The Sun. — London, England, 1832-10-08 00:00:00

:SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Lord Henley, a Master in Chancery, and the brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel, has put forth wh a t may be called a " faint-hearted" address to the electors of the county of Middlesex. We doubt whether that which, according to a com mon adage, " never won fair lady,' is likely to win the voters of the metropolitan county. Lord Henley appears to see clearly enough through the flimsy veil of a requisition, and prudently enough asks for something more than the con tents of a mere side of foolscap before he em barks in the doubtful warfare of a county elec tion. Lord Henley is, as far as we have ever heard, a highly estimable man ; but Lord Henley is a placeinan, and that, with us at least, is rea son enough why he ought not to represent the county of Middlesex. What ! the county of Middlesex represented by a servant of the House of Peers ! Is it to be borne, even in idea, that on some night, when a question of the highest moment is to be discussed in the House of Com mons, the Member for the metropolitan county shall be absent—that the debate shall be inter rupted by " a Message from the Lords"—that, on the words " Call in the Messengers," the Member for Middlesex shall be seen advancing bowing to the mace, and then with equal dignity retreating, not only from the Speaker's chair, but from his post! No—the two situations are wholly incompatible. Till schedule A intruded itself into the Statute-book, a Master in Chancery might find, through Gatton or Old Sarum, a pas sage to the House of Commons ; and schedule B perhaps may still have left him a chance ; but that a large and enlightened body of constituents, such as the county of Middlesex now comprises, should submit to be so represented, implies a satire upon a reformed Parliament, which, till we witness it, we cannot credit as being possible. —Morning Herald. With whatever interest the animated letter from Oporto may have clothed the military oc currences of the 29th ult., these latter cannot be honestly represented as otherwise than incom plete and indecisive. If Miguel's commanders were aware of the loss sustained by the Consti tutionalists, they would be wanting in their duty to refrain from renewing the attack ; in which case, as a considerable number of the bravest men and officers of Don Pedro's corps had fallen, it seems doubtful how far what remained to fight would have succeeded in repelling the assailants. It is true that the Usurper has not excited in his own behalf (how could he ?) any active spirit of attachment or support among the people of Portugal. But he has, undoubtedly, by dint of sanguinary tyranny, reduced their preference of Donna Maria to a mere inert feel.. ing, not likely to show itself, even in words, until after the day shall have turned in her fa vour,—that is, until the necessity for such a de monstration shall have ceased, or its value been sensibly diminished. For the conduct of the Bri tish Government, we repeat our satisfaction at its apparently amended character. The wrongs inflict ed on this country by Miguel ought not to have been left unchastised so long, nor the lives of his Majesty's subjects at Oporto exposed to dangers which on their parts were wholly unme rited. It might seem strange to any person not fully alive to the principles on the operation of which the fate of Europe at present hangs, that a certain magnificent faction in this country ma nifests with regard to the Portuguese contest a degree of sore and bitter uneasiness, not less conspicuous than on the Reform Bill itself ; and, indeed, that somehow or other the battle of the boroughs is felt by these personages to be fought over again between the Reformers and Anti reformers of the Douro. The reason can he no other than that Miguel is regarded as an im portant link in the chain of European despotism, and is endeared to every advocate for the " wis dom of our ancestors" throughout the whole world, by his inevitable dread and hatred of free institutions. If Portugal should be emanci pated, so must Spain ; so, with no very long in-, terval, must Italy ; and with every one of these revolutions, these " great calamities," as the Duke of Wellington described the results of the French and Flemish barricades, some new chain will be rivetted upon the Briareus of anti-popu lar power in Great Britain, where, at this mo ment, in the bloom and freshness of our own reform, the very provisions of the law by which the liberties of England were to have been se cured are perverted by the Anglo-Miguelite party, to the intimidation and oppression of the people. Hence it is that the Tory landlords, and other monopolists of this country, are in agonies of terror lest their kindred cause in the south of Europe should share the fate which, if the friends of freedom be true to her and to them selves, is already prepared for every remnant of misgovernment amongst Englishmen. But in the same proportion as it is felt to be a contest for hearth and home on the side of the borough• mongers, so ought it to be on that of the people of England and their reforming Government, and no womanish scruple, suggested by a defer ence to unmeaning forms, when everything of substantial use and value to nations is at stake, ought to weigh with either against the interests of the liberal Government in Portugal.