The Sun. — London, England, 1822-09-12 00:00:00

'VILE LONDON JOURNALS. XTItACIS FRI9III TIM DULY MORNING PAPERS, September 12, 1822. • [Tut TINtEs.I • The - communications between Sir Frederic • Robinson, Governor of Tobago, and the House mf Assenibly in that island, which will be found • under the head of "'Colonial Intelligence" (see - - Tnx S.vrt:of this day), will, we trust, produce a • Salutary's-impression upon the heads of the depart ment at home. It must be considered a' most - .ungriestionable and painful proof of the grievous condition to which the finances of our Colonies • are reduced, that the amount of a Governor's glary, bestowed 'spontaneously within a very few !years, should formthe sole subject of a voluminous wctintroversy bet Ween the party granting and the ' , ,ijarty receiving ir.. The poverty of the Colonists xtmay well have overcome their delicacyin forcing —them to speak on such a topic to the object of • their former bOunty ; but what can be urged for the dignity or decent 'pride of him, who could reject, an appeal so just, and so mortifying to - -those from Whom it proceeded ? The salaries of, . these Colonial'GoVernOrs are said to form . but an ;nferiorportion of their profits. Fees and per quisites., in sundry shapes, are among the ru moured enjoyments of these high officers. But it is quite unreasonable that in times of distress, the whole Mischief should fall upon those who have - had n:o share in' producing it.. ca snot suggest a more equitable innovation, than that the; causers of national-poverty, whether Cabinet ,i,nisters, or.,,their tributaries abroad, should be f.itnade to taste, through the reduction of their own e..`incomes,iOrne'drops of the overflowing bitterness • Itjvhich their impolicy or iniquity may have ere -. 'ted: ,[NEW TIMES.] • . The 'Paris Journals of Monday, and advices, l'lron - t Bayonne and Madrid to a recent date, - - ;'rived yesterday, but they communicate no intern, ttence of importance. It appears from these ac --counts that neither mails nor private travellers ~escape the attacks of the armed bands in the I:North of Spain. *** The New Times of this day is chiefly .:occupied by a controversy respecting the affairs of • Andrews, Holborn. EBRITISTI PRESS.] Four'olthe'Paris Papers of Saturday last, the Courier _Francais, the Journal de Commerce, the Constitutronnel and the Pilote were visited on that day by Officers of the Police, and the Papers seized on the charge of their having fully misrepresented the proceedings of Thtirsday lin the Assize Court of Paris. The Editors have been cited before the President of that Court— the virtuous and impartial Judge who tried ' the Rochelle case, to answer for this offence. The summons was their condemnation. Some of our Ministerial Papers, noticing the state inent contained in these Papers respecting the affecting manner in which the accused who , were convicted in the Rochelle affair express ed their gratitude to the advocates who de fended them, ridicule the tears which were said to have been, shed on that occasion by all par ties. The same writers were not so very jocose 'a short time Since,, When on the trial of a goaler, convicted during the last Assizes for cruelty to the unfortunate beings subjected to his power, - an advocate was so overpowered by his sympathy for the gaoler that he was obliged to retire from Court. We heard nothing then from these persons about blubbering barristers or we'eplifc advocates, although to our minds the case of persons crushed even to death by the - iweigh of Ministerial influence, and the criminal partiality of the presiding Judge, offered a, far more legitimate subject for manly sympathy than the prosecution for a misdemeanour of a dis• charged gaoler, convicted before an impartia Judge andno hostilti! Jury of undoubted acts' o cruelty. [MORNING POST. The Paris Papers to the 10th inst. contain an extract from the Austrian Observer, which no longer contends that Chourschid Paella had de feated the Greeks in a great battle ; but main tains, on .the contrary,• that no great battle had been fought or gained either by the Tutks or Greeks, as none of the Foreign Embassies or " of the respected Commercial Houses" in Vienna had received any such intelligence.