The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-29 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MAY 28.—Wind S.E.—Came down from the River
and sailed, the following outward-bound vessels, viz.:—Ca-
meron, Ilayner, for Berbice ; Hems, Smith, for Batavia ; Hero,
Smith, for Madeira; Addison, Brown, for Quebec; Lion,
Wetherell, for New Orleans ; Claremont, Roe, for Smyrna t
Phoenix, Lindsey, for Carthagena; and Unicorn, Talbot, fir
Havannah.

PORTSMOUTH, MAT 28.—Wind S.—Arrived the Prince of
Denmark, Williams, from the South Seas, a full ship ; Corn-
wall, Bunyan, from London, for India. Sailed his Majesty's
ship Calliope on a crutze.
PALM 011 rx, MAY 27. -Wind variable.--Arrived the
Prince Leopold, James, from London. The Lydia, Robin-
son, which put in here the 18th inst. with damage, has dis-
charged part of her cargo.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 27.—Arrived the Alice, Dean, from
Bahia : sailed the 22nd of March ; Fanny, Mathew, from Phi-
ladelphia : sailed the 21 st of April; Martha, Dixon, from
Barbadoes : sailed the 18th of April ; Brothers, Smith, front
Jamaica; Marquis Wellington, Gibson, from New Orleans :
sailed the 11th of April; and Isabella, Ellis, frcm Antigua.
Js asEy, MAY 24.—The Betsey and Jane, Hanson, bound
to Newfoundland, has put back this day, after being out AI
days, having experienced a dreadful hurricane, received con-
siderable damage, thrown part of her cargo overboard, and
much damaged the remainder. On the Ist instant, in lat. 45.
long. 35., spoke the Henry, of London, totally dismasted, and
with loss of rudder; the crew were going on board the Endless,
of London, which was a mile distant, with only one jury-mast
up, the Betsey and Jane having lost all her boats could render=
them no assistance. And on the sth instant, in lat. 46. long. 27.,
spoke the Eliza, from New York to Portsmouth, with all her
masts, &c. gone, except the fore-mast, and had lost two of her
crew.

The Cumberland, Smith, from Liverpool to Quebec, was
fallen in with at sea, totally disniasted and abandoned, by tho
Fanny, arrived at Liverpool, which took out a small part of
her cargo, and set her on fire.
The New Phenix, from Trinidad, is arrived off Eastbourn ;
and the Ilyth, from China, off the Start.

BOW -Sr R EET.— (T ins DAY.)
DISTURBANCE AT NORTIIUMBERLAND-HOUSL—The
extra coachman of Mr. Charles Wynne was charged with
creating a great disturbance at the above Nobleman's Mansion
last night, and with a most violent assault on the officers.—
The defendant had been engaged in consequence of Air.
C. Wynne having two carriages out on the occasion, and
having set down in regular order, he was directed to re-
turn at an early hour. On coming Out of the Court Yard
he hurried down Nortliurnberland-srreet, through Scotland-
vard, and again got into the rank. The officers interfered, and
the defendant immediately gave them a severe flogging; nor
could they secure him until he again got into the Court Yard,
where'he was overpowered by numbers. He was held to bail.

