The Sun. — London, England, 1822-01-18 00:00:00

TtiE LONDON JOUH,NALS VAILY EXTI: ACTS FROM THE :MORNING PAPERS; January IS, .1822. [THE TIMES,] There is a current rumour in the diplomatic circles relative to the situation of affairs between Turkey and Russia, which, while it rather strengthens the hopes of peace conveyed by the last communications from Constantinople, may also be said, if correct, to modify eur former view of the subject. It spews at the same time the anxiety that exists for an amicable adjustment of the differences. It is asserted very confidently, that since the departure of the courier from Con stantinople for Petersburgh, with the Turkish answer to the Russian Ultimatum, messengers have been despatched (from Vienna) to the ca pital of Russia and to Constantinople, with a prbposition, in the name of England and Austria, of another expedient for bringing about a pacifi cation, should the point claimed' by Turkey of the simultaneous withdrawing of the Russian forces from the Pruth, when the Porte shall re-, call its troops from Walachia and Moldavia,: - not be acceded to. But the proposition now made- to, Russia and Turkey has in view not merely what relates to the occupation of Walachia and Moldavia, but some mode of securing an effectual guarantee for the Greeks. As the protracted negociations may be supposed to have produced between Turkey and Russia a degree of irritation which is , one bar to the set tlement of their differences, it is now to be re quired of both Powers, that they consent to the appointment of Plenipotentiaries, into whose hands the whole question shall be transferred, and whose decision shall be final. Neither of the negociating parties, if this reference isronce submitted to, will have any plea for disturbing the peace . of Europe. It is the only method, also, by which they can withdraw from, the affair without loss of dignity, and it will have the con- Vequence of 'removing from the Emperor Alex ander himself, any share in the odium that would be created among his subjects, with whom a Turk ish war is popular, by his consenting to a peace. We understand that the most recent communi cations from St. Petersburgh, convey stronger assurances than ever of the personal disposition and wish of the Emperor to preserve peace. At the same time, the popularity of the war"among his subjects is not concealed ; and it is further admitted, that in the RUssian Cabinet, one Mi nister at least, possessing great influence, enter tains similar sentiments. [NEW TIMES.] Little or nothing ,is doing on the Stock Ex change, and the prices remain nearly as' they Were, having opened yesterday at 778 1 and closed at 77+. The day before, they dropped a quarter percent.; for which the only reason that.we could discover was, a vague rumour of disastrous news from Constantinople. We are inclined to believe that.no such news has been received. from any authentic source ; and, on the contrary, that the latest advices from that quar ter are of a satisfactory character. It is even said, and we have some reason to believe the statement not to be wholly unfounded, that the last remaining matters in dispute between Rus sia and the Porte have been put. in a train of ad justment by Commissioners named on each side. Be this as it may, the report of Wednesday was entirely discredited yesterday. The Stocks, however, did not regain the fraction which they bad lost the day before ; a circumstance only to be accounted for from the general backwardness of the speculators to operate while events hang so equally poised in the scale of probability. MORNING POST.] Viscount Sidmouth yesterday resigned the seals. of office to his Sovereign, and, retired from a situation which he has filled for many years with honour to himself, and utility to his country. The period through which it has been his Lord ships task to preside at the head of the Mime Department, has been one of unparalleled im portance and difficulty. It has unfolded a suc cession of dangers, which though constantly changing their nature, equally menaced the peace, morals, and institutions of the land. Distress, .dissatisfaction, sedition, and insurrections have been the enemies with which his Lordship has had successively to contend, and which the firm ness of his character and the temperate use of his au ' thority have successively defeated and put down. On all occasions he was found at his pat, vigilant to aoticipate, and strong to repel danger; but de termined not to exert a greater degree of power, or to apply a more severe infliction, than the peril of the hour, or the criminality of the