— This statement is satisfactory, because it sets• at rest the report raised by that very same Journal of the total discomfiture of the main Grecian army, and admits that accounts of their hav ing obtained the victory had been received' by Commercial Ilousesi which it does not choose to consider as " respected." The original intel ligence remains therefore in its full force,- ang:. mented by confirmations from many quarters, and by the acknowledgment of tilt _Austrian, Ob server, that the counter statement which it published at the time, giving the victory to the Turks, was a fabrication ; since it now declares that no information whatever had been re ceived on the subject. This awkward self exposure shows what degree of credit ought to be attached to the assertions of this veracious Jour tat, and what are the principles by which its official conductors are guided. We therefore feel 'our alarm considerably diminished on hearing through that channel that the march of several Turkish corps through Thessaly and Livadia was confirmed, , and that an Ottoman fleet of 120 sail, with 20,000 troops on board, was on its way to the Morea to join in a general 'attack on that peninsula. It may be true that " decisive events were approaching," but aye trust that although deserted, if not as sailed by their fellow Christians, the Greeks will continue to' be supported by that Pro vidence - which has roused them from their slum ber of ages, not certainly to accomplish - their - destruction, but to restore them to' their rank and independence as'a•Christian people. Like ..head of old, they have fulfilled the years of their captivity, and the spirit ,which gives arength to. the - weak, and freedom to the cap isive, has-revisited their souls. It is in itself a pledge of divine support ) for it is of divine origin, =1 will ttereiore triumph . , though th friends who should assist betray, and the foes whose turn it is to be judged and punished for their oppressions, now advance exulting in the pusillanimity of Christian' Princes, and in the greatness of their power. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Any advice from us to the Bourbons with re spect to the men now under sentence of death in France, and those for whom there is but too much reason to expect the same fate, would pro bably injure rather than benefit the unfortunate individuals in question. We never had any hesitation in declaring ourselves inimical to the - Rouse of Bourbon, both on account of the mode of their coming to power, and the manner in which they have exercised it ; and it would rejoice us exceedingly to hear of a change of Government in France beneficial to the people of that country. Being, therefore, their decided enemies, they may, on the faith of the maxim That we ought to avoid what our foes wish us to do, conceive our recommendation to theM not to shed the blood of the condemned men, an additional ground for shedding that blood. If our object were merely to add to the dislike and aversion so generally entertained for the Bourbons in France, we should cer tainly wish them to imbrue their hands in the blood of these -victims. We remember well the effect produced in Spahr by the execution of Por lier, and in Lisbon by the execution of anotl et gallant Officer. That the blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the Church, is a maxim confirmed by an extensive experience. It is chiefly, no doubt, the conviction of this tendency of cruel measures to enlist the feelings of mankind on the side of the sufferers, and consequently to weaken, instead of strengenthing those who have recourse to them, that has given such a character of lenity to the conduct of the Spanish Liberals. If severity were so efficient an instrument for strengthening a Government, would Austria, after filling the dun geons of Italy and Sicily, find the number of ene mies increase with every day ? If, therefore, as we have observed, we were to consult merely our hostile feelings to the Bourbons, we should say spare not, die the scaffolds with the blood of the gallant defenders of their country. But we have another object, certainly not less at heart, namely, the diffusion of a spirit of mildness among men of all parties, and the extinguishing as far as possible the eagerness for vindictive and sangui nary punishments. The Bourbons would do well also to remember, as is observed by one of our contemporaries, that " when they were last driven from France,' they were very mercifully dealt with." and to reflect that " it will be wise for them not to make the French people repent this mildness, and avoid a repetition of it." We hope for the credit of a certain Noble Duke who has had some experience in this way, that were he to be consulted, he would say, Take warning from me, and believe that deeds of this nature are not calculated to call forth conciliatory reflec tions, or to promote tranquillity of mind. [MORNING HERALD.] We have before noticed some of the evils arising from, as well as some of the causes lead ing to, imperfect legislation. The subject opens a wide field for observation. While the ambiguity and unnecessary length of our Statutes merit the severest censure, a reasonable allowance must be made for their ❑umber and frequent alteration. Laws are multiplied in the same proportion as the wealth, commerce,- and vices of the people. When the progress of factitious refinement and corruption has insinuated its poison through all the veins of the social body, laws become ne cessary, but, like titles of honour, when unne cessarily multiplied, they become ridiculous and contemptible. It has been already observed, that the Constitution framed for Sparta by Ly curgus, was guarded by a few rules only, and those very simple. The laws of Moses, like those of the Spartan legislator, were invariable and admitted of few or no additions.