The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT EDF TIMTPI7I3LIC JOURNALS. Again we hear, forage hundredth time, through - - what we must presuM.e to be an official an nouncement, that coercive measures against Holland are determined on, and that a French and English combined fleet are to sail to block ade the Dutch ports. It is curious enough, and like all the inexplicable matters connected with the proceedings of the Conference, that it is only when the season of fogs and storms is about to set in a determination should be taken to send out a fleet to blockade the ports and rivers of Holland. Where every thing has been so mystified, a preference of foggy weather for naval manoeuvring is quite in character ; but no thing is said about the more effective way of proceeding, if the Allies really desire to reduce the right of Belgian independence from a theory to a fact, by enforcing the evacuation of the Belgic territory by the Dutch, and which no other means can so readily accomplish as the sending a French army over the borders. That army being already hovering over Belgium, ready for active service, the evacuation of the citadel of Antwerp might possibly be effected before the combined fleet could appear off the coast. Looking at the strange and awkward position in which this country is now placed, by the interference of our Mini stry in a quarrel of which they ought to have stu diously kept clear, we think the advice which we gave to Government, from the beginning, to ab stain from intervention in the dispute of Holland and Belgium, was, at least, somewhat wiser than the 'interineddling policy which has negotiated affairs into so much confusion, by the way of preserving peace, as to make war inevitable. If war with Holland be indeed resolved upon, what a situation does it place England in? A commercial nation, which has already brought itself so near the verge of bankruptcy by wan tonly indulging the passion for military glory, enters into a conflict with one of its best custo mers, without having any original cause of quar rel on its own part with the people of whom it becomes the assailant. In such a contest nei ther honour nor profit is to be reaped. On the contrary, great damage must be inflicted on British trade to obtain an object in which Eng land has no interest equal to those interests which it sacrifices. The more clearly it is shown to us that the Belgian question cannot be settled without war, the more are we convinced of the impolicy of our Government mixing itself up in the quarrel at all. In the case of Poland, though bound by a solemn treaty to protect her inde pendence, we allowed the utter extinction of that nation by the ruffian violence of the Autocrat of Russia. We allowed the barbarian conqueror to insult us by setting aside, of his own will, the quintuple treaty of Vienna. Our cry was then non-intervention. Though, if we made any exception to a pacific line of policy, the Poles had not only stronger claims upon our assistance, but were incomparably more deserving of our active support than the Bel gians. Not only did we refuse all succour or sympathy to that gallant people, but we actually paid large sums of money, which we had no right to pay, to enable Russia to proceed in her detestable and exterminating enterprise. A fleet to the Baltic, and cutting off the supplies, would have saved history the shame of recording the consummation of the crimes of the Northern Barbarian against Poland, in the full blaze of the boasted intelligence and civilisation of the nineteenth century ! While Russia does all she can to discourage the importation of British goods, and, in a great many instances, prohibits them altogether, Holland, we say, is one of our best customers. She has, since the Belgian re volution, reduced the duties on many articles of our merchandize from thirty to five or six per cent. We supply Holland with great quantities of our cotton, iron-work, cloth, coal, &c. ; and her ships are laden with our commodities for her colonial market. Why, then, bring ourselves into a position in which we must become the derision of Europe for our impotent menaces, or enter a war, in which to injure Holland we must still more seriously injure ourselves, and cut off some of the few remaining resources of profitable com merce ? As to the members of the Holy Al liance, by getting into whose company we brought ourselves into this most unpleasant pre dicament, they have deceived us so long and so often that no reliance can be placed upon their engagement. Even the Treasury scribes, who used to assure the public so solemnly of the honourable intentions of the despotic Powers, now admit that they have been all along pursuing a deceitful and treacherous course of policy ; and that it is only the threats of England of resisting their projects that has brought them to reason. It is a pity that our Government did not threaten with such good effect before all the mischief which their machinations have now produced in Eu rope was done. We have said, and now repeat it, that those Powers have encouraged rather than resisted Holland in her opposition to the decrees of the Conference all along. If they now effect to give consent to coercive measures, it is to cloak some design connected with, their great object of deceiving and circumventing both France and England.—Morning Herald. We learn from the Ministerial Journals a con firmation of our worst fears. To the embarrass ments of domestic insolvency, to the horrors of internal dissension, the burthens and the blood shed of foreign warfare are now to be added. Our Whig rulers have accomplished their des tiny ; they have completed their last title to the scorn and distrust of every honest Englishman. They had already sacrificed many principles, vio lated many pledges, betrayed many trusts. Economists, they had squandered the public treasure with an unprecedented profusion ; Con servative Reformers, they had effected what their own pens had by anticipation painted as a revo lution ; declaimers against patronage, they had disgusted even their pensioned advocates by the shameless indecency of their nepotism. One wreath was yet to be ' won. Babblers against interference with foreign Powers — metaphor-makers about the benefits and beauties of peace—they are now closing the inter ference of Protocols by the interference of three-deckers, and proving their pacific disposi tions by unfurling the banner of unjust and un holy war. To the Whigs, indeed, it will not appear either unjust or unholy. They have a logic by which the bombardment of Antwerp be comes perfectly consistent with equity and more. lity :—.