The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNAL.

Sixteen Clergymen of the Archdeaconry of
Nottingham have addressed a requisition to their
Archdeacon to call a meetiug of themselves and
the other clergymen of the Archdeaconry, for
two very incoherent and disconnected purposes,
—the first, to afford aid to the incipient institu-
tion ; and the second to
create King'sssnCleonlege
the Duke of Welling.
tltoate of
en
ton and his Majesty's Government, by putting
forth their unsolicited clerical veto on the Ca-
tholic question. They say, in their requisition
to the Archdeacon, " to call a meeting for the
purpose oaf. taking -into consideration the best
mean's of proeurifig support to King's College"—
that " they will take that opportunity of making
a declaration- expressive of their determination
.fdlise their best endeavours to uphold the Pro-
testant ascendancy." They are handy fellows,
though somewhat dangerous to the state ! They
meet for one purpose, and turn that meeting to
an object totally different. Upon the first pro-
fessed purpose, money, we presume, is to be
raised. Is that to be applied to carry the
second purpose into effect?-.-,to purchase
arms, for example, to transmit to the
Orangemen of Ireland ? If not, why are
two objects apparently so irrelative coupled
together? What would be said of the Catholic
Association if it advertised to raise money for
one purpose, and intimated that the meeting
would take another subject into consideration,
-for which money might be wanting ? It is con-
.trary to the Constitution and the usage of Par-
liament to tack a money-clause to a bill whose
enactments relate to a different subject : and
here we have 16 clergymen, probably some of
them Magistrates, with an Archdeacon, not at
their head, but at their tail, tacking a mischief-
clause. to a bill for assisting the funds of the pro-
posed college; that is, the money-clause comes
first, and the mischief-clause follows. We speak
of the clause as mischievous: for undoubtedly
it is meant to generate a factious opposition to
the measures of Government, even before it is
known what those measures may be. Thus
much only is certain, that the Duke of Welling.
ton and his Administattion deprecate and dis-
courage all meetings called for the object which
is professed in the latter part of the requisition
of these 16 divines. The following is the re-
quisition alluded to :--

to look deeply into this heart-oppressing subject.
Mr. Peel has already reaped from his former la-
bours a portion of that reward which must act
upon all public men with a force beyond every
rival stimulus,—the approbation of reasonable
merr,—either for his own efforts, or' for his co-
operation with the efforts of others, at the amend-
ment of the law. The great principle recom-
mended by a reference to the history of the above
important proceedings is one with which Mr.
Peel has not yet grappled in an extensive or
prominent degree ; we mean the reinforcing our
criminal jurisdiction by a nominal mitigation of
punishments. As revenue is improved by a re-
duction of taxes, because the consumers are mul-
tiplied, so, beyond dispute, will justice be ren-
dered more productive by a policy which, under
the name of tenderness, engages a greater num-
ber of civilized minds to aid rather than obstruct
its administration. The thing has long been
ttso clear for controversy. The law of capital
punishment in many instances defeats itself by
going directly to help the escape of the criminal.
Adapt the punishment to the public sense of
justice, and every honest man will enrol himself
amongst her Ministers.—lbid.
•
The account which Mr. Sheil has given of
the liberality of the Catholics in foreign coun-
tries, as compared with that of Protestants in
England, is so utterly destitute of truth, that it
would not require any notice but for the con-
firmation which it has received from one or two
contemporaries. England, they say, is the only
country in Europe, containing different religions,
in which all are not on an equal footing, with
the exception of Piedmont, in which some thou-
sands of Protestants are not liberally treated.
To judge fairly of the liberality of Catholics, we
have only to turn to Italy, the seat of the Head
of the Catholic Church, and we there find that,
till very lately, every one who ventured to differ
from the Catholic faith was subject to the tor-
tures of the Inquisition ; and that, at present,
not only no Protestant can hold any situation
under Government, but he is prohibited from
worshipping God according, to the tenets
of his religion. An exception has lately been
made in favour -of ,4blie English,; but even
this has been reluctantly-given, and with so many
restrictions relative to the outward appearance of
the place of worship, as to prove that the Pope,
if he had the power, would allow only one reli-
gion to exist. During the, lifetime of the late
Pope, who had a great regard for the English,
public worship in the city' of Rome, according
to the English form, was permitted, or rather
winked at, by thesGovernmetitll but under the
present Pope, they 'hare been obliged to with-
draw from the city, and hold their meetings in a
private house outside the walls. This treatment
of Protestants, however, is not confined to
them %viten living, but is extended to their dead
bodies. They are not allowed to be buried
in consecrated ground, but only with unbap-
tized children, or persons who, by their principles
or professions, have rendered themselves obnoxious
to the Church. In Spain and Portugal, where
the Government is so completely under the con-
trol of
.the Priesthood, we are not surprised that
the same system is adhered to ; but certainly it is
rather
.astonishing that in all the Republican and
free States of South America the same illiberal
treatment of Protestants should be continued.—
Various attempts have been made by leading men
in this country, and we believe also by the
agents of Government, to induce the Repub-
lican leaders to adopt a more liberal policy ; but
all that could be obtained was the mere tolera-
tion of the Protestant worship in private houses,
entirely divested of every appearance either
of churches or chapels. Mr. Shell, in his
Penenden Heath speech, after alluding to
the burning of Servetus and the persecu-
tions of the Catholics, wisely dropped the subject,
by admitting that both were equally to blame.
Nothing could be more incorrect, however, than
such an inference. In the one sect such an
atrocious means of repressing heresy was only
the exception, in the other it was the general
rule ; and all acquainted with history well know
if a list of the murders committed by both par-
ties were drawn up, what a fearful preponderance
would be found on the Catholic side. We have
no intention of drawing up such a list, because
we have no wish to excite any unfair prejudice
against the question of Emancipation, and, be-
sides, believe that such scenes will never be re-
peated ; but it is only justice to the other side
not to let an assertion pass unnoticed which all
history disproves--Morning Herald.

