The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-13 00:00:00

tiV,RCANT[faE SHIPPING.

—,-
PORTMKO U7ll, JULY 12. Wind S.W. light airs..—.PassNl
by the Hanah, Shepherd, from the Downs, for lionnbaY •:
Eagle, Ducicwortii, from Antwerp; for 111ex;co; , Mars,,of Jersey, from ditto, for Rio ; Osiris, Hayes, frOm Harnburgl,,
for Oporto ;. IVausbeck, Canthorne, 'front Memel, for Cerk ;
and Albion, Hayden, for Berhice.-
FAL mo u Tit, . .1444. 'IC 11.— %yip d . variable, light airg..—A r..
rived the Fanny, Brokenshire, from. London. Sailed the flops
packet for Jamaica., •• " ''' .- •, - - ' ' DEAL, JULY 12.—Light airs chiay Iron, the Eastward—
No arrivals. The only vessel in the 40owns is the Ramillies,
guard ship, and an East India Pilot yacht.

NAVA I. COL/RT....WA RTIA • PonTsmouTa, Juur 11.-_A Court Martial this tnoip.in't;
assembled on board his Majesty's ship. Victory, Sir GI; SIA* •
TI N, President, for the purpose of trying Lieut. James Camp_
bell, of his Majesty's ship Tyne, on the charge of imputed
cowardice, in not boarding a pirateschooner, in March, 1823.
off Cuba, when ordered by his Captain. The investigation had
been demanded by Lieut. Campbell, in order to vindicate hit
character. It appears that Capt. Walcot headed the enterpr!so
in his gig, and that the boats were kept at bay, and exposed to
a galling fire fur three quarters of an hour, both front the
schooner and the shore. When Captain Walcot saw a favour-
able opportunity to board, he sent orders for Lieutenant
Campbell to push on, which orders were not understood by
Lieutenant Campbell, who was taken up in firing the.boat's
carronade. When his ammunition was expended he gallantl
led the party on, and was the first to board,-and haul down they black flag. Captain Walcot spoke highly of all concerned i% his Gazette letter. The prosecution closed this afternoon, a,tici
the prisoner enters on his defence to-morrow. •

BURCH ROBBERIES IN PARIS.

