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London, England, 1824-01-16 00:00:00

POUCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Yesterday a Ppaniard, in the service of Fullerton, Rag.;
at preprnt residing at Miller's Hotel, JermYn-street. aPl•ar.4 §u
summuns, issued on the complaint of a hackney.calphnum, fh•
driver of No. 03.

The coachman deposed that on Friday evening last the deft.ns
dant took hint from his stand in Piccadilly, to Millet's
where a little boy entered the coach t and he was they ordetc,, to
drive to Baker-street, where, on setting the parties down, he dos.
covered dna the glass of one's( the windows was Woken, *bleb Le
ralutd at three 'shillings. the defeadant refused to give evij re.
tom pence.
The Spaniard, who could only speak his natire language and
Italian, was quoitionsd by Mr. Chambers, one of the Magtottutesi
of Union flail, who happened to preside during a termiKtrary
settee of the Magistrate for the day. ftc insisted that the glom
was btoken owing to the windy, olipplag dose how he bad ay.**
of repair.
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• Tile illngietrate said, that as the coachman lead awroantposi.
lively, he must convict the defendant. Ile then ordered hin;,:sty
is. for the glass, St. tor the coachman's trouble, rail Xs. ex
Mier this decision, to the great diacorntiture of the cuaritinsmi
the tables were suddenly turned. The Spaniard said, that though
he had given his address on the night in question, the coachman
chugged him off to the natchliouse, where, however, the ettuataildo
of the night refused to take chirp of Inn.
The Magistrate strongly • raised the conduct of the enratable,
and commented on those many eases which occur ahem persons
are illegally detaircd in the watchhouse. He then told the coach-
man. that as he had-taken the law into his own heeds at that, he
would orJy award him era. tor the glas;s--whtchs Alp new:Juit the
3a. for the eapenoes, loft pour coaAec account is t perfect cam
equilibrium.
31 A ALSO
Yesterday Wm. Holmte, E, j. 31. P.
shire, attended at this (Moe, to be present at the investigation qty
pointed to take plat ism the rubbery and buyglary notruntruni in
his house, No. 10, (lraflon street, /10Ild•Streel. on StIDdRY mote.-
leg last, between live and six o'clock, and on which ccealii,n tuns
suspicion was supposed to intuit to the watchman on that rear.
Mr. Holmes stated to Mr. Dyer, thc sitting klapistrotc, that hp
was quite unwilling to attech suspicion to any perabn without 'ef-
ficient grounds, and wait therefore anxious to hear the hatentore of
the watchman as to the circumstances unreeling the diacavvery cf
the burglary on Sunday morning. liemeeting hh own servant, b.:
said he had no suspicion whatever of his having any concern is u,
as lee had under his charge at the time our 2,000 ounces of plates
*bleb no doubt would not have escaped had he any part io it : he-
skies, he had on Saturday sight given dinette= to he celled de •
quarto` before six o'clock on the lolioaiug mornieg, very nearly at
the time the robbery took plate. Mr. Holmes farther stated,That
his suspicions of the watchman were, the difficulty end length of
time there must have taken to break in, as the chador which they
attempted to force was secured inside by three strong bars, which
all their exertions failed to foree üB, and at length only gained ad-
mittance by forcing the under hinge of the %hotter, which opuation
must have necessarily occupied a brig time. Although his loss,
he said, was considerable, having been plundered of $ valusble
gold snuff-box, gun and gun-case, together with a large quarouy
of wearing apparel, the whole ot which are marked with his Mi-
-1 tiah, and had been peeked up to take with him that morning in
Brighton, yet he considered himself very fortunate, from the Al-
lowing circumstance :-
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A friend of Ins, a lawyer in the Ternpie, who was going out a
towns had a few days b..-fore requested him to take charge et a
quantity of gold, to the amount of 2,7001., until his return, and tke
echoic of this sum, contained in a box, lay in the very corm that
was plundered until the inclining previous to the robbery, when
had tt sent to a frne.d of his in the Tower. for greater security, ase
he was leaving town ; so that this rich booty narrowly esearal.
Strange to say, the box in which this money was, although therm
empty, was the only one in the room not opened by the robbers.
Mr. Been now called upon Crofts, the watchman, to state all
that he knew or saw relative to this daring burglary.
Crofts then said, that, at the hour of t.eire o'clock on Saturday
night, be came front Lord Stowen house, near to which his boa
