancellor, we put him out of the question, knowing him to be a staunch man for all esta blishments, and believing him, therefore, likely to be attached to Mahometanism in Turkey, merely because it is the established religion of the place. We have never heard that he disliked Catholicism any where but in these islands. But the others are revolutionary men in matters of re ligion, contributors to Bible and Missionary Socie ties ; and it must be owing to some special good cause that the religion of Mahomet has now found such:favour in their sight. An article, not in our Extracts, in the same Journal, enumerates some of the evils produced in Germany by that restrictive system to which our Agriculturists cling with such pertinacity. " Alas, it is said, it is not the French only who shut up all the open ings to our industry and trade! If things go on in this way, we must soon return to the primitive condition of an Agricultural people, and hid fare well to the Kingdom of Imagination, and with it to all industry and cultivation." SINGULAR AND AWFUL PIIENOMENON.—About four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, the 30th ult. as Nlr. Hushes, Chemist, of Mealcheapen-street, Gloucester, was sitting by his parlour fire, in company with -his wife, and a young female acquaintance, Mrs. Hughes, having an infant in her lap, they were somewhat startled at hearing a rumbling, or rather a bubbling noise, as of water, in the chimney, when almost at the moment of noticing this circum stance a vivid Mass of flame, which _Mr. H. describes to have been larger than half a newspaper, burst into the room, and rush ing by them in contact with a window directly opposite the fire place which it shivered to atoms, and immediately upon gain ing the open air exploded with a tremendous report. Upon Mr. Hughes's recovery from the consternation into which this event had thrown him he discovered Mrs. H. upon the floor with the child, and the young lady standing near him, happily - all, as well as himself, free from personal injury, but, as will natur ally be conceived in a state of extreme terror and dismay, :and which was succeeded by powerful feelings of gratitude to that Providence Who " rules the whirlwind and directs 'the storm," for his. Merciful interposition in protecting 'them from harm during this so solemn and terrific manifestation of his Omnipotence.NO part of 'the apparel of Mrs. Hughes or the child was"touched, but the work upon which the' young Lady was 'employed was burnt in her hand ; Mr. Hughes's hair wa4 singed, and his clothes in front so much scared as to be entirely spoilt ! At the tirne this occurrence took price the wind 'las exceedingly high. A farthing, in good preSerVition, of the date of 1504, is now In the possession of Mr. Edmunds, Smith and farrier, of South ampton, who extracted it from the foot of a horse, en examin ing the' cause of its lameness. NAVIGATION LAWS. PETITIONS against against Mr. WALL&CE's BILLS . for RE PEALING these LAWS. LONDON. To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in. Parliament assembled. The humble' Petition of the undersigned Ship Owners of London, Sheweth—That your Petitioners have seen with the utmost alarm that Bills have been introduced into your Hon. House, to relax the provisions of the Navigation Acts of the 12th, 13th, and 14th of Charles.lL, to the extent of admitting the importa tion into the United Kingdom of the productions of every party of the world, froth any part of the world, without re gard to the place of their growth or production, provided only that the importation from the last place of shipment be made in British vessels. That your Petitioners have ever been taught to consider, and their own experience has strengthened the conviction, that the British Navigation Laws are admirably calculated to promote the dearest and most essential interests of this country; and they consider them, also, to be strictly consistent with justice, since it is no more than reasonable that islands like Great Britain and Ireland, which depend for-their safety and prosperity upon their marine, should so regulate their intercourse with other nations as to secure to themselves the means of efficiently supporting it, which they confidently believe can only be done by retaining the whole of the carrying trade with States which have no ships of their awn, as well as that portion of the car rying trade with other countries, which, in their intercourse with this kingdom, those countries are unable or unwilling to carry on in their own ships. That this principle has now been acted upon for upwards of two centuries, and with the aid of our free Constitution has, un der Providence, raised this kingdom to unequalled prosperity and power. Your petitioners, therefore, cannot but look upon any departure from it—not called for by some imperious neces sity—as a most dangerous experiment. That the proposed relaxation is decidedly of that character, and although it is admitted by the authors of the Bills to be impossible to calculate with certainty all its bearings and consequences," yet they bring it forward without, as your peti tioners conceive, any adequate necessity. The promoters of the measure assert, it is true, that it would " be easily suscep tible of modification, should circumstances hereafter