The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-04 00:00:00

TELLER.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AND AT-

TEMPTED SUICIDE.

Yesterday, John James Levein, a young man, 18 years
of age, whose connections are highly respectable, residing
at Wa'worth, was brought by Mr. Thomas, the Super-
intendent of Police, before F. A. Roe, Esq., at Bow-
street, charged with having feloniously uttered a forged
cheque for 2001. purporting to have been drawn by Mr.
William Gill Paxton, a wine-merchant, residing in Buck-
ingham street, Strand, payable at his bankers, Messrs.
Coutts and Co. The case excited a great deal of interest,
and the office was unusually crowded. The accused, a
very gente,a youth, seemed deeply afflicted.
Mr. Edmonds attended for the prisoner.
Mr. Joseph Partridge, one of the cashiers to Messrs.
Coutts's bank, stated that between four and five o'clock,
on Thursday afternoon, the prisoner presented a cheque to
him for 200/., purporting to have been drawn by Mr.
William Gill Paxton, a wine-merchant, who kept an ac-
count at the bank. On looking at the signature, he en-
tertaintd suspicions that the sime was not in the hand-
writing of Mr. Paxton, and he asked the prisoner to take a
seat. He showed the cheque to several of the clerks, and
they were of opinion, on comparing it with other cheques,
that it was a forgery. Witness took the cheque to Sir
Edmund Antrobus, Bart., one of the partners, and left it
in his possession. The prisoner soon afterwards left the
bank, assisted by two men, and he appeared to be very un-
well. He was informed that the prisoner had taken poison.
Cross-examined—He did not know into how many
hands the ch,qiie had gone ; he put no marks upon it
when he received it ; he wrote his initials on it that morn-
ing, before he gave it to Mr. Thomas; he believed the
cheque produced to be the same that he received from the
prisoner, but he knew it merely from its general appear-
ance; he could not distinguish it from any other cheque
written in the same hand.

Sir Edmund Antrobus received a cheque for 2001.,
purporting to have been drawn by Mr. Paxton, on the
bank of Messrs. Coutts and Co., on Thursday afternoon,
from the atone witness, who informed him that the pri•
saner had presented it for payment ; witness showed the
cheque to Sir Coutts Trotter, and by inquiry among the
clerks, ascertained that it was forged ; the prisoner was
requested to take a seat in Sir Gnats Trotter's room, and
soon afterwards, on passing by the door, witness saw the
prisoner in the act of drinking the contents of a phial
bottle; he exclaimed, " Good God, what are you doing!"
the prisoner replied, " No matter." He sent for medical
assistance ; on his person a phial, containing a spun
quantity of laudanum, was found.
Cross-examined—Witness showed the cheque to Sir
Coutts Trotter, and left it with that gentleman while he
returned to the prisoner.
Mr. ROE—Sir Coutts Trotter's evidence will be neces'
sary to prove it is the same cheque now produced that be
received from Sir Edmund Antrobus.
Mr. William Gill Paxton stated, that he is a wine mer•
chant, residing in Buckingham-street, Strand ; the cheque
produced is a forgery; no part of it is in the hand-wri-
ting of witness; he had known the prisoner for some
time as clerk to Mr. Watts, a stock-broker, of Tokenhouse
Yard ; he believed the prisoner had had opportunities of
seeing his band-writing.
Mr. John Sadler Thomas received the prisoner into his
custody on Thursday evening, about five o'clock ; the
prisoner was attended to the Station-house by a medical
man, and it was with great difficulty he was forced to
take an antidote; witness cautioned the prisoner, that if he
said anything in reply to questiens he put to him, that the
same would be used in evidence against him. Prisoner
was labouring under the effects of opium, and said, "
suppose lam not obliged to say anything ;" he told the
prisoner that he was not ; prisoner was much distressed'
and lie said be did not care what he suffered so that his
mother was not acquainted with what he had done;
wit-
n, told the prisoner that he was informed that he hail
uttered a forged cheque. The prisoner, crying, replied,
" Oh, yes, I have." On the person of the prisoner wit-
ness found a letter. 'Witness received the cheque pro-
duced that morning from Mr. Coulthurst, one of the
partners of the Bank, in the presence of the witness Par'
tridge. The following is a copy of the letter he found o 0
the prisoner :

" August 9., 1832.
" Ml' DEAREST MOTIIER,—When you receive this, your
son will be no more. My dear mother, lam sorry that to you
I could not explain why I have thus acted. You will find many
that will do more than I could, but none that loves you more.
May blessings ever attend you, my dear mother.

