The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-07 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

PERJURY.—Yesterday John Painter was indicted for wil-
ful and corrupt perjury, alleged to have been committed in a
cause in the Court of Common Pleas, Smells and another v.
Russell, tried at the Sittings after Michaelmas Term last, at

Mr. IVALrortn for the prosecution, stated, that a parcel,
containing 3161. in country bank-notes, was, on the Ist of Dec.
1820, puked at Sir John Perring .and Co.'s, in London, and
delivered to the defendant, who was a-servant there, to be taken
to ..R;lsselrs waggon-office, Friday- street, • thence to be for-
warded by the waggon to Plymouth. It was sealed with the
-official seal of Sir John Perring and Co. and directed to
L‘'essrs. Shiells and Co. Bankers, at Plymouth, to whom the
notes belonged. A parcel, sealed and directed, in imitation of
that, did arrive at Messrs. Shiells and Co.'s; at Plymouth; but
when it was opened, it was found to contain only wastepaper.
-ThOse Gentlemen brought an action against Mr. Russell, as
,proprietor of the waggon, to recover the amount of the sum-de-
posited-in the genuine parcel ; and, upon the trial of the cause
in the Common Pleas, the perjury charged against the defen-

•dant aas committed.
The Jury retired for an hour and a half, and then returned
with a verdict of Guilty.

[PROCEEDINGS OF THIS MORNING.]
A t half past 10 o'clock the Court met, pursuant to the ad.
journment of Last night. The Officer having made the usual
proclamation, the Cleric of Arraigns ordered that John Nighten.
g'de should be called, which being done, and he not answer-
ing, the Court requested an officer io proceed to the several
public houses, and inquiry if John Nightengale was likely to be
forthcoming. The officer returned, stating that Nightengale
was not to be found.

Mr. HUMPIIRIES' his Attorney, said that he saw Nighten.
gale this morning at 8 o'clock, and had told him to be here al
,ten with his witnesses.

Mr. ALLEY said it vould have been quite as civil if Mr.
Nightengale had intimated to him his intention of not appear-
ing, as that would have saved him the trouble of attending.
The COON SERJEANT then discharged the London
Jury, and ordered the bail of John Nightengale, which are two,
in 2501. each, to be estreated into his Majesty's Exchequer.
John Painter, the person convicted of perjury yesterday even-
ing, in which transaction the before-named Nightengale took so
prominent a part, was then placed at the bar to, receive sentence,
-when the Co B.t MON SERJEANT ordered him to be transported
for seven years.
Soloman lielloway, the man convicted of obtaining goods and
money under false pretences, was also sentenced to he trans-
ported for seven years, after which the Court was adjourned
until Wednesday, the 17th day of April next.

The destruction of.nlachinerY, and the diaho-
lical practice—a practice so horribly repugnant to every English
• feeling—of setting fire to corn-stacks and farm-buildings, still
-.continue, in various parts of our district. Nor are these crimes
unaccompanied. by other indications of the most savage fex oeity,
which we forbear, to. mention. The disease seems to spread.
We deeply sympatlilie .with the distress and sufferings of the
poor; but these people:thust, he told—indeed it ought to be
:strongly inculcated, from the pulpit—from the bench—from the
Sessions and Assize Courts throeghout the Kingdom—that it
is not by such proceedings that they can hope to obtain relief.
—" Indeed," exclaims one of the liebdomadary organs of the
faction in our neighbourhood, the general cry is, that unless
something be done, neither property nor any other tie of society
-can be secure." What, we would ask, is to be done ? Can you
point out any su re, and safe, an d certain mode of relief? I fyou can,
(3overnncent will not only . cheerfully but gratefully adopt it.
" But," continues.the writer alluded to, in the same sentence,
" when an. eye is turned upon the public newspapers, the speeches
• ,of the Ministers almost drive the most sanguine of the land
owners to despair"!" Gracious I-leaven ! what can such a re-
mark as this mean ? .I,ve can account for it only upon the Prig-
-ciple, that "all seems ydloiv to the jaundiced eye." It is, in-
'deed, by remarks such as•these, and by speeches—speeches of
a very different character from any of those 'which haVe been
made by. Ministers—made at County Meetings, and. in other
places, that the worst feelings of the mob have been inflamed,
and that the sewer classes have been. erroneously .and cruelly
laught to believe, that their rulers have no feeling—no pity
no commiseration for their distresS. The heartsichens,at such
proceedings—at such ,pernicious calumnies ; bnt, thank God!
and we say. so in the ferYency of our hearts—we firmly believe
,that the reign of delusion is nearly over, and that the real
friends of the people will soon 'be distinguished from those
wolves in sheepVclothing, which have so long been prowling
..about, seeking whom they may, devour. The contemptible
jusgle—the pitiful electioneeringmanceuvres—that were played
~off at our late County Meeting, must go far to tear the mask
From thelace.ofethe hypocrites.—.(Bury Gazette,. March 6.)

