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London, England, 1833-12-04 00:00:00

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, DEc. 3.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 3.

DEFEAT OF A COMMON INFORMER.
GREGORY V. TUFFS.
Mr. F. Poliocx stated the case. The plaintiff
brought this action against the defendant, who kept
a public-house in the parish of St. George-in-the
East, called the Blue Anchor, to recover a penalty
of 1001., under a particular Statute for the regula-
tion of such houses. The action was brought for
the purpose of suppressing one of the greatest
nuisances by which the public could be annoyed—
the collection of a number of persons of both sexes
to spend the night in dancing and rioting. He was
aware that his Learned Friend might stigmatize his
client for the number of such actions he had
brought ; but, in his (Mr. Pollock's) opinion, con-
sidering the nature of the nuisance, he should rather
be considered a courageous public benefactor for
endeavouring to root it out.—(A laugh.)
Edward Joseph Jones is a coal-merchant, and
knows the public-house kept by the defendant, in
Parson's-street, East Smithfield. Witness went
there between nine and ten at night on the 9th of
July. He went into the tap-room, and saw a man
playing a violin, and four girls dancing, they ap-
peared to be women of the town. The room was
nearly full of sailors, and soldiers, and women. Wit-
ness remained from a quarter to half an hour ; the
girls danced the greater part of the time. The
tiddler sat on a raised seat, which was fixed, with a
place for his feet. He went again on the 11th of
September, about nine o'clock at night, and saw the
same man playing the fiddle, and soldiers and women
dancing, and other persons drinking, as before. He
went again on the 13,h, and on the 17th and 21st of
September, and saw dancing as before.
By the COURT—He went for the purpose of
taking notes for this trial. He was paid by Go- gory.
Cross-examined by the RECORDER—IS that your
ledger you are reading from ?—No.
Lord LYNDHURST.— His day-book.— (Great
laughter.)
Examination resumed—Will you trust me with
that book for a moment ?
Witness handed the book.
What are these entries penned down ? Are they
notes for the other ninety-five actions the plaintiff
has brought ?--No, not so many.—(A. laugh.)
How many, ninety-four ?—Not so many.
How many, then ? Do tell us.—Between eighty
and ninety.—(A laugh.)
You say you are a coal-merchr.nt ; where is your
wharf ?—I have no wharf; my business is a private
business.—(A laugh.)
Have you any coal ?—No ; my business is pri-
vate, I don't keep coal.—(A laugh.)
Then, you are a coal-merchant, without any
coal ?—(Great laughter.) When 1 get an order, I
buy coal where I can get it best.
Do all these entries relate to public-houses which
you visited at Gregory's desire ?—I was not desired
to visit any in particul,..i.
You hada roving commission ?—(Great laughter.)
—I visited where I thought best.
What were you before you became a coal-mer-
chant ?—I was clerk to Mr. Martin the barrister,
and left him voluntarily.
What sort of seat did the fiddler sit on ?-
a raised seat.
By the COURT—Was it a chair ?—lt was; my
Lord, a chair a little higher than that your Lordship
sits on.—(Great laughter, in which Lord Lyndhurst
joined.)
Examination continued—He reported his pro-
ceedings front time to time to Mr. Gregory. Gre-
gory lives in Manchester-buildings, Gray's Inn-lane.
He does not know how Gregory gets his living; lie
believes he's a gentleman, but does not know that
he has any thing to live on.
By the COURT—Gregory paid him six shillings'
a night; he was always paid beforehand.—(A laugh.)
James Higgins is a carpenter, and knows the de-
fendant's house. The witness deposed to having
visited the defendant's house thirteen times, and
seen men and women dancing to the tune of a violin.
Cross-examined by Mr. PLATT—Let me see that
book. [Witness handed his book.] Is this book
your first, second, or third volume ?—(A laugh.)
The first.
Mr. PLATT—Who bought this book ? Witness
—Mr. Gregory. He made the visits at Gregory's