offenders, required. Prevention, not punish- went, was his aim. He would , protect the public safety—he would maintain inviolate the Constitution and the Throne, and . for that purpose he would put forth that strength without which all Government is but a mockery anda fable. But the moment its existence had -been felt, he would check its exercise. Mercy almost overtook justice, and always followed it ; and the guilty themselves were compelled to ad mit that they had deserved the chastisement which they did not receive. To his intrepidity and to his moderation we owe the preservation of all those blessings which the villainy of de signing men sought to destroy, and which the ignorance of the deluded joined in attacking. He retires from his long and harassing toils with the consciousness of motives in all his mea sures, of which the most factious have never dared to question the purity, even_ when they tried most basely to blacken and misrepresent his acts. He retires with the gratitude of his country and the approbation of his Sovereign ; and in the enjoyment of that domestic peace which he has secured_for us all, he will no doubt receive such an addition' to his honours, as will carry down to future generations a proof that in our times rewards lid not linger behind desert, but lighted on it ES it' grew, and were propor tioned to its greatness. In these remarks we have only taken a view of his Lordship's con duct since he was at the head of the Horde De partment. If we look at his career when be as sumed the Government by command of our late venerable Sovereign, we shall find it equally dis tinguished by honesty, patriotism, and wisdom. [MORNING HERALD.] ItAs but common justice to the Irish Govern metit to observe, that its proceedings, in the un happy disorders, have been marked by great .Humanity. Upon louking to the cases of the wretched victims who have suffered, there does not appear one for whom, in the actual state of the country, and viewing the evidence, an appeal to the mercy of the' Crown could be reasonably made. The- discretion and clemency of the Go vernment has been more wisely exercised in keep ing back those whose cases were not flagrant, and who may become fit objects of mercy, when the peace of the country shall have been restored. There are, however, two of those capitally con victed to whom clemency has been extended in consideration of their youth ; and, in refe rence to their cases, there is an observation of the Judge which deserves particular notice.— " Let no man," says he,." presume to say, for the purpose of acquiring a paltry popularity, that it was owing to his individual interference that such clemency was extended—no, it was the spontaneous act of the Government itself," &c. — It is one of the vices of the political adrninistra- tion of Ireland that the mass of the people know: nothing of the Government, scarcely of the law, and look only to some few subordinate county or district potentates as the depositories of ail , power—the supreme arbiters of law and justice. These little feudal dominators, on the other hand, carry on a traffic quite unknown in England palming upon the Government their influence upon the people—upon the people their weight and . . . influence with the Government—and turning both to very profitable account. It is to be hoped the terror of the examples made, and the statement of the intentions of the Executive Au thority to enforce the law firmly, though tem pered with mercy, will complete the restoration of tranquillity. Unless, however, the Irish Ad ministration can devise some means of alleviating the present and preventing, in some measure, a future crisis of similar want and misery among the labouring peasantry, it will have stopped short, very short; in its duty to Ireland and to the Empire. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Let us advert to Lord John Russell's com plaint against the Political Economists : - - "There is a party amongst us (he says) distin " guished in what is called the science of Politi " cal Economy, who wish to substitute the Corn "of Poland and Russia for our own. Their principle is, that you ought always to buy " where you can buy cheaPast. They ,repeat 44 with emphasis, that the nation pays a tax of " 20,000,0001. yearly to the growers of Corn. " They count as nothing the value to the coun " try of a hardy race of farmers and labourers. " They care not for the difference between an 44 agricultural and mabufacturing population, in " all that concerns morals, order, national 44 strength, and national tranquillity. Wealth is 44 the only object of their speculation ; nor do they " much consider the two or three millions of peo " ple who may be reduced to utter beggary in " the course of their operations Politi " cal economy is now the fashion ; and the " farmers of England are likely; if they do not CC keep a good look out, to be the victims."