— Times. The history of loans for foreign states has too often, for some years, been a history of fraud and jobbing. The object for which the loans have been contracted has generally been frus trated by the misapplication of the money. In deed, the parties for whom the loan is raised seldom touch a shilling in cash. The loan con tractor, previous to taking the loan, finds an agent who is to supply every thing. Of course, the agent is a creature of his own. The funds are placed at the disposal of this accredited agent. He forms all the contracts for ships, stores, arms, ammunition, with just whom he pleases, and at what price (the contractors for the loan insisting on seeing the contracts fulfilled be fore the money is finally paid) he thinks proper. The contracts are of course given to those persons who are recommended by the contractors, and with whom there generally is a secret understanding. No matter if he con tracts for the supply of 5,000 stand of arms at 265. 6d., and rejects an offer at 12s. 6d., it is a con tract, it is binding ; there are the bills—the money has been paid. So on with everything else, until the proceeds of the loan are squandered away, when the public are called upon for a second loan to secure - the first ; and thus they go on. By such means as these may be traced the failure , of many enterprises which otherwise would have proved successful, and of mutual benefit and ad vantage to the contracting parties. Indeed, it is impossible for the public to form an idea of the monstrous arrogance and assumption of power on some occasions by what is called the agent of the Powers. Besides the purchasing of ships, stores, &c., he engages all officers and men ; he does everything at his leisure ; sends out whom he pleases, at his own time and con venience, regardless of all consequences. He traits with contempt all suggestions from highly respectable and intelligent agents, whom the contracting party may depute to look after his interests ; and with insolence repels any remonstrance that is made. What has happened before ; we have too much reason to be lieve has happened with the present cause of Don Pedro. The cause, indeed, has been exposed to the utmost jeopardy. Until the arrival at Oporto on the 2fid of the Britomart, the heavy artillery were without shot, and obliged to fill shells up with lead as a substitute. The tardy and scanty manner in which supplies have been sent has been enough to ruin the cause, at a moment when the fate of it depended upon prompt and energetic measures. The cannon last sent out were destitute of carriages, conse quently they were useless for a long time ; hut this may have been intentional. The Wellington, which might have been at sea a fortnight or three weeks ago, will be ready in about ten days. Hundreds of men, and abundance of officers, paying their own expenses, have been waiting this month past for conveyance. Indeed officers who have raised thirty and forty men, and maintained them at their own expense for three weeks, waiting transport, have at length paid them off and dismissed them. One or two officers, thus situated, paid their men off on Saturday, and, accompanied by sixteen other officers, yesterday took conveyance for themselves and left for Oporto. Mechanics and respectable individuals, burning with zeal in the cause, had sold their implements of trade to equip them selves to serve as soldiers, having been in the army before, after expending their little all, have been obliged to return to their homes. The Tory influence in the City has been exerted to the utmost to ruin the cause of Don Pedro, knowing full well that it would embarrass Mi nisters, by mining the interest of Great Britain in Portugal for ever. But for their influence, there is no doubt that the Wellington would long since have been at sea ; Oporto would have been garrisoned with two or three thou sand more British soldiers ; the consequence of which would have been, that the Miguel army would have been totally ruined on the 29th. We trust Don Pedro will take instant measures to adjust the accounts of the present agents, and make such arrangements as will be more conducive to the success of his cause than those which have hitherto been made. It is lamenta ble to think that a cause like that of Don Pedro's should be exposed to imminent hazard from mis management in this country.—Morning Citron. The deliberate and wanton firing by the troops of Don Miguel upon two British vessels an chored for the protection of British life and pro perty in the quarantine station, or neutral part of the Douro, is one of the natural results of the wavering, equivocal, and pusillanimous spirit which has characterised our foreign policy There can be no doubt of the act being deli• lerate and wanton, because when the two yes. sels, the Childers and the Orestes, crossed the bar, the Commodore, Captain Browne, sent an officer of his ship, with an interpreter, to the head-quarters of Don Miguel's forces, to corn miinicate the necessity which existed for station ing those ships in the river, and to offer assur ances that the strictest neutrality would be ob served. It is true, the British officer intrusted with this mission was grossly insulted, as all ac counts of the matter concur in stating, by Gas par Teixeira and his suite, among whom Sir John Campbell is mentioned as being one of the most violent in applying terms of coarse reproach to the British Government, which Government has, in fact, by playing something like the game of" fast and loose" with each party, lost the re spect of both. Not content, however, with re ceiving one insult at the Portuguese head quarters, the British authorities in the Douro, its if desirous of showing how changed the Bri tish character has become since our Statesmen have learned to place all their trust in protocols, actually sent another humble mission to the Mi guelite head-quarters, to repeat the same assur ',iiices, in the name of Admiral Parker, which had already been forwarded by Captain Browne The consequence was another insult; for the offi cer was not allowed even to approach the head qUarters, but was sent