" Four's devotedly,

" J. J. L."

" Jit DEAR ANNErrE,—I am sure that you will not refuse,
now I am no more, to take advice from one who dearly loved
you ; be kind to an affectionate mother, and
" J. L."
prove a blessing
to her. Your's ever,
" To DEAR MtTILoA.—I can only add the same, and God
bless you."

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Caravans of a lighter construction than those
in use for conveying the General Post letter carriers, savebeen provided for the police. By these " accelerator'
parties of the police can, on any sudden emergency, when
their presence is required, be conveyed in much less tilos
than otherwise they could arrive; and in case of call to 'I
distant part, they would be fresh, and not arrive fatigued'
DEBTS OF TILE DUKE OF YORK.—A meet'
ing of the creditors of the Duke of YORK was on Thurs'
day held at the Thatched-house, to adopt some measures
for an inquiry into the affairs of his Royal Highness, 50
long invi lved in mystery, and to take other expedient
steps. A Committee was appointed to digest a plan lett.
future proceedings, preparatory to a general meetings 3
which the subj-et will be more fully discussed, and the
course to be pursued determined. The Committee re-
ceived a great variety of documentary and other informatio,o
connected with the object of the meeting, and passed a rt'
solution, calling on all creditors to send in their nattiest
addresses, and amount of debts, &c,
Last night, a few minutes before twelve
o'clock, a tire broke out on the premises of Mr. J. Alvt
fmrs, leather-pipe and fire-bucket manufacturer, No. I°3"
High Holborn. The building extended in a parallel et
reetii4n with Mr. NEW'S livery-stables, and its rear abutted
:
Day and MARTIN'S back premises, which for some time
were considered in imminent danger. However, by,. e
t.
activity of the firemen they were preserved, but not wiT,
eat being somewhat damaged. The fire completely de
stroyed the building in which it originated.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1832.

The Aberdeen Colleges Bill was read a second
time last night with little opposition. The object
of this Bill is to take away from these Colleges
the right of claiming a copy of every new publi-
cation, for the annual sum of about 5001. The
measure from the beginning has appeared to us
most objectionable, and our objections have not
been much altered by the assurance of Mr. S.
RICE, that the money is to be laid out on books,
under the direction of the Senatus Academicus.
Such an irresponsible body, meeting in secret con-
clave, and amenable to public opinion, neither
through the Press, nor in any other shape, is not
the most proper to be entrusted with such a
power. It is easy to conceive that this body is
not well pleased with the present right to a copy
of each work, because one copy for thirty pro-
fessors is little better than useless. A new novel
or poem in fact has lost all its interest before it
gets through the hands of half the professors of
the two colleges, and they are naturally anxious to
make a bargain which will put a sum of money at
their command, and enable them to have a read-
ing in reasonable time. This may not be the
motive for the new arrangement, but judging
from the workings of human nature, and the
abuse which is invariably generated in any class
of men not under the control of public opinion,
there can be little doubt that it will lead to such
a result. The consequence will be, that a large
proportion of the money, to suit the convenience
and taste of the Professors, will be laid out in
Purchasing a variety of copies of the same work,
and the students will thereby be deprived of some
of the more expensive anti valuable publications,
to which, as the law stands, they are entitled.
The students, however, are not the only
sufferers by the change every person engaged
in literary pursuits in the north of Scotland has
a right to complain that the selection of books
should be left to any class of men, and that the
College should be deprived of a privilege, the great
object of which was to procure copies of all
Works published, for the perusal of the present
and future generations. One good, however,
will result from the transaction. It shows the
Public that this privilege, so long enjoyed by the
Universities, is merely a matter of pounds, shil-
lings, and pence, and will lead, probably in no
long period, to the abolition of an unjust and
severe tax on literary labour. Can any thing be
so unjust as to compel a poor author to
give up eight copies of a work which
would sell for hundreds of pounds, and
two of these copies, too, to such wealthy
establishments as Oxford and Cambridge ? In-
Stead of benefiting science and literature, it has,
in some instances, the contrary effect, it being
well known that some important works remain
published on account of this severe tax. It
acts as a check on literature in the same way as
tithes check agricultural improvement, and, ac-
cording to the calculation of the Aberdeen
Professors, amounts to the annual sum of 4,0001.,
levied, not from the public, but from a very small
portion of the public, for national purposes.
We perceive that the booksellers of London
have taken up this (to them) very important
question, and have presented a petition to the
Rouse of Commons on the subject. If we re-
collect rightly, the late Sir JAMES MACKIN-
Tosii brought the matter before Parliament,
and it was an understanding that the Copyright
Act ; and the right of the Universities to so many
c,opies of all works published, should be taken
Into consideration. Why this has not been yet

