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LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY EXTRAVIS -FROM Tut: 1%1 0 lIN I S PAPERS, Jan luny .: 2-1, IS'22. • . [TII E TIMES.] The proceedings of the Victualling.Boardare veiled :in obsCurity, and.the supposed magnitude of the abuses is only thereby increased in the ge neral suspicion. It is certain that the - officers to whom we before alluded have been subjected to, the severaUPenalties .of . which we spoke. But fintlalSo, that a Commßsion has been sitting, composed of two Lords of the Adinitalty, assist ed by the Secretary and Solicitor, for the inves tigation of the abnses. Now, - without speaking a word more respectinif the misconduct of inferior officers, we say that ta' necessity of forming such a ‘einmissiOri, at once prOves the inadequacy of the Board. Does not a commission, consisting of strangers, appointed to examine the concerns 'of a mercantile house, evince the unfitness of the partners to conduct their own affairs ? In the same manner, if• the Victualling, or any other 13aLCrd'whatever, is incapable of detecting and re pressing the - abuses of its 'own servants, till haie attained 'such a magnitude as to attract the general attention of Govern ment, we say at once that such a - Board ought not to exist : it ought to be dissolved,_and recast. Incited, we recollect, when the relative of a cer 'lain Lord of the Admiralty was made one of the CommisSiboers . of . the Victualling Board, we then stated. that-the new Commissioner, .most prepos terously taken from the army was nOt a man of habits suited to his new employment ; and that the appointment was made merely to give him a pension out of the public Money. We fear the same thing may be said of others in this Beard,' On the detection of every single abuse b) the CortrirniSS'.on now sitting, an inquiry, tulles :qtroties, will necessarily spring up and suggest it self - -to every one's mind—how came the Board to overlook this act of misconduct ? of what use wa?. a body under which, that abuse has been so long 'practised without observation ?—When - we use; as we have done, the word " abuse" in the preceding remarks, we must be under stood as merely employing that term upon the strength of the dismissals of which we spoke ; • yekterday : of the deeds really done, we know very little; we cannot learn that they are of a very reprehensible nature. Among the dismissed is said to be one—even a Commissioner—who violated the order which himself had written : his case is Of course the worst. The act of tak ing up Victualling Bills, purchasable like all Other Government paper, is said to have been prohibited to the people in the office, only be cause it was thought to interfere with their em -ployment, or might too much engage their atten tion ; not that it was conceived to be, or could be, illegal or dishonourable : and among the most trivial violations of the rule is said to be that by . .one who had only taken up a bill or two for a The last but most remarkable oc. currence is the, : triode of correction adopted by the Commission itself ; for we find that the sub stitute for. the dismissed Commissioner, whose :alary should have been saved. to the country, is stnother army gentleman considerably advanced years, 'who has` been brought away from the. 7N.avy Board.—We may add, that in pursuance Of their determination to search into and detect 'abuse wherever it is. likely to exist, the Com tnittee of Inquiry mean to investigate the expert... ditnie of that branch of the Victualling Office which is at Deptford. • [NEW TIMES.. The money market was. dull throughout the whole of yesterday, notwithstanding the revival of the report mentioned in our last, that peace had actually been concluded bet Ween Turkey. acd Russia. This statement was circulated with increased confidence by persons generally well inforined. They went so far as to fix the day when this happy event-took place, viz. the 18th ultimo ; and it was said that corroborative ac counts were received from Constantinople to that date, and from Odessa to the 28th. The ,ptiblication of similar statements in an . EVen ing Paper of the first respectability might hive been expected to have given a new Stimulus to speculation ; Jut in fact it had z,o such effect : on the contrary, Consols, which had opened at 764, fallen to a , and recovered their first elevation, dropt again to f, and finally closed at the other hand there were vague reports of an impressment on the river, which of course implied the apprehen sion of immediate hostilities-; but neither the pacific nor the warlike reports seemed at all to disturb the serenity of the monied interest. In fact, the funds at the present moment are much .mere affected by domestic than by foreign .poli- tics. The uncertain apprehension of financial measures, unfavourable to