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THE LONDON JOURNALS. 4 - . tXTRACTS PROM THE DALIN MORNING PAPERS .IYovember 28 •1822. THE TIMES.] There are now collected, as an army of obser vation, about 40,000 French troops, of whom, as the soldiers of Buonaparte have been rejected from the King's service, there are; probably, not more than three or four thOusand who . have ever seen an enemy. The officers are Mostly of royaliSt and noble families=--but here and there a veteran to be found upon the list. Of all the superior officers. distinguished within_ the last 90 years, we know not of one now commanding a division of this army. But its: numbers—so far from being sufficient for occupying or taking military possession of Spain—would form a scanty and inadequate garrison " for the three frontier provinces. Suppose they push on to Madrid in a body, where is their subsist ence in the midst of an enemy's country ? What becomes, of their communications with France ? And howler beyond Madrid can- even twice their 'number of foreigners venture ? If they stop ihpre, they do nothing: the persons of the Royal 'Family, the Cortes., and the Government, are at once transferred to Cadiz. If. the French dis- Terse throughout the country, they are an nihilated piecemeal.. Remaining near .the Pyren-' noes,- they make no impression on the Spa •Triards : abandoning the protection of the Pyren'. flees, they are swallowed up amidst an armed 'nation. The ,French war-faction has boasted -much of reckoning"on .a large portion of fanatical Spaniards as their auxiliaries :. if that hope had been. well founded we should have said there was ' gOrne Meaning, though undoubtedly much wicked ness; in their' invasion of Spain. But the . dream of civil war is nearly ended, and the rebels will Semi he crushed.' Thes'pattish General has not sustained a check in his well-combined and ex- , tensive operations, and. the self constituted in surgent thiniStry has fled to its line of safety—the French frontier. • [M9I:LNING lIERALD.3 . . If • the gpanish General Mina fights as he Writes; those Who accused him of , dilatoriness as a ,General must have . done him great wrong. his Proclamation to the district in which he corn- Mands, dated;'`With' an awe-inspiring solemnity, ":from where •Castlefellit . once stood," is very striking for its combined use of fervid energy, sarcasm, and ferret.. Mina is not the mildest of inert, we believe. He was chiefly distinguished, during the war of invasion, for the virtues of a leader in irregular and relentless warfare, cou rage, vigilance, activity, and ferocity. It is curious enough to observe those who, when he practised against the French more than the ferocity which he has hitherto only de . nounced, called him " the. heroic Mina," now bestow upon .him the epithet of " the fero- cious." If , however, terror and severity are justifiable in war, under any circumstances, the justification is much stronger where the war is waged, not with foreign enemies, but domestic traitors. Bat it is not likely, supposing the Pro clamation genuine, and honestly rendered through the Frenc Papers, that he will . ,execute his menace of stinking and burnitig towns.and villages, and shooting the Municipal Authorities,, under even the very strong circumstances of treachery or cowardice, which he specifies, and for this :very good reason—the power vested in him by the Government and the Cortes, acid in virtue of which he professes to act, is strictly defined, and falls far short of that which he is made in this Proclamation to assume. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Proclamations issued by Mina, subse quently to the taking of Castelfollit, and dated the 1)..4th of October, are published at length in the Constittitionizei. O►e of these documents, addressed to the inhabitants of the Seventh District, contains the severest denunciations against such towns and villages as shall either afford succour to the factious, or surrender to the rebel forces, except' in a case which would not justify any attempt to resist their attacks.— Should any important disadvantage result from persons in authority neglecting to give the Ge neral information of the enemy's movements, they are to be punished with death. [MO NI NG POST.] An express reached town yesterday with fetters from the French Capital, which it left on Monday afternoon. These communications state, that although no news of importance had been received, " the rumours of war gained ground from the circumstance of the Government not having given any contradiction to them." This statement is incorrect. The amplest contradiction was given to those rumours by the organ of Minis tors, and all the other Loyal and even Ultra Papers, as late as Thursday last ; and as it is admitted that no intelligence of importance had since been received, it could hardly be ex pected that the Government should take the field against mere shadows, and should imme diately issue another direct contradiction of re ports which must be known to have no other foundation than the imaginings of alarmists, since they were not even countenanced by the arrival of foreign news. [NEW TIMES.] The horrible_ Proclamation of Mina, which we published yesterday, has opened the eyes of numbers who have hen hitherto favourable to burnt !!"—This is almost a literal copy of Buo naparte's Proclamation of January 1797, on en tering the Papal territories—" Every village, or town, in which the Tocsin shall be sounded at the approach of the French Army shall be in stantly burnt, and the Magistrates shot."