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PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (Continued) from our Paper of the 27th ult.) CURSORY REMARKS UPON TUE TRANSACTIONS OF THE LAST SESSION.OF PARLIAMENT. (From Tice (DAMc) Correspindext fl _dug. 25.) , The thratet apolitical warfare, during, the last Session of Parliament, was not confined to Eng land. The Reformers tried their influence on Scotland ; and even in Ireland, where the 'taste fur theological controversy appears to be para mount, this enterprising and desperate party made a vain and an abortive essay_ The Suspen sion of the Hahezk .Corpus Act-'--the Uulawful As setfibly Bill—the Petitions for a Revolution, gene rally known by the name of Petitions foeßefOrm— the Poor's Rates—the stagnation in trade and com merce—the French Loans—and all the other earl oes matters - which necessarily and unnecessarily carte before Parliament-, did rest i4nal all the oP partuairies that were desired for incommoding the C - reernment, and obstructing its operations. it seas very obvious, that every town and 'city had its proportion of the desperate order, of pOlitical adventurers, besides malcontents of diffetent de scriptions—that there was also a full proportion of the neutral to. be' found, who were ready to commit themselves upon the current which ran with the greatest violence—who were willing to be the slaves of circumstances, and not disinclined to be mutes in the train of any party that may he successful---that there were enough for mischief, especially when general misfortune was working, in concert, upon weakness, audignaance, and po verty :-but still, there was good reason to doubt, that any excitement, however' desperately admi nistered or obstinately peteisted in, coultledist tub the t'quipoize of reason and principle; for which the great body of the_ people of Eeg land are distinguished, or could succeed in throwing any considerable proportion of them into the scale against -their Government ; and, therefore, the amateurs and•professors in the rese- Intionery science sought to procure as -many 'followers, in Ireland and Scotland, as the pres sere of the times, the efforts of an intoxicati n g' Press, and the force of bad example, could collec tively procure. in consequende of all this pal lentous concert and menacing co-operation, while Spa-fieids mustered its swarms of desperadOes— Pot tsea Doviw its rustic Reformers—Nottinghana its Luddites—and Manchester its mob and its blankets—Glasgow also produced a formidable array, and Dublin—but let history tread lightly on the fact, and let ridicule be deprecated while the story is telling—Dublin produced its miserable little platoon eE " The Friends of Reform"—and all the rest of the city laughed. Those concurrent events, the produce of mis= chievoussebeme and depraved ingenuity, were - not suffered to escape, by the vigilant sagacity of the 'Whigs, and of their allies in Parliament, belong sing to the new school of Reform. They set to work, making motions with their charactetistie inditstry. The distress of Scotland and Ireland they painted out in the most lugubrious shades, and then exhibited the sketches, which their inven tion bad enriched with misfortunes-, as the demon stration of the incapacity of the Government ! ! Ireland did not escape the general severity of time season. Her agriculture, though extensive in goantity, was greatly impaired in its quality ; and was affected, so unfortunately, by a wet and tardy, 'harvest, such as the country never before suffered sinder, that- a considerable proportion of her da anaeed crops was utterly useless as food, and de manded some different species of constunp:ion, not to become altoeether a dead loss to her culti vators and farmers. The Irish Government, at' this junctere, had a most arduous duty to fulfil, with every obstacle imaginable obtruding itself, to intercept the complete fulfilment of it. Domes tic discontent was fomented upon a system--and to be embarked in It, was become a regular and obvious course to professional success, in a variety of the avocations of life 5 and no matter what • course the Government may take, no matter how wise and honest, or how judiciously calculated tipou the very soundest views of public interest, there was sure to be a clamour, as loud and as in .cessent as prejudice and opposition