was

MR. SANT, THE COAL-MERCHANT,
The first meeting of creditors under the fiat issued
against Mr. Sant, the coal-merchant, of Adelphi
Wharf and Orme-square, Bayswater, was held this
day before Mr. Commissioner FONELANQUE.
After several debts had been proved,
Mr. Hyde, the solicitor to the fiat, said that a
claim was made for 4501., alleged to be due, by the
executor of a Mrs. Wildgoose upon a bill of ex-
change given by the bankrupt. Mrs. Wildgoose,
in her will, directed that a sum of 201. should be
paid out of her estate as a legacy to the bankrupt,
and a similar sum to Mrs. Sant, which sums he
(Mr. Hyde) submitted should be deducted from the
claim of 4501.
The COMMISSIONER said that Mrs. Sant was en-
titled to her legacy, and he would therefore only
allow the bankrupt's legacy to be deducted from the

claim.
A solicitor appeared on behalf of an annuity cre-
ditor, and under the 51th section of the Act he
requested the Commissioner to ascertain the value
of the annuity. He observed that the net amount
of the annuity, after deducting the expenses of life
policy, &c., was 10/., the consideration paid for
which was 4001.
The COMMISSIONER, after observing that it was
the duty of an actuary to calculate the value of the
annuity, estimated it at 3801., which sum was ad-
mitted to proof.
Mr. Hyde then stated that a gentleman appeared
to prove upon a bill of exchange for ISM., which he
received from a person named Parker, who was in-
debted to him to the amount of 3,0001. Mr. Hyde
suggested that the claimant should apply to Mr.
Parker for the amount of the bill, but the gentleman
chose to prove it against the bankrupt's estate.
The proof was adjourned.
In reply to a question put by the official assignee,
Mr. Hyde stated that the bankritpt was never in
partnership with his son. The debts due by the
bankrupt were stated to amount to about 12,7001.
The debts proved
ato-day amounted to upwards ot'
9,0001., including sum of 6,600/. claimed by the
bankrupt's father-in-law.
In the course of the proceedings, a remark hav-
ing been made about the expected dividend, the
official assignee said he was afraid it would be very

the LORD MAYOR, charged with having broken
and entered a counting-house with intent to oteal.
It was stated by some of the officers that :he
prisoner was a lag, or returned transport. He was
fully committed for trial_
BO TV-STREET.
Yesterday a man named Britton, the driver cr
one of Mr. Shillibeer's omnibuses plying from Pad-
dington to the Bank, by way of Oxford-street, was
s,immoned for having driven his vehicle past St.
Giles's Church during the time of divine service on

Sunday morning last.
By a clause introduced into the Act passed last
session for the better regulation of omnibuses and
other hackney carriages on the Sabbath Day, with
respect to their passage through the public streets,
the magistrates have the power, upon application of
any respectable inhabitant of any metropolitan
parish, to issue an order regulating the line
which such carriages shall take during the
hours of divine service on Sundays, to prevent the
interruption in the different churches occasioned by
the noise of these vehicles, and which has been
so much complained of. This clause was intro-
duced at the suggestion of Sir F. Roe, the Chief
Magistrate, and the first parishes that availed them-
selves of it were those of St. Giles and St. George,
Bloomsbury ; from each of which an application
was made at this office, and an order printed and
widely circulated, signed by Sir F. Roe, Mr. Min-
shull, and Mr. Halls, directing that omnibuses pass-
ing Holborn way should, on going eastward, turn
up Tottenham-court-road,down Great Russell-street,
and into Holborn by Lyon-street, and those proceed-
ing westward to leave Holborn at Lyon-street, and go
by the same route to Tottenham-court-road and Ox-
ford-street. On Sunday se'nnight the notices were
posted in the whole line from Paddington to the
Bank, but the defendant on that day persisted, in
spite of the efforts of police constable No. 95 E and
a beadle, who were stationed at the end of Lyon-
street, in driving on past St. Giles's church, to the
great annoyance of the congregation assembled
therein. The officers attempted to stop the horses,
but he threatened with very violent language to
horsewhip them, and rose in his box for that pur-
pose, when they thought it best to take his number
and let him go.
The defence set up was that he was ignorant of
the new regulation, but
Sir F. ROE said it was impossible he could be,
so widely had the placards been circulated, and a
parcel having been sent by his orders to every book-
office in London, besides those which had been
stuck up in public places. Sir Frederick then con-
victed the defendant in the penalty of 20s. and
costs, and expressed his determination to enforce
the law with the utmost rigour in all future cases.
This was the first offence under the Act, or he
would have inflicted the full penalty of 405., or two
months' imprisonment.
The defendant was unable to pay, and requested
Mr. Shillibeer to pay for him; but the latter re-
fused, observing that he had acted decidedly in the
teeth of an excellent regulation, and he would not
even indirectly sanction such conduct on the part of
any man in his employment; on the contrary, he
would always set his face decidedly against it.
The defendant was then committed to the House
of Correction for one month, there to be kept to
hard labour.

