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, J ±l. __ $ \ 1 1 kilik e , . • i4 \ , . \ . E 1,0 ‘s-- ........, . , J./2 / Ai? - -` / l' 7 i t." 4......... _._____ ary/aiAy (/ " :-+ ✓ •'; • ",.; " ' th; 1 4 NUMBER D24(.] SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1822. PRICE SEVENPENCE; NEW ARGYLL ROOMS. • SAINT GEORGE'S DAY-9.3D APRIL! • ONLY One Day to ' draw, and the 'Wheel contains Two Grand Prize s -of £20,000, and various other ( . ripitals. TICKETS and SHARES are on Sale at EYTON's Lucky Offices, No. 9., CORNHILL and LOMBARD-STREET ; Where No. via, a Prize of £2OOO I ! ! was sold the Second Ir/aY of Drawing., . * as All Business in the Public Funds, and other Government Securities, transacted with fidelity and dispatch. THE LONDON JOLJB.NALS. two countries must have remained up to that time undistUrbed. The state of the roads on the fron tier was Such that neither army could undertake offensive operations before the month of May and in that interval it iS to be hoped that the ne gociations carrying on at Vienna will lead to an amicable arrangement: MR. HAWES most respectfully informs the Nobility,Gentry, and Friends in general, that his Annual CONCERT will be held at the above Rooms, on FRIDAY, May 3, when will be performed a SELECTION of the most admired VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, Ancient and Modern, with several M.S. Compositions. The following eminent Performers have kindly promised their assistance : Miss Stephens, Madame Camporese, Miss Goodall, Master Gear, and Mrs. Salmon; Mr. Vaughan, Mr. W. Fa . iyvett, Mr. J. 13. Sale, Signor Begrez, Mr. Teleran Mr. Hawes, and Mr. Bellamy. Leader of the Band, Mr. F. CRAMER.—Conductor, Mr. GREATOREX. _ EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, April 13, 18i2. inha- Ts had teir at ed by orrect. e peo duced, ie con- [MORNING k3T.I The question respecting the conduct of the Manchester Yeomanry, on the 16th of August, 1819 (as we have already observed), may rea sonably be considered as having been completely set to rest by the result of the 'late trial at Lan caster; and now that a Jury of their country haVe pronoun Ced a verdict in their favour, we trust that the rancorous calutnny of faction will cease, and that no further attempt will be made to re vive the subject: It is impossible for eten the most hardened villainy any longer to deny the fict (proved by the long chain of evidence ad duced on the trial) that the town of Manchester was in a state of great alarm, and of dreadful agitation — Ott—that day ; and that the 'fearful ap prehensions of the well-disposed were not with- out real cause, is abundantly proved even by the mischievous Carlile himself, as will be seen by the following extract of a Letter from that wretch to Henry Hunt, contained in a recent number of his publication, called The Repu& liean : • [THE TIMES. It is something new that the Westminster Sessions House should become the scene of a state trial—a trial, at least, in which those who exercise the • most efficient - share of authority in the State, have condescended to prosecute a mail of the name of Fly for riotously assembling and making an attack on a Life Guardsman of the name of Deligate.—The alleged subject matter of this Government prosecution arose out of the business of the 2,6 th of last August, when the Sheriff of Middlesex so - narrowly escaped from the hands of the same soldiers of the Life Guards. It was proved in evidence—that is to say, by the evidence of .Deligate, Nth() was shoved forward as prosecutor on the occasion— that after he had been drinking for an hour and a half at a publicthouse, and had then been lay ing about him among the people opposite Knights bridge barracks, in defence, as he said, of alio.; ther soldier who had been drinking with him, the defendant came and hit him on the cheek ; "after which exploit he (the defendant) valiant ly ran away, when a third soldier, of' the name of Ilitchman, ran after him for fifty yards, and brought him (in spite of the im r mense multitude of rioters, be it observed) a pri soner to the barracks. The jury, as might have been expected, acquitted the defendant, after scarcely a minute's consultation. The motives of this prosecution do not seem to us very creditable to the policy or good feeling of its Undertakers. It was a prosecution—for what?