—We wonder that a man of his Lordship's usual good sense should have allowed himself to speak in this manner.--The object of political economy is to procure the greatest sum of comfort to the greatest nuniber of individuals ; and his Lord ship has only to shew that any principle advo cated by political economists has not such a ten dency, and he will gain his point with them. — We confess, however, we do not see what his Lordship would be at in his declamations respect ing the agricultural population ! It may be, that men engaged in agricuiture are more virtuous than men engaged in manufactures. All that we can say is, that the population of several of the purely agricultural counties is very inferior to that of the mann factu ring counties. The labouringclaises of Bedfordshire, for instance, are greatly inferior in sense and spirit,and most valuable qualities, to the labouring classes of the great Manufacturing Counties of York and Lancaster.—But is it meant that matters should not be left perfectly free—that the cultivation of the land should not be conducted on the ordinary principles of trade =but that every thing should be sacrificed to the maintenance of the greatest number of hardy cultivators ? Some visionary writers on the Con tinent have started objections of the same nature to political economy ; but they have pushed the principle to its legitimate consequences. They have proposed a division of a county on the agrarian system, with a cultivation exclusively by means of the spade. By this means au agricul tural population would soon become very large ; but as each cultivator would be enabled to pro duce little beyond his own subsistence, a splen did aristocracy would be altogether out of the question. [BRITISH PRESS.] The atcounts from Ireland are not satisfactory. Those which arrived yesterday offer a distressing assurance that the solemn and benevolent injunc tion of the King to forget the distinctions of party, and to unite all his Irish subjects in one common link of kindly affection, is already for gotten by those tos whom it wa s especially ad dressed ; or, to speak more correctly, it is re membered and despised. It is perhaps generally known that the Corporation of Dublin has been peculiarly distinguished in Ireland by the extravagance of its zeal against Roman Catholics, and th a t it b oas t s the anxious care with which persons of that religious denomination have been excluded from its com munity. The most eminent Guild is that of the Merchants, but, like Many of the Guilds in the City of London, the Guild of Merchants in Dub-. lin contains .many Nohleinen and Gentlemen in no respect connected with trade. With this respectable society it was therefore resolved by those who were desirous of fulfilling the spirit of his Majesty's request, to commence the work of conciliation, and accordingly a meeting was convened for the purpose of pro posing some Roman Catholic merchants, of high distinction in their pursuits, and -of estimable character, as Members of the Guild. The result I was as unexpected as' it vas to be lamented. The candidates were rejected, and the event was signalised by the victorious party as a hew triumph to Protestant ascendancy. What these gentlemen gained by the insulting refusal to enrol a few of their most distinguished fellow citizens among their numbers, that merited the huzza of triumph which accompanied the an nouncement of their , victory, 'twere difficult to imagine ; and what they could have lost by an honourable and frank concession,' we might defy themselves to explain. The miserable, the shameful prejudices by which they were really actuated in excluding these Roman Catholic Gentlemen from their society, avowedly on ac count of their religious faith, are but thinly veil ed by the—arguments we must call them, which were adduced. The old , phrase, " this is not the time," was here brought forward with ridi culous importance. AN INDIAN MARRIAGE AND FETE. FUTTEII-G unn.