The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-05 00:00:00

ATTACK ON THE REV. J. BAGWELL CREAGICS

HOUSE, AND MURDER OF HIS SERVANT.—It is with feel-
ings of horror and indignation that we announce the most dar-
ing instance of burglary and murder which has been per-
petrated in the suburbs of this city for a length of time,
and one which has spread terror and alarm among the
inhabitants of a peaceable and populous district. Yes-
terday morning, at one o'clock, an armed banditti entered
the house of the Rev. J. B. Creagh, Hydepark, in the north
suburbs of the city ; and having made a noise which awoke the
butler (a man of the name of McCormack), he got up and
went out, when, melancholy to relate, they shot him through
the neck, and he expired in a few minutes. Immediately on
hearing of the ,ontrage, the Mayor and Sheriffs, accompanied
by Henry Hardy, Esq., one of the city Coroners, with a num-
ber of Gentlemen and the High Constables, repaired to the re-
sidence of Mr. Creagh, to hold an inquest on the body. The
inquest was sitting for five hours, and the greatest solicitude
was evinced by the worthy Coroner and the Jury to
,ascertain
the most minute particulars. Verdict—" ilful Murder
against sorne person or persons unknown."—( Cork Constitu-
tion, Sept. 30.)
YARMOUTH, OCT. 3.—Sunday last, being Mi-
chaelmas Day, the installation of the Mayor, with the Accus-
tomed public and sumptuous dinner, was delayed until Mon-
day. After the usual formal services at the church, the Mayor,
with the Corporation and a number of friends, adjourned to
the new Hall to dine, and were attended thither by a very
numerous assemblage. In their way they were greeted by
shouting and by the ringing of the church bells. As usual, a
number of pieces of cannon were laid upon the quay, and fired
on the occasion : excepting these- instruments of destruction
were under better management, most melancholy proof was
given that it would be better to dispense with the latter custom.
In the round of firing, which commenced as the procession was
passing down Regent-street, one of the guns burst, and with
its fragments wounded several persons, two boys very severely,
one of whom, of the name of Moffat, died on Wednesday ;
a piece of the gunistruck him on the forehead, and fr.atured
his skull in a shocking manner. It is a matter of wonder
that many more persons were not injured, but it is 'conjectured
that most of the pieces into which the gun was shattered were
driven upwards, as some were found at a considerable distance :
one piece, weighing two pounds and a half, fell in the post office
row, very near a young woman who was standing at a door with an
infant in her arms ; the spot where it fell is perhaps three
hundred yards from the place where the gan was lying, and
from the form of the curve which it must have made to
clear the houses and walls over which it travelled, the height
which this fragment was projected could not be less than
600 yards; another fragment, weighing four pounds and up.
wards, fell from the roof of the Rev. F. Watson's house ; a
pretty large piece was found to have taken an horizontal di-
rection on the quay, and passed great numbers without doing
injury to any one.—( Norwich Courier.)
'Thursday last a Meeting was held at the
Town-Hall, Maidstone, for the purpose of forming a Sav-
ings' Bank for that town and, its vicinity. JAMES JACOB-
SON, Esq., presided in the Chair. Several Gentlemen ad-
dressed the Meeting on the advantages and importance
resulting frOm the establishment of such Institutions. —Reso-
lutions were adopted for carrying the desirable object into
effect, and a Committee of Gentlemen of the town and neigh-
bourhood appointed to manage the concerns of the Bank.—
James. Jacobson, Esq. accepted the office of Treasurer, and
Mr. T. W. Carter, Mr. Robert Hazell, and Mr. H. Shepherd,
those of Auditors and Secretaries. The establishment of such an
