The Sun. — London, England, 1822-04-11 00:00:00

VIZ LONDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS' Fltatit THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, April 11, 1812. [MORNING POST.] . , . The Foreign - Intelligenc- which arrived yes terday is of very little importance. From France there is nothing new. The Hamburgh Papers contain a long story of •_ a Turkish Embassy to Fez, the capital of Morocco, with presents, to a considerable amount. The contents of the latter -Which accompanied these presents are not stated ; but from the alacrity with which the African - Monarch is represented to have signified that he was ready, and God would help," it is more than probable that the communication related to the critical state in which the Ottoman Porte fijund itself in regard to the threatened hostility ofaussia. At all events, its importance is de cisiVely indicated by . the departure of the Em peror's two sons, accompanied by the Ambas sador of the Porte and several Officers of State for Egypt, whence they were to proceed to Con srantinople. [MORNIG CHRONICLE.] ' the two questions that have lately occu pied the'i'public mind respecting Russia and namely, whether the Russian Ultimatlith illl5 or has not been rejected, and whether, in case of rejection, war must necessarily follows, — 'the former is now universally allowed to be settled, for no one doubts that the Russian U/ti :Malitin was peremptorily rejected on the 28th February. A detailed account has been given in letter from Pera of the progress of the nego- Ciation from the first Declaration of the Reis Effendi, in answer to the Ultimatum, to its final rejection, which certainly exhibits our Allies the Turks in no very. favourable point of view. For the duplicity, however, displayed on this occasion, we are pretty well prepared by the accounts which almost all travellers have given of this people. " Oaths and solemn assur ances and protestations of public faith (says Eton) nave always been, and are to this day, with them state policy ; and there are on record thousands of such sentences as the following, in an answer of their Ulema, the body which unites in itself the authority of_ the law and the church, and shares with the Sovereign the direct exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers : ". That a treaty made with the enemies of God and his Prophet might be broken, there being nothing so worthy a Mahomedan as to undertake the entire destruction of Christians." [BRITISH PRESS.] .The Paris Papers of Sunday furnish nothing decisive upon the question of the war, but their contents are very far from being of a pacific cha -racter. It is observable indeed that these Papers, whenever they allude to the affairs of the East, speak of the absolute. rejection of the Russian Ul timatum by the Divan as a matter upon which no doubt is entertained, and the state of the French funds offers sufficient evidence of the strength of this impression. The Five per Cents. closed on Saturday at 86 f. 75 c. Bank Stock at 1,560 f.-- There are other accounts purporting to have come direct from Constantinople, which also speak of the rejection of the Russian proposals by the Di van, and fix the 28th of February as the day on which the important decision was made. The ex ertions of Lord Strangford and the Count de Lutzow were incessant in endeavouring to in duce the Porte to accede to such terms as could alone secure the peace of Europe, but the Reis Eirt mdi for a considerable length of.time avoided returning a precise answer to the requests of these Ambassadors, and the result of the negotiation, if it be correctly stated, shews that this reserve of the Chief Minister was only assumed to amuse the Mediating Powers, and ,to gain such time as might have been deemed necessary for complet ing the preparations for the war. The Austrian Government securities have also experienced a farther decline; and if we look to the state of our own market yesterday, we shall see sufficient caue for believing that the Stock Exchange wa.; not tree from the influence of the same appre hensions that are felt in Germany and France. This is the settling day at the Stock Exchange, and the fluctuations of the account shew how deeply the market has been affected by the rumours of an eastern war. Consols were at one period so high as 811., and the improvement IN the funds might have led the speculators for a rise to anticipate a further advance ; yet, not withstanding this, it will be seen that Consols hadyesterday fallen to 77. The new Four per Cents. were quoted so low as 941, which reduces Irle value of the 1051. stock offered in this se curity for every 1001. in the Navy Five per Cents. to less than 127/. in money. The holders, there fore, of the NaVy Five per Cents. who did not e.