The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-10 00:00:00

COUNTRY Ci

RN MARKETS DURING TILE WEEK.

Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beaus. Pea.e.
_ --
Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. to s. s. to
44 50 30 34 22 30 38
And0ver...,...,,,..... 47 52 29 31 25 43
36 48 30 40 16 22 33
Bridport 38 50 32 36 26 30 39
Cirencester ......... 44 51 27 32 20 25 32 40
35 46 28 30 ,26 30 46
Guildford 38 54 28 35 20 30 46
42 58 26 32 23 26 43
Hereford 36 49 21 33 22 29 46 40
Highworth 42 60 32 42 28 34
51aidenhead _._. 32 53 24 36 20 26 34 44 34 33
M0nin0uth,....... 46 44 32 34 22 29 31 40
Reading 34 57 25 35 20 27 .13 42 35 ...-
Salisbury*. 44 54 30 34 20 28 41 46 —...-
Southampton ....... 45 50 33 40 28 92 - 42
Stroud _ 31 . 44, 23 96 'lO 24 46
Tewkesbury 50 35 22 32 40
Uxbridge 40 48 28 32 17 28 40 42
32 52 24 34 20 25 03 42 33 48
Warminster 30 40 27 34 22 26 36 48
59 21 22 35
Worcester..-........ 53 50 32 36 30 32 46 46 48
CHELTENHAM MARKETS.
Per Bushel. s. d. to a. d 1
Beef l'et d. tt. d
Wheat
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Barley 5 9 6 3 Mutton
oats 3 8 4 6 Veal
Beans .
Pease 4 6 6 8 Lamb
Hay............ 71. 6s. to 61. Iss. 08. per Um

LEWES MA

Per guar er.
Wheat, White
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Batley

15s. ikt

!tKE I.—N v. s

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s. 41. to s. d. Per Quarter. s. i. to s. d.
51 o oa 0 Oats 24 6 26 6
59. 0 56 0 Pease 32 0 37 0
40 0 43 0 011 Cake...lt/. es. per Thousand.

HULL 111 A RKET.—Nor. 8.
Wheat, Old 48. 54 . :L.. ..... New 5O;. s•'s. 545.
-- Foreign —s. —s. —s. hi bond... —s. —a. —a.
Oats, Poland --s. 'ls 235. 0:d —s. 245. 255.
-- Small or Feed.... —4. —s 20s —s. —s. 21s.
--- Foreign —s. —l. —s
Barley, Norf. & Suf ... —5. —a. 325. Line. & Wold —5.311. 353.
—.— Foreign
Beans 365. :IRS. 42a. Foreign
Pease, White........ 36s. 3ss. 425.:0 rey 325. 16.,. 40;.
Tares ~.. 4os. —s. 445. Foreign 345. 30s. 38s.
Rapeseed, in bond none Free, per last 321. 331. os.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
J. Appleton, hop.merchant, Southwark
T. Wells, sugar.broker, Mincing-lane
C. E. DiLsdale, grocer, Marylebone-lane ., II
J. W. and G. W. Collison, linen-dr.apers, Quadrant ► 11
T. Smith, wine.mercha❑t, Strand
H. Tanner, mariner, Stepney
W. Barthold, merchant, Great Tower-street 1 12
S. H Jonas, sugar-refiner, Wellclose.square 1 10
E. Bowler, hackneyman, Dorset-square

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
the Caledonia, from Hamburg, arrived off the Custom-
House at one o'clock rat. yesterday.

