The Sun. — London, England, 1822-10-04 00:00:00

THE 1,01`; DON JOURNALS. ItXTRACTS C•ICOM THE Dll LT MORNING PAPERS, October 4, 15'22. [III9RNINGr POST]: 'Flanders - Mail,reached us at a fate hour last night, with- Brussels Papers to the 2d inst. the contents of. which are of the most cheering nature, as ,they, fully confirm the accounts previously re,. ceived of the expulsion of the Turks from the aVlorea,- and the restored' ascendancy of the Greeks. it is remarkable that although coming from Various quarters, and under (Efferent dates - , all the reports.announcing 'the Greek successes coincide with -each other in almost every parti cular,-which would not be the case if they described imaginary occurrences. The statements of their eneinies, on the contrary,-are full of discrepancies and contradictions, as it is natural that accounts should be, which either record supposititious facts or disfigure those that are real. It will be seen by the extracts, (Inserted in THE SUN of this cloy) that the Ottoman invading army had little chance of escaping with either life or liberty from the seat of its pretended triumphs, and the surrender or Napoli tli RoMania to the - Greeks . on the 17th of Angu3t, suflitiently;proves that the. Turks no longer kept any '-footing in the Mama ; ftir otherwise - the i\loreans must have raised the siege of that fortress, to . turn their whole force against the advancing enemy., [MORNING CHRONICLE.] • The present Marquis of Londonderry has, we ate informed, communicated to Ministers his in tention of relinquishing his missidn to-the Court• of Vienna, and returning home to enjoy the peaceful pleasures of private life. This , event, which might have been foreseen, is expected to take "place immediately' after the Congress of Verona has concluded its labours. His Lord ship's determination,• we believe, has reached Ministers at a very opportune moment, inasmuch as it gives room to• provide for one of the compe titors for the Government of India, who might otherwise, perhaps, consider himself in the un pleasant predicament of a disappointed depen dant. Mr. Canning, it is said, has resolved upon sheaving the world that he is not ungrateful to Lord Liverpool, and therefore to relieve his no ble Patron from the claims of Lord Amherst, he has consented to recommend the latter to his Majesty as a fit Representative of England at the Austrian Court. It is even asserted, that in further deference to Lord Liverpool's wishes, Mr. Canning would willingly employ his influ ence at the India Hon-F.e in support of Lord Melville, and let Lord William Bentinck live in expectation of some other appointment speedily turning up in• his- favour. [THE Tanis:] We bace`rnore . thmi - once had occasion to notice the use to 'Which - the British naval power sta tioned in the West Indies has been perverted.--- Instead of adting . ' for the suppression of piracy, and the protection of trade, our -men of war are alleged in frequent instances to have forfeited the name of cruisers, and degraded themselves into comition • carriers. The 'British merchants haVeiong - coMplained of this grievance, and so far as in us lay we haVe 'lent them the assistance of the public press towards its removal. The American squadron in the -West Indian seas have spontaneously repaired the ravages inflicted on British commerce through the neglect of duty manifested by the officers of, our marine, and sanctioned, .as appears unquestionable, by their employers. What is worse too,. in so far as it makes our disgrace more notorious, the -news-• papers of the. United States have seized upon the circumstance, and blazoned it throughout America in terms as contemptuous- as they are true. We refer to an article taken from a Nor folk paper, and headed " Cruise of the Hornet." —( See iinothei - column of THE SUN.)--Our Squadron is there • described to be in num bers and force, and every thing but conduct 44 quite respectable." The British Officers are 4 4 too profitably engaged in transporting money 44 from port to port, to attend to the acts of 44 piracy committed even on their own cruizers." Representations are said by these Papers to have been sent home. to Lloyd's, with a view to their being forwarded to - Government. Alas ! Go vernment have long. known their justice; and what hopes of redress could be fairly entertained from men in office may be well appreciated from the debate of last Session, when the subject was perplexed and incumbered with endless references to Spain and her obsOlete pretensions, as if only to add mockery to disappointment.- If it be indis pensable that the favourites or -dependents of Ministers, who obtain the Court patronage in time oipeac i e, and are appointed to ships more for emolument than'honour, are to be enriched at every hazard,- this mode of supplying their ne cessities is surely . of all others the least eligible, It at once robs the merchant, shuts up the market, and lowers the ,British flag -in the eyes both of friendly and unfriendly nations.