A great deal of unnecessary discussion has lately
appeared in the columns of some of our cotempora-
poraries en a question which admits of no dispute—
we mean the increase or decrease of the silk manufac-
ture in this country. There can be no doubt of the
increase, for it is attested by parliamentary docu-
ments ;, and as little question of its extent, for we
)(now it from the same source; but what it is the
interest
.of all parties to know distinctly and defi-
nitively is, Whether the wages of the weaver, and
she profits of the manufacturer, have increased
in preprtion. On thesepoints we have no certain
data; but it may be fairly presumed that in one
easethey have decreased, and . that in another
they have
sustained a corresponding addition.—
The silk manufacture is no longer confined to Spital-
fields,: though Spitalfields' silk is still- the best which
has been produced in this or in any other country.—
it has migrated to Manchester and Macclesfield,
where labour is cheaper, and a much larger quantity
can be produced for a smaller sum of money. There
is not, as-tar as we can gather from thef
most authen_
tie sources, the same quantity of silk manufactured
in Spitalfields that there formerly was, but the de-
crease in this instance has been met by a corres-
ponding increase in other quarters; and the same
observation may be made with respect to v,-ages.
They have fallen in Spitalfields, where they were,
previously to the repeal of the Spitalfields' Act, kepti
sip to an artificial height by Act of Parliament;
they have risen in Manchester and Macclesfield,
where they were depressed from the same cause.
The question, therefore, is, not whether Spital-
fields, or Manchester, or any other part of the British
Empire, has profited by the repeal of the Spitalfields
Act, and the diminution of the duties on the import
of the raw and manufactured article ; but whether
the country generally has been benefited by it; and
on this point we shall only waste one word. Pre-
viously to 1825 the smuggling of foreign silk was
carried to an extent universally complained of;—now
it is not only not heard of, but in the French Papers
we find numerous complaints aoninst the contraband
introduction of English silk. 'Formerly we did not
export silk manufactured goods to any quarter of the
world—now we export them to every quarter, and
those who were formerly our superiors in the manu-
faeture, would now be glad to be merely our rivals.—
;Horning Advertiser.