arise to render such modification essential to the protection of any of the great objects which every consideration of the national safety and power imposes the duty of inflexibly maintaining ;" hut your petitioners trust that your Hon. House will rather forbid this dangerous experiment than trust to the chance of being able to rectify the error hereafter, which must be a work of the greatest uncertainty, and would doubtless involve this country in difficult discussions with any foreign State that might be reaping the advantage so needlessly offered to them. That your Petitioners beg to state to your Honourable House, that they are well aware of the many impediments and hardships in which our commercial intercourse with foreign nations has been involved ; but these, they conceive, have arisen rather out of the number and complexity of our laws, than fiom the principle of them; and although the evil conse quences have, on many occasions, been mitigated by the consi derate interposition of his Majesty's Government, they have, in numerous instances, operated with severity upon merchants and ship-owners, and involved innocent parties in serious em barrassment and loss. But your Petitioners beg humbly to suggest, for the consideration of your Honourable House, whe ther every difficulty of this nature might not be effectually re moved by that consolidation and simplification of the numerous laws relating to foreign trade, which your Petitioners are happy to see is in progress ' • and by regulations for admitting to entry the productions of Asia, Africa, and America, when brought from other countries than those of their growth or production, to be warehoused for re-exportation only: That assuming the opinion to be well founded, that if the principle of the navigation laws were to be relaxed as proposed by the said bills, importations of the productions of the several parts of the world would not take place to any considerable or in jurious,extent, then your Petitioners would humbly submit to your Honourable House, that there is no sufficient necessity for breaking down that long established principle ; but if, on the contrary, such indirect importations should occur to a consi derable extent, then, in fact, the effect would be to transfer a great portion of the benefits of our navigation and warehousing systems from this country to the ports of Holland and the Netherlands as your Petitioners feel confident would be the case, and the consequences could not fail to be of the most injurious description. Your Petitioners, therefore, most humbly entreat, that your Honourable House will not sanction a departure from the long established and hitherto highly cherished policy of the British navigation code, your Petitioners being satisfied that the pur pose of improving the general foreign trade of the country may be much more effectually attained by the means which they have suggested ; and, above all, that your Honourable House will not entertain the idea that the evils which would arise from the relaxation of the navigation laws, as proposed by the said bills, .could easily, if ever, be repaired ; your Peti tioners being firmly convinced that as the benefits of the pre sent system have been great and lasting, so would .the mis chiefs resniting from any material departure from it prove to be most disastrous and irremediable. And your Petitioners will ever pray.—London, April 15, 1822. LIVERPOOL. , The following is the Substance of the Petition of the Liver pool Ship-owners on the Navigation Bill presented to the House of Commons : " That your Petitioners have seen the copy of a Bill now in progress and printed by order of your Honourable House, in titled A Bill for the encouragement of Navigation and Com merce, by regulating the Importation of Goods and Merchan dise, so far as relates to the Countries from whence, and the Ships in which, such importation shall be made ;" the first clause of which they observe with deep, concern, will, if passed into a Law, effect an important alteration in the existing Navi gation Laws ; and will not only prove highly prejudicial to the individual welfare of your Petitioners, but will also, in their opinion, be subversive of the best interests of the country. " That the Shipping Interest, as essentially connected with the prosperity, the security, and independence of the Empire, has ever received the particular consideration and protection of the Legislature. " That your Petitioners observe by the clause above alluded to, that it is intended that it shall be lawful to import into this country from any place whatever, in British vessels, the pro ducts of Asia, Africa, and America, which, under the present existing laws, can only be imported (with some few exceptions) direct from the places of growth. " That the trade between those Continents, particularly the British Asiatic dominions, and this Country, is carried on in vessels of considerable tonnage, and navigated with a propor tionate number of British seamen ; and your Petitioners cannot contemplate without the most serious alarm the adoption of a measure which may transfer the most important part of the trade from them.to the shipping of other nations, and would probably leave to the British Ship-owners nothing more than the freight from the ports of Europe