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,~~~ r , - • __ . ,__4l_ •( 1 ' . 1 0, 4 - a /"' T VIL Ft / ~ , ..„...,.....„, ,piliTk ,/4/ Zit' iti, //2 _ J:Lil -r SUN. ..j , -- - 7,4 , . ).. c ,/, , (4 , , aj,.., NUMBER 9454. PIC77IILLING.OFFICE, Dec. G, 1822. TFIE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His MAJESTY'S NA VY, do hereby give °li ve, that on Friday next, the 13th Instant, they will be P " 4 9' to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for r ewire linwlred Sacks of BISK ET MEAL ; Fi ve Hundred Sacks of KILN DRIED HOUSEHOLD PURI& 'Fifty Tow of NEW BLACK SMYRNA RAISINS, to be artainerabk to samples (of' not less than two panfuls weight rata), t o be produced with the lenders ; I "‘V Tons of VIRGINIA LEAF TOBACCO; P ivf , Hundred Quarters of ENGLISH PEASE ; 71 °a Hundred-weight of the best PEARL BARLEY; And fine Ton of the best SCOTCH BARLEY ; the whole to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling 4 4 " at Deptford ; the Rismit Meal and Pease, one-half in "glary, and the remainder in February ; Flour, To 'ceo, Pearl, and Scotch Barley, in the month of,January ; ! 44 "IP Raisins, one-half in a fortnight, and the other half Fe bruary. . t ine Conditions of the Contracts marl be seen at this Office. tack Tender must specify . the Price in IPurds at length, 444 6 e delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed, '44 the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his E A -4 .1. must attend to answer when caitiff for. lit 'FALLER CLIFTON. On Saturday next will be published, In 4t0., price 21. 10s., 'PRE FIRST VOLUME of a HISTORY of the late WAR in SPAIN and PORTUGAL. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. Printing for John Murray, Alherroarle-street. ri, EE YT 0 N, STOCK-BItOKER,,2I,dCI-50,0RNa . HILL and LOMBARD-STREET, L ot i e cf ‘5OO, in Shares, drawn Fourth Day of the Present 14 t e ll', and hopes to sell One, at least, of the Two Prizes Dit io o 2ooo now in the Wheel, and a share of the other Ca tlith,s• Ninety-one Great Capitals in the. Wheel, and all -;,come out TUESDAY, 17th DECEMBER, and follow '''ay of Drawing, as there are only Two Day's to Draw ! ! RICH WHEEL. '• ...... of ~..C20,000 7 .............. 10,000 15 ' • .............. 5,000 15 2,000 47 ty, 4 rranted Undrawn Tickets and Shares are Selling at qh:ON'S Fortunate Offices, 2, Cornhill and Lombard-street, te all Business in the Public Funds is transacted with fide and dispatch. LAST DAY BUT ONE, • and J.SIVEWRIGHT remind their Friends t o • and the Public, that the Present Lottery is drawing V% close, and that ALL the 91 CAPITALS now in the . :" 01 MUST be decided on TUESDAY NEXT, DECEMBER 17, And the following Monday. 1.j. 1 , h e Wheel is uncommonly rich, as will be seen by the 0 1 Capital Prizes, all to be drawn in Two Days, riz. of.. £20,000 7.... of Xl,OOO 10,000 15 5OO 2 5,000 15 3OO I O,OOO 47 9OO O R ,l c tket s an d Sh ares are S e lli ng at J. an d J. SIVEWRIGHT'S "l 37, Cornhill ; I 38, Haymarket, Holborn ; Corner of Coventry-street; t i z te they Sold and Shared, in the Present Lottery, 2,612, a of Xe,ooo. HARD BUT INTERESTING WORK ! ! T I .II IE BOYS who draw the State Lottery will have hard, but interesting ssork to perform the next V w L ,NINETY. uays of Drawing, as they have no less than iirp:' . CAPITAL PRIZES to draw out in that short space of !NZ. consequently, it will be a very interesting period, as tam their great number they must inevitably come up in tei t; quick succession, that they will be the T wo most inte sta, Days ever known in the Lottery annals. Notwith- PtZng the unprecedented rich state of the Wheel, the ha"' is not so high as e it usually is at this period, when per- Wt l there were not a tenth part of the Capitals in the A tal e f ew Warranted Undrawn Tickets and Shares are still on St BISH's Offices, 4 ' CORNHILL ' anti 9, CHARING-CROSS, London; Tb And by his Agents in the Country. ' f ollowing is the present uncommon Rich State of the Wheel ; % ........ of ....X2.0,000 7 0f.... Xl,OOO 2• • . ...... ..... 10, 000 15 5,000 15 3OO W I ) • • 2,000 47 . 200 11 0, n 4 are considerably more than the Old Lotteries of 50 or '4./Tickets used to contain at the commencement. THE WHOLE MUST BE DRAWN 4 44 NEXT TUESDAY, (17th Instant), the following Monday, for on that Day the Lottery tr , ott ry and Contract entirely finish. 4 4 * IS has already Sold Fire Capital Prizes in the Pre- IN!!..e. STRICTURES CURED. a new Method the above troublesome Complaint is entirely eradicated (without the use of ts ls or Caustic), if not constitutional, whether of long tiv r ,;' l ° , t standing, as well as all weaknesses generally ae ti,sthri.4.llYing it, and in a short time the whole system is re. nshed, being one of the greatest discoveries ever made. UtIN LYNCH, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. ter"Pvctabl e references will be given, if required.