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NOTTINGHAM EASTER SESSIONS.

The sessions for Nottinghamshire commenced on
Monday, at the Shire Hall, Nottingham, before
LAUNCELOT ROLLESTONE, Esq., and a full bench of
Justices.

The report of the Committee was adopted, on
the subject of the purchase of exceedingly el,gible
premises opposite the County HAI, as a Judge's
residence, and also land beloqing thereto, adjoining
the prison, for the purpose of enlargement to its
confined limits.

Robert Riley, a young man about twenty-four
years of age, was convicted of a robbery on the
premises of Mr. George Skelton, who lives in one of
the numerous villas at Mapperley, near Nottingham.
lhe prisoner had been in the prosecutor's service,
and during the night-time, only a few days previous,
he broke a pane of glass in a window, whereby lie
got at a spring that secured the casement ; a large
dog was on the premises, but he gave no alarm.
The property stolen consisted of a silver cup, a
quantity of coats, hats, and other apparel of the
family left below stairs, and the contents of the
larder. It was found the next day at the prisoner's
lodgings.
The Jury found him Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN explained, that though this might
have b en tiled as a capital felony, the prisoner
would have had to remain till the autumn assizes,
and then the prosecution would have cost nearly
twice as much as it now did. The Magistrates hail
resolved, as far as possible, to make their commit-
ments so as to render rt e quarter sessions a general
gaol delivery, thereby lightening the expenditure of
the coun•y.
The prisoner was afterwards sentenced to seven
years' transportation.

The whir felonies tried during the day were of
trifling importance.

On Tuesday morning the Court was first occu-
pied by a trial that excited considerable interest.

A man named Thomas Barton, apparently about
sixty years of age, was indicted for gross cruelty
towards his wife.

The facts of the cage were simply these :—The
parties had been married many yea's, and for the
la,t ten or twelve the poor woman had become im-
becile, but was perfectly harmless. Till about six
months ago, he behaved as k ndly as a poor man
could, in hi; way of life, which was as a water-
carrier at Radford, selling the water of the Islington
spring, witch is in great repute about Nottingham
for domestic purpose;. IJ...happily, however, Burton
took into his house a woman named Pitlfrey, with
whom he soon began to cohabit, and to neglect his
wife; she was banished to a garret, or attic, where
she ►ay on straw, which the constable said appeared
not to have been changed for months, being full of
vermin; her only covering was a shift, which wa,
miserably dirty anti ragged, and an old jacket. Her
body exhibited marks of the whip, and a neighbour
had seen the prisoner use it, and heard frequent
screams.

Tne prisoner called four women, who lived near
him, in New Radford, to show that the woman was
of that wayward character as to tear her clothes to
pieces, and that she had such filthy habits as to
render it impossible to keep her clean. On cross-
examination, however, their testimony was proved
to be of very little value, and their characters were
rough-sieved by Counsellor \Vhitehursr.
The Governor of the Radford poor-house proved
that in e,ght days the poor creature had so far reco-
vered as to be able to walk about, having been be-
fore unable to stand, and that she was net of the
filthy habits stated, but conducted herself in a proper
manner, Ming simply childish.
The COURT expressed abhorrence at the man's
conduct, and regretted being unable to inflict a
heavier sentence than two years' imprisonment.
George Hill was sentenced to six months' im-
pri,onment for a gross assault on Isaac Middleton,
an old man, who was returning with his suns, last
autumn, from Califon wakes to Nottingham, and by
the way were assailed, and brutally kicked and beaten,
by a parry of young men who had been to the same
feast. Besides being much hurt, and partly maimed
for life, the poor man had to pay all expenses, as in
such cases the law does not allow prosecutors their
costs.