to this country. " That your petitioners are aware it has been urged that there is little to fear from the rivalry of other nations—but when they reflect that the rate of wages paid to seamen on board of vessels belonging to the Northern , lllaritime States is not more than one half of what is paid to British sailors—and the price of all sorts of provisions and naval stores, used on board such vessels, is much below what such articles cost in this country, where naval stores in particular are, liable to the payment of high du ties on importation—and that the habits of the seamen of those countries enable them to dispense with many articles which are deemed not merely comforts, but necessaries by British seamen— they cannot help considering it as a measure pregnant with the most ruinous consequences to the interests of the British Ship owners. " That for the great and important sacrifice called for by this measure, your petitioners have in vain looked among the provi sions of this Bill for any equivalent or compensation—no ad vantage can, in their opinion, result to them individually, or to the country at large ; but, on the contrary, it appears to them that the probable consequence of the enactment will be to grant facilities to foreigners, which will induce them to embark in the trade with those countries where their own manufactures may in a great measure enter into competition with those of this country, to the manifest injury of British merchants and ma nufactures. " That the cargoes exported to those countries, particularly to India, are composed almost entirely of British produce or manufactures—that the returns, such as sugar, saltpetre, pep per, indigo, hides, cotton, and many other articles, are sold to a considerable extent, and exported to the continent of Europe ; but should the proposed clause become a law, this favourable state of trade may be reversed, for as the articles brought to this country by an indirect route would be only those intended for home consumption, the quantity Imported for such purpose could not be increased, whilst the general aggregate quantity would in all probability be materially lessened, and the effect of the warehousing system, which your petitioners trust will one day render this country the emporium of the trade of the world, would thereby be materially retarded, and part of its ad vantages transferred to other Nations. " That the policy by which the proposed regulation appears to be dictated, has never been recognised or ac ted u p o n by other nations, who have almost invariably excluded us from all inter course with their foreign possessions, by the imposition of high duties upon our shipping. " Considering, therefore, the measure as entirely uncalled for, and as one likely to produce very injurious consequences to the interest of your Petitioners, and the nation at large, they humbly, but earnestly pray, that the clause in question may be taken out of the LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 19. DILLON V. SIR W. PARKER, BART. The long pending controversy respecting the Talton estate in Worcestershire occupied the Court the whole day. Mr. Dillon, the complainant, appeared in his dres4 as a Barrister, conducting this intricate case in person, and had not concluded a very elaborate argument, when the Lord Chancellor rose at half-past one o'cleck to attend the Levee. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, .APRIL 19. RUCK V. HATFIELD. This was an action of trover. The plaintiff sought to reco ver the value of 30 puncheons of rum, which were delivered to the defendant under the following circumstances : On the 21st July last, the brokers of Messrs. Ivey and Co. bought for their account 30 puncheons of rum at two months' credit, to be delivered free by the plaintiff; on board the ship Chance, of which the defendant was Master, then lying in the port of London, bound for Hamburgh. The goods were put on hoard by the plaintiff 's lighterman, who demanded the usual receipt of the Mate (the Captain not being on board). This was refused by the Mate, but on the 31st of July the Captain signed bills of lading for Ivey and Co. the purchasers. On the 2d of August, the plaintiff drew a bill of exchange on Ivey and Co. for the value of the ruin, and left it at their offise for ac ceptance. He did not, however, call for this bill again till the fourth, when he found they had stopped payment. He imme diately went to the defendant, and demanded the re-delivery of the goods, to which he objected on the ground, that having signed bills of lading for Ivey and Co., he was answerable to their assignees. The ground relied on by the plaintiff's Counsel was, that the goods at the time of the bankruptcy were in tran situ, inafanuch as the mate had illegally refused to give a re ceipt to the lighterman, and that the Captain was not justified in signing the bills of lading without seeing the lighterman's receipt. Mr. GURNEY contended, on the part of the defendant, that the moment the goods were put on board the Chance, the de livery to the bankrupts was as complete as if they had been de livered into their cellar, inasmuch as the agreement was that they should be delivered by the plaintiff on board the Chance. The CHIEF JUSTICE was of opinion, that the mate having refused to give a receipt, the delivery of the goods was not com plete, and that therefore the plaintiff was entitled to recover. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 3201. 19s. 2d. No other case of public importance occurred, and the Court adjourned at half-past one o'clock. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL 19. PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, HANOVER-SQUARE, V. PEACHY. Mr..AssltEw s stated, that he appeared for the Parish of St. George, Hanover-square, to have the order of a Magistrate confirmed against Mr. Peachy, who is an ironmonger in Ilan over-street, Hanover-square. On the Ist January last, about six o'clock in the evening, a fire was discovered issuing from the chimney of Mr. Peachy's smithery ; the engines came to quench it ; the Parish in the first place had to pay the reward according to law, and this subject was brought forward because Mr. Peachy refused to remunerate the Parish. Mr. ANDREWS called a young chimney sweep, who saw sparks issue from Mr. Peachey's chimney, and who then ran for the engines. Several - firemen said they saw on their arrival sparks from the flue of Mr. Peachy's work shop, and believed the same to be on fire. • Mr. ADOLPHUS, against the confirmation of the order, argu ed that if it was confirmed, no tradesman or manufacturer in London using forced fires, could for a day be safe from the visits of firemen, and other interested persons, who would ruin them in their business, by coining with fire engines to their houses every time a few sparks were seen issuing from the tops of their manufactories. Mr. Peachy's flue was so constructed, that with the great draft of air passing through it when his men were at work, it was impossible it could take ,fire, and it was built quite perpendicular, so that no soot could lodge therein. —The Learned Counsel said, that the present case was an ex periment tried by the chimney-sweeps and firemen against his client, and if they succeeded, by the order being confirmed, no worker in metals, , especially the rougher ones; could continue their occupation in London. . Several witnesses were called by Mr. ADOLPHUS, all of whom stated that no alarm of fire was given ' • some of them liv ed 16 years the near neighbours of Mr. Peachy, and constantly saw sparks from the flue of his workshop without the least ap prehension of danger. It was proved by Mr. Riddell, a coach-maker, that no fire place could be safer than Mr. Peachy's. The order of the Magistrate was quashed. John Pui:fiehl was put to the bar, charged with fraud of the most vicious nature. In July, 1819, the defendant called at the banking-house of Messrs. Drummond and Co., representing him self to be Treasurer to a Charitable Institution for providing the Poor with Meat, Vegetables, &c., at reduced prices. He pro duced printed receipts, and requested a donation in favour of the Institution he represented. With their usual liberality 51. ss. were instantly paid him; he also produced a sort of Prospectus of the Charity, containing the names of some of the first indivi duals in the country for rank and philanthropy as Patrons to the Institution. The defendant also obtained the same day two guineas from Messrs. Cox and Greenwood for the same benevolent purpose. Some time afterwards a person in distress was sent by Messrs. Drummond to this " Laudable Institution," as it was termed, at 23, Castle-street East, Oxford-market, when it was disco vered that no Charity of the kind existed. The defendant pleaded guilty, and Mr. ADOL s (fbr the prosecution) stated, that from the extreme old age aid poverty of the defendant, it was not in tended to press against him the severity of the law. He was therefore discharged on his own recognizance. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 19. Elijah Gooch, a middle-aged man of decent appearance, was indicted for the wilful murder of Barnard Downes. The cir cumstances of the case, the investigation of which occupied the Court several hours, were proved by the following witnesses : , George Pepys swore, that he was a waterman on the hack. ney-coach stand at the corner of Vere-street, Oxford-street. — On the morning of the 25th of February, he saw the prisoner driving towards Tyburn-turnpike in a light cart, with nothing in it. He was driving with reins at a fast trot, and witness called out to him, " Hallo ! are you going to run over us? He went on a little way, and then turned back. He was not go ing very fast at that time ; he stood a short time, and then turned back again towards Tyburn-turnpike. He went quite away, and was gone about an hour and a half, when wit ness saw him return at full gallop, using his whip all the way , he went. Witness called out to him, " For Gods sake don't go so fast ; you'll be .over somebody." , The prisoner made no answer, but went on still whipping his horse. Witness knew the deceased, who swept the crossing from Bond-street to Vere street. He was a man much advanced in years. Witness saw the prisoner drive over the deceased, and he did not stop, but continued his course at a furious rate. Witness did , not hear the people call out to the prisoner. John 011ey, a hackney-coachman, swore that he saw the prisoner driving at a full gallop, and whipping his horse under the belly. He called out to him