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THE LONDON JouttN,L,. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS, January 12, 1822. [Tltr Tlmrs.] We have been extremely tardy, our readers will Kaye observed, in publishing Ultimatums (if there be such a word) between the Russians and the Turks, because we have been of opinion that all reports upon this subject were insecure or un fo.unded; We may now, however, safely assert, that a definitive arrangement has been offered by Turkey, to which, if her executive Government .have - power to give it effect, Russia ought to accede: Russia complained that Turkey had advanced troops in great force into Walachia, contrary to the obligation of a private treaty.— The Porte consents to withdraw the (hole of those troops, leaving the province free—but on condition that the Emperor Alexander also with draws his forces from their present threaten ingi position on the Turkish frontiers. Russia ,complains of the ill-treatment of the Greeks, and the destruction ~of their churches, for the safety of which Russia, professing a similar faith with the Greeks, stood pledged. Turkey Teplies, that though these evils have been brought upon the Greeks by their own rebellion, she still - rebuild their churches, and forgive - their breach of allegiance. In this point, there fore, the complaint of Russia is removed. This i - laimatum, so far as words go, (and the Turks have not been unobservant of their treaties,) and as a mere act of diplomacy between two inde pendent Powers, seems fair. Still the question remains—Will not Russia, knowing her strength, seek fresh.occasion to quarrel with a feeble ad ersary ; . and can Turkey, if she would, rebuild the Christian churches, and recall her erring sub jects to the tender embrace of a kind and parental Government ?.. The Greek insurrection will _go on of course. Were Russia at this moment struck out of the list of independent Powers, the Turks and Greeks never can, we think, resume their ancient relations. We confess, however, that we do not see how Russia, after this conces sion on the part of Turkey, can still keep her hcstile attitude ; it is pretty clearly understood that the Courts of England, France, and Austria, are against her on this question. Whatever, therefore, may be her inclinations, will she ven tire to be the first to break up the (so called) Holy Alliance ? • --________ [NEW TIMES.] Four indictments preferred by the Constitu tional Association, against as many of Carlile's shopmen, were yesterday returned True Bills by the Grand Jury of London. This circum-, stance is the more satisfactory, as it proves that the wicked efforts of The Times are unavailing. In that Paper, of yesterday morning, appeared the following monstrous and scandalous para graph In a conflict between the Carlile Gang and the Bridge-street Gang, none need care which party.. triumphs. Yet the inhabitants of the metropolis, we see, ardently desire the success of the former "!!! Now, we put iz to the inhabitants of the metropolis, whe th.e.: they do ardently desire the , success of Carlile ? We put it to some even of the Pro prietors of The Times itself, whether they de sire success to a convicted libeller in establishing an zrvowed " Mart for Sedition and Blasphemy." If not, how can a public Journal dare to insult decency, morals, and religion, by so shameless an averment? And this Journal is The Times, a Paper once received into their houses and fami lies by the most respectable individuals in the City of London, by persons of different religious persuasions, but all abhorring blasphemy—of dif ferent political sentiments, but all hostile to sedi tion! It pains us to remark so often on the derelic tion of principle in a particular Journal ; but we have a solemn duty to perform in exposing all at tempts to pervert public opinion. The present is a peculiarly gross case, and the time of its occur rence remarkable. Indictments are preferred against four of Carlile's accomplices ; and in the interval before they are considered by the Grand Jury, the article, on which we are animadverting, appears ! Comment is unnecessary on such a transaction at such a period. By the finding of these bills, one great point is decided against the dealers in blasphemy—one of their tricks is de feated, that of concealing their-names. Some of the shopmen thought to baffle prosecution by re fusing to give their names ; but this artifice has stood them in no 'stead, for the bill has been found against an offender in custody, " whose name is to the Jurors unknown." In like man ner all the other petty artifices, such as that of dealing through a turning box, concealing the face of the vender, &c. will, we doubt not, soon Le frustrated