the funds, produces a general unwillingness to speculate in stock, and thus the prices imperceptibly decline, it may almost be said, without any obvious cause. [MORNING POST.] The report of the Russian Ultimatum having been accepted by the Porte, rather gained ground yesterday. It was stated that letters had been received by an eminent Greek Merchant from Constantinople, dated the 18th of December, and from Odessa the 26th, announcing that event to have taken place on the 18th. It was also added, that the Gentleman in question had given a convincing proof of his implicit confidence in the truth of the information by immediately quittibg London for Odessa, to enter into exten sive mercantile arrangements:" These, however, are at best but individual acts, which establish nothing except the particularconviction by which their _author .was influenced. A. few days, if the intelligence be. correct, most at last dispel all doubt on the subject. If Turkey has ac cepted the Russian Ultimatum, such as it was en i-officially published in the Austrian, and copied in all our. Papers two months since, she has laid herself as completely at the feet of her gigantic neighbour, as if her strength had been broken in the field, and the victor had dictated terms to her captive. Monarch, within the walls of his Seraglio. Letters of the 1%11 inst. were yes terday received from Genoa, which state, that a vessel had arrived at that port from Constantino ple in 15 days ;': . 4.nd the intellicr s ence brought . by this conveynnee :mentions that every thing is settled, and Constantinople,.up to the date of the ?.Sth of December, . wa . s . perfectly tranquil:— W.hether this ref erretta:the final adjustment of the 'differences with Russia, ot.only to the state of Constantinople, we. are at -a loss tO conjec ture ; at any rate, however, it is important as to the state of the capital." [MORNING HERALD. The discnssion of the new provisions against the Press in France commenced_ on Saturday in the Chamber of Deputies. In no , previous de bate had there been more violence, intolerance, and petty squabbling—with, however, occasional gleams of eloquence and feeling. The report of the project (or Bill) for restraining the Journals was presented by M. de Martignac. Its chief contents have already appeared—and the amend ments of the Committee are so immaterial that the French Papers scarcely specify them. The only novelty in the speech of the Chairman was the complacent vanity with which he besought, the Chamber, as it valued the repose of Europe, to protect not _France alone, but, all other Euro pean nations and Governments, against the resist less sway which would be exercised over them by the' dominant graces and universality. of the French language, if the French Journals were Left unrestricted. He even found means to com pliment the wit and fancy of his countrymen in urging the most fatal and revolting provision of the new law—That which renders a Journal - liable to be suppressed upon the ground of its 6 6 spirit and general tendency ;"---for, said he, there is a quickness and ingenuity of allusion and apprehension in the French mind and lan guage, which would elude the grasp of any law, however strict, that rested only on specific and defined offences. We would tell him, what he must very well know, though he and his party haie neither the wisdom nor the magna nimity to act upon it, that there is another trait of French character and society, which even this provision cannot keep down—it is the electric circulation of satire and social scandal, in all the forms of epigram, lampoon, and song—from which the Lieutenant of the Police and the Bastille could not shield the King, Ministers, mistresses, and Courtiers, under the old regime, and which will be now incalculably stimulated by the new prohibition. [BRITISH PRESS.] . The Paris Papers of Sunday last contain, as we had anticipated, the Report of the Committee appointed by the Chamber of Deputies to in quire into the new project of the law for the re gulation of the journals. M. de Martignac, who on this occasion communicated to the Chamber the sentiments of the Committee, argued very energetically in favour of the proposed measure ; but the value of his conclusions- can best be esti mated from the character of the premises which, in the commencement of his speech, he con ceived his naked assertion sufficient to esta blish. He laid it down that the existence of journals was in no respect necessary for the maintenance of public liberty, but that they were a species of luxury which the imaginary neces sities of the people rendered it advisable in the Government to suffer. ." They are," as he says, 64 useful auxiliaries, convenient mediums for pub lication, and have become, either from the nature of our Government or the force of habit, a kind of want which ought to be satisfied."