‘. Justum est helium, quibus necessa riuni ; pia arena, quibus nulla nisi in ariclis re linquitztr sees." To Lord Palmerston this war is just ; for it is the necessary consequence of a series of false steps, the like of which we seek in vain through every written record of di plomatic folly and diplomatic fraud. To Lord Palmerston these arms W are holy ; for, save in them, he has no hope of escape from the meshes in which he has entangled himself by his own tortuous policy, by the imbecility with which he has conciliated the -mighty, by the arro gance with which he has dictated to the weak, by the fickleness with which he has aban doned the right, and by the obstinacy with which he has allied himself to the wrong. But the King and his people are guiltless of the incapacity and the perfidy of the Whig ne gotiations. Why . must their fair fame be tar nished and their depressed resources exhausted in the conflict which these negotiations have pro duced ?—lf the Times is to be believed, his Majesty is .understood to have said, when the resolution of the Cabinet was submitted to him, " I see clearly that it cannot be helped—it must he done." And the Times is of opinion that in using these words, " expressive at once of his regret at the obstinacy of the Dutch King, and of his firm ness in supporting the national honour, his Ma jesty has acquired an additional claim to our re spect and gratitude." If the reporter of the re volutionary journal has indeed access to the pri vacy of the Palace, and commits to his ready note-book the comments upon passing events which fall from the King's lips in con fidential communication with his servants, we question whether his interpretation have all the accuracy of his tale. The words he attributes to our Sovereign are truly expres sive of regret ; that regret, however, is surely excited in the mind of an English Prince, not by the firmness with which the ally of Eng land has resisted spoliation and wrong, but by the lamentable position in which England her self is placed—a position in which she can neither recede without humiliation nor advance without guilt. In old time we should have deemed it sin to doubt in any difficulty, in any danger, the triumph of the skill and the valour of our coun trymen. But we look upon the battle which is about to be joined with none of the confident exultation of the Times. " The Conference," says the Times, in an article in which it ventures " to take credit to itself for the steadiness with which it has pointed the views of the public to their present result "—" the Conference are re solved that the peace of Europe shall no longer he threatened by one of its weakest States." We are old fashioned enough to think probity of intention and rectitude of conduct essential to national strength ; and therefore it is with fear and anxiety that we pray our struggle with one of the weakest of the European States may not be as humiliating in its result as it is unjust in its outset.—Morning Post. We have • received the Edinburgh Review for October, which contains an article on the " 'Working and Prospects of Reform," that may be considered to embrace, pretty accurately, the views of Ministers with reference to our do mestic affairs. The chief object of the writer is to show the unreasonableness of the complaint urged against .Ministers, more particularly in the southern part of the island. It strikes us that there is too great a disposition to forget what Ministers have done, and to expect more from them, than, under existing circumstances, they can do. But we will allow the Reviewer to speak for himself:— " It is the right of the people not only to be well and cheaply governed, but as well and as cheaply governed as possible. It is reasonable as well as natural, that they should be impatient of any unnecessary delay in beginning those great and necessary improvements. But it is neither natural nor reasonable to require them all to be brought forward at once. It is in the highest degree un reasonable to complain of •any one being postponed, with out considering what are effected ; and it is altogether senseless to clamour for more measures than there is time to discuss. Yet we cannot help being apprehensive that some such feeling as this is rising in the country ; because we find it strongly directed to the proceedings of last Session, even while the old unreformed Parliament was the arbiter of every matter propounded. How constantly was it said ' Nothing has been done for tie abuses that prevail on every side: Yet no one attempts to remove them ; and the Government, engrossed with the Reform Bill, cares for no other measure.' Never, since Parlia ment had an existence, was there a charge more ground- With all their sins, neither the Government nor the Parliament can be accused of having done too little, in spite of the one being engrossed with the Bill, and the other distracted with changes at home and abroad, of no ordinary kind; and in spite of both being exhausted with the unexampled fatigues of the preceding eleven months' Session. Far from nothing but the Bill having been car ried, we will venture to say that more important and sa lutary measures wholly unconnected with the Bill received the sanction of the Legislature than in any other equal period of time to which our Parliamentary history reaches. Laying the Reform and eberything connected with it aside, there were somewhere about a dozen most beneficial changes effected in the jurisprudence of the country, and six or