back from the outposts, hav ing first received a written answer, and being in formed that " strict orders had been given not to permit any person to enter the lines." This occurred on the 26th ult.; and in two days after these renewed assurances of strict neutrality had been given, touching the British vessels 0 war in the quarantine station, those two vessels wOe fired upon by Miguel's troops, and a Bri- Tish sailor slain ! Under the very folds of our ocean-flag one of our brave seamen was slain, and the British thunders were silent ! The mur d6rers continued to pour in their fire upon the Orestes for some time after the tars, who longed to chastise them, were ordered below. Our ships of war now bear guns for ornament—not use : we discharge nothing now but protocols ! —Our intelligent correspondent at Oporto states that the Amelia, one of Don Pedro's ships, the crew of which had de stroyed a Miguelite battery, lay under the lee of he Childers, when the Miguelite troops on the heights " deliberately fired not only into the Amelia, but into the Childers and Orestes." Now, whatever may be said as to the Childers having received only a part of the fire which was intended for the Amelia, there can be no pretext for any such explanation as regards the Orestes, for the Amelia lay quite clear of her. Our Cor respondent expressly declares that " there can be no possible excuse for the wanton insult of fered to the latter ship," and the correspondent of another Morning Paper says " One thing is plain—the Orestes was out of the way alto gether, and could neither directly nor indirectly shelter the Amelia ; and vet upon her the chief brunt of the fire fell." He adds that " upwards of 200 bullets were fired at the Orestes. From her copper-mark to her hammock-rails she is spotted with balls." But the British officers, in not repelling the murderous attack, acted, we are told, " only in compliance with their orders, which are of the strictest possible nature." We may presume, therefore, that, if they found their vessels were about to be blown out of the water, they would have thought it necessary to wait, before they acted in self-defence, for Lord Palmerston 's opinion upon taking the sense of the Plenipotentiaries of the Holy Alliance. It was only a few days before this atrocious affair that Captain Browne was fired upon by the Miguelites in Villa Nova, while in a boat with his Chaplain, and the British ensign flying at its bow ! Thirty musket shots, of which two struck the bow of the boat, gave pretty decisive proof of the sort of respect which the Miguelites have learned to entertain for the British flag. Had Captain Browne taken the proper course which, in our humble opinion, a British officer ought to take for so gross an in sult to the flag under which he sails, the attack upon the Childers and the Orestes would not have occurred, and the life of the unfortunate man whose blood has been so wantonly shed would have been saved. When Mr. Boyd, an English subject, was murdered in cold blood by the orders of Ferdinand of Spain, our Govern ment showed that sort of " forbearance" which is not easily distinguished from: cowardice, and which is not calculated to raise the character of England or promote the security of English subjects among the nations of Europe. His blood sunk in the earth unexpiated, as though it were the blood of a dog ; and now Miguel rivals Ferdinand in insulting the British power, and in boasting of having insulted it with im punity. It is not the British officers, but the Government, that are responsible. Our Minis ters have done enough to make Miguel their implacable enemy for ever, and yet they still hope to keep on good terms IA ith him. Having recognised Donna Maria, as the Duke of Wel lington did, the lawful Sovereign of Portugal, and she being now in possession of Oporto, and occupying the Douro with her vessels, why is it that our Ministers think it necessary to make humble excuses to the usurper for placing two vessels of war in the Douro to protect British life and property ? If they have the consent of Donna Maria, now Queen both de jure and de facto in that portion of her dominionQ, is it not enough ? Our correspondent says, with reason, " I wish the British Ministry would act a manly part, and openly declare for either party, instead of covertly giving a colourable assistance to one." If our Ministry proceed in this u ndignified line of policy much longer, the flag of England, in stead of being regarded as the symbol of the sovereignty of the seas, will be treated by all Powers as the most despised bit of rag that floats upon the waters.—Morning Herald. We have extracted from the Birmingham Journal a report of a vestry meeting held in Birmingham—that active work-shop of Re form—when an annual Church-rate was abso- lutely refused by a great majority of an immense meeting of rate-payers ! Our readers will re collect, that we have inserted several reports of adjourned meetings of the vestry of this parish (which contains 100,000 inhabitants), when the rate was always sedulously opposed, and on different grounds postponed. A crisis, it ap pears, as might naturally have been anticipated, has at length occurred ; and the terrors of the law are braved by the population of that great midland manufacturing district. It cannot be doubted that this political disease is contagious, and that in the temper of the country towards the Church Establishment, it will soon become more extensively epidemic than the cholera. We have repeatedly called public attention to the subject of tithes and church-rates ; and we most ardently hope that the Government will take timely warn ing, before England is plunged into the gulph of Irish distraction ; and the Minis ters will boldly and wisely mature a