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London, England, 1807-09-05 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, Sur. 3.

The weather and the amusements of this place
still continuing most inviting, strangers are stilly
crowding to it. Yesterday I'4e Scalpel for Scandal
was performed at the "Fheatres by desire of Capt.
Dovrnman, and the officers of the Royal Horse
Artillery, and was followed by a Comic Dance,
called L.rc and Lottery, composed by Mr. L. Bo-
logna, and Trieli, fs.r the Bth time, this season.
The audience were fashionable and genteel, though
not very numerous. They comprised many of the
Officers and men of that regiment. Miss Bruntoo,
as Lady Teeth; and Mr. J. Brunton, as Coisriee
Surface, particularly distinguished themselves. Mr.
L Bologna, Miss Bologna, and Miss Luppino,
were much and deservedly applauded for their ex-
ertions in the merry dance, arid Tekeli went off with
its usual rad. At the conclusion of the Bay,
Adrian end Orrila was announced by Mr. Brunton
for Friday, by desire of Lady Ann Wyndham.
Ins day en auction at Fisher's Rooms, in St.
James's-street, excited much attention. It consisted
of the wearing apparel, gold watch, chain and
seals, and other effeas belonging to the well-
' known charaaer, Mr. Henry Cope, commonly called
the Green Mae, taken in execution for beard, lodg-
ing. &c. Most of the articles of dress were
sold tar below their original value and real worth.
They were purchased by some of the most respect-
able people, more for curiosities than for use. A
full green hoe, nut much the worse for wear, and
consisting of coat, pantaloons, and waistcoat, was
knocked down at l 1.. fis. ; another green coat
arid pantaloons, of somewhat a darker hue,
went off at 6s. 6d. ; and a green great coat,
of exaaly the same tinge, at 11. 12s. The
Chrgratt de Bear, which had been so often and
anxiously gazed at by all the fashionable fair upon
the Steyne and public promenades. during last sea-
son, was disposed of at the moderate rate of one
guinea ; and for the same amount also went off the
miniature, set in gold, of the beautiful Dakinee, tor
whom, it is said, this unfortunate gendeman has ran
mad. It is reported that he is at present in that
unhappy state, in St. Luke's hospital, London.—
The most valuable article, however. disposed of
upon this occassion, was a gold repeater, with its
chain and seal, which originally cost Mr. Cope
guineas. Upon the seal were beautifully engraven
the arms and supporters of Earl Veruur, the tide
this insane Gentleman thought proper to assume.
In the inside of the watch were also eograven.
" The Right Hon. H. Cope, Earl Vernor," but
notwithstanding these claims to rank and high esti-
mation, it was sold at the reduced price of 391. is.
6.1. Such are the bargains to be gat at Brighton.
If sold iu London, these articles would, no doubt.
from the eccentricity of the charaaer to whom they
once belonged, have brought double the sum.
Mr. Sheridan would not have grudged to have
paid double the rate, at least, for the green apparel.
to present to the green-cenhd orator tor the set vice
tendered to him during a late eleEtions
The annual fair, which is about to take place
here to-naorrow, for the first time, is expeaed to
producea great show of sheep, iitc. The novelty of the
scene wain° doubt attraa a great many of this place.
The news which last night's Papers communi-
cated respetting the Expedition of Admiral Gam-
bier. does nut cempletely satisfy the per mince, who
frequent the reading•rooms. It has only served to
increase their thirst and anxiety for snore. Even
the Ladies are now become interested, and unite in
expressing their hopes that the next accounts may
be favourable.
On Sunday "horning next, a Sermon will be
preached by the Rev. Edward Cannon. A.M.
Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales. for the support of the Briglithelmstone Sun-
day Schools. School of Industry, an f Day School ;
and we hops the precedent will be followed in Lon-
don. The visitors are requested not to pay the pew-
openers for their seats.