The Court of Assizes at Paris was occupied
on Saturday last with trials concerning the numerous and ionai.
demi:de robberies committed in several churches ; hut to which
the stew law on sacrilege cannot be applied, as all the facts
were committed before that la.w passed ;. besides which. no
sacred vessel has either been carried off or profaned. Ti;'-
authors of the robbery at Suresne hava not yet been 4;4- -
covered., Antoine Cuyard, a man about 30 years of age, and for-
merly subaltern of the royal guard, confesses himself to be the
sole author of all the robberies, to the number of 17, which
have been committed in the course of the year 132,1, during
the night, accompanied with the aggravating cireumstanci
of escalades, violence, and false keys. The following is a list
of the .churches in the environs of the capital which he he's
robbed :—The churches of 31ont Valeeien, Severer, Belleville.
Ville d'Array, Argenteuil, Poisay, Soiay-sous-Enghien, Au-
bervilliers, Bourget, and St. Ouen ; in Paris itself' the chiirches
of Notre-Dame des Victoires, St. Germain l'Aaxeroim, Saint
Severin, Notre-Dame de Lorette, Filler du Saint-Sacrament
au Marais, and Saint Sulpice. The last-named church has
twice been the theatre of Ouyard's misdeeds; the first rob.
bery was committed by his entering a window in the Rue
Palatine. He then took two three.branched candelabras from
the altar, and four of two branches front the pillars of the
nave. The second robbery took place in that part of the
building called the German Chapel, from whence he took a
bronze crucifix, three tablets, two candlesticks of gilt copper,
and two large curtains. FrOm other churches Guyard has
taken crucifixes of ivory, gilt and silvered brass candelabra.
surplices, &c. At Argenteuil he took four silver hearts ,us.
pended to a statue of the Virgin. The whole of these art'clea
were sold by the prisoner to dealers in curiosities and others, not
put on their defence, except. Theme Maingaut, who is accused
of having received a part of the goods, knowing them to have
been stolen. It was in his deposition that Guyard charged ill's
woman, complaining bitterly that she and her husband htal
only paid hint fifty francs for two beautiful tablets taken fr.)l,,
St. Sulpice, and which, according to his account, were ,worth
one hundred crowns. lie asserts that misery alone tlrove
him to commit these robberies, and because the robbing of
churches offered greater facilities, and was attended with left,
danger.—The woman Maingaut affirms, that she was not aware
of the articles having been stolen, and that she was not fur-
prised to see church ornaments in the hands of Guyard, who
pretended that he had several relations in the church, viz.
—a sister, a nun ; and an uncle, a canon. The husband of
this woman, who is a broker, has been already prosecuted
for receiving stolen goods, and passing false coin.—M. de
Peyronnet, Advocat-General, sustains the prosecution.—The
Counsel for the defendants are Messrs. Renaud and Claveatt—,
quyard thought proper to add along speech 0 his defence, which: .
Ilited more than an hour, and which he delivered with astonishing facility. -
" Belonging," said he, "„toan honourable family,
but ruined by the Revolution, I was not horn forcrinte, and
.w.hatevertnay be said, I was filled with religious ardour, and
frequented the churches in consequence. Having been reduced
to a state of extreme destitution, I one day went to the church
of Notre-Dame des-Victoires, where the sight of a gilt crucifix
tempted me. In short, I fell before the temptation of the evil
spirit, and introduced myself at night into the church;. long
did I resist ; I fainted on the steps of the altar, but at lasi
my fate conquered, and I consummated my crime. Since then
I have committed all the thefts with which you are acquainted,
and of which I myself revealed a portion aftermy accusation.-- _
Never have I laid hands on any of the sacred vessels, :litho:10
the opportunity offered and m_y cupidity inerzed me to it—,
Unacquainted with the theft at Suresne, I was recalled to my-
self by the touching discourse of my Lord the Archbishop of
Paris :it was then that I felt the hand of God and was. deli- •
vered into the hands of justice."—The Jury acquitted the
woman Maingaut, but found Guyard guilty, and condemned
him to ten years' hard labour and public exposure.
maximum is twenty years.)

CORN EXCHANGE, JULY 13.
There are very short supplies of all sorts of Corn this week.
Prime Wheat is wanted, and if any were at market would ob-
tain rather higher prices; but other sorts aro neglected. Bar-
ley is advanced in value 2s: to 3s. per quarter. Beans and
Pease fully support Monday's terms. Oats .are not so plenti:.
ful as of late, and are rather dearer. There is a good demand
for fresh Flour.
ARRIVALS..—EngIish Wheat, I,3oo—Barley, `2O--Os•.s,
I,7oo—lrish Oats, 2,200 quarters—Flour, 340 sacks. '

It DEII.—A most diabolical murder Was (-Ow
milted at Nottingham, on Saturday se'rmiglit, about elevtit
o'clock. A female of the. name of Mary . Austin., a married
woman, and who had resided at Leicester with her husband, by
whom she'had two children, in consequence of some disagree-
ment, left him some time ago, and went to Nottingham, whet.,
she took lodgings on the River Beck side, opposite Snow-bill :
in an adjoining apartment lived one Thomas, De:Fry, a frame-
work-knitter, together with his wife. It seems that a'criininal
connexion took place betwixt Dewey and Mary Aiidtin. .one
after sons, by her husband, was apprenticed at ;,siattinghatn
but absconding from his master, he was taken and, loded
the House of Correction; this circumstance induced Austin to
go to Leicester, .in order to prevail with, her husband to -retsina
to Nottingham to effect the lad's liberation, which he did,. anti ,
they both travelled by the Leicester coach on S.ittardity
evening. The unfortunate woman. went shortly after to li6l-
- where she was met by Dewey, who shook her by the
hand, gave her a kiss, and retired into his own apartment,
where his wife was at the time; shortly after, he took a ladle,'
such as butchers usually kill pigs' with, and returning into
Austin's room, plunged the weapon into the poor
.creature's
side, so as to reach her heart; she gave 1010 acrenni,
which brought in Dewey's wife, who found the 'poor. worn
on the door, bleedingrofusely, and expiring with the. knife.
sticking in her side. The murderer then kissed thyteceakd. • went to his wife's father and mother, and told them What he
had done; he was soon after taken into custody, and on Sa-
turday an inquest was held at the Neptune tavern, and ver-
diet of " WilfUl Murder" :returned against him. At sir;
o'clock on Monday morning, he was takcp, ,qnthe
.Caraner'a
warrant to the town gaol, preparatory to undeigoing his- trial
at the Assizes.—(Lincoln Mercury.),
The Hylton Join:he, Ciptftin HOWLETT steam..
packet, left Hamburgh on Saturday morning at half-past nine
o'clock, and arrived at Gravesend on Monday evening at half:
past seven o'clock—say in 58 hours. She'went from 'Gravesend
to Cuxhaven in 52 hours.

