The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-21 00:00:00

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THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, Ik4 --ARC/I 21.
.The arrivals of all sorts of Grain last week were tolerably
large. This morning the fresh supplies of NiTheat, Beans, and
Pease from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, are only moderate.
There are also very few vessels fresh up from the North with
Wheat and Oats. The millers appear to want only superfine
samples of Wheat, and such have obtained rather more money
than this day se'nnight, but in other qualities there has not
been much doing. Barley for malting sells heavily, but other
sorts obtain rather more money. Beans find buyers slowly at
last week's prices. Pease have no variation. Oats Were cheaper
on Wednesday last, but there has been more doing in the trade
to-day at rather better prices. In the Flour trade there is no
alteration.

ARRIVALS LAST WEF.K.—English Wheat, 11,677; Bar-
ley, 11,;162; 31alt, 7,807 ; Oats, 22,053 ; Beans, 2,200;
Pease, 813; Irish Wheat, —; Oats, 2,065 ; Foreign Oats,
3,210 quarters ; Flour, 9,936 sacks.
Wheat, Red (old) s2s 65m Beans, Small (new) ....42s 45s
White (old) ...56s 76s (old) ....4s 525
Red (1824) 50s 56s . ---- Tick (new) 32s 36s
...__. Fine 60s 63s lick (new)
40s 44s
Superfine ....68s 72s -___ Harrow (new)...39s 41,
White (1824)...523 56s —_________ (old) ...44s 48s
_____ Fine sBs 64s Bran k 34s 40s
Superfine ....74s 78s Oats, Feed 2os 22s
Rye 15s 40s -______Fine 03s 25s
Barley 10s 35s —._ Poland 025 24s
Fine 18s 40s -_ Fine ...... 25s 27s
Superfine 43s 46s ____ Potatoe 95s 20s
Malt 'tis 648 —________Fine 078 30s
—Fine 66s Ps -- Scotch
17s 39s Flour per
sack) 30s 31s
Peas Grey
608 658
Maple 4os 41s Seconds i"s 58s
White .... ....... 42s 468 —_ North Country...s2s 54
Boilers 50s 545 Bran B3 9s
s

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF GRAIN, FROM THE RETIJIINti
RECEIVED IN THE WEER ENDING MARCH 12.
Wheat, 675. Id. ; Barley, gls. 6d. ; Oats, 235. 6d.; Rye,
41s. 7d. ; Beans, 38s. Od. ; Peas, 40s. :id.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
March 16, 11125, is 435. 84d. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD ItIAP.KET, TilAncli 21.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and
prices at Smithfield _Market this morning;_
CATTLE AT MARKET
3067 Sheep ..................... 16,nn0
112 ; Pigs ........................ 100
To sink the OWal, per stone of Wt.
Beef 4s NI to As 2d ; Veal ......... 6s (I{l to 73 Oil
Mutton 5s 4d to 6s Cd I Pork ......... 5s 4d to 6s 4d
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.
'TAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 Os to £4 10s, I Clover ...... £4 Os to 4'5 10s
Straw -4-'2 Os to X 2 Os.

Beasts.
Calves

The remains of the late Mr. 0 wEN, ILA. were
interreS. on Saturday in Chelsea Church, The President of the
Royal Academy, and nearly all the 3lembers, besides many
distinguished persons, attended the funeral,
Saturday last the remains of the lamented
Lady BELL were removed from her house in Dean street, and
interred in the family vault at Cranford. A short time before
amined h
death
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ekreouosf::?'orkrks paide art.
r Ladyship a visit, and

CAMBIIIDGE.-The remains of the two sin_
dents of the University (Messrs. Tyner and Field) whose me_
lancholy death by drowning was stated in TILE SUN of Thurs-
day, were interred on Saturday with all possible solemnity and
due devotion. The mournful procession consisted of a great
number of their afflicted fellow Students, many of wh2ra shed
tears on the sad occasion. Field was of Trinity College, and
Tyner of St. John's. The fbrmer was the son of an eminent
Russia Merchant in the City, the latter of the
Rector of
Co raptor..

TUE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Ex( ract om the Morning P apers ,Marchey 325.