by the vigilant attention of that most honourable, wise, and patriotic Institution, the Constitutional Association. [MORNING POST. French Papers to • the 9th inst. came to hand yesterday.. They add but little to our previous intelligence. Most of them give the article of the. Austrian. Observer, which. we 'inserted yes terday, and all agree in considering that contra diction as affording strong reasons to believe e. in th existence of ' the facts which it pretends to deny. An article of . the.. I.7th.ultimo from Trieste asserts, that the whole Albanian district, situated between Alessio and Albanopolis, has recovered its independence, arid that the insur rection extends so. far as the mountains which separate that country from Macedonia. .Till now, however, the inhabitants of tipper Albania are represented as having acted. entirely on their own account,. and without 'any connexion with the Greeks, They have - collected on the coast between Dulcigno and 'Durazzo a small flotilla which may prove highly serviceable in the course of.ulterior operations, if they should establish a regular communication with the. Greeks and Al banians . of Epirus Proper. The !Pacha of Scodra, either through fear or policy, had partially espoused their . cause, and peremptorily refused to march to the : relief of , Churschid Pacha.— . This refusal was 'defended on - .the :ground. that his absence Would have. been the signal for a general attack on his .forts,, which could not have resisted, and on his citadel, ' formed his hit bulwark. hlowever this. might be, he was counted amongst the enemies of the Porte, _and' therefore had of late taken part. openly with them. According to the same ar ticle, other Paellas, though they had assembled and concentrated their forces, remained in a de gree of inaction which seemed to announce that they were more disposed to follow than to direct the course of events. With respect to the Per sians, the accounts are contradictory. The report of their having discontinued their march has nothing to entitle it to more credit than the hundred rumours which are set in circulation every day; whilst it is in some measure contra dicted by the Divan abstaining from recalling and cancelling the Declaration of War lately issued against Persia. The intelligence frem Venice states that the Senate of Lombardy had sentenced to death thirty-four individuals (some of whom belong to the first families), for having conspired against the Government of Carbonari. The Emperor of Austria confirmed the sentence, but afterwards commuted it for various periods of confinement and banishment. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] "We rejoice exceedingly that the Agriculturists 'begin at length to feel strong conviction of the necessity for carrying retrenchment and economy into every department of the State. They may rest assured that it is by endeavouring to ap proximate our expenditure to that of other coun tries, and not by attempts to create artificial prices, and to obtain monopolies, that their re lief can be obtained. The conduct of the vene rable Earl Fitzwilliam towards his tenants is dic tated by the most enlarged views respecting our situation, and will, we trust, produce a proper impression on the country. His Lordship is stat ed, at a dinner given by him at Alilton House, near Peterborogh, to his farmers in that neigh bourhood, to have told them, " he was perfectly satisfied, in his own mind, that the reduced price of the produce of the land was now perma nently established, since sovereigns and shillings had become the circulating medium; that he was aware the tenants had embarked capitals on their farms, for which and their labour it was just and fair they should be remunerated ; but that he would guard them against the delusion that the price of corn would rise; he was fully of opinion that it could not; it might fluctuate according to seasons, hut in no material degree; and no altera tion in the Corn Laws could possibly have the effect of raising its , prices. This being his de cided conviction (for it was his belief, that the average price of Corn, in the years 1792, 4, and 5, would be about the standard at which it would now keep), he had been induced to lower his rents, to meet, in some degree, the exigency of , the times."--It is accordingly said, that the reduction made by his Lordship to his tenants is from 45 to 35 per cent. including 15 per cent. remitted in 1813. If then prices are to remain permanent at nearly the average of the years in question, it becomes of the most essential importance to approximate our ex penditure as much as possible to that of these years. The grand remedy, therefore, is economy nd retrenchment. No doubt the national debt will not allow us to reduce our expenditure to any thing like that at the commencement of the war. But every thing else ought to be pared down to the lowest possible amount.