The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-24 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JUNE 23. —Wind S.E.—The whble of the outward-
bound sailed early this morning. Came down from the River
and sailed, the %Mtn, Heard, for Basbadoes ;
Bloom, for Seville; and Sulph, Morgan, for Malta,
PoßTsMoo•riz, JUNE 23.—Wind s.E.—Sailed the Ceres,

Higgins, for Leghorn.
PLYmouT t, JuNE 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrivcd the Wallace
Adkin, Adkin, from St. Domingo; Bristol, Clyn, from
Memel ; Frederica. Segars, ditto bstafette, Zander, Dantzic.
Off the Port the St. David, Clint, from Quebec ; Ann Christina,
, St. Croix ; and the Planter, Jessin, from Demerara.—
Sailed the Lord Castlerea ,gh for Bengal.
FALMOUTII, JUNE 22.—Wind S.L. to E.S.E.—Arrived.

the Rinaldo packet, from Jamaica: sailed the 25th ult.
LIVEIIPOOL, JUNE 22.—Arrived the George, Burn, from
Quebec ; Wellington, Mundell, from Maranham ; Edward,
M'Donald, Fayal; Agnes, Bouskett, NarVa ; Alexander,
Magnus ; and Louisa Caroline, from Ilelsingfors ; Neptuna,
Brackstadt ; and Frederica,
Off the Port the Vcre, Allen, from Jamaica.

BELFAST, JUNE 21.—A Ion;; boat, painted on the stern
Regent, Whitby, was picked up the 13th inst. near the Point
of Corsal.

Arrived off Brighton the Betsey, Stegg, from Antigua.
The Arethusa, Blair, for Quebec, was spoken with on the
.314. inst..lat. 46. long. 47. under jury r,,sts, and great part
of her cargo thrown overboard, bearing up for Newfoundland.
His Majesty's ship Pyramus was to sail from Jamaica on the
25th ult. for Havanah, New York and England, and would
take under convoy such vessels as were ready.

Trinity-house, London, .Tune 23, 1821.
SIR-I have laid before the Board your letter of the Rith in-
stant, communicating, by direction of the Committee for manag-
ing the affairs of Lloyd's, the copy of a letter from ‘Vhitstable,
advising that the sloop Robert and Mary, laden with black
stone, was sunk near the Spaniard Sand, directly in the best wa-
ter, and in the track of vessels passing overland ; and beg to ac-
quaint you that the buoy yacht having been thereupon imme-
diately dispatched, in order to place a green buoy on the said
wreck (which intention was notified to the trade by public ad-
vertisement), it has been found the vessel has been novcd into
very shallow water, and entirely out of the track of navigation;
the mast standing, and measures about to be taken for remov-
ing her entirely. Under these circumstances, it has not been
judged necessary to place the buoy as had been intended.
I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
J. Bennett, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. J. HERBERT.

BOW-STRELT—(THis DAY.)

Three dashing ladies, named Webb, Bennet,
and Archer, were put to the bar, charged by-
a young gentleman, na►ned Townshend, a tutor
in a school, with having robbed him of a 101.
note, three sovereigns, and other monies, his pro-
perty. The complainant stated, that he had
been in their company, and had treated them with
some liquor, when Archer took the money from
him, and handed it over to another person. Ben-
net, who was the most interesting in appearance
of the three, was discharged, and the other two
remanded until this day week. Archer pre-
tended not to know the name or number of the
house she lived at.

SACHILEGE.-I,ate last night, or early this
morning, St. Giles's Church, Camberwell, was
broken into, and robbed of several articles. The
thieves effected their entrance through a window
on the south side, and after having forced every
drawer and cupboard, in search, it is supposed,
of the communion plate, made their escape, car-
rying with them the carpet from the chancel,
a great number of books, and some other things
of small value. It is believed that they were
disturbed, as a jacket was left behind, which will
probably lead to detection.

CHARLES JOHN BRANDLING, Esq., NI. P. for
Northumberland, has become a Patron of thi'
Mechanics' Institute, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ;
and ROBERT WILLIAM BRANDLING, Esq„ has
accepted the office of Vice-President. CHARLES
WILLIAM BIGGE, Esq., of Linden, the Presi-
dent, has presented a douation'of ten guineas to
the Society, and become an annual subscriber of
two guineas.
Dr. ROBERT ITONEYMAN, a physician, who
died on the 21st ult. in Virginia, whither he emi-
grated from Scotland in 1774, has left the follow-
ing bequest in his will, dated in 18°1 :--"
also give and bequeath to my son, a human rib,
which will be found in a small trunk in my chest,
with my earnest request that he will carefully
keep the said rib (which is qf James the Fifth
King of Scotland), and transmit it carefully to
his descendants."

JAIL LONDON- JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Peers, June 9-4.