On Wednesday, WALLAcr's Swsono was
brought here in a box, from Dumbarton Castle, on its Nay,
to the,Tower of London. The venloval has occasioned, nor
without reason, a good deal• of dissatisfaction in this part of ;
the country, where the name of the immortal hero of Scotland.
is cherished-with a peculiar regard.—.(Glasgow Paper.). Monday morning, at five o'clock, 25 convictti. ,
men and boys, were conveyed from Newgate in a caravan't,:.
Portsmouth, in order to he transported to • Bermudas most of
them for life. Their behaviour on quitting was very orderly ; , • •
'they expressed their thanks to 31r:WoN TNEK for his Itindriess.
to them durifig confinement. •
. The use of knives, as a weapon of injury,- has
become alarmingly frequent; On Thursday weeks two careers
happened to quarrel at the Canal when the one stabbed
' the other in the fleshy part of_ the thigh.' The same day a young
fellow fastened a quarrel upon. his father-in-law, residing in
Carrubber's-close, and finished the altercation by stabbing ,
though not dangerously, in the side. 'The offender is in custody -
',lt would be well for persons of this turbulent disposition to re-
eet upon the recent extension of Lord. Ellenborough's Act to
&.otland.-4 4isburgh Star.) •

I'IIE'LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Rxiracts from the Morning Papers,J4J 13, IS'25.

Einitisit intrss.j
A. strange misrepresentation of a late speech
• of Mr. Canning appears'in a Morning Paper of
yesterday. The Right lion. Secretary, after
. explaining the circumstances under which he had
judged it proper to decline receiving the Minister
from Buenos Ayres, added that!" --a partner in
. a highly respectable mercantile house in-the City
. had been appointed Constil by that State, and
• had in right of that appointment called en him
(Mr.. Canning) and tendered his credentials, • of-
fering then to enter upon the .discuision of points
of the highest importance." " Mit," the Right
:Honourable Gentleman continued, " he felt it
his duty most. positively . to refuse entering into
any negotiation with that gentleman on the
ruhject of his mission. Ile could not acknow-
ledge .him in any diplomatic character whatever.
Besides which, that gentleman was the very per-
son of all others from whom it would he most
• needful to conceal the particular information
which would be disclosed in the course of that
discussion into which he proposed to enter."—
Mr. Canning's objection was simply on principle
that mercantile men ought not to be appointed
Consuls, especially from the new American States,
with which our relations are more of commerce
than of politics. The British Consuls abroad
have been strictly forbidden to enter into any mer-
cantile pursuit. If they should he found trans-
gressing this injunction they will immediately be
removed. The grounds of Mr. Canning's objec-
tion are clear and intelligible. Every body must
approve them. The new States have undoubtedly
erred in appointing mercantile men, however re-
spectable, as their Consuls. But Mr. Canning
was careful to avoid casting any reflection on the
individuals who had received these appointments.
He spoke of them, as they deserved to be treated,
as persons " highly respectable." In a Morning
Paper of yesterday, however, there is a quotation,
purporting to be from " Mr.-Canning's speech in
ithe House of Commons, July 5, 1825," in which
the Right Hon. Gent. is represented to have said
that, " with respect to the case to which he had
just alluded, he would only say, that if there was
one man in the City of London he would not
trust with the intentions of Government towards
South America, it would be the persons appoint-
ed by the States of that Continent." The writer
'ho selects this passage afterwards makes a ge-
heral attack on the agents of the New States,
who, he says, " do nothing but injure and dis-
grace those who !rave placed confidence in them."
He adds, " To what an excess must not their
base practices have reached, when the Minister for
Foreign Affairs, one of the most astute men of the
age, roused to indignation, stands up in his place
in the House of Commons, and denounces the
South American Agents cn masse, Envoys, Con-
suls and all, without one redeeming exception,
as a pack of jobbers and tricksters that he can
bold no communication with ; men who have sold
their official influence, and prostituted the name
of their country to the schemers of the, many
conspiracies got up in London to defraud the
public." No misrepresentation was ever more
groundless or inexcusable than this. Mr. Can-
ning, so far from treating the South American
convoys and Consuls as " a pack of jobbers and
tricksters," spoke in well deserved terms of per-
sonal respect concerning those to whom he had
occasion to refer. He objected on principle, and
We think justly,. to the employment of British
Merchants as Consuls from the new States in this
country when there was no resident Minister,
because it would in such cases be necessary some-
- times to enter upon discussions which it would
be peculiarly desirable to conceal from them as
being actually engaged in mercantile pursuits.
But there was not the slightest intention on the
part of Mr. Canning to throw a shadow of sus-
picion on the character of any of the " South
American Agents."

