The Sun. — London, England, 1832-07-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. " How long will the Belgic farce continue to be enacted?" is a question which every man asks his neighbour in the street ; and it causes us pain to say, that the answer usually given implies some impressions with regard to.the British Go vernment,*which are any thing bnt flattering to its members. What, indeed, but the extreme of imbecility can have suffered the Dutch King to bully England, France, and Belgium, and retain to this hour possession of Antwerp, which L o rd Palmerston repeatedly pledged the faith of Eng land that the Dutch troops should long sine( have evacuated ? The King of the Nether lands, as he is still improperly called, has played a game the most insulting to this country ; he shifts and shuffles, and when pushed into a corner, he defies. The folly of the thing on out part is, that all the impudence and obstinacy o' the Dutch has been endured, professedly for the sake of averting a general but contingent war Europe ; while every body knows, that if thi country and France delay much longer to fulfil their pledges, and enforce the execution of tin protocols, the consequence will be a certain and immediate recourse to hostilities between Kings William and Leopold, the latter of whom has much to complain of, and has indeed been shamefully ill-used. We trust that some honest Member of Parliament will demand some infor mation upon this most important question, and let England know what she has to expect. Since these observations were written we have heard, from good authority, that the Conference have agreed upon certain new propositions for tics settlement of this question. The following is, we understand, the substance of the new scheme, which is to make its appearance in a 67th protocol, that was drawn up by the Con ference after two days' discussion, and signed on the 13th instant. The 67th protocol com mences by declaring that the Plenipotentiaries have taken into consideration the new proposi tions made on the part of the Cabinet of the Ildgue by the Dutch Plenipotentiaries. It goes en to express the satisfaction of the Conferenct at finding that these propositions exhibit, by the concessions they make on the teiritorial ques tion, a willingness on the part of the King of the Netherlands to come to an arrangement ; but declares that, nevertheless, those proposi tiers appear to the Plenipotentiaries of the Fiv e Courts to be inadmissible. Yet, continues the protocol, the Plenipotentiaries of the Five Courts,--taking into their consideration th e manifest tendency of the King of the Nether lands; to make sacrifices for the security of the peace of Europe, as well as the just observations which are made on other points by the Dutch Pleni potentiaries,—express their willingness to elnmge some points in the annex E to the 65th pro tocol. This annex, our readers will recollect, contains the project of a treaty between the K ing of Holland and the five - Powers, for tht dissolution of the union between Holland and Belgium. It has already been printed. Afte some more formal and prefatory matter, the pro tocol proceeds to develop the new scheme of the Plenipotentiaries of the . Five Courts, in tin form of a treaty, which consists of the twenty four articles of the treaty of the I.5Lh of Novern• her, 1831, accompanied by four explanatory article', which are to the following effect : Article 1. The evacuation of the - territories, cities, towns, and places, which change domina tion, shall be terminated within 15 cloys after the exchange of the ratifications of the prese►,t treaty, conformably to general usage. The re spective troops on evacuating the territories and places which they now occupy, shall carry with them the objects belonging to the state which they serve, excepting all such as form part of the military dotation of the said places. Article 2. The two States shall delegate corn missioners, who are to meet at Aix-la-Chapelle. to negotiate and concAude there an arrangement, by mutual agreement, according to the recipro cal convenience of the two States, relative to the execution of the articles 9 and 12 of the present transaction, the execution of the said articles, 9 and 12, remaining suspended until the conclusion of the negotiation. All the mo difications or changes which the said Commis sioners shall agree to effect in the 9th and 12th articles above mentioned, shall have in the eyes of Aus!ria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, ano Russia, the same force and value as if they were comprised in the present transaction. Never theless, it is understood that the two patties shall regard as definitively adopted, the principle, in compliance to which the dispositions of the articles 108 to 117 inclusive of the general act of the Congress of Vienna, relative to the free navigation of the navigablerivers, shall be applied to the non-navigable rivers, which separate or traverse at the same time the Dutch and Belgian territory, and that provisionally the navigation shall be subject to the tariffs of the Convention for the Rhine, signed at Mentz, on the 31st of March, 1831. Article 3. If the Dutch and Belgian Com missioners, who are to meet at Utrecht, can come to an understanding on the means of capi talizing, at a moderate rate, after the reciprocal convenience of the two countries, the annual nun of 8,400,000 florins, P. 8., with which Belgium is charged, the arrangements so agreed to shall have, in the eyes of the Courts of Aus tria, &c., the same force and value, &c. Article 4. In case any doubt shall arise on the execution and sense of the 24 articles of the 15th of November, 1831, Holland and Bel gium shall refer thereon to the explanations contained in the memorial of the Conference dated the 4th of January, 1832.