The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

MR. SOUTHEY AVD LORD BIROA'.

Mr. Southey has published the Mowing Letter :
St R—On two former occasions you bare
the channel of your Journal, to c.ditomloun accosati
as publicly as it had Ihn n pref. tree. ; :sod though, iii ti.es.: days if
slander, such things hardly deserve refutation. t!:.tre are reasofs
which induce me once more to request a s4uilar favour.
some estrum from Capt. Medwill'S rsc,o• notification of tio.l
Byre?. Costterantiont hart been transm,tted to int by a ts:,mll.
who, happening to know what the ::sets ere which ate then! fi; .ii,nl.
is of opinion that it would not mishec.ome inc ups ate u:: in ti.i,
time. I wish it, however. to he disti:n;iy undersinoti, tt-a.t so
doing I sal not it.ttuence.l by jury desire of tit:di:alio.; re; sch ;
that would be wholly unnecessary, eon KI , ~,, lg freni t-4: it quarter
the charges come. i notice them (Of the sake of flying L, tore
• the public 1111 Te sample mere of the practices of the.Satnnie School,
&sod showing what credit is due to Lord I:yron's a.st I",e,
that his Lordship spoke to this effect. and in tl,in tensors, I I ire
no doubt ; Captain Medwin having. I date say. to di, hest et his
recollection, lei:lifted y performed the. wortili gun l 4.f
all the erosions 01 spicery, sho.der, a.id ol"-n
vented in his presence. Lord ilvron i. the pc, on who 50..:
by this; and, indeed. what nisi i. there whose character %,!d ti'.
main uninjured, if every p vei.h or angry ex, union,
sportive or extravagant talk. sir in the ursu.,;,,,nous a d
imagined safety of private life, were to be secret!), awed
and putdished, with no notice of 4:-.-cuninutrices to shot. how •y
had arisen, and when no explimatim wn% of t..e
offices which has been attrittited to the devil, is t:.at ei.,s ..-
teiMg every idle word. There in an end of MI or
fort in social intercourse. if such a proems_ tie :o be t.-,c7 ited by
public odinioto. When I twos these commotion% It) e ;:ohc,
it is braose. :is far as I am concerne.% they accord. Lodi it, m..'ter
and spirit, with what his Lordshi:t himself bad 7itten and yub-
lathed ; and it is on this :meant oily that I deem theni ano y of
notice—the !ant notice that I shall ever bestow upon the stib;-ri.
Let there he an rotary More Ls,t Words of Mr. Baxter." as the
" reading manic" may chose to pay fur, they will draw forth nu
further telly from rte
Now titter to the point. —The following speech is reported by
Captain Mello/in, as Lord Byron's:—
lam glad Mr. Southey owns that article on rcliage,' which
excited my chid, rso much. But who else could have been the
author Who but Southey would have had the bast vess. under
pretext of reviewing the work of ore man, moil hously to make it a
nent-egg nor hatching malicious ratuitinie4 against others le I say
nothing of vie critique itself on • F01i0...A. ;' but what wan the object
of that article? I repeat, to vilify, and scatter hin dark and devilish
insinuations against me and others. Shan:e on the men who could
wound an already bleeding heart—be barbarou: elungh t.• revive
the memory, of en event that Shelley was perfectly Mtn:gel of—and
• found act,:.dal on falsehood ! Shelley taxed him with writing that
article **me yearn ago; and hr had the audacity to admit that hr
had treasured up some opinions of Shelley, ten years before, wlom
Fe was o;, a visit at Keswick, and had made a note of them at the
time."

The rez,:^mul is gnestion I di.i not write.—Lord Byron might
have blown this if he had inquired of Mr. Murray, who would
readily 1-.. tee a-sued him fleet I was not the author: and he might
have known it from the reeler-31 itself, where the writer declares.
in plain worth, that he was a contemporary of Shelley's, at Eton.
I had no concern in it, directly er indirectly ; but let it not be le-
ttered that, in thus disclaiming that paper, any disapproval of it is
intended. Papers in the Qmieterly 11,v:es have hem ascribed to
me, (those on Krater's Poems. for team:de), whirl, I have heartily
condemned, both for their spirit and nianv.m. But, for the one in
question, its composition would be creditable to the most dis-
ttokuished writer ; nor is there any thirg either in the opinions ex-
press-d, or in the manner of expreming them, which a man of just
and honourable principles would have desitated to advance. 1
would not have written that per, of it which alludes to Mr. Shelley.
because, having met him on familiar tennis, and parted with him in
kindness, (a feeling of which Lord Byron had no conception),
would have withheld me front aninrxlverting in that manner tne:
his conduct. In other respects, the paper contains nothing that I
would not have avowed, if I had written, or subscribed as entirely
assenting to and approving it.
It is not true that Shelley ever inquired of me whether I was the
author of that paper, which, purporting, as it did, to he written by
an Etonian of his own standing, he very well knew I was not.
But in this part of Lord Byron's statemsnt there !nay be some min-
take, mingled with a great deal of malignant falsehood. 31r.
Shelley addressed a letter to me from Pisa, asking if I were the
author of a criticism in the gnash-sly Review upon his Revolt of
Islam; not exactly, in Lord Byron's phrase, reeler me with it,
for he declared Ids own belief that I was cot, but added, that be
was induced to ask the question by the positive declaration of
some friends in Englard that the article was miuc. Denying, In
uty reply, that either he or any other person was stilled to propose
such a question upon such grounds, I, nevertheless, assured him
that I had not written the paper, and that I had never, In any Of
my writings, alluded to him in any way.
Now for the assertion tt at I had the audacity to admit having
treasured up some of Shellry's opinions, when he resided at Kes-
wick, and having made notes of them at the time. What truth
is mixed up with the slander of this statement I shall immediately
explain ; premising only, dist, as the opinion there Implied, con-
cerning the practice of r.oting down familiar cooven ation. is not
applicable to me, I transfer it to Canisia Mac* fist his own '
!r. Shelley having, In the letter alluded to, thought proper to
make some remarks upon my opinions, 1 took occasion, ,in reply,
to comment upon his, and to ask him (as the tme is known by its
fruits) whether he had found them conducive to his own happiness,
and the happiness of three with whom be had been most nearly
connected This produced a second letter from him, written in a
tone, partly of justification, partly of attack. I replied to this also
—not by any such absc-d admission as Lord Byron has stated—but
by recapitulating to him, as a practical illustration of his principles.
the leading circumstances of his own life, (min the commencement
of his career at tfaisteraity College. The earlier faces I seated upon
his on authority, as I had heard them from his own lips; the
latter were of public notoriety. There the correspondence ended.
On his part it had been conducted with the courtesy which was
natural to him—on mine, in the spirit of one who was earnestly
admonishing fellow-creature.
This is the correspondence upon which Lord Byron's misrepre-
sentation has been constructed. It is all that ever past between us,
except a note from Shelley, some years before, accompanying a
copy of his Alostor, and one of mine M acknowledgment of it. 1
have preserved his inter, together with copies of my own ; and, if
1 had as little consideratiou for the feeling, of the living as Captain
Medwin has displayed, it is not any tenderness towards the dead
that would withhold me now from publishing diem.
It is not likely that Shelley should have communicated my part
of this correspondent. to Lord Byron, even if he did his own.
Bearing testimony, as his heart did, to the truth of my statements
in every point, and impossible as it was to escape from the conchs.
sion which was there brought hoots, I do not think he would have
dared produce it. how much, or how little, of the truth was !
known to his Lordship, or with which of the party at Pisa the
insolent and calumnious misrepresentation conveyed in his Load-
shlp's words originated, is of little consequence.
The charge of scattering dunk and devilish insinuations is one
which, if Lord Byron were living. I would throw back in his teeth.
Me be had assailed without the slightest provocation, and with that
unmanliness too which was peculiar to him t and in this course he
might have gone on without giving me the slightest uneasiness, or
calling forth one animadversion in reply. When I came forward to
attack his hardship, it was upon public, not upon private, grounds.
He is pleased, however, to suppose that be had mortally ofianded"
51r. Wordsworth and myself many years ago, by a letter which he
had written to the Ettrick Shepherd. Certain it is," be says,
n that I did not spare the Lakists in it, and he told me that he
could not resist the temptation, and had shown it to the fraternity.
It was too tempting; and, as I could never keep a secret of my
own (us you know;, much less that of other people, 1 could not
hlanie him. 1 remember saying, among other things, that the
Lake Poets were such fools as nut to fish in their own waters. But
this was the tenet offensive part of the epistle." Nu such epistle
was ever shown either to slr. Wordsworth or to me; but I re-
: membet (and this pa.ssale brings it to my mealier-60o) to tars
brunt that Lord Cyron hzd spoken of us, In a letter to Hogg, with
some contempt, as fellows who could neither vie with Lim for skill
in angling, nor fur prowess in swimming. Nothing more than
this came to my hear; .m; and I must have been more Sinlithe
titan his Lordship himself could I have been offended by it. Lord
Byron must have known that I had the fiaori of his eulnivittro tc
balance the towel of his accent arced that ooe would have
And the other, even if I had not well I:Ede-roma the worthlessness
of both.