seven other improvements in our political system ; any one of which would in any former Session have been reckoned a great and happy triumph of sound principles and enlightened policy. " We pass over such important improvements as the consolidation of the Navy Board with the Admiralty—of the Board of Works with the department of Woods and Forests—measures which have both abolished much pa tronage, saved a large sum yearly to the country, and greatly facilitated and improved the transaction of public business in two of its greatest branches. We say nothing of the improvements in the Irish law relating to tithes, and to subletting, because these measures may still be said to excite difference of opinion. Neither shall we dwell upon merely Consolidating Acts, which, how beneficial soever, cannot be cited as amendments of the law; although cer tainly the Coinage Consolidation, besides repealing fifty one Statutes, and branches of Statutes, and reducing the whole enactments upon the subject to a few simple clauses, bad the additional merit of making the offence of coining no longer puniahable capitally. BO let it be remembered how many important general im provements of the law were effected, such as all or almost 411 men now admit well to merit that appellation. The process in ail personal actions was simplified and made uniform ; and the foundatinn laid for simplifying and making uniform the whole practice of opr courts of law. The process of courts of equity in the different parts of the IJnited Kingdom was made interchangeable, so as to pre vent evasion by . the removal or non-residence of parties. The like extension was given to the process of the Eccle siastical Courts, which, from the variety of local jurisdic tions, was before imperfect ; and persons having privileges of Parliament were subjected, like the rest of the King's subjects, to the power of those tribunals. Two Courts of long standing, and one of them at least of great import. ance—the Scotch Court pf Exchequer, and the English Court of Delegates—were wholly abolished, and their functions transferred to other tribunals, where justice may be had better and cheaper than the latter could give it, and the scandal connected with the former may be avoided of a Court of sinecure Judges. Corporations were prevented from applying their funds, of whatever descriptions, to defray any expenses connected with elec tions. The law was repealed which made it criminal to study Anatomy or Surgery, and regulations were substi tuted in its room, tending tocheck any abuse in procuring subjects for dissection, while the facilities given for law fully pr, secuting such researches must effectually prevent the atrocities which bad arisen out of the formic state of our jurisprudence in this respect. The payment of the Judges was planed upon a better and more Constitutional footing, and considerably reduced in amount; and the Chancellor's in particular was made to depend wholly upon salary, and in no degree upon fees, Twelve or thirteen large sinecure places too in his Court were abolished, with an important saving to the public, and a still more important diminution of patronage. A most beneficial change was introduced into the law of pre scription and limitation of actions, tendirig greatly to quiet poeseasion, and prevent vexatious claims. In the two Acts passed upon these branches of jurisprudence, by far the most important provision is that relating to Tithes; it is, in truth, a complete nullii* Ternpzts Act aga'nst the Church. A great improvement in the admi nistra don of justice in India was introduced by making natives capable of holding tl.e office of Justice of the Peace at the Presidencies, and of acting on ,Juries in cases where they hail before been unwisely excluded; and---to enumerate no more----the severity, alike impolitic and revolt ing to the feelings of mankind, which had been so long the reproach of the Criminal Law, was mitigated in the most important particulars in which it remained liable to this charge—horse and cattle stealing, privately stealing in the dwelling, and the forging of uegociable and other securities—all which offences have now ceased to be pu nishable with death. All this was done by the lat Session of the last unreformed Parliament, over and above the Act for its ..own Reformation ; and as we may safely defy any one to show another Session iu which more good was accomplished, we think, if any Session of the Reformed Parliament should deserve as well of the country, that no gr•at ground of complaint will be given." The Reviewer observes with regard to the fu ture, that the chief parts of Government and Le gislation must, notwithstanding every improve ment, be still in the hands of a few ; and " it therefore becomes physically impossible that many measures of importance should be dis cussed and matured in the course of a single Session. Thus, if the East India Charter, the Batik Charter, and the West India question are all brought forward together, it is difficult to per ceive how time and strength can remain for dis cussing the Irish Tithes—a subject that presses most of any; and the English Church Reform, which can hardly be delayed, if that of the Irish Church must be immediately settled." After alluding to about ten other questions, the Reviewer observes, it is manifest that if more than a few of them are crowded into one Session, they must be disposed of without sufficient deli beration. Some of the measures in the cata logue of the last Session may be dwelt on fully as much as their importance deserves, and we believe one or two of these stated to have been introduced—as the Indian Justice of Peace Scheme, for instance—were anything but im provements. Still there is much truth in the observations of the Reviewer. Sufficient allow ance is not made for the difficulties of Ministers ; and there prevails rather too great a disposition, in spite of their honesty of intention as proved by the Reform Bill, to lower them to the level of those who, if they had their will, would have deluged the country with blood rather than con sent to a Reform. We shall return to this subject.