- As the most cogent argument,: and therefore the last we. shall resort to—a series of unrepaired outrages upon the merchants, must (Ho -matter how the House of Commons 'be constituted)—must infallibly weaken the tenure by which a Minister holds his office. The peculiarity of the report that the Gover nor-Generalship has been offered to Mr. Manners Sutton seems to g ive it credibility;. for who would have thought.ofmaking a Speaker of the House of Commons , the Chief Governor of India, but the authors and contrivers of the change ? Nye have heard further, that when the proposition of going out to India way made to Mr. Speaker, a fortnight was allowed him to consider of his reply ; and this circumstance,. if true, ac count for the uncertainty which now prevails re specting the appointment. The time allowed is fransitu, and nothing can be decided on till the Speaker's answer is,received.—(Mid.) [BRITISH rams.] The inauguration of the Lord Mayor and -Sheriffs , of Toublin took place on Monday last.: in the evening his Lordship gave a splendid, banquet at the ICl'ansion-house to the .Lord Lieu tenant, and several personages of distinction. The pleasures of the day suffered no alloy from any ebullition of that party spirit which dis turbed the harmony of some late similar scenes. In the list of appropriate toasts there is one which will be read with peculiar satisfaction. It is the acknowledgment of the magnanimous and be nevolent exertions of this country for the relief of the distress in Ireland. What a pleasing substitute was this expression of gratitude and affection for any of those party toasts which have so often excited the angry passions, converted a scene of festivity into a scene of strife, and kept alive odious distinctions and jealousies. On the health of the Lord Lieutenant being drank, his Excellency, in returning thanks, took credit for steering the country through the calamity with which it was recently afflicted. Ilis Excellency is entitled to the praises of having done every thing in his power'to suppress the outrages and alleviate the distress with which the country has been visited, but we fear he has not yet steered it through the calamity. Many of the acknowledged causes of the distress remain, and may to a certain extent reproduce the same effect in the ensuing season ; and the spirit.of out rage, we lament, has again made its appearance in the south. In the former case nothing but palliatives have been applied—hi the latter coercion ; but had coercion been a cure, the disease would have ceased to exist a century ago. When , the relations between landlord and tenant shall have approached the state that prevails in England—when the oppression of the tithe , sys tem shall have ceased, and religion shall become a bond of union, and not a sword to divide the Roman Catholic from his neighbour—then, indeed, his Excellency. may congratulate himself and his 'friends on having steered. the , country through its calamity. [MORNING lIERALD,I The successes of the Spanish Insurgents lead to nothing ; not, a single advantage ; the taking of a considerable place, or the gaining of an im poriant position. This, after such a lapse of time, can be accounted for only upon-one suppo sition, viz. that those successes are imaginary— the work of fabrication and falsehood. It ap pears even from the latest' accounts from Ba yonne, the citadel of the Rebellion, that the insurrection is disorganized in -Navarre ; for they state, that many Spanish families had crossed the frontier and taken refuge at Ba yonne, with a great . number of Priests- and Monks, seeking there an asylum from persecu tion. This is a pretty decisive symptom of the state and hopes of the insurgents. But what effrontery in this complaint of persecution ! horde of monks flying, probably, from the punish ment of their treasons, and with no• obligation. imposed upon them in Spain, but that of sub mitting to the laws, and barely tolerating the freedom of their country, complain of being persecuted ! It is unnecessary to call to the mind of the reader, the abhorrence, the com passion; even sometimes the contempt, with which Englishmen have been so long accustomed to re gard Spaniards for enduring the incubus of des potic superstition, which pressed upon the lreart of the nation, merely through its ignorance and !foolish fears. Now, when they have made an effort, by a movement of unexampled energy— 'unexampled for its force, prudence, and humanity —they are reviled as revolutionists and traitors ; and these monks, because they are turned out of their dens of sloth and profligacy, to become members of society, are represented as objects of persecution ! This perversion of the use of language, and of the truth of things, is an insult to the common reason of the English people. We have as little sympathy for the fopperies, and as strong . antipathy to the atroci ties, which revolutions have produced, and will no doubt Produce again. But is a great prin ciple, the very principle of the British Constitu tion—the principle which legitimatizes the British Throne—;to be abandoned, merely because it has been memorably abused in France? The case of Spain is one that Peculiarly calls for the ap-, proval of an'enlightened people. [NEW TIIVIES.] The Morning Chronicle informs us, through tl e medium of its City Reporter, that " a further advance is still expected" in Spanish Bonds. This is a point which we do not pretend to dis pute. We have already •hinted at the great suc cess which for a while attended the South Sea Bubble ; and we know that it is difficult to set bounds to credulity. But when The Chronicle tells us, that " the dealers in these Bonds do not understand the arguments put forth against them," it becorries us to endeavour to place the subject in a clearer point of view ; and we know not how we can do this better than .. by supposing circumstances like those which have occurred in Spain to take place in England. Sir Robert Wilson will not be offended if we compare him to General Riego ; and Cobbett is a tolerably fair counterpart to San Miguel, late Editor of the Expectador, and now a Minister of State. — Now, suppose Messrs. Wilson,'Cobbett, and Co. were by means of a mutiny of the King's troops, to be suddenly placed in the Cabinet, what does The , Chronicle think would be the price of Consols this day three weeks ? Suppose, that, in consequence of sonic such happy Revolution, the new Financiers should expunge two thirds of the National Debt—what would be the price then ? Suppose that a civil war were to break out, and to spread through every County iii England—what would be the price then ? Sup pose that the revenue were to fall Off one •half, and the expenditure were to be necessarily aug mented for the purpose of carrying on a civil war—what would be the price then . ? Suppose' that the new Government were solemnly to dis-, claim the system of raising money by. Loan, and were immediately afterwards to resort to. Loan upon. Loan—what would be the price then ? Suppose• it were notorious that without aew 4Oans they could not pay the dividends on that portion of the Debt which they had thought fit to recog nise—what would be the price then,?—Now we, put it to The Chronicle, whether this imaginaryi picture of England be not the actual picture of Spain, only mucb*ioftened:down,, and lightened in all its most gloom7,lpatures—for we have said nothing of, a blooFtY conflict in the streets of the capital—nothing of 'the King's being kept a prisoner in . the hands of the principal mu tineers—nothing of a Regency established by his loyal subjects - in a different part of the kingdom —nothing of a foreign army collected and ready for invasion—nothing of the unfavourable senti rhents openly manifested by almost all Europe against the Revolutionary Government. IRELAND. THE NEW fORD MAYOR. DUBLIN, OCT. I.—The new Lord Mayor, Alderman Flem ing, was sworn into office yesterday. His conduct on the oc casion fully justified the' confidence which his friends had re posed in his firmness, good sense, and good feeling. His splen did equipages, and rich and elegant liveries were not disfigured by any trapping which could possibly shock the principles, or ,wound the feelings of any class of his Majesty's subjects. In stead of the party emblems so long employed for the purpose of offending the citizens of Dublin, the carriages and horses of his Lordship were decorated with the ancient city colours—scarlet or deep crimson. The band accompanying the procession played God save .the King; and St. Patrick's Day, instead of the irritating tunes usually played on similar occasions. A si milar spirit of genuine loyalty and patriotism presided over the arrangements for the sumptuous banquet given by his Lord ship at the close of the day. Every toast which could possibly give offence was excluded from the list ; and the guests.com prised men of all sects and parties, without reference to religi ous or political distinctions of any kind. City Processions were wont to pass through the streets of Dublin, either in death-like silence, or amidst the execrations of the people. Yesterday," however, the scene was widely different, the procession was loudly and-heartily cheered along the whole line of streets through which it passed, from the City Assembly House to the Castle, thence to the City Court House, in (been-street, and after Wards to the Mansion-House. ' NEW CITY OFFICERS.. Yesterday the inauguration of Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the ensuing year took place, with the usual pomp and ceremo nies. About half-past two o'clock the City Authorities went in state to the Castle, where Alderman John Smyth Fleming was sworn in Lord Mayor, and invested with the insignia of office by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. The Procession proceeded afterwards to the Sessions House, where H. Cooper and J. ,Tliorpe, Esqrs., were sworn in High Sheriffs, and Cis :brig Whistler, Esti: Sub-Sheriff. The equipaget , of our new Chief Nagigtrate and Sheriffs dis play much elegance combined with taste and judgment, and were all built by Sheriff Cooper. The LORD MAYcin's (a landau).--The body a very dark pnrple, bordering on black ;: the carriage a dark brown, picked out with scarlet, displaying a pleasing contrast; the hammer cloth drab, with appropriate fringe, and. the arms' embroidered on the ends : thccrty and family arms on the body were most -admirably executed : the motto, 44 Barn aragilz:"' ' Sheriff CoorEnfts.