TNEW TIM ESI

We have been favoured with .copies of two ori-
ginal letters from his Roy-al Highness the Duke
of Cambridge to Count Munster ; and though
they manifestly were not intended for the public
eye, yet they afford so gratifying a picture of the
zeal of the Royal Duke in the cause of humanity,
that we should be doing an injustice to our
readers not to lay before then► such pleasing do-
cuments.--The sufferings of the Hanoveriaos by
the late inundations have been extensive ; but we
are happy to perceive that they have excited a
correspondent spirit-of charity in that country.
This is not all. Confidently relying on tire pa-
ternal benevolence of the King, on the prompti-
tude of th,. Duke of York,and on the inexhaust
ible liberality of the English public, they turned
their eyes to England—and they were not dis-
appointed. His Majesty munificently ordered a
contribution of Two Thousand Pounds, and his
Royal Highness the Duke of York took time
Chair at a Public Meeting, by which liberal
subscriptions were made for the relief of the
unhappy sufferers.

[MORNING POST.)
We received last night, by Express, French
Papers to the 19th inst. with the Mode of Satur-
day. Prince Metternich had had a private au-
dience of the King, iu which his Majesty deco-
rated him with the Order of the Holy Ghost,
which is a proof that if the most perfect intelli-
gence do not prevail between the French and
Austrian Cabinet the appearance of it is at least
desired to be preserved. In the sitting of Thurs-
day a number of laws passed by the Peers were
presented by the Miniiters to the Deputies. The
Keeper of the Seals proposed that against Piracy,
the nature of which had not y et been fully ex plained.
Ile also introduced that against Sacrilege, and de-
fended the infliction of capital punishment on the
most extraordinary ground, that though it would
have been better that the law should have remained
silent upon the subject; yet since it was wade to
speak, a less punishment than a capital one could
not possibly be enacted. The Grand Master of
the Un'versity, Bishop Frayssinous then appear-
ed with the new Law respecting Religious Com-
munities, and after the Minister of the Interior
had presented two Projects of minor importance,
the Chamber opened the discussion of the law
respecting the Public Debt and the Sinking Fund
which promises to be of long continuance. The
appeal of Papavoine has been rejected by the
Court of Cassation.

LTHE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
The installation of the first Constitutional Con-
gress of the Mexican Confederation has lately
taken place, with due solemnity. The certainty
that liberty has consolidated itself in regions
which for centuries had been the seat of the
grossest misrule, •is unquestionably the noblest
spectacle to be found in the whole range-of the
moral world. Without liberty, man does not
exercise higher functions than the beasts of bur-
den, which he employs for his use ; whilst their
lot in many things is preferable to his own.—
Without it, even Nature is in a manner dead to
him ; and the Sun sheds its genial influence,
and the seasons run their perpetual round, with-
out making any difference in the condition of the
man who is a slave. For instance, where was
humanity so degraded and oppressed as in the
very country we are now speaking of,, though
blessed even to profusion with the means of pro-
viding for the wants and comforts of its inhabi-
tants. But the fine sky and rich soil of Mexico,
notwithstanding their proverbial excellence, only
contributed until very recently, to strengthen the
bonds by which the great mass of her people were
kept in a state of mental and bodily subjection to
,which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the
rest of the world. The Mexican, having now
acquired his social rights, will soon enjoy, with-
out restriction, the natural riches of his soil, in-
stead of seeing them go to swell the pride and
immolate the avarice of a foreign Despot and his
satellites. lie will also partake in the improve-
ments which have occurred in every other coun-
try ; and, instead of the close prison, in which he
.had been confined before he has the whole world
to range in, should pleasure, business, or love of
knowledge tempt him to wander. If Mexico
has been hitherto celebrated only for the wealth
she contains in her bowels—that fatal gold, by,
which the hand of foreign violence was first at-
tracted to her shores—she will henceforth Have
to biNtst of treasures as much exceeding the
former in value as her gold mines surpass
those of every other known region ; whilst,
in proportion as they accumulate, her moral
energies will increase in the same ratio. It is
therefore with great propriety that the Speech of
the Mexican President, at the opening of the
Congress, commences by first vindicating the
principle upon which that people have established
their independence, and, next, by indignantly
repelling 'the right of foreign interference in their
concerns. The language is rather strong ; but
it is necessary in the infancy of political society,
particularly when the nation has but just awak-
ed from a long state of intellectual lethargy.
The President gives, at the same time, in the bold
and uncoinprornising character of his Address, a
pledge that he will discharge the duties of his office
with stern fidelity, and that he has inseparably
linked his own fate to that of the Republic. He
will be as inaccessible to the efforts of foreign
intrigue as foreign menace ; and, to have an in-
corruptible Magistrate at the head of a new State,
like Mexico, would be alone an incalculable ad-
vantage. All her dangers arise from external
causes; and the more hostile the spirit of her
functionaries is to foreign influence, the greater
cert:inty she acquires of consolidating her
independence. She has no longer any domestic
cause of alarm ; and, since the execution of
Iturbide, not only all traces of a conspiracy
have vanished, but the very idea has ceased
to be entertained. The President, in his Speech,
does not once allude to the existence of factious
matter, which affords a strong presumption, that,