-press their dissent to the proposed'arrange ment, will actually receive less than they who required to be paid the amount of their capital. [THE TIMES.] The Turkish question remains precisely where it was. The latest communication from Con. stantinople is that contained in a letter from Lord Strangford, of the Bth March. That letter was brought by an English gentleman to London, and says nothing whatever to confirm or even countenance the story that the negotiations had been brAen off, or that the Russian Ultimatum had been rejected. Nothing has yet reached this comqt:y from the :. , eat of Government in' Tu;kcy to establish the authenticity of the Note s7hicb Vas been ascribed to the Divan. That dpcument rests on the word of one of the Paris jourthqs. A droll attempt upon public opinion aPpealF VIHICI the forni fl ivate Correspondence in the Couricr Fiancai. of Smiday last. That paper gives a letter, dated Pera, March 6, the writer of which is very learned and edifying upon the c,!,•:ri.e of the ttplomatic transactions froth December (2019% - ti to February 28, where ha somewhat tLis.tisfactorily breaks off his narra tive with an asmiry nee' that he would not " delay e moment too_ btain the information OA had ": lich . he % - crtilit send Off by the next from, rei , r:wy `2S to March 6, noOttag I .•rie' this ,;!tditici:,%ti have inserted it. It is not true, then, that the famous note of the Reis Effendi was delivered to the Austrian and British Ministers on the 3d of March, as we were but three days ago enjoined to btlieve. Such an important fact would surely have come under the cognizance of the private historian of the Courier Francais; and what we wish to ascertain is, who has yet guaranteed the Turkish state paper:to be authentic ? The pom pous nothingness of the accounts which are cir culated by some Newspapers, from one day to another, adds a heap of suspicion to that which from.the first appeared to shrink from close in vestigation—namely, the statement that all di plomatic intercourse had been actually broken off on the part both of the principals and of the mediating Powers. We g uard ourselves from affirming that the peace of Europe is secure, but we have yet received no evidence that it has been rendered hopeless. [NEW TIMES.] This is the settling day at the Stock Exchange, and the differences are stated to be very large - , a circumstance which in some degree accounts for the late depression of the Funds. Consols yes terday closed heavily at 77- - ki. Probably a rise may be expected after the settlement ; as the alarm of a general war throughout Europe ap pears to have in great measure subsided. The detailed account which has been published of the occurrences at Constantinople, during the latter stages of the negociation, clearly proves the Divan to have acted under an impulse, which in its nature must be temporary—tile impulse of a wild and boastful fanaticism, originating among the Janissaries, and inflamed by the destruction of the once dreaded Ali Paella. Still the Turkish Ministers do not appear to have taken any higher ground now than they had done nearly three months before. On the 2d of December, the Reis Effendi officially announced that the Porte could not in - any case accept the Russian Ulti matum. He then gave in a sort of centre projet, which was transmitted to St. Petersburgh, and rejected there, the Emperor Alexander insisting on the pure and simple acceptance of the Ulti matum. It was on the 7th of February that this news reached Constantinople, and down to the 27th the Reis Effendi himself appears to have cherished hopes that he . might. be- able to give a favourable answer to the demand, supported as it was by the urgent representations of. the Aus trian and English Ministers; The Extraordinary Divan, however, determined the contrary ; but they issued nothing like a declaration of war : on the. contrary, they expressly declared that they were not at war with Russia, and should only repel force by force if they were attacked. [MORNING HERALD.] The principal article relative to the quarrel between the Turks and Russians, in the Paris Papers received yesterday; is a private letter in the Courier Francais. This letter, dated fiorn Pera, the quarter of Constantinople in which the Christian . Ambassadors have their, residences, professes to detail the progress of the negociations hetweeu the mediating Ambassadors, Lord Strailgford and Count Lutzow on the one side, and the Turkish Minister on the other, from the 2d of December to the 28th of February, the day on which it states that the Divan, in full assembly, and having consulted the Chiefs of the Empire, Judicial and Military, una nimously rejected the Russian Ultimatum. The Journal