The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-18 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yl/011 SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE-1
War-Gyfice, *lay 26, 1825.
INRegim en: of Dragoon G uards—Lienten ant Fran cis Copland
be Captain, by purchase, vice Middleton, promoted in the
72.3" Regiment ; Cornet Thomas Collins to be Lieutenant, by
purchase. vice Copland.
3d Ditto---;Aylmer Lambert Boneke, Riding Master, to be
e,oraet, without pay.
6th Ditto--Lieutenant Robert Hollingworth to be Captain,
by purchase,' vice Schreiber, promoted ; Cornet Philip Wiss to
be. Lieutenant, by purchase, vice •Hollingwortb.
3tl Regiment of bight Dragoons—Cornet John Andrew
lit'Douall, from the half pay of the Ist Dragoon Guards, to
be Cornet, vice Michael Thomas Robert Dillon, who ex-
clianges: -
Ctli Regiment of Dragoons—Hon. John Arbuthnott to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice :Heigham, promoted.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons--Cornet Robert Clifford
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Carmarthen, pro-
wasted- • - •
.42th Ditto--Cornet Hon. Robert Petre to be Lieutenant, by
pt chase, vice Micklethwaite, promoted ; Edward Pole, Gent.
to be 'Cornet, by purchase, vice Marryatt, promoted.
17th Ditto—Cornet Hon. N. H. C.Massey to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Clarke, promoted.
'lst or Grenadier Rt ;iment of Foot Guards—Lieut. Wm.
Fhiyder to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Ca-
. aniton, promoted in the 95th Regiment. , •
COldstrearn Regiment of Foot Guards---Colonel James Mac-
donnell to be _Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase; Lieut.--
Colonel Johh Hamilton, to be Major, without purchase; with
the rank of Colonel ; Lieutenant-Colonel William Henl, . Rakes
to be Major, without purchase, with the rank of Colonel, vice
Mactionnel.—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel George Bowles; Bre-
vet Major Charles A. F. Bentinck ; Lieut. Colonel George
Fitz-Clarence, from the half-pay vice Hamilton ; Lieutenant-
Colonel Francis Russell, from the half-pay of the 12th Light
Dragoons, vice Raikes ; to be Captains and Lieut-Colonels,
without purchase.
-341 Regiment of Foot--Lieutenant- Samuel Blair to be Cap-
- taint without purchase, vi:e Rolland. deceased ; Ensign James
'e-flrant to be Lieutenant, vice Blair ; Ensign Ronald Macdonafd
froca the 26th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Grant.
sth Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Thomas Hall to be Assiitant-
Surgeon.
7th Ditto—Lieutenant Samuel Walker, from the half-pay, to
be Lieutenant, paying the difference, vice Hamilton, appointed
to BlsrFoot.
-9th .Ditto—Hospital-Assistant William Bain, M.D. to be
Assistant-Surgeon.
10th Ditto—Ensign. George John Crosbie to be .Lieutenant,
by-purchase, vice Majendie, promoted ; Thomas Hume Franks,
Gent. to be-Ensign, by purchase, vice Crosbie.
---11th Ditto—William Dolphin, Gent. to be Ensign, by put-
-chase, vice Walker promoted.
i2th -Ditto—Surgeon:Romaine Amid, from the 77th Regi-
men t,eto be-Surgeon, vice O'Halloran, who exchanges.
18th Ditto--Ensign Clairton Lewis Wingfield, vf c.e Bain, de-
. -ceased ; Ensign James Kershawe, vice O'Shea, killed in action ;
-Ensign Warden Flood, vice Darby, killed in action; Ensign
Henry- Wilson, vice Petry, killed in action; Ensign Arthur
Wilkinson, vice Jones, killed .in action; to be Lihitenants,
without purchase.—E.W. Sibley, Gent. vice Wingfield, pro-
moted,- H. C. Hayes,-Gent. vice Kershaive, promoted; En-
siorts•j•osim Edward Orange,frsom the-24th Regiment, vice Flood,
promoted"; Arthur Arundel Browne, Gent. vice Wilson; pro-
moted ; John George Dalhousie Taylor, Gent. vice Wilkinson;
to be Ensigns without purchase.
15th ditto—Lieutenant Thomas Bonnor to be Captain, by
-purchase, vice Maxwelle.who retires.
17th Di tto--Capt.- Honourable Charles Grey. from the half-
pay. to be Captain, vice James Jeffries, who exchanges, re-
ceivingahe difference.
20th Ditto—Lieut. Mark Anthony Stanley to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Swinton, who retires; Ensign James Bayley to
be Lieutenant; by purchase, vice Stanley ; James Charles
Rouse, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice-Bayley, pro.
muted ; Assistant-Surgeon Moses Griffiths, from the 47th
. Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon. vice Devitt, who exchanges.
21st Ditto—Hospital-Assistant James Davidson to be As-
sistant-Surgeon.
24th Ditto--4:nsitsn James a reLibeld Campbell to be Lieu-
tenant; without purchase, vice Baird, deceased; Wm. Gusta-
vus- P.rown, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Campbell ; Henry
Young, Gent. •to be Ensign, by purchase, .vice Orange, ap-
pointed to the 13th7Foot..
2.lth Ditto—Ensign John Spalding, from-the half-pay of the
134. th 'Regiment, to be-Ensign, repaying the difference.
26th Ditto,— .;---- Vernon,- Gent. -to-be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Macdonald, appointed to the 3d Regiment.
27th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant William Williams to be As.
sistant-Surro. n.
30th Ditto—Ensign Henry Hartley Lewis to be Lieutenant,
without _ purchase, vice Trisidder, deceased ; W. B. Staff,
Gent. to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Lewis, promoted.
33d Ditto—John Oliver illunton, Gent. to be Ensign with-
out purchase. 'ice Forbes, promoted.
34th Ditto—Ensign John Reed, from the half-pay of the 6th
Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Wm. Peter Taylor Shortt, who
-exchanges, receiving the difference.
35th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Charles Clarke Hughes,
:>.r. to be -A ssistan t-Snrgeon. ,
37th Ditto—Captain John Rutledge Kell, from the half-pay
-of the 16th Foot, to be Captain, vice Charles Lionel Fitzgerald,
who exchanges, receiving the difference.
41st Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Lewis Pellichody, -from the
49th Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice O'Reilly, pro-
moted ; Lieut; Robert Hamilton, from fllst Regiment, fct be
Lieutenant, vice Wm. Armstrong, who retires upon half-pay,.
receiving the cliff, rence.
42d Ditto—Lieut. Lawrence Fyfe, from the 58th Regiment,
to be Lieutenant, vice Fraser, who exchanges.
47th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Mitchell Devitt, M.D. from
the2oth Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Griffith, who
exchanges. _ - _ • _

b2d Ditto—Thomas Edmund Campbell, Gent. to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Gunning, promoted.

