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THE LONDON JOPIkNALS. VIXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, July 11, 1822. [NEW TIMES.] The delay of the French Ministry in bringing to trial the traitor Berton, has encouraged some other conspirators of a like stamp. One Caron raised the standard of insurrection in the de partment of the Upper Rhine. He was seconded by a veteran of the name of Roger; and these two individuals succeeded for some time in lead ing two squadrons of cavalry through different small towns, to the cry of rive l'Empereur Their first object appears to have been the re lease of the traitors confined at Belfort ; but the plan was soon rendered abortive, and the ring• leaders, Caron and Roger, were themselves made prisoners.—One cannot help asking why all this apparent timidity and hesitation, on the part of the French Ministers, in bringing traitors to justice? The revolutionary journal, the Con stitutionnel, impudently boasts that Berton has refused to answer interrogatories ad ministered to him in the usual course of the French legal proceedings, and insists on being tried before the Chamber of Peers: This scoundrel ought not to have been allowed the opportunity of sheaving any such insolence. He should have been tried by a Court Martial, and shot without delay. The villains of the Revolu tion afforded no respite to the illustrious Duke D'Enghien. Every delay of 'the French Go. vernment in executing justice is construed by its enemies into a proof of weakness, and serves as an encouragerhent for new treasons. It is said that M. de Peyronnet, the Keeper of the Seals, feels with proper energy on this subject ; but M. de Corbiere, the Minister of the Interior, prefers a degree of caution and deliberation, v hick we own appears to us to be rather misplaced. [Tile TrmEs.:l The Corn Bill was read a third time yester day in the House of Lord. We mention this merely for the curiosity of the thing—that an expedient which a few months back was regarded with so much silly confidence in one class of men, and which gave rise to suclNsupertluous appre hensions in every other, should now be almost universally forgotten, while ye't on its road through Parliament. For our parts, we rejoice that the Bill is what it is—that its principles and intentions are so completely frustrated by its practical insignificance. For a law, the declared purpose of which has been to raise the price of bread still higher upon a people who at this mo ment pay more for it than any other nation in Europe, the best apology we can tender is, that it must utterly fail of its object. It is no reflection upon the authors and advocates of this Corn Bill to say, that they were a set of persons altogether incapable of executing their own projects ; for, except by proclaiming a mi vimunt for corn, or by seizing and destroying all that could be laid hold of, it was physically im possible for any talent to push the price of the article above that point to which the existing prohibition had already raised it. The obvious failure of this ne plus ui/re of the agriculturists is owing, therefore, to the chimerical nature of the enterprise itself. Now, indeed, that the people have turned their minds to the subject, we see that their alarms have wholly ceased. There has not formally weeks been (to our knowledge) a single petition signed against the Corn Bill. The only mischief with which it seems fairly chargeable, is its having served Ministers for a decoy to some of the wise acres among their " Country Gentlemen" de pendents, who, long after the rest of the nation had opened their eyes to the inefficacy of such a measure, hoped through it to indemnify them selves for their own share of those enormous bur dens which they persisted in imposing on their countrymen. --mi;.; [MORNING POST.] Mr. Western, after the other business of the evening had been disposed of, submitted his series of eighteen Resolutions, the substance of which we have already given ; and as the Hon. Member himself admitted that the subject, in point of fact, was the same as that upon which he had previously taken the sense of the House, after the amplest discussion, we deem it unneces sary to enter again into the question. The cal culations and reasonings in Mr. Western's speech on this occasion were nearly a repetition of those which he used exactly a month ago on discussing the Cash Payment Resumption Bill. For our part, we cannot conceive how the Hon. Gentleman would have had Parliament to act. He surely did not ex pect that the decision which had been come to so short a time before would be now reserved, and upon so momentous a point too as that of altering the currency. The only new argument which he introduced to effect so signal a revolu tion of opinion was that the famine, in Ireland had been caused by Mr. Peel's Bill of 1819. — It seems to us, however, that speculations of this sort are little calculated to relieve the Agricul tural interest in this country ; nor is it in the power of any Legislature, in our opinion, to do more than Parliament has already done with that view in the course of this Session. Whatever may have been the effects of resuming cash payments, any attempt now to retrace our steps could not fail to be attended with tenfold greater evils. Alter an interesting debate, which continued till half-past four o'clock this morning, the pro posed Resolutions were negatived without a di vision.