MARY LEB ONE.
Two OF A TRADE CAN NEVER AGREE.—Richard
Forge, a master tailor, residing at No. 10, Park-
street, Dorset-square, appeared to answer to a war-
rant for an assault and battery preferred against him
by a brother snip living in the same neighbourhood,
named Elisha Millwood.
It appeared from the evidence of complainant, a
dapper little fellow about four feet two inches high,
and dressed in the very pink of fashion, that him-
self and the defendant bad not latterly been on the
best of terms, in consequence of the latter having
industriously circulated a report that he (complain-
ant) had made a waistcoat for the small sum of
2s. 6.1., a disgrace to which he could pledge his
honour he never submitted, it being his constant
endeavour to uphold rather than lessen the trade by
working under price. On Saturday morning tho
defendant sent to his house, saying that he would
be glad if the complainant could send him half a
dozen flexible buttons, value one penny farthing.
Complainant, wishing to oblige, sent his boy with
them, who returned with only one penny. He
made him go back, and ask for the farthing, when
the boy quickly returned, saying that Mr. Forge
had said he would not pay the farthing, and
that he (complainant) might go to -. Feel-
ing exasperated, and the defendant owing him
some money, complainant set off for the purpose
of demanding it of him, and on arriving at the
defendant's house he was shown into the parlour,
where he saw Mrs. Forge, with whom he entered
into conversation about the story of the waistcoat,
in the course of which the defendant came into the
room, and with the voice of a Stentor exclaimed,
" What is that you say about the waistcoat ? It
is not a private but a public thing, you - little
rascal ;" and at the same time thrust his fist into
complainant's face, which gave his mouth a severe
" twist." Having repeated the blow two or three
times, complainant thought it would be prudent to
" cut ;" he therefore " sheered" off as soon as pos-
sible, and the first thing on Monday morning applied
at this office for a warrant.
The defendant in reply said that, on entering the
parlour, he found the complainant and his wife
talking about a waistcoat; the complainant made
use ofs ome very bad expressions, anit was foaming
at the mouth. He desired him to quit the house,
when he turned round like a merry-andrew, and
tried to strike him several times. He (defendant)
then pushed him out of doors, but denied having
struck him.
Mr. RANVIANSON said the old adage of two of a
trade could never agree was verified, and advised
the " men of cabbage" to make friends ; but the
complainant, who imagined that his dignity had
been insulted by the report of the waistcoat, refusing
all overtures to such an arrangement, the defendant
was ordered to enter into his own recognizances to
answer the charge at the Sessions.
QUEEN-SQUARE.Robert Jolies was brought up for final examina-
tion, charged with robbing the Count de Weuttz of
various articles of property of the value of 300/. and