— Although foreign commerce was not prohibited among the Jews, yet their situation and cir cumstances secured them from the dangers at tending on an accumulation of wealth. Their domestic regulations, by which usury was pro hibited, the lands alienable only to the year of jubilee, and then rcvertible to the original pro prietors, were well calculated to prevent any great inequality in point of wealth. By the con tinued division of estates also among the males of equal degree, every man was proprietor of some small patrimony, and lived a frugal and laborious life. Such a state required but a few simple laws. Athens,- on the contrary, en joying a most extensive commerce, abounded in the evils resulting from it—a multiplicity of laws perpetually varying, n-ever constant. Rome, even in the altitude of her military glory, was con tented with a few precise rules ;—so precise, that they resembled, as every law should, defi nitions or maxims; and so- few, that the very boys used to commit theme to memory, as indis pensible lessons, to imprint on their tender minds an early knowledge of the constitution and laws, in the observance of which they were all so interested. But when conquest and commerce imported into Italy the wealth of Carthage,Greece, and Asia, then laws were continually necessary, which, being as continually eluded, gave birth to others, until, by their successive multiplication and endless variations, they at length became " more intolerable than the vices of the city ;" as is alleged by a celebrated historian, who devotes two of his pregnant pages (they were the pages of Tacitus) to a pathetic disquisition on the evils, which preceded and followed this " infinite mul titude and variety of laws." With equal sense, but less energy, Livy complained of " the immense pile of laws, one heaped over the other," &c. These complaints are not matters of sur prise, when it appears, by the concurring, tes timony of contemporary historians, that some hundreds of camels might have been laden 'with law books—the laws of the people, the Decrees of the Senate, the Edicts of the Prwtors, -the Perpetual Edicts, the Constitutions, Re scripts and Pragmatic Sanctions of the Empe ,rors; and, though last, not the least-voluminous, commentaries of dm faWyers,*Lo were thus fur nished with an inexhaustible supply for their mystifying amplifications. DESPERATE OUTRAGE AT NEWINGTON. The folloWing case carries with it so romantic, not to say' improbable air, that we confess'iVe have our suspicions there has been somewhere invention at work. We however lay it before our readers as we reteived it :---- 44 an Monday night last a most desperate attack was made on the house of Mr. S. PASSEY, Printer and Stationer, opposite - Newington Church, by a handitti of 20 or 30 ruffians, most of them armed with bludgeons, and their leader with a tremendous butcher's cleaver. From inquiry we learn that near 10 o'clock on the above night, Mr. Passey and family were retiring to bed, when a knock came to the street door. Mr. P. imagined it was a customer, for whom he had printed some cards, and that he had called for them. He therefore desired his apprentice to go down into the shop and deliver them. On the boy getting to the street door, he called out Who's there ?' He was answered by a man outside, let me in, I want your master.' The boy replied, 'he is gone to bed, tell me what you want.' At the same time opening the door a little, upon which a des perate rush was made, the door bnrst open, and the boy was knocked down. Mr. Passey, hearing a noise below, ran down stairs, followed by Mrs. Passey and the rest of the family, when they found the passage filled with ruffians, and others standing on the steps of the door to pre vent any person from going out. Mr. Passey ad dressed them, and inquired of their leader (who stood first, with a.large clever over his' shoulder) whit they wanted in such numbers, and at that hour of the night. The leader answered, 'We want money, and money we will have—won't we ?' at the same time turning round to his gang. Mr. P. desired them to depart, as he would not com ply with their demand, and - desired his apprentice to go