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London, England, 1818-10-02 00:00:00

WINDOW TA X.

ito God the tampaiga splint the Wiseloir Tax procerd-
ing with viper. On Sloaday the ialsalsittiats of Belfast
had a 1111feliel to petition for a total rejeiii. IN Rani■
they were preparing a registration to the VOee-Provost, to
bresaltle a 'meting fur the same purpose. to Dobbs the
Parish of St. Thomas it shoat In follow the pod example
of SI. Marfa sad St. Mark**, and falba Parishes. The other
Parishes,-we expect, will speedily follow, sod the effort will
diffose Itself over the thigdom. The argeament arising
from a &Smut rewrite, usrd heretofore to defeat the mu-
ties for a repeal, is wow, we are hippy to say, removed—.
The Couriar hating satisfied the minds of the people that
there would be a large purples in the Treasury the ensuing
year --a prospect spoil which we eitrigratelate our
citimuse, as It resifts certain the total removal of She /km ti.
femme nail berkelium tax oil light sad air.--(CarrfrA's'Oub-
lin leralite Pod.)

OLD BAILEY. THURSDAY, OcToots I.

The RSCOIRER this day concluded the Sessions,
by passing sentence on the following Prisoners:—
For tnossopertetion
Air iifejobN Fitzgerald, Win. Smith, Sandi Slime's
Anthony M• y, Jolas Clarke, James Neale, W. Biwa%
Jobe Nelms, Jobe Bishop (a very taihionabk dressed Man,
wbo wee eosvicted of nib* a ladv's maid, whom be M.
Impend s. escort *ear Pallas'Wea), Jobs Edwards, Res-
jassia Park, Mary Jackson, Jelin Hooper, Thomas Judd,
Thames Onsileer, mid Jobe Pont,.
Pleefirsefien ran—John Dragoon.
Poe sawn jpeare—Niebulas Devil., George Bays, Richard
Nkbolons, Wm. Sheet, Strobes Henn, James Lowe, Was
Henry Forbes, Jones Newman, Onmes Ratios, Jebe Galley,
Janos Rowley, Henry Parte, Wm. Clarke Jobe Mania,
Jobs Kibbell, Joseph Cooke, &ries Dimmed. Thomas Law-
rence, Joseph RawbUtos, George Streatham, Juba Rubinson,
!Week Parker, Julin Piston, Wm. Rates, Robert Jones, Jo.
as Wricb, George Hoofer, Julio Stellivaa, Mary Sher-
rie* ilimeed Marti. Hairy JOll.OOll Richard Wheeler,
George Taylor, themesClispemb,Relis4 Wborthoese,
*stem, Jobs Herlock, Ad. ilibos, Jelin Reed, Timothy
111 Murphy, 1111111111 Bowellelddhabe Sheehan, Sohn itllll.ll, Chas.
Merisky, Alezamise 1171Mbiss, Wei. Diana, /torah Callum,
Richard Richards*, Wm. Groves, Wm. logram, James
Tenser, horn resides, Wm. Hughes, Samuel Pay., Wm.
Terserelmots Reeveky, Edward MassAeld, Julie Morris,
and James Bates
Fie eoglined ime year Is ON HOW* 4tf Correction,
tad to ilierd kidemer—Joseph Moody, John Taylor, William
RIR% Mary Lloyd, Condone LMhh, Jobe Uary, Thomas
King, John Hill, Themes Grainer, Lydia Hill, Richard
Jessisge, Jobe leowee, 8...1 Lacy, Robert Anderees,
Jam RkMrdrrAlzheed Radigiesil, sad George Boyce.
Pim ewemid Ink oktpped—Degatel Gasmen,
Robert Seines Lase, Si.. Lewis, The.. 11PDermut,
aed Win,
Fle els missile Isprtmemenf, end Aged feesup—Wlllisea
Wyse' Maus Davy, Hamlet Milked, Jobe Matthews
Georg Lyles, Bea Bailey, Robert Meath, Ass Yazoo,
Mary loses, Seri& Bruky, Srhacy Williams, Mary Mar.
plry, Esther Todd, Jobe Trees/my, Rester Gilles, sod Assn
Taylor.
lb Ma swab cenfinesseed, and to be well iikippest—
William Hawkins, juke Masses, William Price. Jobe
to., William Jose., Robert Hughes, Julie Higpes, sod
Sweet Mums.
lb three swathe tisprisonetstit, and heti Weer—Elia
Saber, Charles Wray, Elikabeth Higgins, John Peters,
George Obillips, Thomas Sweeps, 'Richard Davie, Mary
Rowse, Frances Robissos, David Mackay, and Elisabeth
Rowdies.