It was becatot• Ltwa Byron had brought a stigma upon English
that 1 arcott.d Lint—bemuse he hail perverted gnat ta-
lents to the worst pu:poses—becatwe be had set up for pander_
general to the youth of Brea: Britain :14 long as his writings should
endure—because he had committed a high crime and misdetucannur
against society, by sending forth a work, in which mockery was
mingled with horrors, filth with impiety, profligacy with set.ition
and slander. For Clew: ceinces I cause forward to arraign h:m.
The accuraiion was not rustle doe:4., it was not insinuated. our
was it advanced under the curer Or a TeVICW. I attacked Etat openly
in my own name, and only no; by his. h.-t.attse he had nut then
publicly avowed the thgitiuus prnduction, by which he will be re-
inembered fur lasting infamy. He replied in a manner altogether
worthy of himself and his cause. Cot.tenticn with a gercroin and
honourable opponent laads raturaLy to esteem, and probably to
friendshi i; but, next to such an aiita;:onist, so enemy like Lord
Byron is to be desired— one who, by his conduct in the contest,

divests himself of every claim to tropec—one whom baseness it
as tu c that it provil.e.. and uttow
wham the act of taking se .g-iiros is that of ittlininist.rLizmatice.
answered h'in es lie descry d to be answered. cnJ thc eifirt • 60
that answer pr'dtlee4 upon his lordship ho been describe/ by his
lir, ('attain M et' This is the real histriry of
wliat the riirvereirs of scandal for the riddle re OCAIP(i Sl.•.lCtiglell
j. ”Ounce in their advent, inient, as " Ifs with
5,,,,bee." What there was do& teal devilish is i: lie`orlis to his
: and had 1 beet: comp: Ned to moo
he ...Hi the monster in 'dreamer, and Onto' bp* 1.,!.ms at
venmen, have been treated aecordieitly. Lhe Ilcpnbiiestd
'fro'," says Lord llywin, " when thee berm to publish in esest
.1. were to have had a community of all thing.. 11:.e the Ancient
s—tn hove lived in a state of nature like savages—aril
some island of the lilest with children in cominon like
-. A very pretty Arisdian unbar." I rni.y be excused
Gat a•shirn: that lord Hymn had published this himself: but
ynn;:i.te is responsible for the istrocioas he .as not for its
rd: tonna. publication. 1 shall only observe, therefore, tout that
is a 1 worthy of his lordship, as the schema Mief would
lea,' t,c n. Noe would I have condescended to notice 't even thus,
%veva .: not to show how little this :alumniator knew crieerning that
ice:. ,it' hiv utie.uty and restless 'lentil. 111r.Wordlwarat and I
err • strangers :o each other, even It:, name, I.l:en i.e represents us
n• ::,paged in a iietanic confederacy ; and we heart. ;mid:shed any
common.

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I hr.. I Ilimnixt the atibinit. It mi,;lit have been thougin that
;Irmo tine. IM/tilled the last liegrLe of disgrace, when his head
art up tor a sign at one of these prep.irat..ry scliitoSs for LIM;
ar.TI the gallows, where olnicer.itr. and bics.iltelay.
roaikti in distils for the vulg...r. flare MlT•iiiiist: one further
shsiziz--there remained this earsitre of his Private Con erutiass.
which has compelled his Lordship's fricntls, in their or!, defeat:a.
to compare his oral deelsratio:.s with his written words, and
therrhy demonsuate that he re;tar.."lemi of truth its :.e was
i..espatile of sustaining those to his birt'i. stntian.
and high endowiiients, wh.:h ow:Jelin!, came LCTOts his 1'21212.
wind. ROSI:ItT SCUT!. inf.
Keawick, Dec.l3, MI..
.112. F.417.1.7.1,E1i01.