for assistance. One of the gang, who had possession of the entrance, exclaimed—' Any person who dare attempt to pass will die.' Mr. P. finding he could not get any assistance froth outside, mustered all his family, amounting to six persons, four of whom were females, and desired the yard dog to be let loose upon the intruders ; upon which the leader ex claimed—' Aye, let him come near us, and we will butcher him and you afterwards,' at the same time raising his cleaver above his head. The re. mainder of the gang were now forcing themselves into the passage, and Mrs. P. was so dreadfully alarmed that she went into hysterics. In vain Mr. P. desired them to leave the house, but they with horrid imprecations declared they would not depart till their demand was complied with. Mr. P. desired his apprentice to go out over the back of the premises to call the assist ance of some private watchmen "that were at some distance, there being none near the spot, upon which the whole of the banditti made a precipitate retreat. Mr. Passey lin posted large bills, offering a reward for the apprehension of any of this daring gang, and describing the per son of their leader. Yesterday information of the affair was given at Union-hall office, and Hall, the chief officer, is in active pursuit of the ruffians."—(Morning Paper.) ORNITHOLOGY.—A Gentleman who is in the habit of angling upon the river Avon, communi cates, as the result of several years' observation, the arrival of the swallow upon the surface of that water from eight to fifteen days before it is seen at Salisbury, at only two miles distant. The first of this season were seen by him at Be merton, en Monday the first of April, whereas, on Friday the 19th, not a swallow was to be seen at Salisbury. Among the various sugges tions which have been offered respecting the uis tory and the emigration of this fugitive bird, per haps these observations may be reduced as call ing for explanation from the naturalist.—The swallow, the nightingale, and the cuckoo, it has been remarked, visited England earlier last spring than usual. On Saturday afternoon, about five o'clock, three beautiful swans were seen passing over the eastern parts• of this county. Their flight was very low, and when passing over Sandhurst, Evvhurst, and Brede, they were within pistol-shot. Their course was towards Pett Level.—Brighton He rald.) To the particulars which have appeared re specting the conduct of Jieartlj, who attempted to assassinate Captain 0 wEN, the Maidstone Jour.- nal adds :—" This wretch, while confined in our County Prison, confessed to• the Chaplain, the Rev. J. WINTER, that he had been concerned in upwards of one hundred burglaries !" Monday evening as some boys were playing in the Kensington-road, a person came down on horseback, and not observing them, one was knocked dowtrhy the horse. The animal's foot struck him on the side of the head, so that he died in less than an hour after. Monday morning the body of a respectable looking man, apparently between 40 and. 50, was 'discovered hanging by a cord from the bough of a tree, in a shrubbery near the Rising Sun, at Eastham. He was instantly cut down, but the vital spark' appeared to have been extinct for some days: Yesterday, at noon day, a thief had the au daucity to' enter the house of Matthew Gossett, Esq. in Chan dos-street, Cavendish-square, and proceeded to his dressing room, where he took several articles of wearing apparel and his watch, and got clear off with them. DARING • ROBBERY ON •A LADY.—Yesterday afternoon, at about three o'clock, a young Lady named Harris, of 33, Manchester-street, Man chester-squarevon, passing by New Rourid-court, Oxford-street, was met by a gang of ruffians, who were tempted by a valuable gold watch sus pended on her side ; on arriving opposite the court, the fellows pushed her violently some distance in the avenue, and robbed her,of the watch, with which they made off. The Lady was consider ably alarmed, and made the best of her way to Marlborough-street Police O'ffice,,where she laid information of the robbery, and gave a descrip lion of the property, but in her alarm could not speak to the persons of the thieves. A patrol daily parades this spot, but yesterday at. the above hour they were called to other business. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. FORGED SILVER MARKS. Yesterday Thomas Lcatlzwick Robinson was indicted for fe loniously selling four silver bottle labels, with forged and coun terfeit marks, resembling the mark of the Goldsmiths' Com pany, he knowing the same to be forged. It was stated by Mr. ALLEY that he was not indicted for the capital offence.