Tit lbws manna imprieesinent, and to be Well whipped—
Thomas lades, Joha Gawky, John !Ramey, Charles Car-
pester, and Jobs Lewis.
To two lassehe istierleownsai--Janws Creech, Thomas
Gower, Francis Brace, James Hauler, H. Antow, Jahn
Wilber, Mary round, Michael Rosily, Awes Atkins,
Mies Mem Richard Eaton, Richard Prince, Williams Ras-
eater, Edward Stephens's, Jobe White Sarah &aka, Wm.
Saran, Thomas Browne, Geer** Bor;tall, Thomas Sower,
Retry Slightest, Hoary Hart, Jolla Mason, James Clack,
Elisabeth *ilea, wad Jobs Good.
Ts oft asittles haprleimnasset—llanstel Webb (and to lie
well whipped), sad Elisabeth Richerds.
The b be well Whipped sad Men diatherfpvi—.
Joseph Power, George Mama, John Lase, Hairy Greasier
Charles Allen, George Walter, Michael Deaneilaa,
Miksch and James Martin.
Judgment was respited upon soave Prisoners of
tender years. Their evident inexperience with evil
ways, no douls4 Imperatively called upon the
Coprt to relax the Severe judgment which the law
affixed to the crimes of which they had been con•
victed, sod to consider whether the application of
reformatory means, such at souse of our philan-
thropic institutions (particularly the Refuge for the
Destitute) afford, would not better conduce to the
moral ends of society. them the inexorable inflic-
tion of the heavy penalties to which they were
legally exposed.

The whole ceremony at the clove of the Session
of passim the capital seotenceambich ought to be, and
generally is, the mostawful and imposing spectacle
that a human tribunal can possibly furnish, presented
a striking illustration of the impolicy of the indiscri-
minate denunciation of the severest sentence of the
law upon criminals, whose several offences, in poisit
of moral turpitude, bear no manner of affinity to.
wards each other. The effect of this strange as-
semblage of offenders, the greater part of whom
know (and by experience too) that though they are
brought to she bar, to hear together the sentence
of death passed upon them, yet that not upon one
out of every sixty (we believe the common average)
will that sentence be carried into effect, is obvious.
The callous criminal is rendered by the uncertainty
of his fate indifferent to the consequence, and the
young offender, who knows he is safe from the ex-
treme punishment of the law, treats the passing
ceremony with an almost scoffing inattention, and
becomes prone I. admire. with an emulous ardour,
the hardihood of the adult in crime.

Daring the passing of the sentence of death, at
the close of this Sessions. we observed the only trou-
ble of the greater part of the criminals. while form-
ing at the bar, was so to avoid the close pressure of
rank and ale, as to stood, clueing the ceremony,
with as meth convenience av possible. They talked
among each other, and beckoned to acquesinatices
without the bee, during the Recorders address,
with the seeming iudifference of mere epecteturs in
the passing scene. During the sentences for trans-
portation the different groopes were with difficulty
kept in any thing like order, and each division, as
it passed out from the door of the dock, generally
set up a shout. Among the seven years transports,
one little ragged toy, apparently not more than
thirteen years of age, as he went in the crowd from
the dock. held op the five fingers of one hand, and
two of the other, to signify the number of years of
his seuteace, to a boy who was entering the dock in
a fresh groups, end the signal was both given and
received with • laughing, end •hat would be coati•
clued a ludicrous indifference, were it not for the
moral nAtetiou which the consideration involved.
The Sessions have adjourned until Wedineder
the nth of October, imottott.