•
CoitoNtit's IsQuusT.— A Coroner's Inquest
was held, yesterday evening, at seven o'clock, before num/As
lime's, Esq. Deputy Coroner, at the Sign of the Grange,
Cary--street, L'incoln's-inn-tields, on the body of Louis Davis,
It appeared, from the evidence, that the deceased was about
eighteen years of age, and was in the service of his brother, i%lr
JOHN DAVIS, news agent, No. 47, Broad-street, Bloomsbury:
On Thursday evening, Mr. Davis left the deceased at the Globe
and Traveller Office, and thought he could not have remained
l
there after six o'clock. The deceased did .not go hom_ealn_
later than his usual time, and he then went up stairs cot bed by
himself. II e was afterwards taken ill, but he did not speak,
slept with him, slept on that with his father, thattive
oh deceased,
no assistance was called in. A younger brother
might not be disturbed. On being called at
rose, 'clock next
ielsi t, earnd
daywrna
so morning,
on
pgi.nirlo
rid
morning he did not not answer, and his fatdse
voured to remove him. The father afterwards
and sent for aim--
) dead,street, stated that lie was
and soon after found the deceased was .
geon. Mr. J. Dalton, surgeon, c
sent for to the deceasekabout
h deceased was quite dead, but he went immediately; he found
bead. The witness observed no los rks
not cold. fle saw the deceae-xy,
I accelerated by a depression of
that he lad died from treoP
particularly notice any offensive smell.
of violence, and did n_
, f Joseph Hicks, who keeps the 11ough,
.in
Mrs. Hicks,
stated Fife of
that the deceased called there on Thu; sdey
Carey-street,
7o'clock, and asked for change of a sovereigt ,
spirits and giddiness inotli
evening abouetvc _, I lt:ectalir°becet been
i d but he had no liquor : all the witnesses agreed
went
n-
, which fie To, a
, most excellent character for honesty sobriety, in giving - ' 'lit and propriety of conduct.___The Coroner
, however, were decidedly of opinion, that the de-
! and
, ceased had been drinking, from the state in which they wit-
' c'e-s-sed the body. But there was no evidence to shew where he
ga:, procured the liquor. There was a strong smell of rum in
the room.—'l'he Jury, after sortie discussion, found " That the
deceased died by the Visitation of God from Apoplexy."
An Exeter Paper says—cc Our favourite, Mrs.
YATES (late Miss BauNTos), has entered upon
an engagement at Drury-lane Theatre for three
years, in the highest walk of genteel comedy."
undeviating eon Y 1 ,

TIIF LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from Ike Morning Papers, May 29.