could swe:i it, merely because it was that which was preferred the Government. The rivalry of religion kept alive a inethodized agitation among the gros s body of the people. The antipathy of conflicting principles produced a stationary inventive to oppose pub!ie measures. The effects of these, which are troublesome enough in themselves, without the need of any auxiliary provocatives, were, never theless, aggravated by a concurrence of circum stances, -very obvious, and scarcely requiring par ticular specification to be well understood. The poptilace, by means of vehement orations, to which they were incited to listen, and by means of ca bnony and scurrility, designed for the vet y par pose, were accustomed to see the first men in the country loaded with every manner , of reproach that the most inventive Malignity could discover. The very persons upon whose seccessful admini 'stration of the Government their owl) interests depended, in a day of trouble' and general suffer iag, set re ma!i t zned without airy clemency, their awtives slandered, their prieeiples belied, their t abilities libelled, their characters cast before the eelture of envy, as its daily pray ; ainl, while a hooding, brawling, remorseless ingenuity, spared am - fling that could detract from station, authority, and character, on the one hand, it was crafts' and sedulous to impose its fabrications upon ignet ranee, credulity, an d prejudice, 00 tote othrr.— Whatever rancorous zeal, predetermieed hOstili ty, and the Most indocile prejudice left incom plete, avarice stepped in to finish. :A nnestio.„ of stilciency, as to the stock of public 'food, grew out of the actual condition of affairs. Honest welt started it for time public sake—speculators started it, and kept it up for their 0 wn—discone teat ed men for the mischief which the fear of star e e He may set in motion against the Government.' the known condoles of discontent were eesily discovered by the speculators ; and many of Ciem were easily gained over, for very contempti hleioducienents, to circulate, to the best of their means, fabricaled stat e m en t s eencem ing the nUantnin of the public food, and all those matters . .tien-ahen. upon -the establishment of a prevalent • it•opie•hion eahlhit tioii head. The little jobbers in s, :suborned the New seiaPers to sound an Islam against distillation , ilium the ground of the insufficiency of ft od,-..the speculators in sugars were known to bribe some of the Public Journals to insert their fain icationsalso :—in policy, and its honour too. if honour may be referred to be tween such patties, the corruptors of a very venal Press (calling itself the popular Press, perhaps because there is more corruption among the po pulacte'than any other), should not have - openly entered in their books the sums paid to .certain Joutnals in this city, for inserting their lying and interested paragraphs:and statements. The affected, and all those who are disposed to strike a league with the ivorst prejudices, anti to indis• pose the people towards their Government, raised the screaut of alai in, and proclaimed the horrors of scarcity'as inevitable, if the distillation from corn were not prohibited.. They hoped to see the revenue teduced - to a helpless deficiency, by the loss of the ditty arising out of distilled spirits : and this species of distress promised their princi ples and their hopes, equal consolation. Confu sion and diStress . were earnest -objects of their de sires, and they stuggled to promote them by all the iztlirect means in their power. Toey worked upon the timid and the' thoughtless with special perseverance ; and their nefarious industry, united with various other causes of no inconsiderable influence, slsreW the country into agitation and embarrassment, and rendered ; the search after truth, and the investigatiOn of facts, tasks of the most difficult execution that can be. imagined.