—The conduct of Buonaparte corresponded with his threats. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We are sorry to perceive that the Greeks still complain of. the ill offices of their neighbours, in sowing divisions among , them, and aiding the Turks in various other ways. We do not think the policy of this country, under all circumstances, likely to be promoted by thus alienating the . Greeks from us. We must own, however,.that the language of the Ministerial Journals of late has not been so insulting with respect to that interesting people as it formerly was. 'Whether this is owing to the low state of the finances of the Turks, to their tampering with the currency, which Ministers of course cannot fail to hold in due horror, or to a newly felt sympathy for suffering Christians, we do not pretend to say. We wish, however, we could witness the same improvement in the con duct of so me of the men employed publicly a b ro ad. Now that they do not find a ready channel for their communications in the Papers here, they betake themselves to the Austrian Observer. The letter from Zante, for instance, in the Austrian Observer of the 13th, is understood to have been written by a great friend of the Turks, well known here, who has profited not a little by them; for we are acquainted with the bills which he received in payment of provisions and ammu nition, drawn by Jousouf Pacha, on the Porte, and duly paid to him; and know also that a vessel is now tiding at Ancona, by'one of his brothers, on the same account. Another Chris tian at Malta, of the same family, is also em ployed in the same way. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS, [From The Bury Gazette - , Nov. 27, 1g.22.] If the woeful failure of the late attempt made. by Mr. Hunt and his mob, to revive in the metropolis the disgusting daemon, radicalism, have not paralysed his pro vincial mimics, it is probable the sense of the people will again be insulted by a succession of meetings which, under pretence of discussing agricultural distress and its remedies, will pros titute the public voice to purposes of election, intrigue, and pseudo reform. Political busy-bodies, anxious for the affairs of the nation and neglecting their own, have for some weeks been gadding about in this and the neighbouring counties, prattling of the necessity of county meetings to consider the great question of the distress of the landed interest, and the relief of that distress by a Reform in Parliament ! In some instances, preparatory meetings have been convened, and measures for further proceedings arranged, by men as ignorant of agriculture as Lord Erskine, who mistook wheat for laven der, and just as well informed on subjects of national polity as upon the cultivation of the soil. Yet these men will contrive to vamp up requisitions, by scouring the country to obtain signa tures; and sheriff's will comply with those requisitions, and call meetings of counties : and these men will present resolu tions of their own, which will be passed unheard ; and the trash thus mamtfactured 'will be given to the world as the fruits of the calm deliberations of a great and important county ! Nobody at a distance will guess of what materials the meeting is composed ; the fact, that all the thinking and respectable part of the people treat such trickery with con tempt, will not suggest itself to any one unacquainted with the art and mystery of meeting making. Unless the truth be proclaimed, it will hardly be believed that nine-tenths of the sage persons who volunteer their " most sweet voices" &I Agricultural Distress never in their lives posiessed a square foot of land, nor cultivated any thing beyond a geranium or a daffy-clown-dilly. Absurd as it may appear, it is nevertheless a melancholy fact, that the bulk of the people who attend country meetings arc intruders,---who by their presence, exclude those whose interests are at stake, and by their conduct, prevent every approach to discussion or argument. Can meetings so composed, and so conducted, be li treated with respect ? Impossible. We are told that they have been called farces ; but they are not so, they are lamentable travilies ; for they pervert the rights of the people, turning those invaluable privileges which were designed for the pro tection of the great body of the nation into a paltry engine to_ work the ends of a mischievous faction. By pestering and in sulting. the legislature with fantastic dogmas and domineering dictation, they, prevent the peaceable, but real sufferer from be ing heard, and effectually preclude him from making known to those who have the power to help him, his actual cause of complaint ; by them, the right of petition is poluted ; and, like the boy in the fable who called wolf in sport, their voi ces have so often been raised unnecessarily that it is no wonder they should be disregarded in the hour of real danger. rF• ,:: _ BOXING. The two battles between Godfrey, the Gosport Black, and Cummings,, the Navigator : and Phillips, the Tinman, and John Gootioy, the Illaltster, took place on Tuesday, at Chor]ey_ Common, near Farnham. The first two contended for a stake of 10 sovereigns, and a purse of 10 ; and had it been hundreds, according to the pre vailing humbugging the men could not- have gone to more earnest work. In the first round Godfrey floored his adver sary by a right-handed facer from the scratch, which produced plenty of claret. 