At the sessions for the town of Nottingham, on
Wednesday, before the Mayor, Recorder, and Al-
dermen, an order was made on a parish in Rutland
for the maintenance, in the Lunaiic Aqlum, of
Thomas Popple, who some time ago killed his child
by throwing it down stairs, being a decided maniac.
An appeal against a conviction by the .county
Justices of a poulterer for buying game was
commenced, but the informer had absconded to
avoid a prosecution for perjury, and the conviction
was quashed, the dealer's license to sell having been
suspended during the winter through the informer's
falsehoods.

A singular case occupied the Court several hpurs,
being on the indentures cf apprenticeship of a youth
named Buck to Mr. William Watts, a respectable
surgeon; it was stated to the Court that the boy's
mother was a widow, to whom the doctor had paid
some attentions, and she put the boy apprentice to
him, with a premium of 150/. After some t:►ne, the
acquaintance ceased, and the boy, who had formerly
been kindly treated, experienced a change. He was
beaten for a neglect in sending out medicine, ba-
nished from the parlour, and made to eat his meals
in the surgery for another neglect, arid was advised
by the doctor to hang or drown himself, for he
never would be fit for his profession. This pro-
ceeding was therefore instituted under an old
Statute to dissolve the contract, and obtain a return
of part of the premium. For the master it was
contended, that the treatment was only that which
would tie proper in a parent. and the boy's negli-
gence and inattention were such as to remier cor-
rection necessary. After some deliberation, the
Bench ordered the indentures to be cancelled, and
50/. to be restored.

Nearly all the prisoners pleaded Guilty, and all
the offences were of a trifling nature.

MARMONT AND POLIGNAC.

" Vienna, March 26, 1833.

"PRINCE,—There are hot ds even to the consi-
deration due to misfortune; it must respect itself to
merit commiseration and respect from others. I have
remained silent in consequence of yours, much
longer than was consistent with your conduct with
reg.ird to me, at the time of your trial before the
Chamber of Peers. You were then defending your
ife—and, though it was ungenerous in you to at-
tempt to direct agaisnt the head of another the
thunde'-bolt which threatened your own, I felt that
the imminent danger you were to might have carried
) ou away, and matte it upper to you to be excusable,
and I was desirous to lessen your danger by my si-
lence. Since that time the walls of your prison
have been considered by me as sacred rampart-,
before which even the most just resentment ought
to be laid down. But now that you yourself have
by your publications passed that bullet, and by your
signature, maintained suppositious crlumnies against
me, I resume my rights, and speak out. Ally an-
swer shall be brief. I will not enter into an exa-
mination of your system of politics—it was con-
demned by reason bef, re the events it produced
took place—and future history will again decide
upon Neither shall I enter upon a recapitular ion
of what passed in 1830—this i reserve for a future
time, and it is with yourself alone that I shall at
present occupy myself. Did I fulfil all the obli-
gations imposed upon me by my mititaiy rdik and
station, and by a lamentable fatality ? This is the
question which you have so odiously raised—and to
this question I shall coi.fitie my-eq. You say that
in J,,Jy, 1830, the garrison of Paris was 13,000
strong—it, however, presented an effec,ive force of
only 9,324 men infantry and cavalry. By adding
the troops of Saint Den-s, Vrrsailles, Ruelle, arid
Courbevoie, it amounted to 11,049 men. I do not
incl,de those on duty at Saint Cioud, nor the gar-
rison i?;dispetisable at Vincennes, nor the noti-eff,c-
tive men of each regiment. I, however, merely
note this difference. What were your pretended
13,000 men against all Paris in arms ? You speak