SlR—The long expected answer from our Government on
the Churchill affair arrived on .Sunday last, brought by Mr.
Bell in eighteen days, and fully approving of all Lord Pon-
sonby's conduct. The definitive despatches were only to
be forwarded a few days after, so that it yet remains to be
seen what communications our Ambassador is authorized to
make to the Porte on the subject, and how any demands
are, in case of refusal, to be enforced. It is high time that
our dignity should be rescued from the discredit thrown
upon it by the late arrogant message of M. Boutenieff
against Pertez Effendi, and the insinuations in the conti-
nental journals, that Lord Ponsonby had been abandoned
by his Government, as having advanced farther than it
dared venture to follow up. To coincide with the credit,
on the contrary, given him by the Cabinet for the spirit he
has displayed, he must be instructed to insist on the dis-
missal of Achmet Pacha from the councils of the Sultan, no
matter under what form carried into effect, or we shall be
bearded and taunted by Russia as much as ever. Has our
Ministry then resolved to go the whole length required in
the Turkish question ? For all this is involved, in order to
ensure the Sultan's compliance with the terms, which would
restore our Ambassador to the. proper position and in-
fluence befitting the representative of the British Sovereign.
The termination of the war in the Kurdistan was not
achieved without a near approach to the junction of Persia
with the rebels. An act of treachery on the part of that
Court missed taking effect, which is almost unparalleled in
modern politics : at whose instigation could this have taken
place ? Certainly not that of England. The subserviency
:of-Persia to Russia has been already discovered and sig-
nalized ; and the latter, if unjustly accused of any partici-
pation in the intrigues of her protege, must throw the blame
on the proverb, "noscitur a sociis." Ravenduz Castle was
the last stronghold of the rebel Cuidish Pacha, Mohammed.
When pressed to extremity, he had a few days before his
surrender entered into a compact with envoys from
Persian
I',.
st hers, to
ere-
Persian Miri Asker, or commander on the fron4
ceive the assistance of twelve thousand tre,-0,
the greatest
ps
part only five hours distant within the Turkish territory,
and the third division on its march to follow. A portion
of the price stipulated for this Ilueeour, and for an asylum
in Persia in case of need, had already been paid, when the
rebel Pacha was induced to dismiss its emissaries, and forego
the desperate resource. He surrendered instead uncon-
ditionally to the Turkish General-in-chief, Reschid Pacha,
and has thrown himself on the Sultan's mercy. The Per-
sians not only had the perfidy to offer support to a rebel
against his Government with which they were at peace, but
previously tendered the co-operation of their army to the
Porte against the same chief, in order to receive double
wages. Had the intrigue succeeded (of which the parti-
culars given are perfectly authentic) Kurdistan would still
have remained unsettled, and, the presence- there of the
main Turkish army'been indefinitely prolonged, or as soon
as it evacuated the country after the conquest of Ravenduz
Castle, the rebel Curd having first escaped, would have re-
turned from Persia to renew the same horrible disorders.
Persia must also have connected herself with his cause, and
entered as a principal into the war, if the Porte did not
choose to overlook an egregious injury and open affront.
These are the fields in which Russia gathers her harvest—.
can it be doubted that she has been the sower ?
We have her again at work here to embarrass the finances
of the Porte, in the remittance of, the last instalment of
the indemnity for the evacuation of Silistria. This sum,
amounting to twenty-five millions of piastres, 250,0001.,
had been paid over in Turkish coin, under a verbal under-
standing between the mint and the Russian mission that it
was to be exported in the same specie, and some compen-
sation made for the loss. It was ascertained, by the unu-
sual demand for bills during two posts previous to the last,
that part of the money had been secretly invested by friends
of the Russian Court Banker, and this in bills purchased
from the Turkish Mint Agent, with which he supplies the
market to any extent, hi order to keep down the exchanges,
and prevent the exportation of gold. The effect was to
raise the exchange, which it already has done, two per
cent., and prevent the mint continuing its purchases of bul-
lion—forcing it, eventually, to issue its coin at a loss, or re.:
sort to a further depreciation, fatal to the character and
interests of the government. The Turkish authorities in-
sist on the engagement having been given not to interfere
with the exchange, and are highly indignant at its viola-
tion—but what can the Porte do whilst fluttering in the
talons of the Russian vulture?

Our Consul-General in Egypt has been giving a speci-
men of his zeal for our commercial interests, which cannot
be too highly appreciated by the country. Russia having►
a more advantageous tariff with the Porte than England,
especially for internal trade, had induced Mehemet Ali to
consent to its introduction in his territories. Representa-
tions on the effect of this preference having been laid be-
fore our Government, they were further transmitted to our
Consul-General at Cairo. He has, in return, just sent up
by the Nile Steamer an Ukase of his Highness Mehemet
Ali, annulling the Russian privilege, and breaking through
treaties made by the Sultan, which he had already put in
operation. This is acting the part of a sovereign with a
witness—of course, to show us that he is no friend of Rus-
sia, nor cares about setting her at defiance, when he well
knows she will be extremely obliged to him for any mask
he can throw over their connexion. This is also the triumph
of the British agent—instead of insistinc, on the Pacha's
placing British .commerce on the same footing as that of
Russia, to be on a par with the most favoured nations—or
giving the utmost possible latitude to our existing tariff.—
From No. XXXILL of the Portfolio.
Constantinople, Oct7s, 1836.