plan of Church Reform, which shall give satisfaction to a disgusted and discontented people. The establishment must be thoroughly repaired, or the whole structure will be razed to the ground. A Gothic Hierarchy of such antiquity, sinking in its foundations, and with a decayed and patch-work superstructure, must needs be in a very crumbling condition. The High Church men have themselves to blame for the dangers which encompass them. In the possession of dominant and despotic power, they rode over the Laity for centuries rough-shod, and the people are now discharging the long aecoutit of their oppressions. Popular ignorance was long the bulwark of the Church Establishments of Europe, and the poverty of the Laity was the moat which safely protected Monasteries and Abbeys. But the spell of superstition is broken, and the light of knowledge has exposed the vul nerable points of Hierarchies. It is now futile to oppose the law to the will of an enlightened population. Legal force, not founded on reason, has lost its efficacy ; and one of the first objects of a Reformed House of Commons will be to eradicate the monstrous abuses of the English Church. We trust that the reforming spirit of the forthcoming Parliament will not be opposed by the Sovereign and the Peers, who, on a rormer occasion in our history, brought about destruction where reformation only was needed and originally required.—Morning Chronicle. In the last number of Tait's Edinburgh Ma gazine, on which we have hitherto had much cause to bestow a due meed of approbation, there is a very violent and determined attack on the political conduct of his Majesty's present ad visers, which is written with some ability we allow, but in point of the spirit which pervades it, and the extravagance of the accusations which are brought forward, would do credit to any con servative print in the United Kingdom. It ac cuses them of extravagance, of failure in moral duty towards the people, of breach of faith in various important matters, of having unnecessa rily augmented the army ; of having persecuted, instead cf endeavouring to improve, Ireland ; and, finally, winds up the impeachment with the following grave summary of charges : " Thus, if we consider the nature of their general pro• ceedings, or view the particular cases by which those pro ceedings are accompanied, causes of suspicion and distrust arise at every step : not such suspicion as would arise only in the mind of one prone to jealousy, but even in the minds of confiding friends. The people were confiding friends of Ministry ; and not till this hearty confidence had been shaken, by repea•ed trials, did they entertain or express any doubt. Now we have hid two years' sad ex perience. Every day bas brought something deserving of reproach ; and the sum of their misdeeds has at length mounted so high, that the people can no longer be silent spectators of these proceedings. If the Ministers be really of honest intentions, they will take these remonstrances in good part; they will rejoice at being warned in time, and will regulate their future conduct by what they see to be the feelings of the nation." It is well known to all reflecting persons, that it is much more easy to make charges than to rebut them, and that no government ever existed, either in this or in any other country, against which similar charges might not have been brought, as well as sustained, with a con siderable show of reason ; and it is equally well known to, as it will also be allowed by, them, that, in order to form a just and correct opinion, the peculiar situation of the Government so charged must be taken into consideration, and due allowance made for the difficulties with which it may have been encumbered. Any judgment formed on different grounds is evidently an act of injustice towards the accused ; for be tween the wish and the capability, the will and the power of accomplishment, there is frequently a great and an insurmountable barrier. Archimedes might have raised the earth into " middle air" had he had a point on which to fix a lever of sufficient power ; and the Whigs— parva componere niagnis—might have accom plished much more than they have, had the means been at their disposal. But how have they been employed—how have they been situated ? Had they not at their first entrance into office to contend with a corrupt representa tion—a representation elected under the auspices of the 'roues, and which only turned in their favour on one great question—Parliamentary Reform—because it received an impulse from without stronger than the internal feeling by which it was generally actuated ? Had they not afterwards the whole host of the representatives of rotten boroughs and nomination Lords to contend with, and was it not by dint alone of such perseverance as England had never previ ously witnessed on the part of his Majesty s Mi nisters, against a corrupt faction, that the Reform Bill was ultimately carried ? Did not, in fact, the opposition to the Reform Bill occupy nearly the whole of the attention of his Majesty's Mi nisters, and prevent them from attending to al most any other point of national improvement ? But, sass the author of the article in the Magazine, the army was augmented ; and so it was ; but not wilfully for the sake of pa tronage and extravagance, but unwillingly, be cause the state of Ireland, on the one hand, and the state of our foreign relations, on the other, demanded it. But again, it is rejoined, the taxes on knowledge were not reduced ac cording to a long standing pledge of the Whigs when out of office ; and here we confess " a hit—an apparently most palpable hit ;" but the apparent breach of faith in this matter did not proceed from unwillingness to fulfil former pledges, but from inability, in