-to punish an un armed man for giving a six-foot-high, perhap's half-drunk soldier, a slap in the cheek, at a time when no steps had been taken by the Treasury to punish, or bring_ to trial, a single individual of the regiment to which that soldier belonged, fot putting to death two of the King's innocent sub jects not a fortnight before! • BUT ONE DAY MORE. el CARROLL reminds the Public .of the "ILA • present Rich State of the Wheel, which contains TWO PRIZES of £9.0,000, And Twenty other 'Capitals ! The 'Whole' of which must be Drawu on TUESDAY, 23d April, being the Last and Only Day of Drawing. TICKETS and SHARES, warranted undrawn, are Selling at CARROLL'S truly fortunate Offices, 19, CORNHILL, and 2 6, OXFORD-STREET, where be has already Sold many capital Prizes in the Present Lottery ; and in the Last Lot tery, 11,486 ..a Prize of ~C 30,000 18,60=2 a Prize of - Were both Sold in Shares by CARROLL. ►e jury would. Tickets, 10s. 6d. each, to b&had at the Lower Saloon of the Royal Harmonic Institution, Argyll Rooms ; at the principal Music Shops ; and of Mr. Hawes, No. 7, Adelphi Terrace. ness of he first would as not LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 12. PAIN J. 110 PE. This was an action of trover brought by the plaintiff, who is a cornfaetor, to recover the value of 1. t 1 quarters of barle.y.,con. verted by the defendant to his own use. It appeared that Thos. Hope ,the brother of the defendant, in November, 1820, con tracted with the plaintiff for !he purchase of 162 quarters of barley, and obtamed an order for their delivery , on board his vessel. At this time the defendant had accepted bills for his accommodation to the amount of 2,4001., which had not then become due. On the day after the purchase, the defendant sold the barley to his brother, who immediately, and out of the usual course of proceeding, procured it to be delivered to his servants. It was sworn by the son of the defendant, that his father bought the barley, allowing his brother a profit of 6d. per quarter, after observing that it was exceedingly cheap, and expressing his re gret that he had not himself contracted for it with the plaintiff; but it was admitted that the price was set against those of the ac ceptances becoming due for which the defendant was compelled to provide. Although Mr. George Hope, the defendant, had dealt with his brother for very little corn in the preceding part of the year, he now, in one month, bought of him a large quan tity, which had previously been purchased from several dealers. At this time rumours were afloat in the corn-maket respecting the insolvency of Mr. Thomas Hope, which came to the ears of the plaintiff, who applied to him for an order for the re-deli very of the barley, which he gave. On the 16th of December, the defendant took a lodging for his brother at Pentonville, in the feigned name of Harris, where he remained a week in con cealment to avoid his creditors ; and a commission was after wards issued against him, on which he was declared a bank rupt. The plaintiff having demanded the barley without suc cess, now sought to recover its value froth the defendant, con tending that, under the circumstances, he had a right to stop it zn transitn; and that,. even supposing he had no such right, the bankrupt invested him with it by the order for its re delivery, because there never was a bone fide sale to the de fendant. BISH has already Shared and Sold TWENTY-THREE Capitals in the present Lottery. ALL MUST BE DRAWN LAST AND ONLY DAY,. NEXT TUESDAY WEEK, THE 23d OF APRIL. BISH, of the OLD STATE LOTTERY • OFFICES, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing Cross, Lon don, calls the attention of his hest Friends, the Public, to the pr e sent Rich State of the Wheel , whi ch c on tains TWO PRIZES OF £20,000 ! And 90 other Capitals of ,E t,OOO, Z5OO, &c. &c. , All of which must be drawn on Tuesday, the iSd Instant, when the Lottery will entirely finish. Tickets and Shares, Warranted Undrawn, are on Sale at BISH's Offices in London, and by his Agents in the Country. very Ticket—Every Share—Every Capital—and every other Prize must be drawn NEXT TUESDAY WEEK. " I know not says Carlile) what the Manchter men are to think when you compliment them with running away! If you had been as bold and as honest as one half of them, that mas- sacre would not have taken place, or, at least, it would have been a massacre of a very different kind. If' any fight had been offered on the part of the military, it would have been at the risk of a fair battle, a circumstance that, in my opinion, would have kept the Magistrates and Yeomanry in a different humour. There was a general expectation of an attack from the military, and the Reformers were anxious to come to that meeting armed, but your veto put a stop to it, and brought them to be massacred unarmed. It was offered to you tlfat fif teen thousand men should come to that meeting armed with pikes ; and your saying that you would not meet them upon any such conditions, alone _iput a stop to the matter, and led to the disastrous result that followed. Yet you charge them with I'unning away ! They did not run away. When the Yeo manry appeared on the field, they were received with long and loud cheering, and when they formed for an advance to the hiptings, the brave fellows, at a considerable distance round tile hustings, linked themselves as compact as possible to assist you in the best manner they could, unarmed, and you stood and saw the Yeomanry cut their way through them, which occupied some minutes to