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POZWII.
ow LOIN A Li.
Yesterday, a Merchan• JI great respeae y ap.
peered to pr: acute two persons broug'. tefore
the Sitting Magi..trate, Sir MATTHEW klt.oxo Att.
charged with stealing, secreting, or taking away, the
books of a mercantile house, in Thames-st e-r. in
the city of London, or with being accomplices in
the offence The house be ! been under repairs.
and a number of workmen were employed, who had
eotire pussessiou of it, including the back room, is
which the books were kept. the Protecutu- stated
(with great ei.ziety concerning the books, the 413. .
tiz of which was his sole objet), that he had full
cc:lei:9ton one of t e Primers Was an accomplice.
and, on making discovery, both should be dis-
charged, as they seve:ally had large families. The
one insisted upon his can ini..reence. but the other
acquiesced in the proposition of the Prosecutor, at.si
both were discharg.A.
The circomstarxes, as far as we could learn,
which led to the discovery of the tiieft, was. that
some ;eaves of the books came to some of the Pra..
secutor's ft iends or customers, wr:lpped about s.nne
groceries, or uthtr goods, from the shop of the
person they were sold to as waste paper ; upon
which the Prosecutor was immediately made ac-
quainted with the to of the embezzlement or steal-
ing of the ho ks.
foe seIAOISTRATe Acquainted the prisoners, that
upon a lull discovery, le.oting to the restoration
of the books, t eir lives depended. nuder a late
Special AB of Parliament, enAa.-d to preserve the
master's property from the depiciation or embez-
zlement of the servant—adding, that he would
bold such a theft tar more culpable :bin any rob-
bery on the highway. He therefore strtaly en-
I joined them to attend the Prosecutor and oXcere
to the place where the books were to be found.

PUGILISM.

A battle took place at five o'clock, yesterday
afternoon, in a field near Paddington Gravel Pits,
for 20 guineas a side, between 7 h peas Wall, a re-
puted pugilist, ar,d a firiste/ min, who is only in his
noviciate. 7 Aumas Jo yes seconded the Bristol man,
and Bob Clark seconded Wall, and Rawl was his
bonk-holJer. The Bristol man came into the ring
In good spirits : bets were five to two in his favour
beiore stripping —ln the first round he showed a
great deal of scence ; after good sparring on
both sides, he gave his antagonist a well di-
relied blow under the left ear, which brought
tint to the ground. However, in the 15th and
16th rounds, the odds changed in favour of
Wall. They fought 34 severe rounds, in 40 mi.
mutes, when Wall was carried out of the ring by his
friends, and brought back a quarter of an hour af-
terwards, when they wished him to begin again;
but this was not suffered by the party b:longing to
lee itristal roan.