—T he following is an Extract of a Letter, dated May 28 % 1821 : —The extreme heat of the season, and the usual confinement behind the tatties, have not obstructed the society of this place from enjoying a scene of great conviviality and unusual splendour. Mirza Mendee Alice Khan, the favourite servant of the late Vizier Saadut Alice Khan, and well known for the great success and skill with which he conducted, during some years, the admi nistration of several provinces of the reserved dominions, some months ago took up his residence at Futteh-Guth. • The circumstances which are supposed to have occasioned this.chane ,in the situation of Mirza ' Mendee Alice, excited a considerable degree of .interest in his behalf, and alive to the generosities of hospitality, the European inhabitants paid him every attention which was practicable. These attentions Mirza Mendee Alice was anxious to ac knowledge, and he took the opportunity of A `II4ARRIAGE of a relation, to mark his sense by inviting the whole society to two 'en! ertainments at a house purchased from Major Fagan, of which • Mirzalllendee had a few days before obtained pos session. On the 22d instant, the day fixed for the Sanchuck or cere mony of interchanging presents, or rather love,pledges, between the bridegroom and the bride, a large party met at dinner, the style of which sliewed the endeavour and wish of the host that no expence should be spared either in the quantity or quality of the wines and viands. After dinner, jugglers, dancing girls and mimics, &c. &c. afforded entertainment, but no one more than the walker on stilts, whO, raised full seven feet from the ground, seemed to realize the seven league boots which the first lessims of childhood in Europe relate. On the 24th instant, the ceremony of the Barat, or the bridegroom demanding the bride from the parents, took place.. On this. day the principal entertainment was given. —Gentlemen from distant stations had come to Futteh- Gurh;--some desirous of becoming acquainted with hlirza Mendee, .and many of proving that old acquaintance shOuld. not be forgot. The heat of the day was unusually severe, but still a party of near sixty . assembled, including the chief portion of the beauty and fashion of the station. After an excellent dinner, with wines of the best quality, cooled by ice, the Ladies . , attemptea to dance. The attempt was successful, but the heat, too oppreSsive, soon obliged the dancers to desist. The house is admirably adapted to such a fete, and illuminations on an 'ex tensive scale—being large with great extent of land round it, but more particularly from its situation on the high hank of the river Ganges. The sands afforded fine space for one of the most brilliant displays of fire-works ever seen. The Indian fire, the illuminated houses, and the variety of wheels, were admired ; but the discharge of numerous sky-rockets simulta neously as from a battery, produced an effect of the most im posing kind. The crowd of natives who had collected on the sands was not the least remarkable object of the scene; the ground seemed one living mass for miles, and it is supposed that more than one hundred thousand spectators were assembled between the house and the water of the Ganges. On returning to the house, the host presented each Lady with a very hand some present of a string of pearls and some shawls, and then led to supper. Conviviality and glee early chewed itself in the evening, for every one satisfied of Mirza Mendee's wish to please, came determined to prove that with successful. The healths of the ladies, of the boat, and the Queen, inspired mirth and feeling ; and after the ladies left the table the sons of Bac chus did justice to the occasion—for the host, who had retired at the same time as the ladies, with a view of paying in another spot proper attention to the native gentlemen who had attended the ceremonies, summoned long after sun-rise his European friends from the festive board to join in a return procession. Every, one present was struck with, the peculiar elegance of 3lirza Mendee's. Manners—although the scene must have been in a great measure new to him, he never appeared lost either in his address to the ladies, or to gentlemen—strangers to him ;—ready. at reply, he seemed equally with ourselves to understand the humorous remarks, and was capable of apt re tort. In fact, these who recollected the elegant deportment and polished manners of the late Saadut Allee Khan recognized great resemblance to' him in our host—and as we seldom see native gentlemen reaching a degree of perfection of manners which probably but few noblemen in Europe possess, the 'mind inquired, but found no satisfactory reply to the question— " Why has this able and devoted servant of the father of the King of Outle, quitted the Court of his Sovereign ?"—(INDIA GAZETTE.