The nominal salary of the examiner of plays, the
office now filled by Mr. Charles Kemble, is 5001. per an-
num, but there are abatements which reduce it to about
3201. a year. The examiner for the Lord Chamberlain,
who licenses the plays for the patent theatres, receives two
guineas for each.play, and one guinea for each farce.
THE DESULTORY MAN.—The French Tourist
would find it difficult to procure a better and more agree-
able guide-book for his wanderings than Mr. James's new
work, " The Desultory Man," which will give him a
more thorough insight into the localities and character of
Dieppe, Rouen, Britany, and many other principal places in
France, than all the Gazetteers and Cicerones in Europe.
Would he desire to become acquainted with the habits of
their natives let him consult " The Desultory Man," whom
he will find, notwithstanding his rambling propensities, to
be a very sociable and pleasant fellow.
Calais and Boulogne are filled with visiters, notwith-
standing that dreary winter has already commenced its
frigid appearance. The hotels and private lodging-houses
have scarcely a room unoccupied, and provisions of every
description have risen nearly one-half more than they were
this time last year. Travellers now going from England
are advised to be very particlar in havinc, their passports
en regle, and what letters and papers they bring with them,
as since the Strasburg affair the police, ever over-officious,
are on the qui vive to detect the slightest correspondence
of a political nature.

Tuesday morning, the surveyors commenced mea-
suring the ground from the Surrey side of London Bridge
that is to form the line of junction from London to Bristol.
TIIE SNOW STORM,—.Such was the severity of
the storm in the neighbourhood of Heath on Saturday last,
that the roads in several places were quite blocked up
with snow. A person was taking a bull, belonging to Mr.
Thomas Lenthall, of Stainshy, to Picasley fair, on Satur-
day, when the animal was completely set fast in a lane near
Halt-Hucknall church, and was with difficulty released by
cutting away the snow so as to enable him to return.—
Derbyshire Cozu

A few days ago all the passengers who entered one
of the omnibusses running along the Boulevard, in Paris,
on offering to pay their fare, were told, by the conductor,
that he received no money that day. Great was the asto-
nishment of all, and interminable conjectures were afloat
as to the cause of this exemption, until a small elderly
gentleman was seen to alight near the Hotel at the corner
of the Rue des Capucincs. His exit loosened the tongue
of the conductor, who then announced that the worthy tra-
veller was no less a personage than the Marquis de Semon-
vill'e, who had taken upon himself to pay the fares of all
his fellow-travellers.
WOODCOCKS.--An extraordinary quantity of these
birds appear to have migrated to our Ames within the last
week or two. On Thursday, Harrington Hudson, Esq., of
Bessingby, and a friend, shot 16 couple ; and on Saturday
last, another individual shot 12 couple.—Hull Packet.

The body of a man in a very decomposed state was
discovered by a labourer named Hunniken, in a field near
Brentwood, on Friday night. A handkerchief was hanging
upon a small bough of a tree under which the corpse was
lying, and it was at first thought he had hung himself, but
a general opinion prevails in the neighbourhood that the de-
ceased was a drover who had attended Brentwood summer
fair, and nothing heir).- found upon his person, that he had
been robbed anemuriered. The features were completely
obliterated,—Essex Herald.

The LORD CHANCELLOR returned thanks for the man-
ner in which his health had been proposed and received.
He was convinced that on the study, practice, and proper
administration of the laws, success in commercial enterprise
and manufactures mainly depended.—(Hear, hear.) With-
out this safeguard commerce could not thrive, and without
security for property wealth could not be accumulated.—
(filar, hear.) It was therefore with pride that he ac-
knowledged in the great commercial and-trading prosperity
of this country, and particularly of that which distinguished
the greatest city in the world, in which they were then as-
sembled, the beneficial result of free institutions, and the
triumph of the law.—(Cheers.) His Lords Lip proposed,
in conclusion, " The health of the Lord Mayor."---(Loud
and long continued cheers.)

