The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-23 00:00:00

LEEDS SESSIONS.

Mr. Robert Wood, a preacher in the Methodist
Conne6tion, presented himself before the Magis-
trates and requested. that the oaths might be admi-
nistered lb him, that he might make the declaration
required by the Toleration A6t, to qualify him to
officiate as a Dissenting:reacher.
The Bench inquired if he was appointed a Tea Cher
to any specific congregation.
The Rev. Mr. Wood, sea. who is also a Travel.
ling Preacher in the same counedion, replied that
his son was to preach at Bramley.
RECORDER—Suffer the young man to answer the
question himself.
Mr. Robert Wood—lt is intended that I should
preach at Bramley, Armley, and other places in the
vicinity.
The RECORDER, after some conversation with
the Band) and the Counsel near him, resumed—
‘c From a report of a case just published, it appears,
that the Court of King's Bench have decided, that a
Protestant Dissenter who states himself as one who
preaches to several congregations without shewing
that he has a separate congregation attached to him,
is not entitled to take the wilts and make the decla-
ration required by the Toleration Act. It will there.
tore be necessary for you to prove your appointment
to peach to a separate congregation before you can
be enti:led to take the oaths.

'Mr. MAum% here observed, that though the
Court of King's Bench did not, in the case cited,
think -propt..r to issue a .Mandamus to compel the
Magistrate, to adrmokter the oaths, it did not folhlw
that the oaths might not be administered as hereto-
fore without requiring thiise new conditions, which
were never before of.

Mr. HAINSWOUTH, in reply, said, the Magis-
trate: con,. only administer the oaths agreeably to
the provisions of t;.e Toleration Alt; and if thq
Act required certain previous conditions, it was not
in the power of that Bench or any other, to dispense
With them ; for if the Magistrates in the case allud-
ed to, had required any thing to be done which the
law bad IFrot made nectssary, the Court of King's
Bench would, have issued a Mandamus to compel
them to administer the oaths.

' In these °hie, vdtions the Court coincided, and re-
(used to administer the mills.

A new Tragedy has been announced at the Edin-
burgh Theatre, under the title of Helga. The Fa-.
ble, it seems, is laid in Iceland, and it is said to be
the fir,t dramatic production of ,a Gentleman of high
lank and charaler. The Prologue and Epilogue, as
well as the piece itself, are said to be distinguished
for poetical spirit.
Joseph Finch, porter at the Golden Cross, was,
on Tuesday last, fined, by the sMagistrates at Bow-
street, in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings, for
surcharge of portarge, in the delivery of a parcel
to Mr. Banks, of the Strand.

On the night of the 3d instant, between six and
ten, some monsters in. human shape, entered the
stable of Mr. Charles Storey, of Croffsyke-head,
in Cutnberland, and savagely cut out the tongues of
two valuable animals—one of them a mare with
foal. The wretched animals, thus rendered totai:y
incapable of chewing and swallowing food sufficient
fer their sustenance, soon died.

NOTTINGHAM,' JAN. 21.—.Nrhaps no circum-
stance connected with the commotions in this town
and vicinity, has given so dear a display ot, the
disposition of the rioters as one which took place on
Friday evening last. As Mr. Townsend, who keeps
the Barley-mow public house, at Basford, was re-
turning home from this town, he was assailed by
two men, who seemed determined to take his per-
son, without any attempt at robbery ; but, on his
voice being heard, they immediately desisted from
their desperate purpose, and exclaimed ", We are
mistaken,—you are not the man we wanted !"
On Sunday morning early one frame was broken in
Nottingham ; and the following night four more
at New Radford, one of which was the finest plain
silk stocking frame in Englani ; and, report says,
was then employed in making an larder for the
Prince Regent. On the same evening nine warp
lace-frames were completely destroyed at Lio;by, a
village about seven miles hence ; they were em-
ployed in making what is called two course hole: net,
which hqs been so destruCtive to the credit of the
.Npt,i7gbarn lace-manutacturers.-06 Friday last
our town Sessions closed, and the only circum-
stance worthy of attention, as connected with the
prei,ent trouoles, was, that no bill was found against
the two men, who had been imprisoned six weeks,
ot collecting 'money to support the
Orakers.-

fiIMATC,I PdPERS.

HOUSE OE ASSEMBLY,
Kingston, I( aniaica) NoV. 20, tBrt.

fn a Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Island, Mr. STEWART, of Trelawney, made a
speech of considerable length, in which he dwelt
upon the existing dirlicultie4 and distresses of the
Island, in consequence of the oppressive taxes which
had been heaped upon its produce by the Ministers
of the mother country. The Island, he contended,
did not now possess those advantages which it en-
joyed, when it first entered into an engagement to
support a certain proportion of his Majesty's troops;
the planters then received better prices for the pro-
ducts of their industry. He complained of breaches
of faith on the part of the mother country, of her
monopoly of their produce, of the.encouragement of
trade with St. Domingo, of the violation of their
rights by the abolition. of the Slave Trade, and of
the placing the conquered colonies on a footing with
Jamaica. These evils, be, contended, occasioned
their inability to raise taxes for the subsistence of
the troop, and fully warranted their withholding,
in their present circumstances, the supplies for that
purpose. To alleviate their distresses, he proposed
certain resolutions descriptive of the deplorable state
of the island; and requiring that the property of the
colonists should be placed on an equal footing with
that of their fellow subjeas in the parent state, in
the form of an Amendment to the report of the
Committee.