Our contemporary of the Standard did us the
honour last night to oppress us with an excess of its
loyalty en a subject which, it will permit as to say,
should be treated, at the prcaent moment, more
tenderly. That an illustrious personage has for
some considerable time laeen greatly indisposed is
beyond all question. Of the reports of his renewed
health, of his improved health, of his vigour, and
his mere local affection in his hand, we have heard
enough, and rather more than is necessary under nli
the circumstanceq. Our contemporary would evince
=ore prudence it he woultilme us to our own ill-

formation on this subject, which,. perhaps, he will
condescend to concede is in every :respect quite as
accurate and official as his own. his Majesty had so
• far recovered his strength and his spirits in the latter
end of last week as to announce his intention of visiting
town, and holding a council on Monday or yesterday.
None rejoiced more at this communication than we
did, because we know that his Majesty was extremely
anxious to execute the imperative and ever painful
duty which devolves upon him as the arbiter of the
law. And we were, when we learnt that this reso-
lution was abandoned, quite convinced that it could
be occasioned by nothing but an increase of that
painful debility under which his Majesty has so long
struggled. The King's getiPreus feelings are known
to all his swbjects—he is desirous to perform his
duty—to allay anxiety—to remove apprehensions---
and nothing but the commands of his medical at-
tendants would have restrained him from undertaking
a very severe duty imposed upon him by his Royal
prerogative. We stated this fresh access of indispo-
sition in the most delicate terms; but for all
our forbearance, our kind friend could not
refrain from reading its a severe lecture, which,
out of respect, we beg leave to quote :
" So far from any necessity existing for issuing bulletins,
we have the great pleasure of stating that the King's health
has not for a considerable time been so good as at the
present moment, and that the only inconvenience his Ma-
jesty at present suffers front his late attack is a slight weak-
ness in the right hand, which prevents the King from
using a pen long together. His Majesty, however, is
able to sign all state documents that are indispensable for
the prosecution of business. Whatever statements may
be made to the contrary, we know this to be the case, and
that the royal signature is written with a boldness and free-
door that in itself disproves tit once the reports to which
we allude."

Admitting all this to be true, merely from cour-
tesy, it appears rather strange that if his Majesty be
only subject to a slight attack of rheumatism in his
hand, which does nor, prevent him from writing the
bold signature which our tontemporary has seen—
(we hope it is affixed• to an appointment -of three
thousand a-year)--he should he prevented from
travelling twenty- miles to perform so urgent and
important a duty, a duty that would only detain
him,,in town two hours, and require his sign manual
ato few papers. But we are pressing the case too
far. These freaks on the part of our friend are
rather affected. We sincerely desire that -he may be
right, and we wrong; but, without meaning to give '
any offence, we only regret that he should choose
to be entirely in the dark, in order that h:s reader
may be as nruch so as himself. We could say more,
but it is unnecessary.—Morning Journal.

The following Address, in the form of a hand
bill, has been pretty extensively distributed in West
minster

" TO THE CITIZENS AND INHABITANTS OF WESTMINSTER.
" Efforts have long been made, and are now making, to
stifle the expression of public opinion upon the question of
Catholic Emancipation; and it would afinrd those v..ho are
thus engaged no small gratification and matter for triumph,
if they could prevail 'upon you to remain quiescent, and
slider the barriers raised by our forefathers against Popery,
and cemented by their blood, to be broken down and de-
stroyed. But shall it be, whilst your fellow Protestants
are uniting in different parts of the country to- uphold the
fabric of our happy Constitution, and strengthen the hands
of Government in resisting the encroaching spirit of
Popery, that you will remain dormant ? Recollect ! the
Roman Catholic religion is not only unchanged, but
from its first and acknowledged 'principle unchangeable;
and the most distant risk of losing the privileges you at I
present enjoy ought to put you on your guard, and rouse
your energies to a mild, yet firm resistance. The time

has arrived when England expects every man to do his
duty. If you sleep now, you may awake when opposition
will be useless.

" The concessions that have been granted to the Roman
Catholics, instead of producing, as they ought to have
done, contentment and satisfaction, have only opened the
way for fresh demands ; and considering, as they do, the
revenues of the Church of England as having been wrested
from their Church, they will be satisfied with nothing short
of entire restitution.

" If the Roman Catholics are eligible to seats in Parlia..
went, they are equally so to seats in the Cabinet Council.
If eligible to sit in the Cabinet, they are likewise entitled
to the Throne. The right ends here, or it has no begin-
ing. Look to this!

Be content, fellow-Citizens, to bear the false charge of
bigotry and intolerance, se liberally brought against ai;-
who oppose what is called Catholic Emancipation. Bigotry
t'as nothing to de with endeavouring- to maintain your just
rights, when those rights are threatened with invasion.
With the religious liberties of the Roman Catholics yo❑
are not called upon to interfere; but in assisting then► in
the attainment of political power (and your silence would
assist them), you endanger your own liberties, both religi-
ous and political."