—All Let. tl te A Perfectwist-pe aid. fect C • for Bilious Affections and Obstructions in owels. Jul ih,„ The price of the Medicine is Four Pounds. aqd la Published, price ss. dd. Bvo., the Second Edition of ( !I.ACTICAL TREATISE on NERVOUS, BILIOUS, 11 15 d IN FLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS, with a new Me -15 Curing Strictures without the use of Bougie or qikile• With an Appendix on the Diseases of. Women and -re n• By John Lynch, 44, Duke-street, St , James's. Sold by Wm. Crawford, 124, Cheapside. FOR COLDS, COUGHS, ASTHMAS, &c. , 4 E PECTORAL ELIXIR. Experience 1. 1 f lit ll ~ rin g a very l o ng peri o d, has incontestibly proved ide r u •fl •• , f th•s Medicine in all cases of Cols, , t h s • l icac) J . 7 . , ;, 4 1 , tet i i . a nd Asthmatic Affections. By promoting gentle i p rt t ration, it very shortly relieves the Patient of a slight tia q trn cold, and a few doses are generally sufficient to 4bOthose which neglect has rendered more confirmed and 4 ttl nat es and which are accompanied with Cough, Spitting Nv e a rs °4, and other serious symptoms. Its peculiar balsamic :tat i • tend to heal soreness, and allay the irritation of the 1 4 4 0 , eases of Cough ; and in Asthmatic Affections it as- Iti ß 4 i d u gives freedom to the Breath. 41. ft I " Bottles, at Is lid. and es. 9d. by Butler's Cbe tli -, 4 c .". ' I, e A , beapsnie, St. Paul's, and 220, Regent-street, (near :. 4, gh k .Yle Rooms), London; 90, Waterloo-place, Edin- I :eth e i' 34 , Sack v ill e . s t ree t, D u bli n; an d by th e p r i nc ipal %kg" Venders throughout the United Kingdom. t ot he ssae careful to ask for Butler's Pectoral Elixir, and 4 tio si T ie Government Stamp has the words " Butler, 4, a engraved on it. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1822. LAW INTELLIG ENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 11. WAltr) Or COURT.-JACRSON V. FORBES. Mr. SRADWELL moved that it might be referred back to the Master to consider his Report, relative to the marriage settlement to be made on Mr. Middleton and a Miss Ander son, an infant ward of the Court, and that/the parties might be allowed to intermarry. It appeared that Mr. Middleton, the intended husband of the infant ward, was entitled, under the will of his grandfather, to the sum of 2,0001. chargeable on the real and personal estate of the testator ; and he was also entitled to an estate of the value of 150/. per annum ; he had also some other property. The infant wcrd, the in tended bride, was the illegitimate child of a Mr. Anderson, and a question had arisen as to how much of her father's property she was entitled to; it was, however, supposed she would be entitled to one-third part of it, which consisted of 30,000/. in the Three per Cent. Consols, and of 4,000/. in specie. The Master, by his report, had proposed to give her a life interest in the share of her property, with remain der to her issue ; but in failure thereof, she was to have the appointment, and the intended husband's property was to be settled on himself for life, with remainder to the ward and the issue of the marriag►e.- His Lordship would see by the Master's report, that the• intended wife was to be interested in the husband's property, and he was to have nothing to do with her fortune. The LORD CHANCELLOR- 44 You stated the infant ward to be an illegitimate child ; then suppose there should be no children of the marriage, and that she should die without making any appointment, what is to become of the property then ?" Mr. SDADWELL-" It is to go to her sister; the husband to be entirely excluded." The Lotus CHANcEr.Loit—" Take the order." DEERE V. WARD. Mr. HART concluded his reply. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, he would deckle the case on the evidence before him, without he should think it necessary to call for further affidavits. He would take a few days to consider the case before he gave his judgment ; it was most important in itg several parts. There vere two views of the case, and they were both very important; one as a motion for a new trial. There were a Feat number of im portant observations to be made on the evidence that had not been given on the trial of the issue. He could not helmaying, if he was the Judge that had tried it, he would have thought it his duty to have called for it ; at the same time it wis only justice for him to say, that the Chief Justice had tried it most ably. The other view was also most important; the ci-cum stance of the commission of lunacy having issued so far back as the year 1773, and all the proceedings under it in that Court from that period had been wrong, the Court being deceivel by misrepresentation. The. question then was, whether he otght not to say to the parties he would not hear them, as they had been deceiving the Court so long, and hand over the estate to the co-heiresses, and let the parties afterwards fight for it. He had a great inclination to say so then, but he would refrain from it. He would give his judgment on Monday inuming next.—Judgment postponed. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DECAL TUNBRIDGE SCHOOL. TIIE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE SKINNERS' COMI'INY. In this cause the ATTORNEY-GENERAL filed a bill at the relation of certain inhabitants of Tunbridge, against the Skin ners' Company, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the de fendants were entitled to employ, for the general purposes of their Company, the rent s of cer t a i n es t a t es s it ua t e d in the Farish of St. I'ancras, Middlesex, and Gracechurch-street, in the city of London, after paying certain - fixed sums ordered by the will of Sir Andrew Judd, the founder of Tunbridge school, to be paid thr the support of that school, or whether they were not trustees of the whole of the rents for the purposes of the school exclusively. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, after hearing the case argued in April, 1820, decreed that the Skinners' Company were trustees of the rents of the estates for the benefit of the Tunbridge school exclusively; that it should be referred to the Master to inquire and report what the value of the estates was, and to approve of a scheme fo r th e ma n agemen t o f t h e sc h oo l. The Skinners Company appealed against the decision of the Vice- Chancellor, but the Lord Chancellor confirmed it. Mr. BELT. this day moved on the part of Mr. Knox, the Master of Tunbridge school, that the Master of the Court might be directed to make a separate report with respect to the St. Pancras estates alone. In support of the application he stated that the St. Pancras estates,which were admitted to belong to the school, produced an annual income of 2,5001., and were clearly ascertained; whilst the estates in Gracechurch-street,whicli at the utmost could afford only from 390/. to 500/. a year, could not be clearly defined, in consequence of their having become mixed with other property of the Skinner's Company at the period of the fire of London. According to the existing decree of the Court, the scheme for the management of the school could not be approved. The scheme which had been agreed upon among the parties, after providing for the support of the master and usher of the school, set apart the surplus for exhi bitions at the two Universities. It was important, therefore, to have it declared by the Report of the Master, that the St. Pancras estates belonged to the school, in order that the scheme might be carried into effect as far as the income of those estates would permit. When the Gracechorch-street estates could be ascertained, they could be reported and employed in further ance of the scheme. He was unable to suggest to himself any substantial objection to this motion. It was unreasonable to delay the execution of the scheme on account of the doubt which existed with respect to the Gracechurch-street estate, because, in fact, it was well known that it could never be re moved, it being impossible to define the boundaries of those estates. He was so perfectly convinced of this 'act, that he would recommend his clients to file a supplemental bill, to refer it to the Master, to set out an equivalent for the Grace chorch-street property. The VICE-CHANCELLOR observed, that it was impossible to obtain an equivalent for that which could not be ascertained. Mr. HART, who appeared for the relators, said, that the ap plication which had been made to the Court might perhaps more properly have proceeded from his clients ; however, they had instructed him to support it. It certainly was most unrea sonable that the master of the school should be kept without an augmented allowance, which he ought to have received many years ago, when there was a larger income out of which he might be paid, and upon which no litigation depended. The collateral income, respecting which dispute prevailed, might in crease but could not diminish the fund. Mr. HEALD, who appeared on the part of the Skinners' Company, said that his Learned Friend, Mr. Bell, had not taken a correct view of the facts of the case. He was informed by Mr. Gregg, the solicitor to the Comp a ny, th a t th ere did no t exist the insuperable obstacle which his Learned Friend ima gined, to the accurate definition of the boundaries of the Grace church-street estates. The principal difficulty, which he un derstood was now likely to be surmounted, had been to ascer tain the site of an inn, called the Falcon, which formerly stood upon the estate. A meeting of the parties was to take place to-morrow, and it would perhaps have been as well to have awaited the result before the motion was made. As it had been made, however, the Company, who were merely trustees, did not wish to oppose it for the purpose of litigation ; they would leave it to the Court to determine whether it was a proper proceeding. The Company were extremely anxious that the decree which the Court had pronounced, and which had been confirmed by the Lord Chancellor, should be carried into complete effect. As a proof of this he would ob serve, that they had refrained from appealing to the House of Lords, which they were entitled to do. The VICE-CHANCELLOR made an order, directing that the Master should make a separate report of the St. Pancras estates, and also a report of the original scheme provided for by the decrees of the Court, with liberty to suggest a provi sional scheme for the application of the income of the St. Pan_ eras estates alone. ...allow-. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 11. CONSPIRACY. TIIE KING, AT THE PROSECUTION OF FOX, V. JACKSON AND JARVIS. This was a criminal indictment against the defendants for a conspiracy, in procuring to be issued a Statute of Bankruptcy against the younger Jackson, in order to defraud the prose cutor. This case has been already frequently before the public in various legal proceedings within the last five years. It has been the subject of two actions, a former indictment for per jury against the same parties, but abandoned, however, by the same prosecutor—a Bill in Chancery still undecided—a former trial for conspiracy, in which there was a verdictagainat the de fendants ; but in consequence of important evidence discovered by the defendants subsequently to that verdict, the Court on motion granted a new trial, which came on this day, and occu pied the Court from its opening until four o'clock. The case for the prosecution was opened by Mr.BcAuLt T with whom were Mr. GAZE LEE and Mr. ADOLPHUS ; Mr SoLiciToß-GENERAL and Mr. GUILNE Y on the other side. The circumstances of the case were shortly these :—The pro. secutor, 31r. Samuel Fox, was some years since an apothecary and surgeon in Bishop-street, where he kept a shop, and being desirous to dispose of his business to an eligible purchaser, he applied to a medical agent for that purpose. An advertise ment was published in some of the newspapers to forward this object, and in consequence, Mr. Jackson, jun. one of the de fendants, applied, and was introduced by the _agent to Mr. Fox ; a negociation was accordingly comgenced. Mr. Jack son, jun. had served his apprenticeship to gr. Jarvis, another of the defendants, at Exeter. He had cone up to London to attend Lectures and the Hospitals for his improvement, and was introduced to the prosecutor for the purpose of treating for the purchase of his business in the latter end of the year 1813. The prosecutor named his price ; Mr. Jackson had the inspec tion of his books for the three years preceding this negociation, in order to shew him the average profits according to what.had been sold. It was agreed, in consequence, that after Mr. Jack son had consulted his friends, that he was to take a half share in the business with the prosecutor, for which he was to pay 1,2001., of which COM was to be paid in the first year. Ar ticles were accordingly , signed. The prosecutor for sonic time resided with him in the house, and aided in conducting the bu siness. Mr. Jackson, towards the end of 11114, expressed himself satisfied with the business, and a subsequent arrangement was entered into between the parties, whereby Mr. Jackson was to take the whole of the business, and to pay the prosecutor 'altoge ther a sum of 2,801., of which sum lie paid, by different instz.l - 1,2001. which was advanced to him by his father, another of the defendants, and he had passed his bond for the balance; but finding in 1815 that the business fell greatly short of the pro duce represented to him, and for which he paid so high a price, and that he should n o t b e p re p are d to meet hi s bond when it should become due, he wrote to the prosecutor, stated the cir cumstances, offered to pay him. 4001. more in discharge of the bond, hut the prosecutor refused to accept it ; and the defendant replied, that then lie could offer no better terms, and that he must consult his friends and his other creditors. The prosecu tor, however, entered up judgment on the bond, and put an execution into the house; but the other defendants, the one the father, and the other the father-in-law of Mr. Jackson, struck a docket, and took a statute of bankruptcy against him. Under this statute, the whole of the debts proved against the bankrupt amounted to 3,665/. ss. Id., out of which the other defendant, Jackson, proved a debt due to him of 2,044/. The prosecutor opposed this claim before the Commissioners, attended by his Counsel; but the Commissioners admitted the proofs, and the bankrupt passed his last examination and obtained his certifi cate. The prosecutor subsequently adopted the several pro ceedings above stated ; and the point to be decided this day was, whether the debt proved at the bankruptcy by the elder defendant consisted of fair ch arges , or fraudulent ones, for the purpose of founding a surreptitious bankruptcy, to defraud the proscutor. These charges consisted of sums advanced by the father, for the son's account, and included his clothing, his education, his apprentice-fee of 2621., his expences during his attendance on the hospitals and lectures in London, and various other sums advanced from time to time; and Mr. Scarlett con. tended that these charges were for the most part improbable, and unusual for a father to make against his son, as a very great part had been advanced long before he came of age, and more particularly when, for the last sum of 4301. advanced to his son, he had taken a bond, without having mentioned or demanded any security for any