Mr. Sims opposed the proposition, as the troops
had ben paid for so many years, and the faith of
the country was pledged to it. 'Vey ought not to
carryapplications for the suspension of part of the
navigation system, coupled with 2 refus II to pay the
troops, if they expeeted to procure any relief. He
thought no. taxes should be levied, but that the
money to jay the troops should be borrowed.
Mr. SHAND maintained that the island ought to
stand or fall with the British Empire, which was
waging an expensive war for her existence against
the power of France. The distresses of Jamaica
were trifling compared to those of the mother
country. He entered into a number of details and
arguments to slew that their lath was. pledged to
support the troops. The Distillery Bill, which might
hate benefited the island, bad been frustrated in
England only by the avarice a,nd ignorance of tfie
Peers. If they refused to pay the troops, England
could levy taxes on them. in another way :—one
shilling per gallon on rum imported would amply
compensate , for what they might withhold. He
read an extra of a letter from. a Secretary of State
to a late Governor-of the Island, in which he said,
that lie could not believe that • the Assembly of Ja-
Maica were in earnest on the question of withhold-
ing the supplies from the troops; as they were
aware, that Government could annihilate them'im-
mediately. He also quoted an opinion delitered in
Parliament by a member of a powerful sees, that if
the West Indies would not permit Parliament to le-
gislate for them, it could, and ought to shake them
off. He concluded by miming two resolutions of a
different tendency.
Mr. C. GRANT insisted, that the island could not
afford to subsist the troops. The House ought not
to be frightened into the resolutions by the tear of
losing all the white troops. That was ridiculous;
for Great Britain was not prepared to lose so valuable
an appendoge to the Crown as Jamaica, with the
millions of money she annually derived from it.
Three years ago, the maintenance lot the troops be-
ing too ample, part of it was withheld, and trans-
meted to Ministers, who could g.ve no account
of it.

The House divided on Mr. SteWari's resolutions,
which were negatived by a' Majority of nine; the
nurnb-!ri being 23 against the Resolutions, and 14
for them ; atter which, those of Mr. Shand were
put and carried.

KINGSTON, (JAMAICA), OCT 56.—A shocking,
murder has been discovered, that was lately -corn-
milted on Mammee-Bay estate, in tire parish of St.
Ann, on Mr. John Grant, the overseer. It seems
Mr. Grant was found dead in his bed, and soon after
buried, without any suspicion of his having been
murdered. .The discovery was made by a Negro
belonging to the adjoin►ng property, and has since
been confirmed by the confession of some Negroes
that were concerned in this most atrocious trans-
action. We understand there had been several run-
aways from Mammee-Bay, and that Mr. Grant had
been for some days indisposed, and on the night the
murder was committed,.while he was in bed, six of
the runaways entered his bed-room about midnight,
some of whom seized him by the feet and others by
the arms, while another fastened rope round his
neck, and after a severe struggle strangled him.—
The artful villains then lighted a candle, put on a
clean dress on Mr. Grapt, washed off some blood
from the floor, and dispatched-a Negro boy on the
deceased's horse, witlt a message from hiai to a
neighbouring overseer, request ing.his iinmedi.ste at-
tendance, as he expected shortly to did; this Gen-
tleman, on going over to Mr. Grant, found
him dead in his bed. The circumstance of his
having be, •n previoudy sick, dcemioned. the
Ins alarm or )urprise at his death, and conse-
quently no inquest was held upon the body, and
his funeral soon atter took place. We are happy to
sly that five of the wretches concerned are in cus-
tody, and search is making after the oi her who as-
sisted in the murder.

THE OPERA.—The beautiful Opera of Elfrida,
one of the best achievements of PARSIELLO, was
revived on Tuesday last at the King's Theatre. The
story is well known to the Readers of English his-
tory, and has been rendered still more familiar. by
MASON'S excellent dramatic Poem. The vocal
supp,rt on this occa,ion was by no means aolequate
to the merit of the composition, with the exception
of CATALANI.—This Performer very narrowly es-
caped what might have been productive of serious
consequences. One of the high boards which sus-
tain the lamps on the sides of the Stage, behind
the scenes, fell directly on the spot where she had
just before been standing, and at a short distance
from the place to which she had removed. Such
negligence on the part of the scene-shifters deserves
severe reprehension. The Opera altogether went
off very well, and had a large propoition of the
fashionable world.