2. The Navigator drew blood from the Black's right de civer, which laid open the eyelash, and the crimson hue fol lowed in streams of glory. A well contested rally followed, and the Navigator was thrown. - . 3 and X. The Black's superior strength gave him rather the lead, but in the 4th the Navigator got him upon the right lock, and tipped him a rattling cross-buttock, which capsizul and took the rough off his fastness. 5 and 6. In favour of the Navigator, the' Black going up to the scratch lame in the right thigh, and it was two to one on Cummings. 7. In a severe rally several hits were exchanged, and none of the tapping sort. The Navigator's right eye was closed, and the Black gave him a rattling facer, which not only chang ed the odds, but reduced the fight to a win. 8. The Navigator was floored from the scratch, and the Black won a merry battle in 22 minutes. PHILLIPS AND GOODOY.—These men fbught a good battle for 51. and a slice of love to boot, consuming a widow. It lasted 36 minutes, and the men knocked each other about with more energy than skill. Goodin/ had the best of the first 25 minutes, but a severe slap on that tittkish part, the tip of the nose, spoiled him, and Phillips won it, and was escorted home by a well-dressed female. the cause of the Spanish Revolutionists. It esta- Yesterday morning the Peterborough coach blishes two facts beyond a doubt ; first, the atro- going down Baldock-hill, unfortunately upset, cious barbarity of the monsters who could,give it and, we are sorry to add, the guard'wal killed on their sanction ; and, secondly, the utter despe- the spot, and the coachman also much hurt. ration to which .they must have been reduced None of the passengers sustained any, injury. before they. could . have published a document The guard has, left a widow and four children to so directly calculated. .to. draw upon . them the lament his loss. . abhorrence .of mankind.. As to monstrous 'MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.—Two youths of the cruelty—the very first article is enough to names.of SIDNEY and MARMOT were drowned curdle the blood in one's veins—" Every town on Tuesday evening, in Twickenham reach, ; by Or:,villag*, ; which shall yield to a band of staving the bottom of the boat against a pile. rebels, amounting in number .to less than sine- .There, were four other young men and two women third of its population, shall he sacked and in company, who escaped. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 27. CHARLTON AND CHARLTON.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the case was thus :—A bill had been filed ; a plea had then been pleaded ; a replication had next been filed. A motion was then made for leave to withdraw the application and to amend the bill. The motion was of course—that was, no notice of motion had been given. The difficulty here was occasioned by the plea. If it had been an answer to the bill, the answer would stand on the file as an answer to the amended bill ; but the plea being, as must be supposed in such a case, good, what was to be done with it ? It would remain on the file, but it would not be a plea to the amended bill. The order must therefore be refused, and he did not see how the bill now amended must not be taken off the file. The plaintiff or plaintiffs were led into a mistake by the practice of the Court. He would not, however, allow the prac tice of the Court to be altered without his consent ; and when ever he should find it altered without his consent, he would restore it. QUESTION OF COSTS. Mr. AGAR, on the one side, and Mr. HEALD on the other, argued for a long time upon exceptions taken to the costs taxed by the Master. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he felt it to be necessary to inquire very deliberately into this subject. Every care should be taken that 191. or 201., which in that Court was a small sum, should not occasion an expense of 1001. in contending whether it ought to be charged or not. He remembered to have received a brief when a young man, from a solicitor who was now dead, and whom he would not therefore name, and it was so large that he was afraid to look at it. The solicitor said that in that Court nothing was better than to fire a great cannon in the be ginning of a cause. He (the Lord Chancellor), however, re fused to have any thing to do with the great cannon. Lord Thurlow used to say that the greatest difficulty in such cases arose from the want of affidavits from Counsel that they read their briefs. Mr. AOAR.—We have read them. The Low:. CHANCELLOR.—I don't think you have read your brief, Mr. Agar. His Lordship took the papers, and said he would examine them. BEAUMONT V. BRAMLEY. Two junior Counsel whose names we could not learn, took nearly an hour in reading the pleadings on both sides in this cause. • Mr. WE T HE RE Li. said this subject presented 'great difficul ties in law, but on the facts there could be no difficulty. The plaintiff,•John Beaumont, was heir at laW and nephew of a gentleman of the same, name, who sold certain lands. The de fendant was heir at law and nephew of Mr, 'Norman, who had, purchased those lands. They on the plainiirsside of the ques tion, had sold a certain farm, and the tithes of that farm.