debt previously in account. The evidence for the prosecution having closed, Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Jury on behalf of the defendants, to the respectability and honour of whose cha racters he spoke in terms of high commendation ; and in re spect to the charges adduced by the father against the son, he fully explained, that the son, at an early age, had a freehold estate bequeathed to him, of which his father was the occupy ing tenant : that he had six children to provide for under limited circumstances, and it was but just that lie should charge to his son the sums advanced to him for the purposes of his education and outfit in life. Besides, those charges were satis factorily proved, item by item, before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy, and fully admitted, and therefore substantiated in law. It had also come out this day in evidence, that the prosecutor had repeatedly declared in the course of the last five years that he would spend the last shilling he possessed to obtain legal revenge of the defendants, only for their failure to comply with an unfair deception and ruinous bargain to the injury of all other creditors of Mr. Jackson, and upon these grounds, and what had already conic out in the evidence for the prosecution, he would rely on the Jury for a verdict of ac quittal without calling any witness. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE summed up for the.Tury, who, after a few minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of—Not THEATRICAL CONTRACT.—BEDFOI!D V. nu - sN. Mr. MARRYAT stated that this was an action brought by Miss Green (now Mrs. Bedford) against Mr. Bunn, the Manager of the Birmingham Theatre, for the recovery of 37/., which was due to her out of the amount of an engagement se cured to her by Mr. Bunn. She was to perform for 39 nights at Birmingham, and to receive 101. a week, and , a benefit secured to produce 501. The benefit unfortunately produced but 13/. : for the balance, this action was brought. Mrs. Green, the mother of the actress, proved the contract on the part of Mr. Bunn to give her daughter a benefit, which was secured to produce at least 50/., and which only produced 13/. In her cross-examination, she admitted that her daughter was taken ill at Birmingham, and in consequence her benefit was postponed, and that which was substituted for it was un productive. _ _ Mr. ScAnr. E TT, for the defendant, said, he was prepared to prove that Ale. Bishop, not Miss Green, was the real plaintiff in this cause ; and he assigned as the reason for the reduced amount of Miss Green's benefit, the circumstance of her indis position, for which it would be unreasonable the manager should suffer, in addition to what he had already suffered by her in ability to sing on some of the other evenings of her engage ment. A letter from Mr. Bedford, the, husband of Miss Green, to Mr. Bunn, was read, in which Mr. Bedfbrd said that his wife had no concern in the present action, and that it was altogether Mr. Bishop's, through whom Mi ss reen had been engaged at Birmingham. The writer also warmly congratulated Mr. Bunn on the success of his "famous Toin and Jerry." Mrs. Ingram (formerly Miss Fisher) said she was engaged at Birmingham in the season of 1821. She remembered Miss Green's engagement at the same theatre, and her illness during the greater part of that period, so as to be unable to sing, ex cept with great pain. She could not play for several nights, and apologies were made for her being unable to perform through illness. When Miss Green's benefit was announced on the last night of her performance, and an immense house was expected, to see Guy Mannering, but her illness caused the postponement of the play, and Warlock in the Glen was substituted for it, and there was, owing to the disappointment, a miserable house. Witness was to have played meg Merri lies, in Gun Mannering, on the night of the postponement. Mrs. Waylett said, that she was also engaged at the Bir mingham theatre when Miss Green came there, and remem bered that lady's indisposition, and consequent inability to per form on some particular occasion. Richard Collier, proprietor at the Birmingham theatre, and occasionally performer, proved Miss Green's illness, so as to be unable to admit her performance on specific nights. Apologies were often made for her, and he remembered a farce being changed to Fortune's Frolic, as she could not sing. At two o'clock on the day fixed for her benefit, she had it changed, owing to her illness, and the house was consequently a poor one. The house would hold two hundred pounds. Mr. Bellamy, an apothecary at Birmingham, proved the fact of Miss Green's indisposition, which had prevented her from singing at her benefit ; could she have porformed at that time, she expected a very full attendance. She was also unable to sing on the night when her subsequent benefit took place. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed- up the evidence to the Jury, who returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 371. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEc. 11. FROST V. BENGOITGII. This was an action to recover the amount of a bill of ex change for 30/. given by the defendant in 1315. The defend ant is a member of the dramatic corps of one of the winter theatres. The defence to the action was the statute of limita tions, by which the plaintiff's claim was barred (more than six years having elapsed since the defendant had admitted the debt). The plaintiff now proved a letter to him from the defendant PRICE SEVEN PEACE. in 1817, in which he stated, that if he succeeded in Liverpool he should see him soon after in Bristol, and that at all events he would arrange with him as well as he could. The defendant's hand-writing to the bill was also:proved. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN, for the defendant, contended that the evidence was not sufficient to take the case out of the statute of limitations, and theiefore that the plaintiff could not recover. Tie Jury though! the letter produced referred to the bill, and returned a verdict for the plaintifffor the amount of the bill and the interest. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOW- LEDGE. COMMITTEE, to whom it was re ferred by the GENERAL BOARD of the SOCIETY for PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, to con sider of such Measures as might be proper for the Society to adopt on occasion of the lamented Death of the LORD BI SHOP of CALCUTTA, do hereby give Notice, that a SPE CIAL GENERAL MEETING will be holden at the So ciety's House in Bartlett's Building's, on MONDAY NEXT, the 16th Day of December, 1822. The Chair to be taken by His Grace, the President, at Twelve o'clock precisely. WILLIAM PARKER, Assistant Secretary. Society's Office, Bartlett's Buildings, 11th December, 1822. BRAMAH'S PATENT PORTABLE PENS. AVery inferior Imitation of this P o p u lar a n d Useful, Invention having been introduced fur Public Sale, J. BRAMAH and SON, respectfully announce that every Packet of their Genuine Pens is inclosed in a Paper stamped with a fac simile of the Signatme of the Inventor " JOSEPH BRAMAII." The Patent Portable Pens continue to be Sold at the Ori ginal Warehouse, 124, PICCADILLY; and by most respect able Stationers. N. B.—The Prices have been lately reduced. FOR. THE SUN. SECULAR CLERGY. MR. EDITOR—I cannot refrain smiling at the squeamishness of your Correspondent VESPER.— It is clear, with all his affectation, that he is not a Methodist, or he would have met the point at issue between VERITAs and himself with that sin cerity and fairness which the subject merits. Had VESPER delayed his letter until Sunday last, he would, to a certain extent, have found his wishes gratified by the Editor of John Bull,* whose ap probation or, and observations on, the letter of VERITAS, render any further remark in sup port of it unnecessary. It would have been more correct if VESPER had addressed his let ter to the respectable Morning Paper in which VERITAS first appeared, but this zealous de fender of the Church preferred the course which he had taken, for reasons that are obvious, and cannot be mistaken. But VESPER has now no excuse if he does not bring this subject before the proper authorities, as I take it for granted that with VESPER and his clerical friends JOHN BULL is, and justly so, an authority not to be denied or disputed, and, therefore, as he has given the key to the Secular Employments of the Reverend Contractor alluded to, it will he the fault of VESPER, and not of V EniTAs, if" the higher Mini sters of the Church," without 44 seeking after in stances of irregularity," do not, on the complaint of VESPER, " interfere and punish the offender." If VESPER wishes for further information on the SECULAR EMPLOYMENTS of this individual, I have only to refer him to the Inhabitants of King's Lynn, Sheerness, Itamsgate, Southwark, &c. &c. These references will, for the present, I presume, satisfy VESPER. For myself, I think that VERITAS has rendered an acceptable service to the Church by the publication of his letter in the Morning Post on the Secular Employments of the Clergy, and I am convinced that the great body of the Clergy are of the same opinion. It is by these aberrations from the Clerical Character that the Church is degraded ; and it ought to form part of the duty of every Archdeacon to report annually to his Diocesan the names of all the Clergy resident within his Archdeaconry, who have not preferment within it, and the various public pursuits in which they may be engaged.