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOlCSE.. — Yesterday several Gentlemen waited upon the Lon» Mavoit for the purpose of malting inquiries into the case of Poole, the unfortunate person whose family was stated, a few days ago, to be suffering very great priva tions. Poole was present at the time, the Lord Mayor having sent for him, in order to give him directions as to the application of a sum of money which has been raised for the relief of those de pendent upon him. It was mentioned by Poole, that the day after* was ex amined at the Mansion-ll.Ouse, a number of ladies% d gentle men, led by the public statement in the Newspapers, called at his lodgings, and relieved all the necessities of his unfortunate family. An abundance of bed clothes and necessaries of all kinds were supplied by the humanity of those benefactors; and bank notes to the amount of C5l. were given to him, by which he should be enabled to get into some business, for he support of his wife and children. His intention was to set up a shop in the fruit line.. The Loan Mayan. having advised Poole to be very careful in the management of the money, mentioned, that he under stood that a subscription had been made at the Stock Exchange for the family, and that the sum of 601. had been raised ; his Lordship, in the course of a Conversation with the gentle- I . men who waited upon hiM, stated, that a great number of cases of disixess were frequently detailed to Mai in the Ju s tice Room, of a degree very nearly approaching that of Poole, by the sufferers. In most of these cases he waS obl ed to afford the applicants relief from his private funds, to prevent them from perishing, and he remained, ignorant of the extent to which their parishes went in assisting them, after he had dismissed them. Parishes, however, were not liberal to a proverb, and he believed there were multitudes of objects most deserving of the attention of the affluent, in the habit of receiving parochial relief. He had, besides, a great many ap plications from persons who had no parishes to claim upon. He had; upon such occasions, given to fathers and. mothers, with crowds of young children, a little temporary` relief, and those unfortunate individuals set out, perhaps, upon along jour ney, without any additional means of support. WORSHIP-STREET.—POLYGA3tv—..John Mztekcali Col lins was brought before WILLIAM - ELINETT, Esq.; (the pre siding Magistrate), and charged with marrying two women, his first wife being still alive. It appeared that the prisoner had married sEvEar WOMEN, all of whom arc now living. His first wife, to whom he , was married in the year 1808,. ap peared at the office, and would have given her evidence against him, had it been admissible before the Magistrate.— Elizabeth Mason stated, that she was married to the prisoner in December, 1818, at Bethnal-green church. From this woman he received 6001. at the time of the, marriage. Jane Blanks stated, that she was married to the prisoner in June, 1821, at Little Baidow; is EsSex. These marriages were duly proved from the parish registers, and Mr. BysETT ordered . - the prisoner to be renanded, that the parties might have time to adduce further evidence of the first marriage, which was solemnized at Exeter. Of the REDUCTION of NATIONAL DEBT. N- quid nimis"— " The Vice is i' th' excess." In ancient and more barbarous periods; the transition from war to peace was hailed as a blessing, and the Gods were thanked - and praised for the bounty of the earth's abundance. There were then no steam-engines, or gas lights, and very few, and perhaps more natural political.econo mists ; professors of the " New Science," which would be 'better termed 64 La Trista Glenda," a knowledge, with all its crudities and quiddities, little dreamt of by the Troubadours of Spain, when " la bays ciencia," or " la devoCion," were the only studies, or affectations, of the age. In 1815, the termination of a long struggle of most sanguinary and harassing warfare, proved to be file commencement, with us, 'of a new era of, difficulty and suffering. First, the labourer was not worthy of his hire ; then the manufacturer could find no market for the productions of Machines, or forges, looms, or anvil; the merchant no sale for his foreign commodities. Then, cheapness prompted enterprise, and aided by capital, credit, and eon& dence,once more set the languid w heels of commerce into a brisker, (almost too rapid) motion ; these were soon checked by a contraction of the cur rency, and by the legal enactment of a new me tallic standard, which soon completed the degra-, dation of all property, and exagf,),Trated the bur-: then of all nominal money obligations, public and private alike. In this manner five sinking and