—Morning Chronicle. It had long become obvious to every body, that the feverish uneasiness produced here and on the continent by the unrepressed arrogance and stubbornness of the House of Nassau, must inevitably, if continued longer, plunge all Europe into war. The Belgians, provoked by repeated disappointment and acknowledged in jury, and the French people by that sense of deep humiliation with which the failure of all the most favoured objects of their foreign policy had stung them, would, in spite of their re.• spective Governments, without the sanction of England, and at the risk of direct hosility from the despotic Courts, have shortly attempted by open force to expel the Dutch garrison from Antwerp,—a step of which the results mu s t be incalculable. Much folly has been talked by the factious opposition press in this country about the shame of taking part with France against Holland, our ancient and beloved ally, and thus imitating the vileness of Charles 11. Now Charles IL leagued himself with Louis XIV. in a war undertaken by the latter for the invasion and conquest of the United Provinces, an enterprise of which the immediate conse quence was, to break up the existing tranquil lity of Europe, involving Germany as well as France, England, and Holland in the quarrel— an enterprise, moreover, the success of which appeared to every human judgment certain, Louis in a short period seized upon three of the Dutch provinces out of seven, and of which the subsequent defeat may be looked upon as all but miraculous. What, besides, was the mo tive of Charles 11. for this monstrous accession to a wicked scheme for extingishing the Dutch Government and nation ? Corruption. He sold Europe and England for a bribe from the French Court, to enable him to prosecute a course of guilty pleasures—a baseness worthy only of a Stuart of the 17th century, or a boroughmonger of the 19th. What is there in common between the present policy of William IV., and that so justly reprobated of Charles 11., in their motives, principles, or pos sible results ? We have already said that a joint armament of France aand England is on the point of proceeding to the Scheldt. Is that for any project of selfish aggrandizement in fa vour of France, and to the detriment of Hol land ? Is it an armament calculated to inspire the rest of Europe with jealousy, by altering in any respect those relations between neighbour ing States which have been fixed and established by the consent of all the leading European Powers, as tinder all the circumstances of the period, essential to the well-being of the whole community of nations? Manifestly not. All Europe has agreed upon the separation of Bel gium and Holland ; both those countries esteem themselves benefited by it. In order to effect this object in the only way advantageous to all parties, and therefore likely to be du rable, a certain demarcation of territory was settled, as necessary for the equal indepen deuce of both countries. Under this head of ar rangement, Antwerp was recognized to be, what it always had been, a part of the Belgic, not of the Dutch, dominions; and the navigation of the Scheldt was declared to be free from the odius monopoly once inflicted on it, and on the commerce of all maritime nations, in the year 1648, by the treaty of Westphalia. The con quest of Holland by France, and formal extinc tion of Dutch national sovereignty, had virtually abrogated the above treaty. The peace of Vienna did so formally, imposing conditions upon the King of Belgium, whereby the navigation of the Scheldt and the trade of Antwerp ought to have been as open as that of the waters which serve the commerce of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, &c. The freedom of the Scheldt, and the incorporation of Antwerp with Belgium under King Leopold, has, over and over again within these two years, been solemnly stipulated by the acts of all Europe—save of William of Nassau only—as an essential portion of the law of Europe, and the execution of that provision of the Conference is avowedly held by every one of its members as indispensable to the settlement of the European world. Then why is a combined fleet to be despatched to the Scheldt ? Is it for any purpose of separate ambition, like that of Louis XIV. ? No, but for the effectual re moval of an obstacle to the maintenance of peace, which in a short time might be found insur mountable,—namely, the stubborn aggress i on o f the Dutch King upon the recogniz e d t err i tory an d s jpulated rights of Belgium, w hi c h, so long as it shall be endured in fact by those Powers which have so repeatedly and una nimouslyieav e the peace condemned o f the it Contine n t wort h a i n principl e , will never week's purchase. It is, then, with the general assent of Europe to an indisputable proposition, that England and France have at length begun to enforce their own principles and those of their allies. We do not say that all the allied Powers have concurred in the treaty of the Conference without great unwillingness and regret. They have, in truth, given way to nothing less than the sense of an overruling necessity ; and under the same moral coercion is it that England, at the eleventh hour, and after numerous earnest and fruitless endeavours to prevail upon the Dutch Sovereign by amicable means, has finally resolved to set the matter at rest. That the Bri tish Government would have been fully justi fied in taking this course more than twelve months ago, all reasonable men are persuaded. The occupation of Antwerp, and Dutch pre tension relative to the Scheldt, had become an ulcer in the heart of Europe. The never-ending protocols were laughed at every where—they were especially held in derision by the Conservatives of this kingdom, and they, at least—we mean the scoffers at an hesitation to act, which ought to have been looked upon as an evidence of the mild, forbearing, and tolerant spirit of Lord Grey's Government,—can least of all men now, with any consistency, turn round and upbraid that Government with hastiness or precipitation in its measures for recalling Holland to her senses. As for the mode of executing this un avoidable measure, the wisest policy will be to present to the King of Holland a force so ut terly irresistible, that he must resign at once all thoughts of resistance as abortive. Antwerp and the Scheldt being free, we are not aware of any further question that need now of necessity embroil the States of Europe with each other. But it is clear as light, that so long as Holland shall be suffered to stand out against the general interest and policy,—so long the idol, peace, Often worshipped more in name than substance, can never for one moment be secure.—Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday, John Lilies, a seaman, who is believed to be a returned transport, was brought be fore the LORD MAYOR. Mr. Bennet, the tailor and draper, who resides at the bottom of Prince's -street, near the Bank, stated that about four years ago he lost a son at sea, under very singular and awful circumstances. In March, 1828, the young man went on beard the Illoodlark, at Hobart Town, for the purpose of coming to Europe. The vessel was lost off the rocks of New Holland, but he, along with seventeen others, were saved, after having experienced for twenty-eight days at sea, in a small boat, the most inconceivable hardships. Having reached Batavia, he took an other passage homeward, in the Frederick, which left that place on the 22d of June following, but never was heard of afterwards, and no doubt all on board perished, for not a syllable about him had reached any person at all interested in his safety. — The loss, of course, became less severe by the ope ration of time, when suddenly in walked the de fendant, a day or two ago, to the complainant's shop, and said he brought the father intelligence of his son. "Of my son !" said Mr. Bennet, " that's impossible—he has been dead nearly four years." The defendant assuted the complainant that he had lately left Hobart Town, where he shook hands with young Bennet at parting, and promised to call upon his father in London, and say that all was well.— The complainant added that the defendant had called at the house of the sister of the deceased at Bexley, and told her a similar falsehood. Mr. Hanley Smith was in Mr. Bennet's shop when the defendant entered with the intelligence. The defendant, in addition to what had been stated by Mr. Bennet, said that Captain Hopkinson, of the ship Sarah, had sent him to Mr. Bennet, to beg of him to call at the Jerusalem Coffee-house at 11 o'clock next morning, to receive the sum of 1501. which the son had transmitted to his father. Upon inquiry it was found that there was no such C:aptain known at the coffee-house. The LORD MAYOR—Did the defendant ask for any money ?—Mr. Bennet replied in the negative ; and he believed that all the fellow received at Bex ley was a glass of gin. It was reported that the defendant had called upon a widow lady at Peck ham, and informed her that he had lately parted ' from her husband, who was alive and hearty, and would soon be at home with her. This was just as wicked a falsehood as the other ; no doubt existed as to the death, for many years, of the lady's husband. The defendant had gone out to India in one of the trade-vessels, and from thence sailed to Hobart Town, where he saw young Bennet, who told him where his father lived (at the back of the Bank), and asked him to give a call to say how he was. ' With respect to the 1501., that statement was a mistake ; there was neither money nor appointment with Captain Hopkinson, and he (defendant) had only mentioned the matter to some of the men, who, being tailors, were very curious to know every thing, whether true or false, about the young man. Mr. Hobler mentioned a curious instance of the re-appearance of a man supposed to have been for many years lost at sea, and suggested the propriety of a minute inquiry by Mr. Bennet. Mr. Bennet was satisfied that his son had perished. Nothing, in fact, could be more certain. The de fendant, in endeavouring to get over one lie, had told several, which were easily detected; and it was evident he had never seen the person of whom he pretended to bring intelligence. The defendant, in answer to a question from the LORD MAYOR, was three months in London, but having been confined in an hospital, had no opportu nity of delivering the message before. The LORD MAYOR remanded him for a few days. Ralph Mendoza was charged with being the father of an illegitimate child, and with having ne glected to maintain it. : ft C et har ag lo t t e t a e Be t dea l ted th l i o a fimpo s r t t a un e ity : p a t t Mendoza evaile prevailed upon had, onher to live with him as his wife, and that she had, in a great measure, supported the establi s h ment , w hi c h consisted of two rooms, and an occasional char woman. Of late Mendoza had shown symptoms of changing, and at last he left the whole burden on her hands, and now was throwing dirty water upon her character, although she would take her oath of her fidelity to him. She then exhibited the baby. The complexion strongly resembled that of both father and mother, being about midway between brown deal and mahogany ; but the nose, which was what is called a Munster nose, appeared as if it had been flung at the face, and stuck there, without any relationship to the other features or to the Jew. Mendoza declared that he was as well convinced as that he was alive that Charktte had sarved him out in a shabby sort of a vay ; any body who looked at the baby know'd it warn't his'n. The child had a Jewish complexion, but a very Christian puggi ness about the nose, and Mendoza said, " Ah, look at that ere little konk ; there an't now much of the Jew there ; that nose an't my nose."