—The body. same , colour as the Lord Mayor's; motto, " Ties ti riris fple;" the carriage a dark blue. Sheriff TIIPRPE'SI—The body a dark chocolate colour, with crimson hammer-cloth ; motto, Maio mori quamfordari." The liveries of each are powder-blue, with silver lace and purple breeches ; the horses were decorated with crimson rib bons. _ _ _ _ From the gpod sense so laudably manifested by the new Officers in discarding from their equipage§ all emblems of party, we are led hope - in the discharge of the important duties attached to their high Mikes, the new Lord Mayor and Sheriffs will he actuated by a sincere and well-directed ambition for the public welfare. " Whether to shield, Their country's liberties, their coubtry's law," and by an earnest desire to promote the comfort, and afford relief to the numerous poor and employed mechanics of this city. DINER AT THE, MANSION HOUSE. Yesterday eyening the new LORD MAYOR gave a splendid banquet at the . Mansion House to his Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT, and several personages of rank. The tables displayed every delicacy the season could afford; •the wines were various, abundant, and excellent. Hospitality and polite nessdistinguished his Lordship's conduct throughout the entire evening. Amongst the company present we remarked, to the right of the Lord Lieutenant— The Earls of Meath and Longford, his Excellency's . Chief and Private Secretaries and Physician ; Mr. Blake, the Eng lish Catholic Barrister; Lord Paget, Captain Malcolm, R.N., the French Consul, General Freeman, General Fyres, Valen tine O'Connor, Esq. and Nicholas Mallon, ,Esq. On theleft of the Lord Mayor sat— His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin ; the' Right Hon. the Attorney:Beneral ; the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of St. Patrick's . ; Sir Charles Vernon, &c. &c. " The King" was drunk with enthusiastic applause, and every mark of loyalty, attuhinent, and veneration. On the health of his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley being given (which was received with the most rapturous ap plause), the Noble Marquis rose, and with great animation and feeling expressed himself to the following effect I . should be insensible to every feeling of gratitude and public honour if I Were not deeply impressed with the kindness with which you have received my name. I have witnessed calamity amongst you, and have, thank Heaven ! happily succeeded, with your assistance, in steering you through it. You' know me ;• you have been pleased not only to confirm your previous good opinion of me, but to sanction my conduct since I have come amongst you by a favour the greatest that could be con &I-red—the approbation of my mare city.—(Loud and continu ed applause.)—With your permission, which I am sure I shall receive, I propo'se the health of the Lord Mayor, and prosperity and happiness to the City of Dublin." The LORD MAYOR in brief but appropriate terms returned thanks. The following were among the toasts The Duke of York and the Army." " The Duke of Clarence and the Navy." " The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland." • " The Duke of Wellington, and the British .Army who fought and conquered under him." " The Earl of Meath, and the Resident Nobility of Ire land." " The Seventeenth of August, the day on which our Most Gracious Majesty entered his faithful and loyal City of Dublin." " The magnanimous and noble-hearted Persons of all classes of the Sister Isle, who humanely contributed to the relief of our distressed Countrymen in Ireland." " The late Lord Mayor, and the Mansion-house Committee, and many thanks to them for their incessant labours in the cause of Humanity." About half-past eleven o'clock his Excellency departed ;he was in excellent spirits, and seemed' to enjoy perfect health. He wore the new uniform of Governor-General, viz. a scarlet coat, faced with blue, and superly embroidered, handsome gold epaulets, &c. He was decorated with the Lord Lieutenant's Collar, Orders of the Garter, St. Patrick, &c. Up to a late hour' conviviality and good humour prevailed amongst the guests; nor was there any appearance of its being disturbed by any objectionable proceeding when we departed.— ( Freeman's Journal.) RENEWED . OUTRAGES. (FROM THE CORK CHRONICLE.) CORK, SE pr. 27.—Itis, indeed, with unfeigned regret that we have to advert to the disordered state of many parishes in, the northern parts of this country ; we do not wish to excite uncalled for alarm, but we would propose directing the atten tion of his Majesty's Government to the true cause of these la mentable outrages, which we hoped -the examples made to the offended laws of the land, and the unceasing exertions of the Catholic Clergymen throughout the country, would have put an end to. In endeavouring to obtain information as to :the -cause that has kindled this flame in the country, we have deemed it ne cessary to refer to those whose general knowledge of its situa tion enables them to give it in a fair and unprejudiced manner; and judging from their several communications, as well as from the,proceedings which daily occur, there is no doubt enter tained that the tithe systein, and its abuse, is now the primary cause which leads to all these outrages. Scarcely a night passes without- some conflagration of tithe , coin, or an outrage connected with - the system. Those far mers who had purchased their tithe corn, and even made it up in their haggards, have been compelled to unmake their stacks field s, where s ti o n nt er poor men had hired their thee d the --penalty of the most and draw a p w un i i t si b il e e k nt to ; horses for the purpose of removing the tithe, vengeance fol lowed, by barbarously houghing and maiming these animals. At this moment, there