Th, I),r,rm Ad vert pul.liihee the folintr;--.7 letter
fnan. Mr. fauntliroy to a Gentleman in the neighitz
of I)....rhavu
" Netrgate, London, Nov.
" Your three delightful letters, my dcsr • • • • I re-
craved in due course, and I can IlfsUre you they were a "rest cart_
fort to m• mind, particularly the one troth • • •. uport "oar
au rival, witiLh I read over again and again; and I trust yeur ideals
titercin expressed have not been thrown away upon me. I haw
Dot been able to write to you until now ; for until the day of my
trial, and even the passing of senteacc, my mind was cmugnually
occupied by the visits of uty professional friends, persons col:netted
with toy lute businets, inhumation (fur consid7r the hr re -
c had in hum:), ar.J iny trivate friend., who have hr a ua-
reetittir.g in that attelitio:is to me, both bcfcw and after nt trial ;
and irlio.e atter.:iocs her: been nose contohng to the, and ing
afflictions, and must be in rewanbrance to tbesi dear Matins I
leave behind.

tln try trim, and passirg sentence, every thing war drag is
the most rid and feeling ni..iiner by all panes. (God gave too
fitorness cal strength to go iltrof•gl, all this.) The Sheriffs, whose
kintintsses to me hose been unremitting, had arranged with our gal
(lowernar fur my occupation ut the same mem. and attended by the
Same yersons I had preview' to my trial, which I believe is theine
instance such an arretveinent had ever been made, as it has bees
enstutoar7, after coi.yietion„ to arpropriate different apartments to
three farttnerly occu; its!. This thews the liniiness of all my friends
to itio, to administer what unman they can, at far as thia Shia
time of prutia: ion will allow.
11y dearest brother is with ale daily; anti his brotherly
affection, feeling, and attention. I cannot describe by letter. My
poor sister is aware of my Almaden, and beam it with the fortitude
that !,er religion has taught her. My dear aged mother is ant
aware of it ; and I trust she 11117 be allowed to rest her bones h
peace, without any len:"wledge of the circeinstances for which her
son has riffered so ignominious a death; and to whom she bad
always performed her duty to the utmost, none of the bat and one
of the most affectionate or mothers.
" I have my boy here daily ; he is a fine manly fellow of fifteen t
and I have no doubt but the kindness of some qf my numenua
friends will assist liim in life, notwithstanding he bars my nem.-
His mother I have teen two or three times I she is performing Sac
duty, by sending her petitions. Sic have, though living sevaratt,
never heel in enmity with oue another ; though if that hi! beets
the case, affliction,' like these put on end to all these differences.
"I have numerous promises from friends to attend to the in.:
tercets if my other two dear little orphans, who, being shim, need
mere protection; though I hose the must feryer.t hope, by the
blessing and help or the Almighty, that the threats sand abilities of
the media may be brought forth, and • •
• • •

that she ma be enabled to support thetn, and live creditably is
the world. I Lave folly impresbed this °it her miud ; and I have
had her hc.e, when my good elerayman has been with may
that the scene before her eyes—the .41e:unity and nsc..lty of
haying those religious aortal& which I lied, though late, as Meet
' lutely neensary to salvation.
•• 1 have now, I believe, given you an aceour.t of all that con.
mews me ?,r-e-1 shall now turn to an account a much more
importance to me, an hereafter. Our worthy Ordinary, Doctor
Cotton, hes been here stout twelve years, and appears a most ex-
cellent man, and fully aloe of all the duties of his situation. Hs
is assisted likeyier by a very pioln, religious Meal, a Me. Baker,
a layman, of the Map Office, in the Tower, and who has been in
the habit of atfording consolatiou to the prisoners confined hers, foe
about the same epic.: of time.
" Ti.e eradication and recommendation of Clergymen of all de-
nominations to visit me in this distressing mene.". was immense
but I took theadvice (Oral and experienced) of our Ordinary, who
advise:. me to have one worthy divine to attend roe for an ben: or
two daily, and that, with his and Baker's aasietanee in the evening,
it would give toe time to read and impress upon my mind those ex-
planations of out Holy Scriptures which had been given me. I
find myself comfortable with this artangement. Ily friend, .31,r.
Anthony liamnim.d, who digesting the Criminal Code for :be
House of Commons. has introduced to me a moat delightful Cler-
gyman, the Hee. Mr. Saringett, of the Established Church, who
has a chapel at Peckham, who has, and is, visiting me daily (wild.
the exception of the Hey. Mr. Burrow, Mr. Sheriff key's (:ap.
lain, who has wee), and I have es:epicentre and happiness to &oh
that be has made a great impression on my mind. y hick formerly
was too much agitated to give many thoughts to that subject ; ar.4l
1 had a very didirent impression respecting the means of salvation:
" But now I am fully tears that we can do nothing of ourselves.
—we must pray to (hod to endue us with the grace of his Holy
Spirit ! and as the parable of the Poblican in the Temple, ww
must bow ourselves before God—confess and acknowledge
to ow
manifold sins—put our faith in him, and look to memo •t
the merits of our blessed Saviour and Rrtleemer, who shed his Weal
the our sins. • God he meread to me, a limner.' I think the mercy
of Gad has been shown to we in these late events; toe he has givea
me time to revolt or all my tins and wickedness; fur had sadden
death overtaken me, I should have gone to my grave with very eh!.
ferent ideas o: salvation to what 1 now possess. Whatever is, is
right. 3d Revelations—. As mary as I love I rebule and chasm;
be zealous, therefore, and repent.' 3d Proverbs—. My ton, despise
not the chastening of the Lord . tither be weary of Lis correedon
fur whom the Lord loveth heel...tenet'', even as a father the sea i'
whom he delighttah.' 119th Psalm—• It le good foe me that
hate been in trouble, that I may learn thy statutes.' And agate.
61st psalm—. Make me a clean heart, 0 God, and renew a right
spirit within me.' Indeed the whole of the 61st Psalm is moot
applicable to my state, belog David's prayer after his dreatifiai
sine.
. This is the way lam now employed (1 trust properly to ery
110111), reading and making extracts suitable to toy situation ; asi
I hope and trust in (kid, throngh the merits of my Redeemer. they
will hare the desited edict. I have. I tan say with delight, net the
sliahtest to a nod in the wall. My God has supported me
lomat. wonderfully through my trials as yet, and I trust .he will rot
I desert inc. The kind, consolatory, and religious letters, from
1 anoilmotts eonrovrondentw, have been Immense corm ell parts—a
shows the sympathetic and religions feeling that is about ; and that
the latter may incresom, is my ardent wish, for has been
my only consolation in my hours of n:y affliction.
"Should you write to me again, adilte.:s it to niy beloved brother.
My days, even hours, are now numbered (as the He order's Report
is to be given on Saturday next); they shall be devoted as they
ovght to be. 1 receive the sae.-oment to-morrow. Now, my
dearest worthy Inge, adieu ; may the blessing of Heaven at-
tend you Lod yours ,'1.141 that we may all meet hereafter in that
glorious !Lice. clad in %Atte robes, is the fervent prnver of your
ever sfeetiznate •• HENRY FAUN'I Lf.:ROY."