in which this letter •has appeared is far from likely to have been favoured with any commu nication by the French Ministry or Legation. It is perhaps the most decided of the French Oppo sition Journals. Yet the internal evidence of the'' authenticity, and the diplomatic air of the letter, is scarcely to be denied. The circumstances are narrated with great detail: it has, in fact, every appearance of truth. If this statement be cor• rect, it is difficult to suppose that the dilatory proceedings of the Divan were not designed to gain time. The history of the North of Europe has, within the last century and a half, fully shown that the Turkish Government, notwith standing its absurd haughtiness In not sending out Ambassadors like other Powers, is usually well acquainted with the state of Europe, the conflicting interests and particular dispositions of other Governments, and the mode of main taining its own interests in the game of interna tional politics. The object must have been to gain delay ; and it would appear, if there be any truth in the accounts that have recently arrived, that the time thus gained has been consistently employed in organizing the moral and physical energies of the Turkish Empire against the Russians. THE MURDER OF MRS. MARY DONATTY.—In consequence of the communication that was made to the Magistracy of the Hatton-garden Police Establishment, and also to Mr. TAYLOR, by the Presiding Magistrate of Union Hall, relative to some suspicion that fell on a man named George Harvey, now under the awful sentence of death in Horsemonger-lane for a burglary, the accused was brought from his cell and placed before Mrs. French, one of the witnesses, for inspection. He is a short, stout man, of rather dark complexion, and has somewhat the appearance of a helper in stables. On his entering the room he ap peared very pale and dejected, and was heard to say, as he often had done since his con viction for the burglary, " I am a dead man." Mrs. French was desired to take a full view of his person, and to give her opinion conscien tously. After a minute scrutiny the accused was removed from her presence, when she de clared there certainly was a strong resemblance, in point of height and dress, between the accused and the man she saw lurking about on the even ing of the murder; but her ideas would not allow her to say positively he was the man. — Several other witnesses looked at the accused, but were not able to speak to his identity. This examination therefore produced no important result. Timothy Dwyer was tried at the Clonmel As sizes for forcibly carrying away Honora Ryan, with intent that she should marry one James Coffey.—(This is the young woman who was lately, forcibly taken of the Limerick coach.)—Her evidence was entirely in &Our of the prisoner, she giving it as her opinion that he accompanied the party rather to protect her than efrer her any vioience.—The prisoner was acquittal. FOR Tilt SUS. -...inii....- (LET TER III.) MR. EDITOR—There is a trite adage, very ex pressive, though not very remarkable for ele gance, which, however, I cannot avoid citing upon the present occasion, " that persons of a certain description ought to have good memories." In my second letter, I so fully and so clearly, as I doubt not, showed the sandy foundation upon which his assertions rested, in regard to the Romish population of Ireland,—and, at the same time, substantiated the charge of gross inconsis tency, that I did not imagine I should so soon have had occasion again to introduce the name of Mr. O'CONNELL to the attention of your Readers ; but his speech, delivered at the Aggre gate Meeting, holden in their new Metropolitan Chapel, in the city of Dublin, on the 13th of February, claims some notice as well on account of a new and extraordinary assertion he then made, as the pleasure, the thankfulness to God, he expressed, for the unanimous adoption of a Peti tion to Parliament. In animadverting upon this speech, though I shall confine my observations to a few passages, I must recur to the Manifestoes or Proclama tions issued in January 1821, and in January 1822. In the first, Mr. O'CoNNELL stated the Roman Catholics of Ireland to amount, at that period, to five millions : in the latter he says, " it will not be disputed but that the Catholics are five millions and a half," of the seven millions he found somewhere, and in six weeks from the publication of the last, he asked, at the aggregate Meeting, "should six millions of people be afraid of using the language of common sense, when we look to the state of Europe ? Can they, the Government, look for foreign support against our claims?" Now, Sir, either the age of miracles has not passed away, and that they are confined to the Romish Church, or