`TIJC TIMES.]
The regulations of Committees on private bills
seems likely to spring from the investigating
spirit and zeal of Mr. flume. That gentleman,
in a speech on Thursday night, described the
manifold vices to which those Committees are
subject by their present construction and ►node of
proceeding. The local grievances arising from
these causes over the country exceed all belief,
to say nothing of,the scandal which attaches to a
system of conducting business iii the Committee-
room, according to which members are previously
canvassed or hastily pressed in to decide ques-
tions, of which they are either totally ignorant,
or obtain all their knowledge from one of the
parties interested. We agree with the Right
Bon. the Foreign Secretary, that the bare de-
scription of the practice will serve a little to re-
strain
it, and for a while, till a more effectual j
barrier is imposed. Mr. Canning, however, al- j
lowed.. the truth of Mr. home's testament, and
the soundness of his principles. The agitation of
•the question will therefore have done much good,
and a Special Committee is to be formed this ses-
sion to provide a legal remedy for the evil. It
was suggested that the practice of voting on a
question without hearing the arguments on either
side prevailed in other places as well as in com-
mittee-rooms ;yea, even in the honourable House
itself. The evil, wherever it exists, requires re-
form ; we may however observe, that; the cases
are different. Gentlemen may have so• studied
public questions, that they have nothing more to
learn respecting them from a debate ; whereas,
-the merits of a private bill can never be known
by general reading.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Spanish Amnesty has at length appeared
in a supplement to the Madrid Gazette of the
20th, loaded with exceptions,: and forming a
sweeping Decree of almost universal proscription.
Like the memorable mandate of the Triumvirs—
Augustus, Anthony, and Lepidus, it denounces
every individual, hostile from political or private
feelings, to the faction now in power in Spain.—
'This Decree proscribes, in fact, every leading
Individual connected with the Revolution, during
the three years it lasted. The Chiefs of the
military revolt at Las Cabezas, the Isle of Leon,
.Corunna, Saragosa, Oviedo, and Barcelona, are
all denounced. The same penalties are extended
-to what are called the principal authors of the
,conspiracy at Madrid at the beginning of March,
.3820,-who wrested from the vile Ferdinand the
unwilling decree proclaiming the Constitution, on
the 7th of March, 1820. The fifth exception in-
cludes the military chiefs who took part in the
revolt of Ocogna, and A bisbal is particularly
denounced by name, and thus awarding to him
The deserts which this triple traitor fully earned.
The whole body of the Cortes who, on the 12th
:of June 1823, on the motion of the Deputy Gali-
ano, voted the dethronement of the King, and
the establishment of a Regency, are also proscri-
bed, with the temporary Regents appointed until
Ferdinand reached Cadiz. The same penalty is
extended to the General commanding the troops,
who accompanied the tyrant to that city. The
exceptions also reach unlimitedly to the writers
Who have attacked the Catholic religion, thus
preserving the ancient spirit of the Inquisition in
its worst form. The three following articles de-
nounce the Judges who condemned Elio and
his Lieutenant, at Valencia ; those concerned
in the death of the Canon Vinnesa and the
Bishop of Vich, with the Royalist prisoners
at Grenada and Corunna ; the Chiefs of the
Guerillas, who had risen in arms since Angou-
Lerne entered Spain in 1823; and the European
Spaniards who signed 'the convention concluded
at.:,.Mexico between the Viceroy O'Donoju and
Augustin I turbide. A special article alludes to
the individuals who, being excluded from the
amnesty by the spirit of the Decree, are included
in it by capitulations granted by the French
Generals. Permission is extended to these un-
happy individuals to reside in Spain only on con-
dition of their appearing before the Tribunals,
to be tried according to law ; that is, to be im-
mured in dungeons for months, and then dragged
before Tribunals—where their fate is certain !
Thus Ferdinand and the crew about him are
pursuing their full career with an undimi-
nished thirst -of vengeance. This Amnesty in-
cludes in its exceptions all the principal exiles, to
a Man,.who have found refuge on these shores. The
gallant Mina, as Military Chief at Barcelona ;
QUiroga, as head of the revolution at Corunna ;
the unfortunate Empecinado, now in a Spanish
dungeon; -the two 'Arguelles, Galiano, and a
number of others, the most enlightened among
the Spaniards, are all marked out for vengeance
in a body. They however are now fortunately
beyond the tyrant's power. While the French
troops•remain in Spain, the present dreadful or-
der of things is likely to last.. Should they once
more return within the Pyrenees, Ferdinand's
kingdom will soon. be "on a weak foundation,"
and tyranny .and superstition in that fated coun-
try be levelled in the dust again.

. • [NEW Toms.]
nri(i) ot t
ti
iol ani st which Mr.
.. .
he has ever
Among the numberless
we know
fume has. cruder
bit upon one so little liable to objection as that I
for. a • Committee on Committees. The Rouse,
felt that for once the Honourable Mover had
kept out of the trammels of party, and had fixed
upon an evil
•
which belonged as much to outs as
to ta,s, The' management of committees on PH-
vate,Bills has been long a subject of great and
genral . 'complaint ; and, if they can by any new,
, .
regnlatiOna be brought back to their original and
legitimate j purpose, the public will. have great
reason, to i?joi(e ; and the character of the Legis-
lature will be,c-leared of a blot by which it has
long been staMpd. We wish we could speak as fa-
vourabiy'of another motion of the same Hon. Mem-
ber, for returns., of the names of Magistrates
committing prisoners for trial, &c. Of Mr.
ifume's motives for such a motion we have no
business and rio wish to speak, but the effect of

it, if carried, would obviously have been to dis-
gust the greater part of the unpaid Magistrates,
and to cause them to decline acting in the Com-
mission of the Peace, than which result no prac-
tical measure can well be conceived more inju-
rious to the good order of the kingdom at-large.
To our unpaid Magistracy all wise Statesmen of
other countries have looked as an institution
which they might envy, but could never imitate ;
and instead of detering men of fortune and edu-
cetion from engaging in it, every fair inducement
should be held out to persuade them to under-
take so beneficial an office.

