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PROVINCIAL, JOURNALS. The - iMorai•v Oreos - of the plan which We Have itdOpted of•cotlitnutticating the opinions Of Pro 4vincial 'Journalists, Are -evident in'the 'espective Tapers under their direction. Those %.110 wcie animated by loyal principles have been gratified 'in knowing that, through the medium of THE Surf, - their seiii.iintiits will t,e clitFased, aril their '!rider established, not only throughout the Britisl cnilire, and - its Dependeneiel, :East and West, nod :the 'United Statei of Ante' *lca, but in 'every part of the civilized world that halls an amicable and commercial intercottr4e with this Country. : 4 ;')lt the other hand-, [hose rrovilicial.-30urnati,IS who arc vacillating or mischievous in their poli Ilea' principles and views, will be more upot their guard, under the consciousness that thei ennduct is beheld by the woihl at large. The - Wavering may be led by that consciousness into more detemined principles of action, and the mischievous tray be induced eo check their sedi tions feelings, and if not converted into constitn-. tional viitue, yet be in sonle mewsure restrame in the practice of political turpitude. The fol lowing - observations.are taken from The C4esier Courant, ei.c.&e. of Tuesday, a very respectable Journal, that appears to be attached to Government without a servile devotion to Min6Eo s " Libels and licentious discotirses against the ! State, when tliey are, frequent and open ; and, in the like sort false news often running up and down, to the disadvantage of the State, and hastily embraced, are (says Lord Bacon) amongat the signs of troubles. kVc have lately been able to verifythe truth of these observations. Libels and licentious discourses, and all sorts of false news, have been often running tip and down, and too wally:have been deluded - to embrace them hastily. Like Pandora's box, they have proved a tremendous source of evils and suffering ; but this very suffeting will in the endbe productive of correspontling good; men's eyes will thereby be opened, - and they will discover . the shadows with, which they have been deluded. ' Liberty, .under which we must comprehend all the most valuable enjoyments, has two enemies in civil society. l'he, first and greatest is licentiousness and , confusion ; and the seco nd, is o pp ra3sion Arising from tyranny. The first of those t evils arises from Liberiy itself, when is not kept within due bounds. The second is - owing to the Tetnedy which mankind have contrived, ag i tinst the former evil, that is, the sovereignty. The height of human felicity and prudence is to know how to guatd against those two enemies: the only me thod is.to have a well'-constituted Governm , tit, fprmed with such precautions as to hanisb licen tioustirss,- and yet be no way introduc tire to ty raony.'--An this. votatiott,. though we perceive . some errors - , yet, on the whole, we find the true , principles of Our inestimable . - Constitotion. If any conntry ever enjoyed this height of human felicity,' it is that . under which we have the ho ly/In-and happiness to live. IVe do indeed pos sess - a ". well-constituted Government.' Great `. , ,precantions' have been taken to banish. u been-, tionsness,' and to ensre that golden mean, which in• Government, a; well as in the cotnnmmtest ce rns of private life, is 'lie wisest, the happiest, and the most lasting state, and, which best pro motes the true interests of bcith King anti people: " But.in the prefent wonderful age.of political iinixotism, the wise institutions of our fathers are. looked on with .scorn, and the experience of ages is treated as a mere btibble. We have Solons and Lyeurguses in every village ; and their constant cry is, all is barren!' We are called.npon to give away the bird in hand for the bird in the bush : to demolish the edifice and trust to chance far another !