Mr. O'CONNELL has well-earned the honourable ap pellation implied at the beginning of this letter. Nothing short of Popish miracle could have transubstantiated five into five millions and a half in twelve months, and five and a half into six millions, in six weeks. To shew your English Readers, however, that, more than a century ago, the Protestants of Ire land were fully equal to defend their country , against foreign foes, and their rights against do mestic 'traitors, I shall here submit to their con sideration a document of unquestionable authority, taken from the Journals of the Irish House of Commons, in the year 1715, the period of the first rebellion, raised in Scotland, for the pur pose of placing the Pretender upon the Throne; at which time it was deemed necessary for the safety of Ireland, on account of •the Popish party still attached to the STUART family, to embody a Militia, in addition to a numerous standing army ; and the Commissioners of Array made a return to Parliament of those new levies, as follows :—For Leinster, 16 regiments of Dra goons and 14 regiments of Infantry ; for Con naught, 12 regiments of Dragoons and 3 regi ments of Foot ; and for Ulster and Munster, 40 regiments of Cavalry and 22 regiments of Foot ;—most of the regiments of Dragoons, con sist:ng of nine companies, and the Tyrone Regi ment of Foot had sixteen companies. The same Journals furnish us with several Addresses from the House of Commons, during that Session, to the Lords Justices, requiring them to offer re wards for such Papists as should enlist in those new levies ; so that that amazing army was com posed exclusively of Vrotestants. Such was the physical strength of the Protestants of Ireland in the year 1715. Forty-three years before that period, Sir WILLIAM PETTY stated them to be more than one-third of the inhabitants of the country ; and it is worthy of notice, that an enumeration had been made in the year 1731, by Romish Priests, of the numbers of Pro testants and Roman Catholics, by which it appeared that the latter were not quite two to one of the former, as stated by Dr. BURKE, a Romish Bishop of Ossory, in his" Ilibernica Do minicana." It is also worthy of notice that, by Mr. O'CosNELL's account, the Romish popula tion bad" advanced, in the space of ninety years, from one million, three hundred thousand, seven hundred and sixty eight, to six millions, his last statement. But will he presume to say, great as his presumption is, that the Protestant popu lation had not advanced in the same ratio as the Romish : in the northern counties too, in which the former so vastly preponderate over the latter i❑ numbers, considering the advantages arising from a flourishing manufacture ; and considering also their superior habits of industry, cleanliness, and sobriety, over the Roman Catholics in the southern counties ? Or will he say, that the Protestants, contrary to the law of nature, have made a retrograde motion, while the " emphatical people" have sprung up in all qdarters like mushrooms ? Mr. O'CONNELL also states, in his late Procla mation, that the Roman Catholics of Ireland con stitute " full one third of the entire population of the Empire :" an hypothesis so absurd, as scarcely to deserve notice : however, lest silence might be construed into acquiescence, I shall briefly state a few local circumstances re specting Great Britain and Ireland; and leave the decision to the good sense and candour of the Protestant Reader : as for the Roman Ca tholics, I am not vain enough to suppose that I shall be able to bring conyiction to their minds; nor indeed is it my object, but merely to dis abuse such Protestants as have been deceived by Popish sophistry and assertions. England con tains 57,680 square miles, with an average of 164 inhabitants to a mile—Wales contains 8,125 square miles, with 58 inhabitants to a mile—and Scotland contains 27,794 square miles, with 56 inhabitants to a mile, —making an aggregate of 93,599 square miles for Great Britain ; and of 65,805 square miles for England and Wales, with an average, taken between the two, of 154 inha bitants, and a fraction for every square mile ; which give to England and Wales a population of one million, ninety thousand, four hundred and twenty-one, instead of eight millions and a half, according to Mr. CHALMERS'S calculation. Scot land, at the average of sr inhabitants to a Square mile, has a population of one million, five hundred and fifty-six thousand, four hundred and sixty-four,—making • for Great Britain an: actual population. of eleven millions, six hundred and forty six thousand, eight hundred and eighty-five. Ireland contains 27,459 square miles, with. an avetage of 127 inhabitants to a mile, taken at the same time as those for