The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-10 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

MANSION-HOUSE.—MI. ENAI.IB, a MembOr of the Coln.
mon Council for the Ward• of Candlewick, and stove-grate.
manufacturer, residing at No. 10, Fish-street-hill, was brought
before the Loan Mavon, on a charge of having outrageously
assaulted an Irish Gentleman, and beaten him with whorsewhip.
The prosecutor, Mr. W'esthope, stated that he resided at
Cork, and that ke recently had occasion to come. to London,
for the purpose of receiving money due to him. Ile had occa-
sion to make a purchase of ironmongery to furnish a house, and
he called to ascertain the prices, and make a selection at the
shop of Mr. Evans. Ho ultimately looked •ont a quantity to
the amount of about 321., and desired that a list might be made
out for them. On Friday, he called for the purpose of paying
for them, as he was about to nail on Saturday, and they had ar-
ranged for their shipment, when he presented a bill for 711. in
payment, which had been endorsed by Mr. Hawley, a respect-
able and well-known jeweller, residing in the Strand. Mr.
Evans stud, he must send to get it discounted, and appeared to
make some difficulty about it, when he (Mr. Westhope) said,
he would get it discounted himself, as he was going in a dim-
lion where he could 'get it done without any inconvenience. Me
folded up the bill for that purpose, when Mr. Evans exclaimed,
You never intended to pay for those goods. You are an arrant
swindler. Get out of- my shop immetliately. The prosecutor
made him a bow to intimate that after this language their deal.
• ing certainly was at an end, when Mr. Evans sprung round upon
hits,es.
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seized a carman's whip and cut him severely over the face with
it. Ile shewed the wounds on his face, which are certainly most
serious; they arc deep, and to all appearance likely to last a eon-
sideruble time ; one of the eyes had evidently a narrow escape.
Mr. Weethope was greatly agitated in deecribing his treatment,
anti said that the defendant tell alien him with a degree of as.
vale cruelty that could not he justified had he been the most
notorious swindler or thief in the metropolis. .He produced the
bond for which he had come to receive payment, and the bill
endorsed by Mr. Hawley which he had tendered to the defend-
ant. Ile said he was ready to give every testimonial of his rs•
spectubility, and called upon a gentleman who had accompanied
hint to the defendant's shop.
The Loan Illasr ou said such evidence was quite unnects.
sary. His respectability was not questioned. his Lordship
observed that Mr. Westhope applied to him for the warrant
immediately after the transaction. His face was then stream.
ng with blood. •
Mr. Evans—but, my Lord, that appearance might have
been caused after he left me. It. is mote than &00 yards lions
here to my house.
The Loup MaYott expressed his opinion that it was rather
unlikely that a person would voluntarily create such wounds its
the face, and bade Mr. Evans suite what defence' he had to
make. _ _

Mr. Evans then went into,a history of The
owsrhi
afford
confirmed Mr.Weethope's statement as far as to the time of set-
tlement. But Mr. Evans represented him as ah exceedingly 'trou-
blesome and hesitating customer,. At length when he had trt-
tiered the bills to be made out for shipmenttnd it was expected
that he was about to produce the cash he again hesitated, ds-
dared he had not bought the things, and said, " Yoh must dart
little forme." lie (Mr. B.)ditl not know tt the time that the
bill was either a bad one or a good one,;, but he was not gotng
to give CM of his cash upon it willuart knowing whether it was
or not, especially as it had a short tine to run fle, therefore,
asked the complainant to leave it with him; when the latter as
he was about to put down the ncuries for inquiry nilba►l it up
and said he would call 'again. In sithrt,,lns whide conduct
was so shuffling and evasive`.that he thooght swindler,
and said to him—" You do not, wmit my good*, I :believe, yon►
want my cash r_ go out of my shop immediately' The c°111"
plainant refused to get out, when he (the detenitants
by the shoulder and put him; oun—he attempted to. con:: in
again, and struck him. Defendant prevented him.; *‘
took hint
ensued ; and the defendant declared that, under the provoc“,.
tion de blow, he had horsewhipped him. •
The Lotto MAYO* here ordered the compiamant. to he
sworn. The oath having been administered, the complaisant
declared most solemnly that not struck M • Evans, ut
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The sureties were entered into, and Mr. Evans was discharged.

The Duchess Dowager of fticm.town and the
two Ladies LENNox tyre
visit Dublin.
shortly expected t

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Ertractrfrom the Morning Pespers, Aug. 10.

