The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-13 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13.
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The attention of Europe is intensely fixed on
the proceedings of Congress, and the friends of
liberty are unanimous in unfavourable anticipations
—the affairs of Spain are, it is said, to claim the
distinguished attention of the great Despots, and it
is believed that they will restive to force upon the
Spanish people an absolute Government in lieu of
their Constitutional form—if such be their determi-
nation, they will doubtless attempt to enforce those
resolutions by their armies—if they tlo, we hope the
Spaniards will uphold the credit of their ancestors,
and teach those meddling, brutal tyrants what it is
to interfere with a people in whose breast the pure
flame of liberty is glowing—we wish that each
army may be commanded by its Sovereign in person,
and that every man may find a grave in the country
to which they would dare to dictate—it may be said
that " the soldiers are not to blame"—that " they
must do as they are ordered"—to which we would
reply, that they had better turn their bayonets
against the breasts of their employers than stiffer
themselves to be the instruments of tyranny and vil-
lany. If .he tei.ie.ity these crowned Ruffians
should overcome their cowardice, and they should
pretend to dioate to England how much or how
little of power her King should be allowed, they
would find too late that spirit which would over-
whelm them, and their armies would either be im-
molated en masse, or return in fragments defeated
and disgraced. The Spanish nation will have an
opportunity of immortalizing itself, and we ardently
hope it will make the most of it.

STOCK EXCHANGE, YESI ERDAY ONE OTLOCK.-. Very
little business doing here this morning. The Bank basadvanced
toe Disseateis' money to Corerninent, and have judged it best
to apply a portion of the Sinking Fund to pay them 011. in
eight instalments, after which the Sinking Fund will resume
its operations in full—and we are assured the purchases will
be egos' to foar millions. Consols are 1,1, and for the Nu-
•ember account 84—About eleven o'clock the new Pernvisn
Loao appeared in the Foreign market. For aim:10110f time we
have nut witnessed so much confusion—numerous were the
bidders—followed up at least by a crowd of two hundred per-
sons, dancing shout from one part of the 'Chnnge to the other,
bellowing out as if a menagerie of Bulls asd Bears were let
loose on the public. The preminui it bears up to to this hour
is eight per cent., and eagerly sought after. A great deal has
been dune in the new Spanish Winds, which base lowered this
'mooing.
General Berton was executed at Poictiers, on the
sth instant-,-the firmness and calmness which he
displayed during. his imprisonment continued to the
last moment of his existence, and his death excited
the general sympathy of the spectators. Dr. Calfe
c immitted suicide some hours betitre the time ap-
pointed for his execution, by wounding himself with
a deep instrument in the groin, and cutting throng-11
the crural artery, in the presence of two gendarmes,
by whom he was guarded. Sange and have
been sent to Thotturs strongly guarded, where they
are to suffer death.
His Majesty the Emperor of Russia has given
cr-ders to publish at Warsaw the Pupal Bull of the
24th of June this year against the Carbunari. The
order is addressed to the Committee of Public In-
struction, which hits accordingly published the Bull
iu the newspapers of Warsaw.
TAXATION av STEAM.—A steam-engine is about
to be erected at the Stamp-office, for the purpose of
working off stamps with greater ease and rapidity.
A letter from Pisa says, that Lord Byron has gone
to Genoa, for the purpose of embarking tor the
Unita States of America.