England, Wales, and Scotland ; and has a population of three mil lions, four InAdred and eighty-seven thousand, two hundred and ninety-three; which I conceive to be more consonant to reason and common sense than Mr. CHALMERS'S estimate of four millions, two hundred thousand, in the year 1791 ; and gives to Ireland an actual increase of one mil lion and a half since the year 1731, when, by the census taken, the population was found under two millions ;—the rather, as the whole surface of Ireland is to that of Great Britain as thirty seven and a- half to one hundred and twenty eight ; and the calculation I have given of the population is in favour of Ireland, being thirty eight and a quarter to one hundred and twenty eight. Yet Mr. O'CONNELL, alike conspicuous for moderation, candour, and modesty, claims for his " fellow-countrymen" " full one-third of the entire population of the Empire," throwing into the scale the Presbyterians, Quakers, and the other Dissenters in Ireland ; and, as a make weight, " the handful of bustling Bigots," as Mr. DENIS SOUTHY designated the Protestants of Ireland, in his constitutional advice to his bre thren, published during the Rebellion of 1803, as opportunely as Mr. O'CoNNELL's Proclama tion about " Hereditary Bondsmen." SYDNEY. (To be continued.) "*" We are extremely sorry that the pressure of temporary matter has prevented our giving due attention to the communi cations of our respectable Correspondent, but he may be assured that they shali be inserted in due course and with all practi cable speed. LENT ASSIZES. GLOUCESTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 6. Befbre Mr. Baron GARROW and a Special Jury. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. KING V. CHANCE. _ Mr. LUDLOW stated, that the declaration complained of a breach of promise of marriage, and that the defendant had pleaded the general issue. Mr. JERV is addressed the Jury on the behalf of the plain tiff. They had, he said, heard the nature of the action which they were sworn to try, and which was brought to recover da mages for one of the most cruel injuries which could be inflicted on the sex. He would, however, restrain his feelings, and state to them the facts, which would be proved in evidence, with all the simplicity in his power. Miss Mary Ann King, the plain tiff, was now 32 years of age, but was only 26 at the com mencement of this disastrous courtship. She was the daughter of a most respectable man, who obtained his livelihood ky the management of a large factory at a salary of little more than 801. a year. Mr. Chance, the defendant, now 38 years of age, and who was 32 when he began to address the plaintiff, was a Gentleman of considerable fortune, and of fascinating manners, who had served as a Lieutenant in the Gloucester shin Militia. Attracted, no doubt, by the beauty of Miss King, who moved in an inferior station of life to his own, and who then was successfully attempting . to add to the scanty income of her father, by her exertions as a fancy dress-maker, he early in 1815 began to visit her, and to pay her marked attentions. Her father, solicitous for the wel fare of his child, thought it necessary to demand of Mr. Chance the meaning of his visits, and that gentleman offered to satisfy him with all the apparent frankness and honour of a soldier. On the invitation of the defendant, they walked to gether to an inn, called the Old Bell, where Mr. Chance ex claimed, " What can I say or what possibly can I do, more than I have done, to convince you of my honour ? May my hand drop from my body, may my tongue cleisve to-the roof of my mouth, if ever I deceive you or your daughter ; and no one but she shall ever call me husband." These expressions were strong, but they were beautiful, for they were taken in no small degree from sacred writ. Mr. King, anxious that the defendant should not rashly pledge himself, reminded him that his daughter would have no fortune; to which Mr. Chance replied, " I desire no fortune but your daughter—that is all I desire." Mr. King then observed, that he had a mo ther - and relatives who probably would disapprove of the connexion ; to which he answered, " I am not a boy ; surely I am old enough to choose for myself. No, neither mother, nor aunt, uncle, nor any other shall make a choice for me; I have made my choice, and by that I will abide." But even on this distinct promise he (Mr. Jervis) would not rely ; he would read extracts from a series of letters addressed to the plaintiff during the whole of the protracted courtship, which were full of the strongest and tenderest expressions of love. In selecting these, he had endeavoured as far as possible to avoid wounding the feelings of the defendant, for he stood in that Court not to gratify the