— Fortunately for this country—for its peace and its preservation—itS interests were confided to men, over whose sagacity imposture could ob!shr no victory ; whose toilsome zeal left nothing on explored, which could decide the delicate and im poi.tanc question that had been raised, and in which were involved the prospetity of the revenue,- and the preservation of a vast proportion of the. community—whose patience was not to be disor dered) by. all the contrivances of avarice and dis affectiem united—whose fortitude and calmness qualified t bent for times of etnergency—abd whose constancy, prudence, and wisdom, were riot their only endowinews for conducting the affairs of a distressed people. The rattle of business did not sound upon the public ear—there was no ostenta tion to attract—none of the trick of authority, when it stoops to look for temporary applause,- practised—none of the bustling machinery set in motion, by which vulgar spirits .hope to carry Off a reputation for profundity in the mystery of Go vernment—nothing of this sort is- imputable to the AdmiOistration of Lord Whitworth. If there were'any to be' reclaimed by conciliation, attd encouraged into reformation, his Government was calculated to do all that was to be effected by such means. If disaffection grew audacious, the vi goer of the Government at once outgrew it, and rebuked it.: If party fury burst forth into via letice, ri. moderating and persuasive policy as serted the Law, and maintained public justice, without a compromise. That which was most wise IA most necessary, was exactly that which ' was adopted and put sued 'in all instances) but, perhaps, in none other more beneficially and more happily, titan during the period which - has just passed °vet, and to the occurrences of which al. Insitire has been just made. Amid the roar of 1 schemes to embarrass, and tie Confusion cif de. vices to mislead, the Government stood firm, vi eilant, 'undismayed, and active. Every statement was examined—every bitituation sifted out in r ail respects—every representation analysed wiih inde fatigable zeal, which was connected with the sub ject. Truth Was discovered, itt contempt of all the' artifices which had, beets practised for its concealment—facts were developed, in spite of fraud and imposture, Never did enquiry in termit for a single moment—never was research suspended for an instant, until Government Were satisfied that there teas but cme'course to take for the public interest, arid that they embraced definitively. It was a providential matter that the affairs of this country were, confided at that particular juncture, to those very men who administer the Govern ni6it. More or less of any quality that they pos sessed, might have been sadly prejudicial—less ability, less zeal, less industry, less knowledge, less experience in the ditties of governing a peo ple, might have led to a train of misfortunes of no very transient effects. Under their auspices, the State did not•cast away the supplies for. its mein tenanee—nor were the people's. wants, in a single instance, however minute or obscure, overlooked. There was no famine—the revenue is preserved to-the public exigencies —and the reciipera:ire powers of the commimity are.agein in action, to requite the patience of the people, and the wisdom awl fortitude of an anxiously parental Government, The public. distresses of Irehnd were iatro dneed to Parliament —not with a factioes or paltry view, it is allowed.', There was a tincture of the Opposition spirit in the motion made by Mr. Fitzi.;erahl, early in the . month of March, upon the scarcity of food Ireland—but not, perhaps, more than was justifiable—at least, not so much as to be injurious. Oil the contrary, in whatever disposition of mind this respectable and ingenious Member may here brought the subject before the .House,itfwas followed hyexcellent cons.eqoetsces, in calling up Mr. Peel, who gave, as he always does, a, sound timid able view of the real state of ti;e case inipiestion... Ile agreed with the Gentle man who made the motion, that, if a stoppage of the distilleries could increase t!..c supply of 100 . d, , every Conisideration, merely of a financial. kind, ought to - give way. The loss of revenue, from the encouragement which would be given to illicit distillation—from the cessation of legal distillation—was not to be put its competition' tvitli the subsistence of the. people. Mr. Peel entered into a variety. of arguments, so power ful as to be .incontrovertible, and so satisfactory,, as to convince Sir John Newport, and other mem bers of the,Opposition, of the wisdom with which the Irish Government had meted—in consequence of which impression Mr. Fitzgerald withdrew his. : motion. A refutation, more noble and effective, could not he given to those savage libels which were published in this country ; which accused the Government of a course. of policy that ba lanced between human life and revenue, bet , Neen blood and the produce of public income, nod de cided in favour of the latter. The most desperele notions,'express e d in all the foulness of language; scandalized a part of the public Press ipots the' oecasiou alluded [To be continued.] POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE, CEIARGE OF COlNlNG.