do, to get at you on the hustings." After such a declaration from one of the prime actors ju the scene, and in those preparatory to it, no man of honour or of truth can doubt of the dangerous and diabolical designs of the revolu tionary miscreants on that most fearful occasion. ATLAS ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON, Instituted 1808, and empowered by an Act of Parliament of the 54th George 111. • THE PRESIDENT and DIRECTORS hereby give notice to Persons assured with this Com- Pany from Loss by Fire, whose Policies have been in force for 5 years ending at Christmas last, that the return of sur plus Premittins to the assured, (agteeahly to the system of this Company) is 24 per cent.. upon the Premiums received in London; and 20 per cent. upon those received by the Country Agents in Great Britain; and that the same will, en and after the 25th instant, he payable at the Office in Cheapside on the London Policies, and by the Agents in the Country, on the Policies effected in their respective Agencies. LIFE DEPARTMENT.. 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The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed that in whichever view they regarded the plaintiff's case, thereal question in issue was the same—whether, at the time of the, sale to the defend ant, he was aware of the insolvtncy of his brother, and sought to secure himself by a male fide transaction at the Oxpence of the plaintiff. The law permitted a vender, before the delivery of goods was complete, to stop them in their passage, on infor mation of the insolvency of the purchaser, unless in the mean time they were bone fide sold to a third person. In this case it would, not be necessary to inquire whether the delivery was or was not complete in law, because, even supposing the delivery were, if there had been no bona fide sale to Mr. George Hope, Mr. Thomas Hope had power by the order to compel their re delivery to the plaintiff: His Lordship then recapitulated the facts applicable to the question, and left its decision to the Jury. The Jury , found a verdict for the plaintiff; which was taken by consent for the value of the whole 162 quarters, to pre vent further litigation, though only 150 were mentioned in the pleadings. KINGSFORD AND OTHERS V. HOPE. This action was brought against the same person who was de fendant in the last, and on grounds nearly similar. The plain tiffs were the assignees of Mr. Thomas Hope, who sought to re cover the value of a vessel called The Two Brothers , of a hill of exchange for 1501., and of several quantities of barley, - oats, and beans, which they contended had been delivered to the de fendant for the purpose of gffing fraudulent preference over other creditors. _ It was proVed that the several quantities of grain were pur chased by Mr, Thomas Hope, and almost immediately deli. vered over to the defendant, who set them off against the sums he was compelled to provide for the acceptances then unpaid.— On the bill of exchange, however, he actually advanced 74, and placed the residue to the account between them. He bought the vessel nominally for 1,2001., of which he advanced 3001. ; and it appeared that the vessel, even as between owners, was not worth more than 4501. ; but the terms of the Registry Act had not been observed so as to legalize the transfer. When asked in the Corn-market respecting his brother's failure, he lifted up his hands, and said—" It came upon him like a thunderbolt ; he had had no transactions with him for years, as he was always a morose man !" The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE charged the Jury that, in this case, if the defendant had fraudulently received the property, 'he would be liable to the assignees, although the venders of the grain might, like Mr. Payn in the last action, have disaffirmed the contracts, and sought themselves to recover. He distin guished the transfers of the ship and the bill from those of the grain, and said that the sale of the former would have been valid, but for the omission to comply with the act respecting registries in reasonable time. As to the rest of the case, he left the question of fraud to the Jury. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, with 8331. damages, which included the value of the vessel. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, APRIL 12. RIOT AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. ( Further Particulars.) THE KING, AT THE PROSECUTION OF FRANCIS DELIGATE, V. JOHN FLY. This was an indictment against the defendant for having, on the 26th of August last, unlawfully assembled with divers other persons, opposite to Knightsbridge-barracks, and there caused a certain riot and breach of the peace. There was a second count charging him with an assault on the person of the pro secutor. The prosecution was instituted at the instance of the Lords of the Treasury, and conducted by Messrs. WALFORD and ADOLF/HIS. Mr. ALLEY appeared on behalf of the de fendant. Mr. IVALFORD laid the facts detailed in the evidence cf the following witnesses before the Jury : Joseph Treck swore that lie was a trumpeter in the first regi ment of Life Guards. He remembered the day of the funeral of Francis and Honey. He was at the Brown Bear public house, corner of Knightsbridge-barracks, and was coming away from it between six and seven o'clock in the evening. He was in his uniform, and was attacked at the door by a mob with sticks and fists. They cried out on seeing him, " Here's one of them.".