His LORDSHIP briefly returned thanks ; and shortly after
said, that he meant now to propose a toast which he was
satisfied would be well received. The toast which it was
his duty to give was, " Viscount Melbourne and his Ma-
jesty's Ministers."—(Loud and enthusiastic cheers.)
Viscount MELBOURNE rose, and several rounds of
cheering prevented his proceeding to address those as-
sembled for some minutes. As soon as silence was in part
restored, be said that he returned his sincere thanks for
the cordial manner in which the last toast had been re-
ceived. He begged to assure them, on the part of his
Majesty's Ministers, that they were fully aware of the
responsible duties of their station, and that they were only
anxious to adopt such measures as in their conscience they
believed calculated to promote the welfare and prosperity
of the community.—(Cheers.) He felt bound to express
his approval of the judicious, calm, and sober manner in
which the toasts had been proposed by the Lord Mayor :
and it was not his intention to depart from the line of
conduct so wisely prescribed by saying a single word in
references to party politics on that occasion.—(Cheers.)
He might, perhaps, be allowed to observe, however, that
amidst the storms of political contest, and the bitterness
which was naturally produced, and which -he feared was
increasing in the workings and proceedings of our free
Constitution, it was most satisfactory and cheering to reflect
that they could save that day at least from those charac-
terised by political heat and acrimony for the purpose of
accomplishing an object in which all were agreed and united
—namely, to pay our respects to the chief Magistrate of that
the greatest city in the world. It was peculiarly gratifying to
have such a mark of respect and confidence as that conferred
upon his Majesty's Ministers, conveyed through an assem-
bly which comprised the corporation, the magistrates, and
the whole bulk and body of the citizens of London, as they
stood there assembled or represented before him. This
testimony was borne by a city, the freedom of whose insti-
tutions, and the rank, intelligence, opulence, and integrity
of whose merchants had not only distinguished it in this
empire, but had spread its fame throughout the world.—
(Cheers.) Whenever this country had been threatened
with foreign invasion or domestic difficulty the city of
London was the first to meet the danger, and set an ex-
ample to the other cities of the kingdom, which they had
almost always felt bound to follow.—(Loud cheers.)
" The Foreign Ministers" were then given.
Mr. STEPHEIISON returned thanks.
The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex" were next
toasted.
Sheriff DUKE returned thanks.

The following toasts were given in the course of the
evening :—" The Lady Mayoress"—" The Master cf the
Rolls and the Judges"—" The Attorney and Solicitor Ge-
neral and the Bar of England"--" The Recorder."
The remaining civic toast% were then drunk, and the
Company separated.

The improvements at Uxbridge House, and the
embellishments of the interior, will not be complete until
Christmas. The Marquis and part of the family continue
at Paris, and no day has yet been fixed for their return.

A lamentable and fatal occurrence took place near
Chapel-en-le-Frith, on Saturday last, during the snow-
storm which visited that neighbourhood, in which Mr.
Butterworth, cotton manufacturer, of Combs, perished from
the effects of the intense coldness of the weather. He left
home about two o'clock in the afternoon, with the inten-
tion of visiting some relatives at Chariesworth, hut had not
proceeded more than a quarter of a mile, before he was
overtaken by a violent storm of snow and wind, which ap-
pears to have completely overpowered him. Mr. Butter-
worth was found about two Lours after leaving home by
one of his workmen, who was accidentally passing the spot.
When discovered he was lying on the ground, with his free
buried in the snow, and life nearly ectinet. He was imme-
diately removed to Combs, but survived only a few hours,
and never spoke after he was found.—Derbyshire Courier.
Shortly after ten o'clock on Tuesday evening last,
the inhabitants of Aldermanbury were thrown into a state
of confusion and alarm, in consequence of the discovery of
a fire, which broke out upon the premises of Mr. Ellis, a
tailor, of No. 41, Aldermanbury. The fire was discovered
by a watchman on duty in the neighbourhood, who imme-
diately gave an alarm, and sent for the engines. By the very
prompt arrival of the engines from the Watling-street and
Whitecross-street stations, and there being a ready supply
of water, the fire was got under before any serious damage
had. occurred. It appeared that Mr. Ellis and family had
' retired to bed, and that an apprentice or errand boy had
placed a lighted candle under the shop-board, which by
some means was upset, and coining in contact with some
cotton and linen goods caused them to ignite. It is a for-
tunate circumstance that the fire was discoveredso early, or
in all probability the damage would have been very serious,
and most likely have been attended with loss of life, as Mr.
Ellis and family slept at the top of the house, from which
there could be no escape but by the windows.