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The East Indiamen will ia future occasionally
touch at Plymouth. Some gentlemen in the service
of the East India Company have been inspecting
the store-houses at Turn-chapel, Catwater, prepa-
ratory to the establishment of a depot there for
stores, de.: for the use of the Company's chips which
may be put intu the harbour.
Kenueriox OP INTEREST.—..T.OO banks in Pres-
ton hes given notice, that the highest rate of inte-
rest they will in future allow, will be 4 per cent.,
and that they shall discount bills 'of exchange after
the same rate.
Peipetches have been received from the Di le of
Weilin;oon, who arrived ut Vienna on the 30th ult.
His health was rather improved by the journey,
though he had been bled since his arrival.
Letters dated the 15th of August, were received
front Port-au-Prince. The deputies to the Legisla-
tive Assembly tbr the Spanish part of the island,
lately Lidded to the dominions of President Boyer,
had all been elected. lc is stated us a curious fact,
that these deputies, thuugh so reeent:y the -suijects
of a Government sufficiently despotic, entertained
principles so liberal, or rather so demucratiejl, that
they meditated the introduction uf some law for mo-
difying the power of the President. Ge.i. Romaine
who had been detained as State prisoner at Leogatie
on parole, it is said has been shut by secret orders
from the Government. It was supposed lie had
been detected in carrying on secret correspondence
with the north, with a view to revolutionize that
quarter.
The Second Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons upon our Foreign Trade hus
been printed. The Committee have selected, as the
first objects of their investigation, the Light Dues,
"lrinity Dues, Ballastage, Surplus Pilotage, and the
Ramsgate and Dover Harbour Dues, which appear
to be burdens pressing heavily upon the navigation
'and coinineree of the country.
Mr. Lushington and suite embarked at Obee
the `2lst ult. on board his Majesty's revenue crni*
Sseefl, Captain H. Dundits Beatson, for the purpose
of making a survey on the Custom-houses in the
north of Scotlund.
We understand that a contract for a loan to the
new Government of Peru has just been concluded
by a London mercantile house with the deputies;
recently arrived from Lima:' It was offered in the
first instance to the contractors of the Columbian
lean, and the negotiation was nearly terminated'
when, from some ewe yet unknown, the ratifica-
tion was withheld, and a new treaty entered into
by the house which has taken the contract. The
amount of the loan, and the terms on which it has
been taken, have Hot hitherto transpired : it is un-
derstood, however, that they are high, considerings
that the presence of a very powerful Spaiiis:i artily
in Peru slid forms a serious obstacle to t:,e estab-
lishment of its independence, mad isinsequentiy us
the existence of the present Government. Under
the first treaty, the price wits to have been 75 toe a
stock bearing 5 per cent. interest, but it is supposed
the terms of the present contract much exceed that
price. No portion ut the loan has yet been brought
into eircelation.

MILFORD, OCT. 8 —lt has blown a very heavy
gale since Sunday lust. Early on Monday morning
a brig was discovered by the people at St. Ami's
lighthouse, at the entrance of this harbour, in dis-
tress, drifting to leeward, unmanageable; and be-
tween 11 and 12 o'clock she came tni shore with a
tremendous crash, midway between the lighthouse
and West Dale. Six pour fellows, being the mas-
ter and crew, were seen en deck, and heard crying
bitterly for help, but none could be afforded them,
and by
,the first great wave they were immersed in
the deep, and iu instant sunk to rise no more.—
About 30 casks of butter have been picked up ;
the letters have Britain—painted thereon ; the
cite casks of butter picked up are branded—H. Lucas,
Cork. It is conjectured here, that she was called
the Brilannia, of Bristol, an old vessel employed
fur many years between that port and Waterford.
Cottisie OF SURGEONS.--.FrOILI and after Ist of
January, 1823, nut any candidate for the diploma,
who have not regularly attended three or more
courses of Anatomical Lectures in London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, ur Glasgow, will be admitted to exa-
mination.

Letiers from Bahia, dated August 3, represent
that place as in a most unsettled state—every shop
closed, nil
,husinsss suspended, and the place turned
into a complete camp. The militia had been placed
hind duty, anti every Brazilian disarmed and pro-
hibited trom leaving the walls. The Prince Regent
had &aired open war against all the European
troops in the provinces, anti every means were adopt-
Mg to repel tile expected attack from his forces.
then.—On Wednesday, the 2d inst., at Tocken-
ham Court Farm, near Caine, Wilts, where he had
resided many years, Mr. Abbot Large. His lox%
will be lung and sincerely regretted by his numerous
friends, and his memory affectionately cherished by
his afflicted family. He Was, in the stricteit 'sense
k of the word, a good Chrirtian.