[MORNING POST.]

The returns which Mr. Hume has obtained of
the number of persons committed, convicted, &c.
in England and Wales for the two periods of
seven years each, between 1810 and 1824, how-
ever curious as statistical details, are most doubt-
ful data from which to draw general conclusions.
In fact, we can see nothing certain in them but
the numerical results of the accounts which have

been transmitted to the Secretary of State's

Office. That the total in the last seven years
should nearly double the total of the previous
seven years is certainly remarkable ; but it nei-
ther proves that crime has increased in so alarm-
ing a ratio nor reflects upon the general govern-
ment of the country or the general conduct of
the people. In the first place the returns now
before the public must necessarily be judged of
according to the aggregate population of the two
periods, and next the circumstances of the nation
in other respects during those intervals. Now, it
is above question, that from various causes
the population of England and Wales has in-
creased very considerably since the conclusion of
the last war. To say nothing of the negative augmen-
tation resulting from the cessation of the drain oc-
casioned by hostilities, the influx of people from
Ireland, added to the natural produce of births
among the inhabitants of a flourishing communi-
ty like this, would explain the excess of the last
over the preceding Census. Upon the mere
principle of population, therefore, an important
increase in committals and convictions must be
expected for the last seven years. But in con-
junction with this fact, there are several others
to be included in the calculation. So long as
war continued, our Army and Navy were na-
tural receptacles for public delinquents, rho,
though bad citizens, under strict discipline, soon
became excellent soldiers and sailors. A great
portion of crime, which would otherwise have
appeared in the first seven years, was thus ab-
sorbed, and at present has consequently no sta-
tistical existence. Subsequent to the peace, not
only has this national drain, if we may so speak,
been stopt, but numbers of idle characters,
liable to every sort of vicious temptation, have
been regorged upon the country by the great
reductions effected in our Military and Naval
I
Establishments. We are further to recollect,
that although the natural progress o( popula-

tion has met with no efficient check between
1816 and 1824, almost every class of the commu-
nity has in the interim experienced temporary
want of employment, and distress which irresistibly
drive men to the commission of crime. All these
circumstances, coupled with many collateral and
dependent ones, in our opinion go far to solve
the difference in the amount of the two returns
just laid before Parliament. Another probable
cause of the increase latterly may be the greater
vigilance and assiduity of the Magistracy and
the subordinate agents of Police, in detecting
and bringing to trial public offenders. We ad-
mit indeed that ultimately the effect of a change
of this sort would be to diminish crime, but the
primary consequence we take to be an addition
to the number of committals and convictions.—
The mere statement of aggregate returns is so
apt to mislead the unwary part of the public,
that we flatter ourselves the foregoing qualifying
suggestions may not be destitute of utility. De-
tails, such as Mr. Hume delights in, are, in re-
ality, more mischievous than beneficial, if unac-
companied by a knowledge of concomitant facts.

r
LMORNING CHRONICLE.]