A paragraph beaded .NISTi." has run through ail
the newspapers, of a Mr. Whitehead haviug just pa,d his
creditors in full. The facts are these: when he tailed be
owed aiout 4,000/., aid hia brother, who acs a taint,
lately dead, has left hien very nearly 200,0001. With in-
terest on his old debts, he has paid away about 7,0001. so
that there is not so much to boast of. He has been heard
to say by our informant, that after paying all debts, iega-
s, and expenses, he could give to each of his five sttil.
dren 30.0001.—Stockport Advertiser.
Cos are s: vc k—Mr. Median& liabenlashrr, of Portsea, has
received the following letter from an anonymous writer:—
" Mr. bledland,—ln the year 1:414, you were defrauded of
the sum of 1.1.1. the principal and interest of which is 221.
10s. which sum is hereby restored to you ; arid you will
please to acknowledge the same, by causing an advertise-
ment to be inserted in the Times London paper, to the
following eftkatt—"rhe communication of W. X. has
been received at Portsea.—Dee. 1924.' Principal 15L,
Interest 71. 10s., for Advertisement 17s.—The
writer is unknown to Mr. kiedland, as well as the fact re-
ve.dcil by his troubled

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COURT OF CHANCERY, StoxuAT, Ott. 13.

I( being a day for appeals and directions as to coos, there was
te.ffl4,tts of the least public tuter.at before the Court.

COURT OF KIND'S Bii:NC111, 11loxn•s, Mc. 13.

Ns:lilts at Nisi l'riat, I—. Are Of; LORD Cats JuaTics aftd
l'..•smao* Jurks.

ASSAILTI.T.
ttOLOPIOn „irsyttsoirt.
Mr. C. Pst 'Vries stattd the ease to the Jury. The plaintiff is
one of the Hebrew nation, and dealt in various artielv, art glens and
mrct Warr. The defendant Used opposite tt. Clement's Caurch,
.n the Strand. The quarrel out of which this .cheat originated,
toot place at the Harp publie.lioute, Hussell.striet,Cosent..gar.
n, on the (merlin of theiglst of (Huber last. The elsintill had
avv-mmodated the defendant with a bill of tschange, out when it
Ie; ante d. 0., the olvfentlant made no provision, as he had pledged
himself to do, and the plaititill'suboequently required payment,
but he could tad obtain from Jeuntracy his money, nay. not even a
satisfictory y. On the wearing in quistion the plaint:lf was
qulrtly ..a! over wearing
some humble beverage, unwilling to offend or
P. vtlindcd, when the defendant entered die same room, and int.
10,..e...• • ty on seeing tine plaintiff, a stone was thrown at hint, but it
n.i.scd, and hit a perton of the named Inns. Abrsive language
otssed, and defendant, without any provocation, repeatedly .:ruck
tine rot: tiff: In proving these facts, ht would be entitled to the
vetmet or a Jury.
1.-vi csamined.-1 was at the Harp publie.hnuse on the
et tnn.ae of the 21st October last ; the plaintiff was there, and de-
t c:.:re 1.1 and sat down, and shortly after a stone was thrown,
ht,tt :.it tr. Inns. finis cried out that he was struck in the
err. language passed ; Solomon reproached Jennessey
vlth r.,t rt y ing the put of a bill of exchange which he pulled out,
and raid Jeanr•sey shoal have paid a part of it, upon which Jen.
oesscy struck down Solomon. Solomon railed out to the company
tr witntss the treatment he Ittul received, observing, that for su UI).
).(OVOII .n 1 an ass: ult be would certainly pull him before the Court.
:then he ',Jock him the scomd time, NolOtoon was sitting
•

. .• pt.nons interfered. Jennes' sey was about dr.;
to tr-o high, a stout man. After that Winnow remained
there, r.eti he soul tbat he would not be ashamed that friends
-er reLti.e.• e:tz,er should come forward to tell truth. I stopped
a • h ai.d we afterwards went away together.
cror......souionerh-1 am no relation to the plointa:f, 'neither art I
p.ro :. I am not a fighter, though I sometimes go to
•:eurr. The convermcMit was in aliusitat to a match.
~o on, '!:row a candliotiek, nor do I know that the
: I did not offer ony one to fight, to the best of
7 M.o. 1 mum reculket if I wished to fight Jennesrey.
•.; • r,er..nelasiJennettey for not paying a bilL The bad Imr.
! -.:, ir,.. ttii.ii tie other side. Solomon has gone by the rattle
•. nor dealings I always called hint Solomon. I
••u tr:lrr.o.t arnest him at Norwieh some years ago, by the
•,,,, Solomon.
'ne Cuter Juaticr.—lsuppose his Christian name is

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.osi; it Air:Arms, us:maned by Mr. U. Punt.' rs-1 was at
t.,- 1-.1.1...1rit0n. in October last, and 1 remember a state
'nown vlitch hit llr. Inns; inns remonstrated, and J
•01 F(4011'41,1 then pulled out a bill of exchange.
to y that lie should have paid a tart of it ; upon
..ri yi IM and struck Solomon several times.
u..l I %Art stn vinelltstick, nor did 1 prrecire ary
ti. • part of the lanit!tml. I ofrcred to tight, nu one
'..en I Li: the room in tfir!nint.
1— I was disgusted to sec a large man beat a little

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^w, for the tyfenrlant, sulmiitted that mine offenoire
leek • tear% yr els!, defendant newer hare
p in the lace, which was al! the injury he could

~'•i,rr .11.5Ticr—O:ntlemen, the pLitttill•is en•

.; for ;d:intiff—Pamnger, ore farthing.

tit :NTI V. nmitur a.
, ctme.

•i • • :ill. the pi:tint:lr was the eon of S'r P.land
. • ,:vtetal au wits a ruel 'nosing by the appal-
. , • .•; . •,. In the mouth of .larch last, the planath,
: . • - .• horse, sac: an inliertisenient in the .Mer;:i.vg
hoe... for talc, whn•l: lie thought might answer
. ••. ••• ; . address was to Ilutlingtoti-ineas. At those
•• •. t* pleintitis to referred to • priva:c
•• • v • , vs was allized, the l'aptain kept his stud ; but,
• e • 9-ent leaving this country to join his rci;imetit, no
• c.•• of any of the hones could be given. The
-• . 1:•,.• e• lb .1 s 4 vital times to see the hors_ as well as his
:•• f.: tv. not gratified with the appemraner of the Captain
, ; • . of the black hem had tram settled, which was
t•aptsin. at this interview, regretrial that hi. was
te:th any of his mutt. but, being pressed as to the
fear, • decline it. as he would not he in Town
,•• • •• 'en of a few dab-s. The Ceptain, howevez, had no
• a trial CI the horse, anti, if not approved, to be re.
.:! ndlowing Monday. The proposaf was diought fair
at• ! the purchase as simile. The plaintitl•
• mitn:en fir the horse, with a check on his hanker.
• '.9 rethsed giving it up until the . heck was cashed.
• wade to this. and, on the chock being honoured,
•1 l!vere•t. w ith a lc; ter to the erect, that no warranty
• • ••• roarnineas of the berme in any particular ; but re.
•el C.eclaration already made, that if disapproved t•f
31.niday. the niooey should be returned.
to the pleintirs cable. and, of being exercised,
••• .ses' a sonictlynv. main. to his paces. The horse
9 ..:1 le irjury, and. although the .l•-•fiaidant amid not al-
...s•ectronfl a vet :rinary sargeon, still the plaintiff called in
: • e.t.a...v.:rod that the Immo had been destroyeti.antl that
si• •he tirinne.s of a wood.:n kg. This being the case,
••.:11•thia.::::.! it.s coachman to take back the hone; but on
e• ;he t .•ptain's stable, it was found that the stud had
,i,•;•nethr... An application wan nest made at the livery
• i. et, it was stated that the Captain had kit dircctioris
horse en any account. The Captain vanished
star . ; •• totclligeetcc could be obtained as to his place of
:t. is action was brought, rather to caution the pur.
1•••••:-.. tern: similar frauds, than with the hope of recess'.
L; rat the mone, paid kr this patch-up horse of the gallant