TIIE TURF.

NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, NIL

mystoo.•DaY, kriticiittt 30. •
Chatahird of a Salwcrip of ts3s each, for 3 yr.olit radio,
114 t 01b.; nal 511irs, Sat 61b. A. P. Soma fide the pri.
pert) of Subscribers.
•
Lord G.ll Carmidtalits hr. c. A itezro
Mr. Thurrhill'a ch. c. SIM
lord Stimell's h. f. by Pharttuitt ....
pake'at'Graftor's b f. Lou
Mi or I,llson's eh. c by Juttilter, (Lott l'llmhtvrh
Mr. llodtlard's ch. f. by *Arms
e. by ersariti, oat of Lady lame
Lord Erienioner ch. f. by Gilliam's, Jana by OrtAlle
Sir CASonbary's rh. r. by Zodiac.
The holge placed hut 3.
11 to 5 apt Allegro-0 to S art Sam.

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Tat 41h.; 5-,r olds, Ost. 51b.; 0-yr olds, Illst. Illlb. ; and
aged. Wt. li C.
Dukrlif Graftoso's ch. f. Trictrac. 4 yrs old
Mr. it.iodham's gr. la. Skins, 5 yn old. 7
Lord pullover's b. m C.aatrella, 6 yrs old
Major trilamea cis. c. Gyprem, 4 yrs old
Lord Jeriely's hr. c. Derail, 4 yrs, old dr
5 to 2 atilt Trictrac-6 to 4 ova Sk su-5 to 9 ag-t
Castrello.

bit'e.

'COtt.UtlAt.
:Mains was yeatridaiy ptit to tl e bar, disnfrd,,,,i h
beiug accessary to the rubbery of ►lr.. Krad•dl's, t►r Mitre
Chiserey.laue.
Mrs. Kendall staled, that between the boars of richt
and nine o'clock oa Friday night, when the robbe►y was
committed, the Primmer, accompanisel by a sleet roan,
came to the bar, and bad some limier i she beard the Moot
man whisper the Prisoner, that it be would go into the
tap.ricom, lie(the stout nun) would go •p stairs. It made
no impression on her at the lime, 1441 bile thought he might
be going to stir smite of her lodgers. A% out eleven o'clueh,
she went up stairs to her but-room, rowed it broken Noll,
sod also her trunk. She thew noised 00f. i■ Sauk notes,
301. iw gulJ, silver, and copper, • qmoitity of house lines,
sad weariag apparel. She gave the alarm, sail the officers
were sent for, who searched all the lodgers, and the persons
is the tap-room, but found nothing to criminate awns. The
officers found a crow-bar on the bed.

John ()tennis stated, that be was in the tap-root% whet
the Prisoner sod the stout man came into it. They called
fur some beer; the stout man went est and can* Into the
roost several times. The eap.rount was so situate*, that a
tittle* &Whig in it could mewl, penult was or repast on
the stairs. He saw the stout-mar us the stairs, but lot
&old nut say whether he arm its up, or coming
down; het shortly after he retaeoed to the tap room, sod
whispered something to the Prisoner, Uel which they bulb
went away.
An Officer stated, that from the detreiplion he Ind re.
eelved of the two mess, he apprehemied the Pristiort, who
is • tailor, at his lodgings in Cow.crues. He slid Not deny
being at the Mitre tau Friday nicht, but refused selling who
his companies waii, and glee as a reason that he was afraid
of committing hithaelf. lie was searched, and his sprit.
meet, bat there was nothing fused that would crinorate
hien. He. the Officer, had ins doubt if the Primmer was
remanded for a few clam bet he would Le able to appre.
head his companion. the stout maw, as his potato, feu a the
description be bad received. was not unknown to him.
Mrs. Keodall requested that the Alderman wool.' remount
the Primmer fur a further examination. They had robth if
her of every alining she had, shish was the hard earrings
of 36 years.