—fn the Lords, the Corn Bill was, after some discussion, read a third time and passed, after a division of 32 to 16. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Many rumours were afloat yesterday with re spect to the rout of Mr. A bercromby ; but nothing certain, we believe, is yet known.—lt has been erroneously supposed by some of our contempo raries, that we are advocates of the claims of privilege set up by the House, because we repro bated the system of challenging Members for what they may utter in the discharge of their public duty, or using► language which is under stood to amount to a challenge. These two things af4 not surely the same. God forbid that we should subscribe to the doctrines laid down by the House on the subject of privilege. Indeed, some Members have even gone so far as to claim as privilege an ex emption from all comment or animadversion on what they utter in Parliament, which would amount to a most intolerable tyranny over the Press. It was not necessary for us to mix up the question of Privilege with our disapprobation of the system of demanding personal satisfaction for what is uttered in the discharge of a public duty, nor did we do so. Our observations were directed to the excitement- of an indignant feeling in society against those who endeavour to cir cumscribe the utility of public speakers or pub lic writers, by marking them out for vengeance; and to shew that both Society and Members themselves were bound to treat all such endea vours with contempt. Of all protections in such a case, that derived from Parliamentary Privi lege must, we should think, be the very worst, because, as the feelings of society will seldom go along with the Member who avails himself of it, it will seldom be claimed. [MORNING lIERALD.I Last night, in the House of Commons, Mr. Western brought forward his Resolutions on the State of the . Country, or rather " descriptive of the distressed state of the Agricultural part of the country ; the effects of the altered state of the currency on the general amount of taxation ; and the relative situation of the public creditor and the public, under such altered state of- the currency." After various postponements, his Resolutions were eventually proposed with con siderable reluctance, for Mr. Western wished to have seventeen out of his eighteen Reso lutions agreed to, on the representation that they declared what he considered to be admitted facts. If the House would thus adopt the seven teen Resolutions, he was ready on some future day to have a sort of " Harvest-home " debate on the closing Resolution ! But the House, perhaps, recollected some feats performed by former Parliaments in the art and mystery of passing Resolutions. They might bear in mind, that if the Resolutions were once adopted— even though they might be matter-of-fact Re solutions, they would be held by the country as embodying the sentiments of the House.— The Resolution, that a-pound note and a shil ling were equal to a guinea, when the guinea was worth, and would and did fetch twenty seven shillings—that Resolution, too, was a matter of-fact Resolution, and now it looks very ridiculous on the Journals! No! the House has had enough of matter-of-fact Resolutions : indeed, the idea of their being such was scouted by Lord Lon donderry and Mr. Ricardo. The latter declared that they were " defective and erroneous ;" " unfounded in many respects ;" -and that they were tainted throughout with " fallacy !" Mr. Ricardo, therefore, would not suffer them to gain any footing in that House, without first stoutly opposing their entrance—expos ing their fallacies. Such being the case, there was no escaping from the debate; where upon Mr. Western brought forward his 18 Resolutions, in the presence of somewhere about twice as many Members. The Report will state what became of the Resolutions. We have not given them in the Report, not only on account of their great length, but, with all due respect to Mr. Western's Resolutions, be it stated—be cause we like to print what we think people would be disposed to read with pleasure. [BRITISH PRESS.] Mr. Nolan obtained leave to bring in a Bill last night to alter and 9rpend the Poor Laws.