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Titres:es to prove these facts.
u (•i,172' JU,,T ICE 01.31et%t I, that he suponsed this
••• hors. -dialers called .• chauntirg a horse," and direct's!
f.`f the Pro, Mr. eValett, What bunt do

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IZI.T'TT—W: Riil tike 'lie damages by 131. at lOa
t.la hope of ever rrceiviag a single stalling.

co::trr OF COMMON ri.E.ts, moxmtv, Urc. 13.

rtt:..r rm,

1:01IEN ; . 11.0
r. Ferran'. Pr.t.t. plaintiff in this ease. It
by the iiltintif." hit an assault cotnmitteel on
rite plan:tit' nail a cabinet-maker, the dc-
-7...r. 10.'...ing Fetter-lane. Two witnesses
s•-^ t-thini.iny to 0.-. efhat mat the iaintiit *net the &fouls:it ia
!: A Angli,:. Ana so:::: angry • orda had
. the defera'....:-t struck him a !low. which
Lk rose. Th. ; la...taf ran tar, the defendant
hirkelf on the ground, esll.l out
laet :to stnhe bin., hat the defendant neverthaless
Min while el the ground.
-e • Ai. out of ii.: t. are, see, prorNl that Solomon, a
%I:pr.., who appear:A fcr the defandata, said that he heard laths
i.ol.primy out to Davis—•• Cad i: hints well—it will all go in

1.. by 4:

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11..wri1 1;1,

,e dr!,

tlx _MO;

ti. • n,e expetts.."
'fir twit:vim preyed th, estent o. the injury which was done to
et... ti/sinturs
0:, tho part of the dcfendart testitt..d.; %ids tender:Nl to show that
sine ids tetitfloid used very irrit:itt.tc ; that he csked the
wie:- Llnt R hat had become of la I,rtiseu ; and
Mat he also, let turtt...r prorisrati itc deferdelleil
• The iltiEv JUSTICE told the Ju,y that their serdict must in n
gnat dehrsu &pod u} :n the be:a f were disposed to attach to
Vic retry etive x itness;s of the phuntit'.e.:al defer t. 'rho sputing
t.. lie ta.te, and the use of the express.iin by Solomon, was posi-
tively dettied b:' the a daessts of ot:e p-rty, and as positively itf-
hyrnotl lof the e•.••r

Jury w r.• unanimously or opining that the defendant,. wit.
news were not worthy of creott, at.d found for the plaintic
adnrtrw AU. -

Tim l'Jurt w•' crowd,.! . "'tit few other Common Jury
cows were do.posea kw, but they pnatemzrt Le general intere•t.

t;:cONIMICY'S OFFICE, COLEMAN-STREET

1.4,1"01ITA NT QIIF,AVON AS TO VIE TRANSFER 01'
Ecei.E6I.IsTICAL PROPERTy.

¶H6•a Awn rams: V. WILIMSOK

The pittintZ..iresers..".Aiail;:l.4 Irile,niD,ciirs* Cern InOng.
wit are „agents far the Sale of Ecclesiastical ri.tperty, sought to
recover the arm ..f lOU. as a remtmenttion fr. wort and Lamar
done, anti sLtricsot vriernc.l, for Dr. Wilkinson, of Erma,. who
is alpiguitird tier -mac of tne Church of England.
Mr. Serrcaut Wit.nt: stated the cast tu: the plaintiffs. The
dektotant rue a gautlentnn of great respectability, and 6,ltorzr or
.ttlardoe of die firing which he held himself. In 102:1 he was de-
s.nris of rtioing a sum of money upon the property, and tut ttivt
roarer, applied to Or defentkutta, who were sell known and fa.
vprxiable agents: The .Jury were, perharo, aware, that the sole
u( such, vroperty was, irons its nature, attended with more &M_
rutty tlimi 'bat of most other property. It was most ditlicult
to tied porch:met. fur it, st.d it was generally incembcred yids
..npriftmetta in the transfer. The usual mode of temunmating
uMet t tor the sale of ecclesiastical property, was to give
theaca certain rer evatage on their soonest in finding a cus-
tomer, :Ind, of course, in consequence cf the Brener difficultly,
alettAbUllr tarountered. a tango 1:01111pCnIlliGII was ttilertal eras
was given io cans where other peoreny was concerned. When
the sawn received r.mhing for his trouble on failing to succeed. of
coonse.he ea. eto,, led to the greater recompense when he succeeded
in Ildt mooch f.r r hereon ullo was willing to admire MOlnf7, or to
pat • oc. The driendant, who, as they would perceive, was a maw
cat tin .aw .inli ii.p.::-ience, lui i!,* fatal in his etra Awls tt, pm.