—(Laughter.) Charlotte Benjamin—Please you, my Lord, it is his nose, s'elp me God, and he knows it. Why did he get the baby circumcised if he thought it wa rn't his'n Mendoza —Please you, my Lord, I'll tell you the rights about that ere. As I vas going along Houndsditch I meets my uncle Sol. Davis, and I stops him and tells him as this here voman vas agoing for to swear that I vas the father of that ere little h o ffspring-- . --and says I, I am blessed if I knows a nything about it, for I knower! it wan't none of my git.—(Laughter.) So my unc l e S o l. says to me , you sees, says he, if she goes for to swear it to you, R,lph, do you make a Je w on hi m — (l ou d l aug ht er ) —and so we did make a Jew on him, but he an't no Jew for all that, except only in that ere von spot.--(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—The child is as like you as possible. 'Tis no great beauty to be sure, but babies of the kind often grow up handsome. I advise you to cherish it. Charlotte Benjamin—Please your Lordship, he somehow thinks as I vas arter a poor Hirishman as lives in the house, and has a large family. Mendoza—Yes, my Lord, he has, and I don't want for to support none of his family. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, we decide that you are the father. What are you able to pay a week Mendoza—lf it vas my own git, I would'nt grudge a tanner (sixpence) a week ; but it an't, and I hope your Lordship will put it on the parish. The defendant was then committed in default of bail. G UILDIIALL. On Saturday, two young men, named John Fitzpatrick and James M'Carty, were brought be fore Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL for knowingly utter ing base coin. Mr. Field, the Mint Inspector, recognized both the prisoners as parties whom he had seen before. Mr. Farrow, the landlord of the Fortune of War, in Giltspur-street, stated, that on Tuesday evening the prisoners came into the bar and called for a pint of beer, in payment for which Fitzpatrick tendered a good crown-piece. Witness had thrown it into the till and was looking out the change, when M'Carty said " Oh, I think I have browns (half pence) enough ; don't change ;" and witness ac cordingly returned the crown-piece. M'Carty laid down three halfpence, and witness said to him, " You know my beer is 2d. per pint." M'Carty immediately asked his companion whether he had got a " brown," and Fitzpatrick, after rummaging all his pockets in vain, apologized for the trouble he had given, and said he' must have change for the crown after all, laying down a counterfeit, in the hope that witness would throw it into the till as the good one he had before examined. Witness cried out, " You vagabonds, you are smashers," and held them till the police came, when six pennyworth of " browns" and nine shillings were found on M'Carty, and the good crown-piece which had been offered at first was taken from the other prisoner. Wm. Weston, of the Twelve Bells, Bride-lane, proved that the prisoners played off the same trick on him on the same afternoon.—Committed. BOW-STREET. A miserable-looking Irishman, with' his wife and two infant children, was charged with begging in the streets, and the offence having been proved, they were sentenced to one month's hard labour in the House of Correction. Since Sir F. Roe has been the Chief Magistrate at this office, the children of persons convicted of an act of vagrancy have been taken from them, and placed in the workhouse of the parish where the parents were apprehended, but restored to them at the expiration of their term of imprisonment. This order has been felt by the women as a far greater punishme►►t than the imprisonment, and in many instances it has been difficult to take a child from its mother even by force. In the present case, the woman, on hearing that she was to be deprived of her children, caught up the infants in her arms, and declared she would not part with them except with her life. Dodd, the gaoler, tried to take them from her by force, but she placed the children on the ground, and then flew at him like a tigress, and soon made marks enough on his face to enable her to identify him for the next six weeks. She was replaced at the bar for the assault, and the only thing the poor wretch could say was, " Give me my children, and let me go." Dodd did not press the charge against her; and Mr. Minshull, disposed to make every allowance for the feelings of a mo ther, did not make any addition to the term of her imprisonment, and assured her that her children would be well taken care of in the workhouse. This assurance did not pacify her, a►id she was con ducted back to the lock-up place, exclaiming bitterly against the cruelty of depriving her of her children QUEEN-SQUARE. A DELICATE INVESTIGATION.—CharIes Hild, a foreigner, was charged with assaulting and using threatening language to Mrs. Elizabeth Arthur, a pretty young widow, of No. 19, Godfrey-street, Chelsea-common. Mrs. Arthur said that the defendant came to her house on the previous night, broke the door open, and destroyed some of her furniture; that he was in the habit of slapping her on the face whenever he met her in the street, and that he threatened to sell off her goods, and go to another country with the money. Defendant—l did say dat all in de joke; we have lived togedder as de wife and de man for some time, and I have taken her out of de Whitecross prison, and paid de debt, and taken her tingsout of de pawn. The widow now burst into a most immoderate flood of tears, and said the defendant certainly came to the prison and voluntarily paid her debts, and she was liberated ; but ever since his conduct was altered, arid he had become complete master of her house, and did just as he pleased. Mr. MARRIOTT—Has he ever paid you any rent ? Widow—No, Sir. Defendant—l have supported her for de last nine months. She very fine now, but I have got de poker as my witness, which she knock about my head when I run in de street, and de people all come out and say dat be one butcher wife ; she broke my head, so I am very sorry I ever did see dat lady. Mr. MARRIOTT—How came you to act in such a violent manner towards her last night ? Defendant —Oh, Sare, I could not hurt von lady, I more gal lant; I go out last night to buy her von pint of beer for de supper, and she would not let me in ; and I wanted my hat, and to say farewell to her, for my head was all broke wid de poker, which I shall bring to you. Mr. MARRIOTT had heard sufficient to call upon him to find two sureties to keep the peace towards Mrs. Arthur for the next six months. Defendant (to the widow)—Vary veil, I have got de money ; I shall soon be out, and I will see you again be sure.