stands, and passed Mr. Holmes's, when all was safe. At three
o'clock all was right ; alto at five; but at half-past five he oboe ved
the lamp over the door was extinguished, and soon after saw two
men come out of the house, but supposed them to be nervous.
These men passed him ; but the window of Mr. Holmes's house
being a bow one, and the burglary having been sommitted au tire
of side from where he was, he did not obnertc the state of the win.
dow until he emu close up to it, by which time the two men wens
'out of his vies. The moment be stew that the window Mil "Akin
broken in, he sprung his rattle, and another watchman, nursed
M•Norton, came up and said that two Mel] had jou paused him in
bond-street at a *cry quick pace, but did not appearto hue any
thing with thew. Both watchmen then entered .Mr. llolnies's Lai',
sprang their rattles, and alarmed the family. It was &war& ow
examination, that the robbers had taken the preosutbon oaf belting
the door In which the butler slept, so that they must bare Mom
something of the premises.
The statement of Crofts was corroborated by the other watchman,
as far as be was concerned i and, under all the circumstances,
.11r. Holmes, declared himself perfectly satisfied, that Crofts, who
was the watchman on the beat, had no knowledge ot', or concern in
the robbery, although lie was quite at a loss to whom to attach
suspicion.
Mr. Dim' said, that every exertion should be weed by the ur-
ea& to discover the stolen property,
MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.
IMPORTANT TO HENFFIT Soce ter res.—An important dee.
sion took place before Edmund Griffith and Jahn Rawlins°, ,
Eames. at this Office, respecting the conduct of a Benefit Societ!
held at Hollesden-green, in the parish of IVlllsden. The (in:oil-
stone** of the case are as follow :
Some thne ago the wife of a tnember, named liewland, belong-
by to the Union Friendly Society, applied to Mr. Griffith the Ma-
gistrate, under a peculiarly distressing occasion. It appeared her
husband was afflicted with a malady bordering on Insanity, which
compelled hint to declare on the funds of the Society, of which he
had been a member 12 years. disease being:of an alanniag na-
ture. his friends, for securi y, considered it prudent to seat! hun to
Benlilent Hospital, where he remained about three months. Dur-
ing the first few weeks of his confinement, the Stewards regularly
paid the weekly allowance, but latterly they had stopped it, in cos_
sequence, they said, of his having broken a clause in theameles, in-
asmuch as. that while lie was confined in Bethlem (it was coolidered
requisite he should amuse himself as much as possible,) hr bad
gone repeatedly into the garden with a shovel for recreation, and
this was the offence he had committed.
Mr. lixteririt said, if that was all, he was a fit object for re-
lief, and that the Society was acting towards hint in a cruel and
arbitrary manner.
A summons was then sent to the Stewards of the Society, re-
questing them to pay the man: this, however, they treated with
contempt. A second summons was sent, ordering the Stewards in
appear before the Magistrates ; this they complied with, when two
case was entered into, and he (the member) declared entitled.
The Stewards, however, insisted he had broken thenetwieles,
and were determined not to relieve him. Upon this refuel e war.
rant of distress followed, which Michael Morris, an experimeed
officer belonging to this establishment. had Ito coaster he areard-
ingly repaired to the Crown, at I iiillestlen.guy.n„.where the iniociety
met, and informed the landlord, all r. hell: more, pf the nature of pis
business, and produced his warrant. The landlord, hoornev, oh-
StrUCtell him in the execution of it, refused an admittance to levy
the distress, and closed the door upon him. The owe in come-
9ucnee came again before Mr. firiffith. and die laloyer etutemossed
fur obstructing the officer in the execution of his duty.
The landlord, in answer to the charge, excused hfinself by say-
ing that the box belonged to the Society. He was ROM member ut
the club, but merely held it in possession to take care oft aatl his
instructions from the Society were, not to suffer the box to no
touched. Haul he submitted to its being taken away' who root°
indemnify hint when the members met, asked toe the boa, PO
found it gone

Mr. Gager ten—Nl'hy, the warrant signed by the Magistrates,
was a sufficient indemnification fur you 4 and your conduct en Wind
against their order is extremely remurable ; en much %O. that'll
you don't know better than to obstruct an °deer an a Iffagtatraak's
warrant. you moat be learnt ; and for such apace you are subloet
to be indicted.