— The plan, as far as it is developed, would be an evident improvement on the present state of the law, and is far superior to any modification re cently proposed. Mr. Scarlett's late measure, taken in total (for he 'divided it latterly, and brought forward only one third of it by way of preface)— had too much of the slashing and precipitate phi losophy of the Malthus school, for the caution of English legislation. The notion of cutting away the Poor Laws like a rotten mast from the vessel of state has become very prevalent of late, and has been much propagated by the lectures and example of our northern neighbours. If, how ever, we take into consideration the council of experience, perhaps there is not so much excel lence in this sample of their politics as they assert. Mr. Nolan well observes, that since the enact ment of Queen Elizabeth the English poor have gone far beyond the same classes in surrounding , nations, not excepting Scotland, in all the circum stances of civilization. That there is great evil in the enormous amount of pauperism, and its attendant expence, cannot be questioned ; the doubt would be, whether it may not keep out a greater evil. Governments may err in their policy, and the rapid fluctuations of power and commercial prosperity in the nations of Europe prove that there is yet much to be explored in the principles of lasting and pros perous politics. The poor, as Mr. Nolan re marks, concerning the rise and fall of trading pro fits, arrive more slowly at their share in the ad vantages than in the disadvantages. Did we need a proof of the condition to which the lower classes may sink in a declining state of things,being unpro tected by poor laws, we have it in the anomalous famine of Ireland, while her grain is bearing down prices in the English market. From which example we also learn, that while confusion and horror overshadow the whole frame of the community, there is ❑othing saved in the way of ex pence ; the money which, paid in poor rates, might pre vent the death of the Irish by famine, must still be furnished by taxes out of the common stock, to provide troops and police to dragoons the po pulation into that obedience which is cheerfully conceded on this side of the channel. The Harmony, MunnAy, and Ruby, BODIE, of Aberdeen, sailed from Cromarty on Tuesday last, for Pictou, with about 250 expatriated High landers. A vast assemblage of the relatives of these poor emigrants, supposed some thousands, attended to take leave of their friends ; and the parting scene was of the most affecting nature, such as to draw tears from the eyes of some of the spectators unconnected with the parties.— ( Edinburgh Courant, July 8.) FOR THE SUS. REPLY TO JUSTUS. MR. EDITOR—I am sorry yon did not think proper to admit the communication of JUSTUS, more for his sake than your ovn, as no doubt you have exercised a sound discretion, though it must have been, for the time, a mortifying check upon the ebullition of feelings described to be so " quick and sensible." Perhaps he may console himself with the reflection which has often consoled men of no ordinary genius, that second thoughts are sometimes best. In the pre sent instance, not knowing what the first may have been, I cannot enter into the comparison, but must be content with a short answer to the second, in which he endeavours to extricate him self from a charge of personality, as if there were no thing personal in supposing a man to be " wound ed in his conscience, or to neglect his own du ties', or to suppose him biassed from his worldly prospects being blighted by some persons who hold opposite opinions to his own." If this is to be impersonal, I do not know what personality means. Leaving, however, this complimentary fact as a waste of time and space when parties are once at issue, I shall only answer that I do not feel myself called upon to surrender any names to support a quoted fact, which may easily be proved to the satisfaction of any one that will take the pains to inquire among either the friends or enemies of the Church. In following up this fact I cannot remember, among the few observa tions which I made, to have been carried away by a " torrent of defamation upon the Evangelical Clergy," or even so much as to have mentioned the sect at all, for such I cannot help thinking them, as far as I believe them to be compre hended in the term of " Gospellers, who search ing far deeper than others into the councils of GOD, follow any other Gospel than that of the Evangelists." These are the men to whom I allude, and though I think but meanly of them, I trust I have not suffered expressions to escape me that can be construed by a fair disputant into real " defamation." It appears however that the main point in dispute is the " propriety of dissenting institutions," and the great exploits of Sectarians are magnified to throw, by the contrast, the Church into the shade. Sectarians are said to have erected public places of worship where they never were before, in large towns too, and in such places as would best allure their objectsfrom vicious habits ; and to have led the way to the building of addi tional churches for Members of the Established Church. In all this for the most part they have been undoubtedly most zealous, even in the last, when they have in their eye preachers of their own stamp likely to be appointed. These Evan gelicals are often.known to leave their own parish church for the sake of such preachers, and so peculiar is' their regard for the establishment, to frequent conventicles, rather than go to the church where they cannot meet with hearers. As to their "alluring men from vicious habits, or disseminating the doctrines of morality," who