Ditto—Ensign Burton Daveney to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Le. -Merchant, promoted ; William Welbore
Harlington Benson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
DaVeney.
59th Ditto—Lieutenant Robert Whittle to be Captain, with-
out purchase.. vice Butler, deceased; Ensign John M'Gregor
to be Lie.utenaut, without purchase, vice Whittle; W. S.
Marley, Gent-to be Ensign;-without purchase, vice lll‘Gregor.
60th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Samuel Es Goodman, from the
Royal Military College, to be Second Lieutenant, without pm...
chase, vice Siapleton, promoted; Hospital-Assistant Robert
Leslie to be Assistant-surgeon.

• .
65th Ditto—Ensign William Mackay to be Lieutenant, with-
o•it purchase; .Ensign William Amsincloto be lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Andros, promoted in the 31st Regiment ; Chas.
Wise, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ainsinck ; Wm.
Tucker, Gent. to be, Ensign, without purchase, vice Mackay ;
Lieutenant John George Young to be Adjutant, vice Farqu,
hartion, promoted.
eGth Ditto—Lieutenant Frederick Field; from the half-pay
of the 88th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, rice Kenneth Tomline
Ross, who exchanges.
68th Ditto—Hcspital-Assistant James Crawford, M.D. to be
Assistant-surgeon..
71st Ditto—Ensign William Denny to be Lieutenant, by
Tntrchitsc, vitt! St. Gcorse, promoted ; Thomas lie Merchant
7Sauntrarzz, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Denny, pro.
_ _

77th Ditto,—Surgeon Thomas O'Halloran, from the. 12th
Regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Amiel, who exchanges.
73th Ditto—W. Henry Lance, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase., vice Cameron, promoted. •
Ellsti!titto—Lieutenant James John Hamilton, from the 7th
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Robert Hamilton, ,appointed
to the 4lst Regiment ; ilospitaLAssistant :olin Bell to be As-
eistant-sorgeoi.
83d Ditto,—Ensign James Ball, from the hqlf-pay to be En-
oho. Robbins, 4V11() exchanges.
84th. Eitto--Serjant-Major Thomas Nelson to be Adjutant
( with the rank of Ensign), vice Worth, promoted. .
85th Ditto__Gentletnan Cadet .Frederick Rudolph -Blake,.
froze the 1161"al Military College, to Le Ensign, by purchase,
Berkeley, promoted.
89th Ditto—Ensign Thomas C. :Forbes to be Lieutenant,
witboat ptirdiase, vice Kennedy, deceased ; C. Ithacan, Gent.
to without purchase, vice Forbes.
93d Dlfte—flosiAtal-Assistant John Squ:tir, M.D. to be As-
sistant-spigeon.
95th Ditto—Ma]or Wm. Gordon Cameron, from:the Ist or
isr.nadier Regiment of Not Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purcliase; vice Brown, who retires ; .Lieutenant-Colonel,
Alexander Campbell, NVyrly, 'from the half-pay, to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Wm. Gordon Cameron, who exchanges.
. 4th Ditto--Jtospital-Asisistant James Wilson,.M.D. to h
Assistant-Surteon.
!).th Ditto.—Ensign Simon William Mayne to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase,.viee Burke, promoted ; l.ieutenant Wm.
Fleming M'Kenzie, to be Adjutant, vice Burke,.promoted.
Cape. Corps (Cavalry.)—Petex Tooke Robinson, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Macdonald, promoted.
. The undermentioned Officers have • been allowed to,dispose
of their half-pay Commissionat—Lieutenant-Coloncl
Francis William Grant (Brevet Colonel), half-pay 2d Argyll
Yencibles;. Major James Sullivan, hair-pay 83d Foot; Captain
George James'Riddell, half-pay 130th Foot; Captain Pon-
sonby Christopher Whine, half-pay 53th. Foot ; Captain John
_Ferrier, half-pay beat Regimen: ; Captain Thomas Edwardes

Tucker, half-pay 44th Foot ; Captain Henry Brown, half-pay
59th Foot; Captain Frederick Temple, half-pay 7th Foot;
Captain William Frederick Hamilton, half-pay 47th Foot ;
Captain John Hext, half-pay Independents;- Captain William
Flack, half-pay 88th Foot; Captain Alexander Andrews, half-
pay 43d Foot; Lieutenant Charles Butler Stevenson, half-pay
2d Dragoons; Lieutenant William Henry Krause, half-pay
51st Foot ; Lieutenant John Streatfield, half-pay 91st Foot ;
Lieutenant Richard Josias Routledge, half-pay 35th Foot; En-
sign Benjamin Pratt, half-pay Steel's Corps; Ensirrn Frederick
Croker, half-pay 74th Foot.4‘ Ensign William Aranley,. half-
pay Bth Foot ; Cornet JohnTonikyns,- half-pay Ist Dragoons.
UNATTACHED.—Captain John H. J. Stapleton, from the
3d Regiment of Foot, Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by
purchase; Captain James Alfred Scliriber; from -the 6th-Dra-
goon Guards, to be Major, by purchase—Lieutenant Stepney
St: George, from the 71st Foot; Lieutenant Jacob Meek, from
the 14th- Foot; Lieutenant John Gospard be Merchant, from
57th Foot ; Lieutenant Arthur Sullivan, from 4th Light Dra-
goon ; Lieut. J. Roudedge Majendie, from 10th Foot; - Lieu-
tenant Henry John Ramsden, from 15th Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant Alexander St. Leger M'Mahon, from 16th Light
Dragoons; Lieutenant James Burke, from the 99th Regiment;
Lieutenant John Micklethwaite, from 12th Light Dragoons;
Lieutenant George Frederick Clarke, .from 17th Light Dra-
goons; to be Captains, by purchase.—Cornet Alexander Mac-
donald, from the Cape Corps ; Cornet Henry J. Warde, from
'the 7th Light Dragoons; Ensign Nathaniel Cameron, from
the 79th Regiment; Ensign the Hon. Craven F. Berkeley,
from 85th Ree,lmetit.; to be Lieutenants, by purchase.—Rclph
Hall Manley, Gent.; William Cowper Rochfort, Gent. ; John
Edward White, Gent.; William John Hooper, Gent.; to be
Ensigns; by purchase.
BREVET.—To be Aides-de-Camp to his Majesty, with the
rank 'of Colonel in the Army, from the 27th May. 1825—Lieu
tenant-Colonel Robert Cotton St. John Lord Clinton,'on the
half-pay of the Bth Garrison Battalion ; Lieutenant-Colonel.
Charles Morland, of the 9th Light Dragoons; Captain Donald,
Urquhart, of the 39th Regiment, to be Major in the Army.
Commission in the Inverness, Banff, Elgin, and Nairn Militia,

signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the comity of Inverue•s.
Alexander Macdonald, Gait. to be Ensign, vice William
!Johan, promoted.
Commission in the Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Berwiek.
William Hickman; Gent. to be Adjdtant.

MUSTER Ol.' .CHE HOUSEII-OT.D Tnoors.—The 2d Bat-
talion of the Grenadier Guards was mustered on Saturday
morning in the Tower. The other Battalions of the Guards,
and thellousehold Cavalry, will be mustered this day and to-
morrow:

Detachments belonging to Regiments in Ireland marched on
Saturday morning from IVestrninster for Bristol.

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 16, 1825.

On Wednesday, 'the. Egeria,. 24, Captain S. Roberts, C.R.,
returned to Plymouth,
.from Vera Cruz. last from Havannali,
bringing Mr. Morier, late -British Commissioner in Mexico.—
She left Vera Cruz on the 25th of .May, arrived at Havannah
Bth June, and sailed thence for England on the 12th,.bringing
abOut 200,000 dollars, and a quantity of coeltineal,on merchants'
acchunt. The following- extract troin a letter which we have
received from an officer on board, affords the Other information
she brings : •
7‘ EGERIA. PLYMOUTH SOUND, JULY 13.—We left the
Lively, 42' Capt. W. Elliott, C.. II:, at Havannah, }laving re-
lieved the Isis, Capt. T. Forrest, C. 8., which ship had been
cruising six weeks off the coast of Cuba, during which her
boats were Very actively employed- against the pirates which
still infest the entrances to that island, though not in Strong
parties. The unremitted activity and exertions of our small
crafts and boats had in-a great measure dispersed, as well as
-
suppressed the pirates; butat is absolutely impossible to put a
stop to so lucrative a system of plunder, unless the Spanish au-
thorities take sonie.means to prevent the. facilities- which are
forded the pirates, in the equipment of vessels,-as well as in the
sale of their plunder. -There were two Spanish frigates and-se-
veral smaller vessels at the Havannah ; but they were very hi-
active, and their crews ahnoSt in a state of mutiny. The
town itself, and . indeed. the - whole of 'Cuba; is ripe for
a _revolt, and which nothine; has preVented • but the re-
cent large accession of military 'force arrived oat from Spain.,-,
The ,boats„ of the Icarus had completely searched .the-
Laguira de Zerminos (to leeward of CampeChie), and the
pirates had disappeared.; . and she had just sent her .boats
awarto another haunt, 'near Bayo Honda; The Isis had left
Havannah for Chagres.. to' take a large freight ; the Dartmouth
and Valorous for Port Royal ; the Primrose an Renegade mere-
at Vera Cruz. The officers and ship's company of the Lively
were attacked with fever off tlie-Caymena, and Lietit.•
Cock and Mr. Smith, Mate, with several of the crew, had fallen
victims to the disease. Lieutenants Crozier. of the Lively, and
Buchanan, of the Icarus, came passengers in this ship."
This .morning arrived the Fly sloop of war, Captaio W. Fan-
shawe Martin, from the South American station, last from Rio
Janeiro, whence she sailed. on. the Bth May. She does not bring
so late news by a fortnight, as ou last paper contains. About
One million of dams have been transmitted by her to per.
chants in London. The Spartiate (Rear-AdMiral Sir Geo. Eyre).
and Blanche, were left at Rio.