Institution has been long desired in Maidstone, and will tend
niuch towards alleviating the condition of the lower orders of
society; for while it affords them the means of a secure and
profitable depository, so must necessarily -be the industry, the
frugality, and the comparative independence of those who con-
tribute to its funds, from which many of them in the time of
need may derive relief, without having recourse to poor's-rate
and private charity.
'There has been, for this some time past, on
Sunday nights, a meeting in Nelson-street, of a party of
Protestants and Catholics to discuss religious matters.—
They - were so keen on Sunday se'nnight, that they created
a good deal of interest, and by half-past six o'clock last
Sunday the place was filled, and in Nelson-street, from
Smith's mercantile academy down to Bell-street, there was
one solid mass of people, all striving for admission. One Irish-
man, in particular, was very determined to get in, and swore
by it Patrick that the man who would not fig It for his religion
-was unworthy a place in society; for his part, he would stand
by it as long as there was a button on his coat. He at length
forced in, but not without discomposing a number of cravats,
and compressing the ribs of the lieges. One, whose ribs had
suffered severely, caught hold of his coat and tore it near the
waist, leaving only three buttons on the breast. On account
of the great pressure, and the apprehension that the police
might interfere, the liscussion did not proceed, and the meet-
ing was dissolved for that night.
The late Lord CAMELFORD, of duelling noto-
riety, entered one evening the Prince of Wales
Coffee-house, Conduit-street, as was his usual
custom, sat down and read the papers of the day.
A dashing fellow, and, as he thought himself, a
first-rate blood, entered afterwards, threw him-
self on the opposite seat in the same box, and in
a consequential tone bawled "'Waiter! bring me
a pint of Madeira and a couple of wax candles,
and put them in the next box." Ile then drew
to himself Lord Camelford's candles, and began
to read. His Lordship then glanced a look of
indignation, and continued reading his paper.. The
waiter soon reappeared and announced the com-
pletion of the gentleman's commands, who imme-
diately lounged round to his own box. Lord Camel-
ford having finished his paragraph, called ontin a
mimic tone, " Waiter, bring me a pair of, snuf-
fers!" They were quickly brought, when his
Lordship laid down his paper, walked rouriO the
table in which the blood sat, snuffed out both
the candles, and retired to his seat. Boiling
with rage and fury, the indignant beau roared
out, " Waiter, waiter, who the devil is this fel-
low, that dares to insult a gentleman ?" Wfiat is
he ? What do they call him ?" " Lord Camel.
ford, Sir," replied the other, in a tone scarcely
audible. The coxcomb, horror-struck at his
danger, said tremblingly;.R" What have Ito pay?"
On being told, he laid down his money, and
sneaked away, without even tasting his Madeira.
DORCHESTER, OCTOBER 3.—We regret to an-
nounce the total destruction, yesterday morning,
by fire, of, the elegant cottage of GEouux-Pu4L.,
ING, Esq. of Bradford, near this town. cln the
evening of Tuesday that gentleman entertained a
large party of his friends at dinner, and several
of his visitors remained at the house for the put.-
pose of forming a shooting party the following
day; but about seven o'clock they were alarmed
by the cry of fire, and their personal security
was hardly effected before the whOle wa;in flames.
Much of the furniture, and the greater part of the
cellar of choice wines, were saved. The -cause
of the fire has not been ascertained, but it is con-
jectured to have arisen from the overheating of
a flue communicating with a hot dresser.—We
understand the premises were insured in the Royal.
Exchange Office at's,ooo4—( Wqmouth Gsgette,)