— Privation follows lavish expenditure and debt as a matter of course. To use the vulgar adage, we cannot both have our cake and eat it. But there is no occasion for adding to the evil by the conti nuance of unnecessary profusion. Sinecures out of number exist in every direction to gall and irritate the unfortunate husbandman,who sees the holders of them rioting in the improvement in their situation, produced by the improved circulation, while his capital is melting down every day— Scotland and Ireland, for instance, are perfect Augean stables—they are lands of jobs ; and it is to be hoped that the good sense of the country will not allow it to be turned aside from inquiry into this corruption, by the hypocritical howling against blasphemy and irreligion set up by the licentious crew of Beacons and Bulls, whose existence is really a satire on the age. [MORNING HERALD.] Public festivities, addresses, and grand galas, had not, it appears by the latest accounts, yet ceased in Dublin. One would think, however, the state of that part of the United Kingdom was such, that the " loyal and happy people" there would have rather curtailed than prolonged ce remonials, and allowed the Noble Marquis to give his early and undivided attention to the miserable condition in which a part of the po pulation is placed. The Noble Marquis and his countrymen appear delighted with each other. They claim compatriotship with his person, and estimate his talents with that vivacity of senti ment which seeks appropriate expression in the language of imagination ; and he accepts their pledge, and assumes their tone, even so far as perhaps to sacrifice a little of the elegance of his taste. The interchange of compliments is vivid and rhetorical ; and, if the Noble Lord's mea sures prove as winning as his words, the sentiment has some prospect of duration. His Lordship's answers to the Addresses have all the graces of polished composition, and may well take their place with those that remain of Lord Chester field in the archives of Dublin Castle. Perhaps the mention of Lord Chesterfield will suggest a coincidence between both Chief Governors. In the graces and accomplishments of a courtier and a scholar, Lord Wellesley must be his ,equal —for it is said he has no superior; and we should readily claim for him, at least, equality of talent as a statesman, if we were not restrained by oar deference for the authority of the Roman Catholic Bishops, and the Corporation of Dublin, who have allottedto him, in this respect, a supre macy of endowment with which we dare not meddle. It is probable, that Lord Wellesley's official responses exceed the generality of state papers, not in eloquence alone, but also in real feeling. It was in Ireland—in the Irish Parlia ment—that he commenced and at the same time established his reputation. There is a sentence in his answer to the Corporation, which alludes with art and delicacy to the epoch of his early and 1 admired speech. It is not long since We happened to meet with a copy of this speech and perused it. With the utmost admiration of the eloquence and talents of the orator, it would be impossible now to read the .calculations and the prophecies of the financier and the politician upon the French revo lution without a smile. But it has been the fortune of that extraordinary event to confound in its results both its enemies_ and its admirers. It is observable that Lord Wellesley studiously identifies himself with the personal feelings of his Majesty, rather than with his Majesty's Government. Ilis purpose, no doubt, is to che rish the feelings of mutual kindness and -affec tion generated by the King's late visit - to Ire land. The circumstance may suggest some far ther inferences, but of so doubtful a nature that we think it unnecessary to enter into them. [BRITISH PRESS.] It is with noordinary sentiments of respect and admiration, that we direct the attention of our readers to a trait of genuine patriotism and be nevolence that is related in another part of our Paper of the good and ,venerable Earl Fitz another column of T SUN.) — There is a kindness of heart, united with a truly English energy of mind, in every action of this ex cellent Nobleman. It is delightful to see the im pulses of a generous disposition blended with the enlightened views of a statesman and a philoso pher, and both directed to the accomplishment of private and public happiness. We have had oc casion already to notice with sincere satisfaction acts of liberality on the part of several other landlords throughout the