The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-21 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 21.
There was a considerable supply of all sorts of Grain last
week, and the abundant arrivals this morning from Essex,
Kent, and Suffolk, form a large market. Our millers being in
want of fine dry Wheat, purchased freely, and the prices of
such are rather higher than this day se'nnight ; but in all other
sorts there are no variations in the prices.—Barley fully sup-
ports the terms of this day week ; Beans and Grey Peas sell
heavily at our last quotations ; Boiling Peas are Is. per quarter
cheaper.—ln consequence of the large supply of Oats our buyers
hesitate to purchase this morning, but what sales have been
made nearly maintain our last prices.—The price of Flour re-
mains unaltered, and Rape-seed has advanced 1/. per last.
Wheat, Old, °Us 45s I Pease, White . 3os 37s
---- New °2s 46s Grey 24s 2W
Rye 16s 23s Beans 95s 30";
Barley 17s 32s Oats 17s 28s
Malt 40s 54s Flour 32s 40s

♦VERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
Wheat, 395. sd. ; Barley, 265. ld. ; Oats, 18s. 7d. ; Rye,
20s. 4d. ; Beans, 255. Od. ; Peas, 28s. Id,
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed.
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 16th day of
October, 1822, is 325. 3id. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, 0CT.21.
The market this morning was well supplied with Sheep and
Lamb, but in Oxen the numbers were not so great as on last
market-day, and amongst them were a great many lean Cattle ;
Beef, of good quality, is rather dearer, but the inferior sorts are
heavy sale ; Mutton, and all other meat, maintain last market..
day's prices.
(To sink the Offal, per stone of Bib.)
Beef 2s 6d to 3s 4tl Veal is Od to 4s Od
Mutton 2s Od to Os OI d Pork 2s 4d to 3s fid
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.
CATTLE AT MARKET.

Beasts
Calves

...VOA I Sheep and Lambs °3,70
210 I Pigs

lIAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 lOs to £4 7s I Clover £4 0 to Li 12s
Straw £1 8s to £1 His.

GAMBLING.— It must be gratifying to our
Readers that a severe blow has at length been struck against
the unlawful gambling-houses which have so long disgraced
the metropolis. On Friday night six of the Bow-street officers,
under the authority of a warrant, entered the house, No. 16,
Bury-street, St. James's, and brought off a roulette table and
other implements of gambling, together with the following
persons, who were found in the house :—Henry Thompson , Louis
Luckeny, J. Bushnall, W. Jones, H. Ogle, J. Smith, J. W neeler,
Auguste Williams, W. Batcheller, R. Saunders, H. Williams,
Thos. Brown, Jn. Francis, Thos. H. Jones, and Fred. Adam.
Sufficient evidence having been produced to fix the charge of
nnlawful gaining against Frederick Adam, John Buslmall,
Auguste Williams, and Henry Ogle, they wete committed to
one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction, and
to the discipline of the Tread Mill. The rest of the party, who
betrayed great alarm during the examination of the witnesses,
were discharged.
fly the Marlborough packet, which brought
the Mail from Lisbon, came passengers the fol-
lowing Brazilian Deputies, who had declined to
sign !the Portuguese Constitution, viz. :—Senors
Aguiar d'Andrade ; Andrade Machado, Jose
Barreto d'Almeida Silva Bueno ; Agostinho
Gomes; Antonio Fejo ; Lino Continho. The
two last are the Deputies from Bahia. The rest
were expected to follow them as soon as the for-
malities of obtaining leave, &c. could be gone
through.
The provision made for the Officers of his Ma-
jesty's dock-yard at Portsmouth, who were removed from their
situations by the new system introduced for the carrying on the
public service therein, has been made known. Mr. Vass, late
master house carpenter, after fifty years servitude, is superan-
nuated upon a pension equivalent to the salary he received
whilst holding that situation, subject to the deduction of 5 per
cent. to which he would have been liable according to the late
Treasury minute, had he continued in that office.—Mr. Saun-
ders Guyer, late master joiner, Mr. Williams, late master boat.
builder, and Mr. Cannaway, late foreman of the caulkers, are
superannuated upon 11-12ths of their salary—Mr. Foster, late
clerk of the survey, has retired upon one-half of his salary; anti
Mr. Grant, late clerk of the rope-yard, upon one-third of his.
The quartermen, in number about forty, discharged upon the
late reduction, are superannuated upon pensions from 201. to
301. according to their several circumstances and length of
servitude.