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

itc•TRAMTS" FROM 'PDE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

October 5, 1822.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We received last night the Paris Papers of
Wednesday by express. The disapprobation
which. England is understood to have expressed
of the proceedings of the French Government
with regard to Spain, and the refusal to co-
operate with the -Holy Alliance in their wicked
and extravagant designs against that country,
will soon influence .the proceedings of the De-
fenders of the Faith, whose success has. not
hitherto been such as to afford them much en-.
couragement. Even with the open assistance of
the French Government, and the power of re-
treating in emergencies across. the Pyrenees, and
re-appearing with fresh supplies and equipments,
they have been unable to do more than haraSs
the villages and small towns, and interrupt the
communications through a wild and mountainous
country. The bands of Quesada are said to be
liow deserting him in numbers. One good will
result from the evil of which they have been the
authors. A number of the persons whom Spain
can beA spare, the monks and friars (who with
the robbers and smugglers constitute this Army
of the Faith), must have fallen in the course of
this irregular warfare, and many also must have
committed themselves in. such a manner as to
bring them within the operation of penal law.

• • [MORNING POST.]
Letters from Smyrna, received at Trieste,
assert that Aleppo, the capital of Syria, had been
destroyed by an earthquake. A similar report
was circulated about this time last year, but
never confirMed to its full extent. Either earth-
quakes are very frequent in that country, and
cities speedily raised_ out of their ruins, or the
present report is only a revival of the old.—
An article from Augsburg, dated the 26th
ultimo, announces that the new Hospodar of
Wallachia had arrived on the 7th of September,
at Silistria, where three thou Sand Turks
were
rto meet him to attend' him to his capital.
It was thought that they would. form his
guard at Bucharest ; and this is what is
called the evacuation of the Principalities by
the Ottoman forces, and what the Emperor
Afexander submits to, in spite of all his Ul-
timatums. Well may that Sovereign become
the derision of his enemies, of his subjects, and
of.all Europe, who after setting up his offended
dignity, assembling a large and expensive force
to,support claims neither extravagant nor unjust,
and putting forth one after the other Ultimatunis
on the terms of which he pledged his honour to
insist,-sitifers him Self to be cajoled or threatened
out of all his pretensions, without any real con-
cession on the part of his antagonists, and at-
tempts to make a merit of his weakness and self
prostration,in the eyes of his Allies and of the
world. The same article says that the Turks
persisted in refusing to send any agent to'
treat with Alexander, and demanded that the
'European Sovereigns should not presume to take
theis affairs into consideration at the approaching
Congress. The intelligence from Spain is un-
important. A .courier, which left Madrid on the
21st ult. stated •that the greatest tranquillity
reigned' in the capital, and the greatest activity
in the various departments of Government. It
was reported that the Colonel of the Spanish re-
giinent, which went under the name of the Im-
Venial Alexander, had taken possession of the
fort of.lrati; but that intelligence was doubted.
The only news from France is contained in a
telegraphic dispatch from Strasburgh, which an-
nounced that the Council of Revision had una-
nimously confirmed the sentence of death lately
passed on Caron.

• [THE TIMES.]
We have received a Ne(politan and a Pied-
montee.e Gazette, which furnish some curious
instances of the anxious desire of the two Kings
Of Italy to please their haughty masters—the
noly Alliance. The former contains an account
of :the manlier in which Ferdinand HI. has
-punished or pardoned his loving subjects for
having established or supported' a constitution,
-which lie himself swore to maintain, and at the
head of which his sou remained till the Austrian
'standard appeared in sight of Naples. Thirty
persons who had been concerned in the revolu-
tion of 1820 have been condemned to death, and
thirteen to 25 years' imprisonment. The Gazdte,
howeVer, is loud in its praises of the Royal cle-
rnenty for having pardoned 28 out of the 30 con-
•detnned,and for having commuted thispunishment
into' iniprisonritent and hard labour for 30 years.
Two 'Were ordered to be executed,Silvati and Mo-
rin", and were accordingly executed on the 1101;
the latter having refused the aids of religion, was
btiried in unconsecrated ground. The Pied-
monies& Gaz..ette contains an ordinance of Charles
Felii for the regUlation of the studious youth
of his 'dominions. The students of Turin,
it will be remembered, were zealous partisans
of the Constitution of 1821, and mainly instrumen-
tal in bringing-about 'the revolutionary explosion.
For this, the University of Turin was dis-
sOlved, and its flue building converted into a stable
for:the horses of the Royalist troops. Like the army,
ithas'bOw been reformed, and, together with the
other seminaries of the kingdom, placed under
an institute that would have suited any century
froni the Bth to the 15th, and no other. All
edtication is subjected 'to the priests. The .stu-
dentS•,dre 'Condemned SUrveillance,, as con-
stant anil more galling than that orgalley slaves.
They are directed in'what houses they must
lodge, what church they must attend, what re-
exeiTi4es 'th6Y- 'most perform. If these
reStirCtions'on threCipirit of youth do not please
the Ifigh AllteOhey'inust be `very fastidious.