— Their dealings and contracts had been for the farm and the tithei of the farm, and the conveyance . Ought to have conveyed nothing more. But the conveyance had actually, and as they contended, ,against the evidente, . the dealings, and the probability .of the ease, conveyed the rectory of Sheepshead, and )Bade the plaintiff part with the tithes of Charnley-forest or Charnley-chase, in the parish of Sheepshead, and county of Leicester. The forest had then been of less value. It had since been enclosed, and had become very valuable. The Learned Gentleman went on with this statement till the rising of the Court, soon after two o'clock. Mr. CULLEN applied, for an order to have affidavits in that Court produced as evidence before the Grand Jury in a prose. cution for perjury. , The LORD CHANCELLOR asked if they were filed ? Mr. CuLLEN could not answer the question. The Loan CHANCELLOR.-1 do not know whether that is necessary ; but look into it, and see how that is. Mr. CULLEN.—WiII your Lordship allow me to mention it to-morrow ? The LORD CHANCELLOR.—No; to-morrow is the last mo. tion-day, and the last day of term. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 27. THE RING V. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVER SITY OF CAMBRIDGE. In this case, which stood over till to-day, to enable the party applying for the iiiandoinus to obtain the affidavit of Mr. Jephson, Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated, that in consequence of what was now taking place at Cambridge, it had not been pos-, sible to obtain the'affidavit of Mr. Jephson ; and that Mr. Ser geant Lens had accordingly consented that the case should stand over till to-morrow. The, COURT intimated their acquiescence in this arrange ment, and the argument was accordingly deferred. TIIE KING V. RIDGWAY. Mr. BROUGHAM, on a former day, moved for a rule to spew cause why Sir John Sewell, John Atkins, Esq. and Mr. James Murray, Solicitor, should not pay the costs incurred by the defendant, in consequence of not proceeding to try him for per jury, at the last Lancaster Assizes ; and why a writ of certiorari, obtained for removing the proceedings from the Assizes, should not he quashed; also, why they should•not pay the expences of the application. Mr Sergeant HuLLoux shewed cause a,gaitist the rule. He said, if the notion had been confined to the costs of not pro ceeding to trial,' no opposition would have been'offered, but the endeavour to set aside the certiorari, which the prosecutors were entitled to, claim, was altogether unnecessary. The Learned Sergeant was' proceeding to read affidavits, sheaving on what ground the certiorari was obtained, when the . Lord CHIEF-JUSTICE said, Mr. Brougham, if they pay you the costs of not proceeding to trial, and the expence occa sioned by the certiorari, will you not be satisfied ? Mr. BROUGHAM—Undoubtedly, my Lord, but we have been hurt by the removal. Judge BAYLEY.—They have a right to the certiorari, b u t you complain that you have suffered some abuse by not ap plying for the certiorari in time. LIIIEF JUSTICE.—The issuing of the writ is not what the Court look at as wrong. The circumstances under which it was obtained may be wrong. We will give the defendant a remedy, by allowing the costs of not proceeding to trial. Mr. BROUGIIA.II—We are much worse by the removal. Judge BA LEY.--You are only worse by the certiorari being sued out of an advanced state of the Assizes, instead of the first day. Mr. 13it0uGH..1.31.—1 am worse by the trick played off on this occasion. • Mr. Serjeant Hur.Locx was preparing to combat the charge of. trickish proceedings, when The CHIEF JUSTICE interposed, observing that it was quite unnecessary gentlemen should waste their time in argument, when the Court had decided the application. • Ht. BROUGHAM.—We have got all we want. CHIEF JUSTICE.—WC make the rule absolute, and leave the parties to take out another certiorar.i.—Rule absolute. TITHES.-BUTT V. 'WISEMAN. The LORD CHIEF .TtrsTrcE said in this case the Court had considered their judgment, upon due examination of the evi dence, and their opinion was, th a t a new tri a l oug ht t o be had, in order that the Jury might consider distinctly the question of endowment. It will be recollected that this was a question, whether the defendant, a Copyholder upon l an d b e l ong i ng to the Dean and Chapter of Eiy, was liable to pay tithes. CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. C. CRESSWELL moved for a rule to chew cause why a Criminal Information should not be filed against two' Justices of the Borough of New Radnor, for refusing to grant an Ale house License to one George Griffiths, the tenant of the Crown, public-house, at 'Walton, after having been regularly licensed for a period of Ili years previous to the last licensing day, and although he had had a certificate signed by all his neighbours and friends, as to the respectability of his house, &c. The Ciitrivi called upon the Learned Counsel to spew whe ther any corrupt motive could be attributed to the Magistrates in question. Mr. CRE SIVELL said, thc,affidavit on which he founded his motion merely declared the belief of the deponent, that the refusal of this licence was to be attributed to the circumstance of his having voted at the last General Election for Radnor on behalf of a candidate to whom the Justices were opposed in interest. The COURT said this was insufficient. It was merely the suggestion of .the deponent's own mind, and no Grand Jury would be justified in finding a bill of indictment on such tcsti mony.