—The prisoner pleaded guilty. The COURT informed him the offence with which he stood charged subjected him to seven years' transportation, and en deavoured to persuade the prisoner to retract his plea : he, how ever, persisted in the plea of guilty. • He was then indicted capitally on the charge of selling other marks, &c. Mr. BOLLARD, for the prosecution, stated that it was not the intention of Government to offer any evidence, inasmuch as the prisoner had put the prosecutors in possession of a deal of valuable information : therefore he was considered, from the re paration he had made, as a tit object for mercy. 111 r. Baron GRAHAM directed his acquittal: consequently the prisoner is only subjected to seven years' transportation. HORSE-STEALING. Samuel lVilson, aged 21, was put to the bar, and indicted for stealing a gelding, value 401. The prosecutor, Mr. John Gibbard, stated he was a farmer, residing at Southern, in Warwickshire, and on the 17th of August last he lost a horse out of his fields, and did not see it again until the Monday week following, when he came ,to Lon don, and found the animal in possession of Limbrick, the officer. He was positive the gelding was his property, and had it for about a year and a half ; it was a black cart horse, which he repeatedly used. Witness knew the prisoner, who had been in his employ a short time in March last. Mr. William Wigley, a farmer, knew the prisoner, and saw him at Southern on the 17th of August last, and also remem bers the prosecutor losing a gelding on that day. J. Limbrick, an officer of Hatton-Garden, proved taking the prisoner into custody at Islington on the 19th of August last, with the horse in his possession. Witness asked' him if it was for sale F He replied in the affirmative, and wanted 43 guineas ; the animal appeared very much tired and jaded.— He then left the prisoner in custody of a Mr. Mills, and in a few minutes afterwards he heard the cry of " Stop thief !" the prisoner was running away. Witness went in pursuit of him, and apprehended him in Leather-lane ; the prisoner then stated who the gelding belonged to ; that he had • taken it out of Southern fields, and that it was a bad job. The prisoner, in his defence, merely said he hoped the .Tury would be merciful towards him. He called no witnesses. Mr. Justice RICHARDSON summed up the evidence, and the Jury, without hesitation, found him Guilty. Isaac Knight was indicted for stealing a gelding, value 20/. on the 22d of August, from Thomas Lewis, livery stable keeper, Whitechapel. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, that the pri soner went to him and asked if he had a pair of horses which he could sell Mr. Fagg, of the Bell and Crown, Holborn, which Mr. Fagg was in want of, and which his master, Mr. Abel, ; could not supply Finn with. The prosecutor told him he had only one horse to dispose of, and delivered it to the prisoner to Jake and shew to Mr. Fagg ; and as the horse was not immedi ritely returned, the prosecutor went in search of him, and heard in a few days after that he was at the Bazaar stables, whither he went, and saw the prisoner, who told him he had sold the horse to Messrs. Dean and Dance, of Hampstead. Robert Fagg was then sworn.—l am a coachmaster, and never commissioned the prisoner to call upon the prosecutor for a horse ; indeed he had then never heard of the prosecutor. Mr. Dance swore that he and his partner had bought the horse in queestion from the prisoner, for about 121. Francis Freeman, the constable who apprehended the pri soner, swore that he told him he had done wrong, but thought he hadl some friends.—Guilty. YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY. John Corker, only eleven years of age, was put to the bar on an indictment charging him with stealing on the 26th of July, the property of Thomas Arnold, a silver watch, key, and a sil ver penny. The youthful delinquent was employed in the house of the prosecutor to go of errands and clean knives, and on the day in question, availed himself of the opportunity to purloin the watch, &c. No suspicion existed against the pri soner until the following Sunday, when a person named Wood ward saw it in his possession, and gave information to Mr. Arnold.—The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy. Mr: Justice BEST said, the recommendation should be at tended to, and requested the prosecutor to endeavour to get the prisoner into the Refuge for the Destitute, and to inform his Lordship of the result in a day or two. CHARGE OF ROBBERY. Mary Watts was indicted for stealing from the person of Robert Fenton on the King's highway, thirty sovereigns and other money, his property. The prosecutor stated that he was " a jobber," anti that after attending the market at Spitalfields, he was returning through Brick-lane towards home, when he was forcibly pulled down by a man and two women, who rob bed him and escaped. The prisoner was one of the persons he saw in company before the robbery tobk place. He did not see her again till about a fortnight afterwards When she was in custody. 