The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Four Companies of the Coldstream Guards are
ordered to march, on the 24th instant, from
Chatham for Windsor, where they will arrive on
the 27th instant.
Three Companies of the 2d Regiment of Foot
will leave Windsor for Hull, on the 27th instant,
where they are expected to arrive on or about
the 11th of May.
THE BUFFS.—Seven Companies of the 3d Re-
giment (or Buffs) are ordered to march from
Woolwich on the 24th, and to arrive at'Chatham
on the 25th inst. One Company of the same
Regiment is ordered to march from Windsor on
the 29th inst., and to arrive at Chatham on the
2d of May. A. Detachment of 137 men, belong-
ing to the same Regiment, is ordered to march
from "Woolwich to Deptford, on the 24th inst.
Two Companies and the Head-quarters of the
10th Regiment of Foot are ordered to march
from Deptford to Woolwich on the 24th inst.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, APRIL 22.

' CONSPIRACY.
THE KING V. KATCHRIILL, FOWELL, AND PARTRIDGE.
This was an indictment for a conspiracy. It set forth that
the late Sir E. Knatchbull had by a trust deed executed in the
year 1803, secured a sum of 24,0001. for the younger branches
of his family ; that the defendant, Charles Knatchbull, the
son of Sir E. Knatchbull, was entitled under this deed to
3,0001., and by right of survivorship to one-seventh of 3,0001.,
the share of his sister, A. C. Knatchbull, who died a minor ;
that Sir E. Knatchbull, who died in Sept. 1919, did by his last
will and testament bequeath to the defendant Knatchbull a
sum of 3001. that the said sums had been paid to the said
Charles Knatchbull ; that the said Charles Knatchbull became
indebted to Thos. Worrell ; and that the other defendants,
who arc Solicitors, knowing the said sums to have been paid,
did conspire with the said Knatchbull, and did falsely and un-
truly represent him as a person possessed of this property, in
order to deceive the said Worrell.
After a number of witnesses had been examined as to the al-
leged facts, 11r.;WaLFonn addressed the Jury in behalf of
Captain Knatchbull; as did Mr. DENMAN in behalf of the
other defendants, whom he contended could not have had any
knowledge of the insolvency of Captain Knatchbull, which was
evident trona their desire to become his Solicitors.
The CHIEF-JUSTICE, in summing up, commented on the
statements of Powell and Partridge, relative to Charles Knatch-
bull's legacy ; and observed, that if the jury should be of opinion
that they had not made untrue statements for improper pur-
poses, they must acquit them, and consequently Capt. Ithatch-
bull, (who, it would be hard to say, did not wilfully commit a
fraud,) because the charge was conspiracy, and one person
alone could not be gulty of it.
The jury retired for about 20 minutes, and returned a ver.
diet of Guilty against the three defendants.