that has ever heard their pulpits resound with the empty cry of faith without works, in one tiresome tautology of an hour's length ; repeated in every discourse from Sabbath to Sabbath, and even on what are called their expounding nights in the interval, but must refuse to join in this panegyric upon them as preachers of morality? Whatever they may think in private or say, when they come to reason with their equals in conver sation or in writing, they insist not, to say the least, upon the moral doctrines, but seem to con clude, that, if once they can preach faith into a man, all the other virtues must follow in its train, and, whatever may be their speculation in the closet, speak aloud to the people us if that were the only virtue necessary for salvation. Properly considered, no doubt, Faith deserves to be so insisted upon as the great foundation of all our hope, and some of the more intelligent and sincere, the ingenuous as well as the inge nious of them, mean no more than that it should be so considered ; but the people who reason not, and only listen to the sound, to the letter and not to the spirit, and even some of them who enter into the sense, chuse to take it in the way the most favourable to their passions, and are beguiled into the infatuation, (more fatal to mo rality than all the dogmas of the heathen philo sophers, or the wild theories of those who affect to be so called in modern times,) that faith alone, without works, is all that is required, and Ire so apt to abound in that which cost them nothing, in order to preserve these lusts, which Would cost so much pains and self-denial to encounter. To bear and to forbear, are much more ardu ous duties to perform than Faith, however im plicit, especially to those who think to compen sate for their defect of understanding b; credu lity in superabundance. When JUSTUS asks as to the spirit of, these Sectarians in converting, whether they attempt to procure their followers by wealth, or to enrol the great or opulent among them, I can only an swer, as far as I have read and heard, that their zeal for proselytism is most unbounded ; and that to make one proselyte only, they will go through fire and water, or endure fatigues which would harass the strongest constitution, and which some of the greatest misers have been known to do, when they have a certain object in view, who at the same time would not spend a shilling for its sake ; but selfish of fear of this world and its interests, as many of them are, notwithstanding all their high pretensions to have their affections set only on things above, they have readily sacri ficed part of the pennies collected to train up the young for the University, and for Orders in their own way of thinking ; and even some among the poor of their parish have contributed out of their own pockets little sums; more especially in sick ness and misfortune, or any of the trying circum stances of life, just at the critical moment when the heart is most easily affected and the mind but half awake, and gratitude alone, without any regard to interest to come, might excite them ' to unite with men who appear to betray so much zeal for their conversion. But if these very con.: yerts, when their mind may have recovered its tone, and their necessities are not so urgent, rdare in an unlucky hour to retract their opinion, if opinion it can be called, or by any chance' should revert to the principles of the Established Church, or to any other Church, where the 'Evangelical doctrine is not inculcated, they then also retract their pence, and resign such apos. tates, not only to imaginary reprobation in ano ther world, but what is more real terror than all their high-sounding anathema, in men that are come to their right minds, and can distinguish sound from sense, to all the horrors of starvation, or at least to the most sudden distress in this : such is too often the manner in which the Mini sters have " gone in and out," as Justus so elo quently describes them, " and attended to the worthliest, most uneducated, poorest beings this country exhibits." JUSTUS, with equal partiality, though not per haps with the same strain of eloquence, holds forth these Ministers as" distinguished by a more assiduousfdischarge of their official duties, and a more earnest endeavour to pass through the world unspotted by it," than others of their Brethren. Such we know is the temper of the Pharisee in every age, who in proportion as he trusts in himself that he is righteous, is sure to despise others ; and because he goes about from house to house in his ardent zeal for proselytism, —and is ever talking, in reason and out of reason, night and day, in the lanes and in the streets, in the highways and in stage-coaches,—and seems to breakfast, dine, and sup o❑ religion,—boasts of a more assiduous discharge of his duties than his more rational and sober brethren, who are not so eager to make a parade of their profession ; and think that the bow, however strong, is not to be ever on the stretch, but that it will shoot fur ther, longer, and with a surer aim, by being used only at proper