[NEW

We some week; ago noticed the great number!
and variety of the Private Bills then before
Parliament. A complete list of them has since
been published, and we find 'by reckoning up
all those which have obtained the Royal Assent,
that they amount to Two Hundred and Eighty-
six l This number is altogether unprecedentod.
The last year, which we believe, exceeded all
that went before it, in the number of Private
Bills, produced 200 ; the previous year, 155 ;
- and the' year before that, 150. The most lin-
pprtant class is that which has for its object
the facilitating of intercourse between different
parts of the Kingdom, by means of Roads, Rail-
ways, Bridges, Canals, and Ordinary and Steam
Navigation. The Bills of this description amount
iir'all.to one hundred and sixteen. The capital
necessary to carry them into execution is int-
' mense ; but it may confidently be assumed that
. the outlay will, in the course of a very few years,
be more than :counterbalanced by the saving to
the public in the transport of goods. Nine Bills
which obtained the Royal Assent were for Rail-
ways,and it is well known that several others for a
similar object would have passed (particularly the
Liverpool and Manchester one) but for the deter-
mined opposition of interested parties. Among the'
Canal Bills,the most striking is that of the Western
Ship Canal, which, in grandeur of conception and
boldness. Of enterprizO, cannot but attract general
admiration. Next in order to thiS class are the
Ellls' for the consiniction of Docks, Harbours,
and Piers. These are in number 12—and they
are also manifestly conducive to economy in corn-
rni•rcial transactions, as well as to the security of
navigation ; they. may therefore be looked on as
much substantial addition to the national
capital. The agricultural riches of the 'coun-
try must . obviously he augmented by Inclo-
sures,. Drainage, and Embankment : the Bilis
dedibated to the objects are in number 33. We
the fraving,-Lighting, and general
Irnprovetheat of Towns. These, including Bills
for- Streets,..Gaols, and• Waterworks,
,and also
cotwidertg qas Lights as referable to the head
of, get kiligs.A*4 tto 42 Connected with the
ppeceditig,tiass: atre,s6vtiral incidental. matters,