We have authority to state, that, in answer to
a letter from the Duke of BucxrarcirAar to the Right lion.
the CuANctix.on. of the EXCIIEQUEIt, the latter informs
his Grace that there is no legal objection to the use of
wheat in the brewery. That he had desired the Excise,
before Christmas, to make this known, in consequence of the
wetness of the harvest, as well as that the use of wheat would
be allowed in the distillery. It is of course to be remembered
that the wheat made into malt for the purpose of brewing will
be liable to the like duty as malt made of barley.—( Bucks
Gazette. )
Darlington was visited with a violent thunder storm on Mon-
day evening last. It commenced about eight o'clock, and con-
tinued upwards of three hours, during which time the peals
of thunder were almost incessant, while the lightning flashed in
awful grandeur, and with little intermission. The rain fell in
torrents. We do not hear that any serious loss of property or
personal injury have been sustained.—( Durham Advertiser.)
A Meeting of several of the Magistrates and
other Gentlemen connected with the county, was held in the
Grand Jury Room, at the New Courts, on Wednesday last, to
consider the steps necessary to be taken, in order to introduce
Banks on the Scotch principle of local Stock Companies into
this county. The chair was filled by Lord Viscount Barring-
ton, and the Resolutions were moved by Dr. Fenwick.—(ibid.)
A General Meeting of the County of Fife was
held at Cupar on Friday, the 12th instant, for the purpose of
considering the new Tay Ferry Bill. After a long discussion,
a series of Resolutions were carried by a considerable majority,
disapproving of the Bill in toto.
EARTLIQUAKE.—Extract of a letter, dated
Comrie, April 15, 1822 :-44 About half past
nine, on Saturday (the 13th instant), while at
breakfast, we were visited with the smartest
shock of an earthquake that has been felt in this
neighbourhood for the last fifteen or twenty
years. It was accompanied with two very loud
reports, one apparently above our heads and the
other, which followed immediately after,under our
feet: The noise of these, which were much more
terrific than thunder, lasted, I should think, fully
thirty seconds. It set our kitchen utensils a
ringing, and brought down some of the covers of
the pots and pans. T have felt much severer
shocks in the West Indies, but not accompanied
with such a noise. The, sensation it created in
me was exactly like that I have felt on the deck
of a vessel, on
,her guns being discharged."—
(Edinburgh Courant, April 20.)
It was mentioned in a letter received on Thurs-
day from a well-informed legal Gentleman in
Edinburgh, that the trial of William Murray
Borthwick, for violently taking papers from the
Sentinel Office, was not to be proceeded on in
this Circuit. This intelligence, however, proves
to be incorrect, and Borthwick arrived here in
custody, on Thursday night, to stand his trial on
Monday next.—(Glasgow Herald.)
EXECUTION.—Y esterday morning the awful
sentence of the law was carried into effect upon
the person of Thoinas Dalton, aged forty-five, on
the top of Ilorsemonger-lane Gaol. ,This man
was convicted of a rape on a child, aged ten,
under circumstances of very great aggravation, at
the last Surrey Lent Assizes. Ile was so weak that
he was obliged to be supported up the ladder to
the top of the prison ; being placed on the drop,
the executioner performed his office, and the
wretched man advanced to the front of the plat-
form, and loudly declared " he was as innocent
as the child unborn ; he never, injured the child,
and he hoped.for .tnercy'and the prayers ,of the
people." After 20 minutes being spent in prayer,
the drop fell, and he was launched into eternity.

THE COLONIES.

NOVA SCOTIA.

[From the Quebec Gaiette.l
HALIFAX, FEB. 11.—Agreeably to a notice which appeared
in the Acadian Recorder, a meeting of Merchants and others,
engaged in the trade of This Port, was held in the Exchange
Coffee House, on Monday the 28th ult. when the Gentlemen
who represent the township of Halifax, in the General Assem-
bly, stated that they had been induced to iequest a meeting of
their constituents, in order to ascertain if there were any objects
in their contemplation, connected with the prosperity of the
Province, to which they were desirous of calling the attention
of the Legislature in the approaching Session. Upon the mo-
tion of Rufus Fairbanks, Esq., a Committee, composed of the
following Gentlemen, viz. Michael Tobin Samuel Cunard,
Mathew Richardson, John Starr, Richard Tremain, James
Akin, Enos Collins, Joseph Allison and Lewis E. Piers, Esqrs.
wa appointed to take into consideration the present state of the
conimerce of the Province—and the Fisheries, the expediency
of establishing a Bank in Halifax, of requesting the Legisla-
ture to impose a transient tax upon foreigners trading at this
Port, and the propriety of forming a Chamber of Commerce,
were the several points recommended to their serious attention.
That Committee immediately proceeded to the discharge of
the important duties imposed upon it—and on Saturday,
another meeting of merchants and other inhabitants took place
in the Coffee House, when George Grassie, Esq. having taken
the chair, stated that the Committee, appointed at the pre-
vious meeting, had prepared a report, which was to be submit.
ted to them.

Richard Tremain, Esq. Chairman of the Committee, then
rose, and read the report. It exhibited much ability—much
commercial knowledge—and took a full review of the depression
which prevails in every department of industry throughout the
Province—of the circumstances which have occasioned it—and
suggested measures for adoption by the meeting, which, if suc-
cessfully carried into effect, would, in the opinion of the Com-
mittee, be likely to produce very beneficial results. It recom-
mended an application to the Legislature, for Bounties upon
the importation of Liverpool Fishery Salt, and Merchantable
Fish—for a revision and alteration of the Laws respecting the,
pickling and exportation of Pickled Fish—for relief from the
Sunken Duty on the exportation of West-India Produce from
the Province—for the modification of the Attachment Law—or
the imposition of a transient Tax on Non-resident Merchants—
and of a Duty upon Flour and Grain imported from the
United States of America. It also recommended, that a Me.
morial should be presented to the Legislature, pra'ing that an
application might be made to his Majesty's Government for
the repeal of the Act laying a duty of lid. per gallon upon
Rum imported into Canada from this Province ; and for relief
from the payment, in the first instance, of the Crown Duties on