One of the Stewards present said the members would not pa►*,
as he had broken the ruts% of their snide:.

Mr. tiItIEVITII, with some wat mth, replied, hr ennsidiatisi
benefit sucietkarof the greatest utility if properly conducted.; We
the manner in which this behaved to a member w.., scaridabinta
the extreme. Here is a poor man craving assistance fret,t a sOctetf to
whi.h he had belonged ter several years, in consequence of a Nebr. a
malady ; and the pretence sm. up for not paying 'Pcut watt the most
frivolous and paltry he ever heard, bet ause his ta.mplaint isstiof of
the description mentioned in the articles ;_-surely towel:leak seam
be considered sickness.
Mr. CAN,. us, a professaanal gentleman, who appeared on
of the Society. here took an objection to the warratt•t of dis
the ground that since lee) ine the *await of dismiss,
stewards had 'mired out of office; and that, as the Ilse*
Geo. 111. c 126, directed the dirt-ess to be made „of tisk
goods of the officer or officers of the said society so negleetifiAts
fusing as aforesaid," the distress could not be levied, as fhe.(pats.
stewards had erased to he officers of the Social? t and tleo acould
not be l.vi.d of the Stewards, as they laol sot been sam.
owned, sod had mad, co default.
Mr. tints- it, after sonic forcible observatinos. submiesed La
the objections made by the solicitor. and :mutediptely malt red Emit
summonses to be issued agai.ist the present Stew an'a : whet thu
ease was again argued at considerable lentnli berore the above wor-
thy Magistrates, who finally declared their opinion. that rat dotri-
ant was justly toddled to relief, and accordingly the former .oder
was affirce..l, with au undendantling to the ikewania. that If ea
immediate settlement was nut made, a fresh warrant odd:sem
would be the consequence.
Mr. Gat Er vett then called on the landlord, and held !do teir.4
for obstructing the officer.
This decision was no way relished by the Stewards, who. we un-
derstand, afterwards took some legal advire, and findleg they weft
in error, thasetithatly came to the other, aad pail tholerthod
claimed by the sick 'timber, 11. 114., with the wits the.. heti
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Ditto, Small, 59 pr.
butter, Tickets, 191. 19e.
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Th• UNITISH PIILIIS commenced publishing ye.terday morning
es hve o'clock.

LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1824.

Front 'fuesday's FrenZT—ipers it appeals char that !
armed resistance is again organizing in Spain. That result
we have long foretold. It was, we knew, impossible that
the Spaniards could sink at once front complete liberty into
ae utter bondage, or that any people could submit to the
atrocious tyranny that now outrages all Spain. Armed
bands are gradually starting up throughout the provinces;
and we shall be deeply disappointed if, before three months
psis away, the entire country is not again in open insur-
rection. The Moniteur of Tuesday details the proceedings
of a Constitutional corps of forty men (whicb, however, was
probably much more numerous), and who, at Ayllon, so
far back as the 11th of last month, had an open encounter
with the Meade and Royalists. The account acknow-
ledges they "made a good stand," but were forced ulti-
mately to retreat, having three prisoners and two men
who lost their way. (In the 15th another baud were in
arena at the village of Lumias, and the same Alcade had
an encounter with them. The Restokrador, from which
both details are taken, asserts they were put to flight.
But what confidence can be attached to the szate-
merits of this print ? in Cordova, it appears, as open
übscontent and disturbances also prevail. The Consti-
sutionalists in that city post up placards, denouncing
tile tyranny restored by foreign bayonets, and urging to a
general resistance, the people of Cordova. S-linas, the
ciovernor, had offered rewards to discover the authors, and
trace some horses belonging to the National Militia ; but
it does not appear the offer produced any effect. These
partial disturbances are only the prelude to future and
inure decisive scenes. Spain will soon he one wide scene of
blood and strife; all path s ton, will unite in common hatred,
and war upon the French. The wretched Ferdinand, not-
withstanding these fearful omens, pursued his career ofl
infatuation unchanged. Front some recent symptoms, it
would appear as if the Inquisition would be re-established
to prop his falling tyranny : the latest accounts from
Madrid, in the Eb.i/e, state that especial protection had
recently been extended to the members of this dark tribu-
nal, and that Ferdinand, wishing to place under an analo-
gous regime the property of all kinds which belonged to
the I equisition (in which arc comprehended the pensions
and revenues of the Canons), has taken from the 'treasury
the administration of this property, pensions, &c. and given
it to the Collector-I :eneral de Espalios. This is probably but
the prelude to the installation of the Dominicans in full
power, in the halls of this terrible tribunal again. Nothing
but the strong retnonstrances of the Foreign Ministers