—Rule refused. COURT OF 'COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 27. IN RE ISAACSON, THOMAS CLARKE, AND BROOKES. Mr. Serjeant VAU G HAN in the course - of last term had obtained a rule to show cause why Isaacson and Cl ar k e , both beingAttor nies of this Court, should not be struck off the roll, for having permitted Brookes to act as an attorney in - their names; and why Bzookes should not be imprisoned in the Fleet, .for having so acted; and further, why all the parties should not answer the matters contained in theaffidavits on which this rule was moved, and why they should not pay the costs of the application. This rule arose out of the following circumstances:—ln the month of June last a person named William Clarke brought an action . against Brookes, to recover a sum of money which Clarke alleged Brookes had received from, one Seager, a debtor of Clarke's, .on his account. The plaintiff in that action had proVed that he - called on Brookes, at his office, in Broad-court, -Druri-lane, and employed him as an attorney to prosecute an action for him, against Stager, and that Brookes had subse quently received the money from Seager. Brookes defended ' himself, as to so much as Was claimed froth him, in respect of the money received from Seager, by alleging that he had received that money as the clerk of Mr..lsaacson, to whom he had paid over the money, 'and in whose name the cause had proceeded up to the compromise. The Jury, however; thought on the evidence, that he had acted as the attorney of Clarke, and had actually assumed that character, although he had not the slightest pretensions to it. They, therefore, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, adding these words, " With a ll cos t s ." This trial having raised a strong presumption that Brookes had illegally, practised as an attorney, without having been regu larly admitted ; the present motion was made to punish him for such conduct, and affidavits of several persons were pro duced, which stated, that Brookes had practised as an attorney for them in different cases, having formerly used the name of Thomas Clarke, and subsequently that of Isaacson. M. Serjeant PELL, on Monday, shewed cause against this rule, and produced affidavits, of Isaacson and Thomas Clarke, both of whom stated that they had employed Brookes as their clerk at a regular salary, and had never given him permission to use their names in his own behalf, nor had ever divided the profits of their business with him. An affidavit of Brookes was also read, in which he confirmed the account given by Isaacson and Thomas Clarke, and declared that he had al ways acted as the clerk of Isaacson and Thomas Clare and in no other capacity or sitution whatever. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN and Mr. Serjeant ONsr.ow yester day observed on the loose manner in which the affidavits of these parties were sworn. The COURT then adjourned the further consideration of the case until this morning ; when Lord Chief Justice DaLLLas, after consulting with the other Judges, said at present he should not give any judgment on the rule before the Court., for he considered that further in ' formation on this subject might be gained ; and for himself, he must say, he observed, that further information appeared neces sary. After going through the principal allegations in the affi davits on both sides, he observed on the different degrees of credibility to be attached to the statements, and inquired whether in this case the allegations in the affidavits of these parties ranged within credibility, improbability, or absolute incredibility? His Lordship then mentioned a case in the Court of King 's Bench, in which in a similar application, that Cou r t, where ord Ken ' yon then presided, decided that the rule must be made absolute, though the persons complained of had directly answered the charge brought against them, as their affidavits represented an incredible story. In this case, though his Lordship would not say the statements of these parties were incredible, he should at least declare that they appeared to him improbable. Ile there fore wished for further information, for it was clear that Brookes had acted as an attorney, and he required that it should be shewn by Brookes that he had so acted, not for his own benefit or emolument, but merely for the advantage of Clarke and Isaacson respectively. An attachment must therefore issue against these parties, on which they must give bail to answer interrogatories which should be forthwith filed, and a day in next Term should be appointed for hearing the answer to these interrogatories, and the report of the Prothonotary thereon. Mr. Justice PARK and Mr. Justice BURROU Gil shortly expressed their concurrence with his Lordship, and an attach ment was therefore ordered to be issued, the bail on which was required to be 1001. for each of the parties themselves, and two sureties of 501. each. In the mean time the rule was ordered to be enlarged, and the sixth day of next term was appointed for the hearing. The COURT then said, the parties must stand committed, unless the clients of Mr. Serjeant Vaughan would take their undertaking to appear and give bail. Mr. Serjeant VAUGHAN said, he should not press for their commitment, but he should expect due notice of bail. Mr. Brookes said he would give responsible sureties, and he promised to give immediate notice of bail ; which promise being accepted he left the Court with Isaacson and Clarke, who had also undertaken to appear and give sureties. The following notice appeared yesterday in this Court : " To Solicitors, practising in the Court of Common Pleas, and to all others. " Take Notice—That aft.r the present Michaelmas Term, the evening attendance of a Judge in Chambers in Term time will be discontinued ; and that, in all future terms, the attend. ance will be every day, from half an hour after three till five o'clock." PREROGATIVE COURT, Nov. 27. No business of any public interest Was transacted in this Court to-day. Several causes were expedited one stage ; and two or three allegations were admitted ; but no causes came on for final adjudication. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • ---sams--. RESURRECTION MEN. LAMBETII-STREET.—Yeiteiday a man, who gave his name William Hodges, was brought up from Poplar watch-house, in custody of Coltman, the night constable, and a posse of watch. men and head-boroughs, and put to the bar before MATHEW WYATT and Jonsr HARDWICK. Esqrs. the Sitting Magis trates, charged with being.an accomplice, with two other ruf fians, not in, cusiody, in attempting to rob a burying-ground. The prisoner was followed to the, door of the office by an immense mob, who pelted. him, with . mud and every sort of missile that chance threw in their way. The officers were smothered all over with filth, and had the utmost difficulty in taking their prisoner alive to the office. Coltman, the Constable, said, he was engaged at. Poplar Watch-house, when between twelve and one &clock yesterday morning, Joseph Piper, late watchman of that parish, came and informed him there were three resurrrection men in Poplar-Chapel burying-ground. In consequence of this in formation, he loSt. no time in taking with him a strong body of watchmen, whom he stationed to guard the avenues lead ing from the ground. He and Piper, armed with pistols and cutlasses, got over one of the gat e s, w hi c h th e resurrection men, who were busily employed, perceiving, made a pre cipitate retreat from the graves, and attempted to get over the wall ; but finding a watchman stationed at that quarter, they went back again, and he and his assistant chased them for some - time about the tombs. The ruffians at length succeeded in getting over the wall into the garden of John Stock, Esq. closely pursued by him and Piper, where the prisoner was secured, lying on his belly under a tree ; but the other two ef fected their escape. After be was lodged in the watch-house, witness retuthed into the burial-ground, and found that the bo dies of two aged persons, namely of Mrs. Patmore, who died sud denly, and of David Whittaker, a pauper, were partly disin terred. The former was b ur i e d on Friday, and the latter on Sunday last, and close to the spot lay two bags, twoeat coats, two shovels, a. scaling-ladder, and an iron instrument for gr bursting open the coffins. On the wall where the fellows first attempted to escape, was found a long sack stretched over the glass with which the coping of the wall was stuck. This plan, it is sup. posed, was adopted to prevent their being injured by the glass. Joseph Piper stated, that there had been a suspicion for some time back that the ground had been robbed. He was employed to watch the dead, and on Tuesday night repaired to his duty, armed with a brace of pistols. On arriving at the gate he saw three men get over the wall at the opposite side ; lie waited for some time, and on witnessing them disinterring the bodies al luded to, he hastened and gave information of the circumstance to Mr. Coltman. While he was employed burying the corpse on Friday last, the prisoner was overlooking him, and helped to fill the grave ; he wore the brown great coat now produced at the time, and the bags, shovels, '&c. now produced, were the same found in the burying . -groUnd. This witness corroborated the testimony of Coltman in every other respect. Mr. Prett, the sexton, had remarked for some time back that several of the graves were disturbed, in consequence of which he placed his son and three other men to watch the burying ground. On Sundays, when the place was opened t o th e p u bli c w h o come to prayers, he had frequently seen the prisoner inspecting the graves, and heard him ask if the persons (alluding to the fresh graves) were lately interred, what their ages were, and of what disease they died. On Friday last, while Mrs. Patmore was being buried, the prisoner came up, and asked if it was a parish job ? The witness in explanation of this question, said the paupers were not in general buried as deep in the earth as others. He helped filling in the grave. WitneSs had no doubt but he was connected with a gang of body-snatchers. Robert Robins, a watchman, and several other persons, spoke in corroboration of the foregoing statement. Joseph Piper again presented himself in vindication of his character. Ile said he had been a watchman of Poplar parish, but was unfortunately discharged, in consequence of it being erroneously suspected that he was concerned in the many rob beries on the burying ground. The prisoner being called on for his defence, said he was passing through Brick-lane on Tuesday night, when he was met by two men, who asked him if he was in work ; having an swered in the negative, they wished to know if hewould be glad ' to earn a crown. He accepted the offer, and accompanied them; when on arriving at the burying ground, they remarked that he was a light chap, and, without further ceremony put him over the wall. He did not at the time know what business they were on, and under these circumstances he begged of their IVorships to take his case into consideration, and deal with him as leniently as possible. The Magistrates, after some,remarks on the enormity of the prisoner's conduct, ordered him to be committed as a rogue and vagabond for two calendar months, to hard labour in the House of Correction. The officers inquired of the Bench how they were to dispose of the articles found in the burying ground ? The Magistrates said, as the parties had disowned the Pro_ perty, the-officers might keep it and leave the owners to an action of trover. 