Akfernsan Thorp, the presidia; Magistrate, obsevvrel,
that be tivouglit there was sufficient iniaintma *gaunt She
Prisoner to remand hint. The very circenisiaisce or his re-
fusing to tett who his companion wow rit.wytt that he wee
out imtocent. He therefore !I uniatles; loan to be brontht
op for further exanoinatioa or Numbly Next.

maiu.softeluall Mitivrt.
,
Mrs. a fru& of reopectaboloy, domed reillr.
Shower, wbo was beid•in unties or keep ttee' peers to-
wards brr, übe had ibreeieneJ or would r, sod the Led,
Swore dun she went in fear of b r life.

PUGILISM.

CHALLENGE TO SCROGGIN3,

And furtive? Particulars rerrci tug the peat Pee run.
lest Which tout place uu Tuesday lash at It 'mum Meerut
Wlltslaire, i les ?goo Driblet

'Mahone match between C.allbioge and Stevie*, Which
lad bawl Id much the subject of k woo !nation in the spoil-
ing world, Inreed out, in point of goodness, ver* diEretrilt
from the general anticipillun of fire ansaleors. Newton% a
perfect hero in all his other eontesta, with Cabbage fought
extremely shy; and ext`epliag spoiling Me appearance of
his opponeee's saw, in drawing the Ana claret, be Was aim.
pktely tr the back ground. Oddity, is • hard bitter; cad
is else 12th slued be plaided so trenriendeuvalleoring bit
ow Newton's throat, %attire latter sae not expeclad to CUM!
*gabs. la the 13tb and last round, Cabbage repeated the
dom, Shea Newtown was hit twit Otto.. Very little betting
occurred after the tight had commenced, Cabbage having it
all his own way. It was over in 14 nrieutes. The Bristol
amateurs Imes offered to raise a subscription purse of NU.
it Scroggins will go down to Bristol et) ewer the BM with
Cabbage. The simmer to have the *bole of the money. TO
make up fur the above short rUf, Into tornlrinown 41.Itted
the 'summon spectators (or three quarters idea hour with
a most determined battle. lbs roads kadieg from Bristol,
Bath, Chippetillam, Wick, Pickwitk, Cake, kir. were
crowded at au early hoer with vehicles of every descriptive,

INVERNESS, SEPTEMBIR 18.

This day the Circuit Court of Justiciary was
opened here by Lord Potosilly.
Donald Muctiosald and Martiods Macdonald,
ta-
nsnts in Milsitown of Strathcooon, Rosa-Aire, were
put to the bar, accused of assault sod defacement.
They pled Not taiiity.
Lachlan &Klein and Kenneth MiLennon, Ex-
cise officers, proved that they, in company with two
other officers of Excise, had fallen is% with twelve
or fifteeo men, on the moor of Arca% among
whom they recognised the Prisoners: they made
lawlul seizure of eight horses, with two casks of
whiskey on each; upon which the great body of
smugglers retired, and consulted together for sane
time, while some of the party held a parley with the
Excise officers, offering them one half of the
whiskey and horses, which. when the officers refers.
ed, tire smuggler* offered theft one auker to drink ;
this was also of course rejected ; the emegglers
then commenced a general attack upon the afficer4,
who were much injured in the scuffle, and the
smugglers succeeded its rescuing the POsure. Both
the witnesses swore that the Priponer, Murdoch,
was a party to the assault and defacement, but
from the confusion occasioned by the affray, they
could not be positive that they saw the other Pri.
wrier after the seizure had been made.
The Jury found Murdoch Macdonald Caul;.
sod the (dal set proven so far as regarded the oilier
Prisoner. who was therefore assoihned. As :tint.
doch had been imprisoned three months previous to
trial. his punishment was mitigated to sia mouths
imprisonment in the gaol of Taiu.

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