remain throughout, that district se veral quantities of tithe corn, for which agreements had been made by the grower with the proctor ; but such is the terror that is spread, that all those arrangements are annulled on the part of the farmer, who tare not take one sheaf of it into his possession. Such is the statement we are now obliged to offer;' it is much to be lamented ; it calls loudly for some permanent, measure that will restore. peace and tranquillity to.the country,. and put.an end to these horribLi excesses. A haggard, within a quarter of a mile of Mallow, was set, fire to and consumed on Monday night. The patrol on Sun-: day night, in traversing the country. in the direction of Butte vent, reckoned three fires in different directions. The utmost,. alarm consequently prevails in that neighbourhood.. LONDON SESSIONS. Yesterday Richard Clark, a fish salesman in Billingsgate market, and William Perry, his servant, were indicted for hav ing assaulted an old Scotchman named Furzon. The complainant, it appeared, is an exciseman ; and on the day mentioned in the indictment had gone to Billingsgate-mar ket for the purpose of buying some fish, but he found that it Was too high in price, and was making the best of his way out the market, determined not to make a purchase; when the two defendants seized him with their filthy hands and dragged , him towards their baskets "to buy." From the violence they had used towards him, he thought himself ' in the hands of thieves, and instinctively secured his pockets by clapping his hands upon them—an action at which the gentry of the market set up a shout, and the poor exciseman was at once marked out as a fit subject for a "spree," which wailmmediately commenced, to the delight of the whole market. Finding that he was likely to suffer in the midst of the delicate fun of the fish dealers, he remonstrated with the defendants, and suddenly received what he called " a dab of a figh-gill" on the cheek, and the whole place was in a roar.at his confusion. He then endeavoured to get away, but the defendants and a number of other fellows of the market hustled him from one to another, pulled his hat Over his eyes, and one of them wished to possess-himself of some documents, the value of which was, in the estimation of the exciseman, upwards of 4,0001., which the poor man had sticking_ out of his bosom. After having undergone a com plete Billingsgate reception, in language and treatment, in his person, he escaped in a melancholy plight. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the defendants, contended that there had not been at' any rate a malicious attack upon the prosecu tor. That gentleman seemed to be rather qualified, from his appearance and profession and temper, to give a little innocent amusement to the hard-working people of the market, who were glad to meet with a little occasional recreation at the same time that they had their eye to business. The seizure of the person of the prosecutor, and the dragging of him to their baskets, nolens volens, to induce him to buy, was only the rug ged manner of enforcing the claim of a tradesman. If the jury_ wished to know how their ancestors used to solicit custom, they' should go to Billingsgate-market, where they would find the only remains of those manners which were described in the novel of the " Fortunes of Nigel" as the peculiar characteristic of the city tradesmen of the reign of James I. On that account they ought to be respected, and should not be subject to punishment in these degenerate days. The Jury found the defendants Guilty. • The RECORDER addressed them on the folly of their con duct, which was calculated to prevent respectable persons from going amongst them: When would the ignorant of this coun try see the policy of using courtesy to induce persons,of respec tability to approach them without fear or disgust, and when would that market make an effort to cast aside the obloquy thrown upon it—an obloquy which the name of it sufficiently attested ? The Court viewed the conduct of the defendants as a part of the system of filthy riot so frequently practised, and tined Clark N., and Perry-, his servant, 40s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAXSION-HOITSE.—EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.— Wtn. Clarke, a person of respectable appearance, was brolight before the Lord Mayor, - charged with having feloniously em bezzled several sums of money, which he had received for Jane Purser, widow, as her servant. The statement of the witnesses for the prosecution was to the following effect : Mrs. Purser, who has lately become the wife of Mr. Allison, and carries on the business of a newspaper and medicine-vender in Finch-lane, employed the prisoner for some years as a clerk, he having been .for a length of time, before the death of her late husband, engaged in the, concern. Very great confidence was placed in him, and he was in the habit of receiving conside rable sums of money, for a great deal of which, it was lately certained, he had not accounted. In order to escape detection, it became necessary for him to make erasures in the cash book, and to adopt other modes of confusing an ordinary glance at his accounts. It happened, however, that the practice was so fre quently resorted to, and the erasures so multiplied, as