The Sun. — London, England, 1822-11-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOGRM.ALS. IXTRACTS FROM DA I r.v MORNING PAPERS, NOVentber 18`22. DiottNING roFT.I We received, last night, Bayonne Payers to the 6th inst. They contain additional details of the" great advantages gained on every point by the'S - panish Constitutionalists over the Insurgents. The Army of the Faith has evidently ceased to exist as a body. Beaten back in an attack which it v t entured to make on the division of Espinosa, it will 'vigorously pursued and forced to fight a Second battle, which terminated, notwithstanding the reinforcements which it had received, in its total rout and dispersion. The only remains of thi - s•boasted force seem to be General Quesada and his Aides-de-Camp, who, more wisely perhaps than bravely, have fled out of Spain and taken refuge at Bayonne, where the people received them in a manner but little calculated to soothe the irritation and affliction of defeat. The cap ture of Castelfollit by Mina in person seems to have'been attended with a far greater loss on the part of the Rebels then they had chosen to acknowledge, although they could not deny the fact . of'the .- Constitutionalists having carried that important position. [NEW TIMES.] The Funds recovered yesterday in some de gree the 'depreSsion of' the preceding day, and Consols left off at This circumstance was doubtless owing to the intelligence brought by express from Paris of the improvement in the French Funds. It has been said that the French Covernment has pronounced the apprehension of hostilities to be groundless. We doubt whether any specific declaration to that effect has been made by the French Government. France will not interfere to prescribe any particular Consti tution to Spain : and if the interferes at all, it will be with great reluctance. Certainly the Coun sels of Great Britain will be strongly in favour' of neutrality so long as it can possibly be preserved. There is scarcely a possibility of any occurrence arising which may drive us from:Our neutral ground ; but that France may be able to retain hers is certainly more doubtful. The old proverb applies more strongly to her case, while revolution is desolating Spain--- - Qui la maison son voisin ardoir voit 4! r.v. ' la sienne flouter se . dolt. i It.. is n the power of the revolutionary leaders in "Madrid to calm the apprehensions of France, and to give pledges of security to Europe, by adopt ing a mild and truly liberal policy ; but their measures seem- to increase in violence, and instead of approximating to the British Constitution, they daily resemble more and more the savages of the French National Convention. [THE: TIMES.] Our Brazil intelligence presents to us the fact, striking and important certainly ; though not unlooked for, that the Prince, the Authorities, and the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, have, in the name of the Brazilian nation, declared its ab solute independence, and finally thrown oil' the domi►►ion of the present State. Regarding this event as now irrevocable, we dismiss all conside ration of its merits. Portugal, we trust, will be satisfied that in what belongs to her future trans actions with Brazil, she can reap nothing but dis appointment from the application of force. The troops which are at this moment wasting their strength at Bahia, or in the neighbourhood of La Plata river, might, if expeditiously withdrawn from scenes where they can produce no effect but evil, discharge at home a more illustrious service, by resisting, or still more beneficially averting, a.: attack upon the laws, the rights, the peace and happiness of independent nations, and of the civilized world. How inestimable at this moment would be a few thousand brave Portuguese soldiers, ranged by the side of Mina, to defend the avenues into Spain ! [HORNING CHRONICLE.] Though the alarm is now in a great measure over, confidence is still far from being fully re stl'ored on the Exchange, so great has been the force of example, and so long it is before, after an "alarm of this kind, individuals can completely regain their self-possession. People, however, r.Ow begin to reason on the subject of the agita tion, and the views and motives of those who pro duced it. Several surmises are afloat, and among otherS'one to which we have already obscurely al luded. It is thought by well-informed per Sons that de French Ultras are deeply implicated in the scheme, and that it had for object to injure the credit of the Constitutional Government of Spain, as their bosom friends, at the head of the Army of the Faith, have been usuccessful in their mi litary Operations, and the moment was deemed propitions, 'from the circumstance of the Cortes having . decreed a new and larger Loan, for the express purpose of clearing the Peninsula, pre venting all re -action, and consolidating still more tht: new; order of things. As all this, however, could not be done without some sacrifices, it is thought the Pavillon Marsan has agreed to make : - itlre . m. The names of some money speculators are als6 mentioned, who, from a supposed com petitiOn, are