—This mania, however, is passing away;' but the promoters of it, fearful that a calm of public feeling - will succeed the storm, are still labouring hard to keep up the ferment. They !mow and feel, that .without some sort of excita tion they would cease to be noticed, and if one scheme fails they have others to resort to. Major Cartwtight, now that he cannot force his con stitution down the throats of, the nation, vi et armis, has determined print it and shame the fools !' or in other words, to make a rimy by it. Cobhett still kindly supplies us with his Register 5 but he leaves his Printer to encounter the :hazard of spreading his lawless rhapsodies. Wooler, finding it necessary to keep his lime- afloat. by some means more pci tent than the Black Dwarf, contrives to engage • the Courts of Law, and by pleading his Own cause, he disseminates his opinions and:secures his name . a place in the public prints : and what is mate to his purpose, he is enabled to treat the Public ni;11 a half-a-crown pamphlet on packed juries thwi • the cunning: Isaac pilfers his fame, and sells his falsehoods ! Other more humble la bourers in the.same field are busily employed in groaning over . ..the liberty of-thePress,' which they want to persupde tcs ive "Tossers only.in a trifling degree, and thLit, evyi that lit Ale tve are pot to have niuelt . longer We offlfred •a - few remarks on this subject in our last Paper, in .which , we freely ex ptessed our opinion. • It is scarcely' - necessary to rlnat that there'.-is lint• theleast foundation for the clamour/that,. has been • raiscil, and which is • still kept 'There were certainly sonic iudis • 'ereet olr4ervat inns -in a bOndon Newspaper, hut • ' titlC"tht-Se were- laid hold .oras text, tbe expla naroty remarks,-"or rather the• miqualified contra ' - airpear'ed the following day, was passed over in siltqiec. The reason is evident ; • • the former 'suited the purpose of'' clamour ;. the' ' • r ieVter'' would have allayed it 1- and thong!' they 41frecied to renrobate‘and mourn over the para .graph,ln question, nothing could give them more . preasu're tiran its' appearance. •Tacitus'had such mien iti• View When he• observed that •‘• none Mintrn with more affectation.of sorrow than those • .who are inwardly rejoiced."' Southwark, Dec. 15, —We have no alteratio'n in our flop Market since our . last—there are very. inv buyers, aml.not many sellers. ~-` LOSS OVIIIS Al.k i lES ; i l. ,''S SLOOP YULT... Ad»zirallq-Opice, Decesn , ,cr 17, 1317. A - List Of 'Officers, Seamen, a n d R o yal Ma rines, belonging to ALtiesry's late 'sloop Julia, which was cast away cin the Islawl bt Tristand'Actinha, on the night of the IstThher last ; consisting of the twines of the•ziurvivors, tvell as those who are Missing, or who lust their yes 1936PCE 1 .3011;in Jones, Commander 2 Clias. Wm. 1.31 - inrn, Mid. SAVETI. 3. Henry FateT Milts, Mid Flnglinealy 2 'Ulm&lc3 liotitfsney 3 William Perrie 4 Daniel Stillivari 5 ,I(.lin I)aVis i; .1. Nl•Caloe 7 tVii;iitAt Po.la S .lames .1:4cloon 9 llt.inv Costriciiey lu .1. (;i(,leas i J.llarrisiai 12 Richard Mare 1:3 Eltsly 14 N. Slide 15 .rawesSlirieves la Robert Yitxl,-y ,17 IS J. Erua(lbt9 In N:1911Tel 20 J. Ileyi.ulds 21 I.aac Wilktm 22• Robert M'(;ee 23 John Faces • 4 Lawrence Tye IklAni MEN AN[) t►FFIGEUS :.ient. Albany Li. Wilson, acting in the command of Ascension MISBING 1 Edmotid 'Watson 2 Thoma , Stop • 3 iolin IV,•kit 4 Johi Flanton 5 .lanvis JOlly Edward Franklin - PEOPLE nizoWN 1 Henry Mechi, Lieutenant 2 Neil Malcolm, (O. 3 Wm. NV Beath, Master - 4 John Enright, Surgeon 5 Henry Suter, Purser 6 Francis Conway Seymour, NLdshipmau 25 John Webb BEHIND AT ASCENSIQN Edward flare, private .ma rine" Jos. Austral', do. do. SEAMEN. 7 'Richard Hamilton 8 Corporal Dmlien:ion, (marine) 9 Riehard Phillips, (t :a= rine) 10 William Thomas (2) SE/tN I Gordon Edward Flynn ' . 3. L'etmarrl Jones 4 Charlus Jones 5 Samnel Erroll 6 (i.. Godfrey 7.C. peters' 8 William Thomas (1) 9 Edward (:1(,1d 10 John - Roberts 11 .lames Williams 12 I'. Williams DI A R D AND BURIED. . 7 Cloaks Over,Midshipm. 8 George Standish, do. 9 1 - 1 •nry Jaßld, Captain's Clerk • 10 John Bobenion, Gunner 11. IL .Gilison, Boatswain 12 W.Toildridge,Carpenter In James Carr . 