This document speaks for itself. The inhabitants
of Westminster entertain better ideas of their reli-
gion, than to suppose that its preservation demands
the placing one-third of their felloW-subjects out of
the pale of the Constitution. They know that so
long as the Catholics are excluded from the enjoy-
ment of their civil rights, so long must Ireland re-
main in a distracted condition-3o long must they
themselves be heavily taxed to keep down their
Irish brethren. They see in other countries Ca-
tholics and Protestants living together on the most
friendly footing; they see a Catholic Establishment
in Canada, the Catholic Clergy of which Colony,
according to Protestant witnesses examined by Par-
liament, so far from proselytising, seek only to live
in peace, and to secure themselves from the en-
croachments of Church of England Clergymen ; and
they do not see why a kind and equitable treatment
should inflame the Catholics of this empire in parti-
cular with the desire of disturbing their fellow-
citizens in the enjoyment of their rights and privi-
legee. At all events, they have a better opinion
both of the principles and energy of Protestants than
to suppose that if the Catholics were to attempt
any thing against their rights and liberties, they (the
majority) would be unable successfully to defend
these rights and liberties. They do not wish to in-
quire whether the principles of the Church of Rome
are changed or unchanged ; they know that their
own principles call on them to punish no men on
account of their religion, so long as they who profess
that religion remain peaceable subjects of the State,
and the exercise of it does not interfere with the
enjoyment of the civil and religious liberty
of others. So much for this appeal to the citi-
zens of Westminster. But it is said efforts have
long been made to stifle the expression of
public opinion on the question of Catholic
Emancipation. Indeed ! Not, surely, in Westmin-
ster. There are spots in the kingdom yet covered
by
the thick darkness in which the Parsons so much
delight, and where the passions and prejudices of an
ignorant population may be appealed to with a chance
of success; but Westminster is riot one of those
spots. If, in Leeds, Brunswielers are ()Miffed to
seek the shade, publicity in Westminster surely can
little benefit them. We challenge them to the
proof. What is the obstacle ? The writer or
writers of this Address might have called a public
meeting in Westminster : they may call one now,
and propose whatever they please to the people.
Meetings in Westminster are always called by a
c com-
monly at.
number of the inhabitant householder
electors,
s
their Own expence. A Requisition is usually
sent to the Bailiff of the Dean and Chapter,
morsly sailed tree nigh Bailiff of Westminster,
appoints a day,. and takes the
who generally
This is courtesy, however,
on at the Meeting.
on the part of the Bailiff, and he may decline, as he
has sometimes done, to ell a public meetin g• It
has been thought to be more respectable to have the
Bailiff in the Chair, as he acts somewhat hi the
manner of a Sheriff, and is the returning officer at
elections of Members of Parliament for Westminster.
The sanction of the Bailiff is not, however, necessary,
and any number of the inhabitants may themselves
convene a Public Meeting. Westminster is, and
has been for some time, singularly circumstance(
with respect to public meetings of the electors.—
Formerly meetings were held in Westminster Hall,
but at length the doors were locked against them and
they were excluded. Their meetings were then
always, as they had before been occasionally, held
in Kilace-yard, in flout of Westminster-hall. But
abOut the year 1810, Sir Francis Burdett and
LQ44 Cochrane being- then illernbets for the City