struggling years were torn away ; while three successive fine seasons conspired, with two or: three unnecessary importations of foreign grain,. add the action on; or contraction and alteration' of the currency, to change all the relations be tween rent, wages, taxes, and the value, or price of the harvests, the cattle and other produce of the farmers. This now brings on an alarm for landlords, and the lower clerks- of office, and while it has relieved the labourer much, leaves only the public annuitant, the man of office; and the monied capitalist at their ease ; in a condition of almost doubled means, 4y these sudden, violent, and unlooked-for revulsions. After the great spur to all productions and ac tivities, which had been given by the effort and expence in the Peninsula ;, by the short and sharp struggle with America, and by the cam paign of Waterloo; the sudden check to all con sumptiOtA and employments ; the torpidity of commerce into which all the continent of Europe had fallen ; the cessation of speculation, and.of the habit of storing all merchandise, together with the contraction' of credit, and of the legal currency, all together conspired to reduce-all prices, and to change the relation between mawy productions and consumptions ; and, when is add ed to this, the effect of the importations of foreign grain, with successive fine harvests on ,a most ex-: tended breadth of highly-forced cultivation at home, we perceive some of the principal causes of the-altered conditions and ill ease, of whicli the complaints are now so general, and the sue= fering - so severe. The comparison of the mort- - gage obligation of the estate of an individual with its rent and production, is the same for the total product of the soil, industry, and commerce of a nation, with its liabilities of debt or expence.-- When all the annual products of a country stand ' in the estimate of its money, or legal currency, at 400 millions ; an obligation of debt, of con tributions to some classes,.and of national ex :pence of 100 millions, may be ,borne ; but if some accidents, or politic. contrivances, reduce this value to 200 millions, it will not be easy to draw the same 100 millions of money value, from the Samequantity, reduced_ in its denomination, so that one-half must be surrendered instead of a fourth ;• the debt and claims retaining all their nominal power, while the fund of national pro perty still remaining the same, or even increased in number and quantity, has lost one-half in the nominal estimate of monetary value, by a contracted currency, or an altered standard.— But even if these things be so actually at this hour, the course of remedy, or th,e means of alle viation, are become More important than the history of the chain of causes, or an idle retros pect of speculation on- the different results which some other course of conduct would have. Pro cured for us. The weight of debt and taxation, the disproportion between the annuity obligation of the State, the cglins of pauperism, and the expence of the Government, and the Church, all' demanded in a currency highly enhanced in its standard and comparison with the whole products and properties of the community, are felt to be the grievance, or misfortune, of our actual condition. There appear . to be some strong but wholesome and equitable courses,which still may, and should, be adopted to relieve this difficulty. The vice of system which has fixed the public debt in per petual annuities, defies all relief from the ,opera- Lion of the slow and uncertain. contrivance, called the Sinking Fund ; a mechanism, which, what ever other purpose it may have served, has, to this time, had the effect of increasing the debt which it is its professed purpose to reduce and extin"- knish. Stronger and more effective means are called for, by the urgency and extremity of the condition ; and are justified by the EQUITY of the case between all the parties it affects. Of such means, the following are offered to the consideration of those who can judge of them : The public revenue should be carried above all demands, so far as to leave at least six to eight millions of num. surplus, to apply to the reduction of the debt., The whole power, and the EFFECTIVX NANWER of liqui dating with this surplus turd, is the next consideration. The reduction of the legal or customary interest to four per cent. would much assist in this and other operations, .to reduce the deb: by convertin g five and four per cent Stock into three per cent. Annuities ; and three - per cent. perpetual Annuity should be converted, as far as possible, into annuities for 