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such as the regulation of Town Dues, Poor Ratesi
Tithes, and Statute Labour, Sessions, Markets,
Churches, Chapels, Rectories, &c. Of such
Bills there have been passed 18. Of the Bills
for the formation of Companies, nine passed ; and
several others were proposed but defeated.
The remaining 56 are Bills for objects entirely
personal, such as Naturalization, change of
Name, Divorce, and Estate Bills. This brief
analysis is sufficient to show the wonderful acti-
vity and enterprize of the country at large ; for
it must be remembered that all these are of pri-
vate origin : the Government has not at all in-
terfered in them, otherwise than to encourage
undertakings of public utility by its countenance
and approbation. Such are the results of a Ses-
sion disturbed less than any other by the vio-
-1 fence of its debates, and distinguished more than
any other by the practical benefit of ics mea-
sures.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have received brussels and Ghent Papers
to the in:,., but -their contents are of little
'mportance. It is st'ated in a letter from Lisbon,
that the King was about to make a tour through
the kingdom, for the purpose of ascertaining the
wants of his subjects, and improving their con-
dition, and particularly of promoting the se-
curity of the public road. Not a word is said
about political improvement ; and it is proba-
ble that the idea of calling together the an-
cient Cortes has been abandoned for the present.
The policy of that country seems to a com-
promise between the legitimacy of the Continent
and the liberal views of England—in her domes-
tic measures inclining towards the former, and
in her colonial policy, accommodating herself to
our enlarged principles. The King would pro-
bably follow a uniform course, if he could ; but
he does not enjoy this liberty ; and-we are only
astonished, seeing the pretensions of the Holy
Alliance, that he has been left at liberty to treat
with his late subjects in the New World accord-
ing to the enlightened views recommended to him
by this country. On the other hand, the Spanish
Government is represented in these Papers
as having greatly relaxed of late in the ty-
ranny of its measures ; though no ,cause is as-
signed for this sudden and unexpected change.
We wish only that the change may assume a so-
lid character ; and none would have so much
cause to rejoice at it as Ferdinand himself. Whe-
ther the presence of an English Ambassador at
his Court has had any influence upon his conduct,
we know not ; but it is certain that the one may
be dated from the other; arid, as the question
of South America is disposed of, ,our Govern-
ment, we are convinced, would seize with plea-
sure any opportunity to extricate Spain and her
Government from the horrible evils to which
both are exposed. The intelligence is confirmed
in these Papers, that several violent persons, who
have acquired an infamous celebrity by their
persecution of persons suspected of Constitu-
tional principles, have been sent away from Ma-
drid, and that other measures, emanating in the
same spirit, have been adopted since the return
of the King to that city.

[MORNING POST.]
French papers to the 11th inst. with the Etoile
of Monday arrived last night by Express. It is
remarkable that the Ultra papers, which were in
the habit of expressing gratitude towards us for
having replaced the Bourbon Dynasty on the
Throne, seem to inherit all the hatred of Buona-
parte against us ; or if they do not, they have at
least adopted his principles and his language.
Because we have recognized the independ-
ence of the South American States, which there
is every reason to believe France will soon do
herself, they talk of nothing but " English
cupidity," our faith is the " Punica Fides "
which figured so often in the columns of the Revo-
lutionary and Imperial Moniteur. Nay they even
take part with Napoleon, and forgetting that it
is to the renewal of the war in 1803 that they
owe the downfal of his tyranny and their return_
to their own country, they now charge us, as
he did, with having broken the peace of Amiens
in order to secure the possession of Malta,' and
procure plunder for our " corsairs." Such
language was only ridiculous in the mouth
of the man who unhesitatingly broke all trea-
ties, and then charged the violation of them
on others ; hut from those who owe every thing
which they possess on earth to the bold
an decisive line of conduct which we
pursued at that period, and which they
have eulogised for more than twenty years, it is
both ungrateful and contemptible. Austrian ac-
counts state that the restoration of Colocotroni to
liberty and to power, has been followed by a
fresh rebellion on his part against the regular
Government, and the flight of the President
Cotiduriottis to Hydra. It is added that he
was preparing to treat with the Turks, in the
hope of making some ?arrangements' which would
give him the Sovereignty of some part of Greece.
But the date of these pretended events clashes
with that of several official acts of the Greek
Government, which prove its continued ex-,
istence at the time when it is represented by
the Trieite Observer to have been overturned.
An article from Nuremberg states that the Aus-
trian Cabinet was engaged with a new financial
plan to reduce the interest of the public debt
. from five to four per cent. The Government, it
iS"Said, had resolved to pay off in full all the
Stock borrowed at five per cent. unless the holders
should consent to the proposed reductions ; and
negOciations had been opened with several
Bankers, at the head of whom was Rothschild,
to contract for a Loan to pay off the Dissentients.