On Thursday night. his Impee.al Russian Majesty*s.frigite-
Kruizer, of 44 guns, commanded by Captain -I.azamir, arrived
liere•from the North Pacific Ocean, and a visit to the Russian
Settlements on the North.west coast of America.. This shin
sailed from Spithead in November, 1822, with a Government
store-ship in company, proceeded to Rio Janeiro,, Van Dierhen's
Land (and was -the first Ituattian flag that ever visited that
quarter), Otaheite, and P,ort Francisco, in-California, at which
latter place she and her consort landed a large _quantity of
Stores. They then proceeded to Mount .Edgecombe Sound, a
harbour in the vicinity of Cook's Inlet, where the Russians
have a garrison and a trading fur-post. Here more stores were
landed, and the store-ship parted company, with -supplies for
the Aleutian Islands, and the port of St. Peter and St. Paul,
in Kamschatka. The Kruizsr, during thiS progress, and in
her - homeward passage, made a few trifling surveys, but
effected no discoveries : she did not go to the northward of 87.
She:again touched at California, anti made her passage thence
co 'Pio Janeiro in 92 days, and in 72 days from Rio to Spit
head, on her way to St. Petersburgh.
On Thursday, the Duchess of York transport, Lieutenant
Green, arrived from the Leeward Islands, having on board his
Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Warde, Governor of Bar-
badoes, Lady Warde, Miss Warde. and the whole of his Excel-
dency's staff-Officers; also 109 rove ids, 14. woriien, and 16 chil-
dren. The Duchess of York sailed from Barbadoes 26th of
May, leaving there his'Majesty's ship Eden, Capt. John Law.
mace, C. 8., and his Majesty's sloop Scout, Capt. Wigstori.—
The ships of war on the Leeward Island station were.perfectly
healthy. The Bellette, Captain Leith, was-at St. Thomas's;
the Ringdove, Captain E. 1,. Rich, at Demerara. • The Eden
was to sail on the Ist of June, with the Lord Bishop of Barba-
does, to visit the, difFent islands of his diocese.
. On Tuesday the Ranger, 23, Captain Lord Hen. Fred.
Thynne, arrived from Chatham, to fit for the South American.
station, and will sail in about ten. days for Callao, taking Chas.
Ricketts, Esq. Consul General in Peru. On. Wednesday, the
'Brazen, 28, Captain George Willes, came in from Plymouth,
'and landed the Right lion. Lord Yarborough, Commodore of
the itoyal. Yacht Squadron, who went on the experimental
"cruise between the Pandora and Harlequin, to witness the va-
rious points of sailing of the vessels. item in at Spithead_
Romney, Brazen, Henget, Fly, Camelion, Jasper, Brazilian
frigate, Piranoo ; Russian Kruizers
On Thursday, June ,13, the Ottowa, Douglas, Master, ar.
rived here from Quebec ire 27 days, bringing Captain Ker and
Lieutenants Blood and Poynter,
.R.A., Major Dighton (late of.
the Colombian Service), a few invalided soldiers, and others
whose terms of service had expired. All was tranquil and pros.
peroUs in the Cariadas, which also presented the cheering pros.
pect of a plentiful harvest. The,law whieh permits Canadian
cora to he imported into-this country, upon payment of a small
duty isseper-quarters, will i. :lace the agriculotrists to put more
ground into tillage. The-pre-eminently large timber ship was
to be launched at Quebec on the 18th of June. She is 301 feet
long, 50 feet. broad, 35 feet depth of held, and admeasures 5001
torts (being 1400 tons more than the lase Colombus). She is to
carry 8000 tons of timber s her builder being a native of Ren-
frew, has named her in hairour of his Majesty," Baron of Ren-
frew," She may be expected to arrive in about a month ; she is
bound to the River Clyde. The American Navy on the Lakes
is cowyletely done away with by the natural decay of the ships ;
their establishment in Sackett's Harbour is entirely removed.—
It is expected, therefore, that our officers on the Lake Ser-
vice will shortlybe ordered home, as our ships which had been
sunk to preserve them, ore now ascertained to he rotten,. the
nature of the green wood of which they were built .being such
as not to allow of snore than ten years'. service.
Dating the recent stay of:the Navy Board at this Dock-
yard, his Majesty's ship Bellerophon (lately called thn Wa-
terloo), was subjected to a moat minute and rigorous exas
mination, in order to- ascertain, beyond all possible dtaubt,
whether or not there were any reasonable grounds for the
alarm which had been excited, by representations made in
Parliament, and- in sonic of the Public Journals, as to her
Materials being in a state of decay. Probably no ship ever
,before.underovent so thorough and trying a scrutiny—in the
progress of which not any Fart of the vast fabric was left un-
explored, and .we have the satisfaction to state that, after
the use of every means by which decay,. if' it existed, must
have been detected,- not -a single vestige, or. even' symptom,
,of deterioration,. was discovered throughout the ship. NV; may
safely !mle our readers to draw their owls inference as to the.

credit to be given to the evil reports so industricnisly circulated
with regard to the state of our navy, which we know to be in a
condition both Of order and effective preservation that was never
surpassed. There were present at the survey of the Bellero-
phon, besides the members
.of the Navy Board and Pock-yard
Officers, Admiral Sir George Martin, Sir James A. Gordon;
Capt Charles Inglis, and a considerable number of other dis-
tinguisecl officers. The Navy Board also inspected- the state of
experiments made on the capper of the Manly brig, by the in-
genious and scientific Sit Humphrey Davy; attended an
experiment as to whether -oak or teak tree nails are of the•
greater strength, when the•latter proved the strongest, by as two
to three. •

;ommissloner Lewis rernoves from Malta Dock-yard, to a
place at the Navy lioard.at Home, vice Commissioner
who retires; after a long period of feithful service, with the rank
of RearAdmiral.—Commissione- Charles Itoss,C.lL, removes
from Jamaica to -Malta._ It is said a well-known Officer of ac-
knowledged distinguished reputation will be appointed a Com-
missioner of the Navy at Port Royal. lion. Mr. Bathurst (son
of Lord Bathurst), is appointed a CoinmiSsinber of the Vic-
tualling Board, in therooin of Air. it. W.Jlay (formerly pri-
vate Secretary to Viscount Melville), who is appointed under
Secretary of State is the Colonial Department.

A.;SI Z 1 NTELLIGENCE.

WINCHESTER, JULY 16.-CIVII. SIDE.

(Before Mr. Ju,tLe Igivr LEDA LE and a Special Jury.)
CASE OF THE ItOuOUGH OF STOCKEHIDUE.

REX V. COOPER.

