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London, England, 1824-12-11 00:00:00

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The Chief Justice of the Comiimn Pleas has
had another brush, as Sir• Bashful calls it in the
play, with the Learned Sergeants. It is some-
what puzzling to the unlearned public why
scenes of this kind should be so frequent in that
Court. The fact seems to be, that the Chief
Justice is placed in the situation of .a strict
Colonel appointed to a corps in which the reins
of discipline have been long loose. Every effort
to enforce order and regularity is sure to be met,
especially at first, with restiveness or defiance.
Sir William Best, on his appointment, made no
secret of his intention to introduce the discipline
of the King's Bench, and, we believe, openly de-
dared this from his seat in Cotirt. It Is un-
doubtedly a Herculean undertaking to quell the
many-headed 'adversary which the Learned
Judge had to encounter. But It is probable,
as well as desirable, that he should accomplish
it. The Chief Justice has spirit and firmness
to repress licence, and enforce order, but we
believe he has ever been distinguished for cour-
tesy and indulgence where these qualities in
a Judge are most called for and merito-
rious, during his whole judicial career. lie
sometimes expresses himself with a certain viva-
city of manner. It is a vivacity nbt so
much of temper, as of clear and quick percep-
tion, impatient of waste of time, and idle
delay of right, and justice. Bills of exception
will, and should be, of course, tendered, in their
discretion by Counsel—and it would be an ex-
treme impertinence to suggest any thing upon the
discretion or indiscretion of that tendered in this
instance ; but it undoubtedly is the right and the
duty of the Judge to protect himself and the
parties before the Court from exceptions offered
in wantonness or menace..

[MORNING CHRONICLE.
We copied, the other day, from 77w West Bri-
toil, an account of the failure of lire Mevagissey
bank, which had plunged the neighbourhoods of
Mevagissey and St. Austel in the deepess dis-
-tress. Wo.regret, to state that we have received
information of the failure of another bank, in a
city of the West of England, of whichthe trans-
actions were very extensive, under circumstances
that ►pill, if our information be correct, excite
much attention. The failure of any one banking
establishment generally leads to the failure of
others, and consequently is productive of the
most extensive distress. As no man knows where
the evil will stop, there is a general want of con-
fidence, which exposes oven solvent banks to
to very great danger. People who have money
in banks feet disposed to withdraw it till the
storm is over;; the bankers, in turn, are obliged
to call in their balances to meet the claims
on them ; and thus on all hands distress and
embarrassment are to be met with. The hest
digested projects are thus frequently overturned,
and thousands, who have every reason to believ(
themselves in the best circumstances, are sudden-
ly involved in ruin. Let us only think of the
amount of distress which must have been caused
by the failure of the Country Banks in 1793,
%vhen, out of Q 79, nearly one hundred stopt pay.
meat; At that time the whole of I,ancashire was
convtilsed, and thousands of manufacturers were
inlisted into the army in one day. What dreadful
distress, too, took place hi consequence of the bank