—Such is the extent of utility which M. de Martignac allows to the public journals, and it is very pos sible 'that, degraded and oppressed by the absurd and timid jealousies of successive go vernments, the Journals of Paris may offer to this gentleman's mind no higher notion of the national advantages of an independent daily press. But having thus disposed of the good which may be derived from the journals, he proceeds to descant upon the enormous evils with which the sufferance of this dangerous luabtry is, in his mind, necessarily attended.— Upon this point he assumes it as a. principle, that because, forsooth, private interests are involved in the existence of every Journal, therefore " the interest of such. enterprises [the establishments of Journals] is necessarily in opposition to the general interest." This is not very unlike what old Partridge would call a non sequitur. The same conclusion might with as much fairness be derived from a view of any other specu lation or enterprise in life. The fitting out of a ship for a commercial voyage involves private interests ; so does the establishment of a manufactory, the building of a bridge, or the cutting of a canal ; yet who would be hardy enough thence to infer that such proceedings must necessarily be opposed to the general interests ? The Reporter says, that the interests of society consist in good order and peace, while those of journals depend upon disquietude, alarms, curiosity, and expectation. If we were to say that this asser tion does not hold universally true, we should advance just as far as M. de Martignac has done ; but what would either party gain by an acknow ledgment of the truth of their respective asser tions ? It matters nothing avhat may be the interests of journals, unless indeed the press be fettered, for while the press I's free, the journals cannot. control the destinies of their countries, they become merely ancillary to the expression of public opinion, and by enabling society to form correct impressions upon every matter of public concern, they will most effectually mili tate against the danger of the country or the Par liament hieing surprised into the adoption of sen timents which may tend to the injury of the general body. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A Lisbon.packed arrived yesterday with let ters and papers to the 11th inst., ten days later than those brought by the one which reached Falmouth on Saturday last. The regulations for the establishment of the National Bank had been published, and Messrs. A. F. Machado, J. da Costa Ba-ndeira, and J.S. de A rank), named as Commissioners for the management of the whole concern, till a meeting of the share holders takes place for the purpose of electing a resideut and Directors. Owing to this act of the Cortes having passed into a law, the discount on the paper money, which six weeks ago was at twenty-three, had diminished to sin teen and fifteen, and the effect on the cif) , here has been to raise the Exchange on Lisbon from 50 to 512, and it is expected to rise rapidly.— Considerable amounts of paper money continue to be cancelled and burned in presence of the witnesses appointed by the Government. Pre vious to the establishment of the Constitutional system in Portugal, the fishermen were liable to most burdensome exactions. When, after ex posing the,mselves to great dangers at sea, they reached the port, no sooner were their boats drawn to the shore, than a number of servants from Convents of Friars, home privileged cor porations, &c. clocked round them and de manded their share, and frequently one half of the fish was carried away in this manner, with out the fishermen being allowed even to expos tulate. This abuse has long been a subject of com plaint, and it caused the comparatively high price at which fish has always been sold iil,Portugal. The Cortes have now, however, decreed, that all fish caught on the shores of Portugal shall only pay local duties to the amount of eight per cent. and they have exempted the fishermen from all other demands whatever. The Sardinas, how ever, a species of large sprats, on which, owing to their great abundance, the common people chiefly subsist, had been freed from all duties, and the fishermen exempted from being pressed as soldiers, &c. The importation of all foreign, salted, or fresh fish, had also been prohibited, except cod fish,which, by the treaty with Great Britain made in 1810, could not be prohibited.— On this' article, however, an additional transit duty of 10 per cent, had been imposed on all quantities passing into the interior of the country. By order of the Cortes, the Finance Minister, M. J. 1. da Costa, had laid before them an esti mate for, the current year, in which he states that the receipts will be 7233 contos of reis, the expenditure 8830 contos, and the deficit 1607 contos. Private letters mention that the frigate, Don Pedro, had arrived at Lisbon from Bahia, with the prisoners on board, who had been im plicated in the commotions to which we alluded a few days ago, at Bahia. One of the prisoners, understood to be a Colonel, and aperson of dis tinction, leaped overboard on reaching the Tagus, and was drowned. ST. DOMINGO.