consequence, partly of the opposition of the enemies of the people, and partly from the time of Parliament being almost wholly occupied with the Reform Bill. The general charge of extravagance we utterly scout and deny. Great reductions have been made—more are in the course of being effected ; and if all has not been accomplished that the public anticipated, it has only to thank its old friends, the Tories, who, in their cha racter of conservatives, exhibited an hostility to every change which his Majesty's Ministers were anxious to effect, but had not the means of surmounting. When the Reform Parliament meets it will be then or never for the Whigs to implement their pledges. At present we hold all accusations against them to be utterly ground less and unfounded, if not also malignant. — Morning Advertiser. The conflict at Oporto on the 29th ult., judg ing merely from the accounts sent to England by the partizans of Don Pedro, would appear to have been extremely unfavourable to the rebel cause, if not fatal to the last lingering hope cherished by the revolutionary party in France and England of its final success. It is evident that the English and French auxiliaries formed the only part of the rebel army upon which its leaders could place any reliance, and that the vagabond Portuguese with whom they had the misfortune to be associated in arms are, in the estimation of Don Pedro and his officers, and even in their own estimation, utterly worthless as soldiers. How is it possible to account otherwise for the acknowledged fact that the French and English were thrust into the positions where the greatest danger was to be incurred, and the most vigorous efforts were re quired, when every honourable and patriotic feel ing imperiously so required that in this national contest the national force should have occupied the foremost ranks of glory and of danger ? Dun Pedro must know that the Portuguese who sur round him cannot or will not fight ; and they must be conscious of the same unsoldierly ina bility or reluctance, or he would never have assigned, as he did, the post of honour to fo reigners, nor would they have permitted such an allocation of his troops as must cover their mili tary character with indelible disgrace. The English and French troops have, however, suf ferred so severely in consequence of the favour so magnanimously shown them by their Por tuguese friends that few of them are left, we imagine, to act, during the next attack of Don Miguel's army, the convenient part of a shield to the brave and faithful sub jects of Donna Maria. The accounts, partial as they are to the cause of the invader, inform us very distinctly that the Officers of the French and English forces are, with scarcely the excep tion of a single man, put hors de combat ; and as the nature of the operation scarcely admitted of the Officers being picked out, it seems reason able to conclude, notwithstanding every effort to underrate the total loss, that the rank and file did not fare much better. The next assault will show us what the rebel Portuguese are worth when left, as they must now be, to fight their own battle. We have no right indeed to complain that Englishmen who hired themselves out to Don Pedro as mercenaries have been, however fatally to themselves, employed as a rampart to his own cowardly countrymen ; but we cannot suppress our grief and indignation on finding that British sailors, in the service of their own Sovereign, and under the proud flag of England, have been com pelled to perform the same unworthy and degrad ing office. It will be perceived that we allude to the atrocious conduct of the Captain of one of Don Pedro's ships, the Amelia, who after he had been repeatedly warned off, persisted in sheltering himself under the lee of a British ship of war from the hostility of the Miguelites, which he had especially provoked, thus deciding the pretended neutrality of this country, and sporting with the lives of Englishmen. The life of one of his Majesty's subjects was upon this ; s y att mock o ir t a h ll e v r ioc casionnsp neutrality, ire . n sacrificedadd to o the t u o r Lordinsolence suot rl Pct., neutrality l w m bhe e ie r cn s h t oi naturally than a mockery, the impudent and cowardly Pe drite who presumed to seek safety by violating it thus pertinaciously, and after full and ample warning, would unquestionably have been blown out of the water, as he deserved, by order of the British Officer, whose dignity he had in sulted, and the lives of whose crew he had ex posed to dangers which could not otherwise be repelled.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Mr. Moore, the proprietor of a van coach, and James Trusler, his coachman, were summoned be fore the LORD MAYOR under the folowing cir cumstances : Clapham, the police-officer, stated that, a few days ago, a person applied to him to apprehend a sailor, who had robbed him, and who was at that moment in the van coach, at the Cross Keys, in Grace church-street. Witness went to the coach for the purpose of doing his duty, the accused having been pointed out to him, but was prevented by the pe remptory order of Mr. Moore to his coachman to drive on. The coach then went on at a rapid rate down the hill till it reached the foot of London bridge, witness sticking to it as well as he could. lie then endeavoured to take away the sailor, anti was assisted by two other officers, named Smith and King. The coachman, however, continued to whip away, and in every possible way obstructed them in the performance of their duty; and persons on the coach and the mob, which soon gathered together in formidable numbers, took part with the sailor. Witness was knocked about, his staff was dashed from his hand, and, when he stooped for it, ha:r a dozen fellows leaped