7,7,7•

Ministers, have determined to make the Blue
Ribbon, vacant by the death of the late Lord Lon-
donderry, a peace-off-cling to the Marquis of Hert-
ford. The present Marquis, it will be recollected,
was not permitted to succeed his. late father in the
Lord Lieutenancy of Warwickshire, which was ins-
tnediatelv on his death transferred to the Earl of
A letter from Rouen states, that the damage done
to the cathedral by fire is not so extensive as was at
first imagined. The greater part of ;he church has
not suffered at all ; and though the pyramid is de.
destroyed, which it will require a long time to
it.bitikl, there is no other injury which may nut be
speedily repaired.
Extract Ora letter from Calais, dated October 8....
" CALAIS, TuLnuAT, OCT. 11.-1. have scarcely time to in-
form you that Mr. Buwring (a merchant of Ltindon), came from
Paris ea Saturday, and was about to step into the Dover packet
about noun on Sunday, when Ilse commissary of police conducted
him and his portmanteau to the hotel de Ville. Here 'agorae'
examinstioo took 'dare ; and several letters and papers being •
taken Out %are sealed, and kept by the Mayor,. Mr. Beefed, •
who told Mr. B. he must wait till the pleasure of Government
was kuown, taking cote to withdraw his passport. The answer
of Government, sent down by telezrvith *,a macidig is, that
Mr. B. should be led and sent down to Boulogne, to br
placed at the disposal of the Proc rrrrr da Rah, and all the
papers sent to Paris. As a preliminary step, Yr. B. has' bees
thrust into a damp cell, and after having reposed twelve hours
on a filthy door, will be transferred to the tiessrmsda of Bou-
logne tu-nioi row.
I shall scud you a copy of his letter to Sir . assert, de-
tailing some of the previous facts. At present it Will %e soli-
cient to impress your mind with the kadiag Gala:—fat, a
Bails!, subject is arrested by an agent of thelloramch pecan--
act, his trunk seized, ransacked, and varioospispers take. out-
3d, amongst those papers a despatch fruits the Portage,*
Minister iu Paris to the Portuguese Minister is boodon-41h,
the British, subject, after a detention of two duys, thrown into
a loathsome prisoo.-and Sth, the papers, including the said
diplomatic desp.itch, sent back io Paris.
I have, I trust said enough to awaken tbepabree alientios
if government does out take it up t am much mistaken—itt a 0
eveuts, surely the nation will."
We understand that Rear Admiral Sir ganjistnin
K.C.8., is about shortly to proceed on it Oreille in
the Clocestsr, 74, which has been oonstniesea en tine -plan of
Sir ltobt. Seppings, of the Nary Board, with a cooed stars.—
Her complement will be increased to 100 men, by tekiag tlsa
crew of the guard-ships, and by marines from hesd,quarters.—
The object of the Lords of the Admiralty, in sending the Gls •
crater to sea et this arisen of lbe year, is to ascertain, In severe
weather, whet advantages are to be derived from tisscpsostair
meaner of building ships oo this principle.
It is conjectured that the destination of the. *Se-
r:rtgapatant. Redwing, and Greciaa, is 'mutated with the
presett state 0. mliirs in South America, where, hom the con-
tending state of parties, the British interests may mph." precec-
tion ; and al A) with OIL ',uncles tamittatted on our eummene in
the Aoncriout and West- 'moan s.as„ parXieclarly as 'Cabs,
wiutrc, it his been chargsil neon oho Adionostrations our cow-
scree has LA U. bib Lntloye.l to the ruinous ep. "I pirates
In the pmaxt Cie French and Ainerie.n'ounia:
The deloct.cy towar..• beam, in. wince peas done marauders hat-
(mar, *Mei, eas e'en stated in esteututtoo, collate be any lutler
11, cawf w; but test ;;faring otfuees, 'the existence of which
typrobiium on tlkl mlaunistration sad the eowury.
11C pal down. I. M uutlerbusel the above ships go ahem* •
thirtio.N
1%10 in.tgistrates of Glasgow have erected] 19
pumps in different parts of the town, over the wells that had
Seen a:lowed lc go into disuse. The funds arose from ;;Teund
let tot ouisporary put poses in the neigtibuurhood of the gaol.
The 'new pumps are handsome; they as. cast icon, painted
white, and have the city alms in trent. above the spout, During
the hot weather, line and water will be gut Com the* pumps,
tool the citizens will at all times be vecu,ed against a eau -Mty, •
woere the water-pipes burst, as titey frequently thy iii hued fists
or stimuld any accident befit& the machinery.
Jules art &riding stock under executions confinee
nouserous in Dorset, and our correspondents in various pinto
of Devonshire and Somerset state similar evidences of tistroilb •
cables of the times. At a sale of this description in the neigh-
bourhood of Tsumou last week, prime ewes sold at 13s. 6d. per
bead, sod other sock at similar depressed prices. Near Stai-
bridge, a few days IliOl 0, the stock of a farmer about to quit UNIP
premises could not ling purchasers even at the present prices.
A very superior cow, put up at M. met uo advance above that
sum ; and after offering sheep and stock equally low, Cie mac-
tioneer adjourned the sale without disposing of • Bogle lot.