This was an information filed by the Attorney-General, ex-
officio, against the defendant Cooper, who claimed to discharge
the office of Bailiff of the Borough of Stockbridge : the object
of the information was to call upon the defendant to shew by
whatrright or authority he sought to fill the office.
Some years back the Bornogli of Stockbridge had been pur-
chased froM the Crown by Mr. Barham, the present Member.,
who claiming under that purchase, and as Lord of the Manor,
the right of nominating the bailiff of that borough, had ap-
pointed the defendant, Cooper, to that office. The claim of the
Lord of the Manor was denied upon the part of the. Crown,
and the present trial was ,directed in order to determine the
question.
The evidence adduced for the defence was meant to shew ,
that it had been the custom in. the borough for the constable
of one year to' be appointed bailiff in the ensuing year;
and. it . was further alleged that such practice had sub-
sisted from' the year 16136 to the year 1716 ; and again,
from 1797 to 1823, that the same usage had prevailed.
The next point attempted to be established was, that
the right of appointing the bailiff of the borough was
vested in the Lord of the .Imtnor. This was sought to be proved
by Means of documentary evidence of a very curious character:
The first document produced set forth that the bailiff was
" elected and sworn ; ". in the next heWas said to have been'
" presented and returned by the .lury," and, by the last species
of doctunen la Which were put in in evidence, it appeared that for
th two years immediately preceding, the entry had been made
in the- Court books in this form :—" A. B. was chosen and
sworn to serve the office of bailiff for the year ensuing."
This was the nature of the docunientary evidence:
Witnesses were brought to prove, that for the last two years.
the right of nomination had been enjoyed and exercised by the
present Lord of the Mancha but there appeared to exist some
difficulty and inconclusiveness in the nature of the evidence, as
.far as it was meant to establish this fact. It was proved that the
Lord was in the habit of giving a dinner to the Jury of the Manor,
and that on. occasion of that dinner it was customary for the
bord to drink the health of the person whom he was desirous of
being choSen .to the office-Of ' But it afterwarwards ap-
peared in evidence, that the Jiffy of the Manor, when they were
reqhired to make their election, were previously acqtrainted
with the person whom it was intended to present for their op-,
probation ; and also that previous to time dinner it was costa.
many for' the candidates to solicit the electors; in order to secure
their election. Proof was adduced of this. and that a canVass
had taken place among the inhabitants of the borough_ for that
ramose. . • • . • . •
site was then 'argued by Counsel for the defendant, that the
documentary evidence west to prove that the nomination vested
• itself in the Lord. of the -Manor, -and that the entries ii; the
hooksestabliehed the fact of the Jury having only concurred in
the appointment, for the ourpoeeof placing it as matter -a re-
cord on the borough hooks. -.• .•- • - •
.The CourisehfordheCrown contended, in opposition to this,
that .the terns of the entries clearly demonstrated that therioht
y in the Jury Of the Manor, arid that if they had been resorted
to. men ly to.put the nomination on record, :a diffhrent course
wouid have been adopted. The fact ofcanvassing the .Jury on
behalf of the caudidlo,es was relied on. to prove that the eke-
tion- Wes inaheir hands ; and it further was.urged, that on two
several oecasions_•the inimahitauts had passed by-laws for the
purpose of regulating the right of voting fer the .appointment
of Bailiff.; •The bye.iaws referred to were .to the effect of- pre-
venting any per-Soh:a who shoold come to live in the borough
and not poasess an adeqoate prooertei. froM. voting ; and it was
maintained that such limitations of the rights of voting would
not have been Made if the right ofelectiondid notexist and-was
not possessed by the ihhabitants of the borough.
'lllr. Jilitict LITTLEDALE went theough the whole of the.
eaidence, anti stir :wood era the case in hischarge to the Jury, in
doing-whiclohe said he should principally direct their attention
to two points; which it was fur them 4o determine. .The first
point for their consideration WaS,whetherit had been customary
for the constable of one year to be the bailiff of the next year,
and whether that custom stood established on the basis of a usage
from time immemorial. lie was of opinion the immemorial
usage had been fairly established. It Woo proved to have existed
for two periods of thirty years each, from 16116 tal7l6Ound from
1797 to the present time ; anti as no evidence was given to p: eve
that in the interval between those two periods, frOm 1716 to 1797,
a contrary peactieehad subsisted, they Were. to assume it had
been-continued uninterruhtedlyeand fihd in the affirmative upon
that point. The second.point; and indeed the main one to be
considered, was the right of the Lord of the Manor to elect to
the office of bailiff, and this involVed a question of more difficulty,-
and, as he had said, wail the important circumstance on the deci-
sion of which the case depended. There was a remarkable va-
riance in the tennis of the documents relative to the mode in
which it had been customary to apnoint the bailiff: In one the
bailiff was tleaCribed as " elected and sworn ;" in .another the
wordy ,were, " A B was presented and returned to serve the
o ffice of bailiff;" anti in the third lie was said to be " chosen
and sworn." Surely a word imati been caught,up from each of
the former and inserted in this latter document ; the words
" elected" and " chosen" being • synonymous and of similar
signification. Now the question the Jury had to try was,
whether, upon the face and from the terms of these douments,
I it appeared that the right of ;ip-ointment lay in the Lord of the.
Manor, the appointment being merely recorded or confirmed by •
1 the .Jury, or Whether the &et:meats did not rather demonstrate
I that the election vested in the Jury itself. When be mentioned'
the right of'appointment, he Meant the fact,- the former 'being
. dependent upon the latter in this ca. Se. For hils part, he inclined
to think. that the Jury possessed the Tight; and had exercised
the power, of electing the bailiff, as, if they had, not, he could"
not perceive the utilitycf the documents that had been produced.
If the Jury thought time custom of the Borough had been for
the Lord or time Manor to appoint the bailiff,. they would find
for the defendant; but if they believed the contrary to be ,the
fact, and that the jury had been the parties who were in the
habit of electing that officer, their verdict must be for the Crown.
The Jury, without hesitation, found a verdict for the Crown.