upon his back. The sailor in the mean time escaped. Smith, the policeman, confirmed the greater part of the statement. When he interfered to aid his brother officer the coachman not only whipped the horses, but whipped him. The officers were most dangerously circumstanced. The coachman had been distinctly told several times that they wanted to apprehend a man for felony. Mr. Moore declared that Clapham had an oppor tunity, when the van was at the Cross Keys, ►o take the sailor into custody, and the passengers were not to be detained all day because he neglected to do so. But the fact was, the first charge against the sailor was that he was in debt, and the inge- nuity of the officer, for his own purpose, converted the debt into a felony. . . . . Clapham distinctly swore that the accuser pointed out the sailor as a thief, and called upon him to ap prehend the man for felony. The sailor gave some evidence of the truth of the charge himself by his conduct, for he pulled off his shoes and stockings, which formed part of the alleged plunder, and threw them from the van to the officer. As to the op portunity of taking out the sailor at the Cross Keys, he (Clapham) had made the attempt, but without success, for he had no assistance. The LORD MAYOR asked the coachman whether he was not aware that if any fatal accident had happened to the officers while the horses were going at that furious rate, he would be tried for murder ? The coachman said he had no idea that the officer was hanging to the coach as it went along, and he solemnly declared, that he took it for a fact, from all he had heard, that the sailor was a mere debtor in the matter. He added that he acted all through 'or the protection of the passengers and the horses, as he was baund to do. A gentleman, named W. F. Walker, stated that he saw what occurred at the bottom of the bridge. He saw the officers endeavouring to get hold of the sailor and hanging to the coach, and was convinced that they would have succeeded had it not been for the efforts of the coachman to counteract them. The LORD MAYOR immediately ordered that the defendants should be bound over to appear at the next Sessions, to answer any charge that might be brought against them by the officers, for a very se rious obstruction in the performance of their duty. BOW-STREET. ST. MARTIN'S-IN-THE-FIELDS.—The parish offi cers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields applied to the Ma gistrates to sign a poor-rate for the ensuing half-year. Mr. Fenn and several of the inhabitants of the parish attended to protest against the rate as illegal. Mr. Alley appeared on the part of the Select Vestry, and contended that they were authorized to make the rate. Mr. Fenn, on the other side, argued that the right was vested in the' Ancient Inhabitants." A very long discussion ensued, interesting only to the rate-payers of the parish, the same question having been frequently mooted ; and it at length ended in the Magistrates giving their sanction to the rate, subject, however, to an appeal to the Court of King's Bench, which we understand will be made. SINGULAR CASE.—John Carter, alias Ignatius Cavendish Coyne, a fashionably-dressed young man, was brought up, charged by a Mr. Israel Alexander, who keeps a horse and carriage repository in Gos well-street, with having defrauded him of 401. under the following ciicurnstances : Mr. Alexander stated, that on the 16th of June last, the defendant came to his repository in com pany with a person of the name of Levi, of whom he had some previous knowledge, bringing with him a phaeton, upon which, he said, he was desirous of raising 401. He stated that he had purchased the phaeton in Long-acre for a bill drawn on Mr. S. A. Bayntun, Member for York, for 140 guineas. After some conversation, he agreed to advance the money required, and gave the defendant a cheque for 351. and five sovereigns, upon condition that if the phaeton was not redeemed within two months, it was to be nisidered witness's property. The defendant stated, that he lived at No. '2, Parliament-street.— Two months having elapsed, and the defendant not appearing, witness sold the phaeton, according to agreemenr, to a Mr. Tilbury for 451., who subse quently sold it for fifty guineas. He afterwards discovered that the phaeton had been let to Mr. Bayntun for six months, and was not the property of the defendant. Mr. Felton, a coachmaker, in the neighbourhood of Belgrave-square, stated, that he let the phaeton in question for six months from last Saturday week, to Mr. Bayntun, the Member for York, and from information he had received, he went to a livery stable over Westminster-bridge, where he found it in charge of the prisoner. He claimed it as his pro perty, but the prisoner refused to give it up without the authority of a Magistrate. He then went to Union-hall,leaving a policeman in charge of the phae ton. Mr. Chambers, to whom he appealed, having heard his story, told him to get possession of it in the best manner he could, arid by force if requisite. Under this advice, he returned to the livery-stables, but ascertained that, in his absence, two men in livery came with a pair of horses, and, in defiance of the policeman, drove it away. He heard no m9re of either the defendant or the phaeton till some time afterwards, when he saw the latter taken into the Pantechnicon. He immediately went into the esta blishment, and demanded it as his property, stating the circumstances under which it had been obtained from his possession. It was given to him without objection, on stating who he was, and he took it back to his factory. The prisoner, in his defence, stated that he had lived with Mr. Bayntun in the character of an agent, and entered into some details, of which we have no doubt that