[MORNING lIERALDI
Lord Holland, last night, hi the
.House of
Lords, gave notice that he should this day bring
under their Lordships' consideration, the "extra-
ordinary-terms" of a protest that had been en-
tered upon their Lordships' Journals against the
Bill which he had had the honour to introduce—
namely, 64 the Earl Marshal's Bill." The public
are acquainted with the character of this
is to enable the Duke of Norfolk, who is heredi-
tary Earl Marshal of England, to act in such
office without taking the requisite oathS of Su-
premacy, &c., that Noble personage being a Ro-
man Catholic. The protest against the passing of
such Bill is from the pen of the
.Duke of
.New-
castle, and it is also signed by the Earl of Abing-
don. Those Noble dissentients protest against
the Bill—first, because the House had been
" taken unawares ;" and secondly, because it
made serious inroads upon the Constitution. The
first objection is stated at considerable length.—
The protest sets forth that the House was not in
the habit of meeting before five o'clock for the
transacting of public business, except previous
notice were given of the alteration of the hour ;.
that the Earl Marshal's Bill was brought forward, •
and was passed before five o'clock, to the sur-.
prise of the dissentients; and that therefore,
the estimation of the dissentients, the House had
been taken unawares, and such Bill had not'
fairly been submitted to the consideration, andi,
had not regularly received the sense of the House.
They also objected to the Bill because it set a
dangerous precedent, and thereby made an
alarming inroad upon the Constitution. The Bill
itself, which is thus protested against, by a cu-
rious coincidence, will this day, at half-past
three o'clock, rect-ive the Royal assent by Com-
mission ; so that the Bill will have become the
law of the land an hour and a half before Lord
Holland can make any remarks on the protest.—
The principle of the Bill is most liberal, and will
signally close the Session.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Rinaldo packet has arrived at Falmouth,
in 27 days, from Jamaica ; the letters brought
by her will be delivered in town this morning.—
Yesterday we received Jamaica Journals to the
16th of last month ; they confirm the account,
which we previously published, of the safety of
the Hon. Colonel Dawson, the brother of Lord
Portarlirrgton, who was reported in a Guiana
Paper to- have been murdered at St. Domingo.—
Colonel Dawson has arrived in safety at King:
stop. A Royal Proclamation, which has given
great satisfation to the colonists, lies been pub-
lished in all the British West India Colonies,
noticing that the slaves had been erroneously led
to believe that orders had been sent from Englund
for their emancipation, and calling upon them to
" render entire submission to the laws, and dutiful
obedience to their masters." A letter was re-
ceived express from Falmouth yesterday, which
informs us that affairs were going on favourably
at Colombia, and that Colonel Hamilton, the
head of the British Commission, intended to have
sailed for England in the Rinaldo, but was pre-
vented by indisposition. He may, however, be
expected by the next arrival. Mr. Wildman,
M. P., and Colonel Campbell, came passengers
in the Rinaldo.

[MORNING POST.]
Since the dismissal of Viscount Chateaubriand
from the Ministry, the Journal des Debuts makes
daily revelations which throw much light on the
system of Government adopted for the last two
years in France, and show that the discarded
Statesman considers all reconciliation with his
late colleagues impossible, and intends to wage
with them a war for political extinction. lie
proclaims in fact what they had not only endea-
voured to keep secret, but sturdily denied when-
ever it was charged upon them by the Liberals.
lie declares that they have purchased most
of the Journals, violated the spirit and the
letter of the charter as well as the rights of the
people in the last elections, and that their acts
were so repugnant to his elevated mind,
that if he did not resign, it was because " he

knew that he formed the moral strength of the
Government, and feared the effects of a division
between the Royalists !" This self-knowledge
is a proof of singular modesty on the part of .the
Noble Peer, and .his late colleagues are certainly
much to blame to have so easily parted with their
" moral strength." There is however still much
strength of some kind or other iu the following
remarks, which they make through the medium
of the Quotidienne, upon his conduct. "If he
disapproved so deeply of the ensemble of his col-
leagues' operations, he was in total opposition to
them. lle had then but one course to follow,
and that course was rigorously pointed out by
duty. Ile was to protest in the Council, and if
his protest occasioned no change of policy, to
retire." With all
his flowers of rhetoric and
,
poetical genius, M. de Chateaubriand will have
some difficulty in conquering the force or-dis-
guising the finch of this proposition.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The following observations are extracted from
a letter dated at the Havannah on the 9th ult.,
and they completely chew on what a slender
thread at prAent hangs the occupation of Cuba
by Spain :—" During .the last month
a great
change has taken place in the political feelings of
_
the whole of. this population. Previously we had
only known the calamities of war by rumour, for
they seldom were known by experience. The.
distresses of our neighbours laid. the foundation.
of our properity, as our trade had generally'been
respected by all the Belligerents, and universal
prosperity was the consequence. The scene, how.
ever, is now greatly changed, for the Colombian
Privateers hover round Our coast, and capture
and destroy nearly the whole of the coastiog
trade. Added to this, We have also to suffer the
loss of a most lucrative trade with Mexico, which
Government y i
has latterly entirel
that interdicted
The Land proprietors cannot now trans • •
port their

crops from one port in the Island to another,
without suffering a heavy loss from the Colom.'
bian ships of war ; and the whole of the transit
trade, which we nearly exclusively enjoyed in
European manufactured goods with Mexico, has
been suddenly withdrawn from our merchants.
The consequence, is, an universal complaint, for
the Land Proprietors receive no income, and the
bills of the tradesmen are heavily in arrear.—
Some change must soon take place, else it is
impossible to say what may he the result of our
present situation, for the dissatisfaction of all
classes is openly expressed, and certainly not
without good reason," &c. The inhabitants of
Cuba, therefore, will soon either protect their
property and prosperity, by the adoption of a
flag of their own, or by placing themselves under
the Colombian Republic.