of troops which you had stationed in the environs of
Paris. All those you state were merely the guards
of the several towns you enumerate, except Sevres,
where there was, and ever had been, but a single
squadron of cavalry to serve as escorts whenever
the King resided at Saint Cloud. Your foresight
had, therefore, not gone so far as to make any change
in the order which had been established at all times
and at the most tranquil periods. It was I who,
as early as the morning of the 28th, hastened to
send orders for troops to come to Paris. Two re-
giments of infantry and two of cavalry only arrived.
The' almost-general insurrection of the country
they had to traverse, joined to the distance from
which they had to come, did not permit the
rest to arrive nearer than Saint Cloud, Versailles,
and Rarnboeillet. One regiment of infantry and
one of cavalry of the guards were never able to join
at all. You say that the aitellery at Vincennes was
never brought forward at all, and you do not know
why, but to take up a position on the heights
above Rarnbouillet. You know well, on the con-
trary, that I ordered it to advance on the evening
of the 28th, and that I sent a whole regiment to
Vincennes to escort it, and that I only deferred
this operation till the end of the day, because I
could not suffer the artillery to move without an
escort, and because I could not in the heat of the
combat spare sufficient troops to ensure its safe ar-
rival. You also know that this artillery, from being
obliged to make a wide circuit, could not reach
Paris in time, and did not arrive till the afternoon
of July 29, at St. Cloud, where, from the morning,
he pieces of cannon from St. Cyr, with the pupils
of the school, had been stationed. I therefore col-
lected all the troops that were under my immediate
orders as soon as the increase of the insurrection re-
quired an augmentation of the forces. What troops
did you, who were Minister of War, order to move?
The order for those in camp at St. Omer to march
to Paris, did not reach them till the 30th. I do
not inquire with what view you tell me that, as
early as the morning of the 27th, you had delivered
to me my letters of service. You know better than
any one that it was not till half-past one in the af-
ternoon that I was with you, and that the
first hint of my nomination to the comma-td
of Paris was given to me by the King himself a lit-
tle before noon. What useful information did I then
receive from you ? What information was furnished
me during the struggle by the authorities, whose
business and duty it was to procure it for me ?
None. Thus, whilst I was seeking to avail myself
of all the chances in my power, I neither met with
concurrence nor assistance from the quarter from
which I ought to have expected it. Reduced to
the only resources that I was able to create, I had
riot to calculate, but to employ them, and I did so.
On the Titeedey there was a tumult, and it was
suppressed. On the Wednesday it was an insurrec-
tion. I told the King the truth re-pecting its im-
portance, and marched to meet it, because, in order
to overcome it, it was necessary to combat it. If,
as you would have it, now that you have resolved
to forget your opinions and advice of that period—
if, I say, I had left the insurgents, who were
masters of Paris, to organize and establish them-
selves freely—if I had waited till they had come
and attacked me at the Tuileries, would you now
say that the same was done on the 13th Vende-
miaire ? You would reproach me, and justly so, with
having remained a good natured spectator of the
insurrection, with not having made the least
effort to prevent it increasing and strengthening
itself. You would remind me of what passed two
years before in the rue St. Denis. On the 13th