upwards.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
CAPTURE OF THREE NOTORIOUS HOUSEBREAKERS.
—Thomas Clarke, James Hanson, and Henry Wil-
liamson, three notorious characters, were Oiarged
with breaking into the dwelling-house of Mr. John
Waight, of Cottage-place, Burdett-street, West-
minster-road.
It appeared from the evidence of Police sergeant
Smith that, from some conversation he had with
the lodgers in Mr. Waight's house, he had strong
suspicions that some persons intended to commit a
felony and rob the house. He ascertained that a
sum of money, between 201. and 30/., was in the
house, belonging to a benefit club, and that certain
parties had beets making inquiries of a lodger as to
what time the landlord was in the habit of going
out. He spoke to the prosecutor on the subject,
and advised all parties to go out on the previous
afternoon, and leave him in possession. They left
the house accordingly, and witness lucked himself
in the parlour. Not long after there were self. -
ral raps at the street door, which of couve
he did not answer. He then heard some per•

Inaifen t street door, as he supposed with
skeleton keys, and distinctly heard four persons in
;he passage by their voices. They then attempted
unlock the parlour door with skeleton keys, but
witness kept his foot against it and prevented
them. One of them called out," Burst it opera, Bill ;"
they tried, but did not succeed. He then heard the
same person say, "Bill, go up stairs; the lot is
there." He could hear two of the men go up stairs,
and presently he heard a rumbling noise there, as
if some persons were wrenching open a trunk.
Knowing that the club-money was kept up stairs he
thought it high time to come out of the parlour, but
dhe noise of his opening the parlour door alarmed
the two men that remained, and they instantly seized
the handle or knob of the door, and held it so fast
that he could not get out. He burst open the
pannel of the door, and with his lantern in one hand
and a pistol in the other, he saw the prisoners Han-
son and Williamson holding the door with a hand-
kerchief which they had twisted round the knob.
lie swore if they did not let him go he would shoot
them. They cried our," Crush it, Bill ; cut away ;"
and ran up stairs. He then heard a crash of a win-
dow up stairs, and he tan to the street door to give
an alarm, but found that it was both locked and
bolted. He opened the window shutters, gave the
alarm, and ran up stairs; he caught a gl;mpse of
one man in a room and locked him in. lie found
three skeleton keys, and discovered that the other
prisoners had escaped by the beck windows into the
yards adjoining, where Williamson and Chrko were
found concealed, and Hanson, whom he had loc!ied
in the room, was also taken into custody. Severa:
trifling articles were found on the prisoners, which
were identified by the prosecutor.
They were fully committed for trial.

PORTUGAL.