Whispered to have been induced to co operate in it. These, of course, are only surmises ; but time,"itis to be presumed, will clear up the Miitter ; but - that the French Ultras have 'some hand in the plot appears probable, not only from the general tenour of their policy and intrigues, but also from the circumstance of mercantile letters froM Madrid, addressed to persons in 'Lbtidoit, deeply interested in the financial con cerns of Spain, having been stopped in Paris, more than once at this critical moment. Before we close this subject we think it proper to state, that great astonishment and considerable irrita tion was felt on the Exchange yesterday at The Times having quoted the French Rentes `2 per epOt. lower than they were When their own eic press came away. [BRITISH PRESS.] Of any intention op the part of the . Allied Sovereigns to dictate a Constitution to Spain ai the point of the bayonet, there is not only no positive intelligence, but the supposition has not even probability in its favour. The present Con stitution of Spain may not be exactly to the taste of the despotic Sovereigns of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, but it is not a creation of yesterday. They have seen its foundation laid, and the super structure completed, without fear or apprehen sion ; and whatever may be its defects, or to whatever objections it may be liable, it threatens to them no danger from its example. They sit upon their thrones in remote security, and having assumed the title of conservators of the peace of Europe at Verona, they will not forfeit it and become the disturbers of that peace without an obvious necessity. No such necessity exists in the present state of the relations between them and Spain, at least none that would satisfy public opinion, and fortunately that is a tribunal to which they owe and must pay obedience. The immediate contiguity of France places her in a different situation from the other Continental Powers with respect to the Peninsula. In her case it is Urit Ucalegon. A political fer mentation in Spain must prove to France a source of great alarm. It was soon ap parent that the cordon sanitaire, the original name of the army of observation, was intended to stem, not a physical, but a political epidemy. Still, however, it could only be considered a measure of precaution. The various trials for plots and conspiracies in France did not say much for the stability of her own Government, and surely that was not the moment for medi tating the destruction of a neighbour. France could not at any time march an army into Spain without endangering her own internal security. Bat the present moment is the most unfavourable that could be chosen for the purpose since the commencement of the civil war in that country. [MORNING HERALD.] We little thought the other day, when we ob served that France's invading Spain, at present, could be accounted for only on the supposition that she was commissioned to chastise, and bring to order the Spaniards, as Austria the Italians, that this supposition could be adopted for a moment. We regarded it only as the basis of a conclusion ad absurdum. It is not without some surprise that we find this very task gravely assigned to France in the last Constitution/rel. —This arrangement, it states, was made by the Great Powers in Congress, England only dissenting. Now we still believe as before, that this supposition is unfounded, and utterly im probable. But observe the sang froid with which the politicians of the Continent regard the power and authority of England in the continental affairs of Europe, reduced to a state of nullity— to a mere unfruitful nega'ive, calculated only for Naples or Sardinia—in one of the most im portant transactions of the present period.— There are undoubtedly two impressions prevalent on the Continent—the one, that the influence of this country has dwindled, from the difficulty of her encountering a war in her present financial state ;—the other, that the Conti nental Powers are all ready to confederate against her interests, and for her exclusion. As to the first, we believe the enemies of Eng land deceive themselves as to the extent of her power, and the elasticity of her resources, to de fend and enforce it if necessary. It is from an opinion of the decay of English influence that the Continental speculators can suppose Eng land a passive, powerless,spectatress, whilst Rus sia, Prussia, Ausria, and France, are disciplining and dragooning independent nations at their will. But it is because we know and feel the genius of the English Goyernment and people,and the station of England in the councils of Europe ; that we judge it impossible for England to appear in this situation of mean and pitiful neutrality. But if the first impression—that England has de clined in power—be mistaken ; the second, viz., that Continental powers are ready to confederate against her, is perfectly correct. Their separate interests apart, they would unite against,her. MYSTERIOUS DiSCOVERY.