— They tore off his Waterloo medal. He was twice knocked down, and lost his stable cap. There were fifty persons about him. The road was quite full of people. 'When lie was knock ed down he called out for assistance, and Deligate, with whom lie had been drinking in the public-house, came to his aid.— Some soldiers also came from the barracks to his assistance. Upon seeing the soldiers coming, the mob ran away. Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEY.—The thing happened the moment he came to the public-house door. There were no sol diers mixed with the people. Francis Deligate, a private in the first regiment of Life Guards, remembered the day in question. When Treck gave the alarm, he ran to his assistance. He saw the mob knock him down. He assisted him against the ma. Alderman Waithman rode up to him, and ordered him to go to his barracks, or he would have him put into confinement. He then went towards his barracks, when the prisoner came up to him, and hit him a blow on the left cheek, as hard as he could. James Hitchman, one of his comrades, immediately took the defendant into custody. 'Witness then went to his barracks ; and soon afterwards the barrack-windows were broken. This took place at about 7 o'clock. Cross-examined.—He had been drinking for about an hour and a half at the public-hOuse. He had no arms about him. hen he came out he assisted Treck by laying about him as well as he could ; but he did not strike the defendant. There were about twenty persons attacking Treck when he came to his assistance. James Hitchman, also a private in the same-regiment, was in his barracks on Sunday the 26th of August. He heard a great noise in the street ; and some women looking out of the bar rack-Windows, cried out that the mob were murdering two of their men in the street. Two or three soldiers instantly ran out of the barracks to their assistance. He saw a mob knocking Deligate about. There were twelve or thirteen persons heating him. Deligate was, coining towards the barracks, when the witness saw the defendant run up to him, and then !away from him. He did not see him strike him, but Deligate said he had struck him. Witness followed him fifty yards, took him, and brought him to the barracks. The mob immediately com menced breaking the barrack-windows. There were thousands in the mob. When the soldiers went out, they were spit upon. He did not recollect any thing the mob had said. He heard the windows breaking. Thomas Taylor, a corporal in the first regiment of Life Guards, swore that before seven o'clock on that evening a mob was collected before the barracks, shouting and mak ing a great noise. Witness went out of the barracks soon after Hitchman. He saw him follow and take the prisoner. He assisted in carrying him to the guard-room. The crowd_ ran away as soon as the soldiers went out of the barrack gate. About 40 or 50 soldiers went out in all. Their Colonel ordered them to return to their barracks. They did so. The mob threw stones against the barrack-gate, after they had re turned, and broke 234 squares of glass. Ow or two squares weree-broken before they went out. Cross-examined.—He could not say how many soldiers were in the street ; but there were none whep Treck was struck. Mr. ALLEY.—Right, Sir, there's nothing like swearing through a brick wall. Mr. Alley then addressed the Jury for the defendant, and commented 54 some length on the evidence in support of the prosecution. He did not mean to say that the last witness perjured himself; he might have sworn as he believed ; but it was not a little extraordinary that he had sworn to a fact which he could not have seen, or have had the slightest knowledge of. He (Mr. Alley) had avoided interrogating the witnesses in any way which might lead to irritation. He was confident the Jury must decide that the defendant was not guilty of the riot ; and he was equally certain that they must say no evidence had been offered to them upon which they could find him guilty of the assault. • Mr. 