[TUE TIMES.)
We 'have. received El Iris de Jalisco, and se-
veral political pamphlets printed at Guadalaxara.
Upon a view of these paperi, it appears that the
federal system is not rightly, adjusted, and that,
either owing to some opposition of interests, or
to a want of practical experience in those who
govern, its component parts are not in a state of
perfect co-operation. How far the divisions
which prevail are promoted by persons in the in-
terest of Iturbide, there is not sufficient informa-
41on to enable us to determine. If we might
judge from what is publicly printed in the Jour-
nals before us, that adventurer is det6ted as an
ambitious impostor and a tyrant ; but the truth of ,!
these representations, perhaps, cannot be entirely
relied on. The march of General Bravo, at the
head of a considerable force, to Guadalaxeraihas
already been noticed. Guadalaxara is the seat
of the: Congress of the State of Jalisco or
Xalisco, which includes several provinces, and
which, in point of extent, population, and wealth,
is one of the principal members of the Federa-
tion. The news of the expedition of General
Bravo created great alarm in the Congress of Ja-
lisco, and a resolution was passed on the 21st of
May, to instruct .the representatives of Jalisco
in the general Congress of Mexico, to endeavour
to obtain from the Supreme Executive Authority
an explanation of the object of this extraordinary
military measure. In the dispatch addressed to
the hliscan representatives, it is observed, that
tbere is no account of any enemy on the coast
threatening the independence of the State ; that
the movement of Gen. 13ravo has no ostensible
motive,; that among the reasons which may be put.
forward as a colour for such a proceeding, are the
reports of its having, been intended to crown
iturbitle.M.Guadalaxara, and of the existence
of popular COMIIIOIIOIIS ; all of which are .asserted
to be fa he, and' to have their origin In certain
public papers, which had unjustly accused the
state of Xalisco of being 44' iturbidiltical." All
this the Xaliscon Deputies are required to repre-
sent to the Supreme Executive Authority, accom-
panied by the assurance, that 44 the peace of the
44 State has never been disturbed by the Itur-
cc birl;sts, because, though there' May bet in it
44 some of - that party, they are powerless,
" and „never can accomplish their object, since
the country abounds in good patriots." The
dispatch .was enclosed in a letter from the Gover-
nor of Xalisco, Luis Quintanur, in which he de-
cletre,s, that the State being uninformed of the
object of General Bravo's invasion, the Govern-
ment would be under the necessity of repelling
force by force. After receiving this dispatch,
Senor Canedo, on the 28th of May, submitted to
the General Congress the following proposition,
Signed by all the Jaliscan. Deputies :
" The Deputies of Jalisco have received official information,
by which they/learn that the Government intends to invade
that State' with t,reops collected for the said purpose. The
ConstittukrirAct, in Faculty 8, Article 16, stipulates, chat the
Government eannot declare war without the previous consent
and, approbation of the General Congress. The Jaliscan De-
'lodes appeal to this law, and in virtue thereof pray the Con-
gress that the: Government be immediately culled upon to give
tpformetioteeoncerning those occurrences so interesting to the
Federation ; and that, in consequence or the facto and doeu-
Monts which prove the hostile attitude assumed towards Ja-
ils°, the Cangecas may come to such resolution us shall ap.
pear to at calculated to save the country front anarchy, anti our
gtate from military oppression. '
After Senor Canedo "grad supported the above
proposition by aspeech,,apd read, the dispatches
leceived from his. constituents; some of the De-
puties bithe Greneral.Congress observed, that as
the subject under consideration was one of great
delicacy, it was proper that any discussion which
might Hike place should be secret, or at least
that it should be determined in LI secret sitting,
Whether or trot. the debate ought to be public.
This lattfir aliernUtive was adopted,, and the Con-
gress proceedeilto deliberate in secret. The re-
stilt of that deliberation ii not yet known.

ENLW 1131143.]
'lt is mentioned iii 'the-Po-it 'Journals that a
Commissary of Police seized -the' vihole of the
impression of the'Courtier. Franca!: of Thursday,
for giving an abstract of,t:ke "will 'of Napoleon
poonaparte 'from the English lingers. We can
scarcely believe that the fact Is accurately stated.
There must surely have' ()eel) somtfthing more hi
the Courtier, than the mere abstract of the Will.
We canuGt ,perietvolvhy-the .whole'of it should
ant be p'ubli'sh d" flijlranee. To none can it he
more olNlfrive:ttlustt, to:those who are still stupid
enougleitbit.Ai:tir pe'rverie enough to utrect ad-
tniratieienethlCtOCttchttrlatati of the age. In-
striad of stip-pressing this rr e of nturder,com-
bined with a' 'paltry and false excuse; this
avowal. of impotent malignity, coupled with an
ill concealed regret that a gallant enemy escaped
the dagger of the' assassin ; this dull, egotis-
tical, tailor-like list of trilling bequests—
instead of endeavouring to .suppress so
severe an attack on the fame of Napoleon, we
sloduld rather have expected that tbe present
Government of France would have distributed
it gratis—have proclaimed it irythe highways,
and have told the few remaining 13uonaparti,t's
to !view the portrait of their here drawn by his
own hands,—An article of the 15th ult. from
Constantinople, given in the Augsburg Gazette,
mention's .the arrival of a naval Officer sent by
the Capitan l'acl)a to 1111001111 Ce the conquest, of
the island of Ipsara, after an obstinate resistance
on the part of the Creeks. A great quantity of
artillery and more than 100 vessels are said to
bill* been Captured ; and it is alleged that
Samos Will. to be the next object of attack.