failures at the conclusion of the late war ! When
we know that only one bank of any consequence
ever stopt payment in Scotland, and that, as the
partners were, even in that case, worth many
times the amount. of the debts, so that no ulti-
mate loss was sustained by the public, we are
warranted in demanding, in the name of the
people of England, why they alone are thus to
be exposed to a calamity which might with such
ease be averted ? The Scotch Banks are under
no restriction with respect to number of partners,
and hence, though the Scotch are more adventu-
rous and speculative than the English, gene.
rally tasking their means to the utmost, com-
mercial failures never affect the Banks because
they are founded onsobroad a basis, as to resist
every shock. Banking is one of those businesses
which ought to be conducted on fixed principles,
and hence the number of partners never can be
too great for the efficiency of the business, while
the greater the number of wealthy partners, the
greater the security to the public against abuse,
and the firmer the credit. But in this country
every thing is sacrificed to the ruinous policy of
the Bank of England, which, it has been proved
by Mr. Ricardo, is not even useful to Government.
Surely this state of things will not last for ever. The
continuance of the evil so long, for no other rea-
son than because private interests are benefitted
by the restrictions, because there is not a Minister
in the Cabinet who is not convinced that the
bank monopoly is mischievous in the extreme to
the country, is a curious phenomenon. Here we
see men who lay claim to conscience and religion,
men who attend Bible Societies, coolly abandon-
ing the people of England to incessant revolu-
tions of property, witnessing with composure the
ruin of thousands of respectable families every
year which they have the means of preventing.-
-This only shows that there is hardly any thing
so bad which men, who in their private ca-
pacity are amiable and exemplary, will
not do when the responsibility is shared by many.
Mr. Jluskisson, Lord Liverpool, Mr. Robinson,
Mr. Wallace and Mr. Peel at least,' know that
the Bank restriction is a heavy calamity to the
country. This is a chapter in the Book of Human
Nature which merits the attention of those who
wish to know what conscience really is.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
It is clear that very important negociations are
pending at this time, in which our own Cabinet
appears, from the unusual length and frequency
of its meetings, to take an active, if not a promi-
nent, share. As we understand that, at the Courts
of Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg'', the same
bustle prevails as at our own,we may safely presume
that. the question is of general import. We know
of only two, that may be classed under this
head ; for the affairs of Spain, important or rather
portentous as they are, appear to be left wholly
to the prudence of the French Government.—
The fate of Greece, and that of the late Spanish
Colonies in America, are the only subjects which
could account for the extraordinary bustle that
prevails in the diplomatic world. That both are
under discussion may be very reasonably pre.
sunned ; for, if the other Powers were willing to
postpone the agitation of the affairs of the
New World, our own Government would pro_
the absolute
hably see, at this time, necessity
of pressing it forward to a decision. Mi-
uisters would scarcely think of meeting Par-
liament again, without being able to announce
that they had not only made up their minds on
this paramount question, but that they were re-
solved to carry their views into immediate exe-
cution. As every Power must see they do not
wantonly protrude it, and that they are not
liable, on the Occasion, to a charge of acting on
selfish grounds, we do not imagine that they
would meet with any impediments but such as
they could surmount. Our Government, has,
in this case, displayed a scrupulous disinterest.
edness, and, -we might almost say, a chivalrous
feeling, that must give it great advantage In.
any negociatian. It does not strike us, there-
fore, as probable, that the fate of the late Spanish
Colonies, constitutes the cause, at least the chief
ground of the present negociations. But the
affairs of Greece contain so strong an appeal to
the fears of some Powers, to the ambitious hopes
of others, and to the interests of all, that they ac-
count at once- for the extraordinary bustle visible
nt so many Courts. The mystery in which every
Power except one, has taken care to involve its
proceedings, gives a higher zest to the subject,
and serves to sharpen public curiosity to an ex-
traordinary degree. The policy of the Austrian
Court has been distinguished by its uniform
hostility to the cause of the Greeks ; and
there are, perhaps, no lengths to which it
would not go in' the indulgence of his feel-
ing. Its hatred,y is so fixed, and at the same
time so rancourous, that as soon as it is obliged
to listen to any proposal favourable to that
people, its first movement is to lay its hand on
the hilt of its sword. Whenever the question
is seriously agitated, the world is not long kept
in ignorance, for a movement in the Austrian
army announces that the affairs of the Greeks are
brought on the tapis. This bull-headed mode of
proceeding, ominous as it is for the tranquillity of
Europe, is not more alarming, perhaps, than the
tortuous course of-Russian policy. Few, if ally
at ail, except the initiated, know the real feelings
of that Court with respect to the Greeks. Ac-
cording to some accounts the Cabinet of St. Pe.
tersburgh exerts itself strenuously in favour of
that People ; and the movements in the Austrian
Army, of which rumour speaks, seems to coun-
tenance this opinion, There is no other Powee
whose views on this occasion could give umbrage
to Austria, and. justify the, precautions which she
the
is said to have adopted. Alexander may
thin
tok
de-
time is come, when honour co hims upon
dare himself upon a subject upon which all
rope has long expected his tl
_etermina.tiOl w'
I some-
some anxiety, and his own Peoplo
witC'abinet,
thing like fretful impatience. Our o.w
ite
to the
as may be supposed, is not insensible
remains
merits of this question ; but its poi!?
Impelled
an enigma ; and, whilst it. may be In'Pth I.tl
take the liberal side, as consistent with, it ge-
trigue and
nerui conduct, the fear of Russian In.
his Impulse,—
ambition may serve to counteract t •
d evi-
. The question, as we have preseute

dently of sufficient importance to account for ti►e
negociations pending at this moment.