—Times. The ominous decree of the German Diet is founded on principles which have long been pub licly declared by those Statesmen who have at present the ear of the great Sovereigns. The Mi nister for Foreign affairs of Prussia, M. Ancil lon, is unquestionably an able man. But he has a strong leaning against what are called liberal opinions. In a volume published by him in 1825, on the spirit of political constitutions, be declares himself strongly against that part of the English Constitution which has been pro scribed by the Diet. " Whoever has the purse, be observes, " and can open or shut it, has in a representative Monarchy great power in his hands ; for he can always draw more to himself. If, therefore, the right of taxation be conceded to a representative assembly, the Monarchy will soon be turned into a demccracy, if suitable precautions are not taken. The representatives have only to avail themselves of a very simple system of tactis—namely, to connect certain con ditions with the grant of supplies, and to make these conditions consist in the acquisition of new political rights. Thus, with every grant of supplies, the Crown loses some right, and some rights are gained by the re presentatives of the people. But the most dangerous affair is the granting the supplies only for a year, and to lay a early Budget be fore the Representatives of the people, in order to have their votes for the Expenditure and In eome. This deprives the Government of secu rity, consistency, and independence, especially its external relations. For, however probable it may be that the Representatives of the peo tile will not stop the whole State machine by re fusing the necessary funds, but will grant what s necessary, still it is possible that they may act otherwise, and Foreign Powers may avail them selves of this circumstance to injure the State, r at least place it in great jeopardy. England has never experienced this, and could Lever experience it, because England is an island that cannot easily he attacked. But, in :eneral, no State which adopts such a system, -an follow it long with impunity. Hence un 'ertainty in the foreign relations, constant en -roaehment on the rights of the Government in he interior—these are the two flannel and ine vitable consequences of a Constitution, on ehich, in some measure, it is every year dis -ussed whether the necessary powers shall or -hall not be withdrawn from the State." We sere see that the English Constitution is pre eounced fit only for an Island so strong as to le out of all danger from a foreign enemy. M. Ancillon, indeed, would have no objection to diem the Representatives " to make them selves acquainted with the public con ,lition of the finances." He adds, " it is even very good that they should yearly ex uniee the amounts of income and expenditure. Iti this manner the Government will not be rep t!ered too independent, and, on the other hand, ieitl ter will it be rendered too dependent." But we annot conceive a state of things more likely to 'ead to abuse : than to free the rulers of the small States of Germany from all dependence on the ; - epresentatives of the people. Time smallest of Cie thirty-nine Rulers composing the Federa tion, will always he looking to the great States The Ruler of 100,000 or 200,000 men, who happens to have a fine taste for music, or to be devoted to gallantry, may soon ruin his subjects, by what in a greater Prince would he of little onsequence. The Ruler of Hesse Darmstadt, thr instance, was constantly quarreling with his people about the expenses of his Opera. The people of . Hesse Cassel felt themselves op ercssed by the determination of their Ruler to keep both a wife and a mistress, and they lately roe upon him alid compelled him to turn away he mistress and keep only a wife. These may he trifles in a great State, but they are not trifles in a small German principality. Under tile Constitution of the Empire the Princes were not l'lowed to put their hands into the pockets of the people whenever they pleased. The Prussian Mi ntster's sentiments on public opinion were declared , cithout reserve in a volume published in 1828, on h e Reconciling of Extremes in Opinions :" To censure," says M. Ancillon, "belongs to the order of the day ; we seldom praise, and still -o'ido:ner what is praiseworthy, for the censurer ; . cuts always to have a superiority over the cen eired ; and praise, as well as admiration, would in some measure be acknowledging something -uperior, which vanity is iil not allow. In the tions, circles, clubs, and places of the kind, opi nions are gradually fin-med, which are rapidly pread, impose on the weak, and produce the more powerful effect that their power, their ex tent, their depth, cannot be accurately calculated and measured ; this noisy current often deceives even the most wary and collected as to its pecu liar strength. A second cause of the conse qnence of public opinion, which borrows much of its efficacy from the former, but itself lends still more to it, is to be found in tile progress of authorship which daily supplies the market with new wares. In order to obtain more weight, and a readier entrance for their opinions, writers in their works always appeal to the public voice, which, according to them, has impressed on these doctrines the stamp of universal approbation and of truth, and public opinion refers to and sup ports itself on the writings which supply it with what it has to say, as if they were in a complete accordance, and deserved, on that account, the more credence. The peculiar food of the great reading world are the Journals of various descriptions, ephemeral publications and bro chures, light works that touch on everything, and go to the bottom of nothing, but which stimulate the majority of readers by their petulant, sneering, or audacious and regardless tone, and easily inoculate them with the views and ideas which have an affinity with themselves, and are the easier comprehended that they are derived from the surface of objects. In these ephemeral produc !ions nothing is spared, all is entered on ; rash opinions supply the place of