14 John Wellimttort 15 William Kidley. J.twes Standeven 17 Bleliartl 111`Donald 18 N. Johnson ID J. Ilaimnond 20 Samuel Lyons 21 John Ciee IVilliam hennard 23 James Cook 24 James Wilmot J. «Meetly F; 9 Thomas Steele 1 Serjeant Finder 2 Corporal Pratticld 3.3alurs Orr 4 William Disney 5 IL Levcry THE FOLLOWING FITNIALE WAS ALSO LoST. Mrs: Dickenson. (Signed) JENKIN Commander of 11.1.1 ate Mon Julia THE LATE mom v.: sHERI DAN, Esc.. -S K ETCH rf the LIFE of the tote Throms SnritinAN,'Esq drawn by one of his Staftad.slare ." Flom a former personal knowledge of Mr Tiromas SHERIDAN, and having enjoyed a fre quent correspondence with him, we happen .to kuow something of his character, and mote of his virtues. Tom (for in speaking of c annot divest Om - s elves (If thoQe tamiliar',,ppella tions which are associated %rill) all our recoils' C -11011 Of hint), in the better d a ys of his h e alth, w a s . not one.of those-commou Bun Vicants, and men y fellows, whose friends-hip begins and ended with tit: circuit of the bottle. ThoagA, ,aursed in the sm iles of a Court, at a -time when et ,inent parent moved in all the radiance of his genius,.'Pom had - nothing of the Courtier about him. lie was gay, honest, jolly, and sincere. At one time there was ,not a Gala or Rout in Town, hilt TOM Sheridan was the Star of the party. At the Masquerade, Tom was the moat amusing and original character—at the Convivial, he teas the best singer—at the Dance, he was the very Yestris of the " fantastic" motion—at the Pugi listic Club, he was the neatest sparrer—'at the Fires Court, he was the most active and successful player—at a generous action, Torn was the first to offer his purse and his patrottage — over the bottle, Toni was the last of his party ; and he could find some reason for a bumper, when the te sources of every other man had failed. ,• He was so fair a drinker, it became a common saying - , -that you might drink with Tom in the dark." His test of fidelity to the bOttle was,—" if you are able to go, you are• able to stay." Yet amid all the conflicting nature of these various and opposite acquirements, Tom was both a gen tleman and a scholar. He was a kind of Pocket Edition of his father: and what is more :o he. wondered at , and more to he admireal,,trithout, any of his Father's great errors—Tom was a man of his word: Yon had not the capaciousness, and commentary and luminous detail of the parent book—but. you had,' a synopsis of every. chapter ; from the grandeur of its loftiest sentiment, to its merriest and meanest plea. . " !otitis effort to get into the electioneering . shoes of his' father, at Stafford, Tom was tinsuc... cessful, They.were a bad pair ; and bat' been worn out before they were offered to hint. On the above occasion; he brought down -- a - man who could speak with equ--.1 success against time and reason. -- was one of those men,who, from his ipternp.z.rance, " cooled " Sheridan's "•friends," and " heated• his enemies." Harry, alias 0. P. Clifford,- was the " speaking - trumpet" Tom., opponent. one of these occasions, Tom addressed the Barrister, with. " Hirry Clif ford I. stand forth I" and a more eotuplete instance of splendid eloquence, and raking satire, we never heard delivered. It was unanswered, be cause it was unanswerable,. Harry knew he had the Burgesses upon a diffet'ent tacit to Unit of fine speaking; . and replied " go on ,with the poll." He had made a liroper'estimate . of. the' Polls of the Burgesses. Tom carried back with It 'to town more of the friendship, amid good wishes of his friends, than success pet hales could have given him ; • and the name of Tont'Sheridan Will be remembered in Stafford, and associated with its brightest days, as long as some of the heir of the .1(r school con tinue to shed a Bing, gem-like radialict . on its history." „ 7 1 BOW-STriEET. — ?ester na y Jirac.Fprc., of Fincidey, appeai•cd_ at the Office, to trnswer to 'an information, chaiging hint ,%vitli sellircg'fire-tvorks.—The charge•being proved, he was convicted in the penalty of 51: bt did not allow any COLAS., NES. 