—On Satucday last, the 9th instant, Thomas Hague was committed from the New Bailey to Lancaster, on a charge of bigamy ; but other circumstances of a myste rious nature, have tended to make this person's case extremely awful. lle had been for some days in custody, for arrears of bastardy money which he had neglected to pay, when, on Monday, the , lth instant, a charge was pre ferred against him of bigamy, by a woman who stated herself to be his second wife. She was told by the Magistrate (James Norris, Esq.) that she must produce evidence of the man's first wife being alive at the time of the second, before the charge could be received. Hague was then committed on the bastardy warrant. The second wife and her friends accordingly made inquiry in the neighbourhood of Chorley, where the first wife had lived, and discovered that, on the 2Gth of September, Hague had fetched her away, and that she had not since been heard of, though her friends supposed she was in Manchester, where her husband said he was taking her. The second wife, knowing that he had been living with her ever since that time, told the relatives of the first, who, being alarmed, came over to this town, and here learned that on the 28th September a woman was found drowned in the canal' in Oldfield-lane, Salford ; that a large wound appeared on the back of her head ; that no one was able to identify her at the Co roner's Inquest, and that the verdict was—Found Drowned. They also learned that the clothes of this woman had been kept at the Work house, and on being permitEed to examine them, they were satisfied they were those worn by the first wife of Hague. The grave has since been opened, for the observation of her relatives, and they recognized her by a particular scar under the ear, which was well known to them. These, though foul circum stances, were not deemed sufficiently conclusive to warrant a commitment for the greater crime. He is, however, in safe custody for' the minor offence, and it is to be hoped the ends of justice will ultimately be fully answered, by a discovery of the whole truth, which the time intervening betwixt the present and that of the Assizes will enable a vigilant police to effect.—( Manchester Herald.) CITY, WthNtSDAY EVENING. By various expresses, letters and papers were received early this morning from Paris, dated on Monday last. The panic which took place in London amongst the dealers in Public Securities last Saturday, was known in Paris at that time, and although scarcely an additional rumour was circulated there, still it had the effect of continuing the distrust which previously existed ; and a deep depression prevailed as well in the National as in the Foreign Securities, during the greater part of that day. When these advices were received here this morning, they did not tend to dispel the gloom which hung over the operations of the monied interest ; and the ostentatious man ner in which they were communicated by a respectable Morn ing Paper, increased the doubts which had created so much pri vate calamity. Consols for the settlement opened at the clos ing price of the preceding evening, and would have declined, had not large purchases been made by a poWerful interest. No advance in them could, however, be effected, until about three o'clock, when it was rumoured that another letter had been re ceived, by express, from Paris, and Consols instantly rose to 81,i. It was perfectly correct that farther information had been received, and it was dispatched from Paris, at nine o'clock, on Monday evening. At that time an advance of 3 per cent. had taken place in the French Itentes, for it was known that a Council of the Ministers had risen betwixt five and six o'clock, and it was reported that the result of their deliberations was a determination to act in concert with Great Britain in the present state of the affairs of Europe. The Rentes in conse quence rose to 89 from 86 20, the price at four o'clock, and there were few sellers at this improvement. The ad vance on Neapolitan and Spanish Bonds was larger in pro portion, bout their prices were not stated. The knowledge of the arrival of this express soon created a great bustle on the Royal Exchange. The French Rentes rose to 90. Spanish Old Bonds reached 71, and the New 601 for cash. The con tinuation for the settlement of the 30th current is in many in stances very large, because the immense fluctuation has created great distrust. Prussian and Russian Securities also advanced 1 per cent., and Neapolitan fully 2 per cent. During thesa events, the South American Funds have remained very steady, and the payment of the remaining instalments on the Peruvian Loan having been postponed until next May, confidence is com pletely restored amongst its subscribers. The following are the current prices of Foreign Stock this day : French * Five per Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept. 90. Spanish * Five per Cent. of 1820, Dividend from Ist No vember, 69 70 1 Ditto Five per tent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from Ist Nov. 513,i 91 64 Ditto Scrip, 5 4 3 2 1 dis. par. Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist July, 82. Ditto * Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Sept. 82. Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept., 87i Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (sterling) Dividend from Ist Oct., 8611 71. Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 86,1. Austrian * Five per Cent. (metall.) Div. from Ist 1 eb. 84. Neapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from Ist July, 7678- Ditto Scrip, 77 8 9. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lsi July, * Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 87. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lsi Nov., 83 fl 4. Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lsi Oct. 82. Poyais, 78. Peruvian Loan, 79 80. Marked • are subject to the rate of Exchange. —( Morning Chronicle.) BRIDGE WARD. A Meeting of the Inhabitants of Bridge Ward was yesterday held at Fishmongers'-hall, for the purpose of considering questions relative to the assessment of taxes ; and also of learning the causes which had led to the resignation of the late Deputy of the Ward. Mr. Alderman GAIIRATT having taken the chair, and ex plained the object of the meeting, Mr. BARTRUM complained that the gentlemen who had been selected as assessors of the assessed taxes and the land tax were principally young inexperienced men, possessing strong party feelings, and violent partisans of the late oppo nent of Mr. Alderman Garratt. lie also complained of the inequality of these gentlemen's assessment, contending, at some length, that the supporters of Mr. Alderman Garratt had been rated proportionably higher than the friends of Mr. Williams ; and concluded by moving three resolutions, ex pressive of their opinion of the inhabitants of the Ward, that the gentlemen appointed assessors ought to be men of matured judgment and experience ; and that the assessments of the taxes were extremely partial. Mr. CECIL seconded the resolutions. Mr. THORNHILL, Mr. W. K. LIMED, Mr. GREEN, jun. Mr. SAUNDERS, Mr. PEWTERIS, and Mr. BULL, defended the appointment and conduct of the assessors, who, they in sisted, acted with the utmost impartiality, and in strict com pliance with their duty and their oaths. Mr. GIBBS contended that the assessors had not acted with impartiality. After considerable discussion upon this subject, Mr. SAuN DEts proposed as an amendment, a vote of thanks to the asses sors, for the fairness of their assessments : which was finally carried. When the resolution respecting the consolidated rates was put from the chair, Mr. SAimmEns said that the result of bringing that subject under discussion would be to saddle the ward with 3001. a year more than ever. Mr. Alderman GAnnATT said, that as that rate was now before the meeting, he would take that occasion to explain the motives which had induced him to recommend to Mr. Child his resignation as deputy of the ward ; which he had done from no disrespect to that gentleman, but from a pain ful sense of what he owed to the honour of the ward, which he could not sacrifice to private friendship. The worthy Alderman man then went into a long statement, in which he detailed the various balances of the rates that remained from time to time in the hands of the late deputy, part 94‘ which it was customary to apply to defraying the expence of dinners for the Gentlemen assembled to transact the business of the ward ; of which cus tom he (Mr. Alderman Ga-ratt) disapproved, as being an ille gal application of the funds, and tending to increase the bur den of taxes, already sufficiently oppressive to the inhabitants of the ward; and therefore expressed his determination to put a stop to it ; notwithstanding which he found himself in a mi nority upon the question in the Common Council of the ward— his deputy, Mr. Child, having voted for the continuance of the dinners. Under these circumstances, finding that his deputy would not go hand in hand with bim in what affected the inte rests of the ward, he was induced, upon the most cool consi deration, although with great pain to himself, from the re spect and friendship he entertained towards Mr. Child, to write him a letter, suggesting the propriety of his resignation. CHILD replied to the statement of Mr. Alderman Gar ratt. His accounts were always fairly balanced : he had never sought to keep a shilling of the land-tax a moment in his hands, nor had he ever made a shilling by it. He thought he had a right to vote as he might deem fit, notwithstanding his being deputy ; but since he had resigned that office, he felt his mind relieved from a great load. Mr. RoNm.ns and Mr. STEPHENS approved of Mr. Alder man Garratt's conduct in investigating the expences of the Ward, and endeavouring to reduce their taxation. Mr. PEWTERlS . condemned the practice generally of dining at the expence of the public, but said, that in the present case the gentlemen always gave a dinner in return to the inhabit ants of the Ward, by which they were after all 31. or 41. out of pocket at the end. He thought that the worthy Alderman had acted with too much precipitancy in dismissing his Deputy; for had he waited a little longer, he could have accomplished his object without the necessity of so harsh a measure. He concluded by moving as an