-. . .
'at the time, there was not .11 inavenierit ,
in the
Republic, that could constitute -a ground of
serious alarm. 'Moreover, considerable pro.
gross was already made in improving; the moral
and physical strength of the army ; and, if the
pecuniary resources were not yet equal to. (he
wants of the Republic,. there is, in the candgur
with which the deficiency is admitted,: a pledge
that it is not to be traced to the negligence of
the present Government, but is solely the result
of circumstances over which the latter had no
controul, and the force of which, there is every
reason to think, is nearly extiuct.• This is an
evil, however, that will be of short duration in a
country which, in additiOn to her great natural
resources, now begins to taste the fruits of her
spirited and successful resistauce to tyranny.—
The mode of meeting the deficiency at present,
is by a wise employ of the produce. of foreign
loans ; and this expedient. will no doubt suf-
fice till the period when. the /ilea/1,39f the
State shall be equal to its exigencies-=-a period,
as we said before, that cannot be distant. After
recapitulating the foregoing subjects,the President
expresses himself in very sanguine - terms, that
the political existence of the Confederation will
be speedily recognized by such foreign Powers
as cherish principles of good Government them—
selves. If the expectation of this event be con-
sidered a legitimate source of congratulation,
what will be the exultation, when
,it is ziscer-
tabled that the British Cabinet .hits, had the
magnanimity to anticipate the substance of the
President's declaration. When it is further
known that this generous act, so worthy of the
enlightened and patriotic men, who now ad-rni-
nister the affairs of the British Empire, and con-,
sequently so repulsive to the Members of the
Holy Alliance, has taken place, without the
latter venturing to remonstrate,- it is not dif-
ficult to conceive the admiration with which it
will inspire the people of Mexico' towards the
Government and People of England. But, if
the proceeding be a generous one, its reward will
be likewise of a commensurate character,as shalt
be soon seen in the much further expansion of
the trade, revenue, consideration and solid pro,ij
perity of this country.