'I, i lye FELLIGENC . COCIIT:OF Dgc. 17. .3t7DGMET.:-:'Cil.:Ull EN'S CoNCoRDANCE. JOSEPH . XN'r) oTiturtsV.'NUTTAL, AND I,I3HER. The , Lotto CII:4*ELLOR dissolved the injunc tion, allowing the defendants to go, into the market with ;their seventh editinict lit the satire time ordering. that they . Shoilld keep an ac count of the sale awl profits, so as to enable them to account to the plaintiffs for the same, if they proved their, iight by an action at -law, and that the plaintiffs shonld forthwith bring their action o Cry that quelt - ion. This judgment has given great satisfaction to the body or boiiks'elivrs. INIPORTANT CASE THEt 13ANK OF ENGLAND IN THIi DhAtTER OF JA:AES %v AL KR IL Thio is a question of great interest to the cons mewial part Of the community. was an ap plication made by Sir ARTHVEC PIGOOT, on be half of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, prayinu ° that they -might be allowed w prove ' a, debt of between 25 and .26 thousand pounds, by their clerk, Mr. John Spaikes Cox, und'e'r the Commission that had issued againseMr. Walker, without producing the power of attorney under Which he. acted : Aliat• the assignees who had been chosen might be dismissed, and that the' Commissioners. might be ordered to proceed to the nomination of others ; and that. Mr. Cox might, on'the part of the Bank, be admitted to vote in the choice of such Assignees. The reti tioil also prayed that the costs might be decreed to be paid out of the Bankrupt's estate. Sir ARTHUR, in the course of a long argument, observed he catdd not conceive how the Bank could be objected to proving, by their. Officers, under the general power of attorney 4 as was the case with respect to every other Corporation. The debt ot the Bank amounted to more than ail the other creditors together ; and although it was not disputed, yet they were refused the opportu nity of voting in the choice of. Assignees. The LORD CHANCELLOR—Sir Arthur, I region ber in a case at Niai Prius wellad much (la - Tufty with a man, who called himself Adidavit-maker.to the Morchauls of London, . Sir ARTHUR resumed—An objection was.abemt to be made before the Commigsioners,,,bo,t which . was withdrawn ; . and the Solicitor to, the, Bank feeling, no doubt, that Mr. Cox would be allowed to prove, had left the Board ; but whenN4.-COx went forward, lire was not suffered to,do•so, or to vote for Assignees; and . hence arose the present quiestion. 10 support of the motion, he quoted the case of Bowles, which bad been mis reported in Vesey's lieport , , .and on which the Commis- Siouers, grounded their objections ; and also. that of Er-punte f a i...vis, in both of which orders, the Lord Chancellor had decreed. th at the Ag e n t, un -1 der a power of attorney, should be allowed to prove. Mr. CooKE followed, mid took a similar line of aLigiftneot. , The Lone C!poscst.t.oa inquired whether it was meant to he contended', that the power of at torney that r ()led it) the above cities, the first in 1804 aiul the Last in ISt.c oin!! Ito So in the present case;. although the stamp-duty had in crease,d tenfold. Sir SAMUEL RDMILLY and Mr. MosT3ouE an swered, that 'that was precisely the objection in:: the present case, and the grounds on which they argued against the 'motion. Some turtherconveation took place between the Loit[Chancellor and . Mr. Cooke,`as to the effect an increase of stamp duty would have; but. both the Noble Lord and Mr. Cooke declined giv ing an opinion. Sir S. ROMILLY and Mr. MONTAGUE.II3Ving at . Kited at great lengtl) against the motion, on the ground that the Bank must liave a specific power of attorney to enable _therm to prove, and also that the Clerk having refused to producehis:authotity to the Commissioners, they were . not to .blame, as well as against the payment of costs. The Lon? CtIANCELLoR noticed tire import ance of the present question, as well as the tlifl! cultv that arose in it, and postponed judgment unt This Lordship had looked into the Act . of the sth Geo. 11. courtT OF JUNG'S BENCH, DEC, 17. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. STONE V. SNMPSON. Mr. PLATT opened the pleadings, and stated that this was" an action against the defendant for a breach of promise to intermarry:with the . plaintiff. Mr. 