-*The 'accounts in the American Papers of the declaration of Independence by the Spanish part of St. Domingo. are fully con firthed.—T.he Declaration is dated from the" City of St. Domingo in the Spanish part of. Hayti, Dec. 41821, first year of independence." It is signed by Jose Nunez de Caceres, President, and Manuel Lopez de .Urneres,. Secretary, be sides the names of six other individuals. It com mences in the following style :,----" No more submission—no more humiliation—'-no more obe dience, to the caprice and levity of the Cabinet of .Madrid. In these few but- comprehensive words is contained the firm -resolution which the people of St. Domingo this day proclaim and swear to." The Declaration then alludes to the , " ignominious bondage of 328 years," ' which is described- as . a sufficiently, long and painful lesson of what was to be hoped from-a "fanatical loyalty to the Kings of Spain." The various grievances and oppressions under which the co lony groaned during that period are subse quently detailed-, in somewhat, energetic terms, and it concludes with observing, that " if Spain recognises and approves . the Declara tion it. shall henceforth be considered and treated as a friend ; but,. if it attempt to oppose the Independence which has. been proclaimed, they are prepared to defend it with their lives, their fortune, and their honour."—The I Constitutional Act, which is, also dated on thei Ist ultimo, consists of 39 Articles, the first - of i which declares the Spanish part of Hayti a Free and Independent State. The form of Govern ment is to be Republican, but established upon the most convenient principles of national repre sentation : meanwhile a Provisional Junta of Go vernment is established, consisting of the Captain General, the Political Chief, and Deputies from the five districts into which the Spanish part of the island is divided. This Junta is to ar range the final regulations, and consolidate the constitutional system. The fifth article pro vides, that a Deputation shall be sent, with the least possible delay, to the President of the Columbian Republic, to communicate what has taken place at St. Domingo, and to convey the wishes of the inhabitants to connect themselves in strict union with the States which .actually compose that Republic. or those that may here after belong to it. The sixth article decrees, that another Deputation should be sent to the President of the Republic of Hayti; in the French part, proposing a treaty of amity, commerce, anti alliance for their common defence, in case of any hostile invasion. The remaining articles deter. mine various political, civil, and municipal rights ' and privileges. ' Article 18 secures the liberty of the press, subject to certain regulations and penalties. ____—__ SIIOCKI`NC. SUICIDE. - Yesterday morning-, about eight o'clock, Mr. G. Anderson, rope maker, of White-street and tree t, Borough, went to the house of Mr. Shallard, in Devon shire-street, Newington, where (on account of some family dispute) his wife and daughter re sided. On going into their-apartments he com plained of illness, and went down stairs into the water-closet, where he was soon afterwards found with his throat cut from car to ear. , The un happy man was carried up stairs to bed, and se veral medical Gentlemen attending, the wound was sewn up, but .he died soon afterwards in the greatest agony. Thirty sovereigns were found in his pockets, and also a cord with a noose in it, with which it is supposed lie intended to hang himself, had he not succeeded in cutting his throat. We understand that the .proposed alteration in the running_ of the North. Mail, by which it will start from. Edinburgh at 12 o'clock in the evening, takes place in the course of a fortnight. (Edinburgh Courant, Jan. 21.) FOR THE SUN. MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY. [LETTER IX.] MR. EDITOR-The value of corn is not rept , dated by the quantity of labour•necessary to. pro duce it on any soil ; that' is " The corn which' is, produced with the greatest quantity of labour"-•-: is NOT the regulator of its price. If Mr. Ri• CARDO will content himself with saying that corn. cannot be long cultivated unless it will gray for the labour necessary thereto—it :is true of every soil. It is impossible that the price of corn .should be influenced by the cultivation of poor soils ; neither is it true that these require more labour than rich ones under the: plough (except ing poor cold clay