care a percher', applied to the plaintiffs in lien, and their efforts
were continued through that year, until January in the (allowing
rear, beer they were suceesstul. The money advanced upon
the advowsun was 4,20111. and the remuneration promised to the
plalmiff was two 11111 a half per cent. upon the stun obtained.
This promise was contained in a letter, in which were used terms
to tins effect 1 have no objection to your terms of two
and a Pal( per cent., pnwided the business is dor.e quickly." Now
it there was no law to enable the plaintiff's to recuver a compensation
for their intinstry, they :deems considered the word of a Clergyman •
stronger than any Act of Parliament. It was not objected. that
the mercy had nut been obtained by means of the p' tint iii It was
nit to be charged against them. that there had been any delay 110
their part; but it might be said, that the ntgociation which the
plaintitla had tint introduced was broken and had creed, that the
second exgociation was distinct, that the defendant's contract
to pay per cent. did not apply to it. and that the plaintiffs
were not entitled to ant such remuneration for the labour they
underwent. ;Chi lAornel Sagennt then reel a number of letters,
from which It appeared that a long ccerespundence had been main
tamed and insetted on the aub;ect, as the plaintiff should think fit
to propose.
Mr. J. W. Freshfield, of the firm of Prehfiekl and Hoye. soli.
chows to the Bunk of England and other public companies, stated,
that an application had bean made to him on the Slat of December,
189.3, by the ',Lima*, for an advance by mortgage of a sum of
money upon property, cuneistiu tof the advowson of a rectory in
lasts. The application was ntatle to him to obtain as advance
from the blank of England ; but he returned an answer, that the
1 'lank did not advanee such small sums, neither would it have any
thing to do with such property. He however meutionel, that a
merchant was wiliing to make such an advance, if the security was
good. A negociation took place, but it broke of fur some time ;
tt was 311115CtilKUIIT renewed with another of the witness's clients,
and completed. Ihe sum advanced tees .1,200/., at 44 per cent.,
by the ;lobe Insurance Company. The net produce of the Ilene
was 700 f. per annum, but during the period of the high prices it
we made to produce 1.300/.
.31r. Aecnuoin, at great length, erow-examined the whites.
with the view of showing that the tint negociation had broken off
I entirely, and that the second had commenced without the aid of the
! plaintiffs ; but Mr. Freslitield said, he considered it a continuation
of the acme trans:whim ; that it was intro:tuned as a thing already
known, and would out hors taken place had h not been for the
ietroduction of the defend:ad by the 'dentate. The business was
finally concluded by Messrs. Scott and Cluyton, the defendant's
solicitor. The plaisitillk were clerical agents, acting teethe sale of
ecclesiastical pnmertj, and the recovery atlases, do. a c. ; they '
were neither bnikers uor solicitors.

This was the plaintiff's Cast.
11r. AnemicLis submitted that there VW no evidence of work
and labour done by the plaintifs, to entitle them to the remunera-
tion which they claimed, but if they were entitleal to any thing,
they were debarred by the statute of tee 12th Anne (e. 16. sec. 2.)
from receiving more than Eve shillings per cent.
The section pointed oat was then read by the elecretary, anti is as
follows:—" A.ll be it further enacted, Ly the authority aforesaid,
that all and every scrivener or scriveners, broker or brokers, solici-
tor or solicitor,. driver or drivers of bargains for contacts, who shall,
after the said 'dth'i of September, take or receive. directly or huh.
reedy, any sum or sums of money, or other reward or thing tire
brokerage. soliciting, driving, or procuring the loan, or forbearing
of any sum or stuns of money. over or above the rate or value of
fie* shillings for the born or tinbearing, one hundred pounds for a
year, etc. &c." The Act then uirects that the insult, of NIL be
irdideted for each °finer.
This Act, the lerarned Counsel contended, made it evident that
the plainuffe at all events were eniisled to no more than Soper cent.
Sergeant %VI Lite cententied that the pbtitzta. did hot come
within the nuaning of the An. They were neither brokers,
ton, 1:01 drivers uf bargains ; t!:ey had nothing to do with driving
the bargain ; the business of voe:tsiasti:,.l agents hr. such cases was
merely to sear h fee: eitcontt s. end introduce the seller to one
there their businee. ended, and the envy, or his selieinir, drove the
ttrgain. lie would illtmr.tte the case by a familiar example :
Ferissio a person were to say, " Do you go and hunt about the
must distant parts for a customer fur nit ;" was it to be said that
the man so ordered was not to chare for his coach hire. nor any
thing inure titan this mere live shillings per cent. ? That a higher
commission than that charged by the Vaintidi was taken every day,
MIN a fact perfectly rownovs. In a recent case, in which he was
Counsel, hi the Court of Common Phan, 6 per cent. commission
was received for procuring a purchaser tie a West India estate.
Mr. STLI'IIEX, on the same side, said, that this case by re
means came within the statute cited, which was the well-known
Statute of usury. At that time it was the practice of persons who
lent the money of en ir.dividual, whe diJ not appear, to charge, in
addition to tied money taken as interest, exorbitant sums. on pre.
genre of hevin:r procured a person to advance the money. This was
the mischief w:Och the Legislature endeavoured to prevent; but it
was obvious that this raieettief did nut occur in the present case,
neither were the plairtiffi within the description or the statut-. 'she
class of persene celled money-seriveuers had now ceased to exist.
The plaintitli were not brokers nor solicitors, nor did they drive
bargains. lie then crutended that they were entitled, both fur the
ep.; oeson ate upon the COOLIKI, to two and a half per Kilt.
tor the labour per:erne:l.
filr. Ceihstsru nu r, the Secondary. was of opinion that the
Act applied to the plaintiff's. The ca.,. of the latter depended upon
the cortract for an allowance of a per centage, and they could
nut re over mere than liee shillings per [Mt. for their services.
Mr. Set Nina said, that in a point of this importance he trusted
the Ledrind Nava:try would take such a note of the case as would
enable them to have it determined by the Court above.
kr. Cor.Lixatrie.k: !Aid he should. He then told the Jury It
was clear that the defendant had been benefited by the advance of
&Nu!. in consequence of the plaintiffs services; and it was for
them to say whether they ougtt in fairness to receive a less aunt
than live shinier. per (Int. let it.
Ile. Jury itionethately assessed the damages at 101. lOa. being
five shillings per cent. upon ti:c sum obtained.

CO3IIION-PLF.AS. Draux, Dtc. 10.

PETER PROPiIY HAMM.

This was an ectron by Mr. Brophy, to recover damages for a
libel on his eharserer, put-Hall/A in the I.l.uhtin Star newspaper, of
which the defeatism is proprietor. The damages Were laid at
b,OOOI. and the defendant pleaded the general issue.
Mr. BE-sestina:sr sttitcd the ca‘e, which duty, he said de.
volved on him in consequent: of the necessary absence of Mr.
Sergeant Gould, who bad delegated to him this important task.
The action ass hrototht, nut for one, but for several libels. The
plaintiff (3lr. Brophy). was a merchant of eminence. He had
raised himself by his talents and industry to a high station. His
character was not merely essurlly assailed, but a systematic perse-
vering continaance of itiolious and slanderous matter was heaped
upon hint. ,ltier reading several libels, Mr. Blackburn(' cam-
mented ea a pararraph in the Star, imputing to Mr. Brophy the
It:tying caused a lady to be confined as Insane, who was in perfect
po,session of her facultio.. This was the twenty-foutth libel
printed on th.r. genthnhan, and it was the most rancorous and
malignatt of the whole.
Several sit:asses were examined to shew the application of the
libellous matier o the plaintiff. as in the ens.: of Brophy v. John-
sm. tried i:: the Court of King's Bench on Friday last.
Mr. Nonni( addressed the Jury en behalf of the defendant.
lie sail, the nurnucr of actions brought by the plaintiff; reminded
him of the (lonian who was said to have presented himself at the
four gates of Berlin at one time. Mr. 11m/thy appeared resolved
to lire upon the tlatnegm he sought tram the defendant,. fund for
shich he (Mr. N.) was at a loss for any more appropriate appella-
tion than—Brophy's Libel It-art. (Loud Laughter.) The
L. anted Gentleman then delivered a very eloquent address, which
he col.eluded by pointing out with great felicity. the disadvantages
and dangers of fettering the Press. When he sat down there was
burl applause in the Court, which the Learned Judge strongly
cendentrital.