done we cannot say, but the question is one
which reflects the greatest disgrace on our na-
tional character and liberality with regard to the
protection of literature and literary men. They
manage these things better in France.
With respect to the exchange of French
books, is a matter so very desirable to be fore-
gone for the paltry consideration of 5001. a-year ?
Does Government hesitate in purchasing English
books to the amount of 5001. a-year, and
yet not scruple to lavish pensions of as many
thousands upon individuals whose only merit is
acknowledged to be that they have been in the
receipt of such pensions for many long years,
and that it would now be ungenerous to deprive
them of them ?

But if Mr. S. RICE, or whoever claims the
glory of the present bargain or job, expects to
make a great saving under the privilege of the
existing Act of Parliament, is it, we ask, worthy
of this country to grasp at such a paltry saving
at the expense of those very persons who are
acknowledged in all countries to be the true or-
nament,—the only enduring memorial, of
its fame .and excellence to admiring posterity ?
Shame on such petty legislation, we say. It
redounds neither to the honour of its originators,
nor the profit of the country.

The Lords' amendments to the Irish Reform
Bill were last night taken into consideration by
the House of Commons. Mr. STANLEY made
one or two objections to these amendments,
which were, however, ultimately acquiesced in,
and the Bill, as amended, agreed to.

An express from Paris has been received this
morning in the City, but the French papers con-
tain nothing of any interest. A telegraphic de-
spatch had reached Paris, announcing the ar-
rival of the remainder of the fleet at Cherbourg,
which, it is generally expected, is destined to co-
operate with an English squadron in the Scheldt
No later news had been received regarding Don
PEDno than what has already appeared in the
London papers. A notice had been issued by
the Minister of Commerce, and sent to all the
ports, announcing that the port of Lisbon, and
the whole of the coast as far as Oporto, is in a
state of blockade.

Private letters, received from Spain, state,
that a great movement was taking place amongst
the troops, as the news of the arrival of Don
PEDRO had caused the greatest feeling in several
of the frontier towns, and FERDINAND was
afraid that some serious disturbances might
take place.
The report that a Spanish army would be sent
towards the Pyrenees, under the command of
the Duke of ANGOULEME, to enter the South
of France, had been treated with ridicule by the
Paris merchants, as a war would immediately
take place.

There are various rumours in the city regard-
ing the advance of Don PEDRO, but it may be
pretty well relied upon, that Lamego Viseu, and
the greater part of the province of Beira, have
declared in his favour :
MADRID, JULY 23.—The intelligence of the landing of
Don Pedro on the Portuguese territory has given rise to an
extraordinary sensation throughout the provinces. Gen. San
Juan was quite perplexed to know what to do, when the people
of Badajoz manifested their joy at the event in the most enthu-
siastic manner. Every body appeared astonished to find that
the General abstained from violent measures. But it has been
since discovered that his moderation was owing more to his
fears than his wishes, for it is quite certain that his conduct
was altogether influenced by the fact of the soldiers in the gar-
rison having shown a strong disposition to sympathize with the
people. In the mean time, the President of the Court of Ca.
cere has received orders to repair to Badajoz ; three Alcaldes
have been dismissed, and a great number of arrests have taken
place. In Castile the inhabitants evidently feel the utmost
joy ; although they do not wish to express it, there is no doubt
of its being quite as seditious as any felt in Spain. The Go-
vernment has issued orders for withholding passports from all
persons in Madrid, whose permanent place of residence is in
any of the provinces adjoining Portugal. The regulation is
extended even to Talavera de la Rayna. This King has been
indisposed for some days. It was reported yesterday that he
was worse. The command of the Royal Guard has been trans-
ferred from the Count d'Espagne to the Duke del Infantado.