—William Lowe, of Mer cer-street, Long-acre, die-sinker, and press tool maker, with Jos. and Thus. Lowe, his two sons, were brought to the Office, in custody of 14 7 vender an:l Pace, two Officers of Qaeen-square, charged before the Sitting Magistrate (WILLIAM FIELDING, Esq.) with coining a large quantity of foreign topper ebb), called 10 cent. pieces. John Lavender stated, that in consequence of information received, he went very early this morning, accompanied by race and two assistants, to the house of the prisoner, William Lowe. Af ter watching about the house for upwards of aim hour, they, knocked at the door a little after seven o'clock, and iwabout a quarter of an hour afterwards, the door was opened by Thos. Lowe, youngest son, and they all four entered-the house and proceeded up stairs, where they met the pri soar, NVilliam Lowe, the father, 'coining (lilt of the door of his bed-room, being the back-room on the first floor. WitnesS asked him if he was the occupier and owner of the house I. He said he was. Witness then infoinfed him he was their prisoner,' at the same time acquainting, him with the busi, ness they were come upon. Prisoner immediately snbinitted himself to their authority, and accom panied them, as did the two sons also, over the houSe, while they searched it. They.founil several workshops, but nobody at work. They then di vided their force, and began a regular search,. one party taking the lower, and the other the 'upper 'part of the' house'; witness took the lower p:&rt, and in a forge in the back yard he found the stamping machine, which was fixedin the ground, to a depth, he believed, of ten feer : or more, from the ponderous appearance of the jack or hammer With which the die is'struck. in the same place lie also fonod- tWo dies, and in . a cupboard in the back-parlour,, the immense quantity of fore;gn copper coin in, the several square mahogany boxes i n w hi c h t h e y were produced in Court. The pieces were all copper, and intended for French, 10 cent." being in the centre of each, and round the edge, " Napoleon, Emperor;" oil the reverse side, the Roman letter N. and. an Impe rial Crown over' it. There were in the whole moo of them. Pace deposed, that .in a back. attic which he searched, he found a dye, and a' fly machine for striking the pieces from the copper in its plain state, ot which pieces there 'were in 'one ot the boxes upwards of 2,000, besides the finished ones; and in another room he found 20 packing cases, made of sheet iron, calculated to hold each 1,000 'of the pieties. It seems these cases; when . znade up, are cased over with pigs. of lead, and are thus contrived to be sent out of this country through the very medium of the Cnitom-horseilself. The prisoners were remanded fOr a further exa mination. UNION-ILIt c L. A Yootc - G, Sun Nrmen.—Edward Kellq, Et lad of decent appearance, 13 years of age,,was brought beiore Mr. Sergeant Su.LoN, the Sitting Magis -trate, by Holmes, the constable, charged with obtaining admiss'iou tickets to the Surrey Theatre under false pretences.—Alr. Whittaker, of the Surrey Theatre, stated. that last Thursday even ing h,rving heel fixed upon for his - .benefit at the said theatre, he deposited a quantity of admission tickets with Mr. Nichols, confectioner, in Black friars-road, for sale. About six o'clock on Thurs. dayvening, the prisoner delivered a note to Mr. Nichols, purporting to come from Mr, Whitta ker, requiring that twelve pit-tickets should be delivered to the hearer. Mr. Nichols observing sonic orthographicai errors in the note, suspected it to be a forgery, and sent for Holmes, who took the prisoner into 'custody ; and having been in formed that E 1 similar trick had been played off with better success with Mr. Withers,,a confec tioner) also residing 'in Blackfriars-road, car ried the prisoner, and confronted him with 11r. Withers, who