to excite suspicion, and the consequence was, the discovery of very im portant losses to the house. The cash-book having been produced,' several items which had been entered by the prisoner were pointed out to the Lord Mayor, and evidence was called to prove that those items did not correspond with the prisoner's receipts, which always turned out to be greater than the sums he acknowledged to have re ceived. The cash-book, in fact, was crowded with errors, which the prisoner accounted for by stating, that the irregular manner in which he was paid by the customers, compelled him to make entries in parts of the book not properly selected for those par ticular entries. An examination of the book by the complain ant and her present husband, however, soon negatived the truth of this apology, and it was ascertained that a deficiency of seve ral hundred pounds had taken place ; the effect, it was asserted, of a systematic plan, by which he had kept his mistress in the dark during the whole period of his engagement with her. Mr. PLATT, the Counsel, attended for the prisoner, and en tered into a cross-examination of the complainant. She ad mitted that the prisoner had always said that he was ready to go 'over the accounts with her husband, and that he had pro mised to call at her house for that purpose on the day lie was apprehended and taken to prison, but she denied that she knew ..anything of the prisoner's intention to set up business in oppo sition to her.- She also denied all knowledge of a letter which was put into her hands by Mr. Platt, who,very particularly questioned her as to the hand-writing. She was evidently struck with the letter, but she' said it was the imitation . of her writing preSented in that letter that caused her surprise. Dr. P. Kelly, schoolmaster, in Finsbury-square, proved the payment of a sum of money to prisoner on account of the com plainant, which was not entered in the books. The prisoner was sent back to the Compter, as his prosecutors •think proper to add some other cases to those already detailed. GUILDHALL.—CAUTION TO COACII OWNEIIS.—A deci cision with respect to an imposition very frequently practised, and, one which it is important the pubhc should be made ac quainted with, took place at this office yesterday. Garrett, a porter belonging to the Mrbite Horse Inn, Fetter lane, appeared on summons to answer the,complaint of a Gen tleman of the . name of Tanner, residing at Grove-lane, Cam berwell, for an overcharge for porterage of a small basket of game. The basket,.it appeared, came per coach to the White Horse Inn, directed to 111 r. Tanner as above, and was taken by the defendant to the Kini , and Keys public-house in Fleet street, to•be forwarded as directed by the Camberwell coach. The charge made for porterage was ad., which Mr. Harrison, the landlord of the King and. Keys, bad paid. Upon reference to the Porterage Act, the sum legally charge able appeared to be 3d., or at the utmost 4d. The porter admitted the facts, and pleaded his master's orders for the sum taken, and for the whole of which he had accounted. The Clerk of the Coach-owner came forward, and stated that the charge of ad. was usually made between office and office, no matter whether near or distant, and in no case, let the office be ever so distant, was any more charged for a parcel, even though it were sent by coach. The defendant was then convicted in the full penalty of 205., and ss. costs, which were immediately paid. Mr. Tanner said he had no other object than to put a stop to this imposition, and therefore desired that the moiety of the penalty due to him as the complainant, should go with the other moiety to the poor of the parish wheiein the offence was committed. I'TAIII.IIOIIOUGH-STIIEET.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF Anso N.—Yesterday an elderly gentleman, with powdered hair, and dressed in a suit of black, was brought up from St. Giles's watch-house, charged by Mr. Edwards, landlord of the Bull and Gate, Holborn, with having attempted to set fire to his house under the following circumstances :—The case excited great interest, and the Office was very much crowded. Mr...Ed ' wards being sworn, stated, that on Thursday night last about eight o'cloCk the prisoner, accompanied by a young woman, came and knocked at the door, which on being opened by the servant, she was asked whether they could have a lodging for the night. Witness and his wife were at the time sitting in the back parlour, and hearing a noise, he went to see what was the matter along with his wife. The prisoner and his companion were then kt into the house, and were conducted up stairs to No. 6. apartment on the second floor ; on which he paid 3s. for the lodging, and the servant went down stairs. In about half an hour after, the young wornan who accompanied the prisoner came down stairs and had.some conversation with the servant, on which-she quitted the place. Witness had occasion to go out for about a quarter of an hour, and on his return ho was in formed that an attempt had been made to set the house on fire by the gentleman who had come in, and that the prisoner ran down stairs with a candlestick in his hand, which contained a morsel of lighted candle, which he took out with him into the street and threw away under a gateway, but soon afterwards be