deliberate judg ment ; they decide on everything—on persons without knowing them, on facts without having investigated them, the most complicated relations of politics without possessing the first elements of the science, the most difficult problems of Le gislation and Administration without giving themselves even the trouble of attempting to understand them. Forming a constant opposi tion against Governments, the writers attack all which issues from them, mutilate their acts, or falsify their views. The good, the suitable, is passed over in silence, or disfigured ; the bad, the unsuitable, is pourtrayed in the very black est colours. If facts cannot be denied, or if they afford no food for censure, secret wicked intentions are invented to blacken rulers ; if their benevolent spirit is above all suspicion, they complain of their want of judgment in the choice of means. If calumny can find no food in the present, recourse is had to the future, to blacken them by anticip a tion. With the same audacious ignorance, or the same regard , lessness, history is arbitrarily fashioned ; true philosophy is challenged the moment it lays down positive principles ; religion is injured by extravagancies of all kinds, either by conceding too much to reason at the exp ense o f f a i t h, or too much to faith at the expense of rea son. This abuse of authorship and read ing, extends to the middle, as well as the higher class, and contributes the most to ' the creation and diffusion of opinions, which, corrupt in their germ, become more and more so in their further development. In the long run, from this most frequently originates what is called public opinion, anti we perceive, spare, and fear in it a power which is composed of errors, passion's, and crimes of all sorts, but of which the dominion is not the less all-powerful." We may see from the above that neither Comm , tions nor Journals are in great favour with the Conf idential Adviser of the King of Prussia. Prussia is, however, in a false position. Prussia favours knowledge, encourages clever men ; Prussia can only be a power of the first m gnitude by open meg a career to talents of every kind. But it is impossilsle to have the good without the evil which is connected with it. But Austria is con sistent. Austria has always endeavoured to re press all intellectual exertion. The greatest crime in the eyes of the Austrian Government is talent. Johannes Von Muller, the historian of Switzerland, whose necessities obliged' him to accept of an office at Vienna, states, in one of his Letters, that almost all books which men are most desirous of reading are prohibited. Mon tesquieu, for instance, was prohibited. He , vas not allowed to proceed with the pub lication of his great work, the History of Switzerland, or his Universal History. In a letter to his friend Bonstetten, in 1802. who had reproached trim for not proceeding with his works, he says, " Where are you living ? Not in Europe certainly ! Not in a country in which there are Journals ! Extra anni rias. You must otherwise have heard something of what is called censorship here. You ought in that case to have advised me ii my fiftieth year to renounce all I possess, and wander about the world, as M. Gesellius for merly did, or to reconcile myself to write dif ferently from what I think. Would you have me to dishonour myself? But you will tell me—write nothing against the laws, religion, or morals. Very well. But when I relate (His tory of Switzerland) how in the fifteenth century battles were lost and States fell through errors that are repeated before our eyes—when I show the foundation of the evils that are now dis solving States in matters that are supposed to have been productive of the opposite—when 1 describe the course that true political wisdom ought to have held, and a hypocritical pedant shows a detached passage, which, taken by itself, may appear to have a meaning different from the real one, to the Prince, who has no time himself to read books (and who is surrounded try ! ! !), what will then happen ?" This slavish ,tale of thttegs is the state to which the rulers of the Cow insert would reduce the people if they could do so. Thank God they cannot. Put we fear, in the attempt to give effect to their views, they will, in the mean time, inflict unspeakable calamity on the people ofthe small States of Ger many.— Morning Chronicle. The old adage, that " what is every body s business is nobody's business," has often been illustrated in political affairs. In fact, no adage or theory has ever been more clearly established in praciice. It is this which gives the man, or the party, who pursue only their own private in terest under the colour of some public pretext, a perseverance which -does not often distinguish the man of purer motives, in consequence of the tendency in human nature to get rid of trouble, by transferring the business of every body to no body, as the adage inculcates or records. The friends of corruption, having a direct personal interest in keeping up the system through which they have been enabled to work their hands into our pockets—this is what they call working well—are constantly on the stretch to devise means for keeping up that system and that work manship, while the people, who have a general interest in putting down both, run a great risk of neglecting their duty through the want of some personal or rather selfish pi evocative. It is true that in strict reasoning every man has a personal interest in the promotion of good Governmen - , hut the responsibility of a':ting in conformity with that interest is divided amongst so many, drat its force is often compromised, if not lost, in the universality of its application. Every one remembers the perseverance attic anti-reform ers while the fate of the bill was doubtful. Let that be areason with every one for watching their per severance now that the Bill is formally carried, for it may yet he substantially defeated. Tie Con , ervaives, as