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ADDRESSES TO HER MAJESTY.

tier Majesty returned the following gracious
iinsuw to the Inhabitatas of Stockport and its
environs:—

a i accept, with many thanks, this affectionate Address
from the Inhabitants of Stockport and its environs.

" Those circumstances which are most adverse to our
wishes, often prove, in the end, most favourable to our hap-
piness. The afiliclions with which I have been visited by
the chastening baud of Providence, and the numerous wrongs
which I have experienced from the injustice and inhumanity
of my enemies, have tended to iscrease my opportunitirs of
intellectual improvement. That improvement has, from
early life, been amongst the objects nearest and dearest to
my heart. The highest pre.erniiienee of man is to be a ra-
tional being. The cultivation of the mind is one of the first
duties when we are placed in circumstances which furnish
leisure for the acquisition of knowledge and the improve-
ment of the mind.

" Those very events which, at the time, I limited most
disastrusts, have enabled me to take a more comprehensive
view of life, and to obtain a more thorough insight into the
human .clraracter than usually happens to persons in my
elevated station. My long and extensive travels, in which I
have viewed a large portion of mankind under such a diver.
ally of social and political aspects, have increased the con.
•lesion with which I set out early in life, that liberty is es-
sential to the happiness of individuals, and to the prosperity
of nations."

Her Majesty returned the following Answer to
the fillialmatits of Halifax:—
" 1 shall always be ambitious of preserving the esteem of
my owu sex; and, among those of my own sex, whose good
opinion 1 value, I am far f►om being indifferent to the &p-
-p:oh:akin of the Female Inhabitants of Halifax.
" I am not the narrow-minded advocate of any sect or
Filly, but the common friend of all parties and accts. Every
Sovereign suffers a diminution of his sovereignty in propor-
tion as he becomes a partiutn. There is nothing factious or
sectarian in goodness; and those who aim at benefiting man-
kind must not suffer themselves to be fettered by exclusive
partialities."

The Answer of her Alajefty to the Address from
the lohnhitants of the 80r0n4.4h of Alshoeshury:—
...

" I am much obliged by this affectionate Address from
the Inhabitants of the ancient Borough of Malmesbury.
" In the conspiracy that was directed against my honour
and my life, in 1806, 1 felt that integrity was strength, and
innoeience security. lam not at all dismayed by the present
conspiracy, though it is supported by the arm of overwhelm-
ing power. Vast as are its mown', and formidable as is
its character, I am convinced that it will experience the fate
of preceding similar attempts, and disgrace only the actors
in this drama of mahgnity and injustice.
" Theo my enemies find their exertions as abortive in the
preaent, as in the former conspiracies, I trust that I shall
experience an evening of repose after such a long day of
storms. If I am to enjoy this blessing, my beast tells ate
%Int it will he principally owing to the generous sympathies
sa • Eugliabiatu. '

From Madrid s report had been received of
sets• attempt having been in contruiplation to get
the Krell to make his escape into GAMein. The
army of Leon had not been dissolvtd, and oego-
mattoo► were still going on with it.
At Valencia disturbances had taken plate. on
sccount of the removal of Cleared Et.to. Sixty of
the militia had been killed.

A private letter has been received in town from
Purls of sn late a date as Sunday morning. In-
telligence had been received there from Portugal,
confirming the previous intelligence of • revolu-
tion having broken out in that kingdom. Bat the
troops had not yet reached Lielani. though it nil
expected they would reach it very shortly.
By an arrival at Liverpool mercantile letters
hare been received from Buenos Apes to the
19th of dune, but they are devoid of all,political in.
tercet. Affairs are nearly in the same state as when
our IPit accounts Caine away. 111Exis governing io
the capital, and the Proviiices acting' for themselves.

By the kindness of a friend who arrived I,ittly
Boo; the Nest Indies, we have received the Correu
del Orinoco, an Angostura paper, of 15th July last,
coutiguin an important act of Cowi.reio, signed by
the Presidem, PEN A LVER, britilf7of the Republic
of Columbia, agreeing to a crssation of hostilities
betwecu that Reptthl.c tutu the Coletitutiarial Mo-
narchy of Spain, until negotiations shall be set nu
root far a terrinment peace, on the basis of the
ie-
deltendeuce of Smith Amernra. The recent events
in Spain hail., ria might have been expected, ptodu-
ced a great senvat ttttt in the Colonies.—(dasgoso
Chronicle.)
It is reported that the Hon. Capt. GORDON, R.N.
brother of the Earl 4 f A DERDIEN, oud CHARLES
Foasts..E.q. M.P. for alaistsestinry, are the carob-
dates fur the brat to the represesitaiiini of the County
of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of Mr. FERGUSON.
The latter lientleasuss is the favourite.
Some new difficulties have arisen is the printing
WV the iniptessions flout the plates of the mows
adopted by the B.ssik Directors to prevent forgery,
which, in all probability, will cause a and lortlitr
delay of their names, if they do nut ultimately Teta.
der the plait impracticable.