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSU.4I AUDEAT

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1822.

The Partizans and Friends (as they style
themselves,) of the late unhappy QUEEN, have
now, we trust, discharged the last arrow of their
.quiver; they have shot the shaft in mere despe-
ration, and only, as we should judge, from the
shame of holding it idly in their hands,—for it
was launched with such a faint hand, and un-
steady aim, as sheaved no hope, and scarcely
even a wish, that it should reach the mark.—
Mr. BENNET, in opening the debate, anticipated
the fate of his motion, and the House rejected it,
without taking the trouble to divide. The only
purpose it appears to have answered was that of
consuming so much time, that Mr. HuruE and his
friends bad an opportunity, at its close, of ob-
jecting to a Committee of Supply under pretext
of the lateness of the hour ; and upon this sub-
ject the House divided twice.
In his statement of the indignities offered to her
late MAJESTY'S remains, Mr. BENNET was sin-
gularly unfortunate, being positively contra-
dicted, in almost every instance where he
ven-
tured a specific statement, either by his own
friends or by those of Ministers. For example,
he relates that at Harwich the Royal coffin was
lowered into a boat without the pall or Crown,

or any accompanying ceremonies. With respect
to the Crown and pall Dr. LUSHINGTON makes
a directly opposite statement ; as does Mr.
CALVERT, who declares further that the coffin
was lowered into the boat with all the accustomed
solemnities, in the presence of many friends of
her MAJ ESTY, none of whom expressed dissatis-
faction. Mr. BENNET says, that at Stade, not
the slightest preparation was made for the recep-
tion of the funeral, and that the battery fired a
salute, but without orders. Mc. CALVERT states,
that the church at Stade was covered with black
cloth; and Sir G. COCKBURN declares that he
himself ordered the firing of the guns. Mr. BENNET
complains that, in the frigate which conveyed
the Royal remains, a cabin had not been pre-
pared for their reception, and there was no ac-
commodation for her late MAJESTY'S friends.—
On these points he is again contradicted by Sir
GEORGE COCKBURN. Mr. BENNET laments the
want of decent solemnity in the appearance of
Brandenburgh House on this occasion ; Mr.
II emr., on the other hand, is broken-hearted at
the"" profligate want of economy" exhibited in
adorning the apartment where her MAJESTY lay,
with black cloth, when the corpse was actually
removed only two days after.
Now, when these discrepancies prevail be-
tween respectable eye-witnesses, whom are we
to believe ? and what allowance are we to make
for inaccuracies of recollection in reviewing the
other parts of Mr. BENNET'S narrative, where,
for instance, he declares, that in London the
affliction exhibited at the time of the fune-
ral, particularly among the females, was as
deep as at the interment of the lamented
Princess CHARLOTTE ! and that throughout
the German part of its route, the funeral
procession might be said to have moved upon
flowers, so prodigally were garlands strewed be-
fore it by the female part of the population !
Upon the investigation of her late Majesty's con-
duct, very severe inferences were drawu from
the slightest disagreements in the evidence of
those who professed to be eye-witnesses. It would
perhaps be thought hard upon Mr. BENNET to
judge him by the same rule which was so rigidly
applied on that occasion_; and he at least must
grant, after what passed last night, that a man
may differ in his testimony from those who were
spectators of the same event, without having any
intention to pervert the truth.
With respect to the indecent scene in the
Church of Chelmsford, which Mr. BENNET con-
templates with holy " horror and indignation,"
Dr. LUSIIINGTON seems very properly to have
felt that the burden of justification lay upon
those who, by night and by stealth, indefiance
of orders which they acknowledged them;
selves incompetent to resist, attempted to
affix a slanderous inscription on her MA-
JESTY'S coffin. It was the QUEEN'S dying re-
quest that he should do so ; and such a re-
quest, according to the Learned Gentleman's argu-
ment, was necessarily to be complied with, what-
ever scandal, or indecency, or outrage, might
attend on the performance ! It was not enough
that Dr. LIJSIIINGTON had done all that could le-
gitimately be done, byapplying to Lord LIVERPOOL
for his sanction to this proceeding ; his con-
science could not rest till he had accomplished,
or at least attempted, the chivalrous adventure
of filching one coffin-plate, and shuffling another
into its place. Whatever credit may be due to
the romantic 'gallantry of this attempt must
certainly be conceded to Her MAJESTY'S Ex-
ecutors; but they must also bear the weight of
Mr. BENNET'S indignation for the paltry and ig-
nominious scuffle in which their adventure ter-
minated.

