The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-08 00:00:00

[MORNING HERALD.]
In the Parliamentary Report, respecting the
laws to prevent the exportation of machinery/
and the law to prevent artizans from going abroad,
it seems that both laws have hitherto been
useless, for machinery has been exported, and
artizans have gone abroad. The only thing
those laws have done has been° to encourage the
manufacture of foreign machinery, and the
bringing up of foreigners to be mechanics.—

In proportion, therefore, as foreign machinery
and foreign artizans have been encouraged, so in
proportion have British artizans and British ►ma-
chinery been discouraged ; and it appears clear,
that if these laws are suffered to remain, Burope
►•ill supply itself with machinery and artizans,
and that it will also supply the rest of th‘i
world (exclusively, of course, of England) with
both the one and the other. In this branch
of commerce, therefore, should these laws con-
tinue, England would eventually manufacture
machinery for her own use. So much for
laws made by our ancestors. So much for
legislative enactments and legislative provisions,l
of which there has been so much said as to
their beneficial tendency. —ln our opinion
the sooner all these laws are rescinded the
better. This Report also extends to the
Combination Laws made to prevent men and
masters from settling between themselves
the price of labour. By the evidence of
Mr. Place, the army tailor of Charing-cross,
it appears that, at one period, he himself took

the lead in combinations on the part of work
people. These laws, also enacted by our fore..
fathers, should he repealed. The Spitalfields'
silk weavers may vociferate what they please as
to the " good old Combination Laws—stick to
the law," &c. but we must beg leave to differ
frogs the Spitalfields' silk.. weavers, and say, that
all the Spitalfields' Laws should also be done
away with.

' E x TENIITit ROSSBE:RT.—Late on Saturday even-
ing Thomas Frederick Crease and En,abeth ii,iet, his wife,
were brought before.O. R. 31i xsit ur.e, Esq., at Bow-street,
in the custody of salmon, one of the principal officers, charged
on suspicion of stealing Jewellery and other valuable property to
the amount of about - 8
001. from the house of Mrs. Keeley, a
lady residing
in Upper Harley-xtreet. Mrs. Keeley is tin aged
and very infirm 15819 and the female prisoner had lived in her
service for nearly 18 7?", Was her constant attendant, and pos-
sessed her entire conn"nes• Her conduct was irreproachable ;
and her mistress entertained
entrusted with the care of every
so high an opinion of her that she was
thing of value in the house. Some
a
time ago she formed, acquaintance with the male prisoner,
well known to many of the
andm married. r
oi
fe de. 0 u ,and considered an accomplished and talented
pinociisp
aai
btroaonksileaitioer4A languages,
young man, and within a few weeks they were (as she avers)
suddenly absconded
en unlooked-for and so Srsheea absconded from Mrs. Keeley's house,
extraordi-
nary excited a euspicion that all was not right. Mrs. Keeley's
drawers, and other places of deposit, p were examined, and it was
discovered that almost all her valuable jewellery and articles of
that description were enc• 'Every search was made for her and
her husband, but in yam. N
ell evidence, however, was obtain-
ed as to place the delinquency of the absent parties almost be-
yond doubt, and an indictment ,
was preferred against them before
the Grand Jury, a true
th bill found and a Judge's warrant issued.
The warrant was put into. the
,
rands of Salmon, who obtained in-
formation that the prisoners were gone to the Continent. He
followed and traced them to Ostend, where, in a few hours, he
succeeded in apprehending the woman, but was not so success-
ful with respect to the man, Wail just as he was about to embark
he discovered him in rather a 'Angular manner. Salmon called
in at an English tavern, where he was known, and while
speaking to the landlord,
he saw the prisoner sitting. lie had
never seen him before, but feeling convinced from the descrip-
tion he had received that he must be the man he wanted, lie
called him by name and soon found that he was right. On search-
ing the prisoners, he found some books and a bunch of keys be-
longing to Mrs. Keeley, and Xewobrokers' duplicates for a por-
tion of the stolen jewellery which had been pledged in this coun-
try. They were sealed up by the proper authorities at Ostend,
and Salmon brought them with the prisoners to gngland. Tho
prisoners were brought before the Magistrate separately, the
woman first. She was absorbed in tears; and when asked if
she wished to say any thing she sobbed out " nothing, Sir.
The other prisoner, when put to the bar, seemed perfectly com-
posed, and in answer to an intimation from the Magistrate that
he was at liberty to say any thing hs pleased, he merely said—
" I shall say nothing at present. Sir." The prisoners were
committed to separate gaols for a final examination on Saturday
next

EXECUTION OW D. G wretched,
man, who received sentence of death at the Read-
ing Assizes, o■ Tuesday last, for the murder of
his infant child, by pouring boiling water into its
mouth, was executed on Thursday. The pri-:
loner made a full confession of his guilt, with all
the circumstances attending its perPetration.;
from which it appeared he had meditated the
crime for several weeks, in which period he
thrice attempted to carry.it into execution, but
his courage had as often failed him.

BIRTHS.
At Erskine, Scotland, on the 3d March, Lady Blantyre, of
a son.
At St. Austle Vicarage, on the 26th of February, the Lady
of the Rev. J. S. Smythe, of a son.

ARR I ED.
On the Ist inst., at Gateshead, 'Durham, Charles Bulmer,
Esq., of Lemmington, to Mrs. James, of Beckham Hall, in
the county of Durham.
On Saturday, at St. Marylebone, Mr. Jacob Giles James
Ireland, of Kendal, youngest son of the Rev. John. Ireland,
Sandwich, to Charlotte Ann, youngest daughter of the late
SVm. Walker, of Northaw, Herts, Esq.

a needless intrusion of the feelings or public
functionaries of the United States into contests
in the heart of the Old World, carried on by
slaves against their tyrants. After several ad-
journments, and resumptions of the debate, in
the course of which the" counting-house policy"
of England towards Greece was bitteFly declaim.
ed against, that same policy seems to have been
considered no less convenient to imitate than to
abuse; for the House, on the 26th Jan., adjourned
without adopting either motion, or so much as
formally recording a single kind sentiment on be-
half of the Greek sufferers in the cause of Chris-
tianity and freedom. The debates had, towards
their close, degenerated into much personal
coarseness and acrimony, which makes the com-
promise agreed upon by both parties circumstance
of still greater surprise. It may be worth observ-
ing, that a consciousness appeared to prevail
amongst the members of Congress,
that a long
period is not likely to elapse without bringing
the Republic into an immediate contact, and of
no friendly nature, with Spain or her auxiliaries
of the Holy Alliance.