and Liberties, a Bill was brought in excluding. the
electors from Palace-yard during the sitting of either
House of Parliament, or the sitting of the Courts of
Law, or any one of them, and proposing to enact
that no Public Meeting should be held within one
mile of Westminster Hall. It is somewhat remark-
able, that no effort was made to prevent this Bill
passing into a law. No real inconvenience bad been
psodueed by those Meetings; but a pretence was
set up that on some occasion inconvenience might
ensue, and the Bill would have passed as originally
framed. Some Member, however, having ob.
served, that if no meeting were to be held within
a mile of Westminster Hall, the Electors would
have no place to meet in, it was agreed to exempt
Csvent•garden from the operation of the Bill,
and when this became the law, the Meetings of
the Electors were transferred to Covent-garden,
and were there held on sufferance ; no obstruc-
tion was, however, offered to their assembling tilde,
At length Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor's Police Bill
was passed, Sir F. Burdett and Mr. Hobhottse be-
ing the Members for the City and Liberties; and as
neither of them is a man of business, and as neither
ever gives himself any trouble about any matters of
detail which affects his constituents, they made no
opposition to any part of that Act—the electors
were by it totally excluded from holding a public
meeting on any occasion, in any place Ivrnsoever,
without committing a misdemeanour; and they
are, therefore, differently circumstanced from every
other body of electors. They have no Town-hall,
no Guildhall, as they formerly had—no place, no
spot, on which they can legally assemble; and thus,
by the negligence of their own representatives, have
they been deprived of the power of assembling to
state any grievance, or to perform any duty to them-
selves or their country. The legality of their
meeting in Covent-garden was brought to issue
in 18'27, when a requisition to call a meeting was
sent to the Bailiff, who, for some reason not
known, refused to comply, and the meeting was at-
tempted to be held without his sanction. The
platform belonging to the electors was put up in the
usual place in Covent-garden, when the Palish Au-
thorities interfered, pulled it down, seized the mate-
rials, and kept them until certain demands which they
made were complied with, and even than the mate-
rials were restored as matter of courtesy. No hopes
now are entertained that the present Representa-
tires will interfere in Parliament to correct this in-
convenience, or to restore to their constituents a
practice, which, by long usage, had become a right,
and WM never questioned. They are well acquaint-
ed with the facts above stated, and might have made
if they had so chosen, an effort to enable their con-
stituents to hold public meetings without committing
misdemeanours. It will no doubt be alleged, that
they have not been publicly called upon to do so;
and this is true—but then " what is every body's
business is nobody's business;" and they are sent
to Parliament especially to watch over the inte-
rests of their constituents, and it was and is
their bounden duty first to prevent these Acts
being passed, without clauses preserving the
rights of their constituents; and afterwards, this
having been neglected, to have consulted them on
the best means of recovering the right of which they
had been deprived. Not only are the electors of
Westminster deprived of the power publicly to
assemble, but the Bailiff, who is the returning
officer, and bound to execute the King's writ, is by
these Acts deprived of the power. He cannot erect
hustings, or even by any arrangement obstruct
the street to take the election, without in-
curring the penalty of the law. He may
even be prevented commencing any arrange-
ment, and may, with all who assist him, be taken
into custody, and dealt with according to law.—
Such is the plain state of the case in respect to
the largest body of Electors in the United King-
dom. If the framers of the address find in these
circumstances any obstacle to their calling a public
meeting,let them place it to the right account, and not
to any unwillingness ofthe friends of civil and religious
liberty to meet them in diseussion.--Morning Chroh

EAST INDIA. DIRECTION.

.1 A very curious scene is said to have occurred
lately at the India House during one of the se-
cret meetings of the Court of Directors. After
the discussion of some business of a general
nature, the Chairman rose to make a proposi-
tion to his brethren then present, which sprang,
he observed, out of a pledge which had been
given by his predecessor in that chair, the fulfil-
ment of which concerned not only that indivi-
dual, but the character of the whole body. He
then went on to state, in substance, that during
the recent proceedings in a Court of Law against
a member of that Court, charged with employ-
ing his patronage for corrupt purposes, much
difficulty existed in obtaining evidence calculated
to establish that fact, and one very important
witness was only prevailed on to give his testi-
mony, by the promise of an appointment for a
near relation ; which the worthy Chairman, his
predecessor,-considered himself the more strongly
bound to make, inasmuch as the person requir-
ing such prowise, before he would consent to
come forward, had, in fact, been deprived of
such an appointment by the investigation then
going on. What had been thus rendered neces-
sary to the ends of justice, and had fully an-
swered its purpose, would, the Chairman con-
ceived, be sanctioned by that Board. He
therefore begged to propose, that a cadetship
should be placed at his disposal for the fulfil-
ment of the promise given by his predecessor.
The Directors said to have been present on this
occasion were fourteen, exclusive of the Chair-
man. Out of deference to the chair, very few
observations were made on the proposition sub-
mitted to them, but looks spoke very eloquently
the prevalent feeling; and on putting it to the
vote, the numbers were-10 against, and 4 for,
the proposition of the Chairman. A laugh from
the victorious party followed the declaration of
the votes, and it is said that the exultation of
some of them at the result has led them, in an
unguarded moment, to whisper the secret to pro-
fane ears.