kingdom, in abating or remitting certain proportions of their rents to their respective tenants ; but although the act now recorded of Lord Fitzwilliam differs but in degree from those already published, there are circumstances thrown around it which distinguish it by a peculiar interest. — The relation of landlord and tenant is one which ought to imply a reciprocity of kindly feelings, insuring protection and friendship upon the one side, and affectionate esteem upon the other. It ought further to be distinguished by a conviction of mutual interest; for the man who owns the land and the man who tills - it are equally depend ent upon each other. Lord Fitzwilliam appears in his conduct towards his tenants to be influenced by these principles,. and the picture it exhibits is one upon which the coldest irnaginatio❑ may love to dwell. On Wednesday last we are told that the Noble Earl summoned his tenants around him, and having assembled them in his great hall, he in formed them that he had taken•their; sittiation,as farmers, into his most serious consideration, and the result of his inquiry was a conviction that a reduction of rents. had become necessary. Ob-. serve! Lord Fitzwilliam does not propose to remit a proportion of the rents for the present year alone, but to reduce the rents in perma nence. The Noble Earl had, in the year 1815, already reduced his rents at the rate of fifteen per cent.; but now, in the year 1829., after a careful inquiry into the actual receipts and expenditure of the farmers, he resolves to effect a further reduction, at the rate, in some in stances, of '2O per cent. and in others of thirty per cent. upon the whole of his vast estates. In his address to his tenants, he expresses to them his persuasion that G 4 the prices of the produce of land are permanently fixed,* and that no efforts of Parliament could have the effect of raising them. The scale of the present reduc toin was regulated according to the just principle that those who had expended most capital and most labour upon their possessions, were entitled to the largest share of encouragement and re ward, and to such persons a proportionate re duction was made. This disposition was as wise and judicious as it was conscientiously just ; but how many landlords are there, who, on the expiration of a tenant's lease, con sider not so much the exertions of the tenant, as the improved condition of his farm, and enhance the future rent by a reference to the latter only This is to punish in:lustry and enterprise, and to make a man pay interest for the capital and la bour which he has himself expended. Lord Fitzwilliam, in this particular, sets an example which ought to become equally beneficial to landlords and tenants, by relieving the latter from the apprehension which not un frequently paralyses their exertions, that instead of receiv ing compensation for their exertions and libera lity, they only labour to raise their rents against themselves. The Treasury Minute regulating the reduction of salaries in the public offices, which we lately noticed, has been finally settled, and will be published in a few days. It ordains a reduc tion of five per cent. upon present salaries, and of ten per cent. upon all increases, and, in case of death, the representative of the party deceased to have the benefit of the superannua- Hon fund, as stated in our paper of yesterday.— This indulgence is not to be granted to any new appointments, and in case of vacancies in the se veral classes of clerks, they are not to be filled up by seniority, but by merit, at the recommenda tion of the chief of the office. The whole patro nage of the office is thus placed in the chief, and all spirit of independence is completely banished from the officers under him.—(lbid.) LAW - INT ELLIG ENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 11. HOWARD AND GIBBS'S BANKRUPTCY. This case again came before the Court this day, on an ap peal from the decision of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor. It was a petition presented by Mr. Shaw and others, to remove Mr. Carroll and other persons who had been chosen assignees, notwithstanding the majority of the creditors in amount were in favour of them. Our readers are already in possession of the case as it occurred before the Vice-Chancellor, and it is there fore only necessary to state at present, that the Attorney-Ge neral this day appeared for Mr. Carroll and his co-assignees, and argued that the decision of his Honour was wrong. It would be remembered that his Honour would not allow the gentlemen for whom he appeared their costs, though he had ordered the costs of the others to be paid out of the estate, but on what grounds he (the Attorney-General) was at a loss