immediately recognized him the person who, a few days previously, obtained from hint four pit- t ickets, the property of Mr. Brydges, of the Surrey Theatre, by means of a note, pur porting to be written by Mr. Budges, and-re. (inking the delivery of four pit-tickets to the bearer (the prisoner), and which Mr. Withers delivered accordingly. Mr. Whittaker 'further stated, that the note delivered, as above stated, to Mr. Nichols, was not his writing. On search ing the prisoner, a copy of 'the note to Mr. Nichols was found in his pocket. The prisoner was re manded until Mr. Withers. (now confined by sick ness) could attend to giVe evidence MANSION-HOUSE. TITDES num LonGERs.---Yesterday the Rev. Dr. Rose, Vicar of St. Martin Out witch, BishOps gate; summoned an inhabitant of that street, to spew cause why he refused to pay his ratio of tithe. He was himself a man of large faritily, his parish was very small, and he could not afford to lose the tithe due by the defendant. The latter resisted the payment on the ground that he Was but a lodger in the house where lie resided, and held , his apartments yearly. Other persons lodged in the house, and among them was even the pro prietor. The Rev. Vicar, be said, had selected hint as the object of assessment, while with nu merous other lodgers he has failed.-- , .Dr. Rose de nied this ; but supposing the fact to be so, he should now urge the payment of the tithe by the defendant, 'upon which subject the Act of Henry VIII, was pe _reinptory.--,-The particular clause of the Statute was read. It enacted, that '' every house, warehouse, yard, garden, &c. being severed or divided, and busi - ness being carried on in any such place or places, so separated and divided, the same should be - liable to the payment of tithe.' l —The LORD MAYOR said, the Act was as clear as language could make it.— The defendant still resisted, saving 'that" lie had been singled out by the Rev. Vi - ear, and Was the only, one who had courage to resist his demand.--• The. Loan MAYoa recommended the defendant not to be obstinate, the law being clearly against him.—After this admonition, .the Reverend Vicar and the defendant withdrew, the latter consent= ing to submit to a proper arrangement with the former. MARLBOItOt7GII-STREET. Tippu NG oN SUNDAY.—Mr. Dai s , of the New 'Bagnigge Wells Tea Gardens, Bayswater, ap. - - peareil to a summollS against hint, at the instance of a constable sit Paddington, suffering tip pling in his house on Sunday la.. luting Divine Service. - The constable and a • it pauper swore to there being twenty person.: ;he tap room, one of whom *as a constai.:t. who was grinding ginger into' some beer. On the con trary it was stated, that less than half the number were there, and thuse were travellers, who bad taken sheler from rain. The constable who was in tl►e house stated;that he was in attendance to Prevent dog-fighting at the back of the house, and the othets were travellers. The Magistrate said he could not disbelieve the witnesses it 4 support of the information, and the defendant was convicted hi the penalty of 10s. The defendant contended, that the whole was malice, and gate notice of an appeal against the conviction at the Sessions. MMLANCHOLY CONSEQUENCE Or A SERVAND'9 , ThsonentErtcr..--A Gentleman Who resides id Leith %Valk, Edinburgh, but whose house was un• dergoing some alteration,, sent his youngest son, a boy three years ohl, to a relation's honse in North Leith, to be out of harm's way. The Lady of the house was extremely font! of the boy, and scarcely ever trusted him out of her sight ; but when obliged' to leave him to the servant, she cautioned her in the most strict and positive than. ner to look after the child, and him alone, to the exclusion of every other business ‘vhatever. Not withstanding these poi•ive orders, alien het mistress went out on Friday evening, the 3d in. stant, slte sallied out also shortly after(none - as yet knows where) and left the boy alone. She had left the door open, and placed-the , candle, or lamp, owthe l an di ng of a common stair; tbreg stories high, seemingly to light • herseli down. When the poor child found 'she had gone out, he naturally followed her to the stair.head„ where the light was left burning, and w as h ear d f or a length of time calling upon her, and repeating her naive—hut at last his screams