THE LETTER OF COUNT DE TAIPA TO DON PEDRO,
Sire—The Constitutional Charter, tit. 8., s.
28, says, " Every citizen shall have the right to pre-
sent to the legislative and also to the executive any
claims, complaints, and petitions, as well as to de-
nounce any infraction of the Constitution, by de-
manding before the competent tribunal the real re-
sponsibility of the offenders." Taking adv %wage of
this political right conceded to me by the Charter I
again approach your Imperial Majesty in order to
explain to you the false position in which the pre-
sent Ministry has placed the cause of the Queen, by
indisposing a part of the nation against your Majesty,
and by preventing friendly foreign Governments
from employing an amicable interference in our affairo
in order to restore peace and quiet to our unfortunate
country. The Portuguese nation desires nothing so
much as tranquillity : torn by intestine discord sine,/
1820 it has been reduced to such a state a ex-,
haustion and misery that despair alone still keep
under the standard of the Infante Don Miguel that
handful of persons who, either by delusion or by
force, were induced to follow the cause of injustice ;
difficulties increase every day, and the re-establish-
ment of the kingdom is paralysed by the stupi-
dity of the Ministers, and the total loss of credit
in the Government. The Ministry has entirely
lost the opinion of the public. The grossest
ignorance is shown of its laws, and the greatest
unskilfulness betrayed in all its precautionary
measures, while the most scandalous immorality
is practised in the nomination to public offices,
and in every department of Government. The
present Ministry is not the representative of any
one single interest in the country; it is nothing
more than a faction of prosing fool, of anarchical
cosmopolites, without name, without property, with-
' out claim upon the public, without talent; a faction
that in no other manner belongs to Portugal, but
that its member happened to be born on its soil,
with no other propensity but to snatch up all the
" loaves and fishes" of the State. They are with-
out any principle, good or bad ; they have been im-
properly accused of being " ultra-liberals ;" they are
any thing and nothing"—the fax of all parties,
the caput mortuunt of all factions, from which un-
hallowed mixture has sprung forth a strange anti
unnatural monster. It is only thus that we can
explain the phenomenon of seeing them perse-
cute equally the friends acrd the enemies of
the national cause. False and ungrateful to-
wards some, and impolitic towards others, they
have not only not gained a single friend—they have
alienated all. These are not vague accusations; I
will proceed to prove them by facts. Vattel, whose
authority may be said to be lit.v among the !nations
of Europe, speaking of civil wars, says—" The
most certain and at the same time the most just way
of quieting sedition is to satisfy the people ; "and if
they have revolted without any motive for doing so
—a thing that perhaps never happens— still it is
necessary, as we have just said, to grant an amnesty
to the greater part of them. As soon as the
amnesty is published and accepted all that is past
should be forgotten, and nobody called to account
for his conduct during the revolt; and in general a
Prince who wishes to be thought a scrupulous ob-
server of his word ought to perform faithfully every
promise he has made to the rebels; that is, to those of
his subjects who revolted without reason and without
necessity. If he does not keep his promises invio-
lably the rebels cart have no further security in
treating with him; when they have once drawn the
sword they must throw away the scabbard ; he will
have deprived himself of the most pleasing and most
salutary means of appeasing the revolt ; nothing is
left but to exterminate the revolted. Despair will
render them formidable, piny will bring them com-
panions, arid swell their ranks, and then the State
will be really in danger !" Ir is in the predicament
alluded to in this last sentence of Vattel that the
men who compose the present Ministry have placed
us,

The Constitutional Charter, tit. 8, sec. ID, says,
" No punishment shall pass beyond the person of
the delinquent, and therefore, in no case whatever,
shall be p-rmitted any confiscation cf property, nor
can the infamy of the convicted be transmitted to
his relations or descendants." In our present cir-
cumstances, Sire, even if the Charter did not, policy
would most imperiously forbid confiscation; the ci-
tizens of Oporto, who, scarcely armed, rushed to
meet death on the bayonets of the Usurper on the
memorable 29th of September of last year, had be-
held the sack of Villa Nova; the defence of their
homes impelled to that act of heroism.
In the Decree of the 31st of August, 1833, the
Ministry, after an insidious preamble, proceed to an
act of spoliation of the greater part of the landed
proprietors in Portugal ; for the militia, who were
dragged from their houses, under pain of seeing
them burnt, to fight in the usurper's cause, are corn.
posed of the landed men of the provinces ; they are
too numerous to be called rebels, and having lost all
hope of enjoying anything that constitutes human feli-
city, they may he excited to the enthusiasm of • e-
spair ; they cannot, to be sure, succeed, because the
cause of the Usurper is impossible, bi.t they may
prolong this war of devastation till this wretched
country, brught to the brink of annihilation, exists
only in name. I do not fear, Sire, the execution
of this law ; I fear only the alarm which it has
caused among the people. I see in it nothing but
the diabolical intentions of the 'Ministers; tae ,m-
--possibility of its execution is its own preservative.
Vattel says, " Punishment the most just becomes
cruelty when it is extended to too great a number of
people."
Your Majesty, Sire, cannot make laws, because
the legislative power is of its own nature incommu-
nicable. That illustrious Peer of France, the Count
of Lanjuinais, whose voice was ever heard in the
cause of liberty, said, when the Ministers of the
French restoration endeavoured to make of the
French Charter the same as your Majesty's Minis-
;ers are trying to make of that which your Majesty
has bestowed upon us—" The legislative power
project of law, which uelt.
;g:ratleaetw,itsieoairtnher to the King nor to any
abuse or dangerous super.
King the power o: making regulations
cit.flatiuthtlit,eybrgetii)ogedr:eaholite:,
upon any particular subject.
But let us allow that the " ogitis populi supremo