His Majesty's brig the Rinaldo arrived yes-
terday morning at Falmouth, from Jamaica, in
twenty-seven days, bringing the Mail from that
Island of the 25th May. The news from South
America is favourable, hut the particulars have
not been received, either from an omission at
Falmouth to forward the document, which con-
tained them, or from the abstraction of that do-
cument from the bag at a stage eleven miles on
the other side of Exeter, which is strongly sus-
pected to have been the case. The following is
a copy of the letter received by a private Ex-
press from Falmouth :
" PALkIOUTII, JUNE 22.—The Rinaldo packet has just ar-
rived from Jamaica, after a passage of 27 days only ; Colonel
Hamilton is not arrived, as he had been complaining, but he
was expected to sail by the next packet, if a ship of war does
not take him before. send you a series of Jamaica papers,
from the Ist to the 22d of May, in which there are no politi-
cal or interesting news, excepting the arrival of a vessel in four
days from La Guayra, where all was tranquil, and which
should suppose will sufficiently refute the report of the
defeat of Bolivar received, according to The Morning
Chronicle, from that place at Saint Thomas on the 13th of
May. Major Campbell has arrived by the Rinaldo. The
news from- South America, and particularly from Colombia, is
represented by the passengers to be very flattering. I inclose
an answer to as many of your inquiries respecting South Ame-
rica as I could obtain.—[This is the document which has not
been received.] Major C. is a relative of Colonel Campbell,
the British Commissioner at Bagota.—[ln London it is strongly
suspected that he is the Commtssioner himself.]—All the pas-
sengers by the Rinaldo are from Jamaica, and none of them
from South America. I beg to say-again, that the news from
South America is of the most favourable description.—(lbid.)

[THE TIMES.)
It was announced yesterday that the Rinaldo
packet from Jamaica had arrived at Falmouth,
after the very quick voyage of 27 days from
Kingston, but the letters were not delivered.
The principal facts which have transpired are the
arrival of Major Campbell and Mr. Wildman,
M. P.,mand a general intimation that the aspect of
affairs in Colombia is favourable. As there is no
doubt that the former gentleman is qualified to
make a very full report respecting the situation
of the Republic, whither he has been sent by
this Government for that purpose, a hope seems
to have arisen among the merchants connected
with that country, that it may be of a nature to
induCe Ministers to take some decisive steps
towards declaring Colombia at least independent.
Colonel Hamilton, w© understand, hes not re-
, turned, having been detained by indisposition.

[NSW TIMES.
We have received Jamaica kpers and letters
to the 16th ult. The Royal Gazette of the Bth
contains a series of extracts from the Demerara
Papers on his Majesty's remission of the sentence
9f death on Mr. Smith. On this subject the two
Journals of the Colony have a shade of difference.
The Guiana Chronicle' quarrels with every body
on the subject—with the Court Martial for
having recommended the unfortunate Mis-
sionary to mercy—with the General for not
having disregarded the recommendation—and
above all, with his Majesty's Government
for having only ordered Mr. Smith to be
banished from the Settlement. He ought at
least (says the Editor) to have been " transported
for life to Botany Bay," or " sent to hard labour
on board the hulks for the same period." ! The
Demerara Royal Gazette is a little more mode-
rate. It says nothing indeed to exonerate the
Government at home from the charge of lenity;
Gut it labours earnestly to prove that the Gover-
nor was excusable for not hanging the prisoner
at once. It is really painful to see with what
acrimony these Journals speak of the lament-
able transaction. The milder of them pro.
nounces Mr. Smith to be 44 a prime insti-
gator of rebellion ; " but the more infuriated
writer attacks the King himself for having
exercised the Royal Prerogative of mercy
on the occasion. " We are absolutely at.a
loss to find words (says he) to express our in-
dignation. Such a compromise of justice as this
was never heard of in the annals of the present
or past age. Has not the King said, in lan-
guage as plain as any language can be, ' Go
and do thou likewite ?' The King can do no
wrong, is one of the earliest maxims instilled
into the ears of a schoolboy ; and yet, upon a
little consideration, it seems astonishing whence
all the wrong can come." As to the manner in
which he exults over-the death of Mr. Smith—a
death accelerated if not wholly occasioned by. his
cruel persecution—the expressions evince a ma-
lignity almost diabolical ;—"' The wretch is now
no more. Fortunate it is that the hand of Hea-
ven removed the wretched criminal to a place
of severer account before this sentence was made
know n. Comfortable it is that the guilty
man sas ushered to another world," &c. &c.—
We know not how to account for sentiments so
utterly contrary to those of Christian charity,
otherwise than by ascribing them to a destitution
of religious principle. It will be remembered,
that on Mr. Smith's trial the Assistant Judge Ad-
vocate unblushingly argued, that to teach respect
for the Sabbath must be taken as a proof of trea-
sonable intention. The same systematic contempt
of that day appears to prevail in other Colonies.

A few days ago, as some men were mowing in a clover-
field, belonging to .51r. Wm. Kipping, at Golden-green, Had-
low, they discovered a partridge sitting upon sixteen eggs.—
The bird did riot fly away, but suffered herself to be carried
some distance to Mr. Kipping's house. She was there put ihto
a large parrot cage, and then sat upon the eggs as if she had
never been disturbed. She went out to take food and drink, and
returned with the greatest regularity to her task of incubation.

SHERIFF AND DEPUTY SHERIFF.

TO THE EDITOR.

No. 9, Re:sex-street, Strand, June 20, 1824.

Sin—lt having been reported in yours, and almost every
other Was presented to his Majesty at the
" to my going abroad ;;"this report has
last
Levee, Daily Paper,rrior that
given rise to innumerable inquiries and conjectures relative to
my future arrangements; therefore I take this opportunity to
inform you, that it is my intention to be in the United States
by the Ist January next, at which date they have announced
paying off a large proportion of their funded debt, of which I
hold a small proportion ; and, on the 15th June following I
am required to he in Paris, to receive the first instalment of an
old debt due to me.; and soon after, for reasons explained in
the accompanying
letter to Alderman Wood, 1 intend return-
ing to Englund, and if not in Parliament myself, to get some
independent Member to move for a Committee to be appointed
to inquire into the allegations of a Petition which I presented
to the House of Commons, on the 18th July, last year, of
which I also send you a copy, and which, with this communi-
cation, may be disposed of as you think proper—and have the
honour to remain, Sir, your most obedient Servant,

J. W. PARKINS.

COPT OF A I:ETTER TO JUL. ALDERMAN WOOD, M.P.
June 19, 1824.

DEAR Sire--My disappointment may be more easily felt
than expressed, on learning from you, when down at the
House the night before last, that it was then too late' to move
the House to appoint a Committee to examine into the allege,.
tions contained in my Petition which you presented, and
which was ordered to be printed on the 18th of July, 1823.
Of the importance of that Petition you must be perfectly
aware, not only having read it before it was presented, bu
have since had every opportunity of reflecting on it, having
been, as well as every other M.P., furnished with a printed
copy of it. Independent of the public good to be derived
by the prayer of the Petition being carried into effect, as
regards the unjust and illegal conduct of the Corporation of
London, in selling the office of Secondary or Deputy She-
riff to the highest bidder, there is also an important duty
owe to myself, to obtain justice for ttlie wrongs and injuries
which I have sustained, by being compelled, as it were, to
hold the office' and perform the innumerable disagreeable
and expensive duties of Sheriff of London and Middlesex,
for which I have not received the slightest return, not even
common civility, from the City of London. I regret exceed-
ingly the loss of the present opportunity, as I considered the
objects sought for in the Petition of so much importance to
the public, that the wish to obtain them has been the principal
cause of detaining me in England ; and further I had even
consented to go to the expence and trouble of obtaining, in
the usual way, a. seat in Parliament, for the purpose of ad-
vocating it in person ! Still continuing to consider it of
such vast importance, though ever so disagreeable and incon-
venient with my own plans of personal comforts, I propose
returning to England during the next sitting of Parliament,
when I shall be very glad to avail myself of your knowledge
of the subject, and, ad interim, I will thank you to return me
all the papers and written communications which I forwarded,
with a view to enable you to speak on the subject, and bring
on the matter this Sessions.

I remain, dear Sir, yours most sincerely,
(Signed) J. W. PARKINS.

P.S. The Sheriff's accounts for the year 1819-20, not having
been passed, and I not having received my quieter, it is pos.
sible I might be exchequered during my absence for the mis-
conduct of others, therefore I was more desirous that the busi.
ness should have been brought forward this Sessions, which
might hive prevented my recrossing the Atlantic to attend the
next Sessions of Parliament.

" It is nineteen days since I first communicated to you, and
repeatedly since, my intention of moving the House. It is to
be lamented that you did not then inform me that the motion
must be made forthwith, otherwise it would be too late for the
present Sessions.

To the HOWOUILADT:g the Coaciapag. of the UNITED KANO.
DOM gfalaimivr Sin vrAirr and iIIVEL.IbiD, in l'arliament
assenzipleti.
The humble Petition of Joseph Wilfred Parkins, of Essex-
street, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, Westminster, in the
County of Middlesex, Esquire :—Sheweth unto your Honour-
able House, that in the year 1819 he was elected by the Citizens
of London to fill the office of one of their Sheriff's, and also as
Sheriff of the County of Middlesex ; that such election took
place without the knowledge or approbation of your Petitioner,
at a time when he was some hundred miles distant from the
Metropolis. That being in consequence compelled to serve
the said office, or to pay a considerable fine to be excused, he
took upon himself the duties thereof, and was duly sworn
faithfully to perform such office, and to account to his
Majesty for all fines, estreats, and forfeited recognizances,
as also felons goods, and unclaimed 'property 'found in their
possession, as well the arrears of taxes to be paid into his
Majesty's Exchequer, which generally amount to a very large
sum, -of money ; 'that, in consequence of the Corporation of
London having assumed to themselves the right of disposing of
certain places and appointments within the said City, your Peti-
tioner was denied.the power of appointing such person as he
thought proper to confide in, to act as his Deputy within the
city of London. The- said Corporation having taken upon
`themselves, in consideration of a considerable sum of money,
to appoint an individual, who is to act, and who does act, as
Deputy Sheriff within the said City of London, year after year,
notwithstanding the annual election of Sheriffs within the said
city, which by law is absolutely necessary, and in the very teeth
of an Act of Parliament, which forbids any one person to act as
such Under Sheriff for two successive years together ; that your
Petitioner, in consequence of such illegal and unconstitutional
appointment, his been altogether deprived of the opportunity
of seeing or in any manner of being made acquainted with his
public accounts during such Shrievalty, neither is he at all ac-
quainted with the amount of the fines or levies due to his Ma-
jesty, during the time of his serving such office, or with any
matter or responsibility relating thereto and therefore he has
been and still is unable to pass his public accounts in his Ma
jesty's Court of Exchequer, anti to relieve himself from the
responsibility of his said oath. That your Petitioner has upon
every occasion which presented itself made application to the
Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, at 'Westminster,
who have not offered him any relief, and
.your Petitioner's
accounts are thereby still unsettled, and he is still responsible
for all the misconduct or misapplication which may take
place in the rendering of such accounts, as by the law
of the land, and by his oath he is bound to do. That your
Petitioner, in consequence of such unlawful appointment by
the Corporation of the City of London, has, during his said
Shrievalty, been made a mere cypher in regard to his said
office, and with regard to the most important part of the duties
thereof; and that the only official department left to him, with-
out any controul, was the being subject to pay all costs, charges
and losses which might be occasioned, or might fall upon hint
as said Sheriff, at the will and caprice of the. said individual so
constituted by the said Corp Oration as aforesaid ; and who has,
in fact, issued a writ against your Petitioner in the nature of an
execution, to levy a sum of money, the costs incurred by reason
of the misconduct of himself or of one of his own.appointedOf-
tigers ; and that your Petitioner was actually arrested without
sitting in a public coffee-room, and was compelled to pay the
said costs before he could obtain his liberty. That your Peti-
tioner is most anxious to pass his said accounts, and relieve
Himself from the obligations of his said oath, as far as his re- i
sponsibility in such office is incumbent upon him, which has
been increased by the death of his colleague in office ; but not
having any controul over the said individual, he is totally unable
to render an account, and therefore prays of your Honourable
House that you will exercise your prerogative, by calling upon
the Corporation of the said City of London to shew by what au-
thority they have sold such appointment for a valuable conside-
ration ; and Why they interfere with the province of the Sheriff;
being one of his Majesty's Officers, who, though elected by the
Livery of London
his Majesty through the , conditionally, is not actually appointed, un-
til confirmed and approved of by
Ba-
rons of his Exchequer.
And your Petitioner will ever pray,
(Signed) J. W. PARKINS.

instantly
y A
SUDDEN DEATH.—At six. m a
re
carpenter, yesterday
n
morning, as Mr. J. WEST, a
Baldwin's-gardens, Gray,s_ion-lane, was getting
ccsos'tcel
out of bed, he said to his wife, My dear, can
you see me ?" She answered, cc certainly I
c
Then," says ht., 4; cannot see you,"
annd
fell down a lifeless corpse. Mr.
years of age, and of a remark-
ably healthy, robust Constitution, and has left
West
vae
flue children and his widow to lament his loss.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SHERIFF'S COURT, JUNE 22.
CRIM. CON.

FREDERICK JOHNSTONE, ESQ. V. LORD BRIIDENELL.
Mr. Bnouemsse stated that the declaration charged the de-
fendant with having seduced the wife of the plaintiff, and that
the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the
Jury were now assembled to assess the damages.
The Learned Counsel said, he thought he should best dis-
charge his duty by shortly and simply detailing to them those
facts which alone it was now necessary to prove; because, as
they were well aware, the material facts, namely, the marriage
of the parties, and the seduction, had been admitted by the de-
fendant's suffering judgment to go by default. Captain John-
stone, the plaintiff, was a young man of a most respectable
family, of the highest honour in his profession, and of a for-
tune which entitled him to aspire to the hand of liss
who afterwards became his wife, and who was daughter, he
would venture to say, of one of the most honourable and gal-
lant officers in his Majesty's service, he alluded to Admiral
Halliday, who had, in consequence of the death of Lord
Dysart, taken the name of Tellemach, and became possessed
of a considerable fortune. Admiral Tellemach was married
early in life to a lady of family—Lady Elizabeth Stratford,
daughter of the Earl of Ormond, a person of whom it was im-
' possible to speak other than in terms of unqualified admiration,
whether as to her virtue or accomplishments. This lady and
her husband had recently endured the heaviest affliction. In
three short months they had lost three most lovely daughters,
and now to this blow was added the seduction of a fourth—an
event which he would venture to say must have aggravated
their sorrow in a tenfold degree, because by this act was a
stain, for the first time, inflicted on their house. At the time
of the marriage of Captain Johnstone, which took place in 1817,
'he was 26 years of age; his lady was 20. She was a person of
great accomplishments and distinguished beauty. They lived
together as happily as was usually the case in married life ;
their comforts being only interrupted by some few of those
differences which were seen amongst the happiest, and which
were found not unfrequently to arise from momentary irritation
of temper, without leaving any lasting impression. The af-
fection of Captain J. for his wife was unbounded; and during
an illness with which she was attacked, at the latter end of 1822,
he attended her incessantly, and conducted himself in the most
exemplary manner. The family of Captain Johnstone was
not equal in point of fortune to that of Mrs. Johnstone ; and
it might so happen that this circumstance had led to those little
strifes to which he had alluded. Mrs. Johnstone might, and
perhaps did, feel mortified that her husband was incapable of
granting her those indulgences which were enjoyed by her more
fortunate sisters, but still she had all that the means of Captain
Johnstone would justify him in granting; and even if her in-
clinations were thus thwarted, this formed rather an aggravation
than excuse for him who would take advantage of such a state
of things, to seduce her from the arms of her husband, and
from the paths of virtue. It was a fact too, of which sight should
not be lost, that Capt. Johnstone and Lord lirudenell had been
intimate from their earliest infancy, and continued in the en.
joyment of each other's friendship to within a short period of
the melancholy occurrence which had led to the present proceed-
ing. In the beginning of the year 1823, rapt. Johnstone went
into Dorsetshire, on a visit to the Hon. Mr. Sturt, whose
wife, Lady Elizabeth Sturt, was Lord Brudenell's sister.—
Mrs. Johnstone was invited to be of that party, but, for some
reason or other, she declined accompanying her husband, and
'remained in town. It was on the 7th of January, Captain
Johnstone went to Mr. Start's, and after lie had been there a '
week he was inexpressibly shocked to receive a letter from
Admiral 'rallemach, informing him that Mrs. Johnstone had
set off from her house, without assigning any reason, for Paris.
Mr. Johnstone instantly hurried to town, and saw the Ad.
miral, whom he entreated to lose not a moment in writing to
his daughter, to point out the imprudence of her conduct.—
The
Admiral did write, but without effect, and Captain
Johnstone himself set out for Paris, but was unable to pro.
cure access to his wife. He consulted legal advice, as to whe-
ther it would not be possible to get at her by force, but this he
found impracticable, and was compelled to leave her in the house
of her grandmother, the Dowager Lady Aldborough, as no
solicitation could prevail upon her to return. IT-p to this time
no suspicion existed of any connection between Mrs. Johnstone
and Lord Brudenell ; but some time afterwards it was. dis-
covered that she was living under the protection of hisi Lord-
ship. Mr. Johnstone, on receiving this ! information, went
over to Paris to obtain evidence on the subject ; but it was not '
till within a very short period of thepresent time that such evi-
dence was procured. It was of this injury the plaintiff had to
complain, and to a Jury of his countrymen he now appealed for
compensation for his loss—if pecuniary compensation could be
given at all adequate to his sufferings. No money, in fact,
could wipe away the recollection of the past ; but still he (Mr.
Brougham) thought it was the duty of the Jury, from a sense of
justice, to give such a sum as would mark their sense of the de-
fendant's misconduct, and prevent that stigma which otherwise
must attach to a husband, whose conduct had been invariably
marked by the warmest affections, and the most anxious solidi.
tude for the happiness of his wife. The Learned Gentleman
said he had omitted to state that there was of this marriage one
daughter, who was now six years of age—and he would now
only mention the fact, leaving the Jury to draw their own con,
elusions • they would know best how to appreciate the feelings !
of a father on whom the difficult charge was thrown, at a period
of life when the parental care and example of a mother was so
essential to the formation of a daughter's mind—and they
would then say what damages the man who had inflicted this
injury ought to pay.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call the following
witnesses:—

Mrs.' JOhnstone sworn—The plaintiff is my son ; he is an
officer in the 19th lancers, and in 1817 he married the daughter
of the present Admiral Tallemach. She was also the grand-
daughter of Lord Aldborough. When the marriage took
place, the plaintiff was 26 years of age, and Miss Halliday
20. After their marriage they resided with me, and I
had frequent and constant opportunities of observing my son's
deportment toward his wife. I always considered it was that
of affection and tenderness. Shortly after their marriage they
went to reside at Englefield-green, near Admiral Tallemach s
house, and she there fell ill. Captain Johnstone having oc-
casion to gO into Dorsetshire, left his wife at Englefield-green,
but she soon after quitted the house, and Capt. Johnstone fol-
lowed her to Paris..

Cross-examined by Mr. ScARLETT.—My on and his wife
resided with me about two years after the marriage; in fact, it
was their only home. In the first year the child was born. 1
thought when they were married that she was much attached to
him, but I could observe a material change afterwards,. and she
finally went to Paris ; but did not come to my house in town.
Very shorty after Captain Johnstone followed her, and he re.
mauled in Paris long enough to make inquiries.
Jury—. Are you aware that Captain Johnstone was the object
of his Lady's affections when she married ?
Witness—Undoubtedly my son was the object of Miss Hal-
liday's affections when he married.
UNDER SIIERIFF—When you observed the change in her
taiffmeeclons had she been acquainted with Lord Brudenell any

Witness—She had seen Lord Brudenell in company, and
also at the house of Lord Cardigan ; Lord Brudenell has also
come to my house and inquired for her ; she has only been ac-
quainted with his Lordship since her marriage ; but my son
has known him since he was a boy.
Admiral Tallemach was next sworn—The Admiral was first
questioned respecting the marriage. The ceremony, he said,
took place in August, 1817, and with the perfect consent of all
parties; himself, Lady Elizabeth Tallemach, and Mrs. John-
stone were present, and several other friends; he was not aware
that the Bishop of Lincoln officiated on the occasion, or was
present. After their marriage they resided at Mrs. Johnstone's
house, and they afterwards removed to Englefield-green, when
he was daily in the habit of seeing her.
Q. And during the time they so resided at Englefield Green
did you observe that they lived happily together ?—uk. I know
that they quarrelled very much, had very high words, hut never
in my presence. About three months after they were married
the plaintiff came to me, and informing me of the unhappiness
that existed between them, said his wife had just then proposed
a separation. I expressed my regret at hearing this circum-
stance from persons so recently married, and requested he
would not then enter into any detail, as the accoucheur was
then in the house attending on Lady Tallemach. He acknow-
ledged himself in error in then mentioning the circumstance,
and said no more, but they continued to live very unhappily
together. In the summer of 1822, when Captain Johnstone's
lady was taken ill, she remained at my house, and then the
Captain evinced great affection. In the beginning of 1823,
Captain Johnstone went to visit the family of Mr. Sturt, in
Dersetshire, but when it was proposed, I never heard that his
wife was to accompany him.
Q. I believe you informed the Captain of her having left the
house ?-,A. Yes, upon her leaving the house for Paris, I wrote
to him; he came to town immediately, and he first proposed
going to Paris, but at my suggestion he wrote a letter, couched,
as I supposed, in very fair terms, to endeavour to bring her to
sphuerp wou se,
not
te
went
e ar England, 'and return to her home ; but this not effecting the
done.
Q. called on her mother, but
Q. Are you aware what were the terms of the separation ?
A. The terms were, that she was not to, reside in Paris, but in
aware wovherere to
she Paris.w as
England, with me or her mother.
Mr. Middleton proved that be was in Paris in:March, 1823,
and saw Captain Johnstone there some portion of the time.
This closed the case on 'the part of the plaintiff. ,
Mr. SCARLETT now rose to address the Jury for the de-
fendant. lie remarked, that the case which had been opened

by his Learned Friend had been short, and his proofs had been
equally short. He had witnessed a great variety of these
cases, but he did not recollect one of this sort. He trusted the
Jury would do him the justice to believe, that there was no
man,who respected more the relation between man and wife
than lie did ; but at the same time it might sometimes happen,
without the least imputation upon a defendant, that unhappy
differences of temper might arise, which would render the
marriage life unhappy, and occasionally place the husband
in such a situation as to render the loss of a wife a circum-
stance of no great injury. The person whom he had the ho-
nour to represent was a Nobleman of the strictest honour, who
approached the consideration of this painful subject with every
sentiment of regret. It had been imposed upon him as an im-
perious duty not to cast the slightest reflection either upon the
lady or the plaintiff in this case. His client felt that he had a
reparation to make, and he would willingly submit to such
damages as die Jury upon a fair consideration of the facts of
the case, stripped of all adventitious colouring, might think
proper to award. It was fit, however, it should be stated, add
it was due to the defendant, that the Jury should know the
fact, that whatever occurred between Mrs. Johnstone and Lord
Brudenell, did not take place till long after the lady had quitted
her husband's protection. Whatever difficulty the defend-
ant had to encounter, he at least had the satisfaction of know-
ing that he had violated no confidence, and that, however he
might have been impressed by the beauty of the lady, who
had become the partner of his cares, lie could not accuse him-
self of having had recourse to the ordinary arts of the seducer.
Under these circumstances, the question for the determination
of the Jury was, to what reparation the plaintiff was enti-
tled from the defendant for the injuries he had received.—
He did not stand there to say that Lord Brudenell had
not formed a very violent and irresistible attachment for the
lady—for she was, as had been said, a lady of 4reat beauty and
accomplishments—nor was he instructed to resist the payment
of.'such damages as were fairly due; but it was impossible not
to observe, although his Learned Friend had talked of the affec--
tionate manner in which this couple had lived together, that not"-
a single servant, male or female, had been called to support this
statement. Indeed, the evidence of Admiral Tallemach went-
distinctly to prove the reverse, for lie candidly admitted that
the plaintiff and his daughter lived anything but happily ; and
that within three months of their marriage a proposition was-
made for a separate maintenance. The Jury would also mark,
that although married for six years, there had been but one
child. It was not his intention, for, as he had alreidy stated,
his instructions forbid him, to say one word to the prejudice of
Capt. Johnstone ; but it was pretty clear that there was some
paramount cause, distinct from any connection with the de-
fendant, that induced Mrs. Johnstone to fly from the protec-
tion of her husband to that of her grand-mother. It was un-
der the protection of that lady that she met the defendant.
She was possessed of great personal charms, and her situation
rendered her more particularly an object of solicitude. Under
such circumstances, it was not extraordinary that two young
persons should forget what was due to their own happiness.—
He shad, however, to repeat that the plaintiff had sustained no
loss—he had himself acquiesced in his wife's desire for a sepa-
rate maintenance' and she had positively refused to return to
his house. The Jury, weighing all these facts, would give
such damages as appeared to them consistent with justice, and
the fair claims of the plaintiff.

The UNDER-SHERIFF having summed up thecase,
The Jury, after a short consultation, assessed the damages
at One Thousand Pounds.

CORONERS' INQUEST.

SUICIDE BY A LADY.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was hi-sld at
the sign of the Worcester Arms, George-street, Portman square.
before T11031A5 STIRLINO, Esq., on the body of Eleanor
Bettisworth, aged about 40, who lately resided in the house of
Captain Willoughby, of the b6th regiment, No. 11, Montague,
street, Portman-square, where she put a period to her existence,
by hanging herself.
The first witness examined was Eleanor Brown, who being
sworn deposed, that she is cook in the service of Captain Wil-
loughby, and had known the deceased for the last six years,
during part of which period she was in health, but latterly
she had very much altered In her mind, and became exceeding-
ly whimsical, so much so that witness felt perfectly satisfied
that her intellects were deranged. Tuesday morning witness
was in the kitchen, when 'she was alarmed by Captain Wil-
loughby, her master, who called for assistance, as the deceased
had hanged herself. Witness proceeded up stairs, and beheld
the deceased lying on the landing-place of the second floor,
where she had fallen after having been cut down by her mas-
ter. A doctor was sent for, but the deceased was quite dead.
Witness had no doubt but the deceased committed the act her-
self, in a state of temporary derangement.
Several of the Jury expressed themselves perfectly satisfied
with the testimony of this witness, and from motives of delicacy
towards the feelings of Captain Willoughby, who was repre-
sented to be extremely affected at the lamentable event, were
ready to dispense with his testimony ; but he being the first in-
dividual who discovered the deceased hanging, the majority of
the Jury conceived that his evidence would be material to bring
their minds to a satisfactory conclusion.
The CORONER suggested, that as Captain Willoughby was
so much afiected, the Jury might walk to his house and hear
his evidence prior to viewing the body of the deceased, which
the Jury accordingly did. On their arrival,
Captain Willoughby was sworn. He deposed that the de-
ceased had been known to him for the last twenty-five years,
during the latter part of which time she was considerably
changed in her mind and manners, especially within the
last twelvemonths. The last time witness saw the deceased
was on Tuesday last, at about half-past eight o'clock in the
morning, when witness was in his room, preparing to leave
home to breakfast with a friend. The deceased entered the
room, and after conversing with witness a little, she requested
him to put away some plate, which she had frequently perplexed
him to do. She shortly afterwards quitted the room, and on
witness being ready to go out, he proceeded to the stairs to call
the deceased to inform her of his departure ; and receiving no
answer to his calls, he proceeded to the drawing-room, but he
found she was not there ; he immediately, repaired up stairs
towards the attic, where he saw the deceased's legs, and dis-
covered that she had suspended herself by a coed to the ban-
nisters. He instantly made an alarm and called last -witness,
and proceeded down stairs for a knife, with which he cut the
deceased down, and sent for a surgeon, but all pulsation-had
ceased, and she was quite dead. Believed her to be insane.
During the period of Capt. Willoughby giving his evidence,
he was exceedingly affected, and shed tears, and it was with
considerable difficulty that he conquered his grief. Several of
his friends who had been condoling with him were present.
The Jury returned a verdict--"..That the deceased committed
the act herself, while labouring under temporary derangement."

Melrose-hall, near Wandsworth, has been sold
to the Marquis of STAFFORD,- and not to the
Marquis of HERTFORD, as erroneously stated, by
private contract, for 30,0001.

COAL-MARKET, JUNE 23.
Ships at Market. Ships sold
94 Newcastle
0 Sunderland

Price.
31s 9d to Ns 64
—s Od to —3 Od

BIRTHS.
On Sunday, the 20th inst., in Charterhouse-square, the lady
of Mr. Bell, of Bow Church-yard, solicitor, of a seventh son
and a daughter.
Yesterday, the 23d inst., the lady of Sir Fred. Baker, of a
daughter.

On the 2211 inst., at Chertsey, Surrey, the lady of Captain
James A. Murray,R.N., of a daughter.

MARRIED.

On the 23d of March, at Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
Edward Peploe Smith, Esq., of the Bengal civil service, son of
George Smith, Esq. .31. P., to Henrietta Frances, daughter of
Charles Bayley, Esq., commercial resident at Benares.
On the 21st inst., fit Canterbury, G. Minter, Esq., 45th
regiment, to Mrs. Emma Wood, daughter of George Minter,
Esq., of that city.

DIED.
On Monday, at Winchester, at the advanced age of 87, Mr.
John Jones, Gent., upwards of -40 years a respectable house-
keeper in the palish of St. George, Hanover-square.
In the 78th year of his age, at his house, in the city of Ox-
ford, on Monday, the 21st inst., Martin Wall, M.D., and Lord,
Litchfield's Clinical Professor in that University. •
On the 20th inst., Mr. Samuel Palmer, of Birchin-lane, auc-
tioneer, aged 32.
On .the 20th inst.,' Ann Wastie, relict of the late Cokinel.
Wastie, of Haseley louse, Oxfordshire.
On Saturday, the 19th inst., at the Earl of Derby's house, in'
GrOsvenor-square, theinfant'daughter of the Earl and countess
of Wilton.

Emily, the youngest daughter of Daniel Stuart, Eq., Upper
Harley-street, aged two years and eleven months.

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