The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-10 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

this nibrning a meeting of the creditors, under the commis.
sion of bankruptcy issued against Joseph Moberly; Esq., M.P.,
was held at the Bankruptcy Court, before Mr. Commissioner
FONBLANQUE. The business was principally confined
this morning to the proof of some disputed debts, and to deposit
which were made in the Aberdetn Bank. The highest amount
prdsed It as for 1,000/. The contested proofs are to be consi-
dered at a future period.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FP.B. 9.

FRENCH v. HARVEY.

This actitin was brOught by MY. Martin French, a half,pay
tifficer, against the printer and ptiblisher of the Globe evening
Paper, for an alleged libel, contained in a paragraph which
was published in that Paper on the evening of the 2d day of
April, 131.

Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the plaintiff's case, and said the
plaintiff' was an officer on half-pay, and the Master of the Cere-
monies at Margate; and this action was brought against the
printer Of the Globe for publishing a paragraph stating that a
true bill had been found against him for sending threatening let-
ters to Mr. Trotter and Mr. Sinclair, the proprietors of the
Tivoli gardens at Margate.

Mr. Tumour produced a copy of the Globe of the 2d of April.
The publication having been proved, and the libel read,
Mr. PLATT, fbr the defence, said every apology had been
made by the defendant directly the error was discovered, and
added that this action was only brought by the attorney for costs,
for he had brought seven actions against other Papers, and
against the Times had only recovered 40s.

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, AO/.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 9.

WILLIS v. BARNARD.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover com-
pensation in damages from the defendent for criminal con-
•ersation with his wife.
Mr, Serjeant WILDE stated the case. Mr. Walpole Willis,
the plaintiff, a gentleman at the Chancery bar, was engaged in
the conduct of a suit in Chancery for the Earl of Strathmore.
The necessity of constant professional intercourse led to habits
of intimacy with the family, which finally ended in a closer
connection, and he was married on the Sth of August, 1824,
with the consent of the friends on both sides, to Lady Mary
Bowes, a young and accomplished girl, 22 years of age, a
daughter of the Noble Earl. After living for three years after
the marriage at Hendon, with Mrs. Willis, the plaintiff's
mother, they quitted England for Canada, Mr. Willis having
been appointed to a judicial situation at New York. Soon after
their arrival, however, an unpleasant difference arose between

the Governor, Sir Peregrine Maitland, and the plaintiff, rela-

tive to some circumstances connected with the Court, and
Mr. Willis deemed it necessary to return to England, in
order to lay his case before the Privy Council, intend.

ing to return when the difference was settled. He ac.
cordingly set sail for England in 1828, leaving Lady Mary and
his sister, Miss Willis, at New York. It was, however, consi-
dered better that Mr. Willis should not resume his judicial
functions in America, and he wrote to Lady Mary, directing
her to come to England. She immediately started for Mon-
treal, and there she became first acquainted with Capt. Barnard,

the defendant, an officer in the tiBth Light Infantry. Upon
arriving at Montreal she stayed a day or two at the hotel, and
then took lodgings at Dr. Lisle's boarding-house, where the de-
fendant also was, and occupied a bed-room adjoining his.
They were on very intimate terms, though not a suspicion was
excited that an improper connection had taken place between
them ; but on the arrival of Miss Willis from New York, where
she had remained to dispose of some property, Captain Barnard
gave up his room to her, and removed from the house. Very
shortly after Lady Mary eloped with the defendant, and they
were not heard of until they were traced to lodgings in West-
minster, where they were living as man and wife. Mr. Willis
had since gone out as Chief Justice to Demerara, and he
brought the present action to recover some consolation, if not
compensation, as the verdict of the Jury would show the opi-
nion they entertained of the conduct of the defendant, and of
the loss he ;the plaintiff) had sustained.

The Rev. Mr. Willis, examined by Mr. WIGHTMAN—I
am a clergyman at Bath, and am brother to the plaintiff,
whom I married on the Bth of August, 19'24, at Marylebone
Church, to Lady Isabel Mary Bowes, daughter of the Earl of
Strathmore. My brother at that time was thirty-two years of
age. Lady Mary was twenty-two on that day. After the
marriage my brother and Lady Mary lived with my mother at
Hendon, until 1827, when they sailed for Canada. During the
three years they resided at Hendon the most complete affec-
tion seemed to subsist between them. There was some little
estrangement between Lord Strathmore's family and the
Willis's, in consequence of a law-suit respecting Lady Mary's
property.