Vendemiaire organised revolt marched in columns
urea] a single point; this was the sole point that
Bonaparte had to defend. Here the 'evolution was
fermenting everywhere. It was necessary to en-
deavour -to compress, in every direction, the threat,
before it should become an invincible reality. When
1 saw that our efforts were useless, I assumed the
defensive attitude in which you pretend that I ought
to have remained at first. There, abstr iction
being made of the constantly augmenting 4f-ryes-
ence of the people, and the increasing movement
of the troops, I hoped to hold our for a long time;
and from this hope that I exptessed to you, you
conclude that you therefore had provided admirably
for everything, since 1 was able to maintain my
position in Paris. The Lettere and the Tuileries
surrounded, and attacked by all Paris, this is what
you call my position I What appears to you the
position of the King of France ? It was to come to
:his, that you fulminated the fatal o:diriatices!
Prince, you spoke with less assurance then; and
whilst you retain the remembrance of my hopes of the
evening of the 28,14 have you forgotten the morn-
ing of the 29 h, when I conjured you to go to the
St. Cloud, to acquaint the King with the stave of
his affairs; and when I declared to you that it was
such, that, without a speedy repeal of the Ordon-
tiances, the evil would become so great that nothing
would be able to remedy it ? At present the preci-
pitate retreat from Paris is a mystery to you, you
say. This is the answer I give you—l was in the
rue de Ruben, at the head of my staff, observing
the uoiut, by which the people might have cut off
the Louvre from the Tuileries, when all at once I
saw that the former palace was in the power of tine
insurgent,. Left almost alone, with a handful of
officers and mere I sill defended, with my person
and my sword, the Court of the Carousel, when the
troop: which had quitted the Louvre were near the
place Louis XV. Eight days more, however, you
assure us, and the monarchy wouli have been saved
by the measures you had taken. Then, Prince, ex-
plain to me in your turn, if the salvation of the mo-
narchy depended upon toy being at the Tuileries,
how did it happen that the order to evacuate Parts
was drawn up at St. Cloud, more than an hour be-
fore 1 quitted it'? Yen could not have been igno-
rant of this order, for it must have been discus-ed
in the Council, and you were still the President of
it. When it was signed it could not have been
known that two regiments of the line, having gone
over to the people, rendered my position at the
Tuileries almost untenable; the unforeseen aban-
donment of the Louvre was not known. I, a wit-
ness of all these reverses, was less in despair than the
Council, and endeavoured to maintain my ground
from position to position. Notwithstanding the de
fection of the line, I remained at the Tuileries;
forced to quit them by the abandonment of the
Louvre, I took up a new position at the Barrier de
l'letoile, and it was there that I received that order
to quit, not only the Tu Imes, butt Paris, and go to
Sr. Cloud. Thus, this evacuation, so fatal, accord-
ing to you, was wished and prescribed, and the
events did not hasten it more than an hour at any
rate. Arid it is put, Prince, you, who raise your
voice, you, who accuse me ! Here I stop. Innocent
of the enterprise which ruined the monarchy, 1
should, nevertheless, not have willingly recalled thus..
painful recollections. Painful they are to me, for
they remind me of cruel duties honourably fulfieed;
they retrace to me what is most repugnant to a
soldier, French blood shed by Relict) hangs. You,
who caused all these evils, have more courage.
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" MArshal Duke De hAGUSE."