We have ust learnt from a gentleman upon whose
accuracy
we place the most perfect reliance, and who has
had much experience in falconry, the following remarkable
fact, which we believe to be without a precedent in the an-
nals of hawking :—Captain Green, of Buckden, in Hun-
tingdonshire, has now in his possession a splendid specimen
of the golden eagle, that he has himself trained to take
hares and rabbits. When the difficulty even of handling a
bird of the size and strength of the golden eagle is consi-
dered, the performance of Cart. Green must he deemed ex-
traordinary. Hawks are carried on the fist of the falconer,
but this would be impracticable with a bird of this size and
weight ; recourse was therefore had to a very ingenious in-
vention as a substitute or the fist.

Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, some labour
ing men arranged several pieces of small cannon on the
wharf belonging to Messrs. Cirfiel and Slaughter, adjacent
to Blackfriars Bridge, for the purpose of discharging them
during the procession of the Lord Mayor's showy water.
They were repeatedly loaded and fired off, until the pro-
cession was aboutto return, when one of the men loaded
them and let them off several times just as the Lord
Mayor landed at Westminster Bridge. At length, how-
ever, they were overcharged, and when one of the men put
the lght to the touch-hole of one of the pieces it burst with
a tremendous explosion, and was shattered to atoms. The
particles of the cannon flew in every direction, and struok
a number of individuals who were near to and far distant
from the spot. Several of them fell down apparently life-
less, and a most indtscrilmble sensation was felt by every-
body who witnessed the accident. Numbers of individuals
immediately repaired to their assistance, and carried them
off instantly on shutters to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
where every assistance was promptly afforded them by
Messrs. Earle and Skeys, the surgeons. One of the unfortu-
nate sufferers, named Sharpe, a labourer, who was standing
close by, was mutilated in a horrid manner. The contents of
the cannon struck him violently on the head, face, and
body, and he was picked up utterly insensible, with a large
hole in his forehead, his right eye extracted from its socket,
and deprived of the sight of his left eye, which was shock-
ingly bruised and lacerated. His face was also generally
injured. His apparel was also penetrated by pieces of the
cannon, &c., and his body very much cut. The poor fel-
low was in very great aiony, and after being attended to
with great care and humanity be was put to bed without the
least hope of recovery. He is 20 years of age. His coun-
tenance was horrible to behold.
James Wakefield, a coal-heaver, was also considerably
injured in the thigh, a deep wound having been inflicted by
a piece of metal having cut through his clothes by the fdree
of the explosion. He received other trifling injuries, and
after being attended to he was put to bed, but not in
danger.

John Hughes, a painter and glazier, who was near the
spot at the time, was also dreadfully injured. His face,
hands, and body were exceedingly bruised and lacerated ;
but the most serious injury was a deep wound on the shin
bone, which was broken, and a piece of hard substance en-
tered the leg. He bled profusely, and his case required in-
stant attention to prevent fatal consequences.
Andrew Burns, a fine boy about 13 years of age, son of
Andrew Burns, moulder, of Dove-court, Brook-hill, Clerk-
enwell, was standing near the spot when the explosion took
place. He was struck violently on the left side and stomach,
and his hands and face were much injured. He was taken
to the hospital in great agony, groaning all the way. His
stomach and side were black and blue, and he could not
bear to be touched. He was considered to be in great
danger, and was instantly placed in bed and attended upon.
Several other individuals were more or less injured, and
taken to surgeons in the immediate neighbourhood for as-
sistance, audt was distressing to witness the friends of those
injured following them, in tears, under the impression that
they were killed, and the awful appearance of the wounded
persons on their way to the hospital, caused an evident shock
upon the populace, and a check upon their amusement.
Great crowds followed them on the way, and Brown and
Buck, with several other officers, were forced to keep them
off, and prevent them rushing into the hospital.
Hughes, one of the injured persons, treated his injuries
very indifferently, and said he charged the cannon which
burst with pieces of pipe and coal, Sc. ; but some other per-
son, not aware that he had loaded it, charged it more, in
order to give his Lordship an extra fire, and to vie with
others in the report of their cannon. Several persons who
stood at a considerable distance from the cannon were
knocked down and injured.
After the accident took place, immediate orders were
given to leave off at the adjacent wharfs, and the report of
fire-arms considerably ceased.