soils). Poor soils give less produce, and bear less valuable crops ; they give less rent, and maintain fewer people, find keep less stocks. They are, of course, in all ,respects of inferior value; the farmers are poor who oc cupy them ; the labourers are poorer than in bet ter places s they work no harder, but they are worse. paid and worse fed ; they endure more privations, and the very genius of sobriety and self-denial might be supposed to preside over such plans, if it were not known'that - man is the creature: of habit and necessity. In all this we should do better to observe with satisfaction the wonderful adaptations of custom, and, the patient perseverance of industrious and uninformed peo ple; who indeed do some good to their Country by raising, with unremitting exertions, more food than they can consume. The principal blessings they have of a temporal kind are two :—They are safe from the disorders of rellexion, and free from the follies of political economy. High prices.of agricultural produce are not ne cessary that poor soils muN be cultivated; let all the poor land - go out of cultivatiOn which has been inClosed and occupied during the war ; but it seems necessary that all the estates of poor land which have been occupied as farms time out of mind, should still remain of some value to their owners. flow comes it to pass that a parish of • 10,000 acres, which 100 years ago- was worth 20001. per annum rental, is now worth nothing 'This is a question for a profound political eco nomist and statesman to boot. For what reason has it come to pass that poor thin soils of open fields, which never produced more than 20 bushels of barley per acre, and very .little wheat at all, and this before turnip culture was known, and when sheep and wool were of little value ; for what reasonS I say, has it come to pass that these lands, which then paid .some rent, besides , maintaining the farmers, labourers, and artizans of the villages, not forgetting the clergymen, .will not now pay the expences of cultivation, without any rent. at. all ? Corn was 'not. dear when 'the lands maintained their oWners, the par- - son, the- farmers, and the poor. • Grddnally, as population and general improvement increased, rents got higher, tithes were of more value, labourers • were paid More wages, (but this advance was slow, and scarcely perceptible in an age) and within the twenty five-years last past (ending with 1813) more alteration was made in these.particulars' than in a century before ; or than could have happened in a cen tury to come, had money continued of the same. uniform value. It is iu the nature of things- (to use a trite expression) that all the ciretsmstaaces which affect property and value should proceed together; thus the expendittire of the landlords, the habits of the tenants,. the wages'of the:la bourers—and thus , the taxes of lhe State, the debt and expenditure of Government—and, in fine, every important and every trivial thing, be came accommodated to the. alteration in values, and the apparent opulence of the people and the nation. Through all this period all soils, rich as. well as poor, progressed in the same relatiVe manner ; and so did all other interests, and all other business ; the consumption of manufactures,. the consumption of foreign produce, the increase of enjoyments, luxuries, &c. were attested by the Customs and Excise, the Assessed Taxes, and a, flourishing commerce. I say again, Mr. Editor, all these things progressed and flourished toge ther ; *and let. Political Economists &fly consider and answer me, why it is that now many, - or most, if not all of them, fail ?—lt - suits them, to fix on poor soils-as if giving up the cultivation of them, and importing cheap corn (which would enrich merchants only) would cure all our evils, and bring all other things to rights. But lr say Duty; and I say again that they'are more artful than ignorant who have maintained such doc trines ; and furthermore they •are desperately mistaken and deceived in their views. Corn is not required to be high, that our poor lands may , be cultivated; much of our imported corn comes from soils not naturally rich, and the contrary sup .position is foolish ; we may neglect ottr own inferior soils, and ruin their owners, and starve our people; but bring corn from soils no better abroad, and so feed the poor of other countries instead of our own—which no Englishman (and especially an industrious labouring man) ought to wish : I ex cept only Political Economists, who are void of all feeling, and dealers in foreign corn, who are wholly swayed by covetousness. I say once more, that neither - the quantity of labour, nor the quality of the soil, have any thing to do with regulating 'the price of corn.; ,corn needs not to be high that poor lands may be cultivated ; nei ther, as all thenorld knows, can the