returned, having forgotten his umbrella. He was asked to walk in, on which he was challenged with having attempted to set lire to the house, which he denied, and he was given in charge and taken to the watch-house. Thomas Pask, waiter at the Bull and Gate, Holborn, deposed,. that on Thursday . night he was in his master's house, about " 9 o'clock, when he heard 'somebody running quickly down stairs, and he went" and,saw it was an elderly gentleman dressed in black, who ran out with a candlestick, &c. in his hand ; wit ness , proceeded up .stairs to No. 6 toom„and found the door closed ; it was fastened by a spring lock, and he had to burst it open, on doing which he found the plate all in a blaze, and the • flames rushed out on him ; he endeavoured to pull the clothes • the off the 14d, and by procuring pails of water and throwing, on the flames he extinguished them ; the place was much in.li e l ( l7, The prisoner, who, was very much affected, a nd agita,ra such a degree that tfle perspiration dropped excessivelyerirea his countenance, was called on for his defence. n e de On that he was as innocent of the charge as the child unborn. Thursday evening he met with the female, wh om he aceoweci, vied to prosetutor's house, where they were shewn tothe a d P s he ment ; she requested of him 6s. which he gave to her/ cr a t t e did left the room under a promise to return; but on findinb the not do so, he prepared to leave the house; he certainly tnez 4 os candle down stairs, and on returning for his umbrella he ,d detained: He still declared his innocence of the charge/ said he had been robbed while he was in the house. for bis Sir G. FARRANT, the Magistrate, a s ked the Pris°° ° ' name and address. The prisoner shed tears, and requested that the 3 would not urge him to mention his name ; his family were Teach respectable, and he would not wish the circumstance t ° 'b r ed their ears ; suffice it to say, he was a fanner, but had heell an attorney, and held a farm in Norfolk. 'sore r Plank, the officer, suspected that he had seen the Prk teen there before. Prisoner.said he had.been there about „ ft v for years ago to give evidence in a case. He was willing to any injury done. erY Sir G. FARRANT thought the circumstances of the case c dle suspicious, especially those of the prisoner's having throgards candle away, and the door being fastened. If 3 1 r. E id b e to could attribute the affair to accident, the best way 10 °' m atter retire with an officer, and to endeavour to arrange 1 -' l ' o a. and for the prisoner to let his friends know of the tr ansaett,, er , They retired into a separate room and consulted tnge"lde; but no arrangement was entered into; Mr. Edwards was termined to prosecute. chi Sir G. FARRANT informed the prisoner, as he did not to arrange the matter, the law would take its course. v,j. 111 r. •••• Prisoner—What am Ido ? What do you want , wards ? W'l , atarn Ito do? Sir Mr. Etiwards--It is in the hands of the Fire Office , I agi L s . trhaitcy . have nothing now to do with it. • Prisoner—Shall I told procure bail ? bat n te The Magistrate the offence was bailable, t to ' could not be allowed to quit the Office. He wou ld be sent the House of Correction, where would have an 0 1 ) P nr of seeing his friends. woain Prisoner said he could procure bail immediately if they ' suffer him to go. to the The Magistrate again told him he would be sent House of Correction. is frie ll" Prisoner said he would rather go to New a te than h should know it, and appeared to labour under great ag? n Y u and The prisoner was then committed for re-examinanoie, handed over to Marsden, the gaoler. Prior to leaving:sl,e ns put on him; on which the Alagistrate assured him sence of the Magistrate, the prisoner requested not tell sho uld not; but every attention should be paid to his comfort. _ ea his` The prisoner produced a will; from which it apPem name is Copeland. He is a venerable looking man. n DAC ° LABIBETII-ST REE T.—Yesterday two Jou rn eYnl e _7 do t on. were convicted in mitigated penalties and CO sts, atteo y , the informations for driving their trucks on the fo ot I t % bail Mile - End Old-Town. One of the defendants was Offi ce for assaulting the Street Keeper, just us he had left the after the cases were decided. o f . tbe HAT TON-GARDEN.—Yesterday John kcel'el' im o f Highgate Archwaygate, was fined 20s. fors eizin , the g ol , Gentleman who had inadvertently passed through'theg" and who not knowing of such a toll had refused to PO' they AMERICAN FORGERS. SHAWNETOWN Jt- 71 - 1 ' ROSWELL STURDIVANT.