has hitherto delayed its restoration ; it is earnestly desired
by the tyrant and the fanatics: the strongest desire is ma-
nifested by the present Government to uphold and keep
sacred, in the hands of its numerous members, the pro-
perty of the church, for temporal anti spiritual tyranny
go together ; but it must fall. America now yields no
funds, and the immense possessions of the church arc the
only resources Spain possesses ; there is no other security
for any foreign loan. It was on this the Cortes relied ;
and hid the confiscations been fairly realized, they would
have affonled unbounded returns ; but gross mismanage-
ment and peculation prevailed, even among the Constitu-
tional party ; the funds they possessed were embezzles! and
misapplied, and the country left without defence. While
:Spain is thus in every thing but open insurrection at home,
said her proud dependencies parted from her for ever, the
French Ministerisl papers have been discussing her right
to be includtsl in any negotiations that may be opened be-
tween Civet Britain, America, and Russia, respecting the
prepoaterous claims of the latter to the entire north-west
coast of America. It may he, as the ./oseea/ dee Watt
asserts, that the first discoveries on this extended coast
were made by Spain ; but what interest cal she have
there now, or of what use could its undivided possession be
to her, situated as she is at present? She gave up the
leloridae, which were of infinitely more importance ; and
a portioteof this inhospitabk coast would (even if accorded)
be but a wretched compensation fur all she has lost in the
New World. These possessions she can meter regain.
The Ole decrees of her needy tyrant will cull forth nothing
froan Mexico or Columbia but defiance anal emitempt.'
With Portugal the result will be the same. Brazil, which
refy.sed obedience to a Constitutional Government, will
never truckle to the tyranny of the vacillating Don John.
Neither Spain nor Portugal eats effi:ct any thing in the New
World ; and they may au well discard the idle vision of
rqpinod sacendancy at once. Portugal, with more re-
*saws than her wretched neighbour, may again attempt
tiac Brazils; but the maritime force of the latter, under
Cord Cochrane, is too strung to permit a hope of success.,
Tbe expedition could not reach those shores ; but even if,
it broiled, universal oppusition would encounter it, and
certain defeat and destruction he the ultimate consequences.
Mora_ than forty years mince, Great Britain, after the must
ruinous and desperate exertions, bad to abandon her great
colonies in North America ; sin has survived the sacrifice,
and saffered nothing in resource! or power ; and Spain and
Parisi* must make the same coneessi F•tiettlieria Ame-
r:ea ham outgrown their tyranny, and cannot be' confined lay
ik.any longer.
Fats r:11 Fu WM.—Fire per tents. opened at 9.1 f. '2lk. ; cloned
at 840.• 11.1 c. Bank Stork, 1,1;311. bk. !man. NTS, Hi. Scam:i-
leum Know, IMIf. ; Spaniah ditto, 25.1 f. Royal Spanish Loan,
Jia, MIK. Exchange on Loodun-1 auntie, 2;i1.14.; 3 months,
Itit 3k.

Mr. John Hunt was yesterday convicted ou a prosecu-
tine by Murray, the Attorney to the Constitutional .ticso-
dation, for the publication of I.ortl Ityron's Juk-
swear. Mr. Adolphus, the loninnat historian of the last
reign, was on this occasion selected as Counsel against the
defendant, and his tipmch was every way worthy of his
established charsitvr as an author. Thine was nothing
discordant about this pthowsling: the prosecution, th 3 At-
torney, and the Counsel, were all worthy of each other;
curry thing was gerinain, and perfectly assorted. The
publication in question- —a burlesque reply to the Poet Lan-
reattis risk, rf .1 iagnsent--pipard Ministers anti theCtown
I.aw yens unnoticed ; bat Murray, thrdisiotarette4 agent. of