gentleman will give a very dif ferent version. He said that, shortly before he went to Mr. Alexander, Mr. B tyntun went down to Brighton, for the purpose of getting some money from his father; but, on his return, he said "he could get nothing out of him, but that his father had promised to give him the means of paying his debts in two months." He then said that he wanted to raise 401., and desired him (the prisoner) to take the phaeton, and endeavour to " raise the wind" to that amount, at the same time stating that his brother, Mr. Mortimer Bayntun, had ar ranged with Mr. Felton for the purchase. Under these circumstances he went to Levi, stating the object he had in view, and Levi undertook, for two sovereigns, to take him to a person who would comply with his wishes. On his agreeing to these terms, Levi took him to Mr. Alexander, who ad vanced him, not 401. but 351., and he wrote a me morandum in his book, describing the conditions on which the advance was made; he added that Mr. Hill, an attorney, in Chancery-lane, was a witness to the transaction. He denied that he had said any thing about a 401. bill, for that Levi, who was pre sent, and knew the whole of the circumstances, could at once have contradicted him. Mr. Alexander again stepped forward, and de clared most positively that he had given the prisoner 46/. under the representations he had described, and that no memorandum whatever had been made on the subject. Mr. MiNsimu, remarked, thut it appeared some what extraordinary, for a man in Mr. Alexander's situation to advance a sum of 401. to a person of whom he had no previous knowledge, without a re ceipt, or some memorandum by which the transac tion might afterwards be corroborated. He might, however, if he chose, indict the prisoner and Levi for consp ring to defraud him. Levi, who was in the office, said he had no more to do with the affair than introducing the prisoner to Mr. Alexander. Mr. MINSHULL, under all the circumstances, di rected that the prisoner should be detained, and brought up at 7 o'clock, and, in the interim, that Mr. Hill, the attorney, should be sent for. In the evening, the prisoner was again brought up, when Mr. Hill, the attorney, attended, and stated that he was present at the transaction described by Mr. Alexander, and saw him give the prisoner a check for 3a., arid five sovereigns. He denied most positively that any memorandum whatever was made on that occasion. This was the whole of theevidence adduced,when Mr. Norton, the solicitor for Mr. Alexander, sub mitted that, under the statute 7th and Bth Geo.IV. cap. 29, this was obtaining money under false pre tences, and that the prisoner had been guilty of a misdemeanour. Mr. Roberts, the attorney on the part of the pri- sorer, denied that, under the circumstances of the c tse, any fraud had been commuted; for that suffi cient security had been left in the hands of Mr. Alexander, and be had no right to dispose of the property in the manner described. Under all the circumstances, Mr. MINSHULL said that he felt himself bound to hold the prisoner to bail; and on Mr. Roberts and the prisoner's brother, who described himself as a man of business in the city, entering into sureties of 40/. each for the ap pearance of the prisoner, to answer any charge that might be brought against him, either for conspiracy or fraud, at the next Sessions, he was discharged. HATT ON- GARDEN. Saturday, Jtmes Allen Seagrave, the inspector of hackney carriages, appointed by the Commissioners of Stamps, made his appearance at this offi:e in sup port of several informations under the Coach Act. Prior to being sworn, Mr. LAING asked him whether he had been before the Commis•ioners of Stamps since the charge of extortion made against h m on Wednesday last (the particulars of which were de tailed in our Paper on the following day.) Seagrave replied, that he attended on Friday morning. Mr. LAING—And do they still continue you in their service ? Stagrave—l have received no orders to the contrary. I have seett the Solicitor of Stamps, and he says :hat you are no longer to be viewed as an inspector of hackney carriages, but as an indifferent ►ndivi dual—a common informer ?—I attend with my war rant, as usual, in which I am authorized to proceed against ail hackney carriages, &c., infringing the law. But it does not authorize you to extort two gui neas ?—I can assure your Worship it was only a present—a free gift. Several voices, " Oh, oh !" A cab-proprietor here said that a number of per sons had paid money to Seagrove not to prosecute alter he had preferiel informations. Mr. LAlNG—Bring thtm forward, and the Ma gistrates will hear them. lam convinced that he has been guilty of extortion in more than one in stance. Mr. ROGERS (the Magistrate)—l assure you lam of the same opinion. Mr. LAING -[ have sent the depositions, taken against him before me on Wednesday last, to the Commissioners of Stamps, and it is for them to per form their duty as they think proper. It is not to be tolerated that an individual appointed to a situa- tion to protect the public is to be suffered to carry on such tricks. Several cab-proprietors said that in a few days :hey should bring forward a number of cases of ex- ;onion. Mr. LAING said that he would enter into them any day in die course of next week, or as soon as the pirties could conveniently attend. Tli e conversation then dropped. Q UEEN- S Q U ARE. BRUTAL. ASSA ULT.