A dispute having arisen between two weavers
at a public-house, near Bromley, on Friday night, and the
parties having agreed to settle it by fair combat, met in a field,
near the River Lea, where they fought, or rather mauled each
other for nearly half an hour, when one of them named M`Gan,
by a blow on the head, ruptured a blood-vessel, and soon after
expired. The other man's name was Burrowes.

DARING ROBBZRY. Between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday
night, a stout man of genteel exterior entered a linen-draper's
shop, in St. John's.street, and desired to be shewn some
silk handkerchiefs. The lady who was serving in the shop,
placed a dozen of different patterns before him on the counter
for inspection, all of which he seized and made oil with, and
although an immediate alarm was made, he escaped with his
booty.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZXTRACTS FROM TILE DAILY MORNING PAPERS;

October 21, 18'2'2.

[htORNING POST.]

The intelligence from Spain, an usual, is con-
tradictory. The Ultra prints, indifferent to the
exposure which has attended most of their fabri-
cations, continue to give relations of battles which
have never been fought, and of victories which
have never been gained. They have now changed
the date and seat of the pretended defeat of
Mina's army, and after destroying it in the
vicinity of Olot and Bezalou, have set it flying
towards the walls of Girona. Other accounts,
however, prove that it was Milans, and not Mina,
whose column marched in the direction of Olot ;
and that, instead of having met with any dis-
aster, all the division's of the Constitutionalists
were pressing forward through different roads to
a common centre, the Seo of Urgel, upon which
the Royalists were falling back, and where, most
probably, the grand and decisive battle would
be fought. These Journals make no mention of
the older said by a contemporary to have been
sent by the French Police to Sir Robert Wilson
to quit Paris and France in twenty-four hours.
No quotation of the Funds at Paris is given for
Wednesday, being the anniversary of the death
of Marie-Antoinette. On Thursday the prices
-were—Five per Cents. 93f. 65c. ; Bank Shares,
1655 ; Neapolitan Stock, 804-. Exchange on
London, at one month, 25. 35. ; three months,
25. 20.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Echo dit Midi states, that an engagement
took place on the 3d and 4th instant between the
Constitutional army under Generals Mina and
.Morillon, and the Royalists under the command
of Baron d'Eroles, near Olot, in Catalonia, in
which the former sustained a defeat, and the
wreck of their army lied in the direction of Ge-
rona. This statement is not reconcilable with pre-
vious accounts, which represent the Constitutional
forces under Mina as only advancing to Urgel
and Olot on the sth. A decisive action was
expected to take place in that quarter, but from
the dates of the various accounts of the move-
ments of the respective forces it could not have
occurred previous to the sth. A great multitude
of Greeks, emigrating on account of the troubled
state of their country, have taken up their resi-
dence at Marseilles, where they have domicil'.
ated, adopted the French habit, and are treated
with great kindness and respect. An article
from Vienna of the 6th, states that the Duke of
IVellington set out on the preceding day for
Verona.

[NEW TIMES.]
Two financial years of the Spanish Revolu-
tionists have elapsed, and a third is in progress.
At the end of the first financial year there was a
deficit of 1,814,4271. sterling ; at the end of
the second financial year the was a deficit of
3,220,609/. ; the collection of the revenue for the
third year is proceeding at the rate of 3,120,8121.
being not more than two-fifths of the estimated
expenditure ; and besides a trifling loan raised
in Spain, a debt has been already contracted to
Messrs. Ardouin and Hubbard of 7,342,6861.—
These facts enable the Public to judge
correctly of the " application to the Cortes
for a vote of credit to the amount of 733
millions of reals (7,330,0001.), for the raising
which sum inscriptions to the extent of 65,000,000
of reals (650,0001. de renle) are required to be
placed at the disposal of the Minister, to be cir-
culated in the money markets of Europe as the
exigencies of the State may demand." An in-
scription of 650,0001. de rente, the Stock being a
Five per Cent. Stock, is in other words, a creation
of 13 millions sterling of Stock ; and this sum the
Spanish Minister is to beiat liberty to bring into
the market before July 1823, if he finds it con-
venient—a circumstance in itself conclusive, we
should think, to any man in his senses, against
purchasing at the present prices.