It appears to have been a great difficulty with
the Members of Opposition to find any person
on whom blame could with any chew of justice
be cast for the occurrences complained of.—
The truth is, that if the management of her MA-
JESTY'S funeral had been left entirely in those
hands to which it properly belonged,—if the
Executors had not attempted to impede and
to controul the operations of Government,
in a matter for which Government alone was
responsible, and with which no other party
had a right to interfere, a great part, if not
the whole, of the inconveniences in question
would never have occurred. And we believe
further, that the tumult which was raised for the
purpose of diverting the funeral procession from its
intended route would not have taken place, if
the clamour, the chicanery, the ostentatious
remonstrances, and the significant predic-
tions of her late MAJESTY'S adherents, had
not revived the curiosity and rekindled the
passions of the populace in a cause which they
had long regarded with apathy, &not with con-
tempt.
There were accounts this day stating, that
alarming riots had taken place in Norfolk, that
a mob had been breaking machines, and that a
Magistrate had arrived in town to communicate
these events to GovernMenti

The same melancholy recitals continue to ar-
rive from IRELAND, and more atrocities have been
committed in the county of Limerick. A Cork
Paper of Saturday last says—" On Thursday,
the following men were executed at Carrigan-

immy :—Daniel Murphy, Patrick Lehane, Thos.
Goggin, and Cornelius Lucy. Yesterday morn-
ing the other five men who were sentenced were
taken to Deshure, and there met the same fate as
those on the preceding day."
The Limerick Chronicle of the same day says,
44 Yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, Henry
Shehan, conveying the mail from Rathkeale to
Shanagolden and the Kerry line, and one
escort of the Third Light Dragoons, were fired
at by some ruffians from behind a ditch, who
killed the post-man and his horse, wounded
the dragoon, and took off the mail. The oc-
currence took place so near the town of Rath-
keale, in this county, that the shots were heard
by the police and the 42d, who instantly repair-
ed to the scene, and found the post-man welter-
ing in his blood. He was conveyed to the mili-
tary hospital, where he languished in extreme
agony,,and 'breathed his last at twelve o'clock.
The dragoon (who fired four shots) is badly
wounded in the thigh. A vigilant pursuit was
set up for the perpetrators, and several fellows
were taken up, who, if not concerned in the mur-
der, will be tried under the Insurrection Act."
The same Paper relates other outrages, such
as burning of houses, flogging persons, stealing
horses, posting up bills to prevent payment of
rents, country charges, and Church rates, and
demanding obedience to Captain Rock's mandates.
A private letter from a very intelligent corre-
spondent says that nothing but :MARTIAL LAW
can check the Insurgents, and afford any hope of
restoring peace to the country.

We have received- Char!estown Papers this
morning to the 9th February.
(From the Charlestown Courier, Feb. 9.)