[MORNING WEICALLO
By the Report we gave on Saturday) it wotild
appear that the Civic Body basset its face against
the new Fish Company. It does not wish for
any interference with Billingsgate. It thinks
that the West End of the Town will do better
without a fish market on the wholes..le principle.
Now we presume to differ in opinion from the
Civic Body. We think it might be advantageous
for the people at the West End of the Town to
have a large wholesale fish market at the West
End of the Town. It might serve as a check to the
West End of the Town fishmongers, many of whore
are too much in the habit of not only charging
their customers a high price for fish, but some of
them are also in the practice of foisting off, wheia
they can, stale fish. There wants a little oppo.
sition in the fish trade at the west end of the
town. That the fishmongers should petition
against a wholesome fish scheme we are. not sur-
prised. At present a west end of the town con-
sumer of fish cannot go to a whole fish dealer,
Billingsgate being too far off; therefore he must
pay to the retail dealer just what price the hitter
chuses to charge. The retail dealer, there-
fore, cannot like the thoughts of a wholesale
fish market being established at that sort of com-
venient distance that his customers could go to.
Now Billingsgate may well enough suit Mr.
Ilurcombe and other worthy Members of the
Civic Body,
.because they can easily get to that
market ; but for one who lives in the neighbour-
hood of Portman or Grosvenor-squares, it is a
tiresome undertaking. But Mr. Hurcombe should
cniottizls o
wishei tof
suchkee a check a i
all the benefit
Billingsgate oltlis eon himself and t
d the
he
retail fish dealers. Not that we think this new
fish scheme will answer the purpose of those who
will have to advance their money in the comple-
tion of the purchase of shares. We should not
like to have any share in it, even if any were
given to us, for the regulators of this "Company
will, in all probability, absorb the profits, should.
it be established. Nevertheless, we wish the
scheme may be entered into. It can do,no harm,
and is very likely to be productive of good. The
retail dealers in fish at the West end of the town
have long wanted interfering with ; besides, we
cannot see why there should net be Fisk
Companies as well as Assurance and ',We
Companies. If people choose to venture in
this and other schemes, what business is it
of the civic body ? for, as Mr. Iluskisson
said the other night, the public go into
these things with their eyes open. Besides,
lotteries are put down, and people must be en-
gaged in gambling of some sort. Stop them in
gambling in one respect, and they are sure to Break
out in another. As for the public good the Civic
body have been talking so much of that for the
last half century, many hardly know what it
means. If, however, the Civic body must be do-
ing something for the public good, they might do
this ; do away with all their own regulations re-
specting fellowship porters, Thames watermen,
and coal-merchants, and throw those callings
open more than they now are to competition, be-
sides getting rid of the expence of enforcing such
stupid regulations as those callings are afflicted
with.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Times, in its leading article of Saturday,
informs the public, as from authority, that " a
communication from Madrid has been received.
by the agents for raising a Spanish Loan in this
country, in which Ferdinand reiterates his former
declaration, that he will never acknowledge the
bonds of the Cortes, even for the value of the, paper
on which they are printed. We feel much plea-
sure," it is added, " in making this his Majesty's -
declaration public, as well as gratitude for his
manly," &c. For what sinister purpose this public
and positive announcement is made we do not pre-
tend to know ; but we can most distinctly affirra
that there is not a word of truth in it. It will
not after this be difficult for the public, and more
particularly the frequenter of the Stock Exchange,
to estimate the reliance to be placed upon what
the Times has written on this subject; wtth

44 interest," for tiiis last fortnlght. In the
Aniost,place,
,the mesaesnger. that arrived on Friday
4,04 brought no dispatches whatever relative to
ttt.:* loan ; and in the next place, Ferdinand has
rck,t, at any period during the last three months,
refused to recognise the Cortes Bonds. On
the contrary, he has .offered, and is at
,thiS moment willing to recognise r them .at
• interest included, upon condition of
gelling a
loan from the Capitalists of London.
;Pis even further true, that this very offer has
...been rejected, and that Mr. Gregory, one of
the Agents to whom the Timer, we presume, al-
lades, has returned to Madrid with an offer of a
loam upon the security of the Quicksilver Mines,
"'aria of certain duties :o be levied upon wool and
manufactured cottons, provided Ferdinand will
pay (not recogniz.e) the Bonds at 35, and under-
take further that no part of the loan so granted
Omit be applied towards the re-conquering the
South .American colonies. No answer has been,
nor can-be for some days, received to this offer;
bat we-can assure the Times, for its information,
that an eminent capitalist, engaged in the above
-negotiation, has proceeded to Paris, there to meet
.1101 r. Gregory on his return, and to arrange with
the bankers of Paris for completing the loan,
there being no doubt whatever of Ferdinand's
ready acquiescence in the terms proposed.