curiosity of an expec tant audience, but to obtain redress for unmerited sufferings. Here the Learned Counsel read extracts from the letters of the defendant, from August, 1815 to 1819, which expressed the warmest affection, and while they lamented circumstances which did not permit an immediate marriage, exhorted Miss King to sustain her spirits in the full assurance that a time would come when their mutual wishes would be completed. But in 1819 (continued Mr. Jervis) his love began to decline. In that year the plaintifflost her mother, on which occasion the defendant addressed to her a very common-place letter, far dif ferent from that which she might have expected from him on an event which left her half an orphan. In the February after he wrote to her, intimating that he had no prospect of marriage, and could not think of bringing on her penury and wretched ness : but, to his honour, in allusion to her fears lest her repu tation should suffer from the breaking off of so long an inti macy, declared that her character was unimpeachable, and that he would maintain her innocence with his life. " Never," said he, " did I witness any thing from you in word or in deed which could raise a blush on the most innocent cheek." What, however, would the Jury think when they heard, that in May, 1820, after more than five years' courtship, he paid her a visit to inform her that he had formed an attachment to another Lady named Maria Evans, to ask her consent to his marriage, and to demand his letters from her hands. On receiving this cruel intimation, she fainted, and fell into vio lent hysterics. He father, returning home from his daily occu pation,rushed into the room,and supporting in his arms his child, doubly endeared to him by the loss of wife, and by her own sorrows, asked the defendant_" what this could mean ?" Mr. Chance replied, " Ask Mary;" but she was unable at first to speak. " My dear child," said her father, " speak to me ; what is the matter ?" " Oh father," said she, " it will be the death of me," and again fainted. When she recovered, she ex claimed, " Mr. Chance is come here to tell me himself that he has formed a similar connexion with anotherVor some time, and to ask my consent to his marrying her, and insists on having his letters." Mr. King then asked the defendant how he could think of breaking off a connexion which had lasted so long, and demanded if he remembered the promise made to him at the inn ? " 1 don't know that I do, exactly," was his answer. His own remarkable expressions were then repeated to him; but he only said, " I do not know if it was exactly that." After some time he begged Mr. King to go to his mother at Uley, and to tell her he would never leave his daughter. Mr. King accordingly went ; and it was to be feared that this was only an expedient to procure his absence ; for after he was gone Mr. Chance was overhead demanding his letters of the scarcely conscious woman, and threatening to break open every lock in the house if they were not given to him— Mr. King returned, after seeing the defendant's mother, and informed Mr. Chance that she had refused to hear him on the subject, as her son had formed a connexion with another lady. Shortly after the defendant left the house, and returned no more. In a few days he wrote a note in the coldest terms, again demanding his letters, and offering to return those of the plaintiff, which he represented as disinterested conduct, best calculated to secure their mutual happiness. On the 9th of March, 1821, his mother died, and with her ceased all obstacles to his union with Miss King, for he came into the possession of a considerable fortune. He never, however, redeemed his pledges, so often and so solemnly repeated ; but on the 21st of January last put it for ever out of his power to do the plaintiff justice, by marrying Miss Maria Evans. No attempt would be now made to cast a shade over the character of the plaintiff— he knew better the delicacy-of Mr. Puller's mind ; but of this he was sure, that if all her conduct were subject to the severest scrutiny, and all her letters exposed to the world, nothing would be found which, in the words of the defendant, " could raise blush on the most innocent cheek." In estimating the amount of the damages, there were many circumstances which they would consider. They wetdd remember the age of the parties the defendant of mature years, and competent to decide for him. self; the plaintiff at that =period of life when a prat:meted court. ship, followed by desertion, was an irretrievable injury. Those six long years of deferred hope could never be compensated in this world. The beauty:which charmed the defendant had faded ; grief had forestalled the ravages of time; for, from that moment