[MOUSING eon.]
Tho Constibitionnel contains extracts of pri-
vate letters from Madrid, which state that the
fate formidable and fatal. affray between the
French acid Slmitli6ll soldiers in that metropolis
was n?tthe am e;serted in the Ministerial
Journals, of a private limn, but the explosion
of rage, long contentered and nourished by dis-
cord and fanaticism."
the affray itself was
mrist serious is proven try the fact that the firing
of the Spa niartls upon the French lasted half an
hour, and that the people took active part
with thejtnilikary, reaping, Cha cry of ", Death to

the French," that cry which gave the signal for
insurrection in May 1808, and cost so mang lives
in the conflict which ensued in the capitol and
througluint'SPain. The situation of the French
in that country becomes every day one of greater
difficulty and danger, and the letters from which
we have taken the foregoing may well ask—
" What will be the result of . this state of dis-
order and anarchy ? It is not difficult to foresee
it, but to remedy it is no easy task. If the
French army does not fall back on a good posi-
tion, without waiting for satisfaction from the
Spanish Government, which that Government
cannot give it, much time will not elapse ere it
will be forced to live as in -an enemy's country,
and the immediate consequences will be, civil
war in the interior of Spain, and the necessity of
adopting other means than those which have
been used to set Ferdi►iand at liberty.—Hither-
to the invasio►► nf.Spain has only served to change
its masters and to compromise the safety and
dignity of France."

[tumuli mess.")
By a private letter. from Java we learn, that
the Dutch Authorities in that Island have sud-
dently imposed an additional and almost prohi-
bitory duty on the importation of British goods.
Formerly the duty was nominally I'2 per cent,
ad valorem ; but as it was the practice, to levy
the duty after raising the invoice price by an ad-
dition of one-third of its amount, the duty was
actually about 16 per cent. The Dutch Autho-
rities have now laid on a duty of 25 per cent., to
be levied not upon the invoice price, hut upon
an official rate' of valliation,, which is estimated
so much above the real value of the goods that
the duty in fact extorted` approaches nearly to 50
per cent. The 'result is, that. ships, which had,
left this country on the faith of the former regu•
lation, have been obliged to sail for. Bencoolen;
and at a great loss trans-ship their freight for
Calcutta or some other port, where they.liope to
find a market. By the treaty concluded, with
the Netherlands in March last, it was stipu-
lated that the British and Dutch Governments
should reciprocally permit their subjects to trade
with the colonies of either power, and that only
an additionalduty, not exceeding 6 per cent.,
should he imposed on go' ls imported in vessels
not belonging to the nation possessing the colony.
Falk, the Mitch Minister, who concluded. the
treaty on the part of his Government, is, we
understand, attempting to justify the authorities
of Java, by construing the: text' of that docu-H
ment in a way suitable to that object, but the•
sense of the passage is- obviously' very diffet'ent.
from the interpretation which.he wishes to make
it appear to convey. On Friday a deptitatiini
of the Gentlemen connected with the Indian
trade waited on Mr. Cuniting,'lO'complain of
this,grievance ; and we have no doubt that re-
dress will speedily be obtained.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We are told by an inspired writer, that " hope
deferred 'maketh the heart tack." This sickness
must have fallen with more than common force,
we should think, upon the holders of Spanish
Bonds; who seen like persons sentenced and left
for execution, but whose fate has been delayed
by successive respites. W,e doubt wbether a re-
prieve will reach them ; and whether they will
not at last be doomed to be the victims of a too
credulous confidence in the once chivalrous idea
of Spanish honour. We have too often expressed
our opinion of the folly of persons who.have Wen
bitten by the mania of foreign loans, to be, suspect,
ed of any great sympathy towards the holders of
those securities, the generality of whom' bought
them as they would Lottery tickets, in. the ex...,
pectation of their beeoming prizes, and, there.
fore, if they turn out blanks, as flit' the-specu.
Wino goes, they have no great reason lo cam.
of the matter—viz. as
plain. But Mere is a view
'it
,afreCts national faith and integrity-4hich we
cannot pass, over with the same indifference.—
Nations should at least be honest. I't is in vain
to look for lodividual integrity, %Theft,. the' aggre-
gate of 'a country, represented by the Govern-
ment, do that which would either subject indivi-
duals to the perils of the law, or at all events
exclude them from future intercourse with their
equals in society. We had always'imagined that
the Spanish Governinent would have .seen and
felt the subject in this light, as a point of honour;
mnd we cannot help thinking that the holy
Alliance would give the appearance, at least, of
something mote of real sanctity to theirproceed.
ings, if they had made the'recognition of debts
contracted, in a great degree, for his own pet-
soma support, a condition of their hallowed
countenance of Ferdinand. We sometimes hear
in private life of persous making a common,
purse to save their family or profession from
some great scandal ; and we think that' had their
Holinesses (including, of course,. the Pope him.
self) done this, they would 'have stood a better,
chance of ingratiating themselves with the Euro.
peon community. As it is, we suspect that the;
holders of these Bonds will have to thank Fer-
dinand's necessities, not his will, for an assent,
should it ever arrive; for he seems as averse to,
recognise the debts contracted by the Cartes, as
if both the borrowers rind the lenders were he.
reties, with whom no faith was to be kept. Our
Government, we think, are wise in having ab.,
stained from any interference in the matter. It
la by no mean' nn international concern ; but
which, by the way, us far as the Spanish Govern.
ment is concerned, only makes the matter worse.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The information received by Government by
the last special messenger from Constantinople,
is reported to have been extremely satisfactory ;
for it represents the decline of that once great
but wicked empire to be more rapid than the
most sanguine wishes of the friends to the civili-
zation of that part of the globe could have anti-
cipated. 'the success of the cause of Chris•
tianity in Greece, on which there exists but one
feeling throughout his Britannic Majesty's domi-
nions, is represented by these udvices to be
certain, for the barbaric Ottoman Government
had been unable to fit out any thing worth
the mune of offensive hostility to the independ-
ence of their former Christian slaves. Imperial

