The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-17 00:00:00

COLONEL BERKELEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
Journal Office, Cheltenham, March 14.
Sta—Herewith I send you the particulars of an atrocious
outrage committed upon the Editor of this Journal, at three
o'clock this afternoon, by Colonel BERKELEY, who, in company
with two persons in the garb of Gentlemen, called at the resi-
dence of the aforesaid Editor (Mr. JUDGE), at 13, Northfield_
place, in this town, and inquired if Mr. J. was at home ? The
servant answered in the affirmative. " Then tell him we wish
to speak to him—is he alone ?" " Yrs." Mr. J. desired them
to walk in, when the following conversation ensued :
Col. 13.—Pray, Mr. Judge, will you give up the author of
those papers that have appeared in the Cheltenham Journal ?
Mr. J.—As I have no knowledge of you, will you do me the
favour to say whom I have the honour to address ?
Col. B.—Colonel Berkeley, Sir.
Mr. J.—Then, Sir, if you will wait upon me at the Office,
I shall be happy to give you every satisfaction.
Col. B. and his two Friends.—No, Sir ;'—Now, Sir—Now,
Sir—Now, Sir !
When, without further ceremony, Colonel B. commenced
the most atrocious attack upon Mr. JUDGE, by beating him
over the head and face with the but-end of a hunting whip,
while one of his companons secured the door of his room, and
the other placed himself before the fire, as if to prevent Mr. J.
from seizing any implement for his defence. In the scuffle,
Mr. J. was thrust into the passage, where some heavy blows
were inflicted in the presence of several witnesses, which cut
Mr. J.'s eye and cheek in a dreadful manner.
In the course of an hour BERKELEY ordered his carriage,
and left this town for Gloucester.

Mr. JUDGE continues very ill ; but I am happy to say, not
dangerously.
You may rely upon the correctness of this communication,
and it is at your service.—l am, your obedient servant,
JOHN JOSEPH RADIX'S",
Joint Proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal,
Monday, five o'clock, March 14, 1825.

HARRIET'IT WILSON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Adelphi, Wednesday, March 16, 1825.
Sin—l observed in a letter, signed an " Old Rake," in The
Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, an insinuation which it was
impossible I could misunderstand. It relates to nay having
borne a part in the production of Miss Harriette Wilson's Me-
moirs. report to that effect has very generally hut unduly
prevailed in private ; yet r did not, conceive myself authorized
to trespass on the columns of a Newspaper with my denial of
that imputation, until it appeared, directly or indirectly, in the
same public manner.
I formerly incurred considerable odium by the circulation of
a rumour equally untrue, which attributed to me a novel,
called " Six Weeks at Long's." On the merit of such works,
I do not presume to offer a remark.; yet, I trust you will do
me the favour to insert my unequivocal and solemn declara-
tion, that I never saw or even heard of Miss llarriette Wilson's
Memoirs, until their appearance in
sn tihaemsh, shops, ayloidurthoabtedlidenidt
not, in the reotestlegree, contribute to their contents, their
servant, S.
or their publicatiso.n.i.EßTlE AMBROSSE.

BOW-STREET.—The young lad who was apprehended by
the order Sir Richard Birnie, for selling in the streets " the
Adventures of Harriette Wilson," was discharged after a few
hours confinement, and advised in future to pursue his business
of a shoe-maker.—The Magistrate also said, that the books
should he detained at the office until the right owner appeared
and claimed them.

We are informed that the ports in the French
Islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe have been thrown open
for the admission of rum from the British Colonies. Should
this intelligence prove correct, and we have received it from the
most respectable source, the measure will probably be found to
have reference to the removal of British prohibitory colonial
commercial restrictions, which Mr. liuskissoa the other day
stated would be removed in the course of the present Session.--
It will be another outlet for rum, which will find its way from
the French Islands into Prance.—L(G!,:sgory Courier.)

A new Gas Company has Iwen lately formed
at Brighton, with a capital of 620,0001.,• and the
whole of the shares are disposed of.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

KINGSTON, WEDNESDAY, lIIARcx 16.