LAUDABLE CLEMENCY.—At the adjourned Leeds
assizes, in September, le2o, a number of perilous flow Use
neighbourhood of Barnsley and Huddersfield were induced by
an expectatiou of mercy to plead guilty lo the charge of bigb
treason, and that moue of Liens were subsequently smrtenced
to I 4 years tr..nsportation, end ethers to transportation CI.
life. During tie last week, all the persona whim summers
were commuted to ,14 years' transportation relented to there
respective families and firends, to the Mespressible joy or the
parties, mid each man received 31.45. 'towards Lis traveliesg
expense* from tVuoleicii, with a certificate of Welt hatririi
been pardoned on aceount of their umform good conduct. The •
sialsit& of the men who have thus been libeisted are I.llohsee,
George Burk.:iiiiiise, John ',striate/BJ, the younger, George
lirjen, Abraham Ingham, and Wm. Hullitad, from Barnsley ;
and W. Lindley, l'.iattianiel Buckley, and Geo. Pencuck, from f
Huddersfield. John Valltnce and James Flowers, it will be
reineuitiered, were pardoned • short time after they ie./shed
the hulks. The older Ferdinand remains at Sheerness.; and
the other prison rs who were transported fur lime were sent
to Van hand, nut such uf their wives and families, se
chose to share their fortunes have beets removed there at the
exp:nse of government.
Henry Armstrong, Esq. (of Shrewsbury) while
r spotting PU4114.011 di SAilirtai.y last, at the Pas
'sear oAvirestry, tort wills a latal occident. Ansel four
in the rhenium), having iliatkaiged one twirl of a don.
tole babel gill, he was in the act of retuaJing it, when
Ina knee has ing hi 11,.. tionateti lunched Dot trigger, the
other kartel need iiti„atni lodged the controls is his
head, and canted hit nitwit dr4116. The decrairt4l mad
art veJ in most of the battles doting the Pentnaulair
• Mill had leceived seam 4i VP
BlaTtl ExruAnitruNsnv.—N'ow little N 111414
has a little brother A.trou—Mrs. Solomon Lenis,
Alelyhi.• .

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MINGULAR AND AFFECTING NARRATIVE.
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In the year 1819, a respectable misli/le aged 'female, of
the name of Roberts, k. pi a tavern of very good restore
in the city of Si. John's. New Brunswick. She was a
widow, and had two children, girls, the elder at that
t )O, and the younger only eight years of ate. She
was considered in be a woman of some property. and the
house of the buxom uidow was well frequented, mute
especially as an hotel.
About the middle of that year a person of respectable
exterior arrived at St. John's. and put up at the imine.—
He represented himself to be a British naval officer, of
high birth, a mauve of. Ireland. and possessing large
estates in that country. During a residence there of some
Months, he affected to take great interest in the welfare
of the widow and her family, by which he gained an
insight into her affairs, and soon ascertained that she
was in pObWiLIOII of some property in trust for her chi!.
dress, which she was desirous of laying out to the best
.advantage.
L► the month of October in that year. the schooner
. Lord Aeisers was brought front Nova Scotia to ihe port
of St. John's fur sale. By the recommendation of her
friendly lodger, the widow was induced to become the
purchaser of the vessel ; her new friend kite,ly under-
, took to :associate the business, and the suns of 6'.:01. was
ultimately paid into bis hands to conclude the purchase
in the naines.of the girls, Frances Watson and Maga.
-ret Bourke (issue by two former husbandi), the rece►pt
Jew the amount being also made out in the children's
name.