•

[MORNING. CHRONICLE.]
We have no hesitation in expressing our ap-
probation of the project for raising the freehold
qualification in Ireland. By the 40s. freeholders,
the franchhoe is generally viewed in the light of
asburden, and no person acquainted at all with
the circumstances of Ireland, can for a moment
suppose-that the peasantry can give an independ-
ent vote. One chief 'objection to the 40s. free-
hold is, that it gives a bounty on the cutting
up the land into small holdings, and thus tends
to aggravate the political disease of that coun-1
try. We do not mean to say that the raising
the qualification would be instantly attended
with any effect in increasing the size of the posses-1
sion ; but if circumstances should favour the
consolidation of possessions, such a -desirable re-
sult would be less retarded by having the quali-
fication at 51. than at 40s. With respect to the
paying the Irish Catholic Clergy by the State,
the measure has our decided approbation. We
are certain that the public money never was laid
out on a more desirable object than the one in
question. Of course, we should prefer paying
them out of. the excessive Revenues of the Irish
Protestant Church ; but we cannot obtain that ob-
ject at presensond there is no reason why we should
decline a benefit because it might still be made more
extensive. Pay the Catholic Clergy, by all means ;
tay,pay them well. The part of the plan of which
we least approve is the allowing the clergy to
take any fee at all from their Flocks. We would
much rather that they received at once so
much from the State as to leave them no pre-
text for taking any fees ; and, having thus freed
them from the necessity of receiving any thing
from their Flocks, the Legislature might pro-
hibit all fees, oblations, &c. under a severe
penalty. At present the Catholic Priest has a
direct interest in promoting marriages, and other-,
wise adding, to the misery of the people. The
scripture says, the heart of man is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked, and Catholic
Priests -being men, have, of course, their share of
the failing of humanity. However anxious they
may be for the spiritual welfare of their flocks, it
is natural that they should have an eye occa-
sionally to their own temporal welfare. God
forbid that we should say that many Catholic
Priests do net act in the most disinterested
manner, but in reasoning with regard to
settole classes of men, we must consider the
motives which are likely to weigh with
t'ke majority. That a better arrangement
thati—,that which has been announced might
be devised we are sufficiently aware ; but if the
best arrangement cannot be obtaima:, that is no
reason why we should reject the best which we
can obtain, more especially when almost any ar-
rangement of the question will be a benefit to
the connti.y. The fact is, that the grand diffi-
culty begins when Emancipation is obtained. If
after such an event you should go to Munster and
tell the slaving peasant he is now emancipated,
when the tirst feeling of joy subsides, he will see
hiroS'elfssurrounded by the same misery by which
he is at present surrounded. But though
Emancipation canrot relieve the distress of the
poor peasant, it remotes out of the way a subject,
the agitation of which serves to keep us from the
consideration of the great evil. It is of the ut
most moment that the attention of the public
should not be withdrawn from the consideration
of the social malady, by disputes which must be
terminated before we can think of the steps
which are to be taken, either with regard • to a
cure, or the ascertainiog that the malady is be-
yond the skill of the political physician.

[THE TIMES.]
It IS with pleasrure we perceive that the great
talanufacturing towns and districts are moving for
a revision of the present oppressive Corn Laws.
']'he agitation of this question must lead in the 1
end to practicaLgood. It is, indeed, almost an
incredible' absurdity, that people professing to be
statesmen should with one breadth be landing the
advantages of a free trade in wit articles as silk!
and wine, and with another be defending or ex-`
cusing restriction and monopoly in the first article!
of life—in corn. Ministers ;ire said to be favour-1
able to the removal of the import laws, but corn-1
plain that the country gentlemen are neither so
public spirited nor enlightened as their fellow-
subjects, and dread
,their, opposition. It is by
meetings, then, and by resolutions. and peti-
tions, that. Ministers must be encouraged and
sustained in their desire to get rid of the
Corn Laws. The Leeds Mercury contains the
resolutions of numerous . meetings on this
subject ; and the principles. advanced at these
meetings, and consigned to writing in the reso-
lutions and petitions, are of the most liberal and
ealiflitenect kind. The injuries inflicted by the
cm:a-laws are more numerous and severe than can
%yell be calculated or described. A new world
-I••!, as it were, been opened to the commercial
4Leeri,rise of the• old. Labour, manual 'labour,

is the chief requisite in the production of
manufacture, : and this article of manual
labour is now so much more expensive in
this country, owing to the necessity of feeding
our artisans at a much higher price—that is,
owing to the artificial dearness of bread—that we
are undersold in the markets by rivals infinitely
less expert in the mechanical arts than ourselves.
All the advantages of our machinery, skill, and
capital, are neutralized. We are losing for ever
the opportunity of pressing forward and establish-
ing our manufactures, for the sake of an undue
preference to the owners of land, which land
we can never lose, but which must stick by us,
and be for ever ready to receive and repay what-
ever quantity of toil it may conduce to the gene-
ral good to bestow upon it. Again, we have
sottishly been flattering ourselves, and the Fo-
reign Secretary has flattered us, that we are tak-
ing the lead in introducing the principles of a
free commerce all over the world ; but with
what face can we thus vaunt our •own saga-
city, or recommend our doctrines to Foreign
States, when one short question of theirs exposes
our pretensions, and subjects us to the derision
due to charlatans ? "Do you admit of a free
" trade in Heaven's best gift to man—in the first
44 article of life ?" say they. " No," we reply ;
it