CANFo RENRICK,'ESQ.
This was an action b ought by Martin M. Canfor, a butcher.
living in Church-street, Stoke Newington, against «'il4o,
Kenrick, Esq., a magistrate of the county of Surrey, to recover
damages fbr an assault and false imprisonment.
.Mr. TstEssGER opeod the pleadings. The declaration
stated that the defendant hail s.ssaulted the plaintiff, and kept
and detained bins in prison without any reasonable or probs•
ble cause, and violently and outrageously seized, and searched,
and took from his person, a letter and a fleece belonging
him. The defendant pleaded " Not guilty," on which pie*
issue was joined.
Mr. Al ARRYATT was about to state the facts to the Jury,
when he was interrupted by a communication from Mr. GurneY;
the defendant's Counsel, which Mr. Marryatt said he regretted
had not been made sooner.
A long conference then took place between the Counsel
both sides, after which
Mr. MARRY-ATT informed the Learned Judge and the Jury.
after expressing his regret that what he was about- to mention
had not taken place before the pleadings were opened, that on
arrangement had been made between the parties. Mr. Kenrick.
-he said, was a gentleman whom he had long known, but lie
had in this instance committed a mistake, without, however,
doing any material wrong • and he now proposed to pay the
plaintiff a suns of 51. together with his costs; which proposal
was agreed to by the plaintiff.
A verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff, damages
Si. ; the defendant undertaking to pay all the plaintiff's costs
both ordinary and extra.

STAFFORD, AlAncit 15.
(Before Mr. Justice LIT TLEDALE. )
Thomas Powell, a man having the appearance of a farrnerf.,
of about forty years of arse, was tried for the wilful murder of
Anne Spencer, the wife of a poor old cottager. After.
long trial,and the examination of many witnesses,theJury having
deliberated for near a quarter of an hour, found the prisona
guilty. The Judge, after a feeling address, passed sentence
cf death on the prisoner, whom he ordered for execution (thif
day) on Thursday morning.