to state. He then went over the petitlen of Mr. Shaw, which stated that Messrs. Carroll, Duff and Wilkie had been im properly chosen, and that threats had been used to obtain their appointment. That one creditor, Mr. Bridges, had been induced to abstain from voting by Mr. Howard, who threatened' to deprive him of one of his most valuable ens tomers. . It then went on to declare that Messrs. Carroll, Duff and Wilkie ought not to, have been chosen, and prayed that Shaw and his list of persons m'ght be declared assig-* noes. The Learned Counsel the:: is sliced the ex-part [t petition to stay the assignment to the new assie- ' ,neis and the order re fusing costs to m cssrs. Carroll and his friends on account of the interference of the bankrupt's' in the choice, and took a similar hue of argitment with respect to the power of the ( iiitimission ers under the Act of Parliament, to that taken in the hearings before the Vice-Chancelltir, in the course of which he . called his Lordship's attention to the respectiVe clause§ and sections of the Act of Parliament, which bore more immedi',':ely on the point of jurisdiction vested in the Lord Chancellor. He con:- tended thatif the Lord Chancellor had the power to act after the assignment, it would not be better than that he should act before the assignment was made ; for if that was done there would not be any person invested with power to act, pending the litiga tion, so as to administer the effects. The Act of 5 Geo. IL gave the Court no power to act in the present stage of the case, though he would not deny that it did invest a power in his Lordship after the assignment was made. The Petitioners ought to have been informed, that they were premature in their application, as the Commissioners did not legally withhold the assignment from the Assignees, whom the majority of the cre ditors in amount bad chosen. Ilis Honour had expressed an opinion, that a suspension, of the advertisement would form a precedent for suspending the assignment. If the dccession of his Honour was sufFerel to,atand, tt W ould give rise to endless litigation, as in every case where a bankrupt should happen to have spoken to a creditor, au application would be made to stop the assignment. The Learned Gentleman having gone over a line of argument to the same effect as on the former occasion, nuoted the case of De Tastet, in the 2d vol: of Vesey and fieams, where Mr. De. Tastet was suffered to be continued as the Assignee, .and the present sir. Carroll merely appointed to watch his conduct. Ile would even allow that the Court had jurisdiction. The LouD CHANCELLOR never could understand on what ground his predecessors had acted in Bankruptcy, unless they thought they had had sonic jurLdiction, which was not given to them by the Act of Par:iament. The ATTOINEY-GENERAL proceeded to contend at great length in support of the appeal, in the course of which he con tended, that as his Honour had given the costs to Mr. Shaw and his coadjutors, his clients ought also to have theirs, as there was no complaint against their conduct, and as Mr. Shaw had also endeavoured to obtain votes for himself and his friends. If there was no delinquency on his part, ho* could it be said that there was any on the part of Mr. Carroll ? He concluded with submitting that his clients ought to have their costs allowed, and that the decision of the Vice-Chancellor was altogether wrong. 111 r. Haiti' followed on the same side, and contended to the same effect as he did in his former argument before the Vice. Chancellor, a correct report of which appeared in TILE Sus at the time. _ _ . ..... 11Ir. MONTAGUE followed, and took a similar line of argu meat.—The LORD CDANCELLOR rose atfour o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 11. SAUL V. BATTEN. This was a motion to enter a nonsuit in an action for a pri vate libel tried at the last Assizes for Salisbury before Mr. Jus tice Best, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff. There was nothing of public interest in the case. The ground of the motion was several substantial variances between the libel de clared upon and that given in evidence. The COURT, in concurrence with Mr. Justice BEST, were now of opinion that the verdict could not be sustained, and thercthre made the rule absolute for entering a Nonsuit. OLD BAILEY, JAN. 11. FURIOUS DRIVING. Thomas Stratford was indicted for the wilful - murder of Abraham Slade, on the 29th of November. William Jones was the first witness called. lie was the watchman of Marylebone, and on the night in question was coming, the Edgeware-road towards Tyburn turnpike, about - half a past nine in the evening. Ile saw a gig standing close to the , -curb-stone, on the left hand side of