011 his cross-examination by . Mr - . BRODERICK, he admitted that he was rather drunk at the time, but not so much so as to be insensible. He knew well what he waTabout. It was not until the third time that the prisoner - was taken before the Magistrate that he ventured to swear to her pergon. Mr. Justice BEST summed up, and left it to the Jury to say whether, after hearing the evidence as given by the Prosecutor, they would consider it of that conclusive nature as to induce them to return a verdict of Guilty. The Jury without a mo: ment's hesitation pronounced her—Not Guilty. (Before the ItEconnEn. and a London Jury.) After the - Judgeshad retired, the London Jury went into . the box, but a considerable time elapsed before any of the London prisoners were put to the bar. The RECORDER expressed his dissatisfaction at the delay, and hoped that in future the Court would not be kept waiting from a similar cause. .If it should so happen, he would fine the officer whose duty it was to bring up the prisoners. Tiwinas Trindei-,,a, well-known character, and who was pub licly whipped about twelve months since for attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket, was put to the bar on an indictment charging him with stealing from the person of Mr. Samuel Richardson, on the 19th of July last, in the parish of St. An- . drew, Holborn, a silk-handkerchief his property. The prose cutor was walking up . Holborn, about half-past ten o'clock of the evening stated in the indictment, when he felt some- . thing drawn from his pocket. He immediately turned round and seized the prisoner, who was . the only person near. He then called for watchmen, but:none came to his assistance, nor could he get one from Fetter-lane down to St. Andrew's watchhouse, to which place he conveyed the prisoner himself. The prisoner on being take' into custody begged for forgive ness, observing it was his first offence, a.ndif he were suffered to go he Would. never be guilty of thei like agaiii.—This evi dence was confirmed by another witness.—The prisoner denied all knowledge of the crime.—The REcoßptit summed up, and the Jury found him Guilty.—He was immediately ordered up for judgment,-when the RECORDER said he was an incor rigible thief, and as the only means of saving him from the ~.gallows, the Court' sentenced him to be transported for life. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Yesterday Mary Freely, a lady who keeps a china shop in 'St. Giles's, and whose countenance told all beholders that she was well able to take her own part, was indicted for'assaulting a man of the name of Bacon. This was a prosecution instituted by the parish of St. Giles's, under these circumstances :—The defendant and her husband had been in the habit of placing crockery goods on the footway in Earl-street, St. Giles 's and had incurred the penalties of a recent Act of Parliament by such exposure. The notices were served upon the parties, and in order to levy the penalties, offi cers were sent to the house, and among them Mr, Bacon, an ap praiser. The defendant conducted herself in an extremely violent manner, and swore many oaths that the officers should not levy the penalties. 'Then pulling out a handful of sove reigns, she said, " I'll show you that I have money enough, but I'll be d—d if you have a farthing of it." The whole penalty amounted to no more than about .21. 6s. The officers find ing that no money could be obtained, proceeded to levy some of the goods, and offered to take a bed, a table, a carpet, and a chest of drawers. The defendant threw herself into a violent rage, and swore they should have nothing. The officers find ing that the bed could not be conveniently spared, offered to take the carpet ; but this was as strenuously objected to. The defendant, in the midst of her rage, stripped herself nearly to her waist, and laid violent hands on the officers. 