at,freeh register in the names of the new owners now
.Isecame necessary, and this her kind friend also under-
took to isrocure at the Custom-house of St. John's; but
instead thereof he contrived, unknown to the wasinw,
to get his own naane endorsed upon the old register, a►
master, and thus secured to himself the. whole and sole
ocultroul of the vessel.
His attentions now assnmed a different character—
,friendship appeared to have " ripenel into love ;" he
seemed quite enraptured with the person of the widow,
. and gained so far upon her affections as to prevail upon
her to sell off her whole concern, and accompany him
on a • voyage tolreland ; and a cargo of timber was ac-
• cordingly taken in tor Sligo.

Whweu all was ready lor sailing, and the whole of the
widow's effects on hoard. the enamoured lover managed
to give a hint to one of the widow's creditors, that he
was tritely to. lose his debt. On this intimation she was
arrested awl thrown into prison, while her friend, her
enema, and her schooner, set sail for Ireland, leaving
her and her children in the utmost distress, every thing,
even to their very clothes, beiirgoa board.
Mit villany of, the affair was quickly exposed. The
creditor who had arrested her, not only liberated her
immediately. but procured a passage for her and her
children in another vessel bound for Ireland.
Tins vessel, unfortunately, however, was bound to a
different quarter of that kingdoms and on her arrival in
Ireland, ,ahe found that ahe and her children had to tra-
„verse the island nearly from one end to the other, with
a ) other. lIICANS of conveyance than nature had supplied
Mien) with. Even this difficulty was surmounted, and
they at length succeeded in reaching Sligo about three
:weeks after the arrival of tier runaway inamorato. Haw
she soon learned that lie was a.mere adventurer, that par
relations were of the lowest class of Irish, that. he Impd
distributed her's and her children's clothes anion/pie
them, and was giving balls and entertainments with the
produce of the property he had thus surreptitiously ob-
tained.
.(per first application
.for redress was to the Magistrates,
but baring no documents to satisfy them of the justice
of her claims, and finding he was taking in a freight of
corn for Liverpool, as a last and desperate resource, she
threw herself and children on board the sc..ouita, deter-

mined to go with it, at all hazards, wherever thceillain
aught choose to transport it.
lit the course of the voyage, the now assumed master
and owner ran the vessel into a port in Ireland, where
he disposed of part of the cargo, and being unable on
his arrival at Liverpool to give a satisfactory account for
the deficiency, he was arrested by the Consignees, and
thrown into gaol.
11cr excessive agitation of mind, and the great fatigue
she had undergone, threw the widow at this p:riod into
a violent illness, which confined her for some length of
time to her bed, and before she recovered, the vessel had
been put into the hands of a mercantile house at Liver-
.pool, and had set sail with a cargo consigned to London,
whither the pretended owner, who had contrived to get
himself liberated from Lie espoul gaol, was also hasten-