cultivatiOn of poor lands support its price ; but all the pro duce' of the soil ought to be supported against foreign competition duty free, for two reasons : First, because our soil is cultivated by hired and free labourers, and not by slaveS, who never taste. of • the corn and cattle ,which they rear; second (and let Political Economists look to this), 'because the national debt is founded upon good prices, great consumption of taxable- articles, competent circulation of money, and flourishing ,times for all. Our situation is only wholesome . and safe When every sort of property is valuable, when all industry is equally encouraged, when all . burthens are equally distributed ; no single 'or separate interest is safe, when all others are sacrificed, and no persons are so highly concerned in the protection of agriculture as the national creditorS. • These: persons, who. have been made .to believe that the increased value of money and .the low price of provisions would • double their fortunes and plac=e ttitm in afluPticP. v , 1 End tha t the force of necessity on the part of landlOrd; ai farmers will cut off large slices from the revenue, and the useless money which is accumulatitiSs the market 'will become wholly unproductive: I am your's, &c. APEritrUS;;.' LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 23. This being the first day of,Hilary. Term, the Judges came° Lincoln's Inn Hall, shortly after eleven o'clock, and had _the usual interview with the LORD CH ANCP LI au- Thu:4oll4a about half-past twelve, and shortly after the Loi) CHANCEL.. r.oR took his ,seat on the bench, when 111 esst P tri.1.04 and TAUNTON, who had previously taken their seats immetl ately behind the bar, were informed by his Lordship that his ;NI ajes ty had been pleased to appoint them King's. Counsel, and directed them to take their seats accordingly _witbin the' bar , ;^ , . His Lordship then inquired of them if they had any motion to make, and having answered in the negative, the Learned Gen tlemen retired. His Vnarship was occunied until half.pst • two. in the farther hearing of Counsel in 'a cause relative fie a Welsh Road or Railway, of,no public interest. COURT OF KING'S .BENCII, J - . 472 r; 234 . Hilary 'term 'commenced to-day in' full bench. After die. usual convict and penitentiary reports were read, which were favourable, a report from WILLI - Am Jo NE .4, Esq. the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison, in compliance with thertdooflast Term, Wes handedin, from which it .appeared, that since the. last Term, he had taken steps to comply with the 'clitectiOnj of the i!Jurt as to residence, by sitting up his residontiary hoas preparatory to his permanedt dwelling.. He catered into 4 minute detail of the number of days he had attencle6, number of nights he had slept in the' pri4on since:NOvem'oer last. The-Conn.r then ordered that the 111arsh4 de.inaee further report upon the same subject on the first day of neit Term. WALTER V. SMITH. This was an action of trover to recover fermi the defendant $ watch and seals, which he was alleged. to•h:ivecenvarted to kill own use. After trial, before the Lord Chief Justice at t l = 4 London Sittings after last Term, a verdict was fOLnid for eit' plaintiff. Mr. GURNEY now moved for a rule Nisi to set aside the ver' dict and enter a nonsuit. The plaintiff is an attorney ; the fendant a pawnbroker. The former had _pledged his watch wit s the latter for two guineas. A t the expiration of a year, the pledg 4 was not redeemed, but soon afterwards the plaintifftendered Or , money lent,- the interest due thereon, and all expences inclarroi. and desired to have his watch returned ; but the defendant. eon', sidering that he had a right to treat the pledge as b.eing complqelf forfeited by virtue of the 39 And 46 Geo. 111. C. 99, s. 17, re' fused to l deliver it up, upon which the plaintiff brought his f..• tion. The question was, whether this action would lie, the , • learned Counsel contending, that by the general Pawnbrokers Act above mentioned, after a year and a day, if a pledge is rive redeemed, it becomes forfeited to all intents and purposes;. The CouuT were clearly of opinion that the word "'•o{ feited!' was not to have tills unlimited • constructi o n. T"` Act declared, that after the year and the day, the pleal, " shall be forfeited, and may be sold by the paWnbro - ker• These words were to be read conjunctively. • Now the pledge. was not ipso FACTO forfeited. The pawnbroker might take steps to sell the unredeemed pledge; but : by another sectiol l of the Statute, he was liable to account to the owner for on/ overplus that might be. produced at the sale, after deducting the amount t)f the money lent, and the interest and expenco within three years. So that the owner had ,not complete- 1 Y forfeited all Interest in the property, for he might at all time before the sale claim his property, upon tendering the woe/ lent, • the interest, and the expences. Its bad been done ,in case, 'and therefore the action was so.sminable.