IRISH LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT CF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, DBc. 7.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF SETTLEMENT.
The Cum' JUSTICE having shortly after ten otock taken
his seat on the bench, and a special Jury, sworn the day before,
having resumed their seats in the box, the atikrurned case of
" Maddock v. Elizabeth Nolan and John 11Iahon' execu-
tors of the late James O'Flanagan" was called on. ~ This ac-
tion was to recover the sum of 2,0001., &c. from the defend-
ants, as representatives of the late Mr. O'Flanagan, which
sum it was alleged he had promised should be settled on
his grand-niece, the daughter of a Mrs. Cocking, should the
former be married to the plaintiff. Themarriage did take place.
The plaintiff rested his case, which was stated by Mr. Sergeant
Goold on Monday, principally on a letter from Mr. O'Flana-
gan to Mrs. Cocking, in answer to a letter of hers, dated from
Bath, the 16th January, 1815, stating that the plaintiff had
paid his addresses to her daughter, praising him in strong terms,
and requesting his assistance to consummate the match between
the plaintiff and her daughter. It appeared that Mrs. Cocking
on that occasion entreated her uncle, Mr. O'Flanagan, to write
her a letter expressive of his acquiescence in her wishes, stating
the fortune her daughter was to expect from him, and respect-
ing other things which she pointed out ; which letter was to be
shewn to the plaintiff, as he had previously inquired from her
(Mrs. Cocking) as to her daughter's expectations from her
family, &c.
Mr. O'CormELL, for -the defendants, animadverted with
considerable severity on Mrs. Cocking's letter or letters.—
They were a combination of maudling sentiments, wild affecta-
tion, and meanness. Oh ! if she could accomplish her views
respecting her dear Mary Anne, she would think of nothing
after but her God. She would not indulge herself with a drop
of wine—he (the plaintiff), she said, would bring her daugh-
ter to Dublin Castle. He was " a sweet young," " a good
young man," charming young—she represented- him as pos.
sessing property; also, that he was of the " first fashion"—his
father of great respectability in London ; anti he, too, a near
relative of " a nobleman's wife in Bath, a lastly Young."—
(Laughter).—This was all done (said Mr. O'Connell) to flat-
ter the prejudices and the Connaught pride of the old Milesian
Mr. O'Flanagan ; and she stated, amongst other things, in a
letter to Mrs. Nolan, beginning with " Sly beloved Sister—
These Englishmen are odd people ; they wish to think the
ladies love them—(laughter);—and she, after all these expres-
sions, asks this O'Flanagan, living in the wilds of Connaught,
to write to her in " the loving, kind, anti elegant manner he
used always to do." Mr. O'Connell, after commenting'for a
length of time on these epistles, stated that they contained
gross mis-representations in various respects. The marriage be-
tween the plaintiff and Miss Cocking took place on the 7th of
March, at the house of Colonel Nell, at Bath. Colonel
Nelly received a letter from Mr. O'Flanagan on the sth of
March, dated the 27th of February, begging of him (Colonel
Nelly) to look Into the plaintiff's circumstances, and if they
were not better than he (the plaintiff) had represented them,
he would wash his hands out of the business. Colonel Nelly
proved that he communicated the contents of this letter to the
plaintiff on the morning of the marriage ; lie, however, add-
ed, that had the match been then broken off, the youg lady's
character would have been destroyed. She could not live in
Bath, nor come to her native country without the finger of
scorn being pointed to her, for the marriage bans had been
previously published, and he (the plaintiff) have even lived in the
same hotel with Miss Cocking and her mother, as a person that
was soon to be the fornaer's husband. Mr. O'Connell, how-
ever, urged that even if the first letter contained any contract,
the subsequent one to Colonel Nay before the marriage was a
retractation.

About five o'clock the Jury retired, and after a few minutes'
absence, brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, of 2,4801. (includ-
ing interest), and Gd. costs.
O'Corrw ELL stated a number of objections against the
Learned Judge's charge, which, with his Lordship's permission
he would reserve for a case, and place on the record. His
Lordship assented.

An Englishman of the name of Moore, 21 years
of age, . who was living at the Hotel St. Phar,
Boulevard Poissonniere, was found dead yester-
day in his room. At midnight the day before,
he had requested the porter of the hotel to pur-
chase him a pasty, saying that he was hungry.
He awoke -.the confectioner for the purpose
of procuring it. When he had eaten it, he
locked'himself in his room. The porter ob.
serving that' he never made his appearance
the whole of the .next day, thought of ap...
prising the Commissary of - Police, but he con-
ildered that it might he Mr. Moore's humour
to ' remain lbcked' bp" in his room, and de-
ferred acquainting the Police till yesterday.
The doer
.was
.broker °peg,. and Mr. Moore
was discovered stretched out.lead, at a lit-
tle distance froM' the renie-inder' of - his' 'pasty.
lie had been 'suffocated by the quantity of-char-
coal which be. had placed in, his stove. Ile had
taken the precaution of stopping up all :the cre-
vices in his room, through which any of the smoke
might escape. A letter"addressed - a lady
at Paris. was found on his 7table.--(Courier
Francais.) , , •

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BIRTH.
On the 10th inst., in Grotwenor-place, the Lady of Sir Robert
Graham, Bart., of a daughter, the ninth child.

MARRIED.
On Friday last, at Tottenhem,'Adam Corrie, jun., Esq., of
Wellingborough, in the county of Northampton, to Elizabeth
Ewer, only daughter of the late•Jas. Cooper, Esq., of London.
On Thursday, ' the 9th inst., at St. Mary's, Portsea, Lieut.-
Colonel William Woodhouse,.l.ith Regiment of Madras No.-
aye Infantry, to Miss Leggett, of King's-terrace, Southsea.
At St. Andrew's Church, Holborn, Mr. James Maull Rose,
.of Darnaway, near by Forres, Nardi ritain, to Emma Sophia
Jane Matilda A shfeild, of Ely-place, eldest daughter of Thomas
Ashfeild, Eq., solicitor, London.

DIED
On the 10th instant, in Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square
aged 11 years, Agnes, the fifth daughter of Wm. Rothery, Esq.,
OH Monday, the 6th Inst.,. at her father's, Greek-street, Soho,
Sarah-Fisher Schild, aged 24, after a lingering illness.
On Wednesday, the Bth inst.,. 'William Overton, Esq.,
Mabledon-place, Burton-crescent, aged 60.
On the Bth inst., at Albighton, Shropshire, aged 53, Catherine,
wife of Mr. Richard Yates, of King-street, Snow-hill.