Upon the above, the Times makes the follow-
ing observations :
" There is, under the head of East India
Direction,' an account of a transaction of so
singular a nature, that we cannot wholly give
credit to it, though there may probably be
enough of truth in it to require the most ample
explanation. The present Chairman is said to
have called upon the Court to empower him to
fulfil a pledge given by his predecessor, of be-
stowing a writership upon some person, who,
without that bribe, would not have come forward
to give his evidence upon a late trial ! The
trial is no doubt that of NIL Prescott and others
(some of which others, by the way, were con-
victed), for accepting of valuable considerations
in the bestowal of patronage. Is it' possible that
suborned evidence can have been brought for-
ward at that trial ; that any man can have been
wicked enough to demand the price of his testi-
mony before he entered the witness-box ; and
that, of two Chairmen of the East India Direc-'
tier', one can have engaged to satisfy the de-
mand, and another proposed to fulfil that engage-
ment ? If so, what becomes of the trial and the
convictions ? and what will become of the man
who
thing c:u
forthe not
be. Hone
his testimony.r But surely
the affair is of
serious—we
to admit of further secrecy. It
requires
we had almost said of too dread-
ful--a
the most open d clear explanation, or
t os e r
and
the Piot absolute contradiction."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Samuel _Dutton, an ostler in the em-
ployment of Mr. Woodin, veterinary surgeon,
George's-yard, Long-acre, was brought before Mi.
HALLS, the sitting Magistrate, charged- under tho
provisions of Mr. Martin's Act, with wantonly,
cruelly, maliciously, and unlawfully beating a horse
which he had in charge.
The prisoner's master, Mr. Woodin, came for-
ward to prosecute, the information having been
laid at his instance, as a warning to other men in
his employ.
John. Priest, a stable-keeper in Mr. Woodin's ser-
vice, deposed that yesterday afternoon, at a quarter
past four o'clock, during the temporary absence of
the foreman, the prisoner, in a fit of passion, took up
a broomstick, and struck one of the horses under
Mr. Woodin's care, a violent blow on the head, by
which the poor animal was felled to the ground as if
with the stroke of a hatchet. Not content with this,
the prisoner, when the horse rose from the ground,
attacked him a second time, and beat him with his
fists about the head in a brutal arid barbarous

manner.
The prisoner denied that he had struck the horse
a second time, and endeavoured to excuse the blow
with the broomstick by stating that he was in a pas-
sion at the time.
Mr. HALLS said that the defence only aggravated
the crime, and finding that the Act of Parliament
empowered him to levy a fine in any sum from 10s.
to a he fined the prisoner 405., and in default of
payment, sentenced him to a month's confinement
in the House of Correction.
The Magistrate told Mr. Woodin that his conduct
was highly commendable.
John Priam, a lighter and waterman, residing in
Duke-street, Adelphi, was charged by the parish
officers of St. Martin-in-the-fields, with ',laving de-
serted his will,.
The wife having been sworn, deposed that the de-
fendant had, about a fortnight ago, abaNdOned her
and his daughter; that she was consequently desti-
tute of support, and that she had been relieved by
the parish.
Mr. HALLS said it was distressing to think that a
man should ho the means of own ruin and that
of his family. •
The defendant's statement, however, gave another
complexion to the case. He said he had always
done his best to support his family, and make them.
comfortable. The constant threat of his wife, how-
ever, was, that she would leave him with four bare
walls, and then to go to the poor-house, and oblige
him to maintain her. The first part of her promise
she had already fulfilled by stripping him of almost
every article of furniture he possessed, and the ob-
ject of the present application was intended to effect
the rest. She had sold or otherwise disposed of
household goods to the amount of nearly 401., and
had them conveyed clandestinely away. The land-
lord hearing this, put in a distress for rent, and
carried off the few things his wife had left, leaying
him nothing in the world excepting the clothes in
which he stood.
The wife, in answer to the Magistrate, admitted
that she had conveyed away the furniture, but said
she considered that her daughter and herself had a
better right to them than the defendant. The goods
were quite safe at the house of a relation.
Mr. HALLS—Pray did you leave your husband of
your oxii free will ? Wife—l left him because of
his ill-usage.
Defendant—She left me, Sir, without my know-
ledge or consent, and took the property with her.
Mr. HALLS—I shall discharge the warrant. The
law exonerates a husband whose wife shall leave
him without sufficient cause. The conduct of the
wife in this instance is most reprehensible; and if,
under such circumstances, the husband were com-
pelled to support her, the precedent would be ex-
tremely bad.