49 and ct 9 years. An equitable and well-regulated Property .Tax, to produce 10 or 12 millions, should be substituted for some of the =it Objectionable of the indirect taxation. ' If the emancipation of South America, and the free and extended commerce of the globe, in peace, for a few yea r s, re d uc e the value of the precious .metals, or have the natural ,Ofoct to in crease the comparative value of harvests, manu factures, merchandize, and labour, the obligation of nationaldebt, or annuity, is pro (unto, lighten ed and relieved . ; and this, with the increase of numbers, and - of the wealth of extended industry, tagriculture, navigation, commerce„ and science, is the best alleviation, as it is the surest guarantee of national Obligations. The fall of til , ? Value of the precious metals, or of gold only—that is,:as now regulated—of the value of money, 0r4114.;, rise of the value of property and commodity, are. convertible terms, at all times, though dif- ferent causes may produce the- same effect, Money may not fall in .valne r and cornmodkty; may advance, or commodity may not rise, and money, that is, the metals, may depreciate ; t - he' good effect will he the same on national Property; and on national tnoney.obligation. The reduction of-the legal or customary inte rest of money, :a well adjusted property-tax, and the conversion of annuities, should together be capable of reducing the present scale and manner of taxation nearly sixteen' millions : per annnm.--: The advance of values, and the increase of num bers, and of riches, relieve taxation and defit iir directly, but absolutely, in the best manner, aud are the surest.guarantee of the national faith, by the security of power to-ke;epit.. The, application of a Sinking Fund in an ell fective manner, and the recurrence, by -ever rneans.possible, on equitable.,ternisoo a. sygte.r4 of terminable instead of perpetuAlammities,shonld crown the . endeavour to reduce the appallin4 alarm 'of a debt of so great magnitude as the pre , . sent; a condition for Which there is!no eOtnple in the ancient :world, no parallel. in the moderni no equal among the nations at this, time, and no hope of relief,, but from the most energetic 'ex ertions, on 'sound principles., and a determined prosecution of their dictates. January, 1822. LAM INT ELTAG ENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 17. EX-PARTE RENT IN THE MATTER OF HOWARD AND 0 . 18118. After "the pleadings had, been concluded in case; LORD CHANCELLOR directed an issue to be tried at law, decide whether the bankrupts, or either of them, or which of them, were indebted to Mr.kent at the time of the bankruptcy.' EX-PARTE CARROLL IN THE :HATTER OF HOWARD AND GIBBS: The AvronNEY-GEran.al. 7 cOmmeticed his reply to the arguments which had been advanced in opposition to the appeal: Ills observations, as in his Opening speech, were chiefly .airect' ed to,sliew that the Court had no jurisdiction to remove assig- , nees previously -to 'the aSSignnient having taken place. The Court rose at an earl'er, hour than usual, and directed Mr. Attorney to pnoczed with his reply on Saturday:. •, COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 17. The Judges were:engaged during the morning, hearing the arguments of-Counsel upon the validitv.of a lease-granted by the Earl or Shrewsbury's Fhmily. In the result, tt was held to be good. MURRAY V. lELLISTON. This is the question arising out Of the application to the Lord Chancellor, respecting the right of the defend a nt to re preSent Lo r d IlYton's c 4 Doge of 'Venice." It was this day called on for argumen t, b u t in consequence of the absenceof Nit. Adolph us , w ho i s t o b e 'h ear d in behalf of Mr. ElliStoo, the argumeht stood -over._ . . , OLD BAILEY. • • -BIGAMY. Yesterday John Crooks was indicted for marrying Mary Nason, his farmer wife, Mary Vinon, alias Crooks, being then alive. The Rev. Mr. Wynianprodueed the registry of St. , GeorgeN-0 13loomsbury, by which it appeared that the prisoner married Mary - Nelson on the 20th - May ; 1310. - • • Jane .Sa.unders examined—Was sister to Mary Nelson ; the 20th of May she Married prisoner, being then of the ale of 17 years: • She returned to her father's house three months a fter marriage, as her husb4nd lt:ft her.' • Mr. Taylor, Clerk of th e p ar i s h o f SL " produced the register-book of that parish, which noted doc; so lemnization of 'the marriage of the prisoner with Mary Vinon, on the 22d of August, 1804. . Mary Ann Nelson married the prisoner; she was four months. advanced in, pregnancy when prisoner left her; they afterward lived togethsr, and she. 