-lug _
.
By the aid of the parish. and the contributions of se-
veral benevolent persons at Liverpool, to whom her situ-
ation hail been made known, the widow was enabled to
follow, and she arrived with her children in London,
about the middle of the year 18sto.
Tne case was submitted to several professional gentle-
men. but application to lawyers was out of the question.
No one would undertake her case gratuitously, nor. in-
deed, had she the necessary documents to establish her
claims its a court of law. Of this the villain who had
robbed her was well aware, and he treated her in C011be•
qUeliCe with the utmost indifference, insult, and ne-
glect.
Absolute want now pressed upon the wretched widow
and her family, Irons which they were for a short tune
relieved by the Mendacity Society, who continued their
assistance much longer than their usual period, and even
dirt cted their solicitor to take steps for obtaining posses-
sion of the schooner. 7 hese were found to be ineffectual,
and the society were obliged to leave theist to their un-
happy late.
During this period, her fals.• friend had obtained credit
sufficient to have the schooner new coppered, and again
put to sea. He had, however, been arrested tor the pay-
ment by the British Copper Company, and thrown Into
the King's Bench prisms, where he has remained ever
s nee—iearly two years.
(I,:q,ss of the widow and her family was now at

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the extreme. They t, ere lodged in a'small hovel our
the Surrey Theatre, and had not lain upon a ised—no
not even upon straw—for upwards of fife months. They
were destitute of shoes and stockings, and wanted even
the common chithing to cover their nakedness; oc-
casionally not fasting hood for days together. In this
forlorn situation—a stringer in a fcireign land—her chil-
dren expiring at her feet—bereft, as it were, of all hu-
man succour—Providence raised her up a friend, and
that in the person of a man moving in the humble
sphere of one of the Marshalmen of the City of London
In the month of March, 1822, the widow,. learning
that the schooner had returned to the port of London,
went to make application to the Lord Mayor at the
MansiOn-house. Brand, the marshalmao, was in at-
tendance. and to him she made known the nature of her
application. He soon discovered her's was not a case in
which the Magistrates could render her assistance, nobly
undertook to do it himself, and set about it with an ala-
crity, intelligence, and determination, that do honour
to !Inman nature.
After visiting the scene of misery, he supplied the un-
happy family with bedding and the needful clothing, and
furnished them from his own purse with small stuns of
money weekly for their support. Having thus placed
them in comparative comfort, he proceeded to ascertain
into whose hands the register of the schooner had fallen,
and succeeded by threats of legal proceedings in deter-
ring them front again sending her to sea, although they
were under bond to the pretended owner to work the
vessel. •

With equal despatch he wrote off to America for
copies of all the necessary papers and documents relative
to the sale of the schooner in 1818; and, not to burden
the narrative with uninteresting psrliculars, at length
succeeded, in defiance of two faits in the Admiralty
Courts, commenced for the mere purpose of lrightning
the real owners into an abandonment of the property.
in obtaining legal land actual possession of the vessel
mt behall of the widow and her children ; and about
ten days ago sold it for 5601.1 which, though con.
siderably least than the original cost, may be fairly
deemed its 101 l value after the wear and tear it had un•
dergone, and the neglected state in which it had lain fo
many months.
On the receipt of the proceeds of the sale, the widow's
first act was to return thanks to Providence for his titer-
caul interposition in her behalf ; her nett to repay
Brand the various sums he was in advance—he would
receive no more; and the residue has since, under his
direction, been lodged in secure hands, until it shall be
deter iii iii est in what manner it can be best laid out to
insure the future welfare of the grateful widow and her
children.

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To the honour of the British Navy, it is a pleasure to
be able to state, that the perpetrator of this lengthened
series of villanies is no officer, hut sprung from the
lowest class of Irish, and working in his own country
previously to this adventure, in the meanest occupation
upon the public quays. He is still a prisnner in the
king's Bench. and it is miderstond will shortly apply
to be relieved under the Insolvent Lebtors' Act.

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
HACKNEY COACHES woes SHORT STAGE

COACHES.
Ismwow DscisioN.—Ou Monday last the Justice.
room was crowded by the proprietors of the " short
stages," which convey passengers from the city to the
sohnrbs, and by hackney coach owners, who have fur
some time past complained greatly, that their bnsiness is
extensively injured by the great number of these vehicles,
which, they complain. illegally " ply" for hire, and make
a 'nisei ,Tit of taking sup passengers and setting them down
at shorter distances than those which they are appointed
to rust. _

To try the question of the right of short stages to ply
-for passengers, Charles Hearudon, the proprietor of the
Kentish Town stage, N 0.3,647, was sunsmuned before the
Lord Mayor, at the instance of several respectable hack-
ney coach owners, on • charge of having illegally plied
fur hire on the 9th of Septenther last.
Mr. Bann attended to conduct the prosecution for the
hackney coach proprietors; Mr. Adolphus and Mr. An-
drews attended as counsel for the proprietors of the
short stages; and Mr. Sykes, of the Stroup-office, attended
as solicitor.