The Austrian Observer, received this morn-
ing, contains the official announcement of the
death of Young NAPOLEON. The cholera had
increased in Vienna during the middle week of
July—the period when it raged most severely in
London and Paris, but has since abated. It
appears that the Diet of Frankfort is not yet
done with its liberal proscriptions :
VIENNA, JoLV 23.—Yesterday, 22d July, in the morning,
his Highness the Duke of Reichstadt died at the Imperial Pa-
lace of Schonbrunn, after long suffering under a pulmonary
complaint, which baffled all the efforts and skill of the most
celebrated physicians of this city. Her Majesty the Arch-
duchess Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma, who ever since her
arrival had attended her beloved son with maternal anxiety, and
the whole Court, are deeply afflicted at the death of the promis.
ing young Prince in the flower of his age, and their grief is
sincerely shared by all the inhabitants of this capital.—Aus.
Irian Observer, July 23.

FREIBURG, JULY 22.—Several of the Members of the
Assembly of the Estates of Baden for the Palatinate, who
are distinguised by their liberal opinions, Von Itzstein, nom
man, and Gerleel, have arrived at Freiburg, from Cassel.
There is a report of proceedings to be agreed upon in concert
between the Estates of Baden and Hesse.Cassel against certain
contingencies.

The Liberal Freysinnige, of the 24th of July, contains the
prohibition decreed against it by the Diet, and accompanies it
with a declaration, which begins as follows :
___. _ _

" The Liberal may boast of having acquired, and retained
from its very origin, the esteem of all honourable men in
Germany. To many ardent friends of justice and freedom it
appeared too mild, too forbearing ; but they readily acknow-
ledged the purity, legality, and patriotic tendency of its endea-
vours. A decree of the Diet of the 19th of July condemns it
to suppression, and if the Government of Baden execute this
resolution the sentence will be carried into effect. As the
decree," so the declaration concludes, "which proscribes the
Liberal calls on the Baden Government to give every
information respecting the real editors of the Li.
beral, we hereby, in order to spare our Govern.
ment this inglorious task, frankly and unhesitatingly
declare, that besides the responsible editor, whose name is
signed to each number of the Journal, there is a principal editor
latterly, M. F. Giehme, and an editing committee chosen by
the society of shareholders which founded the Liberal, and
the members of which, named in alphabetical order, are the
following :—Duttlinger, Framberz, Martin, Perleb, Rotteck,
Rent, Welcker.—Allgemeise Zeitung, July 2S.

We find the following in Wednesday's Black-
burn Gazette :—‘, We shudder whilst we an-
nounce one of the most atrocious outrages, com-
mitted by a body of military last night in the
borough of Clitheroe, which it has fallen to our
lot to record since the infamous massacre of
Peterloo. We are not in possession of the de-
tails of this melancholy affair, but learn from an
eye-witness, that yesterday being the day ap-
pointed for the entry of the Tory candidate, Mr.
IRVING, into that borough, he was received, as
a most unpopular candidate might expect to be,
with groans and hisses, and we are sorry to add by
certain individual strangers in the town with less
justifiable tokens of disfavour, showers of stones.
Mr. IRVING and his party took what appeared to
them the prudent course of driving through the
town without stopping—nor did they re-appear
in Clitheroe during the afternoon. In an evil
hour, under the excitement of the indignity they
had sustained, and in spite of the advice and
remonstrance of the Bailiff of the borough, Mr.
GARSTANG, a requisition was dispatched to
Burnley for two troops of horse, signed by Col.

C. G. J. ARBUTHNOT and JOHN KIRKLAND,
Agents appointed by the Trustees to distribute the said Booty.

CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT.

CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES.
COUNTRY.
Remaining at last Report, 1083—New Cases,346—Deaths,l44
Recovered, 167—Remaining, 1119. Total Cases since the com-
mencement, 24,434—Deaths, 9,201.
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK

We have again to announce a blank day for intelligence.
The only arrivals this morning are from the Cape of Good Hope
and Mauritius, which are of little import. In all probability.
if we do not have a direct arrival by Monday from Portugal,
we may receive the particulars of the battle of the 23d via
France.