'had'four children by him._ Ile, had to tally left her - for,the last five years. The children were support- . ed by the parish. Prisoner wrote sometime ago to witness, in-' forming her that she was not his lawful wife, and that she might accept any el:2r made to her. • The prisoner:dented this statement. Michael Saunders swore that the signature in the re, ,!i s i e e of the first Mai s tiage was the prisoner's 'hand-writing. Witness was present at the time. Win. Wad, • jitn.; the officer; had seen Mary Vinon this morning ; heard prisoner confess that he had married her ; he gave witness a list of his wives, as he had heard huhatla great', many of them. . • Mary Vinim was called, but being the Itivfetl wife; was not sworn. She appeared iri a very dejected state. The prisoner put in a written defence that one of his wives had been tried'in this Court, and convicted of a Capital- offOo° ; • and that the, prosecution arOse from the instigation c Mar! NeLion. Th prisoner further said, that he left Nelson by mutual . consent, and w gave h7p h r i, o .r t ' iv a c n till The clerk e,ithmerariee. register of the second marriage was re7alled, where the prisoner described himself a bachelor. , The Commow SERJEANT told the Jury, th a t by the ac, tjames 1., this7crime Was- made a - transportable offence. If ha married a second time, his first wife being still living, Ite• was guilty of perjury and if the second wife had proF...ity, lie added tobbery at. the altar to the crime of perjury. Ile 1 11, `-' sworn that there was no laWful impediment, and Mary Nelson had 137 en, plunged into a train of misery through his gross misconduct. .Judignient—" You are an abandoned fellow and have.madz • a hoist of hay' n; deluded many w'bmen in this way, but sire must stop your progress. You have deprived the young wo man of all her hopes of marrying advantageously. The sen tence of the Court is—that you be traniporied beyond the seas for > e 'en years. Thom%s Herring and John Newman, two boys not more than 12 . years Of ate, were indicted for stealing a piece of beer from a butcher living in :Fit. Giles's. The lads vrere taken with the beef in their possession., and the Jury found them Guilty. The ciffieer Who took the boys into custody said; thatSti.Giles's was inLated by these young villains, so that it became dange rous to walk through that part of the town either in the night or the day. This was not Herring's first appearance-at the bar. Prison r. —Please you. my Lard, it was only for tvici guns. The CoatMox. StanuAsT sentenced both of them to trans• portation for seven years. SURREY SESSIONS. Abraham Barnett, the jew;,' who was convicted a short time ago before the Magistrates at Union-hall, of having kept a mg-house,' at which hazard and other unlawful games were played, appear:A yesterday, against the conviction. Mr. CowLEY and Mr. THESIGER were Counsel for the appellant;: , HEATu and Mr. TURTON fOr,thoyeappndento An objection was taken on the part of ti - ,ye respondent, that, the notice given of the intention to appeal wns_motsuthcient.• - After some lengthened arguments on both sides were heard, th o 7 Court held that the objection was well founded', and the eon' viction was confirmed ; as were two others for similarseenees. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at JAinburgh, Mr. S. P-1310.4t, of Lori' don, to Agnes, eldest daughter of Adam ',Viison, Esq., Clerl‘ Depute of Session. •• • • • Yesterday, at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, Mr. Joseph Warn''' . Bromley, of Grey's Inn, to Amelia, eldest tiughter of Natio. - oisl Rooaris, E,(1., of Redfoni-street. IMLD _ On the 14th inst., at his house in Park-street; 1141rgr.strett t i Marylebone, Mr. John Garner, carpenter and builder, aged 0 3 ' On Tuesday evening; the 15th inst., at his seat . v.t)Gilsto s Park,. after a few days' illness, in the Nth year of his age, ViTr a ' Plumer, Esq., Representative in the present Parliament of tte Borough of fligham Ferrers, and formerly one.of the ItePs" sentatives of the County of Hertford in eight successive ments. On Wednesday, the 16th inst., at Dean's yard, Westminste`o Richard Barn, in the Myth yeir of , his age.' On the 9th first., near Swansea, Mr. Peter Orant, younge st son of the late Robert Grant, Esq., of Ele.hies,' 154i711; erinted and Publisher, 'tor the i'lloYltltt bits, •at the SO" OFFICE, 112,. Strand, by J. B. CAUSTAIRS. y ~~ ~ l T ,~~ Tin 'ice, Th to recein, ; One I of ° n. Fif ty luxe; eacA One 7 And( To be d Dept ior P eace 13114 Z'fiee l ta ''Y'J 0 N 0 shalt „o' not L e d Atontlay the To:f, whe n C HEAP 'uUR SARAc i