John Galt, Esq., exam' sal by Mr. WIGHTM AN— I resided at
New York when Mr. Willis and Lady Mary came out. I was
very intimate, and saw them every other day. When I was
first introduced there appeared to be a great discomfort in the
family, from some circumstances connected with his judicial
situation. Mr. Willis's attention to his wife was very great,
and her affection reciprocal.
Mary Mays--I lived as servant with Lady Mary at Little
York, the day previous to her commencing travelling. On the
16th of May, 1829, we set out in a steam.vessel. I know
Captain Barnard. lie was a Lieutenant in the army. When
we got to Montreal we went to an hotel, where we remained
from the Friday till Sunday. Mr. Barnard called on the Satur_
day morning, and saw Lady Mary in the drawing-room. After
leaving the hotel we went to a boarding-house, and remained
there three months. Captain Barnard came shortly after, and
was very much in Lady Mary's company. He used to come
every day about eleven, and stay till dinner-time. Lady Mary's
bed-room and Captain Barnard's were close adjoining. When
Miss Willis arrived she took Captain Barnard's room. I re-
member one Sunday evening Lady Mary coming into my bed-
room. On the 11th of August, a little after eleven at night, I
was in bed and asleep; when I awoke I saw her at the window_

I fancied that she was speaking in a low voice to somebody.
She only remained a minute or two after she found that I was
awake. When she quitted the room I looked out of the win.
dow, and heard a voice, which I think was Captain Barnard's.
He said, " make haste," and repeated it. In a minute or two
after I saw Lady Mary. She asked me if I was asleep. I re-
plied, " No," and she went away, telling me to call her in the
morning. 'When she left me she went, as I fancied, into her
own room, but I looked out of the window, and saw her going
up the street in company with Captain Barnard, who was the
person I had heard speak under the window. I got up and went
to see how she had got out. She had left her child in her own
1 room. I then immediately went and endeavoured to awaken
Miss Willis, but could not ; but in the morning I told her of
every thing that had occurred.

Mrs. Anne Ballard deposed—l was formerly in the service of
Mrs. Lyon, a cousin of Lady Mary, whom I had known for
some years previously to her leaving England. In September,
IBZ, Lady Mary Willis and Captain Barnard came to my house
in Wyndham-street, New.road. Lady Mary applied for lodg-
ings. She appeared in great trouble. She agreed to take my
lodgings, and came the same evening. Captain Barnard came
the next day, and stayed some time with Lady Mary. I after-
wards refused his corning, because knowing that Lady Mary Was
married, I thought it was not right. On one occasion I had
some conversation with him, and begged him not to come. He
made a great many complaints about my being so particular,
and still continued his visits. I was once obliged to send my
little boy to get a police•aan to turn him out. After remaining
nine weeks at my house, she and Captain Barnard went away in
a coach, and desired the coachman to drive to James-street. I
heard Lady Mary ask for her letters, as she had destroyed his.
He replied—" Certainly not, I shall keep them."
Miss Anne Murray—l reside with my mother at 59, Great
Stafford-place, Pimlico. My mother let part of the house as
lodgings in 18x9. In December, 1829, a gentleman called to see
our apartments, arid gave his card Captain Barnard. He stated
that he wanted them for himself and wife. They had just come
from abroad. He finally took them, and said that he had been
lodging in James-street. They remained about three months,
and during that time lived as man and wife. The lady appeared
in bad health and very had spirits. I have since been to Dieppe,
and seen Lady Mary, and recognised her as the lady who lodged
at my house as the wife of Captain Barnard.
The examination of Miss Willis, the sister of the plaintiff',
was then read.
It went to prove the marriage, and in cross-
examination she stated that Lady Mary frequently complained

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 10, 1832.