Consols opened this morning at the same price they left off
yesterday, 83 34 for the account, with nothing doing as yet.
In the Foreign market not a bargain doing.
HALF-PAST ONE.
-

Consols have continued the whole of the mor;iiiTg at
83 I!, X for the Account. The only transaction of importance
took place in the early part of the day, when 50,0001. Reduced
were purchased, which kept the market steady from that pe-
riod.—There is also a stagnation in the Foreign Market—not a
bargain doing.

THREE 0' CL 0 CR.

Consols for Account, 83% Ts

FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES.
Consols
Ditto for Account 8311 Greek, 1825
Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825 —
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian .. —
Chilian Ditto.... Russian
Columbian 1824 Spanish

A very material alteration has been made by
the Lords in the Irish Reform Bill, which will have the
effect of giving the Corporations of Ireland (which are
Protestant) the complete power over elections, and thus
perpetuating the sectarian d,fferences by which that un-
fortunate country has been so long torn. The pretext
was, the assimilating the franchise with regard to freemen
in Ireland, to what it is in England. Mr. STANLEY said
there was no hope of obtaining any change of this obnoxi-
ous amendment in a Conference, and be recommender: that
it should be agreed to. The Right Honourable Gentle-
man confessed he could not see that any analogy sub-
sisted between the two cases. The English freemen bad
not abused the privileges entrustei/ to them by the Con-
stitution in the same manner that the Irish freemen noto-
riously had done. The practice of the Irish Corporations
had been to render their bodies as exclusive as possible;
and though they did not profess to exclude Catholics, or
other persons of liberal politics, yet that had been their
uniform practice; and the intention of the Bill, as it ori-
ginally stood, was to have put an end to that practice;
but he now regretted to say that the other House would,
by this amendment, enable Corporations almost indefinitely
to increase the number of freemen. He bad hoped that it
would have satisfied the Lords to have found that all per-
sons born before the passing of the Act would have been
entitled to their freedom in the same manner as before;
but that, it seemed, was not sufficient." This, we sup-
pose, is intended as a buttress to the Irish Church. It
will only hasten the downfall of the establishment. It
will impress on Irishmen the impossibility of having peace
or rest so long as the Church of Ireland exists. The Po-
icy, too, is, in other respects, most short-sighted. Could
be supposed for a moment that a Reformed Parliament
would submit to such an obvious deterioration of the Irish
Bill ?—.liforning Chronicle.

THE TORIES AT CLITHEROE.

(From the Blackburn Gazette of Wednesday.)

It being publicly announced, that Mr. Irving, the nominee
of Lords Howe and Brownlow, was to enter Clitheroe to can-
vass the electors yesterday, the inhabitants of the borough de-
termined to assemble on the occasion, and to give him such a
reception as the insult offered to them by the attempt to cram
an 'Ultra-Tory down their throats, appeared to them to deserve.
Accordingly, the inhabitants of Burnley, Colne, Padiham,
and the surrounding neighbourhood repaired to Clitheroe yes-
terday in great numbers, with ribbons bearing the inscription,
" Fort and Reform." It is said that not less than ten thousand
people were assembled in the borough to testify their detesta-
tion of Mr. Irving's principles, at d their determination to elect
Mr. Fort as their representative. Mr. Irving arrived, agree-
ably to appointment, and a band of music with other prepara-
tions were made to escort him into the town ; but it was with
much difficulty that his carriage was got through the immense
crowd to the principal inn. The hissing and hooting of the in-
dignant multitude was tremendous, and the occupants of the car-
riage were very loath to show themselves.' Mr. Irving was
accompanied by Colonel Clayton, the Rev. R. Noble, and
John Taylor, Esq. They drew up at the inn for a minute
or two, but the hissing and hooting of the crowd becoming
more furious the gentlemen took alarm and made their way
out of the town with all convenient speed. On their taking to
flight, the crowd pelted them with stones, which caused con-
siderable daMage to the carriage, but we believe none of the
gentlemen were injured. We hear that the fugitives were
seen upon the road, about a mile from Clitheroe, by a gentle-
man passing that way. They were standing on one side of the
road, and on inquiring the cause, he was informed, that they
had been driven out of Clitheroe by the mob, and that they
were waiting for the military from Burnley to assist them in
fighting their way back again ! We have not heard, however,
that any such attempt has been made. Would it not be well,
if ministers of the gospel of peace were differently employed
than in electioneering squabbles ? As for Mr. Irving, we
should recommend him to make the best of his way back to
town again.