amendment, a series of Resolutions expressive of the opinion of the meeting of the insufficiency- of the reasons assigned by Mr. Alderman Garratt for dismissing Mr. Child ; and of their respect for the character and conduct of the latter. . Mr. THORNHILL seconded the amendment. Mr. GREEN, jun. , wished the- first part of it to be with drawn. It was put and carried ; as were also two resolutions, that the foregoing be printed on vellum, framed and glazed, and presented to Mr. Child ; and that they be printed in the usual public. papers; Mr. Alderman Garrett having first received an undertaking from some of the friends of Nfr. Child, to guar. rantee to him the expences of carrying the two last Resolutions into effect, he having expressed a determination'that no part of the watch-rates (which was the only fund in his possession) should be applied to any other than their legitimate object. The Meeting adjourned at a late hour in the evening, and had been Occasionally alittle turbulent in its proceedings, which were not, hoWever, so violent as had been expected. BERMONDSEY ABBEY. The remains of this very ancient Monastery, which but a few years since presented so vener able an appearance, are almost wholly annihilat ed. All the part which adjoins Bermondsey church-yard is formed into a new street, and a solitary fragment or two of stone wall, in what is called King John's-court, together with a few old buildings there, is all that now exists to point out the site of this once celebrated religious foundation. As these are likely, from the great improvement going on, soon to share the same fate, our antiquarian readers will not be dis pleased if we lay before them some local infor mation which we have gained during a long ac quaintance with the interesting spot, together with a few historical particulars of the Abbey itself.— T he name of Bermondsey, or Bermundesey, as it is spelt in the Doomsday Survey, is of uncertain deri vation,but is said to be compounded of Beormund , a proper name of some early proprietor, and ea or eye, a termination signifying a place near the water side or river. The manor at the Conquest be longed to Harold, but on that event was seized by the Crown, at which period it was valued at 151. per annum. The Monastery was founded in 1082, by one Ailicomblued, a citizen of Lon don, for monks of the Cluniac order, a cargo of which had just before been imported hither, through the favour of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, from the priory of La Charite, in France, to which this establishment was at first a cell. Edward 111. seized this, among the other alien Priories, in 1371, but withi❑ a few years, on the intercession of the then Prior, backed by a fine of 200 marks, and some other concessions, he re stored it to all its rights and privileges. Richard 11., 1380, released the convent from its subjec tion as one of the alien Priories, and made it it denizen, at the same time converting it into a❑ Abbey. It was surrendered, at the general disso lution of religious houses in 1539, by Robert Wharton, then Abbot, who was allowed a pen sion at 3331. Gs. Bd. a year for his ready com pliance with the King's wishes. The monks had pensions of 101. and 51. a year, according to their degrees. From the foundation to the dissolution, there had presided over this Convent forty-five Priors and five Abbots. The first Prior, named Peter, or Petreius, was one of the original monks who came over from France, and died in 1119; the last was named John Attelburgh, who was made the first Abbot, and who resigned in 1399. There were three Priors between him and the Robert Wharton just mentioned. We do not know much of the history attached to this Ab bey, but what there is is interesting. That it was a place of considerable importance is evi denced by a number of provincial chapters being held at it, as also its being made use of occa sionally by the Court for their meetings on state affairs. Thus, at Chrismas, 1154, King Henry 11., immediately after his first coronation, held his Court here, where he treated with his Nobles on the state of the kingdom. In the reign of Henry 111., many of the Nobility having taken the Cross, met here to deliberate on the order of their journey. And some years afterwards, Wil liam de Eborum, and his fellow Justices itinerant, held their assizes here. In this Convent Cathe rine, the Dowager Queen of Henry V., died in 1436-7, as did another Queen, Elizabeth Grey, widow of Edward IV., in 1486. The latter was confined here by her jealous son-in-law, Henry VII. Her will, made just before her death, and which is printed in Nichols's Collection of Royal Wills, bequeaths only a few trifles, of little value, which seem to have been all she then possessed, and is justly characterised by a late writer as a complete specimen of Royal poverty. The corpse of Thomas de Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, rested here some days, on its way to interment in Westminster Abbey. And, amongst other eminent persons buried in the conventual church, were Leofstane, Provost of London ; Mary, sis ter to Maud, Queen of Henry 1., and daughter to Malcolm 111., King of Scotland ; William de Moreton, Earl of Cornwall ; Margaret de la Pole (1473) ; Dame Aime Audley, relict of John Lord Audley (1497), &c.