Another long-winded discussion took place list
night in the House of Commons, on the eternal
subject of Portugal. Mr. COURTENAY brought for-
ward the question in a speech every line of which
was redolent of laudanum. He was well answered
by Sir J. MACKINTOSH, and still more convincingly,
because from his position he was better able to
grapple with the facts of the case, by Lord PALMER-
STON, who, in an eloquent and animated speech,
remarkable for the minuteness and accuracy of
its details, left the factious Opposition not
a leg to stand upon. Sir R. PEEL indeed
attempted to bolster up the credit of his
party ; but it was a very languid effort, as if the
speaker's heart were not in it, and was, of course
neutralized by Mr. STANLEY, who exhibited his
usual energy and acumen. There is no possibility of
mistaking the object of Mr. COURTENAY'S motion last
night. It was to delay the progress of the Reform
Bill, in the hope thereby of exciting murmuring and
discontent among the people at the tardy progress
of their favourite measure. But the manceuvre is too
stale, too shallow, and cannot but be seen through even
by the most superficial. Ministers, therefore, have
acted wisely in resolving to sit to-morrow; and had
they taken this resolution earlier—to which we have
all along contended they must resort—they would
have displayed still more sagacity. However, bet ter
late than never.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and those dated
yesterday, have been received. The official account
of the Austrians having entered Bologna, accom-
panied by Cardinal ALBANt, on the 28th January,
was known at Pads. Don PEDRO'S manifesto was
well received by the Parisians ; but the expedition
was detained at Belleisle by contrary winds. The
French Funds improved on Wednesday, on the news
from Russia being considered favourable :

FRENCH FUND .-PARIS, FEB. 8.-Fiteper cents., 96r. 30c.
25c. 30e. 35c. 50c. 40c. .50c. 45c. 40c. 96f. 35c. 40c. 45c. 50c. 45c
50c. 45c. 50c. 45c.: Four and a Half per Cents, 89f. ; Three per
Cents., 65f. 55c. 60c. 70c. 80c. Rsc. 80c. 85c, 66f. 65f. 90c, 661.
661. sc. 10c. sc. ; Bank Stock, 1,610 f. 1,6151. ; Rente de
Naples, 76f. 95c. 77f. 76f. 95c. 77f. 10c ; Rente d'Espagne, 10%;
Royal Spanish Loan, 75 74% 75 ; Rent Perpetuelle d'Espagne,
53%' 53 53% 53 5,314 53 53%; Haytian Loan, 200f.-Exchange
on' London, one month, paper, 251. 35c. ; money, 2Sf. 30c. ;
three months, paper, 25f. 20c. ; money, 25f. 15c..-Coors
Authentique.

Dutch and Prussian Papers have been received.
The former indicate a continued resolution on the
part of the Dutch KING to resort to war in the last
alternative: the latter contain no news :
THE HAGUE, FEB. 7.—Their Royal Ilighnesses the Prince
of Orange and Prince Frederick arrived at Bois-le-Duc on
Friday night at eleven o'clock. His Excellency the Director
General of the War Department has announced a contract for
18,000 ells of tent cloth, of home manufacture, to be delivered
before the end of the month. This seems to confirm the re-
port that there is to be a camp again this year in North Brabant.
His Excellency the Director General of the Marine Department
has issued an invitation to those who are willing to enter, on
very advantageous terms, into the Royal Navy, as well to man
the ships of war ordered to be ready for active service, by his
Majesty's resolution of the 20th of January, as to compose the
crews of the armed vessels for inland service on the rivers,
which are now building, but will speedily be ready.
The subscriptions for the voluntary loan amount in this town
to between nine and ten millions.

Actual Debt AMSTERDAM, FEB. 7.
, per cent
........ . 39tq to 40
Amort Syndic, 4% per cent ...... . ............ 67 to 6714
Ditto, ditto, 314 per cent. .............. 53 to 53,4
Exchange upon London, one month ...... 11 85
Two Months
I I 80
WARSAW, JAN. 9.—His Majesty the Emperor and King
has made the following appointments :—The Counsellor of
State, and formerly President of the Municipality of Warsaw,
Charles Woyda, to be Director. General of the Departments of
Finance and Police; the Counsellor of State Xavier Polocki, to
he Member of the Department of Justice; the Counsellor of
State Matthew Lubowidzki, to be Director in the Department
of the Interior and Police; and M. Ernest Faltz, to be President
of the General Consistory of the Evangelic Church.
The bridge between Warsaw and Praga is now repaired, so
that it is not necessary to cross the ice of the Vistula, which is

very weak. We have hart fine weather evith light frost for thi:
last week.

ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 25.—The journals contain nu-
merous promotions and favours, but no political news.
4.--There have been no new cases of cho.
lera for several days.