111 ARLBOROIIGII-STREE T.—Yesterday a Gentleman, a re- Sident of Beckenham, *Kent. ) attended at this office t #ol to procure the assistance of' an of fi cer to s earc h the nodiel h .,' some' anatomistr dt the West . end of the town, to discover /1 .; ther the body of his fathe r was secrete d i n any of them. It a peared from his statement,' that'his father in the course of ' e s; week was buried in Beck en h am Ch urc h yar d , w hi c h had b7,,k robbed of several dead bodies, and among the rest that riff _P.S father was stolen. The night the resurrection men perfv, their operations, a c ar t, d r i ven b y some ru ffi anly lookjik; lows, was observed on the ro a d l ea di ng to t h e town o f B ham, and they requested the landlord of a public-house to 5 1 2 4 fer his boy to mind the horse and cart, on which they prof ed in the direction of the Church-yard, and returned soon a, l twith something deposited in sacks, which, no doubt, contain; the bodies of dead persons. The Magistrate suffered an °w e ld to accompany the applicant to the house of Mr. Brookes, b he the body of his father could not be found there, on whic h ,, 4 was attended by the same person to the various dissecting ro°" -- at the West end, but the result was not made known. CAUTION TO LABOURERS. UNION-HALL.—Yeterday John Hunt and John were brought before IVIAUftICE SWABEY, jun. Esq,, by of a summons obtained against them by Mr. Alderman A •ane xi/4s, and charged with un l aw f u ll y d esert i ng hi s emp loy ! leaving their work unfinished. The Alderman stated, that he had been building on All estate at Halsted, in K en t ; and in order to make way for, erections and furnish hi mse lf w i t h materials, he had. cat "- 0 , down a vast quantity of fi rs an d ot h er trees. Some tinle,*" being in want of som e men t o saw t h e timber, he ..;,•0 instructions to his wharfinger, at Rotherhithe, to . 0 -47 e. two sawyers for th e p ur p ose , upon an agreemen t that would cut all sorts of timber at the rate of four ,shil llzi „ 4 . lr per 100, foot. In consequence of these orders the two prOP7 whO had occasion a lly wor k e d as l a b ourers on the inr.",,', were engaged for the job, an d expresse d t h em selveslllr ful at procurin g em pl oyment at suc h liberal They were inunediitely conveyed to Halsted free of MT . ' ? and they went to th e i r l a b our w i t h pecu li ar willingness • sn,„, o anxious did they appe a r to give satisfaction, that in:Mn e be on the spot, and to lose no time, they slept at nights k i p stables, and pursued their labours the next morning *Oil crity. He (the Alderman) appreciated their industry, 1 0 1, way of encouragem e nt p urc h ase d a b e d , matress an d clo 0 to make their repose more comfortable, and permitted file sleep in the loft, by which th e y were saving at least mp shillings a-week, which they un d ou bt e dl y would' hoe. Pomo pay for a lodging. They continued in his service for alicad o weeks, the whol e of w h ic h t i me t h ey were earning flt to six shillings a day, and during that period they gayer: l - 0 satisfaction • and in order to k ee p th em emp l oye d during , winter, he had' cut down trees he o th erw i se wou ld h av e .11 mitted to stand. H owever , on M on d ay se'nnight, the inst. during his absence in London, they absconded,; from work, which they left unfinished, and loitered about the tom __„ two or three days ; th e y a f terwar d s f etched their tools as'''. and proceeded to London. He, considering they had acted lawfully, to his injury and inconvenience;' pursued then' Metropolis, and tra ce d th em t o R ot h er hi t h e. He had th';' fore obtained a "summons against them, in'order that such s 7;: duct should be visited with the punishment the Statute .P , l, scribes in such cases. He would beg to inform the MagisuL, that the prisoner Farm was at the time he engaged him a Pl'ij per on the parish of R o th er hith e; an d t h e ot h er prisoner !let been receiving parochial relief the whole of the summer W make their conduct the more aggravated. He would also to state, that in th e parish - of Rotherhith e th ere wasif Vestry, of which he was Ch a i rman ; an d t h at at t h e last 111 ing, it was found th a t th ere were no l ess than four' hundred persons receiving parish relief, one hundred of whom wen able-bodied men as th e p r i soners; an d h e therefore had r:ie induced to proceed against them more for the sake of exanEk to others, than for the inconvenience he had su,tained by.tmi misconduct. The worthy Alderman produced Taylor's Be' of Prices, by which it appeared that the usual price a llowed , , builders to s a wy ers was 3 s . per h un d re d . w hi ch is a shilling than the priioners were paid. • • _A -. The Magistrate said the offence Lad been dearly prtl7 against them, but as it h a d b een comm i tted in Kent, b e . sidered the case ought to have been agitated before a MAD( strate for that county. The. Alderman explained, that the prisoners haying. L btf, found in Rotherhithe w as th e reason t h ey were brought 10017 him. The prisoners said, in th e i r d e f ence , t h at t h ey h a d not l e f t their work incompl e t e , an d t h at t h ey h ad made no ageerlibst with the Alde r m an t o wor k f or any specif i c t i me, an d: t, their earnings had been greatly mis-stated. yea The Magistrate told th e m th a t t h e o ffe nce h a d been 13.,,r° on oath, and therefore he should commit them for one u"."" each to Maidstone gaol.