raja

.1 •
. [NEW TIMES.]
It hash,been determined, we understand, by
the Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, that
Bargain '.shall be there transacted in foreign
securities, as well as in English stock. These
Gentlemen know their own business best : and
ive'dare say they have judged right in their pre-

'sent determination. At the same time we cannot
agree with those persons who regard the reso-
lution in qtiestion as one of great importance.—
How is it to operate ? We apprehend that trans-
actions of this kind have for a long time been oc-
casionally carried on at the Stock Exchange : and
the only difference is that what has hitherto
been the private act of individuals is 'hencefor-
ward to be publicly recognized by " the House."
In what way this is to increase the speculations
in foreign stock we are quite at a loss to discover.
The great mass of these speculations is now car-
ried on at the Royal Exchange, as it always
must be ; for transfers of foreign stock are not
like transfers in our own stocks ; all that is ne-
cessary to be known in the one case is the price,
quoted, of course, in our own currency ; but in
the other case there is a new element in the
calculation, namely, the rate of exchange. If
I hear that Consols are 812, I know at once what
any amount of stock which I may wish, to pur-
chase will cost ; but if I am told that Russian
Scrip is at 89k, and Spanish New Fives at 66:3-,
before I can resolve on my intended operation I
must learn the rates of exchange with Russia and
Spain, which information is of course to be most
speedily and most accurately obtained on the
Royal Exchange, " the place where merchants
most do congregate."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Papers from Ireland received yesterday
present a frightful picture of part of the coun-
try. The counties of Cork, Limerick, and Wa-
terford, are again a scene of outrage and terror.
The views of the disturbers of the public peace
were last .year directed principally against
new occupants of lands succeeding to the
old tenants. At present. a resistance to the
payment of tithes is the most prominent
object. With this difference, the outrages
which afflict that part of the country are si-
milar in character to those with which it
had been lately disgraced. Murder, robbery,
and wilful burning, prevail in the black cata-
logue of crime. The combination against tithes
is carried on with the most determined perseVer-
ante, and in the most efficient manner. The
country people are warned, on pain of death, not
to draw off the tithe of the clergyman, when that
tithe is taken :in kind. Instances are given in
which these • threats have been. successful, and
the tithe in several places is rotting on the spot
where it is collected. But the ringleaders do
not confine .themselves to this negative hostility.
The tithe-corn is burned in several places, some-
times by'gangs, and sometimes, it is said, by
the .application of some chemical preparation,
introdUced by individuals, which remains in
the rick or corn stack several hours before
combustion takes place. This distracted state
'of the country cannot be imputed to want of
energy among the resident Magistrates and
gentry. They are in full activity. Neither does
justice'sleep. If we take the Assizes and Special
Commissions into account, the sittings of the Cri-
minal Courts may be considered as nearly per-
manent. The country.is scoured night and day
by an armed police, or the regular army, and the
Insurrection Act is now 40'1111 force. In short,
nothing that the civil and military power could
effect has been left undinie-, and of the additional
means of safety provided by the wisdom of Par-
liament in the last Session, nothing remains to be
tried but the new Constabulaiy Bill. That re-
medy has not been yet completely organised and
brought into action. It may afford some relief,
but where such a combination of means has failed,
we cannot hope this measure, However salutary,
can prove effectual. In the mean time the price
of corn in several districts is merely nominal.—
The best wheat is selling in several places for
about five-and-twenty shillings the English
quarter ; and such little effect has the call on the
absentees'produced, that every man who can leave
the country is retiring to the county town or the
metropolis.