not to go so fast. The de ceased, at the moment witness called out, was in the middle of the crossing, going towards the pavement, to get out of the way. He turned sideways, and the shaft of the cart and the shoulders of the horse struck him on the head and sides. The deceased was driven about a yard and a half and fell, and the wheel of the cart driven by the prisoner went over his body. The prisoner immediately whipped on his horse still more fu riously, in order to get away, but he was stopped. Wm. Thurston, another coachman, conhrmed the evidence of the foregoing witnesses. The deceased was taken to the Mid dlesex Hospital. Mr. Sweetman, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, remem bered the deceased being brought in there on the day in question. His right thigh was broken, and he had received very serious injuries about the head. To these latter injuries the death of the deceased was, in the opinion of the witness, to be attributed. —On the head being opened, a quantity of extravasated blood was found. The prisoner said nothing in defence, but called five wit nesses, who gave him a good character for humanity, parental kindness, and industrious habits. The witnesses:also described him to be a very good and careful driver when sober. The Jury found him Guilty of Manslaugnter, but recom mended him to mercy, on account of his previous good cha racter. Mr. Justice PARK said that, as at present informed, the case appeared to him to be of a most aggravated nature, and one which called for the most severe punishment the law could inflict. He would, however, most certainly attend to the re commendation of the Jury. It' was perhaps necessary they should know that the Court, as the law now stood, had no power to inflict any punishment beyond imprisonment. The Foreman of the Jury said the recommendation was an individual one. William. Backbutton, a boy of 14., was indicted for assaulting James Newson, a child, on the highway, and taking from his person a sovereign and a tin-box. The boy Newson had been sent to pay the money to a per son named Powell, when he was met by the prisoner, who had got acquainted with the fact of his being intrusted with the sovereign, and who took it from him. The - prisoner was found guilty of stealing from the person, but not with force and violence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE-OF rlCE.—Yesterday .losse, a young man of genteel appearance, was charged before,Messrs. RAWLINSON and GRIFFITHS, the Sitting Magistrates, with defrauding Mr. Nutting, pianoforte-manufacturer, of Dean street, Soho, of a piano, valued at 30 guineas. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Nutting, that the prisoner was connected with a numerous gang of swind lers, the most active of whom were James Walker, and Joseph and Robert Bunning, who are held to bail to ap pear at the Sessions. In this case, on the thirty-first of January last, the prisoner called on Mr. Nutting, and hired a pianoforte, giving Joseph Bunning as his reference, who of course gave him a most excellent character for honesty and prompt payment ; the pianoforte was then delivered to the prisoner at a house in Cumberland-street, New-road, from whence in a few hours after it was forwarded to Mr. Gideons, the pawnbroker, in Stafford-street, Lisson-grove, and there left by the prisoner for the sum of 101.: however, it remained, only a few days in the pawnbroker's store, being transferred to a broker's shop in Newman-passage, Oxford-street, the broker having purchased it of the prisoner for 151., redeeming it with part of that sum, and giving the prisoner the remainder, who was found by Staples, the Officer, in the middle of Thursday night, on the roof of a house near Sadler's Wells, having a few moments before extricated himself from the parlour chimney, into which he fled on the Officer's making his appear ance ; but was obliged to make a sudden and hasty retreat in consequence of the scorching heat of the flue. The prisoner declined saying• any thing, and was fully com mitted to Newgate for trial for felony, the Magistrates being of opinion that the prisoner's conduct amounted to that. Since the examination of Walker and the Bunnings, two de pbts belonging to the gang of swindlers were discovered—the one at Pentonville, and the other at Islington—which, on being entered by means of ladders and searched, were found to con tain an immensity of property of every description ; amon ,, which was discovered the piano obtained from Mr. Garlick;t the beds, mattresses, and bed-steads belonging to Mr. Lowe ; Mr. Twigg's carpets, &c., and an innumerable variety of other articles, which remain unclaimed. Qtr EEN-S at:A RE.