The Jury, after consulting about half an hour, returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff_ —l4Ol. damages, aaJ 141. costs.

IlEactsas.—Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, dated
Dec. 9.—" Towards the end of last wee.: herrings began
to make their appearance in the Frith of Forth. On Fri-
day and Saturday the Newhaven fishermen caught a few
hundreds et Queensferry. This week they are found in
more sbuntlanee, and there is every prospect of a good
Sidling season. The fishermen yesterday morning found
the shoal ram:.im; along the north coast from Burntisland
to intake:thing, and the boats got front one thousand to
three thousand each. The herrings were selling yesterday
at Ss. per hundred."

Mama • St tr, Esc.—An afrair of love, but not of ho-
nour, in which the leading vocalist of our Theatre has
played the principal part, at trescnt occupies the atten-
ticm of the fashionable " gossips of this town. It appears
that the gentleman commenced his operations by making
love to the governess, in the fond hope of obtaining her
au! ocaev, and through licr means an introduction to the
young 11Sy. The gOVdr:IrSS believed the gallant aimed at
the poss..ssi. it of her lately person ; bet when the explana-
tion of his views pointed out her mistress (more likely her
fcrtune, which we understand is about tiO,ocg.) as the
object of his wishes, she was content, as a marketable com-
modity, to make a regular transfer of her hopes of happi-
ness to the atTectiomate bosom cf her dear frirnd and
mistress. Every argument of persuasive eloquenea was
employed to give the things character;' his literary ac-
quirements and uncommon personal appearance were ar-
gued at length, to obtain a favourable opinion. The good
teacher protested that " The Sun's bright Rays" neer
shone upon a finer youth, and that her rcjectien of him
would bring down his Lt.rry hairs with sorrow to the grave.
The young lady at last yielded her slow consent to an
elopetuent, and the gay lothatio, in the fulness of his
heart, went and "proclaimed it in the market-place." The
consequence was, that when he attempted to Wt l' with
her, her father had put an extra BOLT-stn; and he was
!eft to mourn over his blighted hopes of speculative enter-
prise, with nothing to console him tut the pleasure of
paving the him of a past-cbalsc and four.—Seutiattle
Paper.
. .

POLICE.

3IANSION HOUSE._

SPAN 1411 ANTI ITALIAN KTFUGEES.—Yestenlav, a depots•
ion from about Odor 70 Italian Refugees, wholare now in a state of
the deepiwt misery, waited upon the Lord Mayor, to entreat his
Lordship's aid to save them from perishing,
The Deputation informed his Lordship. in the French language,
that they and their unfortunate feilow-suffivers, very few of whom
had eaten a morsel c...nuy sort of victuals for twenty-loin hours, had
been all officers in the Neapolitan army, and tail subsequently
joined the Spanish Constitutional troops, rind formed what was
called the ".Sacred Bend ;" that the Giivenintent of this country
humanely allowed to Italian military, who tied hither from death
or ine-..rcera.ien, a certain weekly sum, which prevented them from
falling vicibus to hunger and told. This allowance had now, they
said, ceased for nearly a month, and they wtre all sunk into an
extremity from which nothing but the humanity of the British
people or a miracle could save diem. They hail now not a shilling
amongst them. Numbers of then' had been turned out M the
wretched lodgings, which die rctitrt that a subscription was shout
to be raised had remand the them, and were in the streets of
Mary-le.bonne without shoes to their feet, and subject to pulmonary
iod other diseases from the almost tool want of covering. They
were all qualified from their education to support themselves by
literary exertions, but they were without recommendations. and from
the want of introduction and patronage, the dreadful privatiors,
amoontirg in fact to a general famine amongst them, necessarily
sprung. They expressed their regret at being compelled to beg from
• public upon winch there were. so many loud calls of a 'domestic
nature; but they were persuaded that there were to be thaw' in
London friends to the unhappy strangers who owed all their
siterows arid perplexities to that national spirit which was so well
appreciated and no constantly, acted open by Englishmen.
To this entreaty was added the appeal of some Spaniards, be-
tween :c.O and lkld of whom are pcnnyless and hungry about our
streets. One of the Nor Spaniards, in a very feeling manner. de-
scribed the condition of his countrymen. lie had. he said (and he
was anxious to exhibit his wounds) three bullets in his body. re.
ceived in battle .while fighting under the banners of Wellington.
A morsel of food had not entered his lips since the dry before yes.
terday' and be knew not where to look fur n mouthful. It was a
dreadful humiliation for a man who had been an officer in the
army 26 years, to solicit or to beg. 3lany .of his countrymen
were in the same condition. Theywere wounded and faunshed,
and had no alternative but death, or the horrible toil of the com-
mon beggar.
Those miserable nbjeets excited the deepest compassion. We
mar fairly calculate that there are about 'ietin famishing Spanish
()deers, and ILO starting Italian Officers now in the metropolis.
for whom, if a subseription be not speedily raised., the conic.
quences /.lust be terrible. In the list of the untiirtunate suf.
term many of them arc described as having a great number of
gun-shot wounds ir. their bodies.
The scene was spoken of by the Lord Mayor as tile most painful
he hail ever witnessed.
. .