tlsey call themselves—aird w e have no objection to the name, meaning by it the.coneer‘a , ives of corruption—have been play g a desperate game from the first, and they seem not at all disposed to change. their plan with the change in their circumstances. As late as Friday last an attempt was made in the House of Lords to throw out the Irish Reform Bill, but the grand effort seems to he to frustrate Re s foim throughout the whole kingdom, by setting up the selfish against tie social spirit, by sowing dissension between interests whose prosperity is one and the same, and taking every opportu nity to prevent the return of confidence and the resumption of industry, for want of which the people are now Fuffering to an extent such as was never before experienced in this country. We need not look far to discover the motive of the Conservatives in pursuing a course so desperate. They are willing to embarrass Ministers and de feat Reform, even at the hazard of embroiling the nation. They care not how, nor froth what quarter, the storm may blow, as the same storm that blows the Whigs out must blow the Tories into office, which is the paramount object of conservative policy at this moment. We have called their measures desperate, because they ran a great risk for a little and a contemptible purpose. The risk was revolution—the purpose was place. Like those who fight in the hope of plunder, they were willing to expose the country to all the horrors of revolution ra ther than give up the prospect of making it pay the highest price for bad Government. They would have risked revolution for this ; nay, they did risk it, and would have persevered, but that their pride took the alarm at the threatened in fusion of a set of honest men into the House of Lords—which it seems was against the rules of the hospital—and they determined to preserve their character by resisting the approach of any more honesty than they knew what to do with. Of a piece with this proceeding are their pre sent attempts to frustrate the operation of the Reform Bill. They have an unholy faith in the folly and depravity of human nature, and, with that opinion for their guide, they invent all sorts of falsehood, and hold out all kinds of temp tation, to induce the people to desert their own cause for that of their enemies. But we warn the people to be true to themselves. If a re formed constituency should return a Tory House of Commons, it will be in vain that an attempt was made to reclaim and re-establish the liber ties of England. In that case it will be mani fest that the long reign of corruption has tainted the heart of the community, that society is rot ten to its very core, and that in making an ap peal to the intelligence and spirit of the age, our Ministers have only hit upon a plan for expos ing, by a more direct process, its deficiency in every manly virtue. But we do not despair of the people. On the contrary, we look back upon their past . conduct, and recognise in its boldne ss - an d . decision an earnes t oetheir future energy.—Morning Herald. COLONEL GREEN.--The Colonel was to di ne with us one day. After waiting for him a long tone, we sat down to dinner. He arriv,d at the second course. "It seems, my dear GREEN," said JusroT, " that your watch is too slow." "Oh ! no ! G euera l," re p:ied GREEN. " But as I was passing in the Rue Vi ienne, I had the misfortune to break twelve guineas' worth of an old woman, and that d e l aye d my arrival. " His carriage had, in fac., thrown down an old woman, who uttered ouch dreadful yells, th at G REEN thought rbe crust be seriously injured. He, t h erefore, got out and examined her, and finding that she was not much hurt, gave her some money, and was abort to . proceed ; but she :rain cried out that sh,e,nwlyasggootin.afg t b o y d g ie i , vi h n a g d him arrested her three or a y t, u sk o .itb that inin means serious. fo I ur irtievhheeaucn4c oftened n r a e t r hundred f fi r ti a e i i i n er n h :c l „a s l h i efdno3er never r n a rid s , e c ha c ir r md d r n be t upt !) from him and he Duchess of Gordon--" Oh ! oh ! By G-- old women are ery dear at Paris ! "— Memoirs of theDucheaa ofAbrantes. BEDFORD ASSIZES, FRIDAY, JULY 20. DOE, ON THE DEMISE OF CARPENTER, V. LORD HOLLAND. This was an action of ejectment brought by Thos. David Carpenter, to recover an estate from the possession of Lord Holland, as heir-at-law to his sister, the late Mrs. Small. • The estate, which was worth about 4001, or 500/., had come into Lord Holland's possession by escheat, he being lord of the manor, and the person iast seised being supposed to have died without heirs-at-law. The plaintiff claimed as the eldest .airviving brother of Mrs.. Small ; an.l to establish rite relationship it was necessary for him to show that he was the son of Thomas and Anne Carpen ter, the parents of Mrs. Small, by a legal and valid marriage. The case, tl;e:efore, to be established by the plaintiff's Counsel turned on the question— 'as the marriage of his father and mother a legal marriag,? To prove this the register of the marri 'ge was pet in, which contained an entry of the marriage of Thomas and Anne Carpenter, on the sth of April 1787. Proof was also given that be had introduced the ledy to his family as his wife; that they bad cohabited together until his death ;n 1798, and had several children. Iles prima facie case was met on the part of the defendant by attempting to show that the marriage was con tracted under such circumstances as made it per fectly illegal and void. This imputation w a s zrounded on a previous marriage contracted with F.l;zabeth Colborne Sandal, in 1779. To prove this the marriage register was put in, whereby i• appear, d that Thomas Carpenter had been married by license to that lady on the 13th of August in Ihe year before mentioned. The two questions then arose, was his first marriage a legal one ? and, if so, was the first wife alive at the time when the second marriage was contracted ? If both those questions were affirmed, then Thomas Carpenter, the father of the plaintiff', had committed bigamy, and the off- Trieg of his second mart iege, not been born in law ful wedlock, could have none of the rights of legiti mate children, and, consequently, the plaintiff, as a frlius nullius, could not be the beir-at•law of his sister, Mrs. S all. The Learned JUDGE having placed all the com plicated facts of this case before the Jury, left it to them to say whether, under all the circumstances, the seemed marriage of Thomas Carpenter, the father of the plaintiff, was a legal or illegal marriage, as on 'hat depended the question whether the plaintiff was heir-at-law to his sister, and in that capacity had a right to her estate, which in default of heirs-at-law would go to Lord Holland by escheat. Tt.e Jury retired from the box, and, after about half an hour's deltbeiation, returned a verdict for the defendant. OXFORD ASSIZES, JULY 21. DOE OS TUE DEMISE OF DODGES, ESQ. V. GREEN, ESQ. Mr. JERVIS stated, that this was an ejectment brought by Mr. Charles Wyndham Hodges, for the recovery of estates in Oxfordshire. The father of the plaintiff (Mr. Anthony Hodges) had, on the 2d ref Jun;, 1782, married Miss Anna Sophia Aston, and the Plaintiff was born on the 8 , 11 of October, 1792. 1.. August, 1785, Mr. and Mrs. Hodges 11,c1 separated, but there had been no divorce antecedent to the birth of the plaintiff. The plaintiff was not th e only child cf Mrs. Hodges ; as on the 1t of :Niue?, 1791, she had had a dauglver, whose name was Caroline, who was now the wife of the Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope. Mr. HA,)—s had often visited his wile when she resided in Clieen-street, and used to fondle and caress the children. It would he proved that the plaintiff, in 1813, had obtained a eddetship in India, and did not return to this country till 1830, which was the reason that this action had not been commenced at an earlier period. The certificate of the plaintiff's hap'ism, describ ing him as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, was put in. The Hon. Fitzroy Stanhope said, I married the sister of the plaintiff; I knew him from a child. Cross-examined.--I married the plaintiff's sister , bout 23 years ago : Mr. Wyndham was not at the marriage, and did not give her any portion; I never met Mr. Wyndham before my marriage. Mrs. Hodges hal three children—Mrs. Stanhope, the plaintiff, and a son, named Henry. Mrs. Ma y King said—ln 1792, I lived as nur sery-maid with Mrs. Hodges, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. Her husband was not living with her; she had then two children, a girl and a boy; the latter was a month old. I saw Mr. Hodges about two years afterwards. There were then three children. The butler was sent for the three chil dren, and they were taken to Mr. Hodges. Mrs. Anna Sophia Hodg( s said—My maiden-name was Aston. I was married to Mr. Hodges in 1782. We separated in about three years by con sent. I went to live at Brussels. I lived there six or seven years, and on my return went to live in Lower-Brook-street. That was before my daughter Caroline was borne. I went to reside at Burnham in Buckinghamshire, and thence I went to Birstal in Leicestershire, and afterwards to London. I went to Charles -street, Berkeley square, and after that went to Paris, before the birth of my son Charles. I went to Paris in 1792, early in the spring, I think in March. I went by way of Abbeville. My mo ther was there residing. Her name had been Aston, and she hal married a second husband of the name of Tinker. She had a black woman named Gambia. I was at the Hotel de l'Universite, in Paris. I saw my husband there soon after my arrival at Paris, and just before I came away. He knew of my go ing there. Ido not recollect seeing him more than tw i ce . We cohabited while we were in Paris, and I became enceinte. The plaintiff was born on the Bth of October 1792. To the best of my belief Anthony Hodges was the father of the present plaintiff. Mr. Wyndham was not with me at Paris. Lord Craven accompanied me part of the way to Kris. I saw my husband frequently after my re turn from Paris, and after the birth of my son Henry, but we had no cohabitation at that time. He saw the children and he noticed them. Cross-examined—Before the separation Mr. Hodges and I had had differences. 1 left England, because Mr. Hodges was in debt. Mr. H. was not in the suite of his late Majesty, when Prince, but I had a particular intimacy in that quarter. My brother, Mr. Harvey Aston, advised that I should leave P.11:-mall, and insisted I should go abroad. He also insisted that I should return some jewels which his Bnyal Highness had presented to me, and I did so. When abroad, I met with Mr. Bouverie, who lived in the same house with me, as long as he remained in Brussels. I have reproached my husband for con niving at my intimacy with Mr. Bouverie. I became a cquainted with Mr. Walkier, a banker. When the deed of separation was executed Mr. Hodges left Brussels. The immediate cause of the separation was partly caused by my alleged intimacy with Mr. Walkier. After that, I received Mr. Walkier's visi.s openly. My intimacy with Mr. Wyndham commenced after the separation. I complained that my husband bad contracted a disease, arid urged that as a ground of resisting a divorce. My daughter Caroline was born in Grosvenor-place, which was Mr. Wjndham's house—Birstal being his country house. Mr. Hodges commenced a suit for a di vorce in 1791. I resisted it. Mr. Wyndham ad vised me. l he divorce was not complete till 1795. I cannot tell in what month I arrived in Paris. left England when Mr. Wyndham went to New market. I was at Abbeville for a few days. Lqrd Craven went from Abbeville to Paris with me. He came out in the same packet-boat; he left me a little before I went to my mother's, and he joined the again from Abbeville to Paris, and stayed in the s..me hotel with me all t h e t i