— By these means the Church would become by degrees purged of many improper characters, without throwing on private individuals the invi dious task and expence of bringing such cases before the proper Ecclesiastical Tribunal. . . A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE EAU BRINK DRAINAGE. Hockerill, Dec. 10, 1822. *The following is the extract from John Bull, above referred to : " In the Morning Post of Tuesday there was a very jadici. ous letter, signed Veritas, on the subject of the Secular Employ ments of the Clergy. Our opinions are quite in accordance with those of the writer, and in addition to the instances of mis application of clerical labour glanced at by liim, we would men tion that of the Rev. Mr. Bingham, who was gazetted as a banker at Gosport ; that of the Rev. Dr. Lock, of Farnham, whose speculations as a lime-burner were also unfortunate; and of a Rev. Mr. Jenkins, whose name appears also as a bankrupt dealer at Ashhridge. " There can he no doubt of the flagrant impropriety of such proceedings ; and we fear that in the metropolis there are one or two more Clergymen whose seculiar avocations are neither so honest nor so creditable as those we have mentioned. But we wonder that the Morning Post, which loves a pun, and is al ways ready with a joke, - had not vindicated poor Jolliffe (who is the object of the allusions of Veritas) for his connexion with the steam-packets. " Surely the Morning Post might have told Veritas, in ex tenuation, that even were it his gracious Majesty's good will and pleasure to make Mr. Jolliffe a Bishop, the King himself would not be so unreasonable as to require him to forego the See; and since the Reverend Gentleman was the contractor for the stone, wherewith to build Waterloo-bridge, (by the way the shortest road to the Bench), he is entitled, in our minds, to an Areh-bishoprick at least. Indeed we have that regard for Mr. Jolliffe, that we cannot bear to have his clerical claims run down. Sure we are, that if he were a Popish Priest, instead of a Protestant Clergyman, and the Pope happened to see him, the first thing his Holiness would do, would be to offer him a flat." SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHEW.—Yesterday afternoon the fat cattle, sheep, and pigs, began to arrive in Goswell-street, which are intended to compete for the annual prizes offered by the Smithfield Club. On inquiry last night at Mr. Sadler's Yard, it appeared, that her Grace the Duchess of RUTLAND, the Marquis of EXETER, and a long list of distinguished Breeders and Graziers, had already sent in their stock, and many others were expected before nine this morning, when the yard will be closed, and re main so through the day, for allowing the Judges deliberately to examine and make their award of the several premiums.—(Morning Paper.) PIRACY. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE ADMIRALTY AND THE SHIP-OWNERS' SOCIETY. Admiralty-office, Dec. 7, 1822. Stn—l am commanded by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you that their Lordships' attention hay ing been called by a letter and memorandum from Lieutenant Stokes, late of his Majesty's ship Iphigenia, of which the en . closed are copies, to the paragraph in the newspapers therein alluded to ; and their Lordships having compared the state ment of Mr. Harrison, the Master of the Zephyr, as given in the newspapers, with this official and authentic report from Lieutenant Stokes, they think it due to the owners in whose em ploy Mr. Harrison may be, to communicate to diem the true state'of the case in question.—l am, &c. (Signed) J. W. CROKER. J. W. Buckle, Esq., Chairman of the Committee of, the Ship-owners' Society. The Hungerford, Strand, Dec. 4,1822. Sin,—ln consequence of having seen in Tice Times and Cou rier of Saturday last, an article which professes to be an account of the capture of a pirate schooner, by the brig Zephyr, Harri son, Master, and the Iphigenia's pinnace, under my command, and which differs essentially from the verbal report I had the honour to make to you on my return to Havannah i I beg leave to place in your hands the accompanying memorandum, drawn up some time since, relative to that affair, and to point out sonic of the flagrant falsehoods in the account to which 1 have referred. That account, I am convinced, was written by Harrison, the master of the Zephyr. Those who have read his statement, and are unacquainted with his character, will be somewhat surprised at hearing that neither he nor one of his creirboarded the schooner which he has gratuitously called a pirate. They witnessed the affair from the taffrail of the Zephyr at about pis tol shot distance, and when they saw that the Iphigvnia 'a pinnace had taken possession of her, they gave us three cheers : the incidents he relates, such as his clearing for action, (by the by, he had not a gun in his brig), his calling tome to shove off, the blow made at the bowman of the boat, the recapture of the Sarah, and the detention of the American ship, are all per fectly fabulous. So long as I was on board his vessel in pur suance of your orders for the purpose of affording him protec tion, I considered myself entitled to exact from him implicit obedience and accordingly he exercised no more authority witi respect to the measures which he represents himself to have directed, than did his cabin boy. Had she proved a pirate, the merit of hey capture would have belonged exclu sively to those who were in the Iphigenta's pinnace. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) PRINGLE STOKES. Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Owen GlF.ndower. MEMORANDUM. In consequence of the reports of the piracies committed on the coast of Cuba, I was ordered by Commodore Sir Robert Mends to give escort in the pinnace of the Iphigenia to the Zephyr and Sarah, two English merchant vessels about to start from the Havannah. In the pinnace were, besides Myself, Mr. William Pedder, passed as midshipman, Mr. A. Lane, assist ant-surgeon, a cockswain, fourteen seamen, and four Marines. The Zephyr was a brig of about 300 tons, the master's name Harrison ; Mr. George Thomas, a Lieutenant in the Navy, was acting as mate The Sarah was a small schooner out of Nassau, New Providence, laden with bale goods; her owner , Lieutenant Podmore, Royal Navy, was on board of her. Neither the Sarah nor the Zephyr had guns or ammunition. As it was not unlikely that an attempt to board these vessels might be made by the pirates, provided the pinnace were not seen, I went on board th e Zephyr, as she, being much larger than the Sarah, afforded a better ambush for my boat when hauled up alongside. We got outside the Moro of Ha vannah by 7 a.m., and by sun-set the vessels were considered as sufficiently distant from the land to require no longer my convoy ; but deeming that I ought to prolong as much as pos sible our chance of getting hold of a p ira t e , I decided upon not quitting until day-light the next morning. The Sarah was in consequence directed to keep close to us, to fire a musket if she saw any thing suspicious, and was supplied with ammunition for that purpose. At day-light, being between Matanzas and the Double-headed Shot, two schooners were seen to windward; one was recognized as the Sarah running down to us ; the other, a large two top-sailed schooner, having the appearance of a cruiser, was edging down to the Sarah. About a quarter of an nour af ter the stranger hoisted American colours, and fired a musket. The Sarah hoisted English colours and hove to. Stranger luffed to, down boat, and sent on board the Sarah, then furled and kept away for the Zephyr, hoisted her colours. As she ap proached we hove to, I got into my pinnace with my crew, and requested Mr. Thomas to let me know when the schooner was nearly in the wake of the brig, I stood by to shove off to board her in the pinnace, because, if she proved honest, all would be right ; and if she was otherwise, we stood a good chance of sur prising her, as the plan we were upon was a novel one on that coast. Mr. Thomas let me know when she was about pistol shot distance in the wake of the brig, I shoved off, and boarded her on the larboard quarter without resistance, for we were on board too quickly for them to have prepared for it even if they had been so inclined. As we boarded, some hands abaft were busy hawling down the American colours, and hoisting the red, yellow, and blue ensign of Columbia. As her crew appeared rather numerous, I put about fifteen of them in irons, and then proceeded to examine what I had got hold• of. She proved to be the schooner Maria, out of Pampata, Margaritta, her tonnage about 200 tons, having eight guns and forty men. The Captain of her (named Baker) produced a commission from the Republic of Columbia, authorizing him to capture Spanish vessels, together with a roll of public instructions in the Spanish language. The letter of instructions from the owner which accompanied this memorandum, was found in the Captain's trunk, together with the original of which it is the duplicate. Shortly after we got on board the privateer, a large ship was seen a-head. The Captain of the privateer told me it was a vessel which he had boarded the evening before. I got the master of her on board the. Maria and questioned him. He told me that the boarding officer of. the privateer had treated him politely, paid him for some potatoes with which he had supplied him, and detained him no longer than a few minutes to examine his papers. I likewise sent Mr. Pedderun board the Neutrality, for I thought it possible that this might not be the master of her, but one of the prize -masters of the Maria. Mr. Pedder questioned the crew, andleported himself satisfied that there was no deception. I requested Lieutenant Podmore, the owner of the Sarah, to come on board, that I might have his evidence respecting the board ing officer of the privateer. He reported that his conduct had been perfectly correct. I had strictly examined the privateer whether there were any bale goods on board, or any thing that looked like plunder. Finding nothing of that kind, and deem ing myself unauthorized to detain her unless I could establish some act of egression against our commerce. I thought myself bound, in the absence of any circumstance of a criminatory nature, to let her go : so, having released the men 1,1),R1 put in irons, I shoved off from her about one o'clock P. P.M. and pur sued my way in thedphigenia's pinnace to Havanna); where I arrived about noon the following day. • PRINGLE STOKES, Lieutenant of his Majesty's ship Iphigenia. This Day was published, price Is. Gd., i tN ADDRESS TO ALL TRUE PA- It- S TRIO IS, with Some ADVICE to the LANDED IN •r. 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