In the evening of Friday sennight, a Sre'brokeiga
in the house of Eawa no Weirs's, Esq. et Barham,
in Kent, which at first threatened the destruaioe
of the mansion, but
,by the waive exertions of the
servants. assisted by the neighbouring inhabitance,
it was happily got under, after having destroyed
the ro2na in which it originated, used by Mr.
Derv.° as his diessing.rision, with his *cuing ape
pare(, pistols, fowli -g pieces, and sundry articles,
to the amount of several hundred pounds. It was
caused by the fire from the kitchen chimney, from
WIWI the room was separated only by a slight par-
tition.
Thursday se'n&ght, about ten o'clock at night,
some desperadoes broke into the vestry of St. Cathe-
rine's.church. Dublin, and robbed it of 3001.
A very singular species of deception and robbery
was on Monday night last prat ised at Eynsham, in
Oxfordshire. A air L. art elderly Gentleman of
that village, had invited a friend of his, a Mr. D.
of London, to his house, in order to amuse him with
a few days shooting. and requested him to bring
any friend he pleased with him. On Monday even..
ing a person, apparently a Gentleman, arrived at
Mr. L.'s, who said Mr. 1). would folsow him on
Tuesday, not being able to be down to the first day's
sport. Mr. L. kindly welcOrned his new visitor,
and about l 1 o'clock they retired to rest; but, strange
to tell, when he arose neat morning, he found the
person had robbed his house of several very valuable
articles, and made his escape in the night. How
he could have gained possession of what had pissed
between Mr. L. and Mr. D. remains a mystery ;
but it is supposed he must have heatd the later
relate it to some friend.
A vessel, upon a new and curious construation,
has been prajeited by Earl Seaminess and will, in
a few days. undergo the inapeaion of several Gen-
tlemen skilled in naval architeaure. It smile time
since suggested itself to his Lordship, that the da-
mage resulting from a ship's oraiasing stays, as it is
termed, might be obviated, and, in fact, that ves-
sels might be navigated altogether without ru±-
ders affixed to the sterns, and in a better way than
they are at present. His Lordship set about the
investigation, and has produced a vessel that will
at all times answer the helm, and while there is •a
plank atandir g, will be perfectly manage.ible at sea.
It is by a sort ot lee-boo& affixed on each sichs
the ship's waist, which his Lordship terms gills, and
which are so managed as to give the tequnred di-
reaioa. the vessel is also built without a keel, his
Lordship being of opinion that that part of a ship
prevents its velocity through the water, from the in.
creased resistance it proauces. There are many
other elteratio ; but the principal are those of
taking away the rudder and keel, hitnerto censidered
the -most esseutial requisites in the constissaion of
veis. Is. An experiment will be made in the fist.
pentine Wirer in a very few days.
ow Taft new PLAN.—In tae Lottery
for 20.000 Tickets, which begin. Drawing on the
g)th of October, 6,000 of the Prises are to be
'tickets in a Supplementary Lottery, ss.hiet Ticket.,
Ivan, 1r the same I w4ers, will be entitled to
the (-hence ot the Benefits of the Supplementary
Lottery. to be Drawn on the 19th ot N -vembes ;
in the Holders of those Tickets may receive f..e
each of them Twenty Pound. as Morey, on, or he.
tore the lath of Novem,ier. By this plan 5740001.
beyun.l the usu il sum is shit, Baited in ?rises,
which gives to the Adv.n urea- the Chance of a Ca.
pital Prize at much less tisk than its any furors?.
Lottery.

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CRIMINAL AND PAUPER LUNATICS.

(Continuod from yesterday'. Paper.)

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Second. To keep any one or more Madmen in
the soci •ty of the fines or untried felons, would he
dangerous to his or their companions, and pregnant
with disturbance.
Third. To shut up a maniac in a cell, merely to
put him out of the way, and to attain a security of
his person wits the lest trouble. may aggravate
the feelings of his mind, hut never could remove
the disease. Such a proceeding, however frequent
in the prallice of parish officers, will never be di-
rt fled as His Majesty's pleasure, or by authority
of her, nor indeed could it be tolerated under the
eye of a Sheriff or the visiting Magistrates of ...he
tenni y.
Bat to the particular cues, by way of instance.
J(Wer:s 1 conceive to be in point of the first de-
scription—namely, a person on whose trial the jury
were decided by the impression of testimony, at
east exaggerated with a view to screen the offender.
The ri.an has been uniformly quiet and well be-
have.: in prison, and has not at' ny time sbewn a
tendency to lunacy For such false pleas. and the
attendant perjury. a certsio consequent imprison-
ment under this statute is due punishment'. But
it seems that, considered as punishment, though
lamed. it should have some fixed limits.
s:x years imprsonosent is four more than would
probably have followed a eonvielion on the very
perjury by which he was acquitted, and three more
than, according to the peadice of Judges, would
bare followed a convidtion of his felony.
certainly say that this man is not dangerous to
be atermitted to go abroad, perhaps he never was
so from natural insanity: but as he has chosen, by
hie pros in a Court of Justice, to place himself in the
ituark'n of a man constiturinnally dangerous, he
and all persons so pleading should take the conse-
yu:•neer, and indeed I believe these consequences
have nearly put an end to such pleas, as well as to
the amolos merit of those who made it their business
to ad►ise thenut
fitinoose that survies, in the nature of sureties of
the peace, were required to a critsOn amount, to
be named by Government according to cirntrie
stanch; I believe this man has relations or friends
of ►ufficient respens,hility to answer the demand.—
Such sureties should he renewed from time to time,
or the person surrendered to confinement.
The p•isoner Need is of me seennd desertptiost t a
man labouring under real insanity, whether of a
kind symptomatic (and therefore curable) or of
constitutional distemper (incurable) I know not.
At present he is in a state not troublesome, and
probably t' not dangerous to be permitted to go
abroad.° This man will not easily find sureties ;
Is he therefore to remain in prison, whilst he who
has friends shall be discharged'
Bat, my Lord, passing from particulars to gene-
ral returning on this point :—regarding sureties.
there are some difficulties and some objections to be
encountered-