Mr. Bunn shortly stated the case for the prosecution,
which lie said was brought under the Act of the Ist of
Geo. I. for the tegulation of hackney coaches, in which
it was enacted," 'flat nu person should presume t.) stand
or ply for tire within the Bills of Mortality, with any
hackney coach, mourning coach, or other vehicle, without
being duly licensed by the Commissioners of the Hackney
Coaches, under a penalty of Five Pounds." The charge
against the defendant was, that lie had presumed to stand
wills si coach to ply for hire without being licensed as
aforesaid by the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches; and
as this Act of the Ist of Geo. 1., he relied, had not !men
repealed by any subsequeni Act, he relied upon a convic-
tion, it the evidence should sustain his case, for the Act
was imperative.
Time evidence for the prosecution was that of two hack-
ney coach °suers, who deposed, that on the tith of last
September, in the afternoon, the defendant, who was
standing wills his coach, Nu. 3,047, near the Bank, did ply
to them for him so go to Camden or Kentish 'luau, and
that by plying lie obtained seven passengers.
The defendant, iu reply, pleaded his license to carry
passengers, by the Commissioners of Stamps, from the
top of Highgate-frill to the Bank, and that fur that privi-
lege he paid to the Con 111 l intoner. 2.. td. per journey,
a tax of 101. per 'unmet wheel duty, and a tax of 21.55. fur
each coachman, besides the license duty.
Mr. Andrews, fur the defence, said, if his Lordship
considered the history or object of the Act in question' or
of those Acts which had been subsequently enacted, for
the regulation of these vehicles of public conveyance,
there ass slot the slightest doubt on leis mind of the lega-
lity of the defendant's act in plying for hire.
Mr. Adolphus followed, and coutesided that it was even
absurd to put time cousu Helton upon the Act contended
for by the prosecution. lii the section upon which the
ptoceedius was founded, it said, that nu person but flame

licensed by the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches,
should" presume to stand or ply for hire ;" so that stand-
ing or driving for hire through the streets would be
equally offences on the part of the stage proprietors, and
it would apply equally well agaimit the proprietors of the
York or Exeter stages as against the prr►eut defendants.
Mr. Sykes, the solicitor fur the Stamp•uflire, agreed
perfectly with what Mid been advanced by the two
learned counsel, and said that the great grievance which
the hackney coach owners had to complain of, was the
practice of the short stage drivers in taking up passenger*,
and setting them down within the pavements. Hr had
represented their complaint to the Lords of the Treasury,
and procured a clause to be inserted in the last Act of the
Kin 4, which rendered those short stages that made it a
tumefiee to set down passengers within the distance they
were appointed to run.
It might be important to slate, that, though a stage
coachman could not refuse to set down a passenger when
lie required it, yet, that if ass individual made it a prac.
tire to get oust at a certain ►hort distance, that would be
taken as evidence of the knowledge of the coachman, and
lie would be bound under a penalty not to convey such a
passenger.
Mr. Bonn replied, and a conversation took place, In
which the prosecution of Me .Drnintnonds, of Charing
Cross, against the short stages for • usisance, was alluded
to.
rite Lord Mayor consulted with Mr. Hobler, the chief
clerk, and the City Solicitor; after which his Lordship
annomiceil, that, after having considered the whole that
bad been offered, he wall clearly of opinion that the prise.
tier of the defendant was legal; is the section of the Act
cited had been repealed by 'he operation of subsequeot
Acts. This decision therefore confirmed the right of the
short stages to ply for passengers.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION,COLDBATH FIELDS,