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Twisialre. IIZIPTOIII.2II 12.
thief' Commissioner (Mr. Reynold.) this
rimming stated, that he hail received a letter front
Captain Lister, whose regiment was now at Gibral.
ter, and who is • prisoner fur debt. The !eV
mentioned that his leave of absence would eAs
Aire on the 44th inst. and entreated the Court to
direct that his case should be heard on an early clay.
With this request the Court could tint possibly
comply under the provisions of the new Act. It
ought generally to to known, and the Court hoped
every possible publicity would be given to this
notice, that no .u:•11 applications as those by private
letters ought to be made to the Court. It was
known very well how much obloquy had been cast
nit the late Act, total it was therefore desirable that
every inch atiplicstion for relief should be publicly
made, for u,t private leArrs or private petitions
would on any consideration be attended to.
IN THE MATTER OF SIR M. 31.0XHAM, kNT.
Mr. B ASS err obtained leave for the Insolvent to
amend his schedule, by inserting the duplicates of
quantity of property which had been pledged,
and also of the amount of salary which hail beet)
paid to him up to the time of his bring sent to pri-
son. Au a+rlsvit was produced, which stated tint
the omi.mon bad not been discovered till after the
schedule was filed.

CLERKENWELL SESSIONS.

TUESDAY, SEPTFSIDEII 12.

John Bunning and Hannah Bunning were indicted for
an assault on Jemirna Taylor. This rue, which was of an
aggravated nature, arose out of family disagreements, which
seem to have been pursued with a degree of virulence roiely
paralleled. The Prosecutrix, a deeent•looking elderly
woman, was a sister of the delinquents, and nursed the
child of another brother, William Bunning. On the
19th June last, the parents wishing to see the child,
a !message wra left at the bilging. of the Proseentris,
to bring it to them befit* it went to bed. Having remained
from home later than urea', she went at ten o'clock at night
to take the child, and as shelves entering the hutment' its pa.
rents was met by the male Defendant, who shook her rod
endeavoured to force ber out. William Buniting, hearing the
scuffle, went to rescue his child and was knocked down and
trampled un by the Defendant John, when Hannah, who
lodged in the upper part of the house, and to whom Juba
had been on a visit, rushed down and also attacked the
Prosecutriz, who was left after the struggle was over, co-
vered with blood, with a black eye and a tooth knocked out.
The Prosecutrites eye was black when she came into Court
from the effects of a subsequent assault committed by Jobs
Bunning.
The Jury having found both Defendants C.uilln, Joha
Bunning was fined 51. and ordered to enter Wu recogni-
sance, to keep the peace for twelve mouth., himself in 401.
and two sureties iu 201. each ; and Hauuah Blousing was
fined Gs. Bd. and gave bee own recognizance to keep the
peace for the same period.
Mrs. Mary Potts, the wife of a respectable baker in the
parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal.green, was tried on two in.
.iictments, for assaulting Elkiah Samuel Yuuug, a collector
of parish rates, Ebenezer Young, his son, and lames Bright,
liesdleuroueh of the parish, in the execution of their office.
The first named prosecutor went accompanied by the
other two to the house of Mr. Potts, to call fur 12s. (b. the
amount of two quarters rates over due, fur which Mrs.
Potts flippantly desired him to call again, when lie produced
a warrant of distress, and baying read it, said he must take
a table for the amount. Me.. Potts, a stout, jolly, and
rather good.looking dame, with an excessive share of spirit,
thereupon attacked them, and after pummelling all three
with her fiats, threw down the money, saying, " there el—n
you, don't suppose it was because 1 had not the money that
1 did not pay you at first"
This was the cue sworn to by the three nominal Prosecu-
tors, the indictments being preferred at the instance of the
trustees of the parish raise, and feebly attempted to he con-
tradicted by the evidence of Mrs. P.'s servant
The Jury finding her guilty un both indictments, she was
sentenced for tlw assents on the Collector, to a fine of 101.
and for that on Mr. Height, the hem:borough, to a fine of
40 shillings.
These two cases occupied the whole forenoon.