—We are glad to arinouc„, this celebrated counterfeiter, who has for several Yrbeeo undated the country with spurious bank-bills, has at 0 vo,:t apprehended. On Friday last a party of five perso lls i suit lunteered upon this service set oil from this town in in i ag o. 0 11. t t oh eaolGolconda, affidavit nda of wherea n a t c h c o e y m p tc c e o . r e d T o h e en tered t ress ing him; with a warrant granted by one of the Suifrern e Ju t h a t a 3/ e y ot Aid to their party, consisting of a few citizens of that /logo ten miles from Golconda.. Two ot. the party hood, and on the following morning went to SturdivanVe botisc by stratagem, unsuspected, and the remain der hi P ec ; forward, the gang within, consisting of six or sF den tly sons, was completely surprised. They were ern and work when the house was first entered, but broke on , "" thet WIICO A busied in attempting to conceal their implements , were discovered. The upper story of the house I ", ics ,.StO• to be a Complete workshop fitted 43p with work-benosog; On these were several tools, apparently used for e ,„ts of P 3: and on the floor was a quantity of trimmings, or sc"pere per, evidently cut from the edges of bank - notesj : ,„„ or tur; also a large Hat stone, upon which they were griur",orptaint,ll', ing ink, when surprised, and a number of ptlit'; the pa mixtures of different kinds.' Unfortunately, howe ve "jiscor e had not time to continue their search, for it was soon t. her eg'h; that an alarm was given toSturdivant's confederates ` r escu bourhood, and it was expected that they would atteroPt• dere': troeetabiee,ded atiaitio him. The apprehending party being onl y 8 „ r 10 s trovg; jo ric . fore withdrew with Roswell Sturdivant, and his v;FV, Sturdivant, who alone were named in the warrant. .-``_elf pursued by a party of Sturdivant's friends, well-arno rifles, fur about 20 miles ; but they fortunately re'►conleofj Pott's, 10 miles from this place, b h r suingl'a rt Y. lit, 311 e orct eptf n ig p ot Here they were surrounded by these villains the Aro°,,, n3 ta ;n9 ., threatened with an attack, which, however, Wes 1,, hou se a pia mat.e.t.te resolute deportment of th • ty in t-- e par , . m op no vl such as to intimidate their pursuers. On SnnuaY ir . prisoners were conveyed to this place, where tl who Pier, closely guarded. It is ascertained that the scoundre vi as a ti a, sued were at first nine in number, and that their par o l_,. IP o f wards reinforced by twelve more. Jacob Robertson, n, % or r , Captain Steel, James Belden, and Stephen Sturdivabe, co o e this gang. Such is the high-handed villainy of fciters of Pope county. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. — noon, a chimney in the Ship public house, l iter' served to to be on fire, and on the alarm being gi ven 'de ° lie die's, belonging to the 9th Lancers, who acre rata I tet 7 e a t a Plymouth, where they had escorted a deserter, it; 15 01 1 S e r a house to render assistance, when Mr. Wintlor,• h t wa s 1 03 at e desired one of them to discharge his pistol, whi c " D oer. i n- of with &ball cartridge, up the chimney; but theisnnosattici, effectually to bring down the burning soot, adde U 2 ' il iSt° l ,h° shot, shot, and whilst in the act of ramming it down, th e p est e'rits dentally went off, and, shacking to relate, MrS• 'L l o j e c0 0 : fl o' was standing opposite the soldier, received the v w ," 6 4 r f t. " ' , in her body, winch killed her on the spot.- 4 "•'-' e ' /4.0, 1 ' Post, Oct. 3.) th e - ver, On Thursday last, Wiliam Jones, a private in th i n 1: 10 .,i t o Dragoons, quartered at the Eight Bells pu blic- 110 ,10g a , " o fiS shot himself, whilst in bed, with a horse otso i c h lio ° l lle two bullets whch entered his body, passed throog ~aa• t it out of the otherside, and lodged in the wall of the rvi, ea tt P lingered until Sunday evening in great agony, w lleP an end to kis sufferings. f . l a dy° I C ? e l 1 :1 - d e l e r I g b e , :ges. 5001, BIWTHS. the At Heavitree, near Exeter, on Thursday 13st' reet. Thomas Russell, Esq of a (laughter. . L . 11 01-5 On Friday latt, the lady. of Peter Greenall, A'sq" St. Helen's, Liverpool, of a daughter. , t Th e : lt y ' o` MARRIED. Yesterday morning, at. Christ Church, Stall4coael'o. Christopher Banks, E. 561., of Bank Newton , in ii ;jaialla ' York, to Harriet, fourth daughter of the late " ~. to ton, Esq., of Wilsley, near Cranbrook, Kent. _. 13ey, o et-, Yesterday, Mr. Henry Langton. of MaidenheiTiiiaiti-st" Maria, eldest daughter of Mr. Stephenson, ‘ Blackfriar2.____,...--- • '' r 1/g /t4r DIED. This morning, after a short illness, in her Bflth o3 Y r ' dgat e ' the wife of John Windus, Esq, of Chance i, o f IJ On, Tuesday, the Ist instant Mr. John Axforti 1 114°i. 7 ' JO hill, aged 88. t fi n 21 1 r• On Tuesday, theist instant, at Bdroon-- '', the gee' Ward, of Godliman-street, Doctors'-eomninn-ositire. ,L'aairf: A few days since, at Sawtry, in fluntingOf ore ,it t i t i ro ieq James Saunders, rector Of that parish, vicar ° Jie Ive s v. l7ll o ';' and an active Magistrate for the county.. 17 0, D. ref yellow of Queen's College, B.A. 1761, . 1 . 1 .. Sal/ part On Sunday evening last, at Clapham-ri , • t r h ea e u 2 , 2 E d suql,t.,,faont formerly of Joh n " Herman Schroder, Esq., aged 72. Fo O nn n e On the 2d instant, at her mothcr's house , ",`,4011* . ~ A lor' roline, wife of the Rev. C. J. Bewicke, of 113it ' On the 20th ult., at Merry Vale cesteishire. ifere f°l '3 s rs " Mr. John Yonge Jones who had spent 'opt ~12.„1,0 of a a valued and respected clerk in the banlilllb ilu near Il v t . l ! rd s- ', 0,-;?0, , 900. gionce e a Bosanquet, Pitt, and Co. of 9g years. at th Caine, On Sunday last, at Truro, Charles P . Last week, at St. `Venn, Hobert Park n t tile c 4c itlin c age of-96 years. Se ; o t the itlihej2llostl3sl IttilegYineal_ero:;:a3t Fea°°ini:r•i)Cer, ir rou. , ,,, i to , Printed' nd Published for the PRO l', ll 00 92 Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. P• Zi te 6, r, tc t o 4, ti l , ,, F, b e €l4 the 4 Ikeha r„ 1 0, o 4ft 'tPt r i &e4Q tti vi L ie, I Pe e . and