—The defendant was then locked up. THAMES POLICE-OFFICE. CHARGE OF DESTROYING A WILL.—JOhn Dut ton, a coal•porter, formerly in a respectable line of business in Greenbink, Wapping, was charged with illegally destroying the will of his deceased mother. William Dutton was younger brother to the pri soner, and his mother, who kept a chandler's shop in Greenbank, Wapping, died of cholera on Monday morning. Three weeks before she made her will, in which she gave him (prosecutor) all her pro perty, except a legacy of 101. to the prisoner. Pro secutor showed this will to his brother, who put it in a drawer. After his mother's death the will was gone. The prisonerrawera s well proved as m that h the sel f,a nd deceased thensaid that had access to she the d told him a few hours before her death, that she lef left William too much in the will, and that she had destroyed the document in consequence; he, as elder brother, was entitled to her property, and she told him how to dispose of it. A scene of recrimination then ensued between the two brothers, which was put a stop to by a de cent mechanic coming forward, and stating that he was Mrs. Dutton's nephew, and he was entitled to the property, as her two sons were illegitimate. The two brothers reluctantly admitted this fact, upon which Mr. BRODERIP said the nephew was entitled to the property as heir at law. He had, however, no jurisdiction, and the defendant had, in his opinion, been unjustly dragged forward. The property in dispute is valued at 1,500/. UNION-HALL. HORSE-SETALING.—Joseph Kirkman was charged with stealing a horse belonging to Mr. Whippey, a farmer, of Whitchurch, Somersetshire. The horse was stolen from an orchard attached to plaintiff's farm, in January, 1830. Mr. CHAMBERS committed the prisoner. LAMBETH-STREET. Two women, named Crispin and Stevens, were charged with robbing Captain Mickalowski, a Polish officer, of his purse, containing English and foreign coins to the amount of 501. Oni Friday evening the Captain and two of his countrymen went into the Garrick Tavern, in Le- man-street, where there was a fine concert going on. A large company was present, and the fo reigners retired to a remote part of the room, where they had some rum and water. The Cap tain paid for the liquor, and, having put his purse on the table, forgot to take it up again. He had scarcely left the house when he missed his pulse, and on returning he found it gone from the table. The two prisoners had been sitting near him, and on his return they had also taken their departure. They were pursued and apprehended, but the purse was not found. The prisoners, who called themselves respectable married women, were discharged. The poor Captain, who was conviaced they were the robbers, was much surprised and affected at this issue of the affair. MARLBORO U GH- S TREE T. _ On Saturday a man named Ladbrooke, and a Mrs. Riddle, were charge.] with violently assault• ing a person named John Smith, under the follow ing circumstances The parties, it appeared, reside in the regions of Lancashire -court, and John Smith, who is a hard' working man, proceeded home on Wednesday, after his day's labour, to "smokes cigar! and take a drop of half-and-half with his wife." But, alas !he was deprived of his contemplated gratification by the absence of Mrs. John Smith, who had left the child in bed, and had gone "a gallivanting." For one whole hour did the complainant wait the return of his spouse; at length, wearied with expectation, he opened the window to give a change to the scene by contemplating the beauties of the Heavens* After some time had been occupied in endeavour ing to unravel the wonders of the solar system, his• attention was attracted to a sort of " scrnmmage in the court below. What a sight presented itself to his affrighted view ! It was impossible he could be mistaken, but, "to make assurance double sure," he reached over the window, as far as safety would permit, to see who the parties weret and what the cause of the confusion. It was, ill' deed, his wife and the male defendant, in a Biwa- , fion not to be described. For several minutes he paced the room in a state of distraction, fearing to go down to the defendant and inflict summary pu nishment, thinking, from the superior physical powers of the latter, he might get the worst of it; and not relishing the idea of remaining passive in his apartment when his honour was at stake. The child was in bed asleep. A thought flashed across his mind ; he seized the infant, and pinched it until he made it cry violently. Up came the mother in' stantly to see what was the matter with her "dear babe," when the husband, " with all his injuries thick upon him," did not stop to give the remoll' strance first and the blow afterwards, but for oriel reversed it. This brought up Mr. Ladbrooke the female defendant, and the former instantly at' tacked the man he had so much injured, and s° pummelled him that the poor husband was obliged to seek safety under one of the tables. The wife,: too, it would appear, "spitefully and maliciously gave him sundry kicks during the affray. The male defendant attempted to justify his con' duct, but Mr. CONANT ordered him to find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. The woman was discharged, it appearing she only graced the scene with her presence, withou t proceeding to hostilities, unless it was by her tongue giving vent to such expressions as " Give it hin't Ladbrooke," " That's your sort, my boy, you'l faro him to whop his poor little wife," &c. Ladbrooke obtained bail in the course of the afternoon. sirs. John Smith did not make her aP" pearance in Court, but we were informed, that 0, 11 , !earning that " that good man, Mr. Ludbrooke, was detained in custody, she " went off into a faint ing fit." BRAZIL PAPERS. (From the Diario do Governo.) RIO DE JANESRo.