PHRENOLOGY AND DR. SPURZHEINL

(Further Particulars.)
Dr. SPURZHEIM began on Tuesday night last. a course of
Lectures on his favourite science, at the Crown and Ancher
Tavern. This science, since it came from the brain of Dr-
Gall, and entered into a combination of metaphysics, hat
changed its name. At first it was humbly denominated "era"
niology," or the knowledge of craniums; and pretended to
draw the indication of human talents or propensities from the,
appearances of the skull, as fortune tellers deduce the history of.
their dupes from the palms of their hands. It is now elevated
to a nobler class of knowledge, and designated by an appella"
don which Locke or Aristotle might have applied to the sub-
ject of their studies. Dr. Spurzheim does not flinch from the
consequences implied in the change of tide, but maintains it
with all the responsibility which may attach to it in his future
course of prelections. He appears bound to ingraft
system of metaphysics on the anatomy of the brain
to point out the seat of imagination with a dissectini
knife, and convince us that wit, philosophical acumen, bent;
valence, and piety, depend upon particular developements
the cerebral mass. The doctor that night madebut little pr°'
gress in the course which he intends to pursue. In his intro'
ductory discourse, it was to be expected that he would demon"
strate the importance of the knowledge which he means t°
communicate ; and he accordingly gave us hints that it would
be useful to the medical man, the superintendent of education,
and the artist. The first could not know how to treatinsanity, for
instance, without knowing the sound state ofthe organ on which
thought and judgment depended. The second could not guide or
instruct the young, without being acquainted with the nature
of the dispositions and capacities on which lie was to work : and
the third would be inaccurate in his delineations of the passions
or mental operation, without being conversant with the forms by
which they were invariably indicated. In speaking on this last
topic, the doctor allowed the general accuracy of the ancient sta-
wades ; and illustrated it in the marked distinction which they
placed between gladiators and philosophers—between the ex-
pression of intellectual power anti the signs of animal energy"
—The head of Venus de Medicis, whose expression of counte-
nance was so enchanting, sinned against this general accuracy.
—Strip it, said he with great naivete, of its hair, its skin, and
its cranium, and there is not space enough for a quantity ef
brain to manifest common sense. lie should have added,-
for the sake of doing justice to the ancient Greek piety wits
respect to this celebrated goddess, that the head of this sit"
is now almost universally believed to be a modern fabilcr,
tion, placed on the antique body. After stating a few troths
which no man would he hardy enough to dispute, as ge-
neral neral propositions—such as, that no hotly has yet been 10°0
to think without a head, and that no man's head would be .°
much service to the world without brains—the doctor gave 115
to believe that the celebral substance was to be considered
the seat of thought ; that where it was deficient the intellect of
e
the indiaidual was deficient—that where it was diseased, the,
mind was likewise impaired—and that in cases where a part 51t
it was absorbed or destroyed without a consequent diminution
of mental energy, the apparent anomaly was to be explained• by
the fact that all the organs of the brain were double, and that
the one side might be sound while the other was injured or d.e'_
cayed. The developement of his system naturally follows the
statement of these facts. That system rests on two principle:,
which the doctor is bound to explain and support—first, th-t,.
the mind operates through the medium or instrumentality et
separate powers or faculties ; and secondly, that these separate
faculties are manifested by separate organs or portions of the
brain, which may be submitted to the examination ofthesenses'
If we grant him these postulates, the doctrines of phrenology
would then, indeed, be of unspeakable importance to the,
world. What prudent man would commence the education o'
his children without procuring a disciple of the doctor's to ex'
amine their heads, and to report on their capacities or prePen-r
sities ? Who would send his son to the army destitute
combativeness ? What mother would insist on her daughter
spending her time at learning the musical characters, or
wearing her fingers on the harp, if destitute of the faculty of
tune ? If ideality or poetical imagination could be determine"
by a measurement of the cranium, a bookseller would have an
easy mode of deciding • on the value of a poetical production
offered for sale, without seeing the manuscript. He wool?'
only have to send a phrenologist to report upon the breadtr
of the author's head above the ears. No cautious master
of a household would hire a servant, without ascertaining OF"
ther he or she possessed the bump of covetousness ; nor, iii
the important affair of marriage, would a man select his com-
panion without examining the organs in the hack of her heed'
Marco Paulo, Belzoni, Humboldt, and the Wandering Jew'
had all their characteristic dispositions to change place and to
visit foreign lands from a little protuberance in their cerebral
substance, similar to that which appears in the same situatiot;
in the head of the woodcock or crane. Indeed, the latter bird
has the travelling bump in greater perfection than any unWing-
ed biped, and could now defeat our most celebrated discovereri
as easily as it did the pigmies in the times before Homer. 1311
we shall not pursue the subject any farther at present

CLERGY OF FitANcc.—The Report of the
state of the French Clergy, of Ist Jan. 180'
gives the following enumeration :—Archbishops
and bishops, 75; vicars-general, 287 ; tituier.
prebendaries, 725 ; honorary prebendaries, 1,253 ;
curates, 2,828 ; vicegerents, 22,225 ; vicars;
5,396 ; priests resident in parishes, or authorised
to preach and confess, 1,850 ; priests being
masters and professors in seminaries, 876; PI"
pits, 4,044 ; monks and others, 19,271.

BIRTH.
Yesterday, at Clapton, the lady of Philip Cazenove, Esq., °f.
a daughter.

MARRIED.
On Tuesday, the 15th inst., at Leyton, Essex, John Tyler*
Esq., of Ricebridge.Havering, Essex, to Mary Susannah, orai
daughter of Mr. William Turner, of Leyton.

DIED.
On the 14th inst., in George-street, Portman-square, itt the
77th year of her age, Mrs. Sarah Eliza Ottley, relict of the lister
Richard Ottley, Esq., of St. Vincent, and eldest daughter 0,
the late Sir 'William Young, Bart., of Delaford; in the county
of Bucks.
On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, in his 50th year, Captain
Robert Boon, late commander of the ship Lady Nugent. of
On. Tuesday, the 15th inst., Mr. B. Slocock, of the &PI
Swaine, Slocock, and Swaine, Piccadilly. of
On Saturday last, at A]phington, Devon, the infant son
Abraham Tozer, Esq.
On the 15th inst., at Sydenham, Kent, John Black, Esq'''
aged 66.
At Edinburgh, on the 6th inst., Mr. Peter Morton, mer-
chant, North Bridge-street, in the 63d year of his age.'

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