alarmed the neighbours in the stair; and whOt they opened. their doors they fOund him all in a blaze. _The.. girl was seen among the neighbours helping to extinguish the times, but at what period she had returned is uncertain; at all events it was toGo , late, .as his clothes were, burnt to ashes, and he lingered till Sunday morning, the sthi, and died. The murder of Mr., HALL and, MARY GRANT at Theddlethorpe, near Lo:41.1, in Lincolnshire, has excited great regret and indignation in that coun ty. A mart is at present in custody at Louth,. wider very. suspicious4lfctunstanceS, having one, hand 'lunch cut, and the thumb of the other la- Cerated, and for whieb he cannot give a satisfac tory account; He was taken to Theddlethorpe on Saturday, and the Magistrates attended there to obtain all the evidence possible concerning; these horrid murders, but the particulars have AOrt as yet transpired. „The most vigorous exer ti ons ,are making to bring the murderers to justice. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Fill DAY, OCT. 17. .kensterdant ' Ditto, at Sight Ainstei dam Ditto, at Sight . 11 10. , . ltottetchm .... . 11 I'4 2 TT's. Antwerp l4 14.1 7 ..x.M0ney . llamborgh Alto. - , , 35 ' 1 Vi Us.. Purls, a Day's date Ditto ' •• • • ...... ,• Bourdeaux, ditto • Frankfort ou the Main' Madrid Cadiz Seville . . Bilboa • 364 / Giimaltar Leghorn Genoa... Malta.. ' .. 47 -Naples 42 - Pa1erm0......... l2Qd. per ,oe. Lisbon ....... - Oporto- 5B • . Rio Jmieiro Dublin.... .....8.....C0rk..... 8 per Cent. . ; - Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per Cent. Portugal Gold, in Coin . h. 4 0. 0 per Oe; Foreign Gold, in Bars' 4 0 0 CO:1.1., MARKET, OCT. 17. Ships at Market. Ships sold. ' . Price. 651 Newcastle . .. 394 ........ SSI. Od. to 475. 01.- 12 Sunderland :•l2 395. O. to 435. 64. 1.. Cinders - ...J. 24s. Od; to. —s. Od. MitTHS. • . , On the tab iast. at Camer, the Jady of William Cowbu t o, Esq. of Tavistock- square ; o f a daughter. Yesterday looming, in Little Russell-street, Covent-g . arden, the wife of Mr. Carmichael, of a daughter. ' MARRIED. On Wednesday last, John Clementson, Esq. of Great Quern street, W. s'Aninster, to Eliza, third daughter of Sir Thomas Turton; Fart. of Felcourt, in Surrey. • On Thurstay last, at St. John's, Hackney, iMr. S. Roper,. of' the Ordnance-Office, Tower, to Mrs. Dyster, of Hackney.. DIED. On the 15th inst. at his house, Jolin-street, Tottenham- Court-road, Mr. George Thring, many years Clerk to the Re ceiver General of the Stamp Duties. On Wednesday last, at his seat at . Melchburn, Bedford shire, the Right Hon. St. Andrew Lord St. John, Baron St., John, of Bletso. On Thursday morning last, suddenly, at his house in Con duit-street, Hanover-square, John Barclay, Esq. Surgeon, ita thes,Bth year of his age. On the loth inst. at his residence, the Cottage, Staple hurst, Kent, after a long and severe illness, Jonathan Gillett, Esq. On the 13th inst. at his house, Peckham-rye, S. HayardaM, Esq. On Thursday last, at Southborough, near Bromley, Kent, Thomas Newnham, Esq. aged B'2. , • At Kensington, on the Ugh inst. Mary Anne Hanka, eldest -daughter of Captain Spence,' R. N. , On the 1 lth inst. Mr. Robert Total:iris, of Berkley, Glou cestershire, aged 49 years. , • Last week, in Hart-street, Covent-garden, Mrs. Entett, aged 80, a native of Plymouth. Her first husband, George Sutherland, served King George the Second at the battle of' Minden. Her two husbands and children have served their country upwards of a hundred years, chiefly in the British Naiy • _ , ' Thursday, the 9th instant, in the 11th year of his age, George, the tith son of Mr. Samuel Philbrick, of Great Dun, mow, Essex. The cause of his premature death originated at school, from a dangerous practice; to prevent which the strictest orders • should be given, 'and most rigorously en forced ; we allude to little boys endeavouring to carry on their backs those larger than themselves; in doing se this youth received an injury in the hip, which brought on a wound, with which he suffered for many months, and notwithstanding every medical assistance was resorted to, in the end it proved mortal. This may be received as an useful caution by school masters and parents, and syq Lippe it wilt be properly attended to. LONDON: Printed by J. B. 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