Sureties may not be a sufficiatt security against
the disposition of a maniac in all cues ; for in-
stance, in the case nt an attempt on the
.person of
the King ; for, however the anciast opinton " that
a madman might he punished as a traitor for offer-
ing to kill the King" has been superseded by the
insider spirit of nor Courts, yet it would be too much
to admit that ti;e stlety of-the King's person might
be pot at the ri.quit of a seturning parox)sm.
Indeed regarding these iuhjefts. the antipathies
end reigning coacei.s of a madman may be ever
dangerous to the objea of them, though the postia
biky of danger in their cases would perhaps not
justify a perpetual confinement.
But supposing a main such a state as to be fit to
be enlarged en sureties, out that he had no friends of
a competent responsibility to be admitted to answer
fur him: What then? '1 he care and cost of main-
taining, restvaining, and curing a lunatic rests on
the officers of the pariah to which he belongs. They
are in faa respmsible for the public consequences of
his atinns. May he not he delivered over to such
ruts% ollizers ? And again, further, may it be or-
dained that any thing in the nature of a pledge or
security shall be demanded of them in a corporate
cap icily ?,t
I ?lilt no decided opinion on this point. I should
perhaps l collate to affirm the admissibility of enaa-
ing a demand of such sureties
But if sureties may not be admitted. there re-
mains of necetsity a continuance of the imprison-
ment or of confinement in some other place, not a
At common law, idiots and lunatics are not pu-
nisliable by any criminal prosecution whatsoever ;
but Nted, for instance, its consequence of his re-
commitment to prise°, has been kept three years in
the same ward, and in precisely the same state in
which he would have been kept, probably, for one
year only, in execution of his sentence on his con-
viction, had no special finding taken place.
A lunatic is not punishable by any criminal pro.
amnion whatever. But how is it to be proved,
that the man is not in a state of punishment, who
is placed in the same situation as those men are
placed, who are in execution of sentence for felonies
committed ?

It seems a great stretch of legislative authority,
to empower a Court of Justice, on the acquittal of
a man who, in a fit of insanity, may have committed
an assault, to imprison him in a common gaol for a
time not limited ; or, indeed, without a decision on

• 1 believe there is a very prominent cam of this nature now
is Newirate.
t I am myself dispeeed to think further, that a degree of
puniehrnent innowing the any of violence, even of a lunatic,
may toad to prevent such sets bung committed by them. Ex-
perience, sn far as we have gone on tbe new Act, seems to
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proven' support of this ides. Indeed, I know it to be the
opinion of medical men, conversant in this malady, that al.
aweigh maniacs have not the power of combining ideas, or of
drawing 'Sects front causes, by deduction, yet they possess a
cunning and instinctive penetretie n, wheel :makes them apple•
bond tionsanuenect from acts, and indeed to fear them for
they are uniserally cowardly. It is by keeping up this appro.
benison ..n their minds, that they rim so o.udv governed an
by the modem system of heating them.
t W• see in the $d Snakes of Use Ad of the 4',th, the
adenimiint of the principle of taking bail row persons, reso•
flume as 4kakyeaniy• 1.• go abmetl Persons apps bonded
sieniavearices which Isnot! I derattvilaytit of mind, and
a peeress et committmg Rail Cr..., may nut be bailie! itx•
•••4 by Yon wit* ••• be.
fj The practice of mooting rertiCates from parish to pariah,
easy 1.. cu,,eder.ol as in the nature et a pledge or Sbrtly,
14;1.144 NUMB e.. al 'ICY.

• They shall bo keast, nat..ttanisd, and cured. Sc. 17
Geo. 11. e. b.
t I hate witnessed instances of each of these moles of
co►ing under 17 Geo. U.