Lruc TIMES.]
Eefore modern Europe had those remarkable
opportunities which the last few years have fur-
nished, of contrasting the oaths of Kings with
their subsequent proceedings, there could be pre-
sented no more solemn or satisfactory spectacle
than that of an anointed Monarch swearing on
the altar of God to maintain the laws, and to
respect the rights of his people. Even with the
examples of Spain and Naples before our eyes,
we cannot entirely divest ourselves of the awe or
of the gratification which naturally belongs to
such a noble ceremony. And these sentiments
become the more powerful, ‘v hen the Sovereign
who contracts an engagement with his subjects has
never yet been a party to any treachery, or shown
an example of any wickedness or weakness tending
to throw suspicion upon a royal pledge, and to
impair in the minds of reasonable men the gene-
ral guarantee of political and moral obligations.
Such a Sovereign, so far as we have hitherto seen,
is John VI., King of Portugal and Algarves.—
The last post from Lisbon brings the account,
with its details, of his Majesty's acceptance of,
and oath to, the Constitution, the bases of which
have been formally completed by the National
Cortes. This ceremonial took place on the Ist.
instant, and the oath was preceded by a speech
from his Majesty, containing some animated and
impressive declarations of the Royal feeling. In
the presence of the Cortes, of the Dignitaries of
State, of the Portuguese Nobility, and of the
Foreign Ambassadors, the King appealed with
emphasis (and, as we have said, he has done
nothing to deprive such an.appeal of its full effect
upon the audience) to the decisive proofs which
under difficult circumstances he bad given to his
people of the love he bore them, and of the up-
rightness which became(which was indeed essential
to) his own dignity. He acknowledged that his
cause was inseparable from that of the nation ;
and for the sincerity of his spontanions promise
to support it, he again appealed to " the probity
" and firmness which they knew him to possess:"

[MORNING - CH RONTCLE.]

No one who remembers what Portugal was,
even two years ago, can contemplate the scenes

which took place at Lisbon on the Ist instant,
without mingled emotions of exulting pride and
delight. Whoever contemplates such
,a scene
must necessarily be inspired with the most pro-
found respect and veneration for those daring
men who first planned and effected the Revolu-
tion, and then, by their perseverance and la-
bour, crowned the glorious work by giving to their
fellow-countrymen a constitution, congenial to
their wants and wishes, and at the same time
acceptabble to their Monarch. This is a scene
Europe at this moment contemplates with admi-
ration ; and though in the angry and unguarded
moments of irritated feeling, different sentiments
have been hastily expressed in some of the State
Papers, to which the present contest in the
Brazils has given rise, this is a spectacle which
every Brazilian must also look upon with
pride. To suppose the contrary were to in-
sult their good sense, and belie the very prin-
ciples they themselves put forth to the world.—
The Brazilians have rights which no liberal Por-
tuguese can dispute, and these can certainly be
proclaimed and maintained, without offering
insult to the regenerators of the parent state,
whose merit were indeed acknowledged from one
extreme to the other of the Brazils, when the
Revolution in Portugal took place, and the
Brazilian Deputies were elected to the General
Cortes. The regenerators of Portugal, and the
framers of the new Constitution, enjoy a hap-
piness that rarely falls to the lot of the great
political benefactors of the human race. Their
lives have usually been embittered by envy and
persecution, and they have been compelled to
look to posterity for the just appreciation of
their labours. The Liberals of Portugal, how-
ever, already see their labours rewarded by the
gratitude of their own countrymen, and the ap-
probation of every sincerely liberal and enlight-
ened man in Europe,