'While Mr. Bacon was quitely taking an inventory of the goods, she took him by the callar, and, hitting him a blow upon the head, thrust him into the street. A great crowd of upwards of 200 persons was collected opposite the house, shouting and hissing at the officers. At length the officers succeeded in carrying ,away a small table and a model of a church. Mr. PHILLIPS; on behalf of the defendant, called three wit , 'nesses to contradict the testimony for the . prosecution. Their evidence, however, separated• mote as a corroboration than as a contradiction. The Jury found a verdict—Guilty, and the Court sentenced the defendant to inaprisonrnent for 2r days in the Housc of Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—Th e e a pse cation of a young couple, to be permitted to make cessary affidavit under the new marriage act, has ca,2 irt ai ed i attention of the Magistrate at this Justice-room to w e wit es ta t e, handed enactments of that statute. Upon comparing the handed in by the parties with the directions of the aD d it was found to be deficient in more than one particu lar ' alsd of course could not be permitted to be sworn to. A doubt ris' was suggested whether or no the City Magistrate had,4,i t t l yof diction in the case, both the parties residing out of the_ t v' t ot London. On reference to the Act, however, it appeare"fa w at such affidavits might be sworn before any Magistrates, ' fl a t feet reference to local jurisdiction. Although, through the, aot of form, the Magistrate, Sir RICHARD CARR GLYN? 'Taw called upon to decide in this instance, yet, as frequent_ . . r aPri to bons of this sort were to be expected, it became fPt determine what line of conduct it might be proper W aut..r the general practice in such cases. lith e Sir R. C. GLYN thought, that as it was imperative dr, fot o Magistrate to swear the parties to the affidavit, a generate ought to be adopted for the Office, as otherwise might be put to unnecessary trouble through the idval be 'sfa" the affidavit, from some defect or omission, and which, _wait nature of the Magistrate would have the appearance o _, l tbr sanction to. As the Magistrates were bound to adralf`T. tbe oath, he thought they were also bound to take care u' form was correct. mat t!ig M. Payne, the Magistrates' clerk, was of opiniod_a t al administering the oath in such cases was merely a Wif it pot. act upon the part of the Magistrates, and that they oug foe to be held responsible for any thing more than the mere of of the affidavit having been sworn to. How, he observe ,4 nso; it possible that the officers of the Justice-room, and 07 the magistrate, should be able to identify the personsll de numerous parties making affidavits in that room ? trP, could be expected, in case of dispute or litigation, 11 70 magistrate, must necessarily be the proof of the fact° 0 160, affidavit havingi been so sworn. The most efliciem i a pes of proceeding in his judgment was, as the statute (1...r0, direct the magistrate to prepare the affidavit for the o rilier clerk to whom application must be made in order to P the banns of marriage, to furnish the parties with the ~P O F form, and to certify the facts to the Magistrate, Nr.7 g oaii then administer the necessary- oath. This, in his iuu.„ 4 05 5 would identify the parties with the affidavit—a rirc tll iiej which he thought of considerable importance. TBe i .„'" •OistP of the parish was also authorized by the statute to air l e eV the necessity oath. If this were complied with, the i v° dence of the transaction would be connected and corrinie te :trai Sir R. C. GLYN observed, that the Minister was not oe to be met with like the Magistrate at a public office, toted parish clerk, he feared, would not take all the trouble sun; without a fee. The only resource must, therefore, 1 0 10 4 Magistrate ; and as they were bound to swear the o t they ought, for their own credit sake, as well as to pro of!, appointment to the parties, to take care that its contedfore correct. This could only be done by a regular settle d ' affidavit:t he ManEnolioirofi-S'ritEET.—Yesterday Daniel morTea person who was stated to have been so dreadfully iciatteatigue Monday morning last in the riot in Oxford -buildingS , te e/ before the Magistrates to state that he was in a fit stat e ers te . P: evidence against the rioters in custody, and the prison ordered to be brought up to-morrow (this day), thr ewedi l ri,a tb when the various charges of assaults will be preferred officers who were's° dreadfully mal-treated. i rofde f MARY-LE-BONE—Yeslertlay a Y9' ll l e 4,o ce i named Ann Bucklan - d, was brought up by Morris, 1 , 0 0,_ and charged before EDMUND GRIFFITH, Esq. the _I2,IAeLT Magistrate, with stealing a silver watch, and two r e 'a the property of a baker, named Wright. It apteersg, ttf the evidence that 'Mr. Wright had left the watcl l l_,ocei out-house, and soon after on going to the place he_r and suspecting it was stolen, he immediately gave with a description of the prOperty.. The prisoner Iv" . pawning the property.—She was remanded. w itb o ; ( ll TOWN HALL.—X eSterday John Hovel, eliareL o ing stolen a bag, containing 35 sovereigns, and ele'l!` eo ,,,li f , in silver, from the bar of the Southwark Arms I'm „ :0 :0 0 c , 1 brought up for examination.