RIDGE v. iii`KAY

l‘lr. CARTER opened the pleadings, and •
.111r.ERSxfsirt stated the car, to the Jury, and said that the
question for their consideration was, whether or not the defend.:'
ant had acted as a trustee to the turnpike-roads leading from•
Basingstoke to Stockbridge, without having previously qua-
lified himself by taking the oaths as by law appointed; and,if
he had done, so what amount of penalty he had incurred, or in
other words, how often he had committed those acts which sub-
jected him to penalties under the existing Statutes. The Acts
of Parliament which appointed those penalties were first passed
in the.2ath of Geo. 11., and-continued flown from 'thence to the
present time. In thefirst Act, trustees cf roads were nominated
......some of them becoming so by, virtue of, their office, among
whom was the Bailiff' of the Borough of Stockbridge. By a
Statute passed in the 4th year of 'the' present reign, the quali-
fications appointed in the former Acts were confirmed, and it
was further enacted, "' That .no person shall ret 'as Trustee or
Commissioners of Roads until he has taken an oath in the pre
settee of another Trustee, or the Treasurer or Secretary to the
trust, that he will, to the best of his power and ability, disharge
the duty devolving on him in his capacity of Trustee; and it is
farther provided, that any person acting as Trustee, without
having duly taken the oath above recited, shall forfeit a sum of
501. for each and every act he shall sr. perform, without having
observed the necessary qualificatiols." All that mas necessary,
on the part of the prosecution, Was to prove these two facts, that,
.the defendant had acted as a Trustee, and that he lied not qua-
lified himself so to.do by taking the necessary oaths; -and if he
could establish those facts, he should expect a verdict in favour
of the plaintiff.
Ssrjeant WrI.DE admitted, that the defendant had serv-
ed the office of Bailiff of Stockbridge in 1324.
- Mr. Henry Attwood—i am clerk of the trustees of
the Basingstoke road, by Popham to Stockbridge, and have
seetr--,the books in which the proceedings of the trustees
are entered, I was present when the defendant was sworn into
office as bailiff of Stockbridge, for the year 1824. [lt was here
intimated, by Air. Sergeant Wilde, that .the defendant could
not have been sworn, as, being of the Quaker persuasion, he
_lsad an objection-to taking an oath. lii r. -.ll`Kay did not dress
lit'/it'( uAer; I have seen hiM fit, cur church. I can tell by

Ylt lIP S
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SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM ..4UDEfir

LONDON,
11.10NDIY EVENING, JULY 187 1825.

The French Paper's of Friday arrived last
night : their contents are not important :
FRENCH FUNDS.—P4-11IS, JU-LY 15.—(From the Etoik.)
—Five per Cents. 103 f. 35c. ; Three per Cents. 76f. 25c.—The
Cours Authentique not received.

• The Dutch. a►►d Pamburgh Mails have reached
us-this morning, bringing Ham burgh and Haar.
lem Papers to the 13th and 16th July. They do
not contain much news of importance, but we
haVe seleCted the subjoined extracts.

An article dated Milan contains a Sovereign
'declaration relative to the nobility and titles
belongitur, to the Provinces of the late Republic
of Venice, which is now part of the Austrtan
'States. These title: are to he confirmed on due
proof of possession, in, the same manner' as they
were conferred, if the confirmation is applied for
within the space of one year from ale date of
the declaration.

The Milan Gazette contains the narrative of
the Emperor's tour, of his visits to the public
institutions, and the rejoicings of the people.
His Majesty tsas at Bergamo the Ist July.

HANONE n, JULY 4.--We learn from good authority that
part of the mines of the Hartz has been let by the Government
to a Mining Association in England, for the space of ten years,
for the sum of 800,000 Rix Dollars. Two Agents of the Com-
pany have arrived for the purpose of regulating this business.
The Hanoverian Army has lately lost, by death, General Hake.
. _ _

ST. PETERSBUIiGiI, JUNE 29.—1 n consequence of the
kesolution of a Provisional Committee of May 3, the duty on

several erticleJ of importation has been considerably diati-,
fished in the provinces of New Russia in order to encourage,
the trade of that part of the Empire ; thus a duty on a 80rk)...
witz of potashes is reduced from 1 Ruble 25 Copecs in silver
to 75 Copecs ; on a rood of raw hides, from 00 Copecs to 40;
since the opening of the navigation, up to the 12th of thin
month; 353 foreign ships had arrived at Riga sailed 211:

EXCIIANGEs ON LONDON:
•
IIAMBURGII; JULY 12.-36. O. 2 Us., 35. 9. .
PETEKSISURCH, JUNE 28.-9. 7-16.
I.EIPsIG, JULY 3.—Three montig, 6. U.
BERLIN, JULY 9.—Three mont , 6.20 i.
VIENNA, JULY 2.—Three months, 9. 37.
AMSTERDAM, JULY 15.-39. 7.; two months, 39
lIREstEN, JULY 11.—Two months, 590.