[MORNING HERALD.]
But little further light has been thrown upon
the affair of Mr. Bowring—and even that little is
quite uncertain. According to one account, he
is to he tried on the simple charge of violating
the Post-office law, which subjects to a penalty
any traveller charging himself with sealed
letters. But it is also said, that upon inquiry
made by some of Mr. Bowring's friends, at the
French Legation in London, it was intimated,
but not officially, that there is a suspicion of his
being someway connected with the recent un-
executed plot for the rescue of the four persons
wholately suffered the punishment of death at
Paris. It appears that the presence of Sir R.
Wilson at Paris has also become disagreeable to
the French Ministry, for he has received orders
to leave France. Sir Robert declares that his
receiving this notice can have no connection
with the arrest of Mr. Bowring, and, further,
that he had conducted himself in France, during
his visit, in such a manner as to afford no reason-
able ground of offence. Both these acts of the
French Government may, for aught we know,
be unjust and vexatious ; but still the outcry
against the Bourbons is quite extravagant.—
Suppose Buonaparte were still ruler of France,
would that country be as securely open to
English visitor& as it is now ? Would the Eng-
lish at Paris dare to use the bravado freedom of
speech which so many of them do use now, out
of mere conceit and affectation. They would
soon find themselves consigned, not to the Pro-
cureur Imperial, but to the Keeper of one of
the State dungeons, without the means of
letting the world know what had become of
them. The worst that can be said of the Bour-
bon Police is, that it makes some approaches,
though still very distant, to that of Buonaparte.
Nothing could be at once more oppressive and
more petty than the despotism which he exer-
cised, not only over aliens, but over the French
themselves—even in private society.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FRIDAY, OCT. 19.

A GAMING HOUSE.
THE KING V. JOHN FIELDER AND JOHN ALDRIDGE.

This was an indictment against the defendants for keeping a
common gaining house. The first count described the house
to be situate in Bennett-street, in the parish of St. James's,
Westminster ; and the second described it to be situate in Ben-
nett-street merely, without adding any parish.
The COMMON SERJEANT (with whom was Mr. Rotch)
stated the case for the prosecution, and represented it to be
one deserving their most serious consideration. It was an in-
dictment for one of the most obnoxious nuisances with which
society was afflicted—the keeping a common gambling-house—
tending to debauch the morals of youth, and defraud the un-
wary of their property. Indeed it was unnecessary to enter
into any detail as to the character of a nuisance which was but
too extensive in this great metropolis—an evil in some mea-
sure to be attributed to the difficulty of bringing the offenders
to justice. The defendants were the keepers of a notorious
gambling-house in Bennett-street, St. James's. The prose-
cutor was a young man who, shortly after he came of age,
and had arrived in this country from India, became pos-
sessed of a considerable property. With the heedlessness
and folly of youth, he was seduced to enter the defendants'
house, where he soon became the victim of those wicked
practices which had for years been there carried on with im-
punity. Sunk in the vortex of dissipation, he lost every shil-
ling he possessed in the world, and was shortly afterwards con-
signed to a prison, destitute of the common necessaries of life.
In the hour of distress he wrote to the defendants, representing
to them his deplorable situation, and beseeching them to afford
him some assistance to keep him from absolute starvation, and
at the same time reminding them thathe had been ruined by the
practices allowed in their house. To this application he re-
ceived a cold answer from the defendants, disclaiming all know-
ledge of him—saying that they knew nothing of him at the
period to which he alluded, and refused any relief. His situ-
ation became known to his friends, and they relieved him from
his embarrassments, upon condition that lie should bring the
authors of his ruin to justice. He now, therefore, summoned
courage to confess his own folly and weakness to a jury, in the
hope that his example would be an awful warning to other
young men in his situation. A conviction in such a case as this,
if well founded, could not fail of benefiting society.
'Thomas Erskine Grant, the prosecutor, a young man of dark
complexion, deposed, that he knew the defendants; he became
acquainted with them in Bennett-street, St. James's, in the
month of October 1819, where they kept a gambling-house.
Between the 25th of October 1819, and the 11th of September
1820, he was in the habit of frequenting their Rouge et Noir
table upon an average of three nights in the week. He gene-
rally entered the room at ten at night, and quitted between
eleven and twelve; he frequently lost money; has seen the de-
fendants act as masters of the house, by ordering the waiter to
bring refreshments, and lending money to the gentlemen fre-
quenting the table ; he has seen Aldridge deal the cards ; when
he got into the Marshalsea Prison, he applied to the defendants
twice for relief; this was in March 1820; he received a note from
Aldridge, stating, with his compliments, that he had not had
the pleasure of his acquaintance during the months to which he
alluded, as he (Aldridge) was then from home.
In his cross-examination by Mr. AnoLnius (with whom
was Mr. D. F. JoxEs), he swore positively that he had seen
both the defendants acting as masters of the house, in the way
mentioned during the early part of the period comprehended by
the indictment. He had preferred four other indictments for
similar offences ; none of them had been tried. He had ac.