—Committed accordingly. the Bow-ST REYesterday Alex. Strinzi, the landlord of ared Star and Garter public-h ouse , i n S t. Martin's-lane, Bilin the to a summons, charging him w i t h suf fe r i ng tipplinc:inday Lord's Day.—Benj. Ibberson, a cut le r , stated, th a t on , evening, - the 17th inst. about nine o'clo c k, he, acoompanie u 4, friend, went into the above house for some refreshinent. proceeded to a room on the first floor, where a youngSaan'T t i l in an arm chair at the head of the table, who had a hammer !i t , which he knocked on the table to call for a song, Sil 6 Ce , p a s, Twq songs were sung while he was in the room, viz. Peq, tt ,e a comic song, and a military song, which was explained 1 ; 11 . se March Away.—Strinzi saying a Gentleman who was .irt , room at the time was on the Exchequer Jury, or he would . 0 been present, Mr. MixsnuLL postponed his decision, WO time for him to attend. Wonsurp-STREET.—John Bailey, who seduced and .b r e e . .. trayed the, affections of Lydia_ Church, was brought up on lip examination before WM. BENNETT, Esq., for stealing a ber of boards. Lydia Church was led by her mother, T eo another female friend, into th e p ar l our , an d, on the apPear,ct of the prisoner, evinced th e same ag it at i on an d di stress of 11P,', 1 se as on the former day. Aft er b e i ng sworn, s h e was as k e d bkt o u se Magistrate if she knew any of the boards produced as t v , s ? which were br ough t bY the prisoner to the house near her mothe!..,„ She looked at several of them, an d exc l a i me d ; "I k n ow they too well ; the name 1 , Kitchen' is written in pencil u po e l n 3 0 11- i, boards which he brought l as t M on d ay n i g h t w e e k . ° Her T e j ings were highly agitated, and she said, " 0 take him avnt cannot bear to see him." It w as proved by John Brettell • e the three boards with " Kitchen" on them in pencil) were property of Messrs. Lawrenc e an d Cover.—The prisoner cf• committed to Clerkenwell for trial for the petty larceny le dia Church being bound over i n t h e usua l way to appear to be evidence, could just articul a te " I w ill, I wi ll , if I sil then alive." It is a singular fact, that as the keeper :of Tharp, Esq., of Chippenham Park, Suffolk, was •gginsA n s, round to see the guns and traps w er e sa f e i n t h e plantativi l - h a pheasant flew against the wire of one of the F pring-8 11 snapped it asunder, and was shot dead upon the spot. COAL-MARKET, Nov. 27. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. ,„t 5 Newcastle - - 3 -40 s Od to 439 fi 3 Sunderland - . 3 -38 s fid to 415_.%" BIRTHS. of On the 2fith inst., at Wootton Basset, 'Wilts, the .1./00/ the Rev. T. H. Ripley, of a son. On the 21st instant,' the wife of Edward Greenhow, 914. surgeon, of Dockevray-square, North Shields, of a daughter. t, At the Shield-field, N ewcas tl e - u po n -Ty ne , on th e 234 itt Mr. Grey, wife of J ose ph G re y, E sq ., w i ne - merc h an t in w" town. At Christ's College, Carnbrige, the lady of the Ili& .a the Lord Bishop of B r i s t o l, an d Ri g i us P ro f essor of Viv"'" in that University, of a son. MARRIED. • On the 27th inst., at St. Pancras, Middlesex, by the Dr. Moore, William Davidson Blair, Esq., of Gla4go 9 / 1 _,., Miss Jane Bruce, of Upper Gower-street, . Bedford-stpW"' only daughter of the late Dr. Bruce. trie At Danzig, on the 31st ult, John Simpson, Esq. t 0.0.. - 10, Konopacki, relict of the lat e Mr. Charles Fredrick Konopac merchant, of that city. • On the 27th inst. at Camber we ll, Ed w . W e l c h man iVr ,ff if M.D., of Shipston-upon.Stour, to Martha Anne, the & t i l e daughter, of Abraham Kirkman, Esq., of Pedtharn, county of Surrey. Lately, at Gibraltar, by the Rev. R. Curtois, J. 0 3 1 41 4 Esq., surgeon of his Majesty's 64th regiment of foot, to Elizabeth Pritchard, of the above place. DIED. I. J . On the 25th inst, at Camberwell, Ann, w if e o f Mr. I le g Lindgren aged 28, only daughter of the late Captain J 3l ' Calvart, of Stokesly, Yorkshire. On Friday, in his 18th year, at his se a t, El ys i u m- in the Southern Liberties of Waterford, Alexander Alcock, Esq' ref Lately, at Aonachan, Lochaber, Mr. willi am m a cin!Y bi , late tacksman of Druimfour, aged 101 years, He e, % t be bited, in manner and language, a striki ng spec i m en 01 patriarchal dignity of the Highlanders of th e prece di n g ag' y o f He always wore the mountain garb, and w as a living hi st er , the feuds of the last century. He was a superior deer stab'iir and killed his roe at the age of 90. His mind retained its YIP; tl .. to the last. His remains were conveyed to the grave by i i ; l l l „ u e rs her of his clan, of which there were present, of hi s ow n clew dants, a number more than sutncient for that purpose. • Printed and Published for the Pnornivi ons, .. at the ger • O ffi ce, NIL 112, Strand, by J. B. CAng:TAiirs. 9