me , an d came b ac k t o England with me. Mr. Wyndham was jealous and angry, but he did riot make any difficulty about t .king me back. I think he knew about Loid Craven before I went back. I don't know how he knew it. He received me back, and I continued to live with him from that time to his marriage. A . Paris I saw my husband at two o'clock in the day, and at eight in the evening. Al hough there was a suit depending for a divorce, and I had objected to toy husband on account of a disease he had contracted, he cohabited as I hove stated. I had arranged that Lord Craven should accompany me to Paris. I did not stay in Paris so late as June. My memory is much impaired by opium. I heard of an action against Mr. Wyndham by my husband. Ido not recollect telling him of a set vent who could prove some thing between me and the Prince of Wales. I bad a servant named Fido. Ido not recollect whether f aided Mr. Wyndham, it is so long ago. Ever since the deed of separation my husband and myself never lived together. Examined by the Learned BARON—I was living with Mr. Wyndham before 1 went to Paris. I had lived with him for two years before, and I ceased living with him when lie died, which was three years ago. I ceased to live with him for about a fortnight, at the time of his marriage. This was after all the children were born. lam not able to say who was the father of try daughter Caroline, nor am I able to say who was the father of my son Henry; but I was living with Mr. Wyndham when all the three were born. He slept in the house when I was at his house, but not when I lived in Charles-street and Queen-street. Mr. Wyndham was with me at Kent's-hill, near Eton. Ile used to sleep there, and used frequently to come to Charles-street and Queen-street. He used to come every day, generally, when in town. He used to see the children. The nursery-maids used to see M. Wyndham come. SIR JAMES SCARLETT said that, even upon the evidence for the plaintiff, it seemed to him that the. defendant was entitled to a verdict. There was no legal bar to the plaintiff's claim, as he had gone to India at the age of twenty, and bad returned at the age of forty, so that the Statute of Limitations did not apply ; but still an estate of 3,000/. a-year was worth attending to, and could he not have sent over a power of attorney, or could not his mother or real father have done some hint in the way of claiming it for hint ? and yet for thirty years nothing had been done. The whole case rested on the testimony of Mrs. Hodges, and that lady %sus produced to give evidence of her own shame. He considered Mrs. Hodges unworthy of -credit. She lived with Mr. Wyndham, and yet made an assignation to go to Paris with Lord Craven, and did go with him. No one could doubt her acquaintance with Lord Cra ven, and yet she would say that she cohabited with her husband. The Jury, perhaps, did not know this lady when young. Site was, us he knew, then a most beautiful woman. She attracted the atten tion of the Prince of Wah s; and it becoming a matter of public scandal, she was taken to Brussels, where she became connected with Mr. Thuverie and Mr. Walkier. It was doubtful, from Mr. Hodges' conduct respecting the Prince, whether he could have maintained any action against any one, arid against that illustrious Personage he certaMly could riot, and the separation therefore took place. I was remarkable that during all the years that Mr. and Mrs. Hodees lived together they had no family, nd after she was known to be publicly living with Mr. Wyndham, it was that all her children were b irn. Mr. Hodges brought an action against Mr. Wyndham, and it being proved that the Prince of Wales was in the lodgings of Mi. for same hours, wirh a great appearance of knowledge on the part of Mr. H., Lord Kenyon directed Mr. Hodges to be nonsulted. He would submit, that as Mrs. Hodges was living with another man, and her husb ,nd was abroad, it was perfecdy clear that the plaintiff was the child of Mr. Wyndham, and not of Mr. Hodges. Mrs. Sarah Bennett said, I went to Mrs. Hodges at a house in Grosvenor-place, about a mouth before Mi-s Caroline was ben'. I did nor know that Mr. Wyndham was not Mrs. Horiges',husbmd. After the birth of M as Caroline, Mr. Wyndham and Mrs. Hodges used to sleep together. I used to take the child into the bed-room in a morning. Mr. Wynd ham would call oat, " Don't bring in the child yet, I am going to my dressing-room." I have seen him come back and caress the child. They went to Le:c-s ershire in the end of 1791 or beginning of 1792. Mts. Hodges was nor well. I suggested 'o her that she was enciente. She said she hoped not, as she did not want any more young brats. No other gentleman visited her there, and if she had beets marred to Mr. Wyndham, hest conduct was as cor rect as it possibly could be. Before she went to France I am sure she %vas enciente. She wished me to go with her. I knew she had engaged to go with Lord Craven, and, us I knew she was enciente, I was so disgusted I refused to en with her ; and, in further proof that she was enciente, site asked me to recommend her a wet-nurse. 