'the constitutiosild gang, 'immediately had A:s ntosiehards
in activity, ready to " smell out a suit." Mr. Manic, the
Solicitor to the Treasury, purchased a copy of the work,
but did not think of prosecution. Messrs. Murray and
Adolphus, however, came forward to supply the place of
the Treasury Solicitor and the Attorney-General. We
j have bad the characteristic speech of one-- the lengthened
bill of the other is in preparation, and yet to conic. We
Iliad thought the career of this confederacy of interest-
ed knaves and dupes was at an end ; but the ava-
rice of an individual has again galvanized them into a
temporary existence.. We imagined Murray's five bills,
for as many prosecutions, had exhausted the funds sub-
scribed, but it appears there was a remnant at the tail of
some thousands, and the Secretary was like a Dutchman
at a meal—he was determined all should be consumed.
We are no advocates for this unhappy effort of Lord
Byron's pen : it war every way unworthy of his genius;
the satire was coarse, and the allusions, in many instances.
ungenerous arnl unworthy ; but the poem was not one half
so dull, or one third so blasphemous, as that of the per-
jurtd Laureate, Southey. Ilia di gerel came first. Lord
Byron should have disdained such an imitation, and have
turned from the example with contempt. But will this
malignant prosecution cast into oblivion the errors of the
last reign, or veil fur ever the political faults and misfors
tunes of the departed Sovereign ? Can Southey's
muse, or Murray's prosecution, extinguish the writings
of Junius or of Wilkes? Will they blot from the
page of history the favouritism of Bute, his imbecile
administration, or his mercenary peace—or extinguish the
memory of the ruinous war with America—or the crusade
of twenty years against the revolution of Fiance, the sad
effects of which this country long must feel? Why was
not Southey proiesatted for his vile Hexameters, which
flung ridicule the most sacrilegious on the memcry of the
depart d Sovereign? His poem was worse than burlesque ;
it was impious and blasphemous, and yet it passed un-
noticed but by general contempt. Mr. Adolphus, with
the discrimination that distinguishes him, talked of " the
sublime poem of Milton in praise of religion," and of
Lord Byron's muse deriding all that Milton hail held up
to the admiration of mankind. The genius of the great
Milton was of the highest order; he soared his eagle flight
into the highest heaven, while others only winged the mid-
way air. But if his immortal pocm be eulogised merely
fur its religious character, numberless passages may be
selected, reflecting on the Deity and his attributes, much
more strongly than the works of Lord Byron. What can
he more revolting than the great poet's allegory of Sin and
Death—a disgusting picture, calculated to call forth incre-
dulity and horror? 'fhe birth of gloomy Death, from
Sin and Satan, as described by Milton, is horribly revolt-
ing ; it is the colloquy of Sin with the Arch-Fiend at the
portals of Hell, and is in part as follows:

" Pensive here I sat
" Alone; but long I set not, till my womb—
" Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown—.
" Prodigious motion felt, and rueful throes.
" At last this odious offspring, whom thou west,
" Thine own begotten, breaking violent way,
" Tore through my entrails—that, with fear and pals
" Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew

" Transfornicd. But he, my inbred enemy,
" Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart,
" Made to destroy : I Had, and cried out, Death !
" Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed

" From all her caves, and back resounded Death!"
Were Lord Byron to write such a description ari with
the disgusting passage that follows, it would be attacked'
immediately by the whole host of hirelings, as deliberate
ridicule of original sin, and a studied libel on revealed re-
ligion. But .dr. Adolphus,--the classic and temperate Mr.
Adolphus-has eulogized it, and that is all-irufficient. We
have from the commencement expressed our reprobation of
the confederacy of which Murray is the interested Organ,
and our strung lisapprobation of prosecutions of this sort.
All the efforts of this association have been directed against
a few obscure individuals. Mr. hunt is the first bookseller
of any respectability die gang have dared to attack. 'their,
past proceedings and the motives of their agent were de-1
tailed, with equal justice and severity, in the Reamener
Paper; and hence, probably, the animosity of Murray.
Mr. Hunt is now tonyictcd ; and what end will his invete-
rate prosecution answer? The Vision qt.' Judgment will be
read by hundreds who never sought for it before, and Lord
Byron will lash hypocrisy and political profligacy with in-
creased severity. Mr. St' •arlett's speech was a very able one I
-a striking contrast to the miserable effusion of the his-1
torinn. We wish him and Murray joy of their new asso-
ciation—