Ilia Lordship lamented the imposibility of his contributing, cx.
cept in a slight degree, to alleviate the misery which was so pal-
Table, and exteuded to such nernbers phutnfortat foreigners
of the two nation*: but be had judged rig upono former occa-
sion In caleelating upon the powerful help of the press, and the
sympathies of the allitcr.t throt.ghout the country, when en almost
isolated case was in question. To the same source he cella ap.
peal with in creased confidence on the present occe•ioe, con-
vinced that when it was represented that the Spanish and Italian
unfortunate. wire roaming about our streets, without bread,
the hand of charity would be opened and extended to their re-
lief. His Lerdship then give a sum of motley w the depu-
tation, to relieve the immcniatc necessities of the Italians, when
they represented; and directed the members of it to apply at
the ttlike of tier Secretary of State upon the subject of their
privations.
The donation of the Lord Mayor, although of considerable
extent to an individual, ceuld serve such a vast multitude no
longer than a day or two at most. Ile infmmed them that be
expected. in the course of a week, a subscription would h,
raised for the aid of all the poor foreigners now sufferirg ;
but that it could not be extended to those who might come
over to this cocr.try hereafter. A meedng would shorJy tyke
piece; and in the mean time, 3lr. flob!er would receive cotrei-
buttons, which should be judiciously applied. He coneitided
by repenting his conrktion that the public, who had so ho.
inanely taken Captain Omegas out of all his ditneulties, would
not be backward in relieving hundreds of cases of sitmia caletuity.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
EXTENSITI Henn tont es.--Yestertley ir. J. Pearce and
George S.-ase, who stand fuUy committed for a burglary in the
house of Wm. Fair, in Irood-lar.o, Shepherd's Hush, were egain
brought up for further examination.
It appeared that on the apprehension of the prisoners hr the
Bow-street yawl. on searchieg the premises at Chiswick. trier
found various articles of wearing apparel. a quantity of duplicto-s,
and a complete set of hoesetneaking instruments, &c. Sir.ce the
Mot examination the officers have discovered the owners of it vet al
articles fledged, whose premises had been broken open and robbed,
of which the annexed are among the number.
iVal.Wiltrerforee. Esq sot. to the Member of Parliament, being
sworn. stated, the; be resided at No. rt. Onslow-terr.ce, Stem tic.
On the evening of the le,:h oh. or early on the morning of the 17:11,
a burglary was committed in his house t he was informed of it by
n servant, who called him up about seven o'clock. On coming
down stairs he went into a wall bed-oont. the window ot which
faced W. garden at the bark of the promisee. The window was
open. and 'mopped up wide Shim tool used by bricklayers, coiled
a rake. Witness des:red girt nothing shonlel-be altered, am! in.
moody sent to Bow-street for an oftimt. When Ellis came and
examined the house, it appeared evident that the rAbers had en.
iced from the garden, oral forced the wimiew, as footsteps were
observed on the counterpane ct the-bed, which wee situated ittatie-
dime!. under the window, and a piece of rag also placed heti/ern
to prevent it ;tiering. In the room witness ricked up two matches
partly burnt. evidently belonging too phosphorus box. On rm.
mining his plate closet he discovered that all We silver articles acre
gone. A pair of plated csodkiticks well left behind, which the
thieves had indented to ascertain if they were silver. Witness r. 1.0
missed a drab grenr-coot, a huge blue cloak, and live pair of white
silk stockings. There was wore than one person concerned in the
robbery, as footsteps were observed on the tiorer-bed in the garden ;
they were nearly two inches deep, and remained visible Mr a Mrt-
night afte,wands. He had then, measured, and they dlatinc.ly
showed that two persons had been engaged in the burglary.
Elizabeth Pierce said she was servant to Mr. trilberforec. The
cook got up 'jilt and discovered the house had been broken open.
and in consequence of whet she hail told her, witness informed her
master of the robbery ; she always fastened up the remises, some.
met before dusk or very early in the evening; sincere is positive
she had made every thing secure the night before the robbery.
Three pairof silk stockings were here shown to witness. which We
instantly identified as the property of her master, haying washed
them repcstetUy ; her master's name was marked in full length, hi
pink, and although picked out, the marks were observable.
Buiridge and Shellswell, Hoer-street patrols, proved finding the
stockings in question in the room of Pearce ; they wer in a band-brx.
Mr. Henry Ear& of Old Branford, carpenter, said, that his
workshop was broken into on the morningof the 10th of November,
and a quantity ere:reenters' tools stolen therefroin.
Two pawnbrokets shopmen, named Page and Chapman, pro-
duced a variety of carpenters' tools, wlmich they had taken in pledge
the sante date, but they could not swear positively that the
prisoners hail pawned them.
Mr. Ezard, however, swore to the greater portion of the articles.
Mr. Thomas Lyle., of Providence-place, Brook-green-lane,
Hannitersatith, carpenter, stated, On .hc 6th of NOVelllher, he and
his son were working at a new building, near the four-mile same ;
it wee on a Saturday, and when they left. all the tools were safe ;
but on the Mondry morning, they discovered every thing math.
except nn adze and an axe, also that o part of the boarding had
been pulled down.
A pawnbroker, living in Gilbert-street, Grosvenor-mtume, pro-
duced • number of carpenters' tools, eke pawned use the nth of No-
vember, which Lyles prayed sas his property.
The prisoners were again !emended, as odicr charges will be
i brought against them.
MARY-LA-BONNE OFFICE.
Yesterday'Mr. Afaloodorg, wine.meretumt. ot Thayer-eueet,
reared OD the camplaint of a hackney-coachman, for not paying
hus faze.

Job Smith, the complainant, stated he was called from the stand
in lireat 11ary-Labnnne.slree•t, to take the gentleman up at his
own house. Ile did so, and drove him to another residence be-
yond Bayswater. and as the gentleman woul.l not pay him his fare.
35., he hail adopted this proceeding.
Mr. Manning declared he resisted the demand on account solely
of his having paid oily 2s. for having gone the saint distance
before.

Coachman—Your honour must have met with some fiats then;
my fare is 3s. I knows the ground, and if you likes to let the man
measure it toy Giant is roads.
Mr. Manning asked the 3lagistrme's opinion as to the propriety
of his adopting the coachman's suggestion.
3lr. Raw Liwson having measured the distance on the map,
said he thought it a very eine
.point, and as there were not any
half-crown farm, he really, if it were hib own case, should not run
the risk.

—Coachman—To be lamest with you, you: honour, the distance
is above two miles and a halt.

Mr. klattnin4, after some conyersation, paid the extra shilling
and all the expenses.
The coachman, as he was pocketing share, observed,
o• These is no arm us tOWTIIIIIIOte down to distances than I inn. '
Thomi.ts Shroxley was fully committed to Newt:ate for a daring
robbery in the shop of Mr. heat, haberdasher, Crawford-sircet.
It appecred that the fellow, on Saturday, dunng the hurry bf
business, ran into the shop, and snatched a piece of stuff for
gowns and tied. He was pursued and secured, and given into the
custody of the police.
VIOLENT ASIAULT.—A nom named Thomas Coate, residing
in Ogle-street, was charged with a bruits! and unprovoked &wink
on an Irishman named Alalion.
It app.:tired that the complainant went Into the defendant's house
at half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday night for some leather, and
not guitnng it itiatiediely, Cook 'miffed at him, and planted a
tremendous blow on his mouth, which cut both his lips asunder,
and knocked out his four front teeth. . _

The defendant admitted striking him. because be refused to
leave his house. and was drunk, but said the blow did not iitudure
such dreadful effects as descributl, the teeth having been dislodged
months before.

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The conipid:lart produced the tech, and eJ:entely denica this
*taw ...tit.

RAWLINft;.: observed, a mat might be justified 1.3 sas:*ng

only reasormble font in expelling anuth%. from his own house. but
that sacred right hid not at. all authorise cny such lawleu tiolence
caw iltsplarvil.
Thr defendant was ordered to find good bail.