—On the dissolution, this fine Monastery was granted to Sir Thomas Pope, who pulled down the ancient church, highly interest ing for the interments there just noticed, and on a variety of other accounts, and built himself a magnificent residence on its site. This, with part of the grounds attached, was conveyed, in 1554-5, to Sir Robert Southwell, by the description of "Bermondsey House," with the orchards, edifices, and gardens, thereto pertaining ; as also a stable, barn, pasture, and ponds, lying on the backside of the said orchards, containing all together twenty acres. The house afterwards, according to Pennant, was occupied by the Ratcliffs, Earls of Sussex, one of whom he tells us, Thomas the great rival of the favourite Earl of Leicester, breathed his last within these walls. A consider able part of the site of the Monastery, or its precincts, was sold by Sir Thomas Pope to Wharton, the last Prior, and having passed through various hands, was some years since the property of William Richardson, Esq. in whose garden was an ancient wall, with crosses and various emblematic devices worked in glazed brick ; the remainder of the site was lately, for the most part, if not entirely, the property of William Smith, Esq. of Chiswick. Some hints, as to the ancient monastic buildings are given in the accounts of the Priors here, but they only mention a part of them. Prior Richard, its 1213, built an almonry or hospital next the Priory, for indigent children and necessitous converts, which was called St. Thomas's Hospital of Bermond sey ; and a new cloister and refectory are men ' tioned as having been erected by another of the Priors. The church, which the Doomsday Survey, compiled in 1083, describes as new and beautiful, had a nave and choir, presbytery, high alter of St. Saviour, and various minor altars, but it is not' further described. The remains of buildings lately standing, consisted of the principal Abbey gateway, and an ancient building adjoining, and some arches and fragments of the original pile in other situations, but only of minor importance, together with large fragments of the surrounding walls . The principal of the erections of later date were the shell of Sir Thomas Pope's house, or, more properly, Bermondsey House, which stood next Bermondsey Church-yard, ands°lll: other old buildings, apparently of the same g in ' in King John's Court. Some of the r ooms these exhibited remains of decayed grandeuer" and were well worth se e ing. All these, hl e r ,„." as we first stated, are now destroyed.-- -'l-1; rnondsey-street," Pennant says, " may at preSe be called the great woolstaple of the kiag"l3l; as here reside numbers of merchants, who s , u . „P P O5 t Rochdale, Leicester, De k by, Exeter, and "" d .,,,t other weaving counties in the kingdom, w ith ` fa commodity." It is still, perhaps,better know n of the tanners. These are a chartered Cornr 3 by (having been incorporated by Queen Anne, ra. the name of cc the Master, Wardens, and the monalty of the art or mystery of Tanners, 01.0, parish of St. Mary Magdalen, BermondseY• ) bo , They are very numerous, and carry on their art. siness to a greater extent than in any other 1 1 3 e, of the kingdom. From a mutual connex ion d ji , tween the several trades, there are also, in a n i tion to the woolstaplers, fellmongers, curri ers,a .„ , leather-dressers, and some parchment-ma ke V; r i, The water-side is occupied by rope- 0 ' 1 ,1: 0 , anchor-smiths, stave-merchants, boat-buhu" r and persons employed in finishing v arious $ O ,, titles of rigging for the navy. There a re t o , small docks. The calico-printing and dying t his siness are carried on also in a small degree ;fl air parish, and there are some pin and ne e n ip makers. In 1641, the parish was said to c °l / l i c h 514 acres of land, a considerable part of " $ has since been built on. Of the remain d A er o 'c. great part, until lately, was grass land, an" hpr e, cupied by cow-keepers. There was no corn " 1 ,- be but there were 110 acres of garden ground• " , parish was assessed at 39541. Os. 9d. to th e ' a ,,, 1 0 tax, which, in 1792. Mr. Lyssons reclani s 2.5. 9d. in the pound. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE . . h . 0 UN I o N-H r. L.—Yesterday John Courins, 11 139 7:01. 