[THE

A Parliainentary document has been printed,
which is worth• attention from every body who
contributes to the assessed taxes. This is a Ta-
ble of Returns from the surveyors of that branch
of our taxation, stating the number of surcharges
which each has made within the last two years,
the proportions of those have been allowed and
disallowed, ag likewise the sums of money re-
ceived i by each.surveyor op account of surcharges
made. for ss•ssed taxes,; which is often another
name for bounty paid to him on the degree of an-
noyanc•e and vexation which hejtdministers to his

Majesty's subjects. The pitch to which this art
of tormenting has been carried is in some cases
quite insupportable. In the very first page of
the Return we find, that of 107 appeals to the
Commissioners, 50 were given in favour of the
appellants. In another instance, of 54 appeals
27 were successful. Again, of 31 appeals the sur-
veyor was cast in 19. On the next page we find
that in Chester there were 19 surcharges allow-
ed, and 36 disallowed ; in Cornwall there
were 43 allowed, and 75 disallowed ; in Cum-
berland there were '27 allowed, and 81 disallow-
ed. We might multiply such instances ad infi-
nitum ; and we would add, that they bespeak a
shameful tendency in public officers to harass and
distress the people of this country, were it not
that the system is one which excites the dispo-
sition by holding out pecuniary rewards to sur-
veyors, proportioned to their exactions from those
on whom the imposts fall. There cats be no
stronger argument than this return for inducing
Parliament to accomplish, without delay, a re-
peal of the whole body of assessed taxes—the
least productive of all others, as. compared with
their pressure on individuals.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
A Return to an Order of the House of Com-
mons, of Lunatic Houses within the Bills of Mor-
tality, and county of Middlesex, and of the num-
ber of Lunatics contained therein, from 1813 to
1824, has just been distributed.—ln 1813, the
number of Lunatics contained in 33 houses was

1,385. In 1824, the number contained in 47
houses, 1,761.—1 t is very generally believed,
that the number of Lunatics in this country has
increased in a much greater ratio than that of
the increase of the population. This we are
much inclined to doubt, as excesses in drinking,
one great cause of insanity, are less frequent tha►►
formerly. The above return, however, tl►rows
little light on the subject ; for, in the first place,
it is only from one district ; and in the next place,
the Commissioners under the Act for regulating
mad-houses, who make the Return, 64 have no
authority to call for returns from hospitals, from
parish work or poor-houses, or gaols, in Great
Britain, or any part thereof." The persons con-
fined in _ mad-houses may be considered too as
belonging exclusively to the higher and middle
ranks, though of course a great proportion
of the persons in the mad-houses of the metropo-
lis must be from all parts of the kingdom. A
Return was made by the Parochial Clergy of
Scotland a few years ago, of the Lunatics in that
country. The number, we remember, was some-
what above 700. This for two millions of people
is greatly below the English population ; but the
Scotch are very charitable in their notions respect.
ing sanity, and allow many persons to be at large
who would instantly be confined in England.
In the case of the succession of Frank, of Bough-
trig, it was decided by the Court of Session,
that he was compos mentis, though his landlady
swore that he would answer his door in his shirt

with a pistol in his hand, and would remain silent
for three days in his room, occupied all the time
in-spitting against the wall. And a Mr. Boswell,
a very rich landholder, who died lately, used to
lock up his servants and dogs in a well-barricadoed'
room, in order to try which would be longest
patient under hunger. If, therefore, the Scotch
and English Could agree upon a common definition,
we suppose the proportion would he pretty
much the same. To shew how little reliance is
to be placed in opinions on this subject, not
founded on actual investigation, we may notice
the statement of the late Dr. Walker, Professor
of Natural History in the University of Edin-
burgh, in his 66 Natural History of the High-
landers," that insanity was unknown among
them, while it appears, from the Parochial Re-
ports, that there were proportionally just as
many insane Highlanders as Lowlanders.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Yesterday being the first transfer day at the
Bank, the business done in British Stock was considerable,
Consols comme-leing at 91a, the closing price of Monday. To
accommodate the Commissioners for the reduction of the debt,
whose ability to pay the highest price of the day is well under-
stood by the jobbers, at twelve o'clock they advanced to 91i.—
No sooner had the Commissioners perchased, than they again
retrograded, and at four o'clock they had fallen back to 91j
sellers. South American of all. kinds remained firm, and in
some of them a good deal was done at an advance. Colombian
Bonds opened at'B3a, and closed at 89i buyers. A report on
'Change attributed this demand to large orders for investment
from France ; but it may with more propriety be ascribed to an
opinion among the speculators that as those Governments are
rapidly attaining stability, the higher rate of interest may in
the long run induce the Public to invest in them. Spanish
Bonds, both old and new, were literally stagnant. The official
account of the defeat of the Capitan Pacha by the Greeks has
maintained that Stock firm. The Scrip at the close of the day
was smaller schemes afforded little novelty yester.
day, although, in several of them, considerable business, con-
tinued to be done.