the road. A gentleman was standing by the side of the horse, on the foot path. Witness had gone forwards about twenty yards, when he heard the smacking of a whip, and immediately afterwards a smash. On looking back be saw a coach lying on its side ; he ran towards it, and saw a gentleman drawn from under the coach. As he was going towards it, he saw the horse running away with the 'gig at a furious rate, and shattering it to pieces. The coachman called for help, and the coach was again put upon its wheels. Ile did not know the prisoner. Thomas Esto lived in Portland-place. On the evening of the 29th of November he was in the Edgeware-road. There were two women looking at some jewellery at a shop ; they ran from the shop towards Paddington, and were hailed by a stage coachman from his box in very coarse language. One woman got on the box, and the other on the roof behind the box.. The coachman drove off rather rapidly, and coming near the toll-bar he went on still more rapidly. He immediately saw the woman who had got on the box on the ground, covered with dirt and blood, and fainting. Witness ran up and asked what was the matter. A boy turned up the wing of a gig, and then he saw a gentleman leaning against some railings. Ile seemed to be in great agony, and he was taken in doors. He then saw the body of the gig all shattered to pieces; the gig-horse was brought back. Witness was about to look at the name on the coach, and the coachman drove off at a full gallop. Ile saw on the coach " Notting Hill," hut saw no name upon it. This took place on the near side of the road, coming from Paddington to London. It was neither a dark nor a light night. He could see with great ease any carriage in the road. Cross-examined.—He did not see the coach go faster when it approached the toll-bar, but from the noise of the rattling of the chains of the coach, he imagined it ; and also from the crash which almost immediately followed. William Gosling lived in the Edgeware-road, and was a bookseller. On the evening of the 29th, about nine o'clock, he heard a sudden crash: he went out, and saw a man standing on the curb, apparently much hurt ; and then went to pick up a female who was lying on the ground. The man was taken into his (witness's) house. Ile saw a coach upset, and per ceived several persons lifting it up. He did not observe what kind of coach it was. Mr. David Griffin was a carpenter, and lived in the Edge. ware-road. He remembered the accident. The first thing he saw was the deceased sitting in a chair ; and he found it was a Mr. Slade, of Tottenham-court-road. Two surgeons ware sent for, • and came. He saw a coach in the road : it was.a /lays water-coach, and the word " Paddington" was written at full length across it. Richard Saunders, on thenight in question, saw the pri;inner leading the horses of the coach. lie knew the prisoner before, and had seen him driving the coach. Cross-examined.—The horeea were attached to the coach when he saw the prisoner leading them. Caroline Johnson (who was yet so ill, as scarcely to be-able to-give her evidence) said that she remembered the accident in Taestion. She was an outside passenger, and was on the box. The prisoner at the bar was driving. After he got through the toll-bar, he gut off the coach and gave her the reins to hold.— The horses moved, and she dropped the reins. The prisoner get up, but he did not get the reins. Front that moment to the time when the accident happened, she could not say that the prisoner had the reins. The prisoner tried to reach them, but did not succeed. She was then thrown off, and fainted away. 'She was going to Paddington, for nothing particular. Mr. Griffith, a surgeon, proved that the deceased died from the injuries he had received from the fall. William Jones was recalled, and said, that the first thing he heard was the smacking of a whip. There was no other car riage that he saw on the road. The prisoner made no defence. A few witnesses gave him a good character for humanity. The Jury found ft'verdict—Guilty of Manslaughter. CHARGE OF MURDER, Daniel Maliony was indicted for the wilful murder of Richard Needs, by hitting him on the head with a stone, on the 31st of November last. From the evidence of the different .witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner and the deceased met on the night of the day mentioned in the indictment. at a public-house in the neigh. bourhood of Whitechapel. The prisoner observed to the de ceased, " Do you recollect giving me a slap on the face, when I did not deserve it ?" This was in reference to a quarrel which .had taken place between the parties about seventeen months ago. Deceased replied, " Don't bear malice." The prisoner and deceased then drank together, and prisoner again remark-. ed, "Ifick, take care of me, for I'll take care of you." The 'prisoner and his party then left the house, and the deceased soon after followed. The landlord of the public-house saw the de ceased about twenty-four yards front his door, when he was joined by two men, and immediately fell. He called out mur. net, and the two men ran away. Another witness deposed to the throwing of a large stone by Alahony, at the deceased. The deceased was removed to the hospital, and died after lingering a few days; The Surgeon who attended him stated that he died of inflammation of the lungs, but had no doubt that the fracture of the skull by the stone was sufficient to cause death. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. Mr. Justice PARK left it to the Jury to decide whether the deceased did in fact die in consequence of the fracture, or in consequence of the pulmonary complaint with which he had previously bean afflicted. The Jury, after retiring for a few minutes, returned a verdict of—Not Guilty. The Grand Jury, at about three o'clock, returned true bills against William Holmes, George Clark, otherwise John Jones, Join Vam . plor:, Jalin Barclay, ands Arson I.:rlknown, (31, sho:.men f.'arlil,leo for misdemeanor.. "The Foreman of the Grand Jury handed over the bill 9 to the. Clerk of the Arraigns, and they were read in the customary MIDDLESEX. SESSIONS. FURIOUS DRIVING. Yesterday James Hall, a driver. of one of the PaAdington stages, appealed against a conviction made by a Magistrate, on a charge of racing his coach against another. It appeared from the evidence of the Respondent, .two gen tlemen who were passengers on the coach, that the defendant seeing another coach pass him, put his horses to the,utmost speed, and, in clearing a chaise, turned the horses suddenly , round, by which the pole broke, and the animals becaine un manageable. One gentleman jumped from the coach, and the prosecutors were in the most imminent danger.. One of the witnesses said he was greatly alarmed, and would not be placed again in a similar situation for 500 guineas. Dlr. Anaiiit remarked, that he supposed the gentleman was nervous. 11,3 CHAIRMAN' (Mr. CoxsT) said if he had any nerves at all. he must have been so. The Court affirmed the conviction, with full costs. . An appeal was heard, matt:: by Mr. Stuart against a convict • tion of a Magistrate (Mr. Wyatt), on an information preferred against hint for obstructing a cdal=meter in the re-measurerrient of some coals deficient. Mr. ANDRE ws, for the Respondent, Stated the facts of th,e case. Smart, the appellant, purchased a quantity of coals of Messrs. Cooper and Green, which were seen to arrive at the house of Smart, when, in consequence of suspicion that they were short in measure, notices were sent to the Meter';; Office; and Robert Best, a meter, attended at the appellant's .housei but while re-measuring the coals, Mr. Smart came in, and said he had seen the coals measured at the wharf, that he knew the proprietors, and did not want them to be re-measured. Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the appellant, took obi ections respect; ing the form and service of the notices, but which were ruled. It appeared by the evideuce, that in consequence of what was said by Mr. Smart, the coal-meter left off re-measur ing the teahi. The CHAIRMAN consulted with Sir ROBERT BAKER . , and the of her Magistrates, and gave it as the opinion of the Court that the words used did not amount to an obstruction. Mr. ADOLPHUS applied for costs, but the Court refused' to allow them. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. L. an attorney, was Nought to the Office on a peace-warrant, granted agaiust him by S;r R. ButatiE, on Thursday, on the complaint of Mr: C., a mer chant residing in Duncan-place, Leicester-square, charging vr. L. with challenging him to fight a duel, and threatening to horsewhip him. On the investigation of the circumstances, yesterday, before Mr.. Han a, the sitting Magistrate, it appeared that the parties had dined at the Blue I'osts chop-house, in Cork-street, ou Wednesday, and after all the company had left the room, ea. cept themselves, Mr. L. charged -Mr. C. with having spokes disrespectfully of the character of a Lady to whom he was at. tached, and for which he demanded the satisfaction of a Gen tleman, and threw down his card on a table as a token of a challenge, which Mr. C. did not accept, and rang the hell ; on the waiter arriting, he desired that his master might be sent to him, *and orr •the.landlord making his appearance, Mr. C. claimed protection from him while in his house from any act of • violence threatened against him by Mr. L., which the landlord promised