we have an interest to consult ; we have, you
must know—,, fic Away with your pre-1
" tences," say they ; " you are the slaves of a
" local influence ; you have nothing generous or
" diffusive in your policy ; you will not take our
" corn, and we will have nothing to do with your
4C manufactures." And this is absolutely the
fact ; for not only is the vent of our manufactures
injured, as we have arg*ed above, by the great cost
of labour employed in them, but foreign states
have refused to take them, and would.refuse to
take them even at low prices, on the just ground
that we shut their productions out of our corn-
markets. The greatest blessing, therefore, that
could possibly be bestowed on mankind—the
diffusion of a free trade all over the world—is
thus clogged and impeded by a petty local do-
mineering interest in this single island of Great
Britain ; and we assert and can prove, that the
existence of this local interest is a calamity to
the whole world. Nor is the impolicy of the
the Brjtish Corn Laws, with respect to foreign
States, more striking than their domestic injus-
tice. It is a maxim in political economy too ob-
vious to need proof here, that taxes are repealed
for the public advantage and that of the con-
sumer, not for the exclusive good of the dealer in
the article from which the impost is removed. It is
not for the sake of the w ine-merchant,but the wine-
drinker—not for the sake of the beer-brewer,
but the beer-consumer, that taxes upon those
articles are alleviated. The dealer, however, has
the same advantage as ins fellow subjects, and an
additional one in the increased consumption
of the article which he sells. But how many
taxes have been alleviated to the agriculturist,
tie corn dealer, the exclusive advantage of
which alleviation has been arested by him, and
remained with him? Not one tittle of the good has
been suffered to pass farther, to be enjoyed or
tasted by the consumers—the people of England.
The leather.tax, the salt-tax, the tax on agri-
cultural horses, have nil been diminished or with-
drawn ; and in the finance plan of the present
year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has taken
special care of the land-owners and land-
holders ; but meanwhile the articles in which they
deal have not only lowered in price to the pur-
chaser and consumer, but have been gradual-
ly raised, till they have now reached the ex-
tremest verge, and are only kept below the
importation price by chicane. What a cla-
mour was recently raised against the wine-
merchants, because they had not suffered
the public to participate adequately in the
benefit conferred by the reduction of duties upon
foreign wines ! But have the public in any de-
gree participated in the advantages conferred
on the agricultural interest by the removal of
taxes ? On the contrary, has not the oppression
of the public consumer continually increased as
the corn-grower has been enabled to bring his
article to market at less cost ? We do hope,
therefore, that a grand struggle will be made
throughout the kingdom to procure relief from
the present most oppressive corn Incas.

The late Rev. R. W.tr.KEs, Rector of Enville,
Staffordshire, has bequeathed 10,500 Three per
Cents. to the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge, and constituted the Society-his resi-
duary legatee.
CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 18.—On Thursday even-
ing, whilst the sheriff's officers were conveying Jacobs to the
gaol, who was an accomplice in a burglary committed at Cax-
ton, an July last, and who turned King's evidence at these
Assizes against one of the principals in that affair, of which he
has been found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life,
the townspeople followed the officers in great numbers, and at-
tempted to get him under a pump ; they did not succeed, but
be received several blows in the attempt, and the officers were
at last obliged to take refuge with him in a linen-draper's shop.
The crowd still continued, threatening to use violence to Jacobs.
The Sheriff was ultimately sent for : he soon arrived with a
stronger force, and he even then found it necessary to make seve-
ral special constab!es from amongst the crowd, and a post-chaise
being sent for. and' a passage being made to it by the javelin
men, the terrified miscreant was put into it, followed by the
execrations of the whole crowd. This Jacobs, by his own con-
fession, has been in several robberies, attached to a London
gang, and has often given testimony against those concerned.
with him, to save his own life. He was also concerned in Earl
Cowper's robbery, and bore testimony against the two unfortu-
nate men who were hung at Hertford for that robbery. All
these facts getting amongst the townspeople, as well as the re-
mark of the Judge, that he never saw a worse character come
into a Court of Justice, excited their indignation so much, that
had they got the offender into their power, the consequences
Might have proved fatal to him.