'forms stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff was a young lady, now ahout.3o years of age, diStinguished by mental accomplishments and personal charms, the daughter of die late Ad miral Stone,, who had been in . the British . service, but had obtained his Majesty's permission to serve under the &id Portugal. "The defendant was •a gentleman now about 40 years of age, and at the tithe of the transaction in question, was Secretary to Lord' Strangford, Envoy to the Portuguese Court. Prior to the year 1808, the defendant had been intioduced to the family of Allytiiral, Stone, then at List-oh, and after sonic time he declared himself - the t . rofessed adinirer of . Miss • St , iiie, and was received as such by her father. Iu the year 1808, the Preneh having invaded Portugal ; the Braonza ,Court removed to the Brazils, whither Adiiiiral Stone and tastily followed, as did the,de fendant in' the suite of Lord Stiangford. The , defendant gain' r enewed his addresses to, Miss Stone on the shores of the Rio Janeiro, and vas, in • fatt considered by all parties as the intended spouse of . the lady. This intimacy in the plain tiff s family continued until the year 1812 . , when her!ather died, and then it was determined by Mrs;Stone to rt.rturn Willi her daughter to'Eng land; but pilot to her departure, the. (:eten'tfant, as au a4suranee of his faithful 4 ,ttachment to the plaintiff,, gave her the followiti4 written promiie of marriage I hereby soluinnly promise to marry Miss Anna Stone ; anti furher &dare, that I ~tiiil never espouse any WOman whilst she is alive. (Signed) J. T. Sampson."—After a tenter patt ing, and an interehauge of the most solemn pledges of inutiud hdelity, 'Miss Stone left the Brazils, and arrived in England. During liter ag- sl,c ei; phrin ;ha cntis it VaSt number of letters front Lint, cottlainiva 1 10.: mosl Vxtlitsagant protesSions ;t1 ,3 .aLttichnient., Willett the iAto - 41. roinantic attachutenc could dictate, or the ivarriitt passion inzg&s'• This ‘cOrrespondence was kept 'up with uttal..ated artiata until the .Year 1815, when, without ao3r 'assignable cause, he altogether Ceased his Ow mtmications. In the :spring . ot 1816 the de fendant ;returned to England, when the plaift7 tiff, naturally - solicitous about her . meats 'with the defendant, wrote him setetal let WI'S. They ,were replied to with eoldne' 4 and indifference ; and in one letter, dated Iron Exeter, April 22, 181 . 6, the defendatk 'acknotv-. ledgtd the receipt ot two of tlke_phiotiirs, preising his surpr . se that she had not sent hint a copy of the written promise of nnuriage, w Licit he had given her at die ►Brazilp, and concluded 14 reeptesting she would . uut annoy him w i t h tint more letters, Which lie notified should not be an steered, .if sent. In another letter, dated 90 1 ' July, 1816, purporting to be written by the de— fendant's mother, but in reality written by hitrt self he desired, in his mother's name, that the plaintiff would not trouble her _son with any m , 're letters, 'and representing him to be in so ill t* state of health as to be unable to answer them and if she should send any more, they would 1 .3 e returned unopened. These were the bailing eh . • cumstances of the case. The Leatned Counsel' saki he was at a loss to anticipate what de' fence conic! be 'suggested to this action. Ile had, indeed, been giien to understand, that did defendant meant to give ottt, through the tnediuro of his Learned Counsel, that he was in fact in capacitated' for the marriage life, by certain infir" mides Which disabled lihn from the .performance of conjugal duties. I-le hoped, for the defendant's credit with the gentle sex, that -ke. would ri(A shield himself. under such a suggestion. Vie name Of the defendant certainly iffipdtted differ ent qualificationS, and if he pos . seised the Vigour and strength of his great namesake, such a defence would not avail Lila on the present occasion. lie understood that. the defendant. was a man isz the prime:of life, and to all visible appet4ance was competent to contract as well as constimmato . the matrimonial engJgementS: A great number of the defendant's love letters were then produced, and Identified as his,hantk wilting. Some of dies l were read by the'otliee of the Court,' and theif Coments:wire such as v. discompose, -not only the gravity. of the Bench , but to 'keep the whole_Cpuit on the broad gtin for about half an hotti,'Wluin _ • Mr. SCARLETT, the defendant's counsel, intes . 