to afthrd him. Mr. L. however, persisting in giving his challenge to fight a duel, and assigned, as an additional reason to that of Mr. C.'a attacking the cluracter of the Lady to whom he was attached, that he hail also spoken dine.. specttully of the character of his mother, when they had met 4 a boarding house, having been acquainted peeviously to their meeting at the Blue Posts public house in- Cork-street. Mr. C. persisted in his refusal to fight a duel, assigning as a reason that he did not think Mr. L. was of equal rank in life for him to meet him. Mr. L. protested, that as Mr. C. would not meet him as a Gentleman, he would post him as a coward, and would horsewhip•him whenever he met him, as soon as he was pro vided with a weapon of that description. Mr. L. admitted that he committed a breach of the peace, and gave bail, himself in 591. and two sureties'in 251. each. Tows-Haar., SOUTIIIVARIC.—A N ECCENTRIC.—A Man, who is supposedto labour under some little aberrations of rea son, was charged as follows :—About two o'clock yesterday morning a watchman in Tooley-street was roused front his mid - - night's slumber by some one soliloquising by the side of his box. The first sentence he heard was, " 'Tis now the dead of night to which he very naturally replied, " Why to be sure it is, and why the devil don't you go to bed ?" The prisoner (for it was, him) continued his speech; and presently he said something about "Graves yawning and giving up their dead," on which the faithful guardian, in the simplicity of his heart, mistook hint for ;:-• _ a body snatcher, and proceeded to take►lin: to theConiinor,whiel!.T - ' he accomplished amidst all the poetical :a:yr.:cations which were ever invented, from Shakspeare to Byron. Here he was rceog nised as a constant customer and locked up in a cell ; but bcfora four o'clock he bad so far undermined the wail, that it fell with a terrible crash, which brought one of the turnkeys to the spot, who, seeing the disaster, said, "Why it on have knocked the wall down ;" to which the prisoner replica, with the warlike hero of Uorioli—" Alone I din it." Ile was then safely handa cuffed, which had the effect of at once stopping the current a his courage and quotation.—lt was ascertained that he was a person who had suffered a lengthened imprisonment in coase. - quence of pecuniary .matters, and the Aldeantan ordered him to be kept in the Compter until e could be passed to his parish. Price. Otl to 413s•fki 44s '9d to —s COAL-MARKET, JAs. 11. Ships at Market. Ships sold 431 Newcastle 1 Sunderland - 1 COURSE :OF EXCHANGE, January n. Amstei dam Ditto, at Sight ti Rotterdam l2 10 Antwerp .. 12 7 Hamburgit 437 ls qi ITs Altona , Paris, 3 Day's sight 25 55 0 Us. Ditto 3ourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the .... 156 . Ex.Aloncy .._...._..._., Madrid •)ti Ettective Cadiz 36 Effective _ _. iilboa 36 Effective ilarctlona :354 351 ***** . Gib ra lta i :-..ioi Leghorn ( . 4.1.444 .. . lq-Venice, Ital. Liv. 27 0 Malta 45 -Naples 4O Palermo Lisbon Oporto ttioJaneiro Dublin .... 9 Coil 9 vet Cent. I BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin .. L.O 0 0 pet Os. Foreign Gold, in Bars l7 10i New Doubloons New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars, Standard 4) 4 11! BIRTHS. Yesterday, the Lady of Henry Mylius, Esq. of. King-street, Finsbury-square, of a son. On the 9th instant, at 21, Woburn-place, Russell-square, the Lady of Andrew Cohen, Esq., of a son. On Thursday last, in Berners-street, the Lady of Frangois Vincent Marius Moreau, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Thursday, the lOth inst., at Clapham, Christian Tawke, Esq., of Croydon, to Mary, eldest daughter of T. Leach, Esq- of Capham. Yesterday, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Liam—Colonel Waltei' O'Hara, late of the Portuguese service, secondson of the lath Robert O'Hara, Esq., of Rahcen, county of Galway, to Mal•lar., second daughter of Charles Murray, Esq., of John-street, Bet: — ford-row. DIED. On Tuesday, the Bth inst., at Chichester, Augusta, the youngest daughter of Bingham Newland, Esq. On Wednesday, the 9th inst., at her father's house, ilta,plo Hayes, in the County of Stafford, Marianne, wife of Charles Delves Broughton, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Cambridge, Charles Cotton Risley, Esq. of St. John's College, in that University, and secand son of the Rev. J. Risley, of 'lingewick, Eticks. He was in his23d y e ar. On Saturday last, at Buscot Palk, Berks, in his 72d year ' Edward Loveden Loveden, Esq. an active Magistrate for th( County of Berks. Printed and Published, for the PROPIIIETORS, at the St7/7 OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. IL CARSTAIAS. I