when he dared to request her consent to an unholy union with another, her health had been utterly broken. Thoseeyes which he had described in the language of poetry as of " heaven's own tint" were dimmed with weeping ; and that heart which had beaten only with love for him was exhausted forever. If he did her the justice to declare that there was no stain on her honour, calumny would still be busy, and insinuate- that after so long a connexion she was not forsaken without a cause. Who would desire to marry one who had so long lavished her affections, though innocently, on another ? The torch of love was exhausted, and there was no Promethean heat by which it could be rekindled. She had anticipated an elevation in rank ; a participation in the enjoyments which the fortune of her lover could supply, the pleasure of an alliance with a gentleman of a profession whose gallantry and honour justly gave its members peculiar fascinations in the eyes of the fair. For the loss of these —for an almost broken heart—for ruined health—for a frame brought to the verge of the grave, they would give the only balm within their power to apply—in those ample damages which justice required at their hands. John King, the father of the plaintiff, was then sworn, and examined by Mr. TAUNTON. He stated the conversation be tween the defendant and himself at the beginning of the con nexion, and the interview in which it was broken off, precisely as they were described by Mr. Jervis. His daughter was, he said, in large business as a dress-maker, when Mr. Chance first paid his addresses ; but since he had forsaken her, she had been incapable of attending to any thing, and her business bad therefore declined.. She was so altered as to be unlike the person she once was. The witness was so much affected while giving his evidence, that he was , at times almost unable to proceed. • Miss Jane Woodward, who was apprenticed to the plaintiff two months before the connexion was broken off, corroborated her father as to her condition at the last visit of the defendant, and her subsequent illness. She had slept with her since, and knew that she scarcely obtained any repose. Eleanor Harris, the maid-servant, overheard Mr. Chance after Mr. King had gone to his mother, demanding his letters, and threatening to break open every door and lock in the house if they were not given to him. He said he would ask the ser vant for them. Miss King replied it would be useless, for she did not know where they were kept ; and if she did, she would not give them up to him. Miss King was in bed all the next day, and had never been well since. Mr. Chance was in the habit of visiting and walking out with her up to that evening. ;The letters of the defendant were then proved and read : though not without some extravagancies, they were feelingly and elegantly written. The death of his mother in March, 1821, and his marriage with Miss Evans, were admitted. Mr. Morgan deposed, that he rented the patrimonial estate of the defendant at 4001. a year. On his cross-examination by Mr. CAMPBELL, he stated that Mr. Chance was originally a clothier, but had failed in business, and had afterwards served as a Lieutenant in the South Gloucestershire Militia. After the peace, he was entirely dependent on his mother for sup port, and was now far Horn affluent. Mr. PueLEa then addressed the Jury in mitigation of. de mages. He urged that the connexion ought never to have subsisted ; that the father ought to have communicated it to the relatives of the defendant ; that the plaintiff had lost little in a marriage which would have introduced her into a family who would have treated her for life with anger and bitter scorn ; and that the issue was only that which might have been anticipated as the result of a connexion which could only be completed when a mother was laid in her grave. He was authorised by his client most unequivocally to declare, that the conduct of the plaintiff was above all reproach, and that if any calumny had assailed her, it was totally groundless. This, he thought, would be a better balm to her wounded feelings than those damages which she, or rather her friends, sought to recover. The defendant was now far from rich, and large da mages would cause his ruin. Mr. Baron GAnseow recapitulated the chief circumstances of the case to the Jury. It had been said, he observed, that 'this connexion - ought not to have subsisted. If the plaintiff had been an artful woman, older than the defendant, who had taken advantage of his ardour and inexperience to entrap hilt' into an engagement, this -would be true; but such , was not the case before them. His chief offence, and it was no light one, consisted in his continuing to pretend affection to the plaintiff, when he was