'Walford had truly told them that he (Mr. Alley) would have no witnesses to produce ; but this was a strong fact in favour of his client. He went to the place alone ; he knew none of the mob, and was taken away' without being able to call on any one who might prove his case. He had gone there merely as a spectator. Mr. Walford had also said that many statements had been made of this af fair in various places ; but all these were to be thrown out of the, case ; and if a doubt existed upon the present evidence, law, justice, and humanity called upon them to find a verdict of acquittal. No man more lamented that any irritation should have taken place in the public mind than he (Mr. Alley) did; but he had hoped that when the subject of the late troubled scenes had retired from \ our shores, the pretend. ed liberality of those who conducted public prosecutions would have held out the olive-branch of peace, instead of reviving the embers of discord. He honoured the military profession, in which he had many friends and relatives. But if there had been any irritation in the minds of the soldiers, his,client should not be made the scape-goat. He gave Alderman Waithman great. credit for his conduct on that occasion : he had acted as an honourable and humane Magistrate in ordering the soldiers to retire to their barracks. The irritation' which then existed in the minds of some people had since subsided ; ,and it was im prudent;.ill-advised, and, he would say, scandalous, to revive those angry feelings by coming into Court to ask, not for jus tice, but for vengeance. It had been sworn that n soldier had received a slap in the face ; but it could not be proved what in juries had been sustained by many individuals who were attend ing to the grave two unfortunate persons, who hadlest their lives in a manner which must at least excite compassion. There was no difference in law between this, and an ordinary quarrel in the street, in which one of the parties might s in point of law, come into Court ; but it was bad policy on the part of at individual, and miserable on the part of Government. Could it be of any public adVantage, that the defendant should be convicted and handed over for exemplary punishment ? Why had Deligate, and not the trumpeter been made the prosecuto r ? B ecause , no doubt the trumpeter had been the first to strike ; and although he might have previously received much abusive language, that would not haVe justified him in committing an assault. But Deligate appeared first as a peacemaker, and that, they thought, entitled him now to be a prosecutor. The probabi lity, however, was, that the defendant had been struck more than once before he returned the blow. The, indictment charged, that divers persons having unlawfully assembled, with, intent' to commit a breach of the peace, &c. did certain acts. Now, before the Jury could find the prisoner guilty of the riot, they must be satisfied, that the assembly was unlawful. Mere numbers did not constitute its being unlawful. Much greater numbers frequently assembled for innocent pastime— to kick football, for instance ; and, if they were opposed, sonic of them might give a blow, but that did not constitute a riot. If there was no evidence here of a riot before the prisoner was taken into custody, he could not be answerable for the subse quent conduct of the mob. He (Mr. Alley) was confident that the soldier, who was nominal prosecutor here % would have been too manly and too honourable to complain where no injury had been sustained, if he had not been sent to prosecUte, or rather to persecute, by higher powers. But the Jury would judge of the case as if it hacl,•been a quarrel in the street between a lamplighter and a scavenger. Unless they were satisfied that there 'was sufficient evidence to prove that the defendant was the first to commit the assault, they would find a verdict of not guilty. - No witnesses being called for the defendant, The Learned CHAIRMAN (Mr. Coast) proceeded to charge the Jury. They had two questions to decide—namely, first, whether the defendant, on the day laid in the indictment, had been guilty of a riot ; and, secondly, whether or not he had coMmittct the alleged assault. A mere assemblage of persons, certainly; did not constitute a riot ; it depended upon their conduct, and on the subject matter which had caused them to assemble. it was no-objection to an assembly that it was nu merous. They. were often extremely numerous at a race ' course, and other places. Before the Jury could convict the prisoner, therefore, of the riot, they must be satisfied that the assembly upon the present occasion was unlawful. It was ra ther an uncomfortable subject to discuss ; but it must be dis posed of according to its own circumstances. The evidence, undoubtedly, was all on one side; and the Jury were to judge of the intention of the assembly by their conduct. Nothing had been said for the defendant, but that " he did not go to this place.for the purpose of creating a riot ; and if there was no riot before the defendant was taken away, he was not an swerable for what took place afterwards ;" but if there was a previous riot. he was accountable for all that subsequently occurred. With respect to any variance in the testimony of the witnesses, the transaction, from all accounts, must have caused great