The Marine Insurance Bill was read a second
time last night. On a division, there was a con-
siderable majority in its favour. The question of
vested rights was soon disposed of; and with re-
spect to the arguments against the freedom of
the trade of insuring, they really do not deserve
a moment's consideration. It is not for Legis-
lators to teach men
,the way they shall carry on
their business. If the present system were the
very best possible, and if the trade could he car-
ried on more advantageously by individuals than
by companies, still interference would not be the
more justifiable.— Parliament might just as
well compel all the farmers in Surrey and
Middlesex to abandon the flail for the thrashing-
machine, the cumbrous six-horse plough for the
two-horse one, or impose a penalty on growing
turnips broad-cast. The business of the Legis-
lature is to protect men in their operations, but
not to direct them in them,—to leave them to
follow whatever course they may deem most for
their interest, taking care, only that they do not
encroach on the legitimate freedom of others.--
There are some businesses for which companies
are best adapted, and some which can only be
well conducted by individuals. Banking is one
of the former, and so we should suppose is Ma-
rine Insurance ; Farming is one of the latter.—
But if a great company were to be formed
for farming, which, like the new A ustra-
liau Company, should carry on operations
on the most extended scale, bringing over
sheep from Saxony, bullocks from Hungary,
and goats from Cachernere, the Legislature
ought to throw no impediment in their way.—
It. is consolatory to know from experience, that
when
are, as
of insurance is perfectly free, the
public
ai in all other cases, the greatest
gainers.' We learn from a Correspondent, that
in North America Insurances (which is conduct-
ed by incorporated companies) are at this day
one quarter to one-third less than the rates for
the same risks taken at Lloyd's. 4' Their own
experience (he says) founded upon a cbmmerce
v like our own, penetrates the most remote
vlici'
cornersi of the globe, has enabled them to fix their
rates, which, low as they are, still leave a fair

profit to the underwriters, as is evinced by the
price of Assurance Company Stocks, which are
almost invariably at an advance."

[MORNING HERALD.]
The New Marine Insurance Company (the
Alliance) occupied the House of Commons last
night from five to ten o'clock. Four Counsel
Messrs. Sergeant Bosanquet, Harrison, Marryat,
and Sergeant Teddy, were heard in succession at
the bar against the second reading. The Bill
was then read a second time, and Mr. F. Buxton
moved that it be committed. He adverted par-
ticularly to all the objections urged for the Sun
and Royal Exchange Marine Insurance Compa-
nies, and for the individual Underwriters at
Lloyd's. The two Companies were establish-
ed by Charter in the 6th of George I. (1720), in
consideration of a sum of 300,0001.; but they
paid only 120,0001. A clause was introduced
in the Act of Parliament, empowering the
Crow❑ to withdraw the Charter within thirty-
Otte years, upon giving six months' notice, and
re-paying the money advanced. He contended
that this clause clearly implied that, at the end
of thirty-one years, the exclusive privileges of
the Charter ceased to exist. With respect to in-
dividual underwriters, who alone were permitted
by the Charter of those companies to engage in
marine insurances, he argued that they were not
sufficient in point of security and permanency for
such an undertaking. In 1814 not less than
150,000/. were lost by such insurances. Some
underwriters had died, and nothing remained but
a law:suit with executors ; some had become in-
solvent, and the law-suit was necessary with cre-
ditors for even a composition ; some had been li-
tigious, and resisted the fairest claims. Mr. P.
Grenfell took the lead against the motion. He
gave a history of failures in similar at-
tempts in 1796, 1810, 1811, and 1813.—
Messrs. Perceval, Vicary Gibbs, Plomer, &c.
had been of opinion that it was competent
for the Crown alone to take away the Charter of
the Sun and Royal Exchange, and upon repay-
ment of the 120,0001. Upon this abjection, every
Bill similar to this had failed. In 1813 the ques-
tion had been argued before the Privy Council,
but in consequence of some observations which
dropped from Lord Ellenborough, the subject
was abandoned. He admitted that he was in-
terested in these Companies, but he, notwith-
standing, would vote impartially. There could
be no doubt of the power of the individuals who
composed the Alliance Company to meet any call
upon them, when he mentioned the names of
Baring, Rothschild, Irving, Alexander, and
Buxton. But only 500,0001. had been ac-
tually contributed, although their prospectus set
for 5,000,000/. What security then could there
be, that share-holders to whom they might
transfer their interest, would he able to pay their
proportions of 5,000,0001.? It should be recol-
lected, that a measure requiring an actual deposit
of four-fifths of the total subscription, proposed
in another place (the House of Lords,) had not
yet passed into a law. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer was of opinion, that giving 31 years
to the Companies for the reduced sum of 120,000/.
was a complete quid pro quo. The application
to the Privy Council had properly failed, because
there was no reason for taking away their Char-
ter from the Sun and Royal Exchange Compa-
nies, though their exclusive privileges had come
to an end in the year 1751. He thought
the proposed Bill would favour the public in-
terest, and he would, therefore, support it. The
discussion afterwards possessed no novelty.—
Mr. Alderman Thompson used what is called
argumentum ad hominem, by charging Mr. F.
Buxton with supporting monopoly in the Beer
Trade. Mr. Alderman Wood appealed to the
House of Peers, as the only means of protection
against the injuries to incorporated interests at-
tempted in every quarter of the House of Com-
mons. Mr. Robertson protested so strongly
against the the pernicious course of commercial
policy pursued during the last four years, that
he was called to the point before the House by
the Speaker, and he sat down. On a division
there were 51 to 23, for committing the Bill,
which was ordered for Monday.