- It appeared that t he r' who was drinking in the tap-room, had watched the P o ot,, t o of the money, and having observed the landlord g a entered to possess himself of it while the landlady ~. short sleep on the bar table. The prisoner had bel- Ea °io with another person in the tap-room, but on the , do tli pt missed, his companion•was also wanting.—The Pris 2; do robbery ;' he was'renaanded until SatlirdaY,,W _ inquiry about the money. gar-fitef UNION-HALL.—Shortly after the commitment o ,. at i who was on Tuesday sent to prison for haying ret7 o n the fare of a hackney-coachman, whom he eniplor:,, o rt 00 day night to drive him to Clapham Common, a Zl e a.be pistol was heard from the cell in which he was Conan ef t !) , opening the cell a pistol was found in the hand Of e l At t e name of Smith; who with another prisoner stood chargAitsistis highway-robbery., It appeared on inquiry that hea, longed to the Office, and had been taken by I)lal 3.7 l .ol o Satb: Moore, as he then gave his name, shortly after his Marshall said he took the pistol for the puryoie. t i f himself, and not with any intention of stealing 1 i s atiow soner was ordered to be brought up for further eXalu ri elsP se y Ji THE HARvEsT.--Sixty years have T he since a harvest so extremely abundant, and an Tbe,; it lif gathered, has been experienced in this country' 0• 1762 was equally remarkable for fine weather and i veriLi e o which were got in so early that in many places t uel t i l erV ceeded by turnips, which will also be the case i n of year. In the western, southern, eastern, and innsL t p g . gw, land counties, the harvest has been completedtf•" 7 „ produce of wheat was never known. In the not 1 1:7 0 0111 ; 40 and in Scotland, a considerable quantity of grain 7 tolg"Cie should the weather prove favourable for a nother Aa gr, , greater part will' be safely gdt off the ground.•-•(‘ Cr rant, Ang. 10.) 'l lll- o 0 A man named Richard Haynes, die, v i ri gc u ir day at the London Hospital, in consequence of - - throat a few hours before, at his residence at court, Upper Well-alley, ' Wapping. ) A , e ideiLi• i to ae t rRIGHTOY, SEPT. 10.—(DistrESSing 1 , iNsnAw, who has a manshion at Hove, about.ainedife ,s s ;•this place, met a very serious misfortune on . 0 eu o , .tilf o —This amiable Lady had been residing for a t o ° Worthing, and on the day mentioned, set o u d , • 1%„.,!! - airing with a friend, a Gentleman, in a e P 607 Lancing, the Horse became restive, and, il; r t", e check and manage him, the reins broke. the ritt. instantly threw himself out of the gig , m; a i tt oge". seizing the animal by the bridle ; but h e r instant, and then dashed off at a furious pace, h • e.zr is ri, of Mrs. :Hinshaw may be better imagined "" 8 5 inybonjj —she sprung from the carriage while the horse Iv • career, and the shock almost took away her ne sad` no bone was broken, she was alarmingly sn °° whe e te rohe She was conveyed to Worthing in a post chaise, e o . at present, confined to her bed, but strong hall' of her eventual recovery. The runaway 'horse tamed • end, were stopped, and both without having O s injury. si=o ---------,--- - - COAL-31ARKET, SEPT. 11 ' Fr i ,,41 511 6,i Ships at Market. Ships•sold 4 Oa Iv 40 6lit 'Newcastle 53} - 3 3 . 5, ihl t° 24 Sunderland - - 20 ''s 0 1 b BIRTHS. s rd, Yesterday morning Mrs.. Kew, New 1'313°4 the li,d daughter. ; t., At Laverock Bank, Edinburgh, on the 64 1 s, s o of John Street, Esq., of the Royal Artillerb' ° ' ' ir' ATARRIED. ~, Si t e r p u bw. , , 0 0 ' 0. Thursday morning, at St. Paul's Church.,,, p „, ol )4 ,0, 0 : 'Warren, Esq. M.D. son of the Rev. Robt. Iv a rr n a datie,o town, in the County of Cork, to Margaret, se c° for he William Penuefather, Esq„ Collector of EP.-- Cork. 15( , .. e 5 i ° DIED. rip , r ot ~ On Tuesday last, after a lingering and Pai nf° ` l l od ( s il i& months, which she bore with the most es.emi--larYiloblY°6l i‘' P li fortitude, Mary Eliza, only.daughter of Tboolas,,,,oiot„Of of Sloane-street,. aged IB.—To those who were a t ` s lber l l' d , her amiable disposition and unusual acquire n ' en ' T or' fate will be sincerely and deeply regretted• peter e.f. On Wednesday, the 4th inst., Lieutenant f IMP R.N., aged 33: xis ° 1 ,11 , On Sunday, the Bth inst., Mr. Tho m itoi' fs ll .Rathbone-place, Oxford.:street, aged 61 " John t; ''' = On the Bth inst., at Knightsbridge, Lieut. Sr i° late of the nth R e p]. N 1 J' 4 , Fusiliers. • f Air. Yesterday. morning, Mrs. Schatz, wife ° og ej ' t. ct of Tower-street. " i 443110„. 0„ At his father's house, Edinburgh, on ~,the t sma ti 0 f l i la c Jameti, eldest son of Simeon Rutliven• '-arh'i bawl ° On Tuesday, in his 58th year, Hogil ••• - 5 'lnn, Esq. f' t tic A • vron'',,af. Printed and Published - for the PoOil„ni cosTi" 7 Office, N0..112, Strand; by J• 12 ' '' , till P e itli AF 1 C: o; a t 4 IN ha, E' itt l y !li ck it h tht