cepted 50/. from one of the defendants, by the recommendation '
of his former attorney, to enable him to carry on this prosecu-
tion, asle was very much distressed for money. Did not know
in what parish the house was situated, but it was called Ben-
nett-street, St. James's.
One of the Jury here said that Bennett-street was not in the
parish of St. James, but was, in fact, in the parish of St. George,
Hanover-square.
Mr. ADOLPHUS then submitted that the indictment must
fail on both counts ; for the first described the house to be in
the parish of St. James, which was contrary to the fact ; and
the second mentioned no parish at all, which it clearly ought
to have done, the parish being part of the description of the
I offence. _

The CHIEF JUSTICE said, the defendants were certainly
entitled to be acquitted on the first count, but he should not
direct an acquittal on the second, being of opinion that the
description of the house, generally, as being in Bennett-street,
was sufficient. If this count could not be supported, the de-
fendants should have the benefit of the objection hereafter, if
it was available, and the verdict should authorise a motion in
arrest of judgment.
Mr. An oEPHITS then went to the Jury, and insisted that this,
so far from being an honest prosecution, was instituted merely
for the purpose of extorting money. This, he insisted, was
evident from the manner in which the indictment was framed,
inasmuch as nothing could have been more easy than to state
the parish correctly in which the house was situated. It was
still further confirmed by the fact that the prosecutor had re-
ceived a sum of 501. from one of the defendants. He proposed
to shew, first, that the house was situated in the parish of St.
George, and not in the parish of St. James • and, second, that
the defendant, Mr. Fielder, and ceased to have any connection
with the house before and after the month of October 1819, to
which period the charge in the indictment was directed.
A parish officer of St. George proved that Bennet-street was
in that parish, and not in the parish of St. James, as was com-
monly reported.
James Golding a porter, and George Tunkiss, a waiter in the
gambling house, swore that in June 1819 the defendant, Mr.
Fielder, ceased to have any thing to do with the controul, ma-
nagement, or ownership of the house. As to the other defend-
ant, they admitted that he was master during the period in
question.
Mr. DENMAN replied with his usual ability on behalf of the
prosecution, and contended that the case was clearly made out
upon the evidence of the prosecutor.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the rvidence for
the Jury, telling them that they were bound to acquit the de-
fendants of the first count, and they would say whether as to
the second the evidence would warrant a verdict of guilty.
The Jury, after ten minutes consideration, returned a verdict
of Not Guilty upon the first count ; but Guilty upon the second.

THE EARL OF BRISTOL V. WILSMORE AND ANOTHER.
This was an action on the case against the defendants, for
rescuing sixty sheep, the property of a person named Millar,
after they had been taken in execution under a writ of fi. fa.
directed to the Sheriff of Suffolk, by hint transmitted to tile
plaintiff, as High Steward of the manor and liberty of Bury St.
Edmund's.