edicts had been issued to the faithful, a year
ago, to prepare an expedition of eight thou-
sand Musselmen, to maintain the authority of
the Crescent over the Christian Cross of Greece;
but such has been the want of power, and the
want of authority, that although WO piastres per
man had been offered, only 3,000 men could be
mustered last March for the subjection of thb re-
bellious subjects of this iniquitous Government.
These men were, however, finally embarked at
Tophana, but a south-wester afterwards prevailed
for a month, and no power in the empire was able
to induce them to proceed. on their ultimate des-
tination,so long as it lasted. The fleet at last,how-
ever,reached the Dardanelles,where another south-
wester was again experienced by them, and fully
convinced the fatalists that the Prophet did not ap-
prove of the war. This adverse circumstance conti-
nued for another month, at the expiration of which
time the soldiers, if they merit the name, had ex-
pended all their money, and refused to proceed
any further. Nine hundred of them abandoned
the ships by force, and went over into Asia, and
then the fleet sailed on its destination, and to the
beginning of July had literally performed no-
thing against the Greeks. ' As for the Pacha of
Egypt, it was understood at Constantinople that
he would neither join himself in the expedition,
nor permit any of his people to do so. He is too
able a politician to perpetrate an act so 'suicidal,
fur he knows too well what fate awaits him, if
the Sultan should triumph over the Christian
population of his Empire. Advices have also
been received from Smyrna, dated on the
22d of June, which are four- days later
than the previous accounts. They, state that
the British • Consul at Alexandria had pub.
lished .the Manifesto 'of the Greek Govern-
. meat,: denouncing all neutral vessels, which
should lend themselves to the Turkish • Go-
vernment, for the purpose of invading Greece,
and the 'consequence had been, that all British flags
'had refused to assist in any way in the threatened'
invasion. This resolution was, no doubt, highly,
agreeable-to•his Highness the,Pachalfor it afford-
ed him another excuse for not proceeding with a
force to Greece, to attack the Christians, for to
do so he never promised, but to mediate be-
twixt them and their former tyrants, and to
tiring about, if possible, a reconciliation. The
'Consuls of Abe other European Powers waited
for instructions from the Ambassadors at Con.
stantinople, by which they might regulate their
conduct respecting the Greek Manifesto, in is-.
:suing , Which, and in acting on it, this rising,.
:people
,possesses the authority of all civilized
4tiqns. Nothing certainly call, be more favour,
a hie than these accounts received from the ca.
THAI. of thit Barbarians, for they place beyond
all doubt that another civilized Power will soon
spring up in Europe, and add stability to that
system of Government which is founded on the
progress of knowledge, and on the increase of
prosperity amongst mankind.