7 posed, and suggested that, the case was such a might .- be • better dispo4'ed of :before an arbitrator than before the present tribunal. . After. some conversation between the Learnd Ccluificel on. both sides, it was agreettto give 11) 6 plaintiff a verdict, and refer the damages to 0 11 arbitration. Verdict to the Plaintiff —Damages 2,0001, snl?" jest to a reference CABANAL V. THE DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This was an action for ‘votk and lab!otr, by the plAintiff, a theatrical machinist, to jeco ye' quaitittm .Ihritit for his ttunble in const7ucting model for the la,t .seetme in an Opera, called th , ' Unknown Crest,'' broilght ow at Drutiy-Lvi c The Are in ISIS, under .the auspices of Mr. Ai' hold, whO was at that time manager. he Lis t scene :in cptesti6n consisted in the representatio n of tower, Which was to be destroyed by the coo" .14nStion of a Mine. The d e fendant'paid 2W. into :.Court, and the plaintiff's demand was 501. ,vhieb. he had reduced trout hits original detylarid of 115 1 ; in consequence of the then einharrtssed state 0 1 ' the Theatre. It appeared that the Opera ivastev ;4 formed: only eleven nights, and was then with'' . drawn. '1 he question in the case was as'.to thc . value of the pl a intiff'slabouts, and after...witnesse . were examined on both' sides, the Jury found for. the plaintiff--Danmages 501. RICKABY V. JACKSON. This was an action against the defendant, for assanlting the wile of the plaintiff, a broker ill Bethnal-greest. The . defendant had entered 10 4 plaintiff 's shop in a state of intoxication, and sac down upon a chair, which the wire requested bin& to leave, and his rage beconsitig excited, he I st roelc her with a stick upon the hcad.—The Ju-ry gate the plaintiff damages - 501. MUNN V. BAKER AND OTHERS. This was an action against the defendants, 0. common•cartiers, recover the value of a trunk , containing property- to the value of 01. 10i' Which they were employed to cart y by water front London to Bristol. The defendants pleulo l notice of restricted liability, and the question• was , whether the potice was sufficient. It appeare d ' that a printed notice bad been set up in their of fice, atinonneing that they would not be liable for more than 51. in case of loss or flamage,.tinlef 4 the property was insured ; ansi at the time of th e (m9king, a mitten notice was delivered to the plaintiff, but by accident the teifni (if time reStrie' turn were omitted, anil'it being dotibtful Whether the printed lattice had been seen by the party, Lord ELLENBoRoUGH held the notice insufg' cient, and directed a verdict for the plaintiff. _ . COAL MilltKET, DEC. 17. Ships at Market. Ships sold. Price. ," sq Newcastle . 17i . -425. 9d. to 605. , 7 Sunderland 5. .. S9s. 9d. to 45s'. 6 u' 1• Eh.,, , in Main C0a1...... 1 . .390. - od. to - --s. 0 °• _......-- • 131111.1 - IS. On Sunday last, at Mistertou, the Lady of Richard Gave' Esq. of a - son. • On Tuesday last, at 'his res;dence, Nev Grove, Bromley., the Lady of .Emanuel Goodhart, Esq. of a daught“r, On Saturday last, the' Lady of Captain F. Dolgc,, 'at Dca l P of a son. NIARIIIEIL • On the 16th ;nct. nt fit, James's, Dr. Nen.ning, of the 01-4'"' !lance Mi•dical Department, to Miss Wheatley, at the Cresecol, Greenwich. DIED. Lately, in his 730 r year, at his house orr, ward Sis4.n, Est i . ma' years master. sliipiet!ight ,of - Kis jest y's wicl4. At Bri'dgwater, on the 12th inst. in t . 4 4 ,g 87th 31e•ar (4 I°4 ' age,,;`.lr. Joint Crandon, many years a Me:utter of the Co" pttl aVon of that town. 1 if --- ------:----- —.--- LONTY)N: L 'Med by J. l',. CARST:!IIRS, of No. 29, A. ' Orniond7street, Queen-s , juare: awl published by IV: , ()d , SCRIPPS,' of No.' 7•‘, • Sontli-Molton-§treet,- ;it DOr"" '. ice, No. 112, Strand ; where Advertisements, O Letters, &c. (post-paid) must he addrassud. 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