The Aggregate Meeting of the Catholics or. ..
Ireland took place on Wednesday lasi, when the
Committee of 21, specially instructed to evade
the statute of the last session, made their. Report.
For its contents we refer our Readers to the ' :
account,of the Meeting, which will be found in
another part-of our Paper. , .
If the• purposes of the New Association. are
confined to the. objects developed in the Re'
port aforesaid,
_we feel bound to state they er
pear to us perfectly without the law. They
are not indeed evasions, for the , statute so •
much abused, never "contemplated meetings. of „ •
such a naturerand for such purposes as the New ..
Association professes to aim at. The Govern'
meat never felt for an instant the slightest wish to',,
restrain meetings sirictly confined to the promo. • .
tion of the avowed objects of the new. Associa.-
Elan. lt did not indeed require a Committed,
of 21 to make this. grand discovery, and hav".
tog, made it, we cannot .see how it: helps theol•-1
A legal•inception will not make an illegal s.ct.
good, and if therefore, in a meeting of the nef.
Association, any thing shall be done which
trenches upon the provisions of the late Act, '.'. '
apprehend the actors will find themselves as muck
amenable to the new law• as they Were before
this notable CoMmittee made this no less nota'
ble Report. To say their professed object
is legal would in such case be no-answer, and ID
the minds of all honest men to profess one thiOP
and under cover thereof to
,do another, is, rather
an aggravation than a defence, and places the
actors before society in an odious point of view'
But what is that to the Leaders of the Catholic., •
faction ? what is it to them how odious they crake
their friends ? what care they_ for others if wh-at
others do will promote their interested viov6:
and put within their grasp that power they '°
ardently, so vehemently desire.. Is any man de"
-ceived with their cry ? &hies any Mari belie"
the attainment of constitutional rights, as o'l,
are pleased to call them, is their sole object
that admission to seats in the Legislature Is .0„,1
they want. If there is such a man, let him as'
hinmSelf how many out of the. boasted six •Mipiqu
of Catholics would .benefit by such a 106'
sure ? how 'many are in a situation to take 07.
vantage of the concession, supposing it wet!
made, and then say if it be poisitile that slit.
Millions of people. who cannot, by the re-_ •
mutest •possibility, be benefited, by the re: .
mov-al• of Catholic disabilities, would conse7
to he' Made tools for the advancement U:, r
some dozen of their brethren, unless they hope't !
for or looked forward to something they dare not
utter, but to the attainment of which. all other
considerations tnust.give way, unless Indeed thef
expected the full restitution of the ancient P. 5
Sessions of the Catholic. Churchi her L uneualtho •
re-establishment, with all her ft glits, polf‘o,
.and abilities, or unless (if that hope is too exil4o,'
gant) undue influence had been employed ovi'rir,
minds. of the Catholic popUlai ion 'to:excite tit if
fearsOrstheir cupidity, and urge them into actioll.4
thisis not al'ready,sutficiently ph.in let: he m?'1,11,
of Wednesday sp'ak for us, and we do'assert °tot
is enough there -to spew that a something beY.°,o;.
the mere acquirement of nciliticai rights e"l.'c.
a something which animates all their hopes, gl t
1 0
15
energy to all 'their: actions, and. results ill
aic.t ,
constant restlessness, that incapability of qt"ioo.
which: has for years distinguished the poputu
in Ireland.
' -.: °it'
I The first act of this meeting was to. re-appft,it,
Mr. O'GOlthli:4 their SecretaSecretary. From the best
ness of the heart the month sneaked), n 0....,, •
what (ids gentleman said in returning thanks,pro
" Independent of their (the Ministers) internal di'seiTuglri.
" which he hoped,
Ood Almighty', would increase (gre'thr, (itl'.
" ter), their finances were in rather-aticklish state. Joao, De
" Was beginning to get uneasy, and a -cloud appeale, sap!.
" gatherin,, in time mirth; and there was no knowing; o, (' „hirls-
"it wouleburst. Russia had 1,300,01)0 °
in arms. iiloinen
" at thesecheering prospects, it was suflicientto inspire •
" with hope." •
Fins"
Internal dissensions in the Ministry—'7 who
ticklish—England- threatened by R.uSsi3 cti-
had 1,300,000 in arms, are •cireering Prusli wn to .
for the Irish CatholicS. The prospect Of ru 0,01 '
Great Britain is a !natter of congratulatio9. of
the increase of time ' internal dissensionor4.
the Administration is the subject of the ra'lsso'•
of the Secretary of the New Catholic 'ye
1 ciation.—Soch sentiments . could find. a i) r
Ode •
only in a heart perverted 'and 'an . ee of
standing enslaved by the. fatal 'Mille° ille-i,'
1 which we speak, and worked uP". ,11;00}P'!
shocking:- doctrines • of the: JeSuitical Pe con'
We, therefore, pity the man as much as "'e", '
tenth the thri•at, and we refer to if With eel Ott
mice. But we are more concerned when 4w .00 ,
1 treats rapt
that a large promiscuous assembly conks ril
sentiments with levity. If such -language viva se(i
condemned, it should at least have beef" rei for
over in silence,-and not have formed a sej.iejet ;an§
laughter. We cannot perceive haw 0
jo. disSellsifti'
of time King's Ministry (if they
barrassed -Finances amid time
invasion, would afford a , ' • mereiul Fe
,nbject for id g ii
and bad indeed must dr-
gt man lie who 01 a cif
way to such- a feeihr,-,.. Ott the prospect o -001'
war, or .the subj"agation of a tvhole - colia
and that country: his
andoft
the man own. We are a° .this,
thigh;
iyie:;.tesetetcel)f,abuf:rtif:
conduct, '
tnvoea
is to impute air langhte rrif m.,
1.1)e• Catholics so bad 1 r soc",
but the suiy -exense 'we- can find 'o- thie'
of affairs both at home rt° le'
%vimoancdoual.bdtoasdo, :II
eo:alf
palpableirht
lit; .
„l absurdities
t]
ettriereseoe:ltt: sptilotel...,
h. i, from -I
•PhecY 'silt:4 tremeridom and oveiwheltn" '
bdtwe-P •
‘l?.ealways thougtg the cqntest ' -
nrYtbefs"lolll;:

Catholic. -and Anti-Catholic parties was car.
lied on, both desirous of attaining to, the same
viz.• the good of their country. We are
now, however, undeceived, and find, to our sor-
TOY, and regret, that the object•of the Catholics
is selfish, and that if it cannot be obtained,
ruin and destruction is the price we are
to pay for 'our success. Foreign domination,
brought about by the assistance- and co.ope.
ration of the Irish Catholics, is to take place,
of the mild and enlightened sway of Gconse the
Foultnr, and our Constitution and Laws laid
Prostrate at the feet of a Foreign Conqueror and
his Irish Allies. But let these Gentlemen re-
/timber these are, happily for them, bat vague
'tad impotent threats, and that however, de.
plorable may be the lot awarded to Great Bri-
11°07 Ireland will have her share of the hitter
"Pi and theXatholics thetnselYesebe compelled
•Ie drink it to the dregs.:
•

orfolk (Virgittia) Papers have
loom h
ing to the 9tlune. arrived this
PIItACY AND Mu ttnEa.—The following distressing account
of piracy and murder we copy from the Bridgeport Courier:—
" Alt. and
took passage at New York in the month of
December, in the trig Edward, Captain Fergusson; fin. Ha-
vannah, where they arrived safe, but on the homeward passage,
on the 17th February, was captured by a piratical schooner, of
about 50 tons, commanded by an American,
to be Wm. Paul (formerly of Baltimore); with about forty
who he believes
or fifty naen. -Immediately on boarding the brig, they
commenced liming and
p. slashing amonir
Captain
the c4.7, but
wreaking their ve.ngeance
k whom
they soon Inur4thil by severing rds Tieaunrom his. body: In The
itlcantime most of Poe crew and our informant made the best de-
fence they could, with handspikes Sc.c ; when, catching a mo-
tnentary glance from the eyes of. handspikes,
.piratical Captain, he in-
**tangy ordered a Cessation of hostilities, after most of them
for
had
the been severely .woonded by the pirates'. They then stood in
Wriland, and brought the brig to an anchor, when Mr.
ght anti two men were landed on a small island, where they
remained several aayi, in a siate of almost destitution, till they
were fortunate enough to obtain tr
~ passc.'r m
e in a small droger to
Cape Florida.