The following are extracts from thrman Papers :
the present conduct of Russia will be best appre-
ciated by its future act s, We have never placed
any faith in her professions :
VIES+I4A, Js'. 26.—Since the arrival of the last courier
from London our funds have risen, which confirm the genercl
conjecture that the English Ministry duly appreciates the con-
siderations Which hare hitherto kept the Cabinet of St. Peters.:
burgh from unconditionally assenting to the treaty of London,
and that consequently there is no reason to doubt of the con_
tinuance of the discussions of the Conference, and of the good
understanding between the great Powers. The satisfactory
accounts from Italy have also tended to raise our funds.
From Russia the most conflicting accounts are received.
Sometimes we hear that the Emperor will give less attention
than hitherto to foreign policy, and devote his whole attention
to the internal adrhinistration of Russia ; then we are told that
the Russian Cabinet thinks itself called upon to co.operate, by
all the means in its power, towards the happiness and tranquil.
lily of Europe, and that it is eager to oppose a barrier to the per.
nicious doctrines of modern liberty, and to do every thing for
the security of the Governments. If we may judge from the
difficulties which the ratification of the decisions of the London
Conference has met with in St: Petersburgh, the second opinion
seems to be more correct, as the Emperor, disregarding all sel-
flsh policy, has taken that interest in a distant country which
its critical siolation seemed to ask for.

BERLIN, JAN. 29.-The declaration of the Russian Cabinet,
with respect to the Belgian question, make indeed fresh nego_
fiations necessary; for the difficulties will not be peremptorily
decided by resolutions of the Conference, but removed by actual
understanding between all concerned. Meantime the language
of Russian diplomacy is, as far as possible, far from threatening
war, and the retrograde movement of a great part of the Rus-
sian troops into the interior of the empire is a positive ground
for hopes of peace. We repeat this, because the latest accounts
from St. Petersburgh do the same. Besides it must not be for-
gotten that the Powers have already engagements with King
Leopold, which must be attended to ; he did not take the throne
of Belgium without their confidence, but, on the contrary, his
most urgent motives for accepting it were derived from the in-
fluence of Foreign Courts.

Letters from Alexandria were received at Trieste
stating that IBRAHIM PACHA suffered a total defeat
in his attempt to carry Sr. Jean d'Acre by storm, on
the 9th January. A speedy retreat was the conse-
quence, since which an amicable arrangement is
said to have ensued,—as stated in The Sun of
yesterday. It cannot last long; for the SULTAN
will not tolerate the existence of the Pacha of
EGYPT in his present power of doing mischie
whenever opportunity serves. The PACHA, «e
apprehend, has played his last card, and played it,
like most traitors, badly.

The Manifesto of Don PEDRO, who, wind and
weather permitting, was to have sailed on the 6•h
instant from Belleisle for Terceira, is a document of
much spirit as well as of much reason. It is a very
succinct and forcible statement of the rights of Donna
MARIA, and of the causes which have induced Don
PEDRO, as her natural father and guardian, to em-
bark in the expedition upon which he has risked the
fortunes of the Constitutional cause of Portugal.
Every one knows the details of the circumstances
summed up in the Manifesto. Don ..MiGt7EL's
treachery, and the legitimate rights of the young
Queen, are notorious throughout Europe. Th.
great Powers have been constantly unwilling to re-
cognize an authority based upon fraud and perjury,
and subversive of the principle upon which depend
the rights of almost every European Sovereign. Great
Britain has hitherto steadily refused her assent to
the recognition of a Government existing by usurpa-
tion, and is, we apprehend, not in any wise likely
to sanction, at the eleventh hour, a state of things
in Portugal, which is not less discreditable to the
constituted, or rather usurped. authorities there,
than it is to the common sense of the people of that
unfortunate country. The arguments of the repre-
sentatives of the Tory party on thin occasion are
such as they would be sorry to see retorted upon
them upon other occasions. Don MIGUEL, says the
Morning Post ,is the choice of the Portuguese people.
Admitting that he is King de facto, we beg
to ask our contemporary, whether LOUIs-PHILIPM:
is not likewise de facto King of the French, and
by what sort of reasoning the one Sovereign is to
be made light of, and the other to be worshipped in
the same breath ? We should be glad to hear from
Don MIGUEL'S abettors an explicit declaration upon
the point how far they do, or do not, recognise the
principle of legitimate descent, as giving a right to
succession to Crowns. For if Don MIGUEL'S
rights are to be placed upon the basis of popular
favour, there ajspears to us to be an end to the prin-
ciple, in virtue whereof the regular order of succes-
sion to European Thrones has hitherto been re-
cognized and held sacred.