Mr. SCARLETT and Mr. D. JONES conducted the plaintiff's
case, and Mr. MAURYAT and Mr. WALFORD the defendants'.
The case, as disclosed in evidence on both sides, was this :
One of the defendants, Page, a farmer, of Suffolk, had
sold sixty sheep for the sum of 851. in May, 1821, to one
Millar, who rented about an acre of land at Nayland, in Suf-
folk, as tenant to the defendant Wilsmore. The sheep were to be
paid for in ready money on delivery. When they were delivered,
Millar gave a check for the amount on his bankers at Colchester, to
Page's servant, telling him it was as good as cash, and that he could
get it changed at the banker's. The check was not presented until
two or three days afterwards, and then it was discovered that
Millar had no effects in the hands of the bankers, although he
had kept cash with them, but never to the amount of 851., and
was then overdrawn 13s. 6d. Just prior to the delivery of the
check, Miss Carver, sister-in-law of Millar, obtained from the
latter a warrant of attorney for 4001., and judgment being en-
tered up as soon as possible, an execution was taken out, and
process delivered to the Sheriff to levy on Millareffects at
Nayland; but that place being within the local jurisdiction of
the plaintiff; it was transmitted to him to execute. It was exe-
cuted accordingly, and the sheep in question levied. As soon
as Page, the vender, discovered the trick which had been played
upon him by Millar, he was determined to regain possession of
the sheep, and in concert with the other defendant Wilsmore,
it was arranged, that during the night-time the sheep should
be driven from the pasture in the occupation of Millar, into
a corn-field of Wilsmore's adjoining, and then driven to
the pound for the trespass. This plan was accordingly
carried into execution. Part of the fence was removed in
the night, the sheep got into Wilsmore's corn-field, and at
three in the morning were driven to the pound by a servant of
the latter, and by his order were afterwards released from pound
and delivered over to page. The plaintiff being called to make
a return to the writ, returned that he had levied the sheep, but
that they had been rescued in the manner above stated. Upon
which he was sued for a false return, and after declaration deli-
vered, he compromised the action, and paid the value of the
sheep, together with costs, to the judgement-creditor, whose
execution had been thus defeated. The plaintiff now brought
his action against the defendants to recover the amount of the
money so paid, and for which he became liable in consequence
of their proceeding. Before the plaintiff' had compromised the
action with the judgment-creditor, he had given notice of it to
Page, and offered to defend it upon an indemnity, but the latter
declined the proposal. It appeared that Millar had absconded
in debt, and could not be found.
It was contended on behalf of the defendants, that they were
not liable in this action—first, because the sheep in question
had been detained by Millar by fraud, and therefore the pro-
perty in them had not passed to him so as to authorize the
plaintiff to take them in execution; and secondly, that plaintiff
or his agent had had full notice of the circumstances under
which they had been obtained by Millar from Page; and con-
sequently he alone was concluded by the return which lie had
made, and with which the defendants had nothing to do.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE was clearly of opinion, in point
of law—first, that the property in the sheep did pass.to Millar,
by the transaction between him and Page, because the latter
had given him credit for them, under circumstances which did
not amount to a fraud in law ; and second, that supposing
there to be a fraud in the transaction, the plaintiff also stood
in the situation of sheriff; and was bound to execute the pro-
cess, and had no right to inquire into Millar's title to the pro-
perty. On these grounds, his Lordship thought the plaintiff
entitled to a verdict.

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The Jury found their verdict for the plaintiff-901.

Drury-lane Theatre exhibits an unique appear-
ance from having the fronts of two prominent
private boxes closed—one belonging to Mrs.
Courrs, the other to Mrs. GARRICK. For the
honour of the Drama, and highly to the credit of
the Sub-Committee of that Theatre, when it was
let to Mr. ELLISTON, an especial clause was in-
serted in the lease, guaranteeing to Mrs. GAR-
RICK for life, the uncontrouled possession of this
box, without any consideration whatever.
EGERTON has taken the Olympic Theatre, for
three years, at one thousand pounds per annum.
It is now undergoing a complete repair, and will
shortly open with very great eclat, having Mrs.
EGERTON as its heroine.