POLICE. INTELLIGENCE.

INTERESTING POVERTY..

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ANSFON-11 OUSF..—A young man from Edinburgh, toge-
ther with his wife and child, was brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged by Mr. Duncan Campbell, the owner of •the
King's Head public-house. Tower-street, with having obtained
lodgings, &c. to the amount of 10s. without being able to pay
a farthing.
The-defendant had on a frock coat, which was most fantas-
tically braided in the front, a Highland cloak, a pasteboard
cap, and he held in his hand a little work-basket, which he ac-
knowledged contained' his own, his wife's, and his child's
wardrobe, to the very utmost article.
The complainant's statement was to the following effect
He had been frequently cheated by well-dressed persons who
ate and drank, and slept in his house, and who went out early
in the morning on pretence of getting money or a check. ,He
was therefore on his guard, and resolved for the benefit of the
body of which he was a member, to bring the first defaulter he
found before the Lord Mayor. The defendant on Saturday,
accompanied by his wife and child, entered the house, called
for some rum and water, and a bed, upon tieing asked to
pay for which, he said, rather haughtily, he would discharge
the reckoning the next morning. The next morning arrived
without enabling the defendant to pay. He went out without
leaving any money with his poor wife, who had the child at
her breast, and returned at night with as little ammunition.—
The landlady, however, finding that neither wife nor child
was supplied with the means of existence, sent up some meat
and porter, and insisted that it should' be used. Monday
morning tame, and the defendant, who had 10s. to pay, was
walking out without settling the account, when the landlord,
who apprehended that he was about to be burdened with wife
and child by the desertion of the father, called to an officer, and
had the whole of the family conducted before the Lord Mayor.
His Lordship very soon perceived, that however strong ap-
pearances might be against the poor Scotchnisn, there was no
ground 'for supposing that he was experienced in the art of
He had, lie said,_ a small annuity upon which he and his
wife' had lived in France, but as that country was now as cx-
peniive as any other, he found it necessary to leave it, and
came to London with the view of making his way to Scotland ;
for which purpose he had called upon a brother naval officer
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as economically as nature would permit, and he hoped to be
able to borrow the amount of the bill, which he should pay
with thanks. His grandfather was, he said, comptroller of a
very high office at Edinburgh, but the distance prevented
immediate relief. He had offered his cloak in payment of the
bill (it was worth twice as much), but the landlord refused to
take it.
Mr. Campbell said, his object was to ascertain whether he
was dealing with t swindler. As to the amount of the bill, he
thought nothing of it in a case of distress.
The Loan XI AYon asked several questions, the answers
to which convinced him that the unfortunate defendant and
his family were real objects of charity. His Lordship
then inquired of the Scotchman why he wore so fashion-
able and extraordinary a coat? He replied, that every
one wore a coat ornamented in that manner in France. Upon
turning round, however, to show that it was not exactly such a
one as a man who was Ale to pay his bill would be likely to
wear, he exhibited a deplorable contrast in the threadbare con-
dition of the back and skirts.
The Loitn MAYOR—Mr. Duncan Campbell, you see that
the defendant is a distressed man. Now I am sure you will
have no objection to reduce his bill ?
Mr. Campbell—Reduce it, my Lord !—I don't want
not take a halfpenny of it.
Defendant—l am not able to pay you now ; but I think I
can borrow the money before I go away, and I'll pay you all
as sure as I live.
The LORD MAYOR said the landlord was an ornament to
his calling, and that his good feeling should be gratified by ex-
cusing his poor lodger one half.
His Lordship insisted that the publican should take from
himself ss. The money was very reluctantly received. His
Lordship then handed over to the defendant out of his purse,
as much money as will defray the whole of the expences of
the family to Edinburgh. The poor Scotchman received this
money with astonishment. He uttered not a word, but burst
into tears.
The case was, in all it circumstances, one of the most inte-
resting that ever occurred here, as it exhibited a soft of com-
petition in charity between two persons in very different stations
in life.