Mr. WATKINS, Secretary of the Commissioners
under the Spanish Treaty, in a note addressed
to the Editors of the National lntelligencer,
states, that the Board have settled the following
propositions, and no other:—" That to enable
the claimant to have his memorial received for
examination, be must set forth a case, the fact of
which, if granted to be true, would have- given
him a just claim against Spain if this treaty had
not been made. In applying this rule, it will be
seen that the Board recognize no claim growing
out of the French seizures in Spain."—Mr. W.
states that the number of memorials already exa-
mined exceeds five hundred.

BUNGAY MEETING.—Several Gentlemen of the
County of Suffolk, who profess themselves to be
Friends to Parliamentary Reform, attended a
Public Dinner on Tuesday at Bungay.—JosnuA
GRIGSBY, Esq., took the Chair. Sir THOMAS
BEEVOR, Messrs. FELLOWS, QUAILE, POWELL,
the Rev. HENRY WATSON, the Rev.
CORN-
WALLIs, and other persons well known in the
County, were present.—The Chairman, in a
long speech, urged the topics usual on such oc-
casions. lie attacked Ministers with great vio-
lence, and declared his belief that they would
not object to sink the Country into a new war.
The Editor of the Suffolk Chronicle, one of the
company, expressed his conviction that nothing
but a Reform could remedy the grievances of
the Country. One of the toasts was 44 The
Duke of Norfolk, and a removal of all civil dis-
tinctions on account of religious opinions."—
Such was the regard of the company for our
Protestant Establishment. Government was ac-
cused of raising an infamous war against France
when she was emerging from the darkness of
Despotism—Buonaparte was styled 4,4 a great
man-"—The mob-riots at Manchester were deno-
minated the "Manchester Massacre "—Mr. PITT
was accused of inconsistency, because in early
life he recommended measures which his im-
proved wisdom and experience induced him to
oppose. That great patriotic Statesman was called
The Apostate PITT. Lord SIDMOUTII, Lord CAL-
THORPE, and Lord LONDONDERRY, came in for a
due share of liberal notice ; and a Mr. FowLEa,
referring to the " principle of resurrection,"
an expression of the last Noblemiin, de-
clared, that 44 if it were his happiness to see him
(Lord L.) in his grave, he would never pray for
his resurrection." We presume that our readers,,
after these proofs of the temper of the company,
are fully satisfied with this brief notice of the
Meeting, in which the guests, like Lord Tim-
MOND'S Cocks, were " all on one side."

BRIGHTON, MARCH 5.---BIS MAJESTY took
an airing in au open carriage this afternoon, from
two to four o'clock. In health, his Majesty never
looked better—his manner wa's peculiarly cheer-
ful. Affectionate and loyal greetings met him in
all parts of the ride.
Mr. MATTHEWS, in his forthcoming At Home
at the English Opera, appears to be starting upon
the Irish plan, viz. concluding where he should
have begun, with his Birth, Parentage, and Edu-
cation. We have had his various fictitious ad-
ventures, but the present, we are assured, is a
very .comic arrangement of matters of fact.
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.—Shocking Depravity.
--On Monday the 4th instant, a woman entered the boarding-
house of Mr. Du BRINT, in Dean's-yard, Westminster, be-
tween the hours of three and four, while the young Gentlemen
were attending School, and contrived to pilfer from the dining-
room several articles of wearing apparel, together with sonic
silver forks and spoons, with which she would have made off;
had not an ipteresting young female, who happened to be visit-
ing at the house (and whoin we have since learnt to be a young
foreigner), stepped forward and detained her by the arm, upon
which the old hag, turning suddenly, made a plunge at the bo-
som of the young Lady (with a fork she had stolen) who hap-
pily arrested her arm time enough to frustrate
_her diabolical in-
tentions, and calling for assistance succeeded in detaining her till
some of the domestics arrived to her aid, one of whom was in-
stantly dispatched for a constable, who having arrived she was
reconducted to the house, where, upon being searched, the fore-
mentioned article's were found in her possession,concealed beneath
her cloak. The old wretch, on seeing the Constable, fell wisher
knees,and clasping her hands, intreated him to have pity on her
extreme age (being upwards of 80), declaring it was the last
offence she would commit. The Constable then conveyed her
to the watch-house, where, strange to say, she was dismissed
with merely an admonition,