[MORNING HERALD.]

The foreign arrivals (though each day brings

its version) are still monotonous ; a retrospect
even of several days will exhibit in their news
the affairs of Europe little changed or advanced.

The French Papers give signs of life, in some
cautiously tender remonstrances, against the in-
vasion which the Police has recently made upon, not
alone personal rights, but the security of property.
The Journalists know their condition ; their de-
pendence upon the simple discretion of the Minister.
The recent law relating to them was explicit in this
respect. The power of suspending or suppressing
the journals was of course to be taken into his cal,.
culation by every person applying his capital and
industry in that way—they have less ground to
complain of confiscation. It is true that they
might have expected that this discretion would be
exercised in a manner less sweeping and arbitrary.
But that which has excited most alarm is the
commencement of an attack upon the book-pub-
lishers, which, if continued, will make that trade
a mere game of hazard. Everybody—at least all
those who know any thing of the matter—must be
aware how innocently a libel may be published
in Paris. Now, if the withdrawing from a
bookseller his licence as such—that is, pro-
hibiting his following his trade—be made the pu-
nishment of a thing so doubtful in all cases, and
so easily stamped as such by the verdict of a Jury
in France, upon any publication not palatable to
authority, it is quite clear, that the booksellers,
a most extensive and respectable trade in Paris,
have no longer any security for their property.
The third class, which has been attacked in the
same spirit, are professional men. Surely a man
who has devoted some precious years of his life,
at a great expence of money and industry, in ac-
quiring the qualification and competence to exer-
cise one of the liberal professions, has as in-
violable a right to exercise that profession which
he has acquired, as a man can have to the enjoy-
ment of a purchased or hereditary estate. It is
true that their rights are subjected to peculiar
control—but on an understanding that this con-
trol shall not be wantonly exerted.

BoTANy.—A, very fine specimen of the Aloe
(whiCh blossoms but once in a century) ii'new in
a flowering state, in the gardens at Nostall-
bridge, Yorkshire.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Liverpool Courier, Oct. 2.)

THE CONGRESS.—The Congress of Sovereigns
and their Ministers have already, it is probable, entered upon
deliberations, on which great results, as to the nations of Eu-
rope, are suspended. Their motives have been, as usual,
violently assailed by the factious of all countries, and their ob-
ject is stated to be to conspire against the rising liberties of the
world. We hope not ; and of this we are assured, that to such
a conspiracy no British Minister would or could become a
party, and his pre*nce there would, of course, spoil the whole
plot, were the other Powers secretly disposed to engage
in it. 'We see, however, no such indication. It is true, that
the sense in which the phrase, " the liberties of mankind,"
is used is very vague ; and against the " rising" and the
the spread of a monstrous abortion, entitled liberty, in modern
times, such a concert of Sovereigns mill:4 oppose a very
powerful barrier; and we are not surprised that the Car..
bonari of Italy, the Liberaux of France, and the Radicals of
England, should look upon this Royal and diplomatic assem-
blage with a hatred which rises in proportion as their hopes of dis-
turbing the world sink. Nothing is clearer than that ouch a con-
cert among the Powers of Europe is demanded by the present
state of things. After long sufferings fr6m the ambition of mili-
tary jacobinism, and tremendous sacrifices in order to re-assert
the independence of their respective countries, it is not to be
supposed that they should sit down tamely to see plots matured
for the overthrow of thrones which their arms have re-erected,
and the system of Europe again invaded by political and mili-
tary adventurers. The movements in Greece are too often un-
justly confounded with those 'of the factions of Italy, Spain,
and England. The principle is utterly distinct, and the case as
opposite as light and darkness. 'We hope, therefore, that
Greece will find a proper sympathy in this Congress,—freedom,
if possible; but if not, at least protection.