No less than one hundred and forty-seven gentle-
men have given notice of their intention to apply to be ad
mitted attorneys of the Court of King's Bench during the
present Term.

On Sunday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, as two
brothers, named Roystonc, were warming themselves at tile
Stairfoot lime-kilns, near Barnsley, the youngest, seven yei.s
of age, fell in. The other, about nine years of age, also fell
in, in attempting to rescue his brother from his dreadful
situation. They were taken out of the kiln in a short
time, and medical aid procured, but the extent of the burns
were so serious as to occasion their
.deaths the same night.—
Leeds Mercury.

MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY.—Captain Marryatt is
quite a philanC:ropist in his way. He writes for those
unhappy beings afflicted with ennui ; and when all other
means fail to dissipate that miserable sensation, the humour
of " Peter Simple," or the quaint drollery of " Jacob Faith-
ful," or, in a still higher degree, the amusing logic of " Mr.
Midshipman Easy," effects that desirable object. This ex-
cellent story, which is just out, is full of laughable adven-
tures, and is the very best restorative for drooping spirits.
Dr. Faraday, while lecturing the other evening at
the Conversazione of the Sussex Institution, at Brighton,
related the following characteristic anecdote of Coleridge
—At the Cambridge meeting of the British Association of
Science, he observed, a few years ago I was obserVing some
beautiful results occasioned by the experiments of electro-
mngneti,:m, when, on the demonstrator using the tern'
matter, I involuntarily exclaimed, " Do you call that mat-
'ter ? Surely it is something more." Coleridge, who was
standing by, turned round, and grasping my hand with
fervour; exclaimed, " Thank you, Sir ; thank you for that
remark ; it is and must be more, and I ant much indebted
to you for your suggestion that it is." This observation
impressed me, said Dr. Farraday, with an idea of the spi-
rituality of character possessed by this memorable tran be-
yond anything I ever heard of him, and led to a friendship
between us which terminated only with his life.

EMPLOYMENT OF TORTURE.—The use of tor-
ture in England--a practice which, directly ()posed as it
was even to the earliest, and to the most solemn and repeated
denunciations of the highest legal authorities---was employed
down to the period of the Commonwealth at least, "as a.
matter of course in all State prosecutions, at the mere dis-
cretion of the Privy Council, and uncontrolled by any law
besides the will of the Sovereign." We will not refer to the
earlier and undisputed cases in which the rack, and other
instruments of still more refined torture, were applied to
State prisoners, down to and through the reign of Elizabeth ;
but it is clear that the practice was continued, and with
little, if any, less scruple, under James and Charles I. It
appears almost certain that Guy Fawkes was examined under
the torture of the rack. The Royal warrant for its applica-
tion is still in existence, and concludes with this Inerciful
injunction from the most Christian of Monarchs, evidently
of his pedantic composition :—" Using the gentler torture
first, et sic per gradus ad inia tenditur, and so God speed
you in your good work !" The comparison of Fawkes's
handwriting in his signatures to his several depositions (pre-
served in the State Paper-office) furnishes an almost eon-
elusive argument that he actually suffered the torture. He
had originally given his name as John Johnson, and in that
name subscribed his first depositions, and evidently in a dis-
guised hand. On his next examination be admitted his real/
name, and subscribed as " Guido Fawkes," in a firm and bolsi
hand, and no doubt in his ordinary handwriting. But his last
deposition (six days afterwards), in which he, for the fr.st
time disclosed the conspiracy and betrayed the nesse.s of
his confederates, is signed in a faint and trembling ham', ; the
signature has the appearance of being written by ,a person
in great bodily agony ; the Christian name alor,e is com-
pleted, and the pen appears to have fallen front the band of
the writer while he was attempting to form thr: initial letter
of his surname.--Law Magazine.