actually paying his addresses to another woman- He had found her in the bloom of life, and in circumstances of health and comfort; and had left her shattered, forlorn, and hopeless. He had not indeed deprived her of the consciousness of virtue, for this she had herself preserved ; but it was all be had left her in the world. Damages were an inefficient baba for feelings wounded like her's ; but they were all• of which the case admitted, and these the Jury were bound to render. They would, however, consider the circumstances of the defendant , and not press him, with the probably innocent partner o f his joys and sorrows, to utter ruin. The Jury retired for a short time, and when they returned into Court gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 8001. This day the prisoners who stand committed on charges of felony were removed from the several gaols in the City of London and County of Middlesex, to Newgate, preparatory to their taking their trials at the ensuing Old Bailey Sessions, which will commence on WednesdaY next. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-Yesterday morning a most dreadful accident was discovered to have happened in the house Of Mr. BRADFORD, No. 12, Bryanstone-street, Man' chester-square, which involved the family in the BR ADFORD dis tress. It appears that Master EDWARD PAGET BRADFORD came from boarding-school in the country, on Saturday last. for the purpose of spending the holidays with his parents, and on Monday, after passing the evening at home, he retired to his chamber in his usual health and spirits. The following morn ing the servant proceeded to the apartment to call him to brealc fast, but receiving no answer, she made an- alarm, and the young gentleman was missing from his bed.—Every search was made after him, and at length he was found in the front area quite dead, and dreadfully injured, as if from a heavf fall. There was no accounting for the fatal occurrence. He was 16 years of age.—A Coroner's Jury was called to sit on the body, and after hearing a mass of evidence, they returned s verdict of " Accidentally killed by a fall." DEATH BY FIGHTING.—At Stepney Fair, on Monday, two men of the names of Gregory and Hansel had s quarrel, and they agreed to fight the next day on a given spot in the fields by the Lea river. Here they met, and knocked each other about for more than two hours. More injury was, sustained by throwing, both being heavy men, and at leng th Hansel, who works upon the river, could not be got up. He was conveyed to a cottage, and died in two hours from a rur ture of a vessel in the head. - DRowNlNG.—Yesterday morning a Gentleman of respectability in the City was found drowned by a water man, in the River Thames, at Pickle-herring-stairs. The body was conveyed on shore to a public-house, and was owned in the course of the morning. There was a gold watch in the fob of the deceased. He has been missing for some days, and was seen last at a large party of friends, which he left in high spirits. An enormous 'Whale came on shore at Beck hithe, near Cromer, in the morning of Friday se'nnight. Al' though of large dimensions, it was evidently wasted in its original size. It measured in length 57 feet, the extremity of the tail was 13 feet wide, the jaw-bones 14 feet long, tongue i feet long and 4 feet Croad. It produced but little oil, and, from its wasted appearance, the whalebone is of small value- The jaws were extracted, and intended as a present for Lord Suffield, but the tide unfortunately washed them away from the shelf of a cliff on which they were laid.—( Bury Gazette.) COAL-MARKET, APRIL 10. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 44i Newcastle - - -31 s Od to 4 . 2 s Od 11;i Sunderland - 9i -29 s .Oct to 425. Oa BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at Commercial-road, Lambeth, Mrs. T• Lett, of a son. On the 10th inst. Mrs. C. Cutten, of Quality-court, Chan cery-lane, of a boy, her tenth child. MARRIED. On the 2d inst., at Stockbury, Mr. Jamas Bourne, to Miss H. Brean, both of Stockbury. On the 30th ult. at Rochester, Mr. E. Tomkins, of that city , to Miss Carlow, late of Sittiugbourne. On the 2d inst, at Aberdeen, the Rev. R. Douglass, of Ellorli to Ann, daughter of the late Alex. Forbes, Esq., Jamaica. DIED. On the 9th inst., at his house in Hammersmith, Richard Ra d ' ford, Esq., in the (113th year of his age, one of his Majesty's JO' tices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex. On the 10th inst., at Kennington, Agnes, the wife of gr. g George Ritherdon, sen, of tile East India House. a On the 23c1 ult., at Port Glasgow, Capt. Hugh Douglas. -or Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Suitt- Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS. ( ,-Li