importation from Foreign Countries. The establishment of a
Bank, and of a Chamber of Commerce in this town, were also
forcibly recommended in the Report. And in consequence of
Memorials having been transmitted from certain Islands in the
West Indies to his Majesty's Government, praying that those
Islands might be opened to the vessels of the United States, the
Report suggested the propriety of an immediate representation
being made to the British Government of the injurious ejects
which such a measure will have upon the interests of the North
American Colonies, if conceded in its full extent, and to solicit
the imposition of protecting Duties in, favour of the various
articles of export from these Colonies to the West Indies.
The Report also pointed out advantages which might be de.
rived from a trade to Ma..da and the North of Europe from this
Colony, and also from the West Indies to Ports in Europe,
and recommended the subject to the consideration of the Cham-
ber of Commerce, should one be instituted, or to the considera-
tion of a Committee on a future day. The Report also alluded
to charges made by Officers of the Customs, &c. in the West
Indies, upon entering and clearing of vessels, and suggested
the necessity of some steps being immediately taken to ob.
tain redress.

HALIFAX, FEB. 13, 1822,
PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE.

The Provincial Assembly met on Thursday agreeably to his
Excellency the Governor's Proclamation, for dispatch of bu-

siness.

At two o'clock, his Excellency, attended as usual, went in
state to the Council Chamber, in which were assembled the
President and Members of his Majesty's Council ; and having
taken his seat, a messenger was dispatched to command the
attendance of the Representative Body. The Speaker and the
Members of the House attended accordingly, when his Ex-
cellency was pleased to open the session with the following
Speech, delivered in a very animated and impressive style :
" Mr. President, and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentletnen of the House of Assembly :
" In the course of the last summer, I had the satisfaction
of visiting a considerable portion of the province ; and I was
particularly gratified to observe a spirit of increasing industry,
and of Agricultural emulation, extending rapidly among all
classes of the inhabitants.
" In some districts considerable distress is unfortunately
felt, occasioned by the great depreciation which property of
all kinds has experienced within these two years : but embar-
rassments, arising from the same cause, are felt in the mother
country, and indeed in every part of the world with which we
have any commercial communication.
Such evils, however, though very serious and distressing to
individuals, are not unfrequently productive ofsome eventual
good.—We have the happiness of living in a country, where
taxes are little known ; and where, under the paternal protec-
tion of a powerful Empire, every man may securely enjoy the
fruits of his labour and industry without public burthens of any
kind to check his exertions. The inhabitants of Nova Scotia
are, lam persuaded, not insensible of this great blessing s
Indeed, the difficulties which are now experienced have already
called forth increased exertions on their part ; and will tend, I
hope, firmly to establish in all classes of the community habits
of economy, prudence, and industry ; the possession of which
inestimable virtues cannot fail to secure to the inhabitants of
this young and growing country independence and happiness.
" Blr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly :
" I shall direct the public accounts to be immediately laid
before you ; and I hope you will be fully satisfied, upon an
examination of them, that the supplies, granted to his Majesty
in the last session of the Legislature have been faithfully ap-
plied; and that due attention has been paid to economy in the
expenditure of the monies placed at my disposal.
" I shall also direct the estimate of the civil establishment
for the present year to be submitted to you ; fully relying upon
your attention in -providing for the expences necessary for the
support of his Majesty's Government.
"'Mr. President, and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council:
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly:
" While Agricultural knowledge and improvements are
happily extending over the Province, I regret exceedingly
that our commerce and fisheries continue to experience consi-
derable depression i • influenced, no doubt, by the embarrass-
ments now so generally felt throughout the commercial world.
" The provincial revenue' being entirely raised from duties
on importations has been very sensibly affected by the diminu-
tion of our trade; and the receipts of the last year are consider.
ably less than those of the preceding--It is satisfactory, how.