—Senhor Bento Banoso Pereira having received the decree of the Regency, in the name of the Eta: peror, appointing him to the poet of Minister of War, tor ad interim, to that of Minister of Marine, writes to the Is lll nister of the Interior, that, though the reasons which 0 0 before hindered him from accepting so important an offi ct still subsist, yet he will not be accused of being insensible to the distress of his country when be is called upon t e. dedicate to its service his little remaining strength, and h t will therefore do so cheerfully, though he cannot ansvie t for the duration of his efforts, which will depend on h i ' infirmities not increasing to such a degree as wholly to incapacitate him. Senhor Hollanda Cavalcanti, appointed Minister IP, Finance, and, ad interim, of the Interior, writes a letter °' similar tenor. They are dated the 4th of August. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.—The following C.-1 cular has been sent to all the provinces : Sir,—Extraordinary circumstances having oc curred,: this capital, which may perhaps endanger the tranquit of the province, I think it my duty to assure Y ° ' . Excellency that the Government of his Imperial Dlaj es ; 0 is invested with all strength to support the Constituti ° : the laws, and the Regency, in the name of his Majes .. ., l i t Don Pedro 11., and that the capital of the empire mains quiet. Palace of Rio Janeiro, Aug. 4, 1832. Signed by Sen. H. CALVACANTII Deputy of Justice. Circular to the Presidents of all the provinces of tb empire :ip Sir,—The difficulty which the Regency experienee - e i organizing a Ministry in the room of that which reeig ° .4 on the 28th of last mo n th, i n d uce d t h e R egenc y to as a p ( on the 30th of that month, a message t o th e Charnbe r Deputies resigning the high office t o w hi c h it wage ie. vated. This step obliging that Chamber, and aftersv ir e the Senate, to declare their sittings permanent, go d 0 0 0 0 turally interesting all the citizens, excited for a few t e d some fears that the public tranquillity might be distur„ o ., but the spirit of order and respect to our free iustittloi te if and to the throne of Don Pedro 11., which was immedi 3 t i o o manifested by the citizens of all classes, and the firm resol d is , taken on the following day by the Chamber of Deputie't st, vite the Regency to remain in its exalted and honourabl e roe, and, lastly, the prompt acquiescence of the Regency i° jte mere invitation of the Chamber, completely put an rd yll the anxiety which agitated the public mind, dispel'; air apprehensions of the interrupti on o f t ranqu illity, armed any agitators that were, perhaps, preparing t° 4 ,01 the field. And though it i s p a i n f u l t o th e Gover° o to speak of discordant sentiment; in c i r cumstanc es 0 0; ours, which ought to call all Br a zili ans t o union and cord, it is, however, not possible to avoid recommenclil }our Excellency, by order of the Regency, in the eal bo t 4 the Emperor Don Pedro 11., that in publishing the .! narrative of the events which I communicate to f7,r order to remove any bad impressions which false flp gerated accounts may have made in the minds of th e Ong tants of the province, you at the same time endeavoo4lo advise and to procure, by all means in your pan' those who diff e r in opinion may be concili s t directed to what ought to be the common obJ eC- it —to maintain • the Constitution of the en3P ite n 'tM with that, liberty and p u bli c or d er, the true bases "f i poi throne of our y oung M onarch, the august pledge o n S' prosperity ; an d t h at on the other hand, if the 03°8 1 ;r, conciliation sh ou ld un h app il y f a il , an d any attempt % 0 0 e' be made in th e province to violate the Constil s i e sif the law s , or t o a ff ect th e r i g h ts o f hi s Imperial s 0 .1 Don Pedro 11., your Excellency will employ veer powers and means which the laws give to you to P ro yf or to repel such attempts, and to maintain, as P public order and tranquillity, of which we have 0° need. God preserve your Excellency. 11 A' (Signed) " PEDRO D'ARANJO LI-f " Palace of Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 6, 1832." —Diario do Gpverno to 20th Ang. inclusive. g To PRODUCE PERSPIRATION.-- ° s o ( P int of cold water taken at bed-time, has been produce a copious secretion from the skin, when a remedies have failed.— The Doctor. tO ir BIRTHS. of 0" '% ci On the 12th inst. the lady of George Child, Esq. , ~, oval, Surrey, of a daughter. the )..— y / On the 12th inst. at Mare-hill, Greenwich-park, Stacey Grimaldi, Esq., of a son. 4 P r DIED. wi do* On the 12th inst. on Woolwich-common, igarY' r y,lo Lieutenant-Colonel George Scott, of the Royal Artillevio ~i ter of Captain John Beeves, of the same corps, W h it, at the attack on Gibraltar on the 13th September, , c grand-niece and co-heiress of the late Lieut.-Genera fe A ILA., of Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire. fIL A ' ~..( On the 10th inst. at Vauxhall, Sarah, the wife 0- I ,', strong, LL.D., in the 49th year of her age. hiret On the 1 lth inst. at Beau Manor Park, Leicesters r o, , youngest daughter of the late Thomas Bainbrigge Her te r of Merridale House, Staffordshire. 0 On the 11th inst. at Maidstone, Kent, Will iam Esq., aged 57. 01. 0 Al PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO vcrug , - _ SUN OFFICE, IN, STRAND, LONDON. vzs VIM 1,1.11 lIIS, al. Mare-I/111, Lireellwlell-Ftl.. , Stacey Grimaldi, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. olP tit if itd,ric,;l On the 12th inst. at Addington, Surrey, the Rev. Wright youngest son of Ichabod Wright, Esq., of. t Notts, to Harriet Elizabeth, youngest daughter of big t s ,l " Archbishop of Canterbury. t C IF, On the 11th inst. at Iwerne Minster Church, Dors e do - Ferrars Loftus, of the Grenadier Guards, son of the „die rat and Lady Elizabeth Loftus, to Louisa, onlir:l_ John Bastard, of West Lodge, Dorset.