'lhe deed of scp:iration of Mr. and Mrs. Hodges, dated August 8, 1785, was read, by which 5001. a year was to be paid to Mrs. Hodges for three years and 6001. a year afterwards, so long as the parties should live apart. Mr. Wagstaff, of the Foreign department of the Post-office, proved the Post-otlice marks on the two letters of Mr. Hodges, arid stated that both of them had come from Bordeaux to London. The letters were read: they were to the Lliow ing effect : " Bordeaux, Nov. 12, 1791. " Dear Johnson,—l am settled at Bordeaux. I believe it is at Paris and here, which are the only towns in France, where a foreigner can pass his time pleasantly. " My affection for Mrs. Hodges is inconsiderable ; so your intention to suppress her income does not grieve me ; hut I shall consider it a fortunate event that she does not breed, and there will be no more trouble about her. " For acting I have the best opinion of your judgment. Remember me to your dear children, whom I love almost as much as if they were my own. " I am, dear Sir, yours affoctionately, " ANTHONY HODGES. " Chez Preau, Marchand des Mo les, Place de la Comedie." Addressed to " Mr. Johnson." " Bordeaux, May 5, 1792. " Sir,--Mrs. Hodges made acqttaintance with Mr. Walkier before Mr. Bouverie came to Brussels. Ido not remember to have left Mr. Walkier and Mrs. Hodges alone in the drawing-room at five o'clock in the morning, but a had state of health did cause me to go to bed before Mrs. Hodges, and I do not know where she went or what took place. Mr. Walkier did once bring a gold snuff-box for Mrs. Hodges from Paris. I told her she bad spoken to me and others reproachfully of him, and I was sur prised she took his present, but she replied, he is rich and generous, and from this I did suppose that money would purchase her person, and soon after I arrived in London I heard that Mrs. Hodges was in keeping of Mr. Walkier. lam going to Paris on the 13th by the dili gence. Direct to me at Perigord's, and believe me, truly and faithfully yours, " ANTHONY HODGES." Addressed to " Mr. Turman." Mr. Townsend produced the proceedings rela tive to the divorce of Mr. and Mrs. Hodges com mencing in 1791, and concluding with a decree of di gt v i inn o ce i l ed c t sh e b , dated eoy4f a tmAh t eirr. Mrs. Hodges, 6 year ar loldoogdrgeF t se l rs t tni t 5. S I co 7 ph 9 wal.rihbi rhotyt ,e ne t, articles r t he(hlu27sd were husband's n f od .Tune, The ar ticles were an answer, were read. They stated that Mrs. Hodges was only fifteen years old when she married, and that Mr. Hodges associated with fe males of improper character, and contracted a dis ease, and that a person of very high rank was intro duced to her with the consent of her husband ; and that she might be as near the said person as possible, p herpersonage o h n u a s g b husband n u t' s e t d o o t k o l v o i d si g t i f e a r in every pall-mall, d ay, andwh when that h l a i t r. t s H. used to retire. That the said person came while cameshed and p herststairs r husband u toa s hf b , n tpk d ;e nr ts s o v ohc e nak r t e e i dnm i t the r t.b theed room,, Hodges a d t t o d o rt the person where aenn dl vie e said -t andmolts, tliere t was hat h a e greatwishe wished deb a r t . e ilt i h dg e e H s o t u o s e g o o f a C n o d m bring with Mrs. Hodges for an hour and a away,nh a m i I t e h dl e eaa r l e vo s in u ne l g t half, she being in bed all the time; and that the person left before Mr. Hodges' return from the House of Commons. Mr. JERVIS replied, after which The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the defendant againat the legitimacy of the plaintiff. THE MURDER ON THE RIVER. FURTHER DISCLOSURES. Since the inquest held on the body of Mr. Wil kinson, the gentleman who was murdered on Tues day night, on the river, some disclosures have been made by Flack, Kitley, and Lyons, three of the prisoners charged as accessories in the crime, to Mr. E. W. Symons, the chief clerk of the Thames po lice-offiee ; and further evidence has been collected by Mr. Mnehell and Mr. Isbisrer, the officers who apprehended the prisoners, which will render the case complete against Kennedy and Brown, of their having stolen the skiff from Mr. Moore's, the boat builder, in which they proceeded on the river, and conpuitted the robbery and murder; that they roved towards Nine Elms, when they had effected their purpose; and after walking about Lambeth some time, and disposing of the two coats, they proceed• ed with Kennedy to the barge, where he, Flack, and Kiley slept, and Brown to his own lodgings. The most important sta•ement is that of Kitley's, who says, that on Tuesday night, when Kennedy came to the beer-shop, and asked him for the keys of the barge and cabins, he appeared to have been running very fast, and the perspiration was dropping f um his face. asked him where he had been, and Ec said, in an agitated mariner, " Never mind, but give me the keys." lie then went on board, and came to the beer-shop again ; hut evidence has been collected by the officers, that in this interval he again joined Brown, and they were seen running down Fore-street, Lambeth, in a very hurried man ner, and appeared desirous to escape observation. Kittey his also confes-ed that Kennedy gave him the papers to burn in the beer-shop, and that when he attempted to look at one of them, lie snatched it our of his hand, and said that he should not real it. Flack and Lyons have not been so communica tive as Kitley, but they have also made some dis closures. On Saturday evening, Mr. James Evans, the principal surveyor of Thames police, in conseqirence of some information, proceeded to the house of a woman named Gear, in Lambeth, and after a rigid search found one of the coats stolen from Mr. Sineles and his murdered friend. The coat was given into the possession of Mrs. Gear's son, a COE.. rermonger, by the prisoner Brown, and Mr. Evans took Gear into custody, and brought him to the Tnatnes police-office on Saturday night, and he wise or dered to be detained. Mr. Evans found the other coat under the head-sheets or " swim " of a birge called the Recovery. belonging to Messrs. Keen and Dawson, at the bark of the shed of Mr. Talbot, a barge-builder, in Lambeth. Kitley states it was paced there by K-nrieily. Both coats have been ithntitied by Mr. Smales. On Saturday the prisoners were again brought up to the Thames police-Jfice, and the verdict of " Wilful Murder" returned by the coroner's jury against Brown and Kennedy was communicated to them. They did not betray the least emotion, and behaved with the same levity and recklessness they have preserved since their first apprehension. They were remanded, and ordered to be kept separate. No communication has been allowed between them since they were taken into custody, and they are lodged in separate prisons. Their final examination will take place on Friday next. The prisoners are all very young men, and look ' much younger than they really are. They have been long known to the Thames-police as the most desperate thieves along shore. Kennedy was an apprentice to a Lambeth fisherman, named Wood cock, who had vet) , little for him to do, and from whom he ran away. Lyons is a fisherman, and Flack is a cat man. Brown and Kitley never had any fixed occupation, but sometimes aced as " Jacks-in-the-water" at the plying places, and oci c•isionally went about the river dredging for coals and plundering the craft. They have all been con victed at the Thames police-office for committing petty thefts, and to the officers' knowledge of their had characters their speedy apprehension may be at tributed. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. heat. Bar I ev . Oats. Per Quart-r. Eivxham, %1. rpeth Peurith Skettield , Winchester s. to s, s. to s. 63 I 60 —7-0- 36 1 42 64 es 33 36 62 56 ( 4 3 7 . 3 7 5 j e.. 1. 63 1 9 38 40 711 90 48 54 j 9 6 99 64 66 70 9 3 3 6 46 98 99 56 60 74 80 40 44 90 10 0, 4 6 50 169 18 0 ' 9 0 100 150 180 90 104 160 18 O. 9 6 100 [l5O 16 3 . 9 6 100 8. to s. Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Nortliallerton Swansea Warwick Per Roll. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton 22 27 20 25 22 24 s. d. 3.d. 16 20 3K 39 13 3 40 38 47 23 26 22 26 64 70 50 73 50 70 64 70 Beaus. S. 8. 41 -- 33 36 42 46 1.. rt. ti. d. 00 00 56 60 53 56 56 60 62 66 00 00 73 76 0 0 11 0 110 120 86 10 0 00 o 0 WAKEFIEI.D CORN MARKET.--July 20 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suflblk -s. 535. to 61s. tine 645. Lin. and Cam. -s. 5.35. to Sts fine 645. ---- Yorkshire -s. 575. to 625. fine f4s. - White -s. 595. to 655. fine 675. - Foreign, Red -s. 48s. to 565. fine 625. White % -s. to -s. fine 665. Barley, N- orfolk and Suffolk 32s. to 345. tine 375. - Lincolnshire 3",s to 335. fine 40s. - Yorkshire Wold - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. Beans, Small Tick 33s. to 355. fine 36s Oats, Potato 22s. to 245. fine 258. --- Poland 2os. to 235. fine 24*. - Friesland and Small -s. 17s to 225. fine 235. - Mealing lld. to INd. per Stone. Shelling 2ss. to 2Ss. Od. per Load. Malt 345. 435. tine 465. per Load. Rapeseed 231. Os. 251. Os. 271. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Barley Oats. 25 29 22 24 24 2(1 30 34 34 35 28 30 30 32. 24 27 27 39 30 35 apire va 18 22 15 17 17 18 23 25 23 28 18 21 20 24 17 18 25 32 24 27 Les throul Aberdeen —.— Berwick.—... Coldstream Cupar Dundee Elgin I nverness—. Kelso Perth n- The size EDINBUII We had a middlir the sales were heavy RGH COR ng supply o .N MARK. )f all kinds 22 24 22 23 28 29 29 30 23 30 M 30 23 25 45 48 20 30 ;bout the .2':l .—July i of Grain Wheat. 50 58 46 49 44 50 (18 70 70 74 60 N 57 60 47 50 40 45 (i 5 72 of the rn, Beans lUatmeai• 3o 3 1 34 31 _. ... _ ..... 48 •-" 43 44 18. A today, an Itintrf!_ Beans. 353 0(1 33s Oci ale Od Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Pease. First 7Bs Od 38s Od 26s Od 35s 01 Second 74s Od —s Od 24s Od 33s Od Third 64s Od —s Od 22s Od 31s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 4d. to 01.11. Fresh Butter, lb. s. 10d. to 10. , °,, d • 0 5 0 7 Salt 0 8 0 0 4 0 7 Ditto, per cu t. 0 0 74 0 0 4 0 0 Eggs, per dos. 0 8 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 6 3 6 OatStravqkp'.) l4 6 15 0 ['allow, cwt.... 35 0 39 0 Wheat Ditt0...13 6 14 0 c, P .), , u )t a a r t t o e e r s n . Lo m a lb f . 0 0 9 6 0 0 10 0 H Ba a r y l , e p y e D r -.12 1 0 I EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—j u I y 17. The supply of Oatmeal at this day's market was rather large, and sold heavily, at last week's prices. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone ot 1411). Imp. First Oatmeal £l 17 0 First Oatme a l 0 '2 o £ Second ditto ............. 1 15 0 Second ditto Barleyineal ............... 1 13 0 Barleymneal Peasemeal ................ 6 0 Peasemeal OI '' Pot Barlep—No. 1, per cwt. 135.-2 d, 153.-3d,2os.—Peail 24'• BIRTHS. On the 19th inst. the lady of George Sperling, Esq., of B ill' thorn G r ove, in the cou nty of Suffolk, of a son. Hogge On the 20th inst. at Cheltenham, the lady of Lieutenant -C o On the: 20th inst. the lady of M. T. Smith, Esq., M.P., of daughter. Joseph Pearson, Esq., colm, MARRIED. coln's-iiin, On the 14th inst. at Woverhampton, Edmund Clark, of LI( Esq., barrister.at-law, to Clara youngest daughter On the 21st inst. at St. Marylebone, the Rev. John Cecil Kr, of Graislcy-house, I.afl'ordshire. son of the late Dean of Durham, and Rector of Great CresN l l7, ham, Norfolk, to Frances Amelia, eldest daughter of the tr ni i Colonel Wingfield Stratford, of Addington place, Kent; and o h the same day John Malcolm, Esq. youngest son of Neill 3:i.., youngest daughter of the Hon. Colonel Wingfield Stratford- DIED. he r Esq., of Poltalloch, Argyllshire, to Isabella Harriet" On the 19th just., in her 67th year, deeply lamented by ~,,y , family and friends, Carohne, wife of Mr. Ridgway, Piccadilly. "di On the 20th inst. 31r. Joseph Milnes, of St. Katherine's NSTri :aped 46. Of , On the 21st inst. Mr. Stephen Neate, of Paternoster- London, in the 65th year of his age. On the 21st inst. at Duncan-place, City-road, after a few be u j;:. illness of fdiarrhcea, Mr. Thomas Samuel Catterns, of l'°1"" head-alley, Cornhill. r M r. On the 20th inst. at Hampstead, Charlotte, the wife 0 : Serjeant Sellon, aged 75. '11 0 e 66. On the 22. d inst., of cholera morbus, after a few hours' 1 i dol booksen . Josias Nottidge, jun., Esq., of Russell-street, BermondseYt e ,on of Josias Nottidge, Esq., of Roschill, Wixoe, Suffolk. t l - = On the 21st inst. Frederick Dubuisson, aged 42, late o f twk Exchange. On the 20th inst. at Dulwich, after a few hours' illness, ' Uae wife of Mt. Thomas Acocks. _......0 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT I° • SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. LONDON.