.
Rio Janiiro Papers-arrived last night to the
•end of May.. They announce that the Emperor
of BRAz-ites had 'is•pred a Decree to facilitate the,
transactions of his subjects with the British
Cd
1°441, lately thrown open to the trade of all nations. hail :also acgepted the 'offe'r Of the
Senate:to 'raise a imitintwoit to his honour. A
country judge, having pablislied an account of
his having'ascertained that the people .wished the
PiMPEtton to make itim!elf absolute, the ExteEitoß
.issued-a Decree, suspenang lain from the exer-
cise of his functions, and ordering him to he pro-
leented•for 44 such blameable proceedings;'
MR. SECRETARY CANNING.—We are happy to
'be able to submit the following favourable report
1"(le
orning by Mr. CANNING's Physicians yesterday
„, Gloucester Lodge, Sunday Morning, July 17.
Canning has passed a comfortable and is ma-
.t '1 pett disorder respects this morning. Abe acute symp-
ircest nflf the eare now removed, but perfect quiet is still
s-ry to 'compi:lte his recovery."
13E:ATii Op TILE DUKE OF ST. ALBANS.—Died
°"unt ay morning, at his house in St. James's-
.B(ll2are, the Most Noble WILLIAAt -I.3Esvcr.Enit,
(th'btrke of St. ALBANS, hereditary Grand Fal.
I°:.et of England, in the sixtieth year of his age ;
..45ueEeeded in his titles and estates, by his
liuest son, WILLIAM AUBREY DE VEIIE,' Earl of
,I,tFotto, now Dike of St. ALBA:is.
the Sardinian Minister transacted bu-
N„s at the Foreign Otke. of Wit!
•
s')epd Istnficling the repeated rumours of the
m,„ Y (Ilssolution of Parliament, we believe We
h Co% fi4
Weft 114 "Ity state, that at present Ministers
tlt - Teulirtortehdie ‘Oll to appehl to the people before
I,)Attl§, jr -:
1"t year.—(Tinzes.)
.great v;" 'LY 14.—The plague rages with
1. • .o.lanet,
'anr (bat „ at Alextutdria Egypt, and we
lines. hi vessel nosy quaratitioe ut Mar.
114.3 4Cia',.:(lit•:°nl)on'rd. The Board of health
the' long d• "'elf permanent. Enlightened by
ossions produced bY
RarCe the yellow fever
'l4tthe.t,llt!'s‘ the 'Board will certainly take care
as to
4' tits shall not be crowded together so
p”..torolgi7..aLviate a disease which becomes much
Inosidtere. 11° e when the sick are in a pure at-
" 1". viz,. 09" thing particularly is unquestion-
,7.ith'Abe sick to confine persons in good health
"ave.intbibe: unte der pretext that the firmer rri;iy
'(oy t‘
1.1 germs of qlte disease, would be
'lsableb,l"l,"-n, to the greatest danger with ;Ilex-
Tfie Narity.
General short account of a duel between
of.--"ItoAbo and General SEoutt, the
isata able work on the expedition to
' *Onilite.neral 6,;„' 4, from Paris Pa per :-
4emat,l4 contairii,t(rgitr, feeling himself offended by theper.
• Pteyet, , in the work of General Gourgaud, has
%to ted the -4011, of him. Yesterday • the gendarmerie
13 pitict Ituel, but it has taken place to-day. General
cleti,tichth,
.for his seconds General Count Pajol and Colo-
r. erai '"P ; those who a' ccortmanicd Count Segur were
ertberl c4nt Lob teeeiv d auand General Count Dejean, both of them
teeeiv.e4•4 sif e-Camp to liuonaparte.—M: de Segtir first 010,4,4 ote wound in the arm ;M. de Gourgaud then
dot
be that th" the body. The seconds then decided unani-
e eartiNi e combat ryas finished and that the affair should
• ally farther." I
ell'
;I,lealthu'et 011ie LI Majesty has addressed
Itne AG.exprek,4 rto Bat Von ALLENSTEIN, Minister of
Itihtirehe'3's,ter, frc, "15 hiisfaction with the report presented by
•it appears that of 7,782 Protestant
414tY "JestY 8 dominions, 5,343 have adopted the
Jl. L .00 k of
l'e•turn hFonimon prayer, recommended by his
ternce! iV.'j,actq tett hiS !ti thanks to the Clergy, who have so
jor,/110„._..f,h1. ,_s, views,a and met the confidence he has
ree'Y of lee.l:l,lrehge_,,,,:. no doubt that the clergymen of the
itaut'brier„f.' br tthrew!"" follow t.le example of the great ma-
d /No, ro, t, n, by adopting a -measure equally to be
ectr
0, eot,_ ne usefulness of its object, the simplicity of
f otew,',ll_l!able to the principle of Scripture, and the
'tjormation.
`'wall( 1„
to" 12.—The water in Water.
Itioat bkight 4111 within three inches above the
ro4s!'cTeptioll atirlYneri.so that the country, with
fier ltii\red 05.04 some 'very low lands, may be
..q(1 11,,,asrY• This happy change has reit-
tiaviniaar, our" adopted in the Conference at
r,stogiltiot,ttl
tlie 31st May, unnecessary, and .the
s.rtati to its, le treat. North Holland Cattails
the t- 41:114 state.
11'4401e-ter JugE 29.—His Majesty
ht
A. 'red
th-e"11rIg a 4rskor,se,
.evening of the 25th in perfect
vhodeliverslute .‘ happy ay ! for at eight in the
\Vtml'es titthe 61, the fo,"tress
.of Tarskayselo announced
tortl IA r.l christalld Duc.,hess Alexandria ot a Princess,
Ito 1 Mi%ll ji 2-Pest by the ncime.of Alexandria. Mr.
'ell '"°b. --"loass4dor, will. shortly leave us, and re.
Gen e dih„
by Pl'al `c" of tl oSt, psi the Letter Carriers froth the
l'ufnberxtra artipces this mowing, was retarded
Illatb°l iiik,ol of ship litters and an unusual
"Inor, "tile ITui" letters.
.31, • oil 'lltiforthe 170 - ?tad family arrived in Ball
%feral °f June, tvlwre she will re.
reoritli. • '