-On Thursday Capt. B. charged a young Lady, who gave her name Sarah Jackson, and apparently un der twenty years of age, with an assault, and threatening to murder him. The Captain stated, that he was constantly annoyed by the prisoner. She resided in Villiers-street, Strand, and amuses herself by following him about, collecting a mob around him, going to his house in Buckingham-street, and threat ening either to murder himself or his wife. He had called himself to expostulate with her, but it only height ened her violence ; he sent other Gentlemeii" also to reason with her, and she declared to them that either he or his wife would fall by her hands before next Saturday. She had loaded pistols and a dirk at her lodging, for this purpose. She came to his house on Wednesday, and conducted herself with great violence in the hall ; he then found a knife concealed, under her pelisse—she told him that it was to murder him or his wife ; that she substituted it for the dagger, which she sus pected him to have stolen, but upon his honour he had not ' stolen it. The Magistrate called upon the lady for her defence. She answered she would not make any ; that it was the Captain's ambition to get her hanged, and she would most willingly sub mit to his (the Magistrate's) decision. The Captain seduced her from her mother, in Dublin, three years ago, and now he wanted to turn her into the street, but she would rather lose her life first. The Magistrate told her, when she trusted to the Captain's honour, she had a better opinion of him. She was as much in fault as he was; and now,' when she knew him to have mar ried another, the best thing she could do was to return to her friends in her own country: The Captain said he offered to furnish her with money for this purpose before, but she declined any , terms. The prisoner, in answer to the Magistrate, said she-was per fectly sensible of the fault she had so imprudently committed. The Captain took her from her mother with abundance of clothes and money ; it was true he wished her to return de. graded, and without either clothes or money. When he brought her to London, he made her take expensive lodgings, and contract debts, then got married to another, leaving her no means of subsistence but her dresses. She would willingly re turn to her friends, or at.least would try them, if he redeemed her dresses and paid, the debts, but, till then, she would suffer any persecution to which he could expose her. The Magistrate endeavoured to prevail upon them to settle the matter amicably, but not succeeding, be ordered her to find bail. She had no friends, anti was, committed. SUICIDE.—Thomas Blarney, a private soldier in.the 2d or Queen's Royals, put an end to his existence, at the barrack-yard, Brighton, on Monday evening, by placing the muzzle of his musket in his mouth, and discharging it with his foot, by means of a string tied to the trigger : he hadlit2rally blown his head to atoms. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, April 19. Antstet dant Ditto, at Sight l2 3 Rotterdam l2 7 Antwerp l2 3 Elamburgh 37 3 2 Us Altona Paris, 3 Day's sight 24 30 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the pain Madrid Cadiz 3ilboa 36i Effective Barcelona ieville Gibraltar Leghorn GCI iUllt '4 -Venice, Ital. Lit 27 60 slalta Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Dublin .. 94, • .Cork 91pel Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, i n Coin 1 . 0 0 0 pzr 02, Foreign Gold, in*Bars .3 17 10i New Doubloo'fis New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver - in Bars, Standard COAL-MARKET, APRIL 19. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 64 Newcastle - - 3 -28 s 04.1 to 40s Od BIRTHS. On the 19th instant, at Queen-street, Brompton, Mrs. Maurice Evans, of a daughter. On Thursday, at Woodley Lodge, near Reading, the Lady of James Wheble, Esq. of a son. In Dorset-street, Dublin, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Ensor, of the Armagh Militia, of a son. MARRIED. On Thursday last, by special license, at Maple-Hayes, Sir WillianrAmcotts ingilby, Bart., of Ripley-castle, in the county of York; and of Kettlethorpe-park, Lincolnshire, to Louisa, daughter of John Atkinson, Esq., of Maple-Hayes, in the; county of Stafford. Yesterday, at Sandridge, Surrey, Money Wigram, Esq., to Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Hainpden Turner, Esq., of Rook's-Nest. At Eastling, Kent, on the.l6th instant, by the Rev. John; Sayer, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Montresor, K.C'.B., and, Knight Grand Cross of the Guelphic Order, to Annetta, only daughter of the Rev. Edward Cage, Rector of Eastling. On the Bth January, in Vermont, United States, Mr. IVm., Double, to Miss Anna Maria Siiigleton; A prudent mind to change her fate, From solitary trouble; • She wisely left the Single state, And turned into. the Double. DIED. On the 11th instant, at Peterborough, of typhus fever, Mr., John Gibson, of the Admiralty-office. • On Tuesday, at Bury St. Edmunds, Mrs. Bennet, relict of Philip Bennet, Esq. of Widcombe, in the count? of Somerset, in the 77th year of her age. On the sth instant, in France, aged 14, 'Elizabeth Edwards, second daughter of . the late Hume Edwards, late of the island of Jamaica. On the 23d of September last, at Benares, Major Wm. Blake, of the 13th Native Infantry, Bengal. On Saturday se'nnight, at Blidworth, near Mansfield, in hcr 76th 'year, Mrs. Cadman, wife of Mr. Charles Cadman, an opulent farmer of that village. 'The deceased was about twenty seven stone weight, and notwithstanding her extraordinary size, enjoyed to her advanced years a good state of health • and until a few hours of her dissolution (which was rather sudden), she retained her faculties unimpaired. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Sux Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. 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