intervals ; that there is a time for all things, for man may be even " righteous over much ;" nor does he expect in this state of im purity to be quite unspotted from the world, un less he entirely secludes himself, and prevents the little good he is yet able to do in his gene ration ; and however the Pharisee may presume that he is not as other men are, he knows that the Sun istelf has his spots, and why can he expect to escape from them ? None but Puritans can ever hope to breathe nether in our common atmosphere, and whenever they affect it, are apt to soar so high as to be lost in the clouds of mysticism with the late suicide, who shot himself just as he was about to begin his sermon, only to descend far lower than his bre thren in proportion to the height from whence he aspired to look down upon them. " Sunt certi denique fines." " Quos infra citraque nequit committere rectum." IE QUUS. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR, In the first week of July, 1822, as a number of boys ;were bathing in a pond in the Forest near Leytonstone, one of them got beyond his depth and sunk. A servant attending some children called a carter, who was on the road with his cart, to the assistance of the boy; without a moment's hesitation the latter jumped into the water and rescued him from his perilous situation, and ob serving that his horses had gone to some distance, he ran after them, not even waiting to receive the thanks for his good conduct; the name of this noble fellow is consequently unknown—in a little time the boy recovered ; his first words con sisted of thanks to his deliverer. 'We regret to state that had the boy's recovery been doubtful, the persons present were all ignorant of the methods recommended by the Royal Humane Society. The Gentlemen of the neighbourhood, we trust, will remedy this omission. ** * MiNts.—We are concerned to state, that the workmen employed in the Halkin lead mines, last week manifested a spirit of insubor dination. The cause certainly cannot be im puted either to a want of employ, which is con stant and abundant, or to lowness of wages, which are very ample. But it appears that in con sequence of an improved system introduced into the works by JOHN TAYLOR, Esq. Lord GROSVENOR'S mining agent, and the employment of two or three experienced overseers, who had heretofore been strangers to the works, the Welsh miners took it into their heads to think themselves ag grieved ; and on Thursday, in the most riotous manner, proceeded to abuse the new corners, and insisted on their dismissal, accompanying this vio lence with other unreasonable demands. We trust that such proceedings, which are no less disgraceful than disadvantageous to themselves and the neighbourhood, will not again be re sorted to. the present state of depression to which the wages of the labouring classes are reduced, the Halkin miners have every cause to be satisfied, their general average of wages being very good. We are informed, that before the improved system was introduced into the above alines, the concern was a losing one to a considerable amount ; but we are happy to say that the mines are likely to be beneficially carried on, which will perpetuate the advantages to that populous district, by the employment of a numerous class of individuals.—(Chester Courant.) MuitDEß.—Last week Rachel Edwards was committed to Monmouth gaOl, charged on the verdict of a Co roner's Inquest, on,suspicion of the wilful murder of her hus band, W. 'Edwards, by giving him a quantity of arsenic. The unfortunate deceased kept the Cross-Keys public-house, in Pont y-Pool, and once possessed a veil , good property, but his wife was addicted to diinkipg, and had formed an acquaintance with another man, which 'it is supposed led her to form the horrid resolution of destroying her husband. From the evidence given on the inquest, ; which sat, two days, it appears that the servant, who is a relation, was employed to pro cure the arsenic • from. a shop, in the name of some other person ; her mistress persuaded the husband to take a basin of milk, into which she had previously put a portion of the poison, and she is said to 'nave administered more of the arsenic to him afterwards, froth the effects' of which he died in a few hours. After the ,fullest investigation had taken place, the stomach having been examined by medical Gentlemen, the Jury gave a verdict of • WWill Murder against the wife, and she was fully committed for trial at the next Assizes ; the servant was also committed : cis an accomplice. The wretched woman appeared totally insensible to her awful situation. The prison ers were sent from Pont-y-Pool in a chaise, in the custody of two constables, and it is said, that, on the road,• having plied • the constables: and the driver with liquor, they both effected theii escape Word they reached Monmouth. Intelligence of this having arriied at Pont-y-Pool, several Gentlemen imme diately went in pursuit, by whose vigilance, we understand, both; the women were taken asleep in Trelleek-wood, about four miles froffi Monmouth. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUL; 10. GOWER V. THE LONDON ASSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action by the plaintiffs, as agents for a Spa°'s Gentleman, named Ignatio de Capares, to recover the su m 2,8001. on a policy of i nsurance effected by the London Assnr: ance Company, on a bo x o f j ewe l s , on board a vessel called 1,/ . 1 " Perle, from Marseill es t o V a l enc i a . The policy expressed the value of the goods, and th e d ec l arat i on state d t h e l os s to har e arisen "by the perils of th e seas ." Th e vess el was l os t on the voyage, and the defend a nt s now res i ste d t h e pa Y men t of tn e sum insured. The case on the part of the plaintiffs was e ° , 4 11 : ducted by Mr. Scarlett, M r . Common Sergeant, and Mr. Pollock ; and on beh a lf of th e defendants, by Mr. Solicitor- General, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Coleridge. 18 16 ' It appeared that the voyage was made so long a go as d In the letter to the defendant s , th e vesse l was simply describe_ r pre by the French word navire, whi c h, accor di ng to theinta tation of all the witnesses, did no t a l one i mport a s hip of an! particular size, but was coexten s i ve w i t h t h e E n glish tau' vessel, and the defendants made no inquiries to render its m e l t ing more definite. Mr. De C a p ares , the party for whose ben e the insurance was made, sent a b ox by his friend Mr. Figart who was going to Marseill es , th at i t m i g h t t h ere b e s hipped: its way to Madrid. Mr. Fig a ro a , w h o , as well as the capta in ' mariners, and some other w i tn esses , was exam i ne d o n interro gatories abroad, deposed that he saw the contents of the be t r " from but would not take on hi m s e lf to swear w h et h er they jewels, not being competent t o di st i ngu i s h genu i ne j e wels fre counterfeits. The vessel was in reality a half-decked ves u.d s i or felucca, used to navigat e th e coast , which large ships e° not approach with safety. The captain and one of the manners stated, that the vessel was br oug h t into peril off Port Bouc k, h e France, by stress of weather ; and that he and the crew ° el , • *ll forced to go on shore to save their lives. They passed the n 1 1 1 7., in a cavern at the edge of the water, whence they occasionally looked out to watch the vessel, till two o'clock in the rana lili t when they lay down to sleep, worn out by labour and distress' At the dawn of day, they looked out again, and saw onlY tit top of the mast above the water, whence they learned the ext... „ ox their misfortunes. A delay in th e attempt to save the c arg ; was occasioned by the refusal of the people at Bouck to advail e , s ,, money ; and the captain was obliged to proceed to Marse ln ?.: before he could obtain it. Th e whole cargo, consisting of Inr' s eery, the box in question, and a quantity of vitriol in c arboy ; was lost. Some examination of the master and seamen, °, 1 1,, charge of barratry, took place, but they were ultimately " missed without being put on their trial. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL rested the defence on t' v i t : grounds-Ist, That there was a misdescription of the vesse l ' which the defendants were led to suppose was a regular si" s and secondly, and principally, that the whole transaction Ve a fraud—that no jewels ever were on board ; and that ; er ,, wreck was designed for the purpose of defrauding the insu r d i t y To establish this latter defence, he relied on the improbab a of any one sending jewels from a good market i n Feaneel ° , bad one in Spain—on the unusua l course pursue d o f sel' i„ t ife them by sea on board a small and inadequate vessel--- really default of the plaintiff to adduce proof that jewels were re i e the on board—on the total and unaccountable absence of cargo—and on discrepancies between the statement mad e yo e the Captain at the time of th e l oss , an d t h at to which he in deposed. He contended, that if the Jury thought the Capper,, had been guilty of fraud, without the connivance of his the still the defendants would be entitled to a verdict, because,ad declaration only averred a lo ss by t h e per il s o f t h e seas/ contained no count for a loss by barratry. The examinations of sev era l w it nesses w h o h a d exe rted the in; Cl 3; selves to save th e cago were rea d. Th ey p rove d that no sh but some sacking and t wo empty j ars were found on board ; ba g they thought it unlik e ly, t h oug h not i mposs ib le, t h a t the,. t he and the vitriol might be washed away. A b a l e of silk, ° ',leo value of nearly 1,0001., the property of Mr. Figaroa, vr es rea el t lost. The original protest o f th e cap t a i n an d mariners wa s t or and in several points materially differed from the a tatenten himself and of Julian, and witn esses were ca ll e d w ho thong there would be considerabl e r i s k i n sen di ng art i c l es o f val u e t he board so small a vessel upon the voyage in question, to season of the loss ; and who s a id th e usua l course Was to them by land. da°' Mr. SCARLETT gave in evid ence th e l et t er o f t he defer' the declining