QUALITIES IN CONVERSATION.-Sir W. TEM-
PLE says, " The first ingredient, is truth ; the
next, good sense; the third, good humour; and
the fourth, wit. This last was left to fools and
buffoons kept in great families. Henry IV.
of France, and King James 1. of England, first
gave repute to that sort of wit, increased by King
Charles 11. In King Charles the First's time all
wit, love, and honour were heightened by the wits
of that time into romance. Lord Goreign took the
contrepied, and turned all into ridicule. Ile was
followed by the Duke of Buckingham ; and that
vein, favoured by King Charles 11., brought it
in vogue. Truth is allowed the most estimable
quality ; the lie is the greatest reproach—there-
fore allowed formerly a just occasion of combat
by law, and since that time by honour, in private
duels. Good breeding is as necessary a quality
in conversation to accomplish all the rest, as grace
in [notion and dancing. It is harder in that to
dance a courant well than a jig ; so in conversa-
tion, even, easy, and agreeable, more than points
of wit ; which, unless very naturally they fall in
of themselves, and not too often, are disliked in
good company, because they pretend to more than
the rest, and turn conversation from good sense
to wit, from pleasant to ridicule, which are the
meaner parts."

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.---Yes-
terday morning, Mr. EBSWORTIif, a hatter in East
Smithfield, was attending at the Court of Con..
science in Osborne-street, Whitechapel, to claim
of the Court, as he was ap-
sboymoen semoaf lt
hdee bc trsi
e,
rasnd on his name being called
proaching the Commissioners to state his case, he
suddenly fell back and instantly expired. Ile
has left a large family to bewail his loss.
Such is the present state of building in the
town of Leeds, that neither the hriclimakers nor
the quarrymen can procure sufficient materials to
supply the demands of the public. Painters,
joiners, &c. are in full employ, and there is a
loud but unsuccessful demand for orders,--(Leeds
Independent.)

PRISON DISCIPLINE.

The Society for promoting Prison Discipline,
and reclaiming Juvenile Offenders, yesterday held its Meeting
at Freemasons'-hall.

His Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER was pre-
vented from presiding over the business of the day by indispo-
sition; in consequence of which Earl GROSVENOR was called
to the Chair. His Lordship was supported by several of the
most distinguished Philanthropists, who have assisted in the
objects of the Society.
The Report was read to the Meeting, and set forth the gra-
tifying labours of the Society for the past year, strongly en-
forcing the necessity of completing its work, and appealing to
the benevolence of the public for the means of doing so by an
adequate contribution to their funds.