—Robert Brown, a plane maker, of No. 5, Collingwood-street, Chelsea, was charged with a most brutal assault on his wife. Mary Brown, the wife of the defendant, was lead into the office with her head bound up, and pre senting a most shocking appearance—her face and eyes being swollen to an enormous degree. It ap peared from her statement that, on the previous evening her husband came home, and some words arose about the children which she had by a former marriage. He at last got up and struck her two violent blows with his fist on her face, and not content with that, he seized a plane about two feet long, and struck her a violent blow on the back of her head, which completely stunned her. An alarm was given in the house, and several persons entered the room. A medical gentleman was instantly sent for, who attended, and after dreesing the wounds, sent to the police station for assistance, to take the husband into custody, as he considered the poor woman at the moment in a most dangerous state. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that they had a quarrel, and his wife struck him GM Mr. MARRIOTT observed that his defence aggra vated his crime. Nothing could justify such brutal treatment towards a female. The MAGISTRATES having consulted together,or dered the defendant to pay the full penalty of 51.; in default of which, he was committed for two months to the House of Correction. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Beans. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. Carlisle Hexham. Ntorpeth Penrith Winchester s. to s. I 51 56 48 s. t, 28 29 S. to S S . s• 41 -- 22 27 20 25 60 j 32 T 4 - 38 59 33 62 44 52 60 29 33 s. d. s. d. s. d. r. d. 60 7 0 3 6 40 70 9 0 4 8 54 86 9 0 6 4 66 70 93 36 46 86 93 56 60 73 79 36 39 90 10 0 1 4 6 50 22 22 24 s. d. s. d. 14 19 36 40 36 39 33 40 39 40 20 24 22 26 Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Stone _ Swansea Warwick 42 4 6 , e. d. 5..." 00 0 0 56 60 54 O n 56 6 0 64 70 001 0 0 73 7 6 Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton .........—. 'llO 150 13 0 18 6, 17 3 21 0 11 0 13 Oi 90 100 93 106 94 100 96 100 68 74 53 76 58 90 54 70 00 11 ° 100 120 0 86 9 0 0 0 ° WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Oct. 5 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufiblk -s. 475. to 545. fine 56g. Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire - s -s. . 435 .4 t t o o 52 51 s s .. fi fi n n e e • 5 54 46. g • - White s. 50s. to 58s. fine 608. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to 465. fine 54 1 . White -s. -s. to -s. fine 6 05 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire 3'is. to 335. fine 40 1 . - Yorkshire Wold 365. to 395. fine 406. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine --a• Beans, Small -- Tick 33s. to 355. fine 36 0 Oats, Potato 2os. to 225. fine 23e. - Poland -s. 19s. to 21s. fine 21' 4 - Friezland and Small -s. 17s. to 20s. fine 2 0 '. --Mealing Shelling 235. to 265. Od. per Loa Malt 34s. 435. fine 465. per Lod'__.. Rapeseed 22/. Os. 241. Os. 231. Os. per La.'" SCOTCH MARKET, Wheat. Barley 53 57 34 :36 46 50 48 70 50 60 60 62 57 60 35 40 40 45 54 57 The size . of the mi EDINBURGH CORN MARK We had a large supply of all kinds the sales in general were rather heavy. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First 7os Od 36s 6d 25s 4d 33s Od Second 6os Od Od 9.2 s Od a's Od Third 42s Od 24s Od 18s 8d 31s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 3d. to Os. 7d. Freshßutter, lb. s. 1(d. to glutton. , 0 4 0 6 Salt 0 9 Veal 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per ea t. 74 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dot. 0 9 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 3 0 OatStrawocpl.) 7 0 fallow, cwt.... 33 0 40 0 Wheat Ditto... 7 0 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto—, 5 U Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 4 0 0 Hay, per 0 8 :rn•.—oct. or Grain i t); 304 EDINBURGH MEA The supply of Oatmeal at this sold heavily, at last prices. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 14 0 Second ditto ll2 0 Rarleyineal 1 10 0 Peaseineal 1 6 0 Pot liarley—No. l, per cwt. la 1302 ss , oa „, 31s " Od' Isloo 0 80 0 0 6 8 6 I 0 t% ,L MA RK ET.--Oct. 2. day's market was middling , Per Stone of 141 b. 1 1,0 First Oatmeal £0 0 / Second ditto Barleymeal Peasemeal 0 my s.-2d, 155.-3d,2os..—PeoLotelw' BIRTHS. On the 7th inst. in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, th e 10 of On b t Roerthe 6th Walter Carden, istock Esq, -square,athe of a dugh t lady of Benl er. a • OW * Williams, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. 0 41' On the 6th inst. at Paddington Church, Mr. John mortold of Devonshire-place, to Mary, second daughter of 1‘ 11. • ,„ Stanhope place, Hyde-park. , Cv On the 26th ult. at Heath-cottage, near Inverness, ..- 1 le ° , e c"o sl4 lonel R. Robertson, of the Bombay Army, to Harriet , . daughter of Robert Pierson, Esq., formerly of Riga. DIED. WI Jo° # Ott the sth inst. at Chester-terrace, Regent's-park , ag ai r years, Harriet, third daughter of William Fox, EEO 0 long illness. On the sth inst. Catherine Ryder, third daughter of tl icll Henry Goodwyn Esq, of Blackheath. or". ! On the 6th inse. in his 76t h year, John Peacock, of co street, Berkeley-square. On the 3d inst. at Glasgow, of cholera, in his 68th I o f, Thomas Davidson, Esq. ot e On the 6th inst. at Kentish town, Thomas Hird, Esq' 04 , , the General Post-office, aged 84. On the 2d inst. at Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster, ll°l342 Christiana, relict of the late Lieut -Colonel Marshall. ail ' • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUN a, ill SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON Aberdeen —.. 8erwick,.,..~,,,. Coldstream .... Cupar ..~.•••• Dundee Elgin .«......w. I nverness--.. Kelso ........„... Perth 25 28 19 21 23 25 28 32 30 33 28 30 30 32 19 22 27 39 29 31 wire va Beans. 17 21 14 19 22 24 16 18 22 23 20 24 26 29 20 25 30 31 18 21 23 30 20 24 23 30 14 16 23 23 25 32 45 48 21 24 26 90 'ies throughout the Oats. Oats. luau . 34 ; - tintrl.; I