to bear the loss, and giving as their only reason unfitness of the vessel. Upon this, A A s ' The SOLICITOR-GENER AL observed that the Lon-°.deece surance Company were not at th a t ti me aware of the e vi t „. to which had since been di sc o vere d to g i ve a d ar k er colouring the transaction. aet ef r Mr. SCARLETT replied on the whole case. No e- a t f is t o' among nations stood higher f or p ro bity an d f a ith than 4110 the Spaniard. Were the Jury to believe that Mr. Figar° a ' the had conscientiously refused t o su pply th at ver y p r oof „ self absence of which the defendants relied, and who had bf" co a , property on board the vessel to the value of 1,0001., hfr,, d „a? spired with Mr. Capares to effect this most atrocious I ,!'"d i an Was it said that Spain was a worse market for jewe' ha d France ? Let the Jury remember, that if Franced that more wealth than Spain, it was more divided', p ur aos' there were fewer perso ns a bl e t o ma k e cos tly " re If it was urged that the course by which the Jewe ls o pa sent was unusual, it sho u ld b e recollected that their via had the advantage of confiding them to his friend. the Captain plan this fraud ? Why did lie not, the% g er? form it on his own coast, instead of choosing that of st ra a pro' If the whole evidence were reviewed, it would appear T oor the bable that the divers and their assistants had subtraet e ' rec es' property than the seamen ; but this supposition was net I wo sary ; it might be swallowed up in the ocean, or ‘VaS T V' n his those rocky caverns with which the shore abounded. i or get Learned Friend thought this impossible, he seemed to the language of the poet— " Full many a gem of purest ray serene, " The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear.' st eti' The Learned Counsel pro cee d e d t o argue , t h at the incont cies of the captain's statem e nt s m i g ht b e accoun ted for ui la s9 ignorance of the Spanish language, in which his Pn ) t e e." drawn, and by his dist ress a t t h e t i me i n w hi c h it was In 7 5 01; Ile had now no oppo r t un ity o f exp l a i n i ng appare nt ine t) olo ency, which witnesses in his situation who were actually into the box enjoyed, and by which they frequently e)rnlw r , ea t themselves from all suspicion of a w i s h t o d ece i ve . The t i be balance of evidence and of p r ob a bility wou ld, h e trnste , votal found to be in favour of the plaintiffs. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE expressed his decided' °Joie" h that there was no foundation for that part of the defence e s o; rested on the supposed misdesc r ipti o n o f th e vess el. 15 , 1 Rill med up all the evidence o n th e quest i on o f f ra ud, and entirely to the decision of the Jury. 0 1 ' The Jury retired at half-past th ree , an d rema ined 111 c°ll coa_r f l tation until six o'clock, at w hi c h t i me t h ey returne d inte n d u with a written verdict for the defendants, on the gr" barratry. voie nt On Saturday, a young l a d i n th e e mploy of the miller at Inver ar ity Mill, sna tched u ` ° ot ' gun which was lying in th e h o us e , and Wi tt his knowing that it was charged, presente t d it: 0 ,0!, master's son, a young child, saving i n a u l . vo playfulness, " I'll shoot you ; I'll shoot 0 0. The piece went off, and the child was k i ll e d the spot.—(Dundee Advertiser.) th e ' A tha t In about ten days, it is suppose, De voll wheat harvest will be pretty general in oro , shire ; in every direction the wheat ig u d ll u c c e• monly fine, and promises an abundant pr . BIRTHS. g s h errl of a rk A few days ago, the wife of Michael Fiddler, __a p Selsey, of three boys, christened Michael, Matthew , 4 '1 4 '10 Capt. Ire On the Bth hins ila t i a rr t 3 h_ a i t s , l4 R ou .N., sein of C a le s v o e n la . nd-rove, the MARRIED. bli ll ' D o On Saturday, the Gal inst., at St. Kevin's Church! coo ° off anon; the Rev. Francis Synge, of Rathmore Castle, Ki n g,kosca to Julia Anne, third daughter of the late Col. Edwaru ' nell, of Newhall, county Clare. p, a s t„te On the 9th inst. at Arding,ly, Sussex, the Rev. TholD f the P' Rector of Ardingly, to Catherine, youngest daughter r unty' Admiral Peyton, of Waltehiirst Park, in the sarcT2l • DIED. es, • 0 5 11 , Of Dysentery, the 15th December last, on the River o f • F. S.. Donnelly, Esq. commanding the Islajeb Regirclent valry, at Delhi, and son of Rear-Admiral DonnellY• • On the Ist inst. in Duke-street, Manchester-square, „ Anne, the wife of William T ' rower Esq. of Calcutta, at e. ; tb , On Monday last, at his house in Lower Seymour -su' ~ Wife of John Henry Stewart, Esq. On the 24th ult., in her 211th year, at the Ivy Cotu&-'d te" f. Westmoreland, Jemima Anne Deborah, wife of Edw . , linan, Esq., and second daughter of Sir Egerton BrYug; ha ins' Her death was occasioned by the accident of her clotheufferiin_A caught fire, from the effects of which, though her,:rrileciv were most severe, n fatal result Was anticipated by iL attendants. • the St; Printed and Published for the Pitornivr 0115, Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. 13. CAnsv"