confusion, and witnesses might differ in some degree without any intention of mis-statement. Deligate had admit ted very fairly that he laid about him as well as he could ; but he said he did not strike the prisoner. Certainly the identity of the prisoner rested on him alone. It was admitted by the witnesses that they went out of their barracks without orders. So far they acted in conformity to' the feelings of humanity planted in every bosom, in going to the assistance of their com rade ; but, on the other hand, by going without orders, they re duced themselves to the level of other persons, and rendered this like any ordinary quarrel. No answer had been given to the fact of the blow, if the jury were satisfied of the identity of the pri soner as being the person who gave it. `frith every wish to do justice to the country on the one side • and to the defendant on the other, he (the Learned Chairman) thought that the less he said the better. He would, however, read over the whole of the evi dence, if the Jury wished it..—(The Jury said it was unneces sary.)—Be their decision what it might, he hoped it would show that those men who had, in every instance in which they had appeared before the Court, conducted themselves well, ' would be protected while they continued to do so, as it was , well known that they were liable tw severe punishment when they acted otherwise. The Jury, without a minute's deliberation, found a verdict of Not Guilty of either the riot or the assault. Mr. ADOLPHUS then rose and said, that in reply to an ob servation which hail fallen frorri Mr. Alley respecting the con duct of the Government in bringing forward this prosecution now ' he was bound to state, that the indictment had been found last September, and it was owing to the defendant himself that the delay had taken place in his trial ; and he at that moment stood upon the humanity of the prosecutors in not having his recognizances estreated. Mr. ALLEY said, that the observation, which had been so irregularly and improperly made after the Jury had returned their verdict, called upon him to state that what he meant to have said was, that if Government had come forward to-day to say to the defendant they had forgotten and forgiven, he would gladly have accepted the boon for his client ; and have thought it good policy on their parts to have offered it. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] i • The cruelties of did Turks towards the Greeks who happen to be in their power, of which we receive details from time to time on good autho rity, are so dreadful, as, notwithstanding our previous knowledge of these barbarians, almost to stagger .belief. On getting possession of Ky donia, they disposed of 1,000 children (too young for their brutal purposes), by tying them two by two, and hanging them up on trees, when they amused them Selves by shooting at them. They afterwards cut them to pieces, in the manner in which butchers cut up their meat. The Monaste ries of Mount.Athos de, ive their subsistence from the estates they possess in Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., which are superintended by people belonging to the order. All these superintendents, to the number of 1,200, were suddenly seized and hung, without their having given the least offence, and before the convents had risen, which they were forced to do for their own safety. Of these horrible cruelties We hear not a syllable from our agents in Turkey, though the moment a Greek, from the wrongs offered to his kindred, is driven to retaliate, the outrage immediately finds its way in an exaggerated' shape into the Ministerial Journals.—However, from all that we can understand, the Greeks are surmounting gallantly their difficulties, and rising fast into a consequence which will soon put them beyond the reach of the malice of their enemies. We learn from a gentleman who has had good op. portunities of observing the Greeks lately in various situations, that their spirit and de termination are beyond all praise; that the peasantry were all desirous of, submitting to regular exercise, that they perform their work in the mornings and evenings, and leave their tools 'to be disciplined, and when called on to fight, they display an enthusiasm hardly to be believed, and a desperate valour. It is this intimate con viction which they nowhaVe of the necessity for discipline and order (valour they have always had), which gives the chief confidence to their friends. They - have now several well disciplined regiments and corps of artillery training ; and the camp of Ypsilanti, in as far as order is concerned, has all the appearance of that of a French, Austrian, or Russian General. [NEW TIMES.] Yesterday was singularly unproductive of fo reign intelligence. Nothing was received from the Continent : and from more distant parts of the world the only arrival was that of a vessel from Buenos Ayrei; but as she was 90 days on her passage all the