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 12.—Fri.deric Rog re, Commoner of
Oriel College, 8.A., and C..arles Marriott, Sholar of Bal-
liol CoUrge, B A , were elected Fellows of Oriel College.
J. Live. of Christ Church, 8.A., awl Edw. T. Biggs,
of University, B A., were elected Fellows ofillerton College
This morning. died the Rev. John Dean, D.D , Prin-
cipal of S.. Mary's Hall, and Rector of Oalde,
Northamptonshire.

We regret to state that Miss KELLY'S en-
tertaining performances were suspended last night, in er-
sequence of the ihness of that lady from the prevailing
epidemic.

STATE OF IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
" An usurping populace is its own d upe."—Swirr.

DUBLIN, APRIL 11.—In the absence of other
atrocious murders, Mr. Editor, wherewith to trew
those who look to Ireland for such an interlude dur-
ing the Easter recess, it may be worth while to
suggest to Members of the Legislature the propriety
of inquiring, at their next meeting, into the real
causes of the murder of the Constitution, which is
said to have been just perpetrated in the county of
Kilkenny. The newspapers have already informed
you of that county having been proclaimed, under
the late coercive Act, on Saturday last, and that
several military detachments, among the rest the
43d regiment from this city, have beenordered to be
there yesterday to carry the law into effect. 0'
the necessity or policy of such a measure, so much
having been already said and written by the friends
and opponents of military government, the question
would now seem to be, what were the remote and
immediate causes of such a desperate state of things?
Mr. O'Connell has published the first of a series
of letters, in which, among other things, he under-
takes to show that the want of a domestic legisla-
ture is made manifest by this new " Algerine law."
The inference from this is, that Ireland has been
misgoverned by England ever since she surrendered
that notable parliament that used to assemble in
College-green. With the exception of a few inve-
terate Tories, who seem not to be yet aware that
we are far advanced in the nineteenth century, all
agree with this latter proposition, coupled with
another which O'Connell frequently repeats, that
Ireland has been always badly treated by her elder
sister. Hence it may be fairly concluded, that mis-
government is, if not the sole cause, at least a pri-
mary one among the remote causes of the degrada-
tion to which we are now subjected. But in con-
sidering the immediate cause of a state of things
that is, in the opinion of the best informed amongst
us, likely to postpone the happiness of this country
full half a century, there is by no means such unani-
mity of sentiment.
Some contend that the danger to which life and
property has been exposed in different parts of Ire-
land originated with emancipation in 1829, and the
doctrine of passive obedience, which has since fo-
ment, d opposition to the payment of tithes. It is
hardly necessary, however, to sty that this opinion
is confined to very few, who are, and have ever
been, the partisans either of the bitter Orangemen
or exclusionists on the one hand, or of the more
misceievous and not less rancorous enemies of ord, r
and religion on the other. Emancipation was a
measure granted on principles of universal justice as
well as of expediency. The abolition of tithes in a
country, where most of those who pay that ob-
noxious tribute are of one religion, and all those
who receive it of another, is demanded on grounds
not less just and equitable. It should be recol-
lected, moreover, that it was Parliament itself that
doomed tithes to destruction. For though Dr.
Doyle first demonstrated the iniquity as well as the
impolicy of upholding them in this country, it was
not among ignorant or evil-disposed assemblages
that he put for li his doctrines—it was to Commit-
tees of Parliament, solemnly inquiring into the
means of the amelioration and improvement of his
country, that he disclosed that in elligence and light
of knowledge which exposed their injustice and de-
formity. That exposure led to free discussion in
every part of the kinedom, not by illiterate or va-
pouring multitudes, hut by the most enlightened
portion of the community and the public press, If
such discussion produced excitement, it was the ex-
citement, or rather the exercise, of the mental or
moral faculties, not the brute force of frenzied or
ferocious passion, which led the wretched populace.
to the brink of their own destruction. Emancipa-
tion conceded, therefore, or tithes sentenced to ex-
tinguishment or commutation, cannot be the causes
of present disturbances, and consequent suspension
of the sacred principles of the Constitution.
There is another more proba'sle, because a much
more rational opinion on the subject. In Ireland,
a greater number of persons in every grade and class
of society, than perhaps in any other country in the
world, are gifted with a species of genius or wit, as
contradistieguished from judgment, which renders
the possessor ever restless and ambitious of ap-
plause or notoriety, if not of well merited praise or
fame. Since emstnciption was granted, a few of
his description of persons have been more than or
dinasily eia'ed with an opinion of their own power
and importance ; and continually inculcai ieg un
their less elevated countrymen, notions of their phy-
sical proaess; instancing emancipation as a proof of
the mighty things which blister, swagger, and com-
bination can effect. This sort of agitation is not
only intelligible to the idle and wretched, who are
for the most part ignorant of doctrines more con-
ducive to their comfort and happiness, but it care
tains in it a contagion which becomes epidemic
among persons of the same temperament, no matter
what their condition may be, in every part of Ire-
land. Government, by its tardiness in the redress
of old grievances, has contributed not a little to the
diffusion of this malaria among our susceptible po-
pulation within the last twelve months. To these
two causes—agitaiion, and the neglect of Govern-
ment to proceed hastily with the work of reform in
this country, should be added an evil long complained
of, and which grew up under the Popery laws—the
system of rack rents and bad agents in too many
instances. And thus you have, according to the
belief of a respectable class of men of all persuasions,
the immediate causes of the present evils of Leland.
Actuated by feelings fomented by these causes,
combined together, the deluded peasantry of Kil-
kenny, and the volunteers of Dublin, for they too
are said to be exposed to the penalties of the law,
have incurred the disgrace of suspending the Con-
stitution, entailing on their country the domination
of their enemies, arid tied themselves the dupes of
an opinion, that their mischief and insubordination
could supersede the laws of the land.