HORRID BRUTALITY.
GUILDHALL.—A fellow named James Shorkhostler at the
Bull and Month Inn, who had previously undergone exami-
nation on Saturday, was brought up for a final hearing before
the Aldermen ANSLEY and VENABLES, on a charge of the
most horrid barbarity, unprecedented in the annals of crime.
From the evidence of three boys, who were playing in the
inn-yard on Friday evening, and who communicated what they
had witnessed to some of the men in the yard, the prisoner was
detected in the act of wantonly and barbarously ill-treating (in
a manner too shocking to describe) three valuable mares, of
which he had the care. One of the animals dropped down with
the agony occasioned by the brutal act, but he flogged her up
again, and recommenced his barbarities. This animal expired
in about a quarter of an hour after the fact had been detected.
Of two others upon whom similar barbarities had been prac-
tised, one died in about an hour and a half afterwards at a
veterinary surgeon's in the neighbourhood, where they had been
removed.
Mr. Sermon, of Red Lion-yard, Long-lane, the veterinary
surgeon, employed by the 'proprietors of the Bull and Mouth
Inn, anti who had been called in upon this occasion, stated,
that he had opened the bodies of the two animals that died,
and from the appearances on dissection, he had no hesitation
in saying that their deaths were occasioned by the injury they
had received. The sufferings of the poor animals must have
been horrid in the extreme.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, denied the
accusation altogether, and charged the boys with having in-
vented the story against him, in revenge for his having chas-
tised them on a former occasion for some ill behaviour.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES observed, that under the statute
called the Black Act, the offence of injuring cattle was punish-
able with death; but to substantiate the charge under that
Act, it was necessary to prove that the offence was committed
from wilful malice against the owner of the cattle, of which
intent in this instance there did not appear to he any evidence.
By a late statute, however, known by the name of " Sir James
Mackintosh's Act," which had substituted transportation for
capital punishment in respect to a number of felonies, the un-
lawfully and designedly killing, maiming, or wounding any
cattle, whether maliciously or otherwise, was made a felony,
subjecting the offender to seven years' transportation; and on
that act they should commit the prisoner for trial ; and he was
committed toiNewgate accordingly.
Bow-STREET.—Yesterday William Davis, a porter em-
ployed at the Spread Eagle, liracechurch-street, in driving
about the luggage-cart, was brought before Mr. HALLS, on a
warrant, charging him with wilfully and maliciously driving
his cart against the gig of Mr. Mackenzie, a wine-merchant,
in Aldgate, and forcing him and his wife out of the vehicle,
' and seriously endangering her life.
Mr. Mackenzie stated, that on Thursday last, the 7th instant.
lie was in his gig with Mrs. Mackenzie, in Dorset-place, Whit-
comb-street, Haymarket, and was proceeding at a very mode-
rate pace, so close to the pavement on his proper side, that he
could not have gone nearer without going foul of the lamp-iron,
when he saw the defendant coming towards hint in his cart.
There was room for at least three waggons in that part of the
street, and the defendant, being in the middle of the way, the
witness felt no apprehension of being run against. All at once
the defendant, looking at the witness with a sneering smile,
pulled his off rein, and drew his cart in upon the gig, threw it
nearly over, and, by the concussion, Mrs. Mackenzie and the
witness were thrown with great violence on the pavement. Mrs.
Mackenzie was naturally very heavy, and was besides far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, and the bruises which she received were
so severe, as to place her in a very precarious situation for some
days. The wheels of the gig went over her legs, and severely
injured them. The witness produced a certificate from Dr.
Pierce, of St. Mary-axe, stating that Mrs. Mackenzie was
much hurt in several parts of her body and limbs, and that she
was at one time in danger, though now gradually recovering.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said it was not done

purposely.
Mr. Mackenzie said he felt himself justified in declaring,
that from the defendant's manner, he must have driven against
his gig wantonly and maliciously.
Mr. HALLS said he was glad this case had bean taken up as
a matter of assault, instead of as an offence under the highway
act, which only enabled the Magistrate to inflict a trifling pe-
nalty. It was a well.known fact that the drivers of luggage-
carts, and other experienced persons, as they called themselves,
were very fond of frightening and annoying females, whenever
an opportunity offered. The defendant must find good bail.
The defendant was locked up until he could find bail.