advises which she brought had been already anticipated. The appearance of the funds was favourable. Consols for the Account opened at 784, and, after going through a steady day, closed at 78+, looking well. It was asserted, on , private authority, the ac curacy of which we have no reason to doubt, though we do not pretend to vouch for it, that the French Renter, which had closed at Paris on Monday at 86-45, rose, on Tuesday, as high as 87-50. It is justly observed, that as vessels sailed on the 11th ult. from Constantinople for Odessa (which appears from the letters which we yesterday quoted), and as no hint was even then given of any probability that the communication would be stopped, the peaceful relations of the • [BRITISH PRESS.] The Ministerial Papers have attempted to raise a shout of triumph at the result of the recent trial at Lancaster, as if a verdict for Captain Birley and his Trumpeter determined the pro.: priety of the measures pursued by the Magis trates at Manchester. We have hitherto con /tented ourselves with publishing the evidence taken on this trial fully and impartially, and cer tainly should not now think of expressing an opi nion upon the matters therein detailed, had not certain writers in the Ministerial Journals con ceived it a seasonable opportunity for repeating assertions which ought not to be allowed to pass uncontradicted. The form of the action tried at Lancaster was unfortunately such as would not suffer the merits of the Magistrates' conduct to be fairly considered. The questions before the Jury were simply these :—" Did Captain - Birley and his Trumpeter act under the instructions of the Magistrates ?—did the Magistrates conceive that they were justified in / giving such instruc tions to Captain Birley's corps to advance into the crowd ?—and did Redford, the Plaintiff, in consequence of such advance, receive such an in jury as demanded reparation in damages ?" For our own parts we think now as we did before the trial, that, limited as was the nature of the action with reference to the- questions that. might be submitted to the view of the Jury, the action ought not to have been brought, for no one had ever doubted that the yeomanry had been ordered by the Magistrates to execute a war rant against Hunt and his companions ; and from the evidence collected at Bunt's trial, we were aware . that the Magistrates could 'prove their own fears and the fears of many other persons ; and the decision of these two, points necessarily . carried the determination of the question with re spect to Redford's special damage. But, after all, what effect has this verdict upon the charac- . ter of the discretion and conduct of the Ma gistrates ? Does it prove that, impressed- as they had been for weeks before with a cer tain apprehension of danger to the safety of Manchester; from such an assmblage of per sons as they had reason to anticipate, they were justified in permitting the meeting to be held ? Does it shew that they were warranted in suffer ing a second party of disciplined labourers i with seditious ensigns and bands of music, to enter the town of Manchester; or having witnessed the im mense multitude in Petersfield, previous to Hunt's arrival, that they acted judiciously in suffering this person to arrive on the field, and to com mence his dangerous harangue to this terrific concourse of persons ? The annual bill of mortality for this parish, for the last year, has just been published. From this document We learn the singUlar fact, that the population of Liverpool has decreased during the year 1821. It appears the births have decreased 86, whilst the burials have increased 340. In the marriages there is also a decrease of 21.—( Liverpool Advertiser.) On Saturday, at the Castle of Exeter, the 16 Frenchmen men tioned in our last Paper were brought before S. F. Milford and J. Creswell, Esqrs. Magistrates for the county of Devon, charged, on an information preferred against them by the Com missioners of Excise, with being found in a French lugger, of about 50 tons burthen, off Ouerton head, with having on board a considerable quantity of smuggled brandy and geneva. —There appeared little doubt, from the evidence, that they somet;mes employed themselves in fishing ' • but after a long in vestigation, and an attentive hearing of the exceptions, to the information, they were all fully convicted of smuggling, and were necessarily fined in the usual penalty of one hun dred pounds each, which not being able to pay, they were committed to the county gaol. Attorney for the prosecu tion, Mr. C. Brutton ; sworn interpreter, Mr. Sanders. At-' torney for the prisoners, Mr. W. H. Furlong. The Magis trates intimated an intention of api lying to Government for a mitigation of the sentence.—( Exeter Flying Post, April 10.) of Major Ir. Chas. :Out., to Esq., of Canada. n Beattie, ,ter of the Caroline, !FS,' John , xeoriry of for ashire, blk. the. Rev Norfolk, in 1767. he SuN ,s.