—Role refused' • KING V. TOWNSItEND. This was an action for a private libel, impntiog to the pla' 11 ;" tifF that he. bad intbimed against a Mrs. Decima special th3.T she viai pesseised of criatraband goods, whereby he sustainc' daoiae in . the. less of a great part of that. l a dy' s casW iii his - tn.de of sa mercer, site being a milliner. At the : 141 .!: dlcse% Sittings, after last Term, the plaintiff' had a vtrdievi''' 201. damages. • • Mr. CitiTtt now' moved, in arrest of .ind:trnent, that action could, not be sustained, for that it is not action:dile t° ' stigmatise a man as air informer, it being the duty of eve r ., )( good, str*et, however odious the performance of it might be; put the law in force, by informing against offenders. The fio,on'r ,howev,!r, were dearly of cpinion that tire acti° was sustainable, and therefore refused the role. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,, LAN. 23. This being the first day of Term, the Judges came ;30'0 Court in procession. They were occupied in hearing of course, none of which were of any public interest. PREROGATIVE COURT, Jai-. 23. ROGERS.AND =OWNING V. PETTIS. This was a question of. probate to the last will of James SI P " yens, Esq., late of Brook-green, deceased. Two testamentary papers, at variance with each oti , er , ar'. 4 Uncertain to their Operative ellect, are propounded with Co ot oils annexed. -The qucsSion comes ly?fore-the Court under a Caveat giyen i d by the next of kin. • 'by which bequests of considerable rea l • os ;_, pers•ral estate, left to Mrs. Pettis, a niece Of the deceiticd , r i .; disputed:. likewise; an annuity. to• Mis. Elizabeth Vossey., ``, 1 , 1 housekeeper, of Mil. per annum, a farm-house,, and the eJ of his household furnitiaTe; provisions, &c. The property of : which the testator died pOssessed, coosis ti9l" of real-and personal estate, is, it seems,,considerable. The reading of evidence, which is extremely voluminct , ' s . ' occupied ihe attention of the Court the whole day. Sir J. NICHOL adjourned the argument to the next CO ri ` .day. L.turNTAucc ACCIDENT.—A melancholy aeo' dent lately occurred at Barnwell near duril e : —A fine boy, of the name of Burkett, at play with some.other children, had, the misfo" tune to have a quantity of unShiked lime thrae into his eyes, froth li;lsich the most exert ci* ing torment instantly proceeded. In this ve i l dreadful situation the poor sufferer in vain appl ie( . to his friends and neighbours for relief; they ,ven d quite ignoran t in what way it could be atforded,a n each in so delicate .a case was fearful of advisiog. The melancholy result was, that the boy, ar te i r some days of the most extreme anguish, sutfere` the total loss Of sight. Some compassion 3° gentlemen of ()unclip, who had after a tin s : heard of the shocking accident, Lid the b°j f, sent up to London, and placed under the care ° one of the most eminent ()enlists in the kingd° l ' 7 in the hope that it might yet not be too la tc e to restore to him the blessing of light ; bu we lament to say that, after undergoing o'l t , great fortitude many painful operations, the po i °, boy has been sent back to. Barnwell, with ,O , doleful assurance to those who had generoO l i e exerted themselves in his behalf, that his c-i' 6 f does not admit of the successful application ° human skill. . . BIRTHS.. , - iierf Yesterday, the Lady of Sir Grerry - Osborn. Page Tta,, r o Bart., of. a .son and heir, at her Ladyship's house, in, 13 street, Portman-Square. „ of. On, Thursday: last, in Upper Gower-street, the . 1.0)/' .J. A. F. Shnpkinson, Esq., of a daughter. , ..i..."' . 7 .. M A RRIE D. , ii" On Tuesday, the 22d inst., at Elornsey, ,Tames ameS Guest, , 0, Esq., of Birmingham, to Martha, only child of W. Whitito Esq., of Hornsey. lic e, On the 27th. of June, 1821, •at Port Louis, Isle of 1 1 - 0 ; 1 1- David Shaw, Esq., of the Royal College of Surgeons of 1 ., don, - to Miss Spears, eldest daughter of William Spears, -I' Chief Searcher of Customs of that island. ' ___..,. IHED. On Monday morning last, at Hackney, in his (4th year , Peter Levesque. t or, • Friday se'nnight, at Otley, in consequence of a mortik tt aged 83, Samuel Moody, of that placo, shoe-maker. e ',.it 9 ceased had recently been the subject of a very extraort"'„ve phenomenon. For some time he had been afflictedwitiV=lTjat pain in his 12. ft leg, in consequence of a severe strain, and . a j o r; two months ago the leg separated: above_the ancle witch 4.er like that of a pistol, and fell completely from the bot'y• -4 - - C =`' Printed and Published,- for the PROPRIET 0 RS, at el'. 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