lex," authorized everything that has been done, and
that on that principle be founded the dictatorial
authority which the Ministers have arrogated ; could
this authority be extended beyond the circumstances
which required it ?
What are the circumstances which authorized the
Government to create new offices, with new sala-
ries, to go on increasing them ad infinitum, even
adding to them supernumerary expectants ?
They pretended to reform the administration of
justice, and created a much greater number of Ma-
gistrates; they have doubled the delay of judicial
processes, and have made the inextricable labyrinth
of forensic chicanery tenfold more entangled. Law-
yers as ignorant of the common law of the land,

which they undertook to reform, as they were of
that of the civilized nations which they copied with-
out understanding it, have furnished in the shameful
law of the - of May of the present year a formal
proof of their gross ignorance and utter incapability.
Bits and scraps, torn by their clumsy hands from
French codes, and then witched together in the
same clumsy manner, without connection, without
order, in a barbarous language, full of ambiguities
and obscure phrases, and as ungrammatical as a very
lay brother would write ; this is the law which
these new Licurguses substitute in the place of our
national legi,lation. Let them stand forth and dare
to deny any ono of these accusations ; I am ready to
maintain the truth of each and all of them.
Still more scandalous is another of these pretended
refo,rms; I mean the secular and regular clergy. No
church stands more in need of reform than that of
INlrtugal; but the commission was never given to
such apostles, nor by such means was any gospel
ever preached. It will be more than sufficient to
mention only one name, and that is the name of
Padre Marcos Soares Vas Preto, to whom the pub-
lic, in consequence of the formulary in which his
curious decrees are drawn up, have given the name
of the " Profaning Counsellor." The expression
" We make profane," though it is not improper in
a legal seine, will only serve to confirm the people
in that odious falsehood that our enemies have cast
upon us as Freemasons, in order to expose us

to the execration of the ignorant people. The con-

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vents are " profaned." their rents are seized, the
subsistence of the secular Clergy is withdrawn ;
no provision is made for the maintenance of the
incumbents; all this, and much more, we have seen
under our own eyes. But where do we see any
measure adopted or recommended for the moral or
intellectual improvement of the clergy? Where do
we see the canons, or the councils, or the fathers,
invoked for such an interesting object ? Papaw
habcmus Marcum. We have for Pope Padre Mar-
cos, the only authority which at present governs the
Lu'itaniatj Church ! * * • &c.

But let us cast a veil over this subject, lest the
enemies of the cause become witnesses of all the
-shameful doings concealed under this profanation of
the sanctuary.
As to the public treasury I shall only at present
say, that we have a million of public officers, whose
salaries will amount to many millions with many
millions of debts and loans, without any money in
the treasury. It would be an endless task to describe
the gross ignorance of the Minister, of his friends,
and of his agents. On a future occasion, when I re-
ceive the documents which I expect, I will enter
upon this subject more at large, for the information
of your Majesty.
Nor are their inexperience and inability less
shameful. If I speak thus freely to your Majesty,
it is because, as I have said, I see that success to
the Usurper's cause is now impossible. I see your
Majesty at the head of a gallant army ; I see the
brave Duke of Terceira, who, by the miracles which
he performed, gave liberty to the capital; I see
the intrepid Count de Saldanha, who in the lines of
Oporto, under your Majesty's orders, broke the tri-
umphant baton of a Marshal of France, the con-
queror of Algiers ; I see the zealous students and
volunteers of Villa da Praia, who might naturally
be placed in official employments, not discouraged
by such appointments being given to the loungers in
Ministerial antichambers, still in the bivouacs to
which honour called them. The cause of the
Usurper is then impossible, and it is now necessary
to save the Queen's.
It is true that since I wrote the letter which I
had the honour to submit to your Majesty, orders
have been given to suspend the sale of the seques-
tered property, respecting which so many scandal-
ous and strange stories are in circulation among the
-people. But what of the inquiry which must he
e=taliished se to the manner and legality of the sales
already made ?
But let us attend to the state of our foreign re-
lations ; we are losing friends that we had in certain
Cabinets, and gaining none; on the contrary, we are
alienating the one that it is the most our interest to
conciliate, and without which I look upon our suc-
cess as impossible. The legitimate Government of
Spain, that of Donna Isabel 11., is anxious to form
an union with the legitimate Government of Portu-
gal, that of Donna Maria II.; the cause is the same;
the war which is desolating the western peninsula
of Europe is a war against the government of
order, and the party which seeks to live in
idleness by the labour of others is the party
of Don Carlos and of Don Miguel. Only let a
Government be established in Lisbon that will
guarantee a system of order, and it will be imme-
diately recognised by a similarly constituted Govern-
ment in Madrid; it is not by any difference in the
form of Government that this salutary union has not
been cemented ; it is because your Majesty's Go-
vernment opposes to it an invincible barrier through
the discredit in which it is placed in the eyes of the
nation and of Europe. The recognition of England
and France is nothing more than a recognition de
jut-c, because, in fact, not a single diplomatist accre-
dited to the Court of your Majesty can venture to
breathe a secret of their Courts to your Majesty's
Ministers, as they have no security that by the first
packet it will not be divulged it► some one or other
of the revolutionary journals of Europe, according
as the private interests of your Majesty's Ministers
and of their associates may dictate.
In order, therefore, to remedy these evils, I
humbly lay before your Majesty the following
requests :
" 1. That your Majesty will grant a full and general
amnesty, with the sole exception of the Usurper.
"2. That your Majesty will be pleased to remove all
sequestration for political causes.
"3. That in order for these measures to produce their
proper eff ct, and to heal the evils which I have pointed
out in the body of my letter, you will immediately dismiss
the present Ministers, and nominate others who enjoy the
confidence of the public.
"4. That your Majesty will order to be put in force
the project of the law of the press which had passed the
House of Deputies in the last Cortes, and only wanted the
approbation of the House of Peers and the sanction of the
Executive to become the law of the laud, in order tha

your Majesty may be informed of the opinion of the
people."
And the blessings of the Portuguese nation will
accompany your Majesty.
I am your Majesty's faithful subject,
CONDE DA TAIPA, Peer of the Realm.

MR WILBERFORCE'S WILL.—The will of
the late William Wilberforce, Esq., has just been proved
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by the oaths of
James Stephen, Able smith, and Robert Spooner, Esqrs.'
three of the executors. John Thornton, Esq., the other
executor appointed noder the will, not having thought
proper to take upon himself the probate, but has re•
nounced his right to act. The personal property has been
sworn not to amount in value to 25,000/., nearly the
whole of which is directed to be divided in equal propor-
tions among the surviving children of the deceased.
A NEW NAME.—At the police court, in
Boston, on Wednesday, a fellow Wag brought in, who
while engaged in sawing wood, bad obstructed the
centre of the street, so as to prevent the passage of wheel.
carriages. When requested by a gentleman, m a chaise,
to make room for him to pass, he refused, using at the
seine time fery abusive language. In answer to a request
for his name, he said, "my name is Jack-knock-him-stiff,
and I'll give you a sample." The gentleman entered a
complaint against him, under a recent city law, and the
Court fined him one dollar and cost., by way of "sample."