1 g l ! f g the employment of a Mr. Fenwick, a chandler, was before L. B. ALLEN, Esq., charged on suspicion 0 .1 yot); been concerned in forcibly entering the house, No• Sso street, and stealing the corpse of a poor woman tram s Crouch, who died on Sunday last. ifficti° rl ' Mrs. Barnard, cousin to the deceased, in deer? A tt 0 0 0 ' stated that her unfortunate relation had been a marri ed / .3 O a ; but had separated from her husband six or seven yeas since which period, up to the hexer of her death, s a d O w lived with the accused, who to witness's knowledge h.,,/,(10B her most cruelly. He was in the constant habit of rorint# the poor creature into the streets to earn money by tion, and whenever she refused to obey his odious cottltoent; she was sure to meet with the most savageit °- Witness was sent for on Sunlay morning last to %i iro tio l deceased, and found her in a dying: .state 0 1 5 ,11 0 „; having commenced in her legs. Dr. Palmer, Ihe,P for t" : 4 ' geon, told witness that every thing that could be at' n- to he" deceased had been done, but that she appeared to hiffiti a COli want of the nourishment necessary for a person in sue et i a n dition. Witness continued to attend upon the deceas_ eleven o'clock at night, when she expired 'ln the grea t el e pa!: Every preparation had been made forthe interment of ti :a and the witness, who lived in the same street, went sec er i ir rbil* from her own house to that of the deceased to see that evecotiono!: was properly arranged. In the course of those las t attotnel she met with much opposition from the accused, who()n anxious that no person should sit up with the corpse'„ w itnc si . „,a day evening at six o'clock, he brought two men t " 'IA house, and they wished to see Iris Sally before she ' screwed up. At twelve o'clock on the same night the key of the door back, and put it with a trenihh.";ceil, into hers. From this circumstance, and from having loco information that two resurrection men had been see t ot b t ing about in the neighbourhood, she wins apprehensi ve he was not going on right, and she went at that hour of oe o . e to the house in which the body lay, but finding all f 3 ': for, 0 turned. At five o'clock next morning she again see"o o/ t a purpose of having the body removed to her own .house/IsekA to interment ; but on going to the chamber of the deo - brot: e . her horror and surprise she found that the door had pe en calor open, and that some unfeeling wretches had stolen l a i c of j, of her unfortunate friend. The coffin lay in thennt" „ r e h t e A, floor, turned upside down, and the shroud and caP add of died together and thrown into a corner. The witnr boa that she was convinced the accused had disposed a w e ai d / the deceased for the purposes of dissection Mary Anne Lacey stated that she had 'known th e dec t e o t 1 and had heard the defendant talk of shewing the cerP d s e e ferP e friends. She offered to sit up with the body, but th e of said that nobody should do so. ent The defendant declared that he was complete l y the crime imputed to him, and ignorant of the manuer he Oa he the body of the deceased had been stolen. indeed/ lil y to he be the last person on earth to do such an act of brutf a d w h e n remains of a woman whom he tenderly loved!' , 311 ‘ ,, r iptiol l „' 0 , heard of the base theft he was shocked beyond ne'''d 110" iv He acknowledged that he knew Charley Austin, °their ce the resurrection-men, but denied that he had been n gti• pany on the night the body was stolen. was ti ,t/ Mrs. Barnard still insisted that the defendant so la 11 ( mental to this abominable robbery, and that he l ia ble in ' for corpse. She said that if search was made in a ' oll od , fie neighbourhood, she thought the body might be „ 0 , " such things" were often deposited there before under the knife. Search was made by order of the "" r_l• but without effect. a ve t, . The MAGISTRATE observed, that the case a'a s bo tw „ - ,t. traordinary one, and he should certainly sift it to tir He then gave die officers directions the mean to ain all the they could on the subject, and in time held the fendant to bail in his own recognizance. CAUTION IN PURCHASING DOGS' yr , Bow-ST ILEE T. —Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'cl° c ; ‘l O ,l Yates, the actor, entered the office with a moderate9'64ll,,l under his arm. After putting the dog down, and c le u sn dog , t o clothes from the hair and other effects of carrying t' e ,„ r e investigation took place of rather an extraordinary nai— -1 s cl who was the proprietor of the dog Mr. MlNsini Lt., the Magistrate, asked a man, mho re appearance of a labouring man, if the do belong e' an d He replied, it did—at least it belonged tii'his uneihe could swear to the dog. Mr. YAT ES inquired how he could swear to the &Is ; NO had disfigured it very much by cutting the hair in ful way. a do Mr. MINSIIULL observed, a man could swear to same as he could to a horse, a sheep, &e. 110 1111' The man who owned the dog denied selling him , $ being a dealer in do. Th mAG IST RATE gs asked Mr. Yates how he hee-a lne Pf#4 ed of the dog ? Mr. Yates replied he bought it for a guinea. The MAGisTRATE asked him of whom Ile answered he could not tell, having bought it of a 11 ' 31113: f did not know in Bond-street. I vor° ° Mr. MiNsituLL said he had bought one guinea:s,l,oi tie experience in buying a dog of a man in the street h . of thing about. • was Qr ' e IP those tricks now practised upon the public, Mr. HALLS, the Magistrate, said, he thought it ~,,, tx . , by dog s e ' i c ►ng ' ing . dogs in the street, and then one of the ga n g t he claim it as having been stolen from him. ~, , a pon A d The MAGISTRATES declined f i na lly dectuint,,,., ownership till the uncle of • the man chinni n g the n " , a , O to identify it. 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