We have not the means of forming a judgment
of the probability of the success of the expedition,
but we sincerely hope that Providence may prosper
a cause which we believe to be founded in justice,
as well as to be supported by the fervent hopes of
the supporters of liberal principles throughout Eu-
rope. There are many millions of hearts which beat
for the cause of Donna MARIA, and which would
have desired nothing better than to risk their lives
and fortunes for that cause, if the days of chivalry
were not, unhappily, gone for ever.

We have already so often recommended the con-
struction of a railway between London and the great
manufacturing districts of the kingdom, that it may ap-
pear unnecessary to say more. Indeed we have not
spaceto-day,if we had the inclination: we shall there-
fore merely direct attention to an advertisement,
setting forth the self-evident advantages of a grand
rail-road from London to Birmingham. As a
matter of utility, the thing speaks for itself. We
trust, however, that the Directors will see the
propriety of making a 'railway of four line's, instead
of two, as at present proposed. It is impossible
that two lines will be sufficient for the grand
line of communication with the North, as this
must undoubtedly prove. If the Directors persist
in having only two lines—the inevitable conse-
quence must be that another Railway Company
will, start to supply the deficiency. But we shall
return to the subject shortly.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENeE—(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, FEB. 9.—Wind W.S.W., light.—Arrived the Cora,
from Smyrna and Thomas Coutts, Christie, from China.
PLYM T)•OUH, FEB. 7 AND B.—Wind S.E., light.—Arrived the
Mayflower, Puckey, from St. Michael's; and Sylph, Martin, from
Aynelos
FA LMOUTH, FEB. B.—Wind W.S. W. to S.S.W., moderate.—
Arrived otrport, the Pauline, Bellenger, from Honduras.
DOVER, FEB. 9.—Arrived off port, the Sarah Agatha, Hoff_
man, from Surinam • Massasoit, Gibbs, from Virginia; and
, Messina.
BRISTOL, Bolin, from
FEB. 9.—Arrived the Ariel, Blundell, from Lisbon.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. B.—Arrived the Jessie, Pile, from Nassau;
and the Star, Law, from Lisbon. Off port, the Manchester,
from Sicily.
DUBLIN, FEB. a—Arrived the James, Whitby, from St.
Petersburgh.

Arrived at Havannah, the John Reid, Rca, from Liverpool.
Arrived at Campeachy, the James Laughton, Dawson, from
Liverpool.
The Hugh Johnson, from Liverpool to St. John's, N.B. has
been condemned at Milford.
The Pirate, Sutherland, from Sunderland, bound to Banff,
was driven on shore near Aberdeen, 6th inst. and it was feared
would be wrecked.—Crew and part of the materials saved.
Vessels spoken.—The Robert, Puleford, from Liverpool to
New Orleans, 26th Dec., lat. 27 long. 87 ; the Mercury, Pearce,
from Rio Janeiro to Trieste, '2Bth ult. in the Gut.
The Miles Llandish, Arnold, from Savannah to Jamaica, Wlti,
wrecked on Abaco, 19th Dec.—Crew and part of the cargo saved.
The Dolphin, from Clrk to Tralee and Limerick, was burnt to
the water edge, at Tralee, sth instant.

We are requested to state that Mr. BAYNTUN
paired off with Captain Ross, previous to the division on
Wednesday evening.

BIRTH.
On the 7th inst. at the Parsonage, Colney, Hefts, the lady of
the Rev. M. Barnard, M.A., of a son.

MARRIED.

On the 9th inst. at St. Martin's, Sir Culling. Eardley Smith,
Bart. to Isabella, daughter of the late Thomas Wm. Carr, Estl''
of Frognall, Hampstead.
Or. the 10th inst., at All Souls', Marylebone, Mr. Joseph
Drake, of Quicksett-row, tiew-road, to Miss Green, late 0f
Hereford.
On the ith inst. at Appleton, Berks, Mr. John Henry' Parker'
of the 'furl, Oxford, to Frances Mary, eldest daughter of tV
Rev Dr. Hoskins.