A- series of Resolutions were carried unanimously, and in
moving them, various addresses were made to the feelings of
the Meeting,
Lord CALTRORPE, in moving the first resolution, described
the horrible state in which the Society found the prisons of this
country, and the immense improvement which their exertions
had effected. Much, however, remained to be done ; and
when the great benefit which their work was sure to confer
upon the moral state of the community should be duly taken
into consideration, it was impossible that the public could fail
to give them the most active support and co-operation.
Mr. P. BUXTON seconded the resolution, and gave an inte-
resting account of the origin and early progress of the Society.
He stated the arguments which had formerly been urged
against them to be most extravagant and unfounded; and ex-
pressed his belief that there was not now a man in the country
who did not admit that necessity had existed for some kind or
other of Prison Reform. He deprecated the sanguinary cha-
racter of our criminal laws, and contended that imprisonment
with labour properly regulated, ought to be substituted as a
secondary punishment.
Mr. EVANS, M.P. in proposing the Second Resolution, in-
forced the necessity of attending to the state of the prisons in
local jurisdictions.
Mr. SYKES, M.P. and other Gentlemen, addressed the As-
sembly in suitable speeches.
_

The Meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and
the Alembers of the Society of Friends, particularly the fe-
males of that class, predominated.

ANCIENT CUSTOM IN CORNWALL.—A festival
is yearly observed at Helston, termed the Flora-
day. The cavalry paraded in honour of her
Florescent Majesty on Monday se'nnight; and
at one o'clock a very large party of ladies and
gentlemen commenced dancing through the prin-
cipal streets, to the music of the cavalry band,
amidst a concourse of gratified spectators. In
the afternoon a gay party of tradespeople follow-
ed the example, and as is the custom, passed,
dancing through the houses in succession, going
round the tables at which the first families sat at
dinner ; a species of amusement that would ap-
pear very singular to all but the Helstonians,
who have exercised this liberty, on the Flora.
day, from time immemorial. Numerous dancing
parties succeeded each other, until about half-
past seven o'clock, when the ladies and gentle-
men again danced through the streets in their
ball-diesses ; there were not less than 50 couple
present. They then retired to the assembly.
room, where the ball was opened by H. M.
Grylls, Esq. and Airs. J Trevenen : the dancing
was kept up with great spirit until the rays of
the rising sun warned them to seek repose.
STATUARY COBBLER.—In an old church in
the town of Truro, in Cornwall, there is a large
massive monument, which is erected to the me-
mory of JOHN ROBERTS, Esq., who died in 1614.
It was originally decorated with several figures,
and having fallen into decay, was, a few years
since, repaired by order of Miss H of
Landarick, a descendant of the family. When
it was finished the mason presented an account,
of which the following is a literal copy :—" To
putting one new foot to Mr. J. Roberts, mend-
ing the other, and putting seven new buttons to
his coat, and a new string to his breeches' knees
—to two new feet to his wife Phillis, mending
her eyes, and putting a new nosegay in her hand
—to two new hands and a new nose to the cap-
tain—to two new hands to his wife, and putting
a new cuff to her gown—to making and fixing two
new wings on Times's shoulders, making a new
great toe, mending the handle to his scythe, and
putting a new blade to it ;"—all of which items
are severally drawn out and balanced by pounds,
shilling, and pence.—(Leaves from a Journal.)
Tha following anecdote was related by Bishop
LATIMER, in a Sermon preached before King
Edward VI. When an order was made by the
Roman Catholic authorities in the reign of Queen
Alary, that a" goodly rood," or image of Christ
should be placed in every parish church, the
officers of Cockran parish, near Lancaster, agreed
with a carver to furnish them with an image, or
rood. But the workman, who proved to be a
very indifferent artist, made them a figure so ugly
and hideous, that the women and children, in-
stead of being induced to attend the church by
the beauty of the image, were frightened away.
On this account the churchwardens refused
to pay the carver's bill. The carver, therefore,
summoned the officers before the Mayor of Lan-
caster to enforce his demand. They accordingly
attended, and when asked why they did not pay
the bill, they replied that their agreement was for
a goodly rood, and this was so frightful that it
did not answer the purpose. The Mayor (who '
was suspected of being inclined